skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the terms from Optimum Online:

Users may not run any type of server on the system. This
includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP,
SOCKS, SQUID, DNS or any multi-user forums;

Users may not register or point a domain, sub-domain,
or hostname to any Optimum Online IP address. Moreover,
Users may not have traffic redirected to the Optimum
Online Service;

I can't remember what the terms were last time I was on Comacast, but I believe they explicitly allowed running a server under some conditions (non-commercial perhaps?). There are plenty of ways they could cover their asses while still allowing people to run servers. One of the best things about web services that have been popping up over the last couple years is that they offer so much more in terms of monitoring. If Google just says to keep continuous services within some range, with a distinction between peak and non-peak hours (or even better, close-to-live network stats), what is the problem? Well adjusted bots could swamp the network if every client is using it up I suppose...

Edit: Just saw the ToS update posted below. It's an improvement, but I'm honestly surprised that a company like Google can't just skip the vague give-them-what-they-want-without-screwing-ourselves language and clearly lay down the rules in a way that's irrelevant to the common user but explicit for more aware users.
No. That would defeat the entire user model, which is purpsoefully derived from Bitcoin's anonymity structure.
I mean, she did say "decades".

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EE...

It's still rising faster than inflation, and on an island like Hawaii fuel oil is more expensive due to the shipping costs. Kind of surprised they don't use geothermal preferentially to solar, but I suppose that unlike Iceland they have a better mix of solar resources available there.
genwin, I’ve invented a secure system. If you can tell me what this message says, you win $200k:

jo

You don’t know what the message says, because it’s so short. You will never win the prize.

But my system was not so secure. My cipher system was this: Take a message and type it on a US Qwerty keyboard, but shift every letter over one place. So `hi` became `jo`. Not very strong. It would easily be cracked with a message consisting of an actual sentence or two.

Now, with Telegraph, it wasn’t just length of the message involved, but additional information; still, the conditions are so narrow that it doesn’t apply to the real world. Just like I’d never simply send you a message that said "hi", Telegraph would be used in ways beyond one simple back-and-forth exchange, so it artificially limits the information available to a cracker. Make sense?

See also: The BEAST attack or the general class of side channel attacks.
His company is a good fit for an area Cuban has expressed interest in things he's written-about and spoken about - health-related topics, and measuring things previously not measured using sensors.
If you search back a few days of HN posts there was an explanation posted.
I'd prefer ePub format over PDF.
There really is nothing the government won't do to keep its illegal surveillance powers.
HIV is just waiting to get you because of your low bank balance.
It was far more France than the US that enabled Israel's nuclear program.

(A ground war between Israel and Iran is a practical impossibility, by the way - neither country has the strategic reach for that).
When people also acknowledge that Gentoo is effectively the best of both worlds?
Ah, well if you're poor & living in a poor neighborhood then the following are more likely:

- Low income tends to imply low education, so maybe not
fully understanding the risks of HIV.
In some parts of Africa they think(thought)
that sleeping with a virgin would cure men of HIV.
That's an education problem in the poorer parts of the continent.

- Prostitution is probably nearby.

- Stress of life living paycheck-to-paycheck, can't
afford vacations, one of the few things you can enjoy
at some random parties & nightclubs is random hook-ups
with whatever person you can get.

- Drugs an unclean needles 'n such.

With well off people those above still happens, but in a different way sorta.

- middle-class to wealthy understand how HIV works for the most part and will more often avoid the risky behaviors

- Prostitution is not needed when you can hook-up with the random co-worker or at some university party with smart people who are more likely than not HIV-free.
Then there's what I like to call "high class legal prostitution": http://www.prlog.org/12074839-gold-digger-cruise-connects-be... We know what's probably happening on that cruise... Also expensive high class gentlemen's clubs...

Drugs for middle-class/rich? They don't have to buy/share them off the street from random people like poor people have to. They order from reddit's sheepmarketplace or silkroad!!!
Education is a critical one. Lack of stable relationships in poor communities (money issues being a key factor in many divorces). Injection drug use without sterile supplies (which cost money in most places). Substance abuse is higher in some poor communities in the US, which even aside from injection drugs might be an accelerant for HIV transmission, e.g. drunk people may not practice safe sex even though they normally would, or they may have sex with people they normally would avoid.
People who mattered in science this year
> This seems like something that should be self-evident to pretty much every high-school educated adult on the planet.

You, sir, are an optimist.
From the link:

"We will contribute changes we make as part of our project to the community through the FreeBSD committers on our team."
"running servers" reminds me a lot on restrictions on some systems against "running arbitrary code", then letting you browse the web with javascript turned on. These days servers take all kinds of form, from an FTP server to somebody hosting a deathmatch from their xbox. Hell would my browser going to a page that uses web sockets count as a server? Is an X server a server? I'm sure I'm running half a dozen chrome extension that count as servers in some way.

Here's a web server in a browser! http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/puramu/a-browser-based-webserver...

It's dumb and pointless, what they should be saying is what they mean, if they're afraid of too much bandwidth utilization then say "users may not saturate their connections above 30% bandwidth utilization for longer than 3 hours" or some such. If it's not wanting people to run commercial services then a couple clauses of either "for noncommercial use only" or "not to be held liable for commercial servers running on residential lines" or whatever is the appropriate legalese.

It's just weird old thinking that has nothing to do with how the technology actually works.
It's not irrelevant. Look through the HN guidelines [1]. Articles like this are definitely acceptable.

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Hacker News Guidelines - What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
http://freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsd&q="Sponsored+by%3...
You have two cookies, one for HTTP, one for HTTPS. The latter uses a secure flag so it can't be seen with HTTP connections. When the user logs in, both are set.
Startup School links:
Pinterest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLc2PYyCa0
Airbnb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOytubycHOg
Hey TamerShlash, I'm a hacker from Jordan but now based in New York. I'll be more than happy to help with your event in any way I can. Let me know amjad.masad@gmail.com
For many years it seemed likely it would be the Euro. At least Russia and Iraq circa 2002/3 publicly threatened making the switch, there may have been others. However, it seems that Iran stopped trading oil in USD (as of 2012) and apparently now uses a variety of other currencies[0], although I haven't looked into this to see if it actually happened yet. I am under the impression that China currently buys oil from Iran in Yuan/Renminbi.

I'd be interested to know if Iran went ahead with its plan to stop accepting USD altogether. I'd personally be surprised if threats and posturing regarding Iran's nuclear program went away without some sort of agreement on USD oil trade.

If Iran has stuck to its plan to stop accepting USD for oil AND the US backs off I think that signals a pretty significant loss for the US not just in terms of its relationship with Iran but ultimately, in the long term, in its attempts to remain a dominant force in the global economy. It would be a result of pressure from an international community that the US government feels it needs to keep on side, but also conversely an international community that may have an interest in reducing the economic dominance of the US.

Your second question is an interesting one. I think the US' next move - or Iran's (potentially changing its mind about USD oil trade) - will tell us how strong the US is at this moment in time. The position of economic & military dominance the US currently enjoys (which helps its "intelligence" agencies to get away with actions that would be otherwise considered acts of war) is bound to end at some point. I'm not willing to stick my neck on the line and predict the end of US hegemony is nigh (I'm not really a crystal ball kind of person) but I'd just say that the signs of a superpower fighting for its position should be evident. There will come a point where the US can no longer risk such interventions.

EDIT:

Having read a bit more (though not much, to be honest, so I'm happy to be corrected) it seems the Oil Bourse is for oil-derived products not crude oil (it actually says this on the Wikipedia article, doh). Also part of the agreement that reduced sanctions on Iran was to stop taking gold as payment for oil[1]. So there's no need to worry about the US' position in the world just yet.

Anyway, hopefully in 2014 some members of OPEC will be seriously advocating trading oil in dogecoin ;). To the moon!

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse
1: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-24/iran-agrees-to-hist...
The reality is probably that neither the US nor Russia could have defeated Germany alone. The GP is wrong that the US joined the "winning side" though - they joined the losing side, because a Europe united under one hostile power would be a fundamental security threat to the US.
heh, trailed off.

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Because WebGL will be based off of WebCL, WebGL is a subset targeted at graphics.

And change is accelerating, everything in the future happens faster. So there will be more people to implement WebCL than there was to implement WebGL. More and more people are using advanced web apps so the pressure is higher to make things faster.
It could though. My associate Jorge Timon and I have worked out a protocol by which this could occur whithout increasing the storage requirements of validation nodes. Applying the principles of Henry George's land tax, you could then charge a percentage fee based on the highest bid value.

But then again, for domains there's something to be said for first-come-first-serve protection.
Moxie's blog post does a better job explaining the problems than I can [1].

Basically, the framework of the contest precludes many avenues of attack to which a given cryptosystem could be vulnerable. The researcher who discovered the vulnerability in the OP used a man-in-the-middle attack, which cannot be used in the Telegram contest.
Because said heavily subsidized utilities can't do it themselves?
Just out of curiosity, have you used any of these specific architectures on any real world projects and failed? If so, would you mind sharing your experience?

I'm currently reading up on DDD and thus far one of the main goals is to reduce complexity so you can easily reason about the software (reduce the mental load, understand the domain). Though I'm still in the early chapters of the book, thus far it has constantly reinforced this idea via layered architecture, modularizing code, aggregates, etc. There's nothing DDD specific about these ideas. I believe DDD is just about proper OO design.
when=always
Based on the choice of venue, and the fact that it's been posted openly on the internet, I think the best assessment one can estimate is "superficially loyalist; respectfully apolitical."

The location:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.4918,36.236713

Note the proximity to the presidential palace:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.518374,36.252866
It is also why my generation (I'm 27) will eventually have to fight a nuclear war that pits Iran against Israel and possibly the US.

No, we won't. There is simply no geopolitical logic to Iran and Israel going to war.
Yes. I first saw the idiom in Matlab, actually.
//gotta get some coffee, wait...there's a bug in line 485, just a sec.
I have used RPL (I have an HP 50G) and yeah, you can do some fun stuff with the stack. Although I wish they would just port Factor to it already :P
I actually think this particular article is not very good (see my top-level comment). However, this topic is one of the most important issues facing younger adults today. If the logical thinking, cold rationality, problem solving, and technical skills of this community can be applied to dealing with diseases like HIV, malaria, etc., it seems worth encouraging.
Well played. I laughed, but see my reply to another commentor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949440

I admit without my more detailed explanation, you'd be right. low bank balance is just as absurd a cause for increased HIV infections as my brown skin is.
What are you on about? No one made any such claims, neither here nor in the linked article.

The rule of thirds is just a certain way of composition and some people like its aesthetics.
You just want to blame someone other than yourself for not knowing stuff, right?
Putting money over people.
Nope. So what's this ace of which you speak?
Crossword Puzzle Game Google Doodle honoring 100 Years Anniversary
I'm probably missing something obvious, but what evidence is there to suggest that there's an ace that trumps the government's terrorism card?

I want to be optimistic, but I'm not really sold on the idea that we have the information, and that it's just a matter of time until it's released to the public.
Computer Science Interview Questions with C++ Solutions
1. FENG ZHANG: DNA’s master editor

Borrowing from bacteria, a biologist helps to create a powerful tool for customizing DNA.

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2. TANIA SIMONCELLI: Gene patent foe

A US science-policy expert fought to keep genes open to all.

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3. DEBORAH PERSAUD: Viral victor

A virologist provides the strongest evidence yet that infants born with HIV can be cured.

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4. MICHEL MAYOR: In search of sister Earths

An astronomer with a flair for technology extends his legacy of discovery.

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5. NADEREV SAÑO: Climate conscience

After Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippines, a diplomat focused the world’s attention — briefly — on global warming.

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6. VIKTOR GROKHOVSKY: Meteorite hunter

A Russian researcher tracked the debris from the biggest object to hit our planet in a century.

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7. HUALAN CHEN: Front-line flu sleuth

A virologist helped China to quell an outbreak of H7N9 avian flu in humans.

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8. SHOUKHRAT MITALIPOV: The cloning chief

After years of frustration, a biologist has finally developed a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo.

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9. KATHRYN CLANCY: An eye on harassment

An anthropologist unearths disturbing trends in sexual assaults at field sites — and suspects she’s just scratching the surface.

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10. HENRY SNAITH: Sun worshipper

An energetic physicist pushes a promising solar-cell material into the spotlight.
That's next after I get source code detection improved.
The real problem is that capitalism does not care about efficiency, it only cares about billing someone else for any inefficiencies you create. See: Enterprise IT.
> I actually once got a crush on a dorm-mate in large part because I saw Calculus on Manifolds on her bookshelf. It wasn't reciprocal, however. Later in life, she went on to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I had someone I'd never met before see my copy which happened to be the international edition (in Chinese, with English in the back) and then assume I spoke fluent Mandarin. Your story's a lot better :)
There are three times as many white people as black people in the US living below the poverty line (absolute numbers, not percent). So if it was just a poverty issue, you'd expect to see more HIV cases amongst white heterosexuals than black heterosexuals.

in 2010:
31 million white
10 million black
13 million hispanic

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104525.html
In many cases, I do think it's the right decision to only support one argument per function, but I explained why Rust doesn't do that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949077
It is possible to delegate stuff to DNS (and some DNSSEC patches were recently merged - see http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1434&p=7718), but even if records are delegated to DNS namecoin doesn't know or care what's there.

Namecoin is essentially a key-value store. A .bit domain is a key under Namecoin's d/ namespace, and the value is some JSON data describing the domain, per this spec: http://dot-bit.org/Namespace:Domain_names_v2.0

Edit: Actually, to further clarify, Namecoin itself doesn't know/care about the semantics of what data is stored for a domain. The data is interpreted by applications that act as application layer bridges to other resolver protocols. Check out nmcontrol and NamecoinToBind for examples.
I would think, in addition to governments, organized crime would literally kill to get their hands on the information that Snowden has. Not only to resell, but to understand the threat to their own livelihood.
IsTom's comment was about how an HTTP-served page might be modified to make the "secure" links actually point to a non-HTTPS fake login page (for example). This assumes the user will not notice that the connection is not secure (which I think is a fair assumption).

Given that, another attack might be to mitm DNS and serve an entirely fake Amazon site, all in HTTP, and the user will not notice there's anything wrong.

I think that's the point mro and troels were trying to make.

The only way I can imagine to mitigate this would be to use HSTS on the amazon.com home page.
We work and we play. Read about both here.
Click his username.
Am I the only one who read this in my head with a Russian accent?
For those who have not seen it, this is based on SCMUTILS -- an open source symbolic manipulation engine, much like Mathematica or Maple. It is extremely powerful, and the book is worth reading just to understand the design patterns used there.

To give an example, in a dozen lines of readable, intuitive code, you can:

* write a lagrangian as a normal Scheme function

* symbolically take derivatives of that to get equations of motion

* print those equations with LaTeX.

* compile those equations to native code and numerically integrate and plot the motion of the system

It's like magic the first time you see it.
No Tragedy of the Commons
Goseck Circle: Oldest Circular Enclosure (2003)
Did you consider options like swamp coolers? I'm not familiar with Hawaii's climate so I don't know if they would be effective, but that power bill is more than many people pay in rent...
>Other posters have already noted that you can still have the solar panels, you're just not going to get paid for net metering. What people typically want is the best of both worlds, to charge onto the grid when the produce more than they use (and get paid for it) and have the grid available to supply power when they generate less than they use.

This ought to be the best of both worlds for the electric grid, too, since solar generates electricity when load is at its highest.

However, the grid is not concerned with running efficiently, or with minimizing environmental damage. They're concerned about their net profit.

Profits on day-generated electricity are much higher than profits on night generated.
Confessions of a Block-Buster
Only about 60% of the cost of installation of a solar system nowadays is the cost of the PVs themselves. You still need racks, mounts, wiring, inverters, etc.
This practice struck me as the ultimate example of exploiting fear and racism for economic gain, leading to deep, lasting damage to the social fabric.

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting
Your explanation of why socio-econimic status might be correlated with HIV makes sense.

However I still think your dismissal of race as having independent explanatory power is wrong.

For example, race has independent explanatory power in predicting crime rates, even after taking into account many other social and economic variable. This doesn't mean that skin color causes crime, e.g. there could be (and almost certainly are) very many social factors that are correlated with race but hard to measure objectively.
Isn't that itself a robber baron explanation?

If the grid operator is primarily concerned with profits from peak generation hours, and trying to prevent solar from impinging upon that, it doesn't seem reasonable to legislate a way to protect those profits, ESPECIALLY not when it is environmentally damaging to do so.
I am not sure if you were responding to me. But I just wanted to clarify that I think those steps are very difficult indeed. I don't think it's trivial at all to implement the changes I listed, and would take time. And that minimum wage can only be properly implemented once you get a lot of the other problems resolved.
Wouldn't a table have been a much better way of presenting this information? Also the user interface is a horrible timeline that gives no feedback while you mouse-over.
They have zero incentive to do so.

Ultimately, they should be re-nationalized. Privatized utilities' incentives are completely screwed up.
I'm happy to do so, of course. In cases where the points actually have merit. :)
I'll have to checkout Deluge. Got real sick of µTorrent's shit after Chrome and IE were hijacked in multiple places to use Yahoo Search as the default search/homepage, with a Spigot affiliate code. Nowhere was I asked if this was OK, or allowed to opt out, and I spent 2 hours having to make sure there wasn't anything else going on with my system.

I heard from a friend at the time that Tixati was another decent BT client.

And for Python development, a Vagrant installation works wonders, as does PyCharm, which I was telling to shut up and take my money after 3 minutes.
That is what libraries are for.
The problem is, even if they only have that in their TOS to cover their asses, there are people that won't run servers because of that clause, regardless of whether or not they would get punished for doing it.
I've been dying for someone to create an application where recruiters can rated and reviewed. Filter out the crap.
Allow me to bring up Lua, which has a nice way of handling multiple return values:

http://www.lua.org/pil/5.1.html
ain'tnobody got time for that. Gentoo is cool and all but I don't want to compile everything from source.
Not detracting from the feeling that it looks really hard to do, but I think some people are just wired to think about this kind of stuff naturally — for them, it's more of a sense of how things should be framed than a second-by-second analytical breakdown.
A&E's 'Duck Dynasty' Stunt is a Textbook Example of Media Manipulation
Woo hoo! Another SmartGit user. I love it! And SmartSVN and SmartSynchronize.
> oil tends to be priced in dollars internationally, foreign countries hold lots of dollars as reserves

The first bit there has nothing to do with the US military, and the second bit there is not because of the first.

Repeat after me; Petrodollar warfare is just a paranoid conspiracy theory.
It reminds me of the anti reverse engineering clause in MS EULAs.