skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a choice made by some one who knows what they are doing. They are using AES-CBC for the actual conversation but for media they chose ECB. Of course having the media deleted on the client is their main selling point and they chose to use ECB there!
>It hasn't done much. Why not?

I suppose you have to define "hasn't done much."

Perhaps your expectations are too high. Do you think $2 trillion dollars is enough to permanently pull the global population out of poverty?
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Well it is in many crime movies except that our megapixels were not enough for such uses. Now with high resolution images it is relatively easier to do. I'm not surprised by it. It just is another use of tech.
I'm trying to be independent but I'm not sure if freelancing, building some personal startups, or doing apps for getting money, or everything together! But my objective is to work less and enjoy my family
As a married person, this does conceptually make sense. It's much better to date a friend of a friend than a stranger in a bar. I suspect that there are secrets in the network that could suggest likely candidates. (Just like people with weak links to you but strong links outside your existing network can help with job intros, they can also help with dating connections.)

When I was single, I just remember thinking, "There are so many folks online that I would never consider dating." Something like this could have narrowed the search down. Ultimately I married a classmate that was a friend of a friend.

Good luck with this!
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Geopolitics is complicated, now as much as any time in history.

The US has been doing "OK" with regard to Egypt lately but there's really no good way to handle what's going on there. On the face of it Morsi was democratically elected but he also gave himself unlimited powers and was on his way to becoming just as much a tyrant as Mubarak ever was. He was deposed by a military coup which has its own problems and now Egypt is devolving into what seems to be an inevitable sectarian war (just as is happening in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Pakistan/Afghanistan).

Calling the Egyptian army "backed by the US government" is a bit of a stretch. Prior to the coup the US shipped 12 F-16 fighters and millions in aid to Egypt under Morsi, since the coup the US has delayed further scheduled deliveries of F-16s and aid, largely as a protest for the harsh actions of the government against dissident groups. Nevertheless, there isn't exactly a good side to back in Egypt at present. It's not as though there's a nice, peaceful secular organization dedicated to democracy and individual liberty just quietly growing in the shadows. Instead there are a bunch of folks who want to seize power to further their own interests.

Removing Qaddafi in Libya was almost certainly a good move though the followup there has been lacking. And the failure to engage in a meaningful way in the middle east in general has been frustrating. It's a hard problem, but sitting back and fucking around when there's serious shit going down isn't really the best alternative. The middle east is going to be hugely different over the next decade, but how much influence the US will have over that shape (to guide it away from islamic fundamentalism and totalitarianism specifically) is very much in doubt at present.
This is kind of like baseball cards with errors being more valuable than the corrected ones that came out later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0
Sending someone to prison for a non-violent property offense to to sentence them to direct violence, that is not even remotely just or equitable.
I'm not a fan of "Look at how I made a quarter million dollars" articles, but paying the price is how to get things done.
You're right, but a guest account won't allow you to use Google apps - a key part of using ChromeBooks. But more importantly, why should you have to use a guest account in the first place in order to avoid sending your online activity to Google?

I know many posters here have no qualms about Google tracking their online behaviour, but at the very least I would expect Google to clearly state what they track and record when using ChromeOS. That's not an unreasonable expectation. It's something that Google does not provide.
gross circa $300k/year on Wall Street, and live frugally (including apartment not in Manhattan, or even NYC), you should definitely be able to save at least $100k in a couple years.

You'll have a hard time moving up the ladder on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley if you live in a low-COL area. You have to signal confidence to be groomed for promotions, and that requires buying a house in an expensive place (Brooklyn Heights is OK in most circles) and sending your kids to brand-name private schools.

Once you've made Partner or MD or CTO, you can live whereever the fuck you want; but until then, you need to project that "hungry" image.
Those are federal sentencing guidelines. I am not entirely he was charged with a state offense whose mandatory minimum sentence for the count was 5 years. According to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Sentencin... wiki, state judges are not bound at all to these guidelines.

You are absolutely right, he would probably not have spent the rest of his life in jail. However, staring down the barrel of a minimum 5 year imprisonment with the possibility of more, depending on whether or not the judge had a bad day seems way too risky.

In my opinion, there should be no mandatory minimum sentences. Each action is literally taken on a case-by-case basis, so what purpose do they serve other than to force defendants into plea bargains?
My initial goal when I started my own company 8 years ago was to create a sustainable company. Given that I had a pure programmer background with no real business training (this is my nerdy very old programmer website: http://exocortex.org) at the time I started my company, this seemed like a big enough goal to tackle.

8 years later the company I started still exists (http://exocortex.com, software plugins and consulting) and has hundreds of specialty clients and pays real salaries and has been profitable for years, but it isn't headed for an exit itself. So it is firmly a lifestyle business.

That said, we started something like a "start-up" within this lifestyle business that has more growth potential (read: exit potential) but also more risk (http://clara.io, a web-based 3D editor/rendering/publishing tool.) More examples of what can be done with Clara.io can be found on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Exocortex

I guess once you've got the lifestyle business established, you can then go and look for larger opportunities.
This is what I would like to know, as well.

But actually, even ignoring that, I don't see how giving kids free electronics is so exciting. Public school is heading towards obsolescence, and arbitrarily handing out gadgets to students demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of technological advancement and its role in education.

This isn't any better than the state of California trying to patch its failure by handing out free iPads, although I guess it's more practical, given the poverty rate and extreme wealth disparity in India.
Funny, I ran a similar comparison and came up with ~$9000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937203

I didn't include ECC RAM which might up the price a bit. My conclusion was that there really wasn't much of an Apple tax anymore.

However, I think the system is spec'd wrong. In same ways it's spec'd out like a server, in others like a high-end CAD workstation...but it's not really suitable for the former and the market for the latter is really small.

As a server the overly expensive video is completely unnecessary. And the form factor is all wrong anyways.

For gaming, music production, video editing, photo work, etc. the workstation-class video parts, CPU and expensive RAM aren't useful and the storage is too small anyways.

Nobody targeting either class of user would spec a system out like this.

So who is this targeted at? The more stationary rMBP users who do lots of virtualization and want more RAM with the occasional CAD work and/or bitcoin mining?

I dunno, this product line feels weird.

I just built a pretty decent system that I'm expecting to last for the next 4-5 years and spent well under $2k.

Core i7-4770K

Nvidia GTX680

32GB RAM

512GB SSD

4TB HD

Blue Ray writer

+ some other odds and ends and they tossed in 3 free brand new games.

However, I would have liked to have it running with fewer fans, in a smaller case (half the size of my current mid-tower would have been nice).

Had I gone with 2x the RAM and a pair of the top of the line video card I would have still been around the cost of the lowest end Mac Pro at better day-to-day performance. But then again, my case is huge compared to this thing. Hell, I think my CPU cooling setup alone is about the same size as a Mac Pro.

I think the good thing is that at least the small size and high power at least has the tech world thinking and talking again, about part sizes and shapes, airflow, heat management etc. I predict some fast followers in the PC market at various specs and similarly sized form factors, including the huge open gap in the Apple lineup.

Maybe my next system build in 5 years will be in a tube shaped case with a single fan and much smaller parts?
Self-taught developers have to learn about it somehow.
What are you talking about? It says "Ultra HD" in the description, which is the marketing name for 4K
but that brings us back to the same question asked again and again: What is the need for over the top anonymity? When were our hearts so fragile?
Higher DPI displays for life-size photos?
The vibration is not as significant an issue as diffraction is. Modern 18mp APS-C sensors already hit their diffraction limits at around f/11. Increased sensor density will push this down to 'reasonable' f-stops, f/8 being the real cut-off point.
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By your definition of <, 0 < i and i^2 < 0, however, the OP requires that 0 < p AND 0 < q => 0 < p * q, which is not fulfilled by your < for p = i = q.
Am I the only one who thought, "so what?", after reading this? A picture of sufficient detail taken under optimal conditions can yield reflected images off of the pupil. Big deal. It has always been the case that in a high resolution image you had more of a chance to see reflected images.

Not that this isn't interesting, but their hypothetical (hostage situation) would have been a much more intriguing test case. But, since those pictures/videos are rarely taken with super high resolution cameras with good lighting, it's unlikely this technique would be helpful.

Edit: Just to be clear, I think anything new in the form of research and development is generally good. Maybe this work will be built upon to create something great. I just don't like the implied promise that pieces like this make.
It oversells what technology can actually do and is, I think, misleading.
The Android devices I've had the displeasure of using (Galaxy S2, Nexus 4) reboot/crash/hang on a more regular basis than any Windows computer I've used in the last ~10 years. I used WebOS devices for a while before switching to Android, and I don't remember the last time either of those crashed or needed to be power-cycled. My iPhone 1 was an unreliable piece of garbage, though, so I guess I can't specifically shit on Android here.

Anyway though, 'people don't want their phone to BSoD' seems a rather unsupportable statement: modern 'big seller' Android phones suffer from surprisingly poor quality control, especially if you install the OS updates on a regular basis. If they're not introducing some sort of hang/crash bug, they're breaking one or two of the built in applications. I remember one of the recent Nexus 4 OTA updates broke one of the built-in preferences panels under Settings - how do you ship an OS release without testing that?

Ultimately cool new features and apps are more compelling to people than actual stability, judging by how many of my smartphone-owner friends complain about phone crashes and hangs. They're still using those phones and buying the latest models...
They love content, actually, since it holds more material.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-fla...
While I'm all for making the most of your position, and not defining yourself by your job, I have to disagree that most jobs are bad and that you should just serve your time and go on with your life after 5pm. A good career is energizing, a bad job placement can be totally demoralizing, and everyone deserves to find a career that vitalizes them.

Work/life balance is hard to achieve with a great job, let alone if your job is soul-crushing, mind-numbing, impossible, badly managed, poorly located, or in an industry you're incompatible with. So I always advise people to look around if they're unhappy with their position. Even in a down market, there are possibilities out there, and you will never know until you look. And with due diligence, research, networking, etc, you can have some decent assurances about a potential new job is a good match for you.

Now of course there are situations where it may be better to stay where you are for a while, to get experience/build your resume/pay off loans/etc. But life is too short to work in a place that makes you unhappy, and family is far too important to have a job that robs you of energy which you could devote to them.
This work is not entirely new. Here is another recent article, where it is explained how input to a smartphone/tablet can be reconstructed by analysing reflections of the screen in various nearby surfaces, or the user's pupil.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2516709
>the fact that some policy makers use the CPI Less Food and Energy which means that some of the biggest expenses for the majority of people, food and energy, are sometimes ignored when discussing the effects inflation.

That's hardly a "fact". It's nonsense that circulates around the internet. Look at the CPI reports yourself.

Both figures are reported and public information, core and headline CPI, with the latter including the volatile food and fuel prices. In fact, you can look at the data and see precisely how much housing and fuel prices have risen or fallen, month to month.
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Colored coins is what you're looking for:

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I'm happy with either. As long as I'm not stuck as a cube rate, all's good!
Charter schools are, in fact, public schools. They just aren't administered by the centralized government system.
Wow! This is great! I've already been to a so-called "Ferienseminar für besonders begabte und interessierte Schülerinnen und Schüler", an event I've been invited to and which I can only recommend, but these links are great! Thank you! Since I'm doing an additional test, I'll try getting into some of these programmes.
This is really really impressive. Ocean currents would also be a nice addition.
But ECB for media is particularly egregious, particularly since even the Wikipedia page on ECB shows how remarkably 'visible' large things encrypted with ECB are.
I don't think creating a "startup" style business, with a scalable-repeatable business model, that is only mildly profitable is particularly common. Either you can be pretty darn profitable, acquihired (usually brokered by investors), or fail.

Daniel seems to be talking about lifestyle businesses maybe, and I agree - lifestyle businesses will be ruined by investors and decreases the odds of a big personal win far too much.
In a way, traditional static memory style C does this.

You can't return locally created variables [beyond primitives].

Beyond simple primitive reading/returning functions, you often create some arrays or structs, then pass a pointer to the necessary arrays and structs to your functions, so it can read and write them.

This way the functions can stay pure.
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The article attempts to imply that selling a list of "rape sufferers" was deliberate: The company pretended like the list was a huge mistake. A MEDbase rep tried convincing a Wall Street Journal reporter that its rape dossiers were just a “hypothetical list of health conditions/ailments.”

Given the existence of "bioterrorism sufferers" and "polio sufferers" on the list, this explanation seems almost certain to be true. They stuck every medical condition on the list in order to boost their SEO, and they didn't realize that their list of conditions included hot button topics.

If you want to argue that data brokering is unacceptable, do it honestly and without pretending they are selling lists of rape victims and lepers.
well with a bit more exposure and a motion sensor can't you get rid of the vibration effect to some extent? I have a camera with a 24x zoom that can take relatively clear pics despite my hands shaking like crazy (when enhanced 24x at least)
Website colours will begin to standardise a little bit my imagination tells me white backgrounds with black text are in.
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Well, the notion that all existing teachers are no good is not true, so that rationale doesn't really hold up. College graduation stats for teachers doesn't tell the whole story of how teachers perform in their jobs and school districts. It is true that higher pay would attract more people to teaching, but there are a lot of factors that go into why teachers aren't paid more in the first place.
While there are certainly a lot of developers using Windows, I'm skeptical that it's as high as 95% given the number of developers using Mac OS these days.
This is something I've wondered about - I hear people warning about investors pushing them toward an end they don't want, but what leverage do they have?
Could you please explain what diffraction is in simple terms, or point me to a source where it's explained? I have a grasp on what diffraction is, but I don't understand the role it plays in this.
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I don't. I usually keep everything in my head quite easily. If things start getting out of hand, there's trello to help out.
Indeed (or the US rescuing the UK)
No, the point is that I had to change when moving to Mac when both Windows and Linux support the Ctrl way.

That particular shortcut is not in use 99% of the time in the modern era. Arguing that the MAC UI is somehow centred around console applications seems a little churlish. Plus it's far easier to context switch on the single application level (am I in a terminal? Ctrl-C isn't copy) than it is on the platform level (which OS is this application, which looks identical on every platform, currently running on? Oh wait, is this one in a VM?).

Regardless of who may have been 'right' 20 years ago, Mac OS sticks out and makes life difficult now. It's also non-optimal in terms of either requiring a weirdly cramped hand position or two hands, but that's secondary.
"2-4 individual people with no established business and nothing to lose" is quite a broad-brush to define how startups and entrepreneurs are. I don't think that $200k qualifies as "sink large amounts of money". My point regarding liquidation preference is that this clause is prevalent across all funding stages, even when the company has an established management team, considerable cash flow, etc. "PE funds do not have the same problem." I have disagree with that statement, private equity funds do have big principal-agent problems (family owned businesses, first time CEOs, strategy, capital structure, etc), and every time we come across these they are solved with veto rights over capex, acquisitions and capital structure, but definitely not pricing other shareholders/management out of the cap table.
Yes, America will decline, yet it'll survive, the only thing that will ever Kill America, is the unrest of it's people, and as long as consumerism keeps everyone complacent and enslaved, people won't rise up, to enact any real change.

It's a fact that short of nuclear war(global suicide), nobody can invade/destroy America militarily, but our presence worldwide, will, and SHOULD end. We need to go back to being neutral and not giving a shit about world affairs, -- people in America are starving, yet we spend trillions to police other countries. -- Some protectionism, and pull-back on military spending would make for a stronger, more private America.

Personally, I'm all for a contracting America, that stops worrying about global affairs, and worries more about feeding, clothing, and putting everyone to work, and combatting poverty at home.

We have real problems here in America such as : A failing war on drugs, Healthcare issues, Education, NSA/Security scandals, Poverty/Unemployment, Securing our borders/ports of entry, Mental Health(school shootings, etc..), Bloated government spending -- gov't should not be allowed to spend more than they bring in via taxes, period - end of discussion.

I say AMEN to the end of America's world domination, and Hello to the era of "let's take care of our own".
One simple way is search data. If you have the data from a browser toolbar, you could mine for searches like "chances rape victim getting pregnant", "what is a rape kit", etc. and visits to certain pages of WebMD. This will be plenty accurate to use for targeting.
Car and Driver once had a piece about a largely aluminum Audi that they were reviewing [1]. They got into an accident (not terrible--no one hurt), and the $30,000 repair took months at the only facility in Michigan that could repair aluminum-built cars. Now the Audi used aluminum in its frame, and maybe that's all the difference in the world, but I'd like to see Ford address repairability.

Otherwise, I'd welcome not only the weight reduction, but the avoidance of rust and body rot.

[1] http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2007-audi-s8-long-term-r...
Two AMD FirePro S9000 6GB run about $4400. The S9000 and W9000 parts are virtually identical performance-wise and are much cheaper than w9000 parts (which run about $3400 ea.)

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Non-competes are largely unenforceable in California.
Ubiquitous fiber networks and a single order of magnitude increase in the capacity of storage media would make it "free." As for why: bigger is better?

I'm not saying you're wrong. But look at it this way: you are predicting that the resolution of stored photos won't increase by another power of ten. If you are right, this would be the first time in tech history that such a prediction would be correct.
This is silly. A $200k deal doesn't come with preferences and if it did it wouldn't matter anyways, because $200k is a small fraction of even a marginal exit.
Maybe the whole CSI franchise is secretly near-future science fiction?
Employment noncompetes are unenforceable. Other kinds are. A noncompete you accept in exchange for an investment is likely to be enforceable.
You forgot the "long term business" option.
They could support it being an easy config option. Instead you can swap the keys (which breaks the key combos you might use in a VM, AFAICT) or you can mess around with KeyBindings, which only apply to some applications and not others.

Not having an option for it at this point in time seems like little more than bloody mindedness. And regardless of any of this, it makes it harder to switch comfortably to Mac OS than pretty much any other OS, and I use a lot of different OS's to get my job done.
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