skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum computing is undergoing active research and productization (there's a company in Vancouver, BC - D-Wave - working on making a quantum computer product). Historically, quantum computers are considered to be have crypto-breaking applications.

> If it is feasible to build a quantum-theoretic machine to break RSA, it is vitally important that the NSA attempt to do so; such work is at the very core of their mission.

This is a key thing to remember - expect groups tasked with breaking crypto to be working on breaking crypto. In other news - Pope is Roman Catholic, water is wet. :-)
Why have you failed to visit an abortion clinic yet? You're not fit for children.

Gypsy: "An itinerant person or any person suspected of making a living from dishonest practices or theft; a member of a nomadic people, not necessarily Romani; a carny."
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I guess this depends on habit: once used to "real" sloppy focus, it is really difficult to live without it. At the same time, I've seen tons of people get confused when using my computer and accidentally moving the mouse. Still, worth a try if you haven't (and kind of impossible with OSX).
The themes are beautiful and the presentation is nice but the required email opt in totally turns me off. Why not just host these on github? I actually want to be on your newsletter but I don't like that you are forcing people to do so [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7002338
> Even intuitively, it would make sense that different languages/cultures might distinguish or understand different concepts differently...since this is HN, imagine asking a trial of 100 people who have programmed in nothing but COBOL their whole life to explain monads or continuations intuitively, and how they'd use them in practice, compared to a trial of 100 who understood Scheme and Haskell. I think the results would be pretty obvious. Why would structures and concepts in human language be any different?

I'm not a linguist, but have recently started to become familiar with parts of it. I don't think you can reasonably make the comparison between engineered computer languages and our innate language abilities. There's ample evidence for a universal grammar, and that languages are not engineered so much as match patterns we're wired to recognize and be able to manipulate. I can stretch your analogy only as far as recognizing the different grammatical constructs that different languages employ (eg English is subject-verb-object and native English speakers first have trouble understanding and reproducing object-subject-verb constructions but eventually get it).

Human languages have nothing truly comparable to the situation you describe. Just because computer languages are called "languages" doesn't mean that it can actually map to a human language.
If you've never used a larger-screened phone, you may not see the benefits immediately. I went from a 4s to a Lumia 1020. Initially, I thought it was way too big, but the supple, thick, curved edges and ergonomic design of the 1020's case made it much easier to hold and I acclimated quickly. Going back to a 4s seems quaint and stupidly tiny now.

> I miss the days of the old tiny flip phones

This is progress. Either get with the times or get left behind. Use cases for mobile devices have completely changed, and now there are serious, tangible benefits to a large screened device that no one except an extreme minority is protesting. Note that this doesn't mean they all have to be tablet-sized; anywhere from 4 - 5" is what most would agree on as the perfect range for devices. The iPhone 5s/c isn't even 4". It's 3.997" if we want to be pedantic, which is too small for everything we use smartphones for now.
Haha nice one , this something that it was bugging me out for a while too.
If you're going to go into "debt", vacation debt is the right kind. It doesn't accrue interest, it doesn't impact your credit rating, and they can't subtract it from your paycheck in most states (like CA) if you leave the job - they have to chase you to pay it back, and many companies don't bother.
Is this a joke, serious, or linkbait?
There's MultiROM for the Nexus 7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
The "middle" class has never been defined as any kind of "average" class.
This is exactly why we should adopt the same minimums as Europe: 5-6 weeks usually, and on average people get 7 weeks. This allows for family, seasonal trips, and random time off.

There is too much silence on this topic though.
Marx also treated capital as a way to control the means of production. One could argue that with automation, especially software automation, controlling the means of production is possible without a significant amount of capital.

Seems to me we're already seeing the natural progression you described in your last paragraph - basic income initiatives. This really looks to me like the anti-segregation movement from the 60s - a radical idea at the time, then 50 years later people don't understand how it was possible to have a society without it.
Could you run an FFT on the image you want to display as a starting point for figuring out what frequencies you need?
justrudd is describing ordinary practice in Silicon Valley and many other tech companies, especially startups.
The RadioLab episode on this topic was fascinating: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91725-words/
American jihad shortly
So, to see if I understand you:

* The person suggesting the question says that this is trivial for people suited to the job in mind;

* You say you couldn't do this question;

* You also say that you would be suitable to do the job.

Given that the proposer of the question is the one that understands the job, I'm having a hard time understanding why you claim you would be suitable for it, given that you couldn't do the question. Please understand that I'm not attacking you specifically, I'm just having a hard time understanding your reasoning.
There are also more than a few people who think D-Wave is selling cold fusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#History_of_contr...
MapReduce and Spark
I work at a telcom. The vast majority of people are sticks in the mud, and those that aren't are leaving, fast.
You should take a look at the Micro Magician V2 http://goo.gl/YunKFR, about a third of the size and motor driver/accelerometer/IR receiver built in. Great for small robots or doing high level coding (their Micro M library makes coding for those features a breeze)
> the RAM can be upgraded independently at the time of purchase.

FWIW, RAM cannot be upgraded on newer Macbook models, incl. the retina mentioned. The RAM is soldered on.
Am I the only one who never care about licenses? It says "free" so I download it. What is the worst thing that can happen?
76k micro-genres seems much.
For my website http://5000best.com/movies/ I created 40 main genres using IMDb tags together with the 100 million ratings from the Netflix Prize data (I was 43rd in that competition).

Additionally, earlier I extracted and named 12 new genres (those ones on the right) from the Netflix ratings alone - I described the process here: http://arek-paterek.com/book/predict_sample.pdf
D-Wave is what makes the $80MM number look so small: nothing D-Wave has done has come close to threatening cryptography of any sort, and D-Wave has taken almost $80MM themselves.
Hey, i put time into my appearance , i don't wanna sound out of the blue or get into stereotypes but maybe is because i am gay, don't know. Really, i have seem in so many conference attractive programmers like the ones in the photos.
I guess supply and demand.
Some employers offer relocation assistance. So, if you find a position that you think you'd be a better fit for or would enjoy more, but it's far away from where you live now, you may want to ask about that.
This is kind of obvious but if there are no local producers of something, like bananas in Australia, you have some options: do not buy it (you don't need to eat everything), buy it from a responsible source (tip: buy bananas from the Madeira Island, those are great!), add an exception to your .localignore brain file.

Now, I went on to check what's the closest source of bananas for Australia and, well, Australia does produce around 200k tonnes of bananas every year[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iomsvbzcaizcfh7/FAOSTAT_2014-01-02...

Sources:
[1] http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/download/Q/QC/...
Hey, at least I didn't call it scotch!
Here's a good place to start: http://pqcrypto.org/

(This is Daniel J. Bernstein).
I don't believe that quote that purports to be a Western Union memo on the telephone. I don't think that 19th Century businessmen put words like "idiotic" into business communication, and I don't think that they used phrases like "the technical and economic facts of the situation," as the word "economy" at that point was much more strongly meaning "being thrifty at home" and much less about economic systems.

This blog post claims that the quote is fake: http://blog.historyofphonephreaking.org/2011/01/the-greatest...

Slate says it "may" be fake and is awaiting verification: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/01/02/why_p...
may as well link directly to OpenSSL's post on it (which says the same thing) [0]. Also, assuming the traceroute on www.openssl.org is correct, this[1] is their webhost.

[0] http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_hack.txt

[1] http://www.indithosting.se/
>This is progress. Either get with the times or get left behind.

In some areas. I'll tell you what: my "old tiny flip phone" never froze up, refusing to make phone calls, end phone calls, or respond to user input at all. That's pretty important when you really need to make a fucking phone call.
I agree that the public obsession with this idea is strange. There is probably still room for debate and further research but public credulity for this idea far outreaches any possible reality.

If you have studied linguistics much at all, you know that the strongest form of the hypothesis that language governs human perception has been "debunked". And it is appropriate to say debunked rather than disproved because of the way that the public latches on to the idea again and again without being presented with any convincing evidence, just little anecdotes and lazy science journalism.

I don't think the poster above is responsible for searching the Internet for everyone else to validate his claim, which is fairly easy to do. Here is a starting point:

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/

One can also look in to the the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.

Again, further research in to this type of thing is justifiable but the evidence so far has been pretty convincing that linguistic relativity only exists in a fairly shallow sense, if at all. We don't live in Samuel Delany's Babel-17 universe. Objective reality, biology and even cultural influences will likely be seen to trump linguistic relativism again and again as factors that govern our perception of time, space, color and quantity.
Life without 3-4 weeks of time off a year to travel and to relax isn't the same.
He is not :(. http://www.blacktie.co/info/
Have there been recent public disclosures of vulnerabilities in hypervisors?

Breaking out of virtual machines is a really interesting process but it's important to remember that a hypervisor can be attacked with pretty much the same techniques you can attack any other program. Virtual machines aren't a magic contain-all-the-hackers solution. There was an interesting talk on DEFCON 19 about breaking out of KVM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVSVdudfF8Q
Most Unfulfilled New Year's Resolutions
No More Promises: Realizing Your Programming Job Sucks
Read time: 2 minutes

Somewhere in the annexes of maxims and guidance, there is a statement that reads:

“Actions speak louder than words.”

When I worked for my first company out of college I began with “part-time” work as a junior Rails developer. The rate was $1000 a month for up to 30/hrs a week. Two months would then pass and they would consider an increase in salary. Why would anyone accept that offer as a junior Rails developer? Was it me being naive, hopeful, stupid, or something more? I think it was the belief in promises. Their first promise, a $90,000 salary by the end of the year.

Two months passed and the work increased. I’m given tasks with impossible deadlines. In one situation I worked 60 straight hours with 1.5 hours of sleep. Was I given a bonus? No. Was I given a week off to recover? No. More promises were given. Shares in the company, you’ll have normal work again, other developers will have to go through what you went through, etc.

By the end of the year, I’m working full-time plus doing Rails work for the company. I’ve sharpened my skills and I feel comfortable with Rails. Expected salary: $2500 a month. Real salary: $1000ish. We are given a project that takes 3 months to complete, due within 2 weeks. Management won’t budge on date with little previous consultation with developers for a deadline. What’s the solution? Hire contract developers and take salaries out of current developers to pay contractors.

Don’t make my mistake and trust a company with promises that once they are ‘big’ you will get all these great benefits. I was stupid. I learned and quit. Now hopefully I can find a Rails job with a salary I can actually live on.
I slather my salads with olive oil. Very tasty and doc says my numbers are great.
Agreed. Quitting over something like this isn't a luxury most people have.
It sounds like you quit because they were expecting some 80 hour work weeks without recompense.
Download the desktop version. The mobile one is not a full fledged app, it's mostly a convenience to record transactions and check budget amounts on the go. 99% of the time I use the desktop app.
Reading and language are not the same thing, e.g. you can speak a language without being literate. You might therefore expect different writing systems to use different capabilities. Of course, "different parts of your brain" does not mean different capabilities. They could be the same capabilities instantiated differently in the brain.

It may very well be that speakers of a language with feature A can perform some task better than speakers of a language without feature A. However, it does not meant that the speakers have different cognitive capabilities (e.g. you can provide sufficient task training), which is the ultimate argument of people supporting linguistic relativity.

I cannot comment on the political motivations to deny linguistic relativism. I am just a linguist.
Context: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/the-w...
Real hackers are fat, have Unix beards and drink Jolt Cola.
I don't agree at all. That's what the authors say, quite directly!
Full version of the article, with sane paragraph measures and distracting teasers and social features.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-se...
What Are Your New Year's Resolutions
I worked for a company for many years with a great attitude about flexible hours and work from home. Got a ton of work done, felt very good about my work and coworkers, and put out a great product. It was acquired by a larger company who, soon after the acquisition, announced a 9-5 butts-in-seat policy.

Nine months later, after buying a house, I was canned for violating that butts-in-seat policy, largely because I was attending to the many little things a new house requires: inspections, installations, etc. Under the old regime, coming in later and working later, or working from home, being accessible by video chat, IM, and email would have raised no eyebrows. Under the new one it was cause for termination.

I should have seen the writing on the wall and simply started to look for a new job as soon as that more restrictive company took over. I was pressured to stay by the ties I had to stock options, my good professional relationships with co-workers, and my desire to get into a house quickly. The end result was that I went into a lot of bad debt in the months following my layoff, and almost lost my house as I ran out of cash. I could have avoided it if I had planned better. Needless to say I was under a lot of stress for a while.

The long and short of it is, I agree with parent. If you have the freedom to do so, disassociate with companies who have unreasonable time-off or flex work policies, sooner rather than later. Your mental, physical, and financial health are at stake.
> I guess you don't have an aristocracy in the US who I don't know what counts as upper class there.

Donald Trump and Paris Hilton.
While I'm not with you on how "lawyers" are trying to "shift the lines" on the distinction between accessing and exploiting information, which simply does not exist in the law, I agree that the distinction is important; in a perfect world, non-commercial non-malicious non-damaging use of unauthorized data would be relegated by the sentencing guidelines to something less than a felony.
The usefulness and game-changing property of the compatibility to me is that you can buy a phone from a small startup with its own operating system and UI and still have access to applications while you wait fot the number of phones to grow and for Skype et. al to port their stuff to the native environment. Without that you wouldn't necessary buy the phone and the conpany would have a much harder time to succeeed,

Also it is good to have a way to run more exotic apps that it does not make sense to port to a less mainstream environment.

I'm Finnish and has used Nokia Communicators since the 90s and my previous phones was an N9 and a N900 so the main attraction is the native environment as a continuation of Mameo/Meego and the company itself. Thankfully there is still some Finnish companies who seems to understand how to apply 'Management by perkele' :-)
The only reason that I didn't provide links in my original post is because I have had this discussion over and over. I get tired of having it.
I've always thought that too. Either way, these themes look pretty good. I like Bootstrap themes for simple one-off projects or demos that I want to try. For anything serious I'll at least change the colors and modify things.
The responsive breakpoints are not really optimized on the themes I took a look at. Leaves a bunch of space on the margins, sometimes breaks way too early, images aren't responsive, etc.

I guess you can't complain when it's free though.
I read your profile. One reaction was that because of your experiences, you might have already been desensitized to having your rights violated in such a manner. It was more of a shock to us who didn't expect our google searches to be monitored, but now we are all also becoming desensitized.

I believe that trust is a necessary part of any life power structure, and that privacy is a part of that trust. The rights granted by those in power to those below are levers that help the system continue to work in service of the whole. The five eyes privacy violations are an unbalancing act which screws with human power in the event that something goes wrong and we have to repair or restructure the executive organ of our planet. Giving up privacy in this manner is giving up future self control in conditions that cannot be predicted. We should maintain ability to overthrow power structure at any time, we just shouldn't want to (or worse, need to without knowing we need to). I'm not giving up the levers of a system i've amplified with authority over my self. Having all actions of my life known by that system is giving up levers.

Why do you like that theaustralian article so much when it supports lines like "you can't have 100 per cent security as well as 100 per cent privacy in the digital age" and "NSA chief Keith Alexander revealed that the NSA programs leaked by Snowden had helped thwart more than 50 terror plots"?
I know that when you're in the middle of an argument it feels like you're having a 1-1 conversation, but you're not: you're writing messages to everyone on HN. This kind of "apologize first" stuff is really boring. If you don't think the person you're talking to is arguing in good faith, stop responding to them.
Here in The Netherlands we have an infinite number of sick days. You can be sick for up to a year, after that the government takes over. You take a 30% cut, but at least you have an income.

Here it's at least 24-25 days off, plus holidays (6, easter, ascension, pentecost, 2 days Christmas and January 1st). Sick leave doesn't count as off days. When you get sick during your time off and you consult a doctor those days don't count, too.

Mind you that The Netherlands, although liberal compared to the US, ranks amongst the lowest number of paid time off in Western Europe. I'm not complaining though, 25 days is a sweet spot for me: 3 weeks summer holiday, 1 week in the winter (goodbye dreary, cold days, hello sunshine!) and some days for personal stuff. I work part-time (4 days a week), so I get 20 days of paid vacation instead of 25, but for every week I take off they subtract only 4 days.

The combination of a decent amount of paid time off and the abiliy to work part-time makes for a much, much healthier work-life balance. I really hope this is something you guys across the pond will take over someday.

Edit for clarification: I realize i make it sound like we have some kind of socialist paradise here. There's another side to this: a heavy tax burden. With all the income tax, property tax, VAT (21%) and ridiculous gas prices (about $6.60 per gallon) life isn't exactly cheap here.
Most people don't work in salaried jobs where unpaid overtime is the norm.
If you're curious (as I was) about the estimated cost of breaking RSA-1024 check out this paper:

http://tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cbtwirl.pdf

tl;dr - estimate is ~$10M
Committing without pushing is not a problem (unless you intended to push but forgot to?) It is not a concept that necessarily exists in traditional centralized version control systems, but the fundamental problem still exists. In SVN "forgetting to push" is just called "forgetting to commit".

If your team member forgot to push and you put out new changes, that is a problem for him to resolve. If you forgot to push, and your team member put out new changes, that is a problem for you to resolve. Workflow wise, this all works the same as it does with any other centralized workflow.

If you forget to check for updates... well that is something that happens in other centralized schemes as well. You figure it out when you go to push and it fails, you correct it, then you are good to go.
The adobe building in Utah has a road going under it.

http://blog.kezu.com.au/page/2/

(Disclosure: I work there)
They're not designed to be thief-proof. For that you need a bank vault or safe.

Those little boxes are designed to prevent me from swiping your $50 bill in your drawer when your back is turned or you step out of the room for 30 seconds.
Sounds like soylent.

Here's another recipe. Unsweetened soy/almond milk, large scoop of sugar-free whey protein powder with vitamins. One banana, and/or other fruit/veggies, ground flaxseed for fiber.
That's actually a lenghty process, but the good thing is these rules also go for foreigners working here :)