skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. $80MM isn't even in the ballpark of what it would cost to build a quantum-theoretic machine that could break IFP (RSA) or DLP (DH, DSA) crypto.

2. $80MM is way, way past the threshold believed to be required to break the most widely deployed public-key crypto, RSA-1024. Put differently: there are venture capitalists who could successfully fund an effort to break the most widely-deployed public key crypto.

3. 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.

I have no insight into what's actually happening behind this disclosure, but the price tag on it suggests to me that it's just a research project.

Since NSA is the kind of organization that historically spends $80MM on paper clips, the number suggests to me that quantum-theoretic attacks on IFP and DLP crypto aren't currently a serious thing. But that's a wild guess.
It should be noted that Professor Cole is a direct beneficiary of the aggressive student loan collection practices. This story reads like something out of a "Tale of Two Cities". I wonder if the ending will be similar.
"I see the children are home from school."

Sir your analogy doesn't mesh with reality as another commenter above noted. Servers provide responses, not hand over the hard-drive.

Calling people children is absolutely negative and is a detriment to any reasonable discussion, which is what this site seems to be about. Very kindly shut your gob if you want to continue this route.
Didn't read the article (blocked by the Great Firewall), but here's a year-ender from Gwynne Dyer. He says... "[Instead of] a list of events, a year-end piece should be a first draft of history that tries to identify where the flow of events is really taking us. By that standard, Snowden comes first."

http://www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=5&i=10887
An interesting question is whether those 'in power' can keep from wanting more though. Those who have a lot keep taking more until those who have nothing react violently. It seems to me that this has been the case in the past, and I don't see why this time will be different.
Considering I still own a lot of shares in a company that makes Android compatibility environments for non-Android platforms, I hope that's true. In general, I think the Jolla team has been pragmatic. They have not relied exclusively on any one approach to delivering mobile apps, and they have a native app environment in addition to their Android compatibility
How long do you envision these contractual relations being? To suggest vacation will be replaced by the time between contracts says to me you figure the average contract would be somewhere between 6-12 months, but there are vast swaths of jobs that take months just to get up to speed...
> According to the laws of the free market, though, none of that is supposed to matter. All that is supposed to matter is how many people are capable of doing your job.

This statement about the "laws of the free market" is an erroneous claim. Look up "compensating differential."
For whatever reason, pomdp has been co-opted by the AI community, so the books are pretty lousy and show-offy, often using nonstandard terms and newfangled jargon to explain what is really plain old probability theory with some state space transitions.Thrun's Probabilistic Robotics is the best one I could find. Any math professor can run circles around the material if it were treated as part of math instead of bringing AI into the mix.
http://hipstercircuits.com/finally-a-working-4-3-hdmi-compat...

0.3" larger than you're looking for but that isn't much.
They did away with pre-existing condition exclusions. That alone makes way more people "less dependent on their boss for their health"; the only way to avoid those exclusions in the past was through getting group insurance from an employer.
Tongue says yes. Liver says no. Brain considers both opinions, and sides with liver.
Official Texas Review: Creation Science In Every Biology Textbook
>Vim did win the war; there's still nothing better.

Haha, good one. Many of vim's predecessors are better even, nvi is far nicer to use than vim is for example.
What a convincing and well-thought-out argument.
Just as most people consider their IQ to be above average.
Ah, that's what I thought, but I thought I'd ask to be sure.

I've been living in NYC where the neighborhood you live in and the industry you work in can make you lose sight of how others live.

Thanks for the response.
Jolla is derived from Mer (merproject.org), so it is certain all the Mer parts are open.
Grade 2 Korean Students Cover Nujabes - Aurarian Dance
Reminds me of a server thing, where addresses are hashed, then sorted, I think it was for storage, gah, now I can't even remember it!
You can ask for (and receive) a hell of a lot more out of a new employer before your start date than you can after it.

Exactly. Few employers will approve a 3 week vacation when you've only been on the job 2 months, but if you tell them the vacation is already scheduled, they pretty much have to grant it.

@philsnow My point was mainly getting the vacation approved in the first place. I wouldn't push my luck by asking them to front me the 2 weeks, but half of my companies offered it (you just start negative, and by the end of the year you have 0 days).
well, does it mean all Silicon Valley is upper class? Is it possible to be upper class if there's nobody in lower class?
Is CDG really one of the worst?
I never had to wait, but took a plane from there only twice, so hardly significant.
Or I wasn't there during high season, or I'm a young white guy, so never pulled out, IDK.
the author should have said "capable and willing", not just capable.

I did disagree with the article as a whole though- it was union wages and government enforced monopolies on union labor supply that pushed many jobs to countries with lower costs. What this purely nationalistic view fails to account for is how much wages worldwide have risen over the past 50 years.

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/12/chart-of-the-greatest-and-m...
India gets its second time zone
Experiences change the way the brain functions (and who you are)
André A. Fenton, a neurobiologist at NYU, doesn't think memories are all that special. If you think about it, memories are just a biochemical process. Neurons communicate with each other and change the pathways in the brain that encode memories and determine how our brains operate.

André uses the analogy of a city's infrastructure (roads, housing, energy, water, etc.) to explain how memories form in the brain. I really liked this analogy. André made it easy for me to understand how memories stick and become a part of who we are. For more information: http://elemental.co/post/71123602078/how-experiences-can-change-how-your-brain-operates
There's a significant value in being able to use a phone with a sense of freedom from being watched by a company like Google. To fully use an Android handset, you have to keep Google updated on your location, contacts, calendar, and email, and give them your credit card details. This information is much more sensitive because you are giving it to a company which can combine it with other sources of information.
This article has so many fatal flaws, I have no idea where to start.

For starters - Unions are great, I mean, just ask Detroit how awesome they are. The unions absolutely buried that city in unfunded pensions:

http://www.freep.com/interactive/article/20130915/NEWS01/130...

"Even in recent years, when no one questioned that the health care tab had been ballooning, city leaders failed to cut costs because of intense pressure from unions. Adverse court and arbitration rulings also stymied the city’s best efforts to cut. The city’s spending on retiree health care soared 46% from 2000 to 2012, even as general fund revenue fell by 20%."

From the article: "The anti-labor movement’s greatest victory has been in preventing the unionization of the jobs that have replaced well-paying industrial work."

This is such a myth. Right now there's a HUGE shortage of skilled labor in this country - most in non-unionized fields:

http://www.scdigest.com/ontarget/13-11-06-3.php?cid=7555

"Companies that make tangible products are struggling to find candidates for about 237,000 job openings. To put that figure in perspective, it's 89,000 more than the entire U.S. economy created in September."

"But worse, the under 30 crowd simply does not see manufacturing work as an attractive option. That may be due to some misconceptions about new age manufacturing jobs, says Paul Gerbino, head of ThomasNet News.

Many young workers don't even think about manufacturing as a career "because they don't realize that factory jobs are not what they were in the old days," says Gerbino. "Many of these jobs involve sophisticated technology" he told Fortune, and with that comes improved pay. Salaries can start at $50,000 or more, and climb to well over $100,000 a year for skilled, experienced engineers and technicians.

The Thomas.Net study found that 59% of small and medium-size manufacturers are planning to hire skilled trade workers - that is, if they can find them."

Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the author's assertion we need more unions to protect the "working wages".
I'm honestly curious why someone downvoted this. All feminist means is "a person who advocates equal rights for women." I mean, it's in a bunch of dictionaries and everything.
Actually when my friend was burgled, they stuck a Hi-Lift jack[1] on the frame horizontally and cranked it until the frame came off. The police reckoned the door was open in under 20 seconds and their place was emptied of valuable stuff in under 4 minutes. They got spooked and left the jack on the street but they managed to nick everything.

[1] http://www.hi-lift.com/hi-lift-jacks/index.html
Fix Mavericks--I wish I never installed it. Oh yea--still
don't understand why you screwed with ibooks?
If you "request" that the doorman of a building let you in and then subsequently rob the place, the doorman's complicity does not lessen the severity of your offense.

People like to make this debate more complicated than it really is, what with the warring analogies. Really, the issue is straightforward: did the person accessing the information have a reasonable belief that they were authorized to access it?

Your argument is, "if the webserver says it's OK, then my belief that I'm authorized is reasonable". That's a sane argument, but has any court ever agreed with it?
Considering that there is so much evidence against linguistic relativity, I do not understand why these types of stories keep appearing on HN.
"I never expected that I should be able afford more than gas, snacks, and games until I had a "real job"."

Rent/mortgage is notably absent from that list, so presumably they do not expect a minimum wage earner to be living on their own. With that assumption, it is reasonable that a minimum wage earner is making enough to keep themselves entertained when not working (though ideally they should of course be saving).

Minimum wage really is not built as an independent living wage (let alone a living wage for people that have children, despite what some people think). Some other form of support is assumed.
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

Be Here Now - Ram Das

Whole Earth Catalog - Stewart Brand

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

Savage Continent - Keith Lowe

Forged - Bart D. Ehrman

Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore

Court of the Red Czar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Not an issue in communist countries where atheism was the state's policy.
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, I create processes (and so should you).
I spent 6 and a half years studying chemical engineering at the University of Florida and the University of Colorado at Boulder, writing out flow charts for industrial processes. Much of my time was spent thinking about oil rigs and pharmaceutical companies.

Earlier this year, while talking to a professor friend of mine, the thought occurred to me that my chemical engineering background has trained me to think about problems in a unique way.

Prediction models can help us recognize early signs of systemic failure and develop methods for managing risk more effectively. These models can be applied to prevent everything from blackouts to oil spills to the spread of infectious disease.

So why not think of your life as just another complex system?
That's the privilege of writing for a well-respected, national magazine.

If he had scraped the content to integrate into a movie torrent indexing site, he most likely would have run into legal difficulties. But since he was scraping the content to create a thought-provoking article about the kinds of interesting problems that Netflix is working on, it became PR gold for Netflix and they cooperated.

You can generally get away with a lot of things that would otherwise be actionable by simply considering the perspective of party that would have to act. In this case, he correctly reasoned that Netflix would rather see the article that was published rather than a "Netflix sued me for playing with their site."
Humans are fallible, but some humans are massively more fallible than others. Humans lack foresight, but some humans lack a lot more foresight than others. Viewing humanity as a whole, without respect to local variations in morality and other qualities, over-simplifies things.

You have a group of individuals who come across a power that the majority lack, they also happen to be a lot better educated than the average, and their choice is whether to give away the secret of that power. Perhaps they're not well equipped to make that choice, but that's neither here nor there in framing the basic question - and the answer to that question can then be used to form other questions. If they turn out to be ill-equipped to make the choice, then that's at least something that can be worked on. How do you improve the qualities you'd want of a decision maker in this regard?

That's a lot more useful, realistic line of thinking to go down than just shrugging and going 'All humans, we should expect the same knowledge and behaviour.' The behaviour you expect of a randomly chosen human should be different to behaviour you expect of a semi-randomly chosen human from a specific subset. Heck, even the arguments you can have - you can't talk about probability with most people, they're not going to understand what you mean when you say 'standard deviation' or anything like that. Most people do not do much thinking.

You don't need scientists to be super human. You just need them to be a group you can start asking questions about. Get an angle of attack on the problem through. If they turn out to be average or substandard or whatever in some particular area, then there are ways that can be addressed.
In the U.S., we have four classes: poor, middle, upper middle, rich. Poor is if you're on welfare (excluding Social Security). Nearly everyone else is middle class. Most doctors or lawyers would consider themselves upper middle class, but so would say a former construction worker who bought his construction business and now pulls in similar income.

Very few people consider themselves "upper class" or "rich" and not for altogether invalid reasons. First, people compare themselves to the people around them, not against the whole population. People who you might expect to self-identify as "rich" have tremendously less occurrence of single-parent households, which drags down the national median household income of $50k/year. The national median household incomd for a married couple with kids is much higher, at $80k. In a major metro area, say DuPage County in the Chicago suburbs, the median household income for a married couple is over $100k/year. Second, it's difficult for people to consider themselves rich when even with a $200k/year income, their kids might have to take out student loans (top-notch American schools can cost over $50k/year). At the extremes, this phenomenon leads to some people working on Wall Street in New York self-identifying as upper middle class. The median price for a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan is $1.35 million. It's hard to call yourself "rich" even making $250k/year HHI when you can't even afford a modest home near your work!
"I’d call that a solid year."

... I wish everyone else would and give Apple a break.
What the fuck is your problem? You are calling people "children" and "shallow oafs."

Stop being such a negative jerk when communicating with others.

Edit: Thanks whoever down-voted the guy saying "fuck" but not the user injecting insults and slights. This HN community feels healthy and mature.
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Who's hiring summer interns?
This means more people competing for jobs, which weakens the power of unions.

It also means more jobs, which lowers competition for jobs.
Do you know enough to be able to write a great rebuttal article? Or to link to a great rebuttal article written by an expert?

I'd like to read that.
It may be dubious science, but it's important from an 'Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten' perspective.

Many of my friends have the "fuck em if they can't take a joke" outlook on political correctness, so I get it. On the other hand, it is more difficult to mix with strangers and new social groups when you aren't used to being polite a lot of the time.
I've tried a lot of programs but always come back to using a low-tech Gmail draft.

In this particular case, the advantage over gist is that you can edit it offline on mobile (I ride the subway) and it syncs automatically
My girlfriend's photo stream syncs right to her Documents folder on Windows.
I'm surprised Apple hasn't scooped up Nest. If they intend to eventually make the home their next "platform" it seems like a decent place to start.
Gluten-Free Diet: Imprudent Dietary Advice for the General Population?
If you leave your blinds open, can I look through them?
I think perhaps in the US, unions have given themselves a bad name with some particularly excessive contracts. I'm thinking of the unions who hold their companies hostage to the point of bankruptcy.
True. I glossed over the crucial part, which is that you have to enumerate the same number of potential outcomes for the biased coin's ten flips as you do for each fair coin, because each coin is equally as likely to be selected from the jar. Of course, all 2^10 potential outcomes for the biased coin's ten flips are the same: all heads. So we have:

00000 00000 0
00000 00000 1

For 999 fair coins = 1998

And 2^11 instances of 00000 00000 0 for the biased coin = 2048.

That's 1998 + 2048 = 4046 equally likely outcomes that begin with ten heads. Of those, only 1998 / 2 = 999 outcomes feature an eleventh tails. So the odds of getting an eleventh heads after seeing ten heads is (4046 - 999) / 4046 =~ 0.753.
Warren Buffet credits it for much of his success. I don't much like the bastard but he learned his lessons well.
I had to look it up. For the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential
Glad I'm running a Buffalo router with OpenWRT....
Part III of my nonsense. How I gave up a career as a deep sea diver.
http://perfectionkills.com/global-eval-what-are-the-options/...
So the unpleasant work will have pay more.
>100-200k earners would be middle middle?

100-200k for households puts you in the top 10%. Individuals, maybe top 5%. How is that not upper class!?

I wish I was even low middle according to your scale...

For reference:

Income in 1999

Households..................................105,539,122 100.0
Less than $10,000............................10,067,027 9.5
$10,000 to $14,999............................6,657,228 6.3
$15,000 to $24,999...........................13,536,965 12.8
$25,000 to $34,999...........................13,519,242 12.8
$35,000 to $49,999...........................17,446,272 16.5
$50,000 to $74,999...........................20,540,604 19.5
$75,000 to $99,999...........................10,799,245 10.2
$100,000 to $149,999..........................8,147,826 7.7
$150,000 to $199,999..........................2,322,038 2.2
$200,000 or more............................. 2,502,675 2.4

Median family income (dollars)..................50,046
Per capita income (dollars).....................21,587

Median earnings (dollars):
Male full-time, year-round workers..............37,057
Female full-time, year-round workers............27,194

http://censtats.census.gov/data/US/01000.pdf
The number of workers per-household is somewhere around 1.2: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census_issues/ctpp/data_pro...
People should take time off, I agree. It's not a matter of the employer denying it, they aren't dictators. Citizens in the United States are free persons and they can choose not to work for an employer who they don't feel is willing to buy them enough vacation time. The question is, "Who should have to pay for [large amounts of] vacation time?"

Also, I don't know if you've ever been involved with a small business before, but "can't afford it" in that context usually means "literally do not have that much money", not "can't afford to take it out of my bonus because then I'd have to buy last year's yacht model".
care to share some of that evidence with the rest of us?
> Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to get as much work out of employees for as little compensation as is practical.

This is a myth. Under the prevailing (Delaware) law, corporations actually have a lot of leeway in this regard. If corporate executives wanted to pay more, they would be totally entitled to do so, and lawsuits wouldn't be able to stop the practice. What they would have to worry about is the private equity companies. An otherwise functioning business paying higher salaries than absolutely necessary could be a ripe takeover target.
What do you think would be the correct order of magnitude of cost to build "a quantum-theoretic machine that could break IFP (RSA) or DLP (DH, DSA) crypto"?
If you are using the mean for the average (which is quite common), then it is completely possible for most people to have their IQ be above average (not saying it is, just saying there's nothing mathematically wrong if it is).
> to offset an undesirable sour or bitter flavor

It's better to err on the side you're on, because that justification covers quite a lot of ground. For instance, it's hard to find tomato without sugar in prepared food. Or anything else without sugar, actually.

Seems that food companies are afraid of "tasting bad" and just throw sugar in there willy-nilly, with the consequences now in plain sight, to say the least.
Compile OpenSSL without RnRand
I think Honeywell is more likely to buy Nest than Apple.
As someone just getting started with front end development and who learns best by tinkering, this is a great resource.

What are some other Bootstrap focused resources to learn front end development?
Productivity is much higher now, compared to 1965, thanks to automation.
Video games are dirt cheap, especially on a per-hour basis. A given game may be expensive, but if you just want "a good game", even $10 can buy you some good stuff if you spend it carefully. Hardware may not be free, but if you don't mind not having the latest & greatest it isn't necessarily expensive compared to other entertainment options either.

I seem to recall reading an article several years ago about how video games are becoming the entertainment of choice for poor people, because it is becoming the cheapest option available (again, especially per hour). And good stuff has gotten cheaper since I read that.