skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you're right. It is allowed by FAA but disallowed by ICAO. I'm not sure I would take any chances with a 300$ device though

Passengers can also bring two (2) larger lithium-ion batteries (more than 8 less than 25 grams of equivalent lithium content per
battery or about 100-300 watt hours per battery) in their carry-on.

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ash...
The encrypted multikey keyword search is very interesting, but using a certificate for code is troubling... Also there is almost no info on the way they use the browser xss protections on the scheme. It's only briefly mentioned.
Saying it once and for all: Not everyone can be rich. And getting rich requires lots of luck. That's why it's better to be frugal and invest wisely, than to gamble on writing a best seller or invent the next big thing.

I'm not saying don't invent or write books either. Just don't bet your life on it.
I'll be honest, I said dastardly merely because I see Thomas Alva Edison twirling his mustache.
http://techworker.coop/
I'm mostly interested in the implications of not using PGP's annotations and rolling their own instead. Still looking for a technical explanation from them about it though, as this will likely be the key point for many tech-savvy when deciding to whether use it or not (I assume).
Good point. I was thinking of another sort of attack though.

"It is possible for a service built with Mylar to search across encrypted data stored on its servers, for example, so a person could search documents they had uploaded to a file storage service."

If the server doesn't have access to the plain text then you are giving the server access to a useful subset so it can do things like index it right? That useful subset must then be of interest to folks in the NSA.... So either the server has access to the plain text (temporarily or permanently) or it has access to a useful subset.

And from there a whole host of attacks are possible. Not that this surprises me. If robust encryption architectures were easy....
It was growing popular at a fast pace before Github existed, because it was to good to be true (that's why Github choose it).

I think Github helped more in creating a fresh and easy way to follow/contribute to open projects.
I simply rsync my entire server (over ssh) to a large disk on another box. Super easy to set up and the backed up data doesn't need any special software to read/restore, beyond standard 'nix tools.
Enhanced radiation ("neutron bomb!!!") warheads for Sprint, emphasize the neutron flux, lessen the explosive yield.

Better way up there than the RV warheads detonating on the surface, although the successor proposed LOADS planed for a 75K foot intercept to among other things decrease EMP effects. And, hey, wouldn't all those bright lights in the sky look pretty ^_^?
I second the nomination for crashplan. I use it on Windows, but linux client is available.
Depending on your definition of affordable, I've heard people raving about rsync.net for years.
On the IM side of things, you should check out OTR (off-the-record messaging): https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ - in particular check out the top 4 goals mentioned on that page.
Might also help if the burn amount could be denoted as positive or negative. If zero is the worst, it might just mean "didn't care." If someone spends a significant sum on a negative rating, you know he was pissed.

There have been some behavioral economics experiments showing that people are quite willing to make sacrifices to punish offenders.
I'm okay with autoconf. Automake however is an abomination.
There are other benefits to make. First, you'll need to ask users to install grunt, whereas make is standard and is just there (except for Windows, probably). Second, make provides a language that is optimised to express the information it needs, whereas grunt uses a JSON file. It gave me headaches when I needed to edit grunt config at my last job, and I never touched grunt ever since. Third, all the tasks you've specified can be done with standard UNIX utilities, whereas you depend on third-party libraries with grunt. Also, I do not think that any of those tasks are complex.

I'd rather rewrite a 4-LOC shell script in my new project, instead of depending on a build tool that depends on a non-standard, infant runtime itself, and also depends on third party libraries for deleting files.
If by "what GitHub did for Git" you mean "turn into a social network for programmers and nobody else," then the answer is "maybe."
Brainstorming ins business is like jamming in music. Teams with great synergy can create great results.
Sounds like a protection racket. Why not have drivers insure themselves? Doesn't that work somehow? What was the insurance issue in this Lyft example? Did the passenger pay more or less?

Protectionist laws aren't automatically good because they have some questionably-beneficial aspect. And in this case, they aren't protecting anybody involved, just the city. Are you kidding?
Do for crypto what GitHub did for git? You mean take something that's already well-distributed and introduce a central SPOF for many people's workflows? Sure, they can do that.
Could this have more to do with the fact that PHP/Javascript is the primary language used at Facebook whereas it is pretty much language-spaghetti at Google? Perhaps Zuckerberg figured that his technical culture didn't leave much for Google to poach yet he wanted to soak up some talent from the likes of Google. I kid, I kid!
I can kind of see it, touring on my motorbike I'd use one of these for charging whilst camping. Unfortunately I just can't justify that price tag.
I use a cronjob that uses duplicity for encrypted backups with Google Drive as external storage (python2-gdata package on Arch). After Google dropped their price on 100GB to $2/month they became the cheapest option for me.

I'd love to use something like Tarsnap, but storing my ~80GB of data with them would cost $24/month plus $0.30 per gigabyte of bandwidth. And rsync.net is $0.10 per GB of storage, so that would be $8/month. (that price only when signing up through git-annex http://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html )
CVE-2014-0101 – Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
You claim that the new website (mega.co.nz) operates in "much the similar fashion to his previous website," but I don't think that's true. The new website is nothing like megaupload / megavideo. The new website is much more comparable to websites like dropbox / box / onedrive. If you disagree, could you please explain what makes mega.co.nz so radically different from services like dropbox / box / onedrive / etc. ?
Michael Jackson also had a pretty massive funeral, but WRT to U.S. Foreign policy he was a private citizen. Yes, the country will "officially" honor President Carter upon his passing; and yes, we still call him President Carter, but there are no foreign leaders who believe that he is driving U.S. Foreign policy. As such, his statements were simply the opinions of a well-known private citizen who objected to the country's march to war (along with many others).

>if you think he was opposed to all force.

Well, I never said he was opposed to all force.

EDIT: BTW, did you edit your comment to which I first responded on this thread? Seems that there was initially language in it suggesting that Carter's statements might have created confusion about official U.S. foreign policy. That's actually what I was addressing. Guess I should have quoted.
Is "in an efficient market" the economic equivalent of the programmers' "with a sufficiently smart compiler"? It seems to be used in the same manner in arguments.
Probably there were different reasons for different VC Firms. Let it go, let us not talk about them anymore :)
Unfortunate Title. It's worth looking at some counter-examples, as Capital Structure (often) has precious little to do with management structure. Most non profits mimic the for-profit in organizational structure (ie, run by a CEO, with a staff of VPs...). On the other hand, many for-profit partnerships are quite flat and more egalitarian than their corporate cousins. Also, many co-ops still have a CEO (eg: REI, the outdoor goods store). The outgoing CEO for REI was in fact a banker previously and is now a government "boss" (a/k/a secretary of the interior).
Using it for crypto and using it as a secret key are different things. You should not use it as a secret key, because it is not, in anyway, secret.
Storing private keys in a place that you do not control is ridiculous. You are putting your trust in a service, thus making your own keys untrustworthy to yourself.

Put your public keys wherever you want. They are public. The SKS keyservers work well for this already, however.

The idea of getting crypto to the masses is laudable, but this is reinventing existing infrastructure and introducing new dangers to the system at the same time.

Please DO NOT USE keybase.io ... at least until the source is opened and we can see what they are doing.
It's definitely a basic feature of any language, including Java. I have no idea what the people upthread are talking about. From memory (may not compile) (edit thanks to cbsmith)

import java.io.*;

public static void main(String[] args) {

byte[] buf = new byte[4096];

while (true) {
int numRead = System.in.read(buf);
if (numRead < 0) {
// hit EOF, terminate
System.out.flush();
System.exit(0);
}
System.out.write(buf,0,numRead);
}
}
Everyone says that, until they're put in charge of babysitting an old HPUX or AIX box and it's time to install something. Then no one complains about Autoconf again (though they can't bring themselves to praise it, either).

Automake, on the other hand...
We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink
Which is one reason why the trontium can supply up to 20V.
Enjoy the next four weeks.
Is this linked to Reddit's World Backup Day on 31st March? http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/
The Corporate PR Industry's Sneaky War on Internet Activism
Thanks for this. I've not seen this book before and, like you, most of these other books feel way too spammy to me.
Seems like a perfect fit for any subscription model. Sandbox the corporation can figure out a model for divvying the revenue from customers between the app developer and whatever fees they want to charge for hosting. And other companies could provide hosting, as well.

(Unless I'm misunderstanding the model...?)
> European Constitution (2005) France - 54.9% against (29 May 2005)
> Netherlands - 61.5% against (1 June 2005). No one else in Europe was
> offered a choice.

That's because not all countries have a referendum culture/law, for example, you can't have a referendum in Belgium, there is simply no legal mean to do it.

And arguably, you can say democracy is working, since the European Constitution was not enacted.

> Lisbon Treaty (2008): Only Ireland asked people to ratify it. No one
> else was offered a choice. Initially Ireland voted - 53.2% against but
> then when told to vote again and get it right - 60.3% in favour.

Unless the vote was rigged, then what's the problem?
On the oyher hand, some people that argue for their use of strict typing on Haskell's level say that it is because they are not good enough programmers to not waste time on runtime type errors, another form of self-deprecation.
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else find media sites remapping left/right arrow keys to mean "move to previous/next article" completely annoying?
You don't have to store your private key with keybase.
Except if your files get corrupted, then you're screwed.
There's been much ink spilled over Javascript's failings (eg. http://rdallasgray.github.io/blog/2013/06/09/whats-wrong-wit...), but my high-level complaints:

1. becomes difficult to maintain large codebases for language-induced problems without multiple external libraries/frameworks/systems and/or expert practitioners.

2. code readability is all over the place (in contrast to, say, Python or Java). In fact, the best written JS I find to largely inscrutable. This is likely a personal failing, but I'm the one writing this list.

3. you have to write in a different language to get Object Oriented capabilities (eg. Typescript, Coffeescript). I'm inclined toward OO, so if I'm going to write in a different language, I might as well go all the way.

In short, amazing things have been in spite of Javascript, not because of it (not strictly true, since you can go nuts with the meta-meta generic programming in JS).
Show HN: Scan, a simple automated essay scoring server
If you want to see for yourself, shoot me a mail. I have 2 invite codes to share.

Edit1: All gone

Edit2: Coinbase just sent me some more, I sent invites to everyone who mailed me. I got 1 left now.

Edit3: They are all gone now. Thanks for playing!
What about grey comments?
My reading of genetic programming disagrees with you. In fact many have found that mutation doesn't actually help. Pure crossover with a random population seemed to work just fine (for genetic programming.)

The biggest problem is that the search space isn't smooth and even crossover is very mutative on discrete, arbitrary graphs.
Lack of Twitter geotags can’t stop researchers from getting location
Huawei Eyes Big Growth, ZTE Rolls out Game Box
Hint: For level 26, the apples you want to select are regular apples and do not have the small class. As a result you can use the alpple:not() selector to sove.
Vice did a great profile on Kim that focused on his new Mega project - worth a watch even if just for entertainment value and might just change your mind :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxhIfG0MpY
He isn't proposing that everyone can be rich. Have you read the book?

He's proposing that
1. If you don't think it is possible for you, it will never be.
2. Getting rich (financially) requires a LOT of hard work

On the subject of saving and investing wisely, he reminds the readers that investment works on compound interest. It is good to invest, but the more you put in, the more you get in return and it is a pretty slow process.

It is good to be smart with money and invest wisely, but without high risk, there would be little high reward.

It seems like a lot of people are dismissing the book without looking at the contents of it... (sort of brought it on himself with the title)

Also, the book is NOT saying getting money is the end-all. He emphasizes the important of health, family and freedom (which may or may not mean money for people)
1. Functional programmer makes bold factual statement. So "bold" that it is almost perceived as trolling by imperative programmers.
2. Hacker News' usual suspects fail to grok remotely what he is even saying.
3. GOTO 1.
It all comes down to what your application does, your target market and where your customers hangout. Here is a technique that can fit almost any product, you can even use this for validation before building your product.

1) Identify several use cases and features for your application (preferably more than 10). Examples for a project management SaaS app:

- Project Management

- Time Tracking

- Increase Productivity

- Team Collaboration Tools

2) Build a keywords list, you want to get 3 to 5 keywords for every use case.

3) Create landing pages targeting every use case and feature. Use the keywords you previously identified in the page title. You should have good and useful content on these pages and it should focus on converting visitors into customers.

4) Build inbound links for your homepage and every landing page. Analyze backlinks of your competitors and related products using http://www.ranksignals.com (disclosure: I built RankSignals). This should get you an idea of how to get links and how many links you need.

5) Reach out to as many blogs as possible and pitch your product. Don't just focus on most popular tech blogs, every single link helps; even a local mom blog.

With in few days or weeks (depending upon your competition and execution), you could start ranking on search engines for most of the keywords you are targeting, and it will start driving a growing stream of organic SEO traffic to your product. Industry influencers and bloggers will also start noticing your product and write about it. This will drive even more traffic and links.

This will build an organic marketing flywheel which will bring new customers and continue to grow every single month. You can scale this by creating more landing pages and useful content like guides and tutorials. DigitalOcean does this very well, their community content portal (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/) drives majority of their organic traffic.
I think Kim Dotcom is a hilarious character that reminds me of a fat Austrian Hank Scorpio, but I wouldn't invest more than a giggle of money in Mega with the way law enforcement has tripped over themselves trying to crush him.
While I think co-ops can work very well in some cases, I wonder how well they cope with significant change for the worse in their environment. If you need to lose a third of the workforce suddenly, can a co-op decide on that kind of thing or will it lead to some unproductive compromise, or even worse, denial?
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517717.do is a good project management book.

and this is a more advanced one with some good ideas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Chain_(novel)
Chamber music celebrates 40 years at MIT
The games people clone
That's true, but it's the same argument that justifies Javascript :)

The thing I don't like about make is the poor debuggability when something goes wrong. I having been using make for 15 years and I'm ready for something that gives me more traceability.

A poster above had it right - it's perfect for mapping input files to output, but inbetween and above that, it stumbles pitifully.
I think you're misreading the interview. He knows that the majority of Europeans don't share his values. He was hoping that would change, given the recent economic issues which seem to be largely driven by the euro. But as he said:

The window of opportunity to bring about radical change in the rules governing the euro has closed. ... I am giving up on changing the financial arrangements, the creditor–debtor relationship that has now turned into a permanent system. I will continue to focus on politics, because that is where I expect dramatic developments.

He then goes on to express nothing but positive sentiment regarding the potential for beneficial political developments stemming from the EU.
The Dark Side Of Lambda Expressions in Java 8
Is there any good site out there where people showcase their backup setups, similar in spirit to http://macmenubars.com/ or http://usesthis.com/ ?
I was thinking plate + pickle and bento + pickle, since all of them were dancing... took me coming back here to figure out that only the plate/bento should be selected.
3D chat application made with Unity
Its pretty much a fact of communication that if you can't make yourself understood, you've failed at it.
Wasn't this posted yesterday as well?
Opera Software upstreamed commits to Blink
This is very cool. I found you can cheat though depending on the table and task. For example level 17 is trying to show you :last-child but you can 'cheat' and just do `apple, pickle` and it let's you move on to the next phase

Anyways, very awesome way to teach, I'm sharing it with all my friends but would be cool to force the solution and prevent "hacks" :P
"Remember me everywhere" sounds kind of sketchy. I would be less suspicious of something like "Remember me with Stripe" because at least it would give some indication of who exactly is storing my information.
I know all about the importance of Backups.

Mirroring is not a backup.

Raid is not a backup.

Hard disks are not supposed to sit on a shelf unplugged for extended periods.

Fine. Now, how the hell do I backup my 5TB of photos? :-( :-(

Edit: Lots of fantastic information here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371725

Is there any service that can burn my terabytes of data onto multiple copies on "made in japan taiyo yuden" CDR? :-)
Neptune Pine Goes Out On a Limb of Innovation to Replace Your Smartphone
When I talk to other developers about this stuff and H1B exploitation, we all seem categorically not in favor of collusion. These companies were started by software developers. What the hell happens in the process of running a company where you justify this kind of morality shift?
Get Cosy With Home Automation
Hey nodata! Actually we tried to get in touch with the creator of World Backup Day but regretfully we didn't get a response.

So Backup Awareness Week is not associated with World Backup Day, but we support each other's goals of increasing awareness of the importance of regular backups.
Isn't there a Steam.copyTo(Stream) method somewhere? Or was that .NET?
I think that's pretty risky advice. Just because most millionaires took the 'fastlane', doesn't mean that most fastlaners will become millionares. It gives a bit too optimistic vision of that fastlane. A risk analysis of taking the fastlane vs slowlane would be nice. If you have a family to support, I think the "don't quit your day job" advice is better than anything in this book.
So sad. The stranglehold continues.
"Also, the whole "write code faster" has always been perplexing to me. The speed at which you write code is never significantly different between any two mainstream languages to really matter in the end, especially since the lifetime of a piece of software is dominated by maintenance."

One of the very few bits of relatively solid software engineering that we have is that line count for a given task does matter. Fewer lines written by the programmer to do the same thing strongly tends to yield higher productivity. (Note the "by the programmer" clause; lines autogenerated... well... correctly autogenerated tend not to count against the programmer, which is an important part of doing Java, or so I hear.)

And remember, if this were not true, we'd be programming entirely differently; why do anything but assembler if line count doesn't matter? You might be tempted to thing that's some sort of rhetorical exaggeration, since it sort of sounds like one, but it's not; it's a very serious point. If line counts are actually irrelevant, then we'd never be bothering with high-level languages, which up until fairly recently have the primary purpose of doing a whole bunch of things which, in the end, reduce line count.

(Slowly but surely we're starting to see the mainstream introduction and use of languages that also focus on helping you maintain invariants, but that has still historically speaking been a sideline task and niche products.)
Mailpile has an interesting architecture to prevent this. But they are trusting the "server". Something you have to do if you want all the fancy functionality like indexing, search etc. You can encrypt your index, though. So unless the whole server gets compromised your data is still encrypted in a secure way.
I agree, except for the 'common political entity' bit. EU, till now, has been mostly a financial institution, rather than a political one. We will be a political union only when all of us will speak a common language, and all of us will be allowed to vote on the same set of politicians/leaders.
Obviously, there's no well-intentioned advice from Soros, and we all know it.
First-Class Functions in Java 8 [video]
Don't pick a cutesy-poo slogan as your corporate motto, do the opposite, and not expect to get grief over it. Why pick that slogan in the first place?

I know "vision-statements" and things like that don't get a lot of mileage here but character matters.
> I am surprised, because normally you hear "social media ban" and you think some dictatorship. One thing is certain, while this is going on, Turkey can kiss EU membership ambitions goodbye.

If only it was that easy. Dutch ISPs were forced to censor The Pirate Bay, but we're still in the EU!

(j/k)
...says the not-an-entrepreneur. Some of us think its NOT better to play it safe. Just sayin.