skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly speed? Symmetric crypto is fast, and is often hardware accelerated. Asymetric is slow and not accelerated.

Not as big an issue with ECC, but RSA also has much larger block sizes, increasing the size of small payloads.

It's been my experience that Asymmetric is used for kex (key exchange) or key agreement or signing, but encryption is done using a symmetric algorithm.
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Come on Gregory. You don't need to provide citations for reality. Just go and spend some Bitcoins into the economy, then tell me how many sellers required 6 confirmations. I don't remember the last time anyone required me to wait except for exchanges.
Interesting that it's not for profit, that's cool!
So GoDaddy is utterly terrible both when you're their client and when you're not their client. Great. Could that company be burned to the ground already?
I think the only useful case for an explanation is if your application was defective per the outline, but I doubt that's the main reject reason anyway.
The class of things I hate the most (having applied to YC, etc.) is when a bad application masks what is otherwise a good or potentially great team. That's something you can learn not to do, and which can be corrected with some coaching.

1) People fuck up videos frequiently. I've personally been studying "how to do good kickstarter videos" a lot, but "how to do a 2-3 minute Demo Day pitch" and "how to do a 1 minute YC app video" are pretty specific, and while a lot of it should be obvious, it isn't all obvious.

The problem is, doing a good "how to do a YC video" is itself best communicated as video, with good/bad examples, so it's a fair bit of work -- it would probably take a couple people a week to do very well.

2) Sometimes, people "bury the lede" and hide the most salient parts of their project deep inside an application in a non-clear way. Sometimes it isn't even listed. I've talked to friends who want to apply to YC who intentionally couched their whole application in "corporate speak", focused entirely on top-down analysis, etc., rather than actually explaining why the product is good, why they're interested in it, etc.

3) There are a lot of items which are hard to verify, and which lose their predictive value as soon as they're widely known. Similar to the well-known interview questions ("what is your greatest weakness?" being a pathological example), where once they become common knowledge, the only value is knowing who prepared ahead of time vs. who didn't, or who is willing to recite something which sounds convincing vs. actually thinking about it.

I'm afraid the Thiel question "what is something you believe to be true which isn't widely held" is becoming that question today.

X) My personal belief is that something like a YC app should be fractal -- good on the surface if you skim it for 10-30 seconds, but then just as good when you read it closely in any area without greater context. That's a specific style, and not universal, and I don't know if the YC Partnership agrees with me. The applications get reviewed many times (with some rejected at each step), and ultimately if you're on the bubble and the application gets debated internally, you want it to help you just as much as it did when it was initially screened. (Obviously, it's better to just be so amazing that you're well in the "yes" range and not seriously debated...)
Well, I struggled to get through the first half of that article. Enough banner ads?
You can't be serious. Android's layout XML somehow manages to combine the general awkwardness of HTML+CSS with the overbearing verbosity of enterprise XML formats.

It's probably because Android's format was originally designed for simple keypad-operated mobile layouts, and then was painfully extended for touchscreen applications.
Before this is settled, the tax code should be made simpler with black or white options. A tax preparer saved me a few thousand dollars once by asking the right questions (school tuition). The same for my corp CPA.

The "free" tax return would serve who exactly? What if the government "forgot" to mention a few tax breaks? Maybe the government should offer free tax returns for the plain and simple ones or for those with very low incomes. Paying $50 to $100 to do your taxes when you pay, say $10K in taxes, isn't much.

US axes are very low compared to Sweden and most EU countries.
Not only that, many Americans seem to believe their system of having insurance companies as middlemen improves the system somehow.

My girlfriend is a doctor here in Europe (though she has worked in Mexico). As such she has worked with private and public systems (generally in Europe, you are automatically part of the public system. You can pay private yourself and generally have to wait less).

Anyway, both her and her boss pointed out that if you have anything serious, go to the public system. Why? Because insurance companies always want to pay the least for the cheapest drugs / treatment. The doctors don't enjoy working for the private, because too much of it is trying to justify using the more expensive treatment to the insurance companies.

At the end of the day the public healthcare system exists to help people get better. The private healthcare system exists to make money.
Google knew about Heartbleed for around a month and never told anyone
The outside is of little concern. I repair a lot of handsets (it's my sideline between contracts). There are three classes of handsets:

1. Glued together with proprietary screws and requires heat gun to get inside.

2. Screwed + taped together with Torx screws and requires no heat gun to get inside. Parts are heavily integrated.

3. Screwed together with any screws and requires no heat gun to get inside or any tape. Parts are loosely integrated and easy to replace.

iOS devices are all (1) and some Macs are now as well.

Nokia was a (3) but have moved to a (2) recently which is a step backwards in the war against throwing these things away every 5 minutes due to minor problems. I think that is my problem.

The size of the device is not affected by the above. Some of the smallest devices I've seen are perfectly servicable. It's all down to if they want it serviced or not.

Ultimately parts used to be really easy to get for everything. I'm even seeing shortages on iPhone 5S parts now.
Ask HN: Is there an HN equivalent in Japan?
My story about creating a new business model for cartoonists[0] has been translated to Japanese[1]. Many people took interest in the story here on HN, so I think Japanese-speaking readers may find it interesting too. Several google searches (in English) for a Japanese-language message board for startups turned up nothing. Is there a board like HN (or similar) for Japan, where I can share the story?

[0] Original: http://www.gkogan.co/blog/creating-new-business-model-cartoonists/

[1] Translated: http://rdepf.hatenablog.jp/entry/2014/04/16/150613
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This is fake. Do you see the power cable on the photos? They do not use batteries on their photos!!! And I thought it is finally true ;)
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Thank you so much! Pssst... it's available on mobile also. We just didn't announce it :)

Open dragdis.com on your iPhone, iPad or any other device.
No, it won't. I personally like WP a lot, but this is (again) a winner-takes-it-all market. I think most people would say they like OSX (even if they have never actually used it, but it's fashionable to like OSX anyway), still, OSX market share has been stagnating forever.

What Microsoft can do with a good mobile OS is to stay in the game until the next big thing (as Apple stayed in the game with Mac until the iPod and the iPhone became a big hit).

And again: I think WP is a great OS.
The context of that paragraph though shows an understanding of the entire scale of the development spectrum and was one of the most credible arguments that peaked my interest in his reasoning. I have to say, this was the most convincing argument I have read on going to Go and concurrency is very important. I saw that line more as a joking punchline.

I am in the same Python to Node.js transition recently but still do lots of Python, but new projects are Node.js more and more. I might dig into Go again some more. The reason I think Node.js is still nicer, at least for now, is it mimics the package scale of Python in that there is a package for everything. A platform is all about the packages after the language/tools.
Brutal, but definitely a godsend to the author. Ptacek writes mostly neutrally, concisely, and clearly, pointing out errors and often putting in how to fix them. There's a very small amount of "I can't believe..." statements in there, but they're pretty soft and quite reasonable given his background. A publisher would love to have this kind of technical review done on their manuscripts.
Still waiting for Crypto II :(
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At this point we can safely say that any programming language will be with us for many decades. Cobol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol#COBOL_20XX), Fortran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_2015), Basic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_.NET#2013_.28VB_12...) are still evolving. Heck, Python is already 23 years old and I don't see it going anywhere. I'm not even going to talk about the ubiquitous C/C++ or Java, as they'll probably be around long after we're dead.

Adaption is neat, but I don't see this argument as being a very solid argument in favor of Lisp - it's just the norm.
While GoDaddy has a point about the opt-in component being important for deciding whether spamming took place, they certainly didn't need to release her personal information to the spammer. That's a terrible, serious breach of privacy.

A naive approach that might work without either party needing to divulge emails:

GoDaddy: "We have received complaints that you've been spamming. Give us a list of SHA-1 hashes of addresses of the people that opted in and show us how they opted in."

Customer: "Here's the list."

GoDaddy: "At least one complaint email we received does not match the SHA-1s on this list."
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so fucking full of himself
TL;DR: User got spam from a website hosted by GoDaddy. User reports spam. GoDaddy wants to be good guy and asks spammer if user opted in (by providing spammer with the user's email). Spammer stops spamming, but harasses user by posting her photo online, which s/he probably got using the email address GoDaddy provided.

In retrospect, I'm sure there are better ways for GoDaddy to investigate such complaints, but I think they didn't do something very evil - an email address is hardly "personally identifiable information". On the other hand, if you don't want your photo to be posted online, don't post your photo online.
I'm having a really hard time understanding all of the love for the email client - I've seen people praise it in various articles as well. It's completely awful at productivity.

1. You can't attach anything other than a photo unless you're forwarding an existing attachment. There's no easy way to attach saved documents from Downloads or Office. You have to go to Office, find the doc and click share.

2. You can't do inline edits on forwarded or replied emails - the keyboard disappears when you try to change an existing part of the message. This is so frustrating for business as I can't clean up anything when forwarding.

3. Search tends to be particularly bad at finding things - I can go to Gmail search and get it instantly, but it'll be omitted from results on the Windows phone.

Win phone 8 mail is definitely simplistic and sleek - but not for a second would I call it productive.
In my opinion, the report should be more detailed, to be considered as "transparency report". I.e. what exactly was 760 EUR / speaker spent on? What is "misc"? Who were the sponsors?
Anyway, move in the right direction :)
Thanks! That was kind of "people first" conference.
Yes Exchange integration is the big thing I miss after moving to Android. Then again I'm more productive and more attentive if I ignore the constant stream of email on my phone and just periodically check it with OWA.
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Blossom integrates with HipChat
Feigned surprise is a different concept. Feigned surprise is when you act surprised that someone else doesn't know something; it's when surprise is used to illustrate that someone has failed to meet your expectations. "you've never programmed Haskell?!?!" would be feigning surprise. For one thing, it's not surprising that someone would have not programmed Haskell; lots of people have not programmed Haskell. For another thing, it doesn't add anything; it's tantamount to saying "I'm disappointed you haven't programmed Haskell". The idea is that if someone hasn't seen or experienced something, you shouldn't act surprised; you should act excited to introduce something new to the person.
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>Remember that being wrong about something feels exactly the same as being right about something

Not if you extend being wrong to being ignorant, no. When you're right about something in the sense of not being ignorant, you understand all the discussions and news easily, you know exactly what everyone is talking about, including reading academic articles on the subject, etc. When you're wrong about something your wrongness butts up against the correct model again and a gain and you're often left confused or unable to understand the actions, discussions, arguments, and conclusions, of others. (As opposed to seeing specific places they are wrong.) You can feel this lack of understanding. It just doesn't feel the same way as properly understanding a subject at all.

I would argue that this review is saying that the author's understanding falls a little short of par for the course. The author would probably have had a chance to see this for themselves by getting a little more into the literature.
The first emoticon?
Is there a way to make this non-browser-width? Maybe an option? My screen is too long to read comfortably on.
Loads of HTML5 applications around the web say otherwise. While the HTML approach is indeed rather awkward to use to build applications UI, its flexibility more than makes up for it. Compared to Android XML Layout files, I still prefer HTML.
I read this as GoDaddy releasing her email address only. In theory, isn't an email address only personally identifiable if the address owner has done some action linking it to a real world identity? I assume that's the argument GoDaddy would make.

However, it should have been made abundantly clear to someone reporting spam that their email address may be disclosed to the accused party.
Presumably it's things like this :

http://www.dx.com/p/60x-zoom-led-micro-lens-microscope-w-bac...
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Good call I'll update the post to mention resolving commits. This was not intended to enlighten those who already know how rebase works.
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Go is the future of server side programming. I don't consider that to be an exaggeration. Node is not the future. Node is an interesting technical achievement, but programming in javascript on the server is not going to create the most robust environment.

I think you should definitely ask about Go, but given that you're new, unless you're going into a technical lead position, be aware that they may have already made up their minds, and might not be open to different ideas. People tend to get stuck on a single idea once it gets into their heads.
The first time I saw a modular phone was long ago (2000) in the lab of a very large hardware company where they had a prototype from a start-up they'd invested in.

It was made like a deck of cards, cpu, display/kbd, battery and cell components could all be swapped out. There even was a camera module for the back. It didn't make it. The main reasons iirc were that people see phones as integrated wholes, that contacts breed failure and that making an integrated phone versus one made out of pieces is simply cheaper.

Curious how this one will fare!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonebloks
I am a user, adopted it about a couple weeks ago and I have to admit it is a fantastic product and I use it daily now, and instead of my other bookmarking products,...HOWEVER...I am still creating a mess within Dragdis folders, I guess the nature of collecting stuff. I must say its easier to create a mess with Dragdis, lol, so Kudos to you guys!

One feature I would love to see is a right click to change folder names instead of a couple clicks to open the setting bar and name place. Also Is there a way to share a Dragdis folder or clip with someone yet?
Sponsors are listed on the website: http://2014.makerland.org/

Speakers costs includes flights or hotels for speakers who wouldn't be able to attend otherwise.

Misc (Miscellaneous) are all other small costs like payment fees, or accounting, or hosting - small & boring costs like that.

I think there has to be a good balance and if we will go for all details, it'd be just boring for most of the people.
So email address is not personally identifiable information even though it was all the spammer needed to identify her? Right.

In some parts of the world (e.g. Slovenia) personal email is very much considered a personal information and any operator divulging it in such manner would pay a steep fine.
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Not necessarily: the email address could be the classical <first name>.<name>@<whatever>.com.
The HP5071 has built in rechargeable batteries.
It's not ENTIRELY obvious. For example, tup[0].extend([1]) would work fine, and the behaviour of __iadd__() seems like it should be the same as extend(). In fact, the reference[1] has the following thing to say:

> For instance, to execute the statement x += y, where x is an instance of a class that has an __iadd__() method, x.__iadd__(y) is called.

However, this is patently not true, apparently:

tup = ([],)
tup[0].__iadd__([1]) # Works
print tup

tup = ([],)
tup[0] += [1] # TypeError
print tup

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#emulating...
"Message Authentication Code" is a lot easier to google for than MAC, and more meaningful in itself too. I found the list helpful.
After I got burned with the Samsung Omnia 7 fiasco (WP7 low features, no updates after 7.5, useless without Windows and Zune trash) I will not touch a Microsoft phone again, not even for 20$ !
Facebook's React lets you write DOM rendering code that can easily run on both client and server. The framework discourages DOM manipulation, instead promoting a near-declarative style of stateless rendering. Updates to the client DOM are then done by efficient tree diffing. It's very nice.
Time to switch to proxy email id's, which do not give out the first name or the last name.

From now on, I'll be known as wHzqbUWp at gmail.com
An email is personally identifiable information, in and of itself. NIST includes it right in their definitions. [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_informa...
Yeah, me too. Made it impossible to _focus_ on the content.

So I'd normally use Readability, but in this case: the content was in the comments already. For anyone interested: https://www.readability.com/articles/f4bokl2i

You can do this here: https://www.readability.com/shorten

Disclaimer: I just like Readability... :-)
> Transport Layer Security tells you about nothing about what TLS really is

Doesn't it? Even a complete tech-illiterate can glean some meaning from the word "security".
Despite all my hate towards GoDaddy, I cannot see the happening being their fault.

As tomp pointed out, disclosing email address is part of the process, probably not clearly stated, but GoDaddy handled it well. They issued a fine to a spammer, resolving the initial spamming case.

Worse would be if they have not carried out any actions at all.

Now, concerned the harrassment, how come GoDaddy is responsible for trolls being trolls? As Company pointed out, report him to law enforcement. Sue him, or anything, victim has got the spammer's domain, thus all the private information needed to escalate the problem further.
A word for web designers. That black bar across the top? Don't do that. Or at least, don't do it like that.

See, when I click on the scroll bar on the right of my screen, I expect to see the next page worth of data. What I don't expect is for some of that to be hidden behind a bar I can't remove, and don't want. Try it for yourself. Position some text immediately under the "fold", then click on the scroll bar. See? Not there.

Bad designer. No pizza.
Some of your tools may be older than you think
This is probably the best conference goodie bag I've seen.
Congrats. Hope all goes well. Would be great if you could write up a blog post or something to share your experiences.
A few questions (from an investor perspective):

1) For this to gain massive traction, a lot of people (millions) are going to have to install this

What are your plans for making that happen? In other words how will you scale this? What channels will you use? What customer acquisition costs do you anticipate?

2) Do people actually click on ads?
The intent of the products is to drag/drop, be done & move on - not hang around to see ads etc.
So how profitable is this channel?
What other sources of revenue are you considering?

3) Who would you consider your nearest/biggest competitor?
What stops them from creating features that your offering has that they may be missing?
That may be true if your email address is pm@example.com, but less so if it is philip.mclelland@example.com. For example.

And no, reporting abuse should not carry the expectation of having anything about the reporter disclosed to the abuser. That would severely discourage the reporting of abuse.

Except of course if you deal in any way whatsoever with GoDaddy you should always expect the worst possible outcome.
Can you easily deploy your Cordova/PhoneGap apps?
The US House of Reps is almost done with development for an API (that was spearheaded by outside organizations like CMF) for 'campaign' communications (communications where the majority of the messages are 'similar') from third party advocacy organizations. After this occurs, the hope is that only messages sent via web forms are completely unique messages sent from constituents without the assistance of a third party. The project has been slow (10 years in the making?) but its near completion. Achieving 100% adoption amongst the 440 member offices is a different question though, although 100% adoption has been mandated.
Would love to read your summaries if you have them posted somewhere. Would be a great learning curve for me as this was my first rejection (planning for more ;P)
Is an e-mail address really any different from a phone number? I can't imagine anyone arguing that it would be okay for an intermediary in a dispute to disclose one party's phone number to the other, regardless of the reason. It is simply not GoDaddy's place to expose such information.

And I don't think her problem was with the photo being on the internet. It was more that her photo was sandwiched between blatantly defamatory content.
Isnt 2014 supposed to be the year of Linux?
Android's intents system is yet to be rivaled. Though it's has also had it for years, so I'm not sure if it could be considered bleeding edge.

Wireless payments, perhaps.