skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The institution that will decide that is the institution least qualified to decide it," Scalia said. The legal question is about "balancing the emergency against the intrusion" on the individual, he said.

If this is the thinking on the Supreme court then we've already lost, we have no rights only permissions from the state. Its just a matter of time until the Supreme court gets around ratifying this new relation between the government and the citizens. There is no "consent of the governed" on this view of "rights". It is establishing the rule of men over men, i.e. dictatorship, and the rejection of the rule of law, even if Scalia is too stupid to understand it.
>* Block ciphers in the default mode ("ECB").

You can plainly see the problem ECB causes in this example image: http://legacy.kingston.com/secure/image_files/Figure2_ECB.jp...
BTW I wonder why cold-boot time is so important. All my machines go back from hibernation pretty fast (in under a second), and I only cold-boot if I update something major, like the kernel or the hardware itself.

What's the point to shut down your machine, and either lose your session or wait considerable time while it restores?
Xero is a NZ startup success story but they have moved their main offices to Australia and the US. Tiny population and geographic and time-zone isolation are big obstacles for anyone trying to do things on a global scale.
I would say yes, from my experience.

I genuinely think it's time for an overhaul of how we rate standard of living. Consumption is not a good measure, and it's too closely tied to "more money means better"
as a man with little to no beard I think that greybeard is just a reference to wise old people ala Gandlaf.
I guess grey hair could work too?
It could be possible to enable someone you trust to use your infrustracture. You don't have to know who this person is. For example, this devconsole HN account that I'm using now is an anonymous HN account, meaning as long as Tor is secure, and I don't reveal myself through e.g. text analysis or timing correlations, it should be hard to figure out who I am. If I were to come to you and ask to use your infrastructure to help me maintain my anonymity, you may read my comment history and decide that you trust me not to do illegal things. Providing such a service would be extremely valuable, because if Tor is indeed not completely impervious, your extra layer of anonymity may be all that preserves one's privacy.

If an authority were to come to you and demand you cooperate in determining my identity, then there would be no way for you to oblige, except by providing them with a log of the VPN activity, or allowing them to set up a pen trap to log the VPN activity. At that point, the privacy is still as strong as the Tor network, so both Tor and this extra layer would have to fall in order to be unmasked.

(In practice, it's more complicated than that: your infrastructure would be a fixed endpoint, meaning that if it's compromised then an adversary would gain a log of your activity. That would provide an overall picture of what you're up to on the internet. Tor rotates endpoints, making it hard to piece together that info. So in practice a user should want your service to be something like a middleman between two different anonymity services. But that's outside the scope of this comment for now.)

This becomes a pretty attractive idea, because it's not necessarily a great idea to assume that Tor should be the world's one realistic defense. Since Snowden used Tor, you can be absolutely certain that various powers are going to take a keen interest in penetrating Tor. They may use dirty tricks to do it, such as joining the Tor project as an apparently-trustworthy developer.

Extra layers of defense such as the one outlined above may be worth pursuing.
So far, I have to say I'm impressed. I've been searching for a bookmarks solution that I will actually use, to the point where I've played around with writing my own. But from what I've seen, the date sorting, tagging, organization..it all looks pretty slick.

My only gripe is that I went to import my chrome bookmarks (which I have a lot of admiteddly) and they still are not visible from Raindrop after a few hours. I haven't received an email saying that the import was complete, and I don't want to rebuild my bookmark collection from scratch.

Anyone else having a similar problem?
To me, informed consent has a specific meaning. From Wikipedia:

> An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and future consequences of an action.

Of course, as you say:

> I would also question whether these girls are truly "informed" about what's really going to be done to their children.

This is completely fair, and I agree coercion or enticement may preclude informed consent. I know that this can be a sensitive issue, but I believe in working towards this goal rather than avoiding the issue. For instance: many people donate organs and tissues, but it is (generally speaking, and in the USA) illegal to sell these services. Thanks for the rsponse.
Not necessarily higher but at least equal to the best. According to its HDI[1] New Zealand is ranked 6th, bellow the USA but above Japan, Switzerland and South Korea.

This is similar to the way that European countries seem to lose out to the US in wages yet when you take into account the time spend on holidays and lack of overtime you see that the gap essentially disappears.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
A firm grip on the handle as the axe hits the wood is a sure way to sore/strained wrists even for a normal axe, as the handle can rotate and also vibrate, depending on how and where it hits the wood. A loose grip looks like a must with this axe. Notice the handle is round for most of its length, to rotate easily. This is not usual for a normal axe, as the shape of the handle gives position feedback to the hands.
Most survival work like that doesn't pay that well, so you would not be able to get shelter, food etc anyway.

A large majority of professional jobs in business, programming, accountancy, consultancy are filled with people who want to be there.

I am in a professional job, and I doubt I could afford a decent place to live without parental help other than a crappy flat in a dodgy area.

How people afford to live by themselves, on non-professional jobs I don't know.
This is perhaps indicative of the "wusification" of kids in America today. Virtually anything that could cause any (even the most minuscule) harm mentally or physically is now quickly out of favor.
If kids cannot learn to deal with inequity, pain, rejection, competition, etc, they will be at a disadvantage living and competing in the larger world which is full of all these things.
Also, perhaps they might develop entitlement mentalities whereby anything that is not smooth, perfect, and fair gets "reported" by them to central "authorities" for policy review and remediation. The underlying expectation is that they don't have to deal with anything they don't agree with or find unpleasant.
Automate Everything/Automate at the First Sign of Resistance
As someone in Australia our decrepit internet makes it impossible to do anything resembling a startup. I can't imagine New Zealand would be so bad that they need to move here.
Yeah. I used to screw around with that quite a bit. At the time it was fun. Now I'm all about minimum time to productivity.

Turns out there are technical terms for the behavior. For OSes, you and I are satisficers: we just want it to be good enough. I used to be a maximizer, where I wanted it to be perfect.

Learning to choose which approach to take in a situation has been really great. For example, restaurant menus. I used to be a maximizer, trying to pick the best thing. Eventually I decided agonizing over my choice was a fair bit of stress for little or no gain; it was easy to finish my meal and think, "Damn, maybe I should have gotten that other thing." Now I just skim the menu and go with the first thing that looks good to me.
Don't warn programmers because they will ignore them anyway.
Too addictive.
Seems a bit expensive to do everything that way. But, I can see the attraction.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory
I'm more into general information on Youtube. Do check out Vsauce [ http://youtube.com/user/vsauce ] and CGP Grey [ http://youtube.com/user/cgpgrey ] if you haven't already.
An App To Help YC Interviewees Prep
This is a perennial favorite illustration of "what's wrong with the default mode", but it's biggest problem is that given chosen plaintext, you can often decrypt it a byte-at-a-time.
Looks interesting, I like the query syntax for object columns. Will be waiting for more information about the horizontal scaling.
I did not. Judging from the upvotes my bitter comment got, it may not be a well known feature. I'm about to test it out.
Sounds like a solid opportunity for some middleware.
We also have music artists' tour dates, powered by SeatGeek:

- http://george-strait.gigs.is

- http://dave-matthews-band.gigs.is

- http://billy-joel.gigs.is

- http://bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band.gigs.is

etc, etc. Basically any SeatGeek <slug>.gigs.is.

Obviously we'll build a UI around this at some point.
Standout Email Marketing from Moosejaw: "Break-Up or Make-Up" Campaign
Any particular recommendations what to read for someone unfamiliar with Bohumil Hrabal? I just realized I've seen a film based on one of his novels of the same title, 'Closely Watched Trains' (a great film, by the way.)

Interested in any suggestions whatsoever.
Where did I speak of entitlement? I merely commented on Mr. Avery's ways of dealing with unwanted accounts - those who no longer fit into his business plan. Saying that this stealth move was done to avoid users from gaming his system is ridiculous, because gaming the system would have been against the terms to begin with, and thus subject to account cancellation.

There is no reason for him not to notify existing account holders. Heck, he could have done so after the decision was made, i.e. when it would have been too late for anyone to "game" his system. It's not that Adzerk doesn't continue emailing their "Zerkers" for other matters - in November I was notified of their "new homepage with new colors and logo."
THESE GUYS CAN JAM NO DIGGITY
NICE
I'm a bit confused about your comment.

1. I didn't even mention my nationality.

2. Right in my post I explained, why growing up in Europe might change perspective, since we're surrounded by old structures still in use.

3. To extend on this point: I do believe that the thinking here is a bit different when it comes to longevity of buildings. Hence why most homes here are made out of bricks or concrete with heavy foundations and a cellar, while the typical American home seems to be built out of wood and doesn't have a cellar. The abundance of land is probably heavily factoring into this, so more people can afford to buy land and build a house on it[1].

[1] E.g. Switzerland, my home country, has a home ownership of only 34% vs. 67% in the USA.
A bug that would make even Heartbleed blush.
Angel Gabriel-Rushdie on Gabriel Garcia Marquez
These guys can jam no.diggity
Nice
Children being bullies feels like something to do with teaching and supervision, and not with the activity.
Haha there are 33 clones on the Play Store.
All.

All encryption is breakable. You aren't choosing an unpickable lock, you are picking how good of a thief it will take to rob you.

A 4096 bit encryption might make it really expensive to attack you, but those old numbers about "it would take a computer 40,000 years to crack" don't matter much in a world where that just means you spin up 160k instances in the cloud for 3 months.

That's a Dollar amount that makes cracking YOUR bank account not worth doing. But if it were the Nuclear launch codes for Russia's arsenal it would not be undoable.
Variation on the theme - "Perfect practice makes perfect".
Great theme. I'm reminded of a Gordon Bell quote found in Jon Bentley's 'Programming Pearls': 'The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there.'
I just upgraded on of my servers and it became unresponsive after the reboot :(

I am able to ping it but every port look like closed. Anyone have had a similar experience so far?
That is pretty fucked up. The point of declaring a release, rather than just shipping nightlies, is to let people know when it's ready. Having a dog's breakfast of a major release (which 12.04 certainly was out of the gate) substantially decreases my trust in Canonical.
I have social anxiety. The idea of going outside and socializing with strangers is panic inducing. I wholeheartedly agree this is because of the environment of having a culture of socializing face to face. Of course right now the idea of changing the culture is scary.
I feel like Boston gets this right, particularly in the Back Bay, but also in a number of other neighborhoods.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.349106,-71.084347,3a,75y,338...

Boston shares a lot of characteristics with European cities: relatively narrow streets, decent public transit, lots of foot traffic, so that may have something to do with it.
Or, sometimes even better, press Alt-Tab once, then hold Alt and use your mouse to select which app then which window you want.
>What precisely is it about having a child and having a mortgage that qualifies someone as "grown-up"?

It's shorthand for assuming adult responsibilities. It's difficult to survive on your emotionally fulfilling but minimum wage job if you have a brood in diapers at home. Obviously you still have responsibilities, probably including property taxes, insurance, and utilities, if you own your house outright as opposed to having a mortgage.

BTW, it's a bit tricky to buy your home outright if you live, in, say Palo Alto, where I recall a bunch of YC-funded startups are based:

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/12/24/real-estate-ma...
"In Palo Alto the median sales price for a home was $2.2 million..."
For an additional data point: The upgrade refused to run until I disabled some crufty PPA files I had lying around.

The upgrade itself completed successfully after I disabled them though.
Looks like it has a lot of potential for data scientists. Relatively simple set up with little maintenance is key for data science, especially those with less hardcore dev experience. I'd be interested to know if there is any support for queries too large for Presto / Lucene to handle. Give me arbitrary map-reduce and I'll be in love.
Some feedback on the site (is it yours?): the home page is disappointing because the it doesn't say anything. I'm interested in this space (e.g. crossfilter/pourover) but this provides no information to contrast against those, so the call to action doesn't work on me even though I might be your target market.

The first few examples given are displaying really small sets of data -- e.g. realty and showroom are each displaying ~500 data points, which is small enough that a straightforward JavaScript loop that filters by checking each datum would be "ridiculously fast".
Google's Project Tango and NASA are building self-aware space robots
A rule of three: write it the first time, copy it the second time, extract it to a common routine the third time.
Interesting.

Nevertheless, just by browsing the documentation, it seems they only support very basic SQL. For example, joins are not supported.

To me, "SQL support" basically entails taking advantage of the relational model. In here, "SQL Support" means "you can use something that looks like a SQL-like syntax to insert and fetch records from a table". Those are two very different things.

I do understand why they did that though. Automatic sharding of a single table in a cluster is much simpler problem than auto-scaling cross cluster joins.

I'll still download and take a look at the project since conceptually it is interesting.
Yes, everyone tries to contribute with bandwidth :D. On reddit/ubuntu they advised us to do it in order to relieve some of the strain on Canonical servers and it was funny how many people were literally waiting & refreshing the page for the torrents to be available.
Thanks for sharing. I hope you follow up later when you scale your campaigns.
Emulating FPGAs using Processors (1996)
http://support.nest.com/article/What-is-Rush-Hour-Rewards
This looks really cool. I'm curious how this compares to something like Couchbase, which also has horizontal scaling abilities. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
>Well, to be fair, the character who initiated the whole thread comes off as rather obnoxious, occasionally rude and offers clearly unreasonable suggestions such as "remove the templates".

Sure, I mostly agree with that. I mainly posted the thread to show the initial comment about syntax changes being off the table from now on.

I do think allowing posters to violate the mailing list guidelines for civility just because they are defending the Mozilla position against somebody who is being stubborn creates a bad atmosphere. As does calling people 'cranks' because they don't come from the ML world (to me 'crank' implies nutty conspiracy theorist, perhaps it has different meanings elsewhere).
I think what you're describing is generally just known as "the middle class"
This makes me want to instrument my wood splitting. I suspect that I will find that improving the fast splitting is less important than avoiding or improving the outcomes for the toughest pieces to split.

A bit like finding that a faster cache that doesn't reduce cache misses or the cost of cache misses can disappoint when measuring overall performance.
Microsoft tells small businesses and consumers who love XP: Get lost
Definitely plan to
> This style is enforced by warnings for important types, such as errors.

How do you inform the compiler that a type is important? You might not be using the standard Result type.
I've had very good luck lately simply adjusting my sources file and typing apt-get dist-upgrade lately - though this is using Mint as the base distro (which in turn uses Ubuntu too).
We hadn't disabled your account in November - we did that at the beginning of the year for accounts that hadn't been used in a long time.
I went through the same exercise and came to the conclusion that the commenter just name-dropped Betteridge to sound smart. (At least that is what I would have done.)
As is often the case, these examples existed in some form before the cited SF sources. In this case the list compiler uses very recent examples, when most of the examples were well known in early SF and in the general culture.

Google Glass: Steve Mann in 1980 used wearable computing with a display. He was limited by the technology. Before then, there was Sutherland's experiments in augmented reality in 1968, and before then Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" described a head-mounted camera, though in that case just as a camera and not as wearable computing.

Driverless cars existed in reality before those SF examples, and of course existed in popular culture long before then. Disney's "Magic Highway" from 1958 portrays a driverless car, for example.

The smart watch example Dick Tracy actually shows that the list maker uses a very broad definition of science fiction that seems to include anything with futuristic elements. By that definition, nearly every James Bond series is also science fiction.

"Stress detectors" have been around for many decades. Here's a 1982 criticism of stress detector products from the 1970s "marketed for law enforcement and forensic science purposes." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7047675?dopt=Abstract .

"Connected sex toys" is known by many terms. The one I use is "teledildonics" from Ted Nelson in 1975. That's several decades before the referenced Matrix Reloaded.

"pretty similar to Ipads. Weirdly enough, they were called… PADDs". That 'coincidence' is almost certainly because the idea is at least as old as the ubiquitous computing project at Xerox PARC. Mark Weiser's Scientific American article in 1991 talked about "tabs, pads, and boards", where "pads" are about the same size as an iPad or PADD.

In the replicator description, the author is reaching for anything in modern life like a replicator. Unfortunately, the example is 3D printers. The term 'stereolithography' dates back to 1986, which is a year before TNG. It's hard to say that it "came true", when it was already true when ST:NG used the term.
For performance: measure once, cut twice.
You can install and configure a suitable operating system in like 4 hours, that's not a lot of time.
This is the reason we're investing so much time on VLC for Android. Taking care of all the dirty work and just play your files no matter the device you're using.
I find it heartening that Rust has drawn inspiration from so many different languages and paradigms. It seems to be the ultimate "Not a <insert religious paradigm here> language".

My own learning trajectory never introduced me to object orientation until about a year ago (I basically learned how to program by using fairly domain-specific functional and declarative languages), and Rust blew me away at the power of object oriented code. But then I tried learning Java and was equally blown away at how aggravating a pure object-oriented approach can be...almost as frustrating as it was to learn Haskell. I'm glad that there are pragmatic geniuses out there designing pragmatic languages like Rust.
SpaceX CRS-3 Mission
That's pennies. Broadcast TV can be more than $40 cpm, often going above $90-100. Cable has a lower average which still exceeds the price of most online inventory.
This axe isn't the only one that can deliver such a video. Good wood and a proper splitting axe allows similar results.

The tire trick, or a bungee cord, can allow big gains in speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuibTcEdmg
Although I'm an Australian, I was born in South Africa, and so was rather surprised to find that there is a standing joke in Oz:

How does a Kiwi get a small business?, you give them a large business.

That's just a cruel joke and yet another data point in why Kiwis (rightly) think Aussies are pricks to them.

From my personal anecdotal experience of NZ:

* they have a much more laid back attitude

* many of the hard workers f-off to Australia to do it

* the government takes big stands on things, which is admirable but not indicative of a focus on business.

- i.e. No American nuclear ships allowed to dock there.

It's not just the local prostitute trade that benefits by having a US naval base in town.

None of this is NZ hate, far from it... they do their own thing and they are fine with it.
I looked at this with interest, and it's just a showcase page with a "contact us" button. I don't click on showcases, I click on documentation, getting started, and pricing links.
I'm curious: since this flaw was pointed out in 1977, has NYC had such winds? How many times? Would Sandy have done it?
I think I'm probably confusing terms here; you're referring to the size of "a", and I'm referring to the size of "p".

Perhaps 'pbsd will be around in a bit to resolve whether the index calculus will push the size of p or a first; my understanding is that it's bounded by the size of the modulus, and that most of the work it does is independent of the specific element of the group you're attacking.

I am definitely a lot fuzzier on DH key sizes than on RSA; we're getting into cryptanalytic attacks that don't have a lot of relevance to the kind of work I do.
I'm not sure your description is accurate. When I think visualization platform, I think of something like D3 or raphael.
Adding links:

https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers

https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTalksArchive

https://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks

https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV
A simple take on your idea... http://wrangl.com/
I love this one (saw it in one of the pull requests)

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan