skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't you oversimplifying here, like, a lot? All things being equal, you want a cofactor of 1. But all things aren't equal; you also want a performant curve, which is hard to get with a curve with a cofactor of 1.

What you actually care about is the attacker effort using Pollard's Rho taking into account the whole curve and all its parameters. Which, on Curve25519, is 2^126; that's not "spinal tap grade security", but the dial there is turned at least u to "10".

More importantly: this isn't how curve software is actually going to be attacked. NIST P-224 twist security is much more important than whether you have 2^126 or 2^259 vs. Rho. This cofactor discussion seems to me a little like debating whether attackers are going to factor RSA-3072 or RSA-4096.

(Note that Hamburg's "Goldilocks" curve has a cofactor of 4.)

I'm not sure I want to dig into the "rigidity" of BADA55 vs. SECP256k1, except to say that the NIST p- curves have a much bigger rigidity flaw than the other 3 options we're discussing.
"After coming out, Katz persuaded his father to remove from his website the "In Defense of Homophobia" essay, written in 1999, when Isaac was 11."

The essay appears to be back up, I guess Katz pere doubled down.
Though someone could get in a lot of trouble for messing with
traffic warning signs, I'm still wondering if this is some
form of "Guerrilla Marketing" campaign for the up-coming movie.
This is getting dangerous. Imagine a world where a public transportation company owns the network of roads too and denies any other transportation company to come up besides their own.
Coding fail on Silicon Valley TV Show (S01E06)
".java" file with what looks like ruby code inside? Defining a function within a function? :(
As much as I want to believe in these kinds of live sports services, I'm always disappointing in the quality and/or reliability of the feed. Maybe it's my ISP, I don't know. But for me streaming seems to be a second class citizen compared to cable & satellite.

As for the merger, I hate it because I actually think DirecTV is a pretty good product - even though the price is a bit high. I don't think a merger will do anything but reduce the quality of service, increase the price or both!
Like I said for the last one of these, your own VPS or server plus 2 lines of Nginx config plus ssh -R gets you the same thing with no additional dependency. And you control the domain name.
I dont watch TV at all. The Set top box is lying around without being switched on for last 1 year.
Ironically, most copyrighted music on twitch is basically a background process of a youtube video playing.
Tech companies, Engineering companies restaurants?

Who employees Brooklyn or Berlin?
Chinese startup ANTVR's answer to the Oculus Rift now on Kickstarter
Yup.

http://www.slowroll.bike/

Come on down. It's seriously the best vibe and most diverse atmosphere in Michigan.
The overview of Real World OCaml might help answer that:

https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/prologue.html#why-ocam...

"Among this worthy set of languages, OCaml stands apart because it manages to provide a great deal of power while remaining highly pragmatic. The compiler has a straightforward compilation strategy that produces performant code without requiring heavy optimization and without the complexities of dynamic just-in-time (JIT) compilation. This, along with OCaml's strict evaluation model, makes runtime behavior easy to predict. The garbage collector is incremental, letting you avoid large garbage collection (GC)-related pauses, and precise, meaning it will collect all unreferenced data (unlike many reference-counting collectors), and the runtime is simple and highly portable."
Definitely a problem right now too much demand not enough housing but the market has a way of fixing that.
Yep, ngrok provides SSL endpoints for everyone automatically.
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The whole point is the IRS can't see the transaction, as long as you are careful. Of course, sending BTC to a registered business is probably a good way to expose transactions.
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If you tell 100 friends their startup idea sucks you'll be right 99 times, but remembered for the one time you were wrong :P
They have the backpack... but the elevation is much easier to get from Ingress players :P
>You: What he thinks of gay people is relevant when talking about postdoc positions.

>Me: Yeah right

>You: I bet you hate gay people too
The icing on the cake is that Matt Cutts is obviously a very bright and very perceptive person so it's easy to assume that his not understanding is intentional. That would be right out of the PR/Politics "avoiding awkward questions 101" textbook but it's a scummy tactic.
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As we all know clock is a measurement to tell us the time. But do you know the clock have other mission? Yes, the clock can represent the host.
Interesting. I do feel as though Rails could replace PHP as a mindshare as time goes on.
The brief look I had at some of the source examples seemed a little arcane. To be fair that's probably same as any unfamiliar language I suppose.
Large amounts of funding have historically shown little correlation with success.
The title should be "50 ways that MIT has transformed computer industry".
Not too much are about "computer science".
To say that MIT has transformed computer industry, it should include include someone like Leslie Lamport.
Hey,

That was a common issue and requires a technological solution. This is why the links are now free for all. You can see all of the links for free and buy where you see the value.
I've been wondering for a long time why Nintendo never went ahead and made a smart phone. This really cool blog post sort of twisted the knife to me about their possible missed opportunity.
I think it (assumption that friends are afraid) doesn't really apply to the majority of HN audience. We give and read criticism (constructive or not) every day here, it's the second nature for us.

However, we are a small group of people. The OP's post strongly applies to a more casual audience, who won't read this post.
If you see the USD under 70, be prepared for this time is different, for real.

Banks have huge reserves right now, about 6x historical norm, and are making money in the market due to the low rate they get. When rates rise, that avenue is not as lucrative. They will lend. Each dollar lent has a 10x multiplier on it. They could introduce up to 120% GDP into the money supply.

Just one thing to watch these days.
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I really want to be a filmmaker, and by viewing this video and sharing it could really help me achieve this dream. Thank you.
An earlier paper by Reed also seems relevant:

"Implementing atomic actions on decentralized data"
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=357355

Again, the goal here is not live programming, but the "boxing" of blocks of code into "atomic actions" feels very similar to the MS paper.

[edit: Some interesting parallels with the earlier story on Soundcloud's Roshi system too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7732696 ]
So that's what it is! I was just getting increasingly frustrated, wondering why "?" wasn't working.

I guess staying intuitive is a difficult game to play, when your premise (the default / most useful searching order) is inherently different from the norm.
Sometimes one does not want the shell to log a command.

In this case use:

export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

or better

export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

Now every command that starts with a space wont be logged into history.
Who watches streamed mobile games?
Thing you have to realize is that you aren't judging his startup rationally. Nobody judges anything rationally on its logical merits because humans just don't operate that way. Humans make judgments on an emotional basis and then afterward their brain automatically comes up with reasons they had that emotional reaction. So the first thing to recognize is that your opinion of your friend's startup is mainly based on the way he presents it and other emotional factors. Most people will never believe any of this is true since they think human decision-making is primarily rational. It isn't.

Anyway if you have that judgement try to identify the generally non-rational reason you felt that way and tell him. Then you can go through the things like market size, team etc. and talk about them on a rational basis, but with the understanding that investors make decisions on an emotional level also. Probably that reinforces market size being #1 in their evaluation, since a large market means more money.
She is also mentioned on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. That's a fantastic discovery on proving the theory saying America was once connected to Europe and Africa.
Is there a school that's done more for computer science than MIT? I can think of a few contenders - and obviously this is largely subjective - but when I think computer science in the U.S. I think MIT, Stanford and Cal-Poly in that order.
I really do value individual freedom. If I have access to some data, I want the freedom to share it. If I have some data, I want the freedom to not share it as well. "You must share the software" is not the world I want.

Legal requirements to share, would actually make it a burden to provide anything: If I give my friend this disk, am I legally required to give them something else along with the disk? If my computer is accessible on a network, do I have a legal obligation to make any source code that is accessible also available? What are the rules about that?

I think it's too messy. And honestly, if a kid writes a game, maybe they're embarassed about the source code... the law shouldn't require them to share that with their friends/teachers/etc.

Although there might be merit to regulations on industry / corporate actions, especially in so far as their works affect the public (voting machines, safety equipment: software that we might want to require keeps its source-code alongside binary distributions).

I'm much more comfortable with people keeping data to themselves in a world where they have less legal ability to prevent others from sharing it.
Folding@Home, though I wonder if it would be able to surpass the current cumulative processing power.
There's more to ID length concerns than just URL length. Those IDs tend to be IDs in a database which usually need to be indexed. Even packing the 128 bits of a UUID into a binary(16) can make your indexes quite large and make queries with joins surprisingly slow.

I think extra effort to go below 64 bits may be a bit unnecessary, getting from 128 to 64 can make a big difference on the back end.
YouTube was THE online video site back then. Twitch is pretty much unheard of these days by the general public other than people following the PC gaming scene.
The sending itself wouldn't be hurting anyone. The responding parties would have to make a decision to hurt innocents or not, and maybe actually forced to do some due diligence, that is expected of them. And maybe voice out that current requirements make this hard or impossible for them.
Also, per-user installs sweetens the deal even further.
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Don't take it so seriously
...you think Cal-Poly over Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley? Really?
The downvotes are unwarranted, but my guess is: it seems like you're claiming that no one in your cohort watches sports based on your anectdata. A claim which is likely out of touch with reality. I upvoted to hopefully even out your score.
> Who employees Brooklyn

No one. Haven't you seen Girls?
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I don't really see the need for this. A unified interface could be nice, but this will also limit the scope that background processors will operate in. Besides that the amount of rails projects that need background jobs aren't that large of a percentage comparatively.

I'd rather see some more interesting things going into core, such as https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack, that should be used by nearly every app.
If you're looking at the economy and financial returns, there are a number of factors other than strictly cyclical characteristics of stock market and financial vehicle returns to consider. Pardon the self-link spam, but this is a topic of some interest to me:

There's the Shift Index by Deloitte's Center for the Edge, which shows a long-term secular decline in return on invested capital (ROIC) from 1965 to 2009 by 75%. It's fallen from 6.2% to 1.3%, and is on track to negative returns in a little over a decade. http://redd.it/1y3z3n

There's the relationship of GDP growth to the price of oil (WTI), as portrayed in this FRED graphic from 1945 - 2012: http://i.imgur.com/hfBRw9f.png

Prior to 1974, WTI tracked a very predictable 2.5% price trend. This was the period during which the TRC, Texas Railroad Commission, effectively set the price for oil through extraction (production) quotas. In March of 1971, the TRC lifted those quotas, effectively removing any limits on extraction rates. US oil extraction had peaked. 1971 is the watershed. Oil prices never resume their previous level of stability, and GDP cycles become more random and volatile. Afterward, oil prices are often higher (much of the 1970s and 2000s), sometimes lower (1984 - 1999), but always volatile. The regularity of GDP cyclical trends is lost. http://redd.it/1tz6y2

Though there have been financial panics before, the period from 1929 - 2007 is exceptionally notable for its lack of any widespread panics. There were a few edgy times -- going off Bretton-Woods in 1971, the 1987 stock market crash, the Asian currency crises of the 1990s, but central banks held the show together until 2008 and the fall of Lehman Brothers. Observers such as Michael Lewis, particularly in The Big Short, have commented on the financial restructuring that's sustained paper profits while real wealth growth is questionable. The YC and HN crowd might want to look at where all that magic money making Rails coders so much more valuable than janitors comes from, and how long the music will play.
I'm not really a fan of big and magical frameworks. So the existence of Rails doesn't actually make me think Ruby is superior to PHP, although I need to try Sinatra. That being said I like Ruby's OOP. But in the end all OOP is the same. In my opinion, if you're an experienced PHP developer, and you're looking to expand your skillset, gaining another standard web development OOP language isn't going to change much of your value proposition. I would look closer into things like Node, Golang, Rust, Functional languages and Python (for scientific computing). Getting skills in Ruby in Rails seems like you're just adding another web dev language to your existing web dev language capability. It's all about MB vs MC.
I agree with you. My father grew up in Detroit and I still have plenty of family there. What people don't understand is the scale of the problem and how far it has gone. I really can't see the situation changing unless Detroit either consolidates with some of its healthier suburbs or divests the massive amount of land that's currently draining its very limited resources. I don't think we can declare the city to be in rebound just because a kernel of affluence is reemerging. There's a looong way to go.
This is not quite as in-depth an argument as one might have hoped for. If you really have so many reasons for the superiority of Rails over PHP then don't beg the question.

I mean, if this were serious, it would be "Why you should use Ruby over PHP" anyway, wouldn't it? If you want to compare frameworks, compare Rails and Laravel.
probably went to cal-poly lol.
In 2006 it was competing with DailyMotion and Vimeo at least.
Unless it were implemented in such a way to guarantee people would still be out in the fields farming, I would be gardening and tending to chickens and pigs to make sure I had enough to eat.
Spending money is a taxable event? How come?
First you say, "In Wittgenstein, intellectual property is a meaningless phrase." But this is the opposite of the truth, because in Wittgenstein phrases have meaning if they can reliably be used to communicate. So in this example 'intellectual property' is a perfectly cromulent concept.

Now you say, "Intellectual property is still a meaningless phrase, because flamebait about God and courtroom farts." To me, it just looks like you're saying intellectual property is meaningless because it's an intangible concept you happen to dislike. This is good to impress people on the Internet, but not a good way to analyze or change the system we live in.
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and I am jealous of such guys. How do they do it?

surely the VC's and Banks lose their deposit on such deals, so much so they should be expert at picking out the talkers from the doers.
The title is misleading. It makes you think all this research happened at MIT.
:shrug: like I said, all subjective.
An investor can't compel an employee to make them party to an employment agreement with another company.
I don't interview if there isn't a high chance that I'd take the offer, but I pay attention to salary trends and opportunities pretty much constantly, because top-notch opportunities are uncommon and usually come through networking. Chance favors a prepared mind.

I wouldn't waste someone's time to "just humor" them. I feel like that would backfire.
I'm not familiar with the lol campus.
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Here in Central Florida Brightouse is very strict and internet alone is more expensive than bundled. However, after only a month on $130 bundle with ATT, I've "threatened" them to switch into Brightouse (bluff), because I needed cheaper plan and they gave me a $45/month/no contract internet-only plan for 12Mb download.

Its possible that you would achieve the same with BH, but at least ATT hates when you mention competitors, and they make so much money that they would rather make less on you, than lose you big time, knowing once a customer is gone, his/her re-acquisition is very expensive. At least this is my experience. I had an impression that I could push it even harder and call again, complain and they would lower my bill even more before finally dropping me for good, but I am already satisfied with my plan.

Edit: tl;dr - always bluff with your cable provider that you drop them b/c they are expensive and see how far you can get. Most likely your $150 bill can be cut 50% and they still will make money.
No sense of humor is bad for you. But on HN it is normal.
+1 for mâche. If anyone is trying to get more greens in their diet but need some sort of alternative to lettuce and spinach, give it a try. Tough to find, but worth it. Nutty flavor, not at all bitter like arugula.
I think Snapchat might have more staying power than you're giving credit for.

Here's the value of Snapchat: Social interaction without the paper trail.

For years people have been talking about the experience of today's youth who will, by the time they are 20, have thousands of old posts and tweets and blogs and instagrams. How many people have lamented the way these might come back to haunt you 10, 15 years later? It's a warning I gave my (much younger) sister when she got on Facebook at age 13.

Snapchat solves that. Snaps can be saved, sure, but you won't leave the paper trail you do on Facebook.

I personally doubt Snapchat will be a future blue chip on its own. But if they hit a hundred million users... well, we're living in a WhatsApp world. Based on the latest numbers I've seen, I'd guess they're about half way there. If growth is continuing in 2014 the way it was in 2013, they could see 100+ MM in a year.
First of all, you need Google+ in order to use Youtube (very hard without it) while people just want to watch streams, they don't care about failed social networks. This is why twitch was great.
Thanks.

As you can see #16 as listed is in the ballpark and actually it says in your list's lead paragraph that #16, which is what prompted your list article, was for $45.2 billion. (So, less than this deal.) They get their ultimate figure by adding debt the acquirer takes on (as is typical). Including debt, our article actually says "Including the assumption of DirecTV’s debt, the deal is worth about $67.1 billion" so just a hair shy of #16 on your list if you include the debt.

Either way, this is an absolutely mind-blowing deal in nominal terms. (As are all sixteen on your list.) This is a huge amount of money by any standard on Earth.
Bitcoin is classified as an "asset", not currency by the IRS.
How does that take away any of your rights, though? The BSD licensed song still exists.
Why are being saying 'nofollow' "breaks the internet". First, it's the wrong terminology, nofollow is an aspect of the Web, not the internet.

Secondly, nofollow applies to crawlers, not human beings. It doesn't even "break the Web", it has zero impact on an end-user's experience of navigating links.

What you could say is that excessive "nofollow" breaks PageRank and other search engines. Less melodramatic and link-baity, but more accurate.

What you could claim is that search algorithms are opinionated and 'mold' content and link structure across the Web. That would be true, but unavoidable. It's impossible to have a search engine that would not editorialize in some respect, and any engine that gained prominence for sending lots of traffic would quickly be descended upon by people like Jeremy trying to figure out how to mold content to game the algorithm.

Even if we had some sort of incredible AI based search engine that could understand meaning and nuance like spam, it might still have an editorial opinion that people would optimize around.
I'm curious what contributions you have in mind with regard to Cal Poly (also, Pomona or SLO?).
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You'd want to do something like HLS which can use standard HTTP but not directly to someone's home. You'd need some sort of CDN or cloud intermediary to handle the load.

Or some sort of peer-to-peer Popcorn time style (Bittorrent Live?[1]) that can distribute the load across all viewers.

Hmm... "Twitch-Time" may be an interesting way to resurrect that service.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/15/5414430/bittorrent-live-mo...
This was a big thing like 5 years ago. The default password for road signs in the US is "DOTS" (department of transport safety). And it's trivial to reset it. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/23/default-password-fo...
I upvoted you, but I'm guessing people are objecting to your attempting to "be a spokesperson for the late twenties crowd", when I think your case is exceptional. I'm mid-almost-late twenties and I've never heard of "watching e-sports" or twitch.com until this thread. I've seen speedruns of half-life on youtube and such, but I had no idea people actually seemingly stream live video game competitions. I have a wide circle of friends in their twenties and thirties, and I've never heard of e-sports.

I agree though, that live sports are mostly watched at bars by friends in my age range. I only have DirecTV because it's "free" (included in hoa fees), but I still almost never watch "live" tv. I just watch DVRed shows instead of on Hulu now. Sports, especially NFL, are still huge as I can see by my facebook feed during big games or the draft.

Heck, I didn't know what a touch down was a few years ago, but sports are so popular among mainstream (ie: non techies) I had to learn enough to pretend to be interested to fit in socially, and eventually I started actually enjoying watching and following the local teams. I suspect there may be a bit of an echo chamber in some communities that don't care about sports, but I'd wager the among the majority they are still very popular.