skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sure they meant that the output of a conditional expression would be an encrypted boolean.

A conditional branch would become an encrypted conditional branch. That means, you wouldn't be able to infer the branch from the encrypted output.

Let's take a simple example. I have an algorithm X which takes two integers and returns an integer.

Let's say I want to run this algorithm on a third-party VPS. I obfuscate the algorithm X, in order to hide the operations that X does. Let's called the obfuscated version OX.

I host the OX algorithm on the third-party server, and start supplying it pairs of integers. The third-party is observing the set of inputs and outputs:

(4, 4) => 8
(3, 2) => 5
(1, 0) => 1

From these observations, the third-party would be able to infer what OX does. (simple addition in this case).

Now, however, if I use HE, I will get an algorithm (HX) which takes encrypted input and spits out encrypted output. A third-party will see the corresponding log of inputs and outputs like this:

h3830120cjfakj, 102309123clals => 293sdlzlxdf
94ka3lkc.zdkf, 102kksdllz => 1923939nddd

From these observations, it is impossible to know what HX does (as per the theory).
No mention of Etsy?
Very strange to not mention Shopify in an article like this. They will almost certainly clear a $2B valuation when they IPO.
I find this an amusingly cognitive view. I think the commentators do a pretty good job of dealing with the main issues. Yes, you could frame everything as 'prediction' but basically all you are doing is conflating 'prediction' with 'agency with a time delay.' This really doesn't solve any problems. At what timescale you want to draw the line between prediction and agency for closed loop systems is an open question. I think one of the key concepts that the author fails to address is that the fundamental problem the nervous system addresses is coordination of otherwise isolated muscles, organs etc. While we may remain mystified about the function of the mind, we do know that at some level the nervous system is really about control and synchronization. There are astoundingly good models (now with biological correlates!) of motor control loops that are just classic PID controllers. While the predictive perspective can be useful in some cases it is just a perspective and an interpretation. If you want to get to the heart of the matter you need math, and this paper is lacking on the math. To paraphrase: words are wind, math is truth.
Sorry, I was being sincere. We had "recess" in elementary school, where we'd go out for 15-30 minutes and play. If you meant the 5 minute breaks between classes I don't remember what we called them, probably breaks. I wondered if you went to some odd high school that had breaks to go play in the fields.
Yes. The reason is that I had a Playstation 3. When I bought it (~2008 or 2009), Sony promised a lot of mediacenter features. In the end they were only delivered on my PS3 (in The Netherlands) very late.

XBox 360, on the other hand, had many new features since its introduction.

So, I trust Microsoft more than Sony when it comes to promises ;).
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Or just get big enough to get bought out by Amazon. I guess it depends what kind of "success" you're aiming at.
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While it does work perfectly for me in Firefox, against which it warned me. Ha.
This is the new 60s . We will start by creating quantum punch cards. But eventually it will get better and easier.
How is OnOff better than just the standard EventEmitter?
Besides, quantum algorithms courses are offered, but like you said, I don't really see the point.
Good words of warning. The pun at the end seemed a bit much to me though.
Super-detailed comparison of AngularJS seed/starter kits
It cost them quite a bit more than that but they won anyway. That did not stop acacia from extorting (or in some cases trying to) pick fights with smaller entities. They then started to withdraw their cases if it became apparent someone would actually fight back.

(I know this because I supplied a whole bunch of information in that lawsuit and the defendants are customers of mine, Acacia also tried to sue TrueTech Canada Inc but dropped the case when they realized that (1) I wasn't going to budge and (2) the IP was all vested in the Dutch parent company, so the 'shell' effect worked to our advantage for a change. If they'd won in Canada we'd have declared bankruptcy, opened a new office two doors down the hall and continued business with a new daughter company. The Canadian subsidiary had little to no assets, just desks and a bunch of computers.).
Very well done!

I noticed that one of the biggest factors, unsurprisingly, is Home Price Growth Rate and rent price growth rates. Do you have any sources for the rates historically? Preferably by location.
I resisted buying my own cellphone for a long time as I always worked for companies that provided them for me. Then got a job where they required me to provide my own.
My first phone purchase was the first generation SideKick Color, and I loved it! I still have the SideKick II that replaced it (I traded my original one in on it pre-public-release). I still have the external camera that plugged into the SK Color's headphone jack too.

The screen was gimmicky, but oh-so-cool... it got everyone's attention, and allowed me to show people what it could do. Everyone was impressed - until they asked about ringtones. T-Mobile's laser-focus on hip-hop was a real blow there... I'm not into it, nor were any of the people I showed the device to. It really turned people away from it when they realized the target market was teenagers (even though it was an awesome techie's device).

The terminal program was my favorite part (I was a Unix Systems Architect at the time) and it got a great deal of (ssh) use.

I loved reading through the various descriptions of the apps being developed on the developers site (skdr?) and waited so patiently for T-Mobile to give the green light to so many of them (including a super-simple one, the voice-note-recorder), which they never did. I tried to get my own developer status (can't remember the term they used) so I could get a key and load the apps directly onto my device (via usb), but that was shortly after T-Mobile had made the process extremely difficult with huge forms to fill out and some catch-22 requirement that you had to already have a program published to get the dev kit (or something like that). I read a lot of complaints about that.

The best part of the device was the keyboard. It had the best layout and by far the best feel (and spacing) of any phone thumb-keyboard I've used since. Better than the Nokia N800 (NIT, not phone), better than the original Android G1, even better than the N900. It's the only thumb-keyboard I ever used that I could type on without looking at the keyboard, and quickly... far more quickly than anything remotely similar that I've tried.

After they cut the service, I used mine as a dumb-phone for a while until the microphone finally stopped working. That forced me to finally get a replacement (my N900).

One thing that's pretty impressive about the SideKick II... mine is still running (never been rebooted) since before T-mobile cut the service! I've had it plugged in the entire time for fear that if the battery dies, it will lose the games and programs I have installed (it acted sort-of as a thin client and downloaded all apps you had allocated upon powerup).

Pretty darned amazing uptime, considering what it was. :)
Hi. Apologize for the late reply and kudos for following up on the feedback. I am not denying in any way that you have solved a problem. My only point was that the '1 billion' number is quite misleading, because I will dispute you on the "unleashing people's imagination" part. The problem I see in your argument is that you are comparing yourself with a local store that sells readymade shirts. You need to compare yourself with a local tailor instead. I am not in US, so I don't know what the market there is, but if I were to walk in any store in my country I still have more than 200 different patterns to choose from (http://raymondindia.com). Also, I am not sure if getting a tailor offline is expensive or not in US. Also, one of the great factors I see is convenience. You are totally selling me your idea when you say "in a few clicks" and not when you say "unleash your imagination". Your pricing also seems extremely reasonable and that is another selling point for me.

Everything aside, I really think your app is great and I would definitely give it a try when I visit US next time (I hope you deliver it in 1-2 weeks, because that is generally how long my trips are) :)
> This calculator ignores the fact that the market for real estate buyers is increasingly global but the rental market is local.

How is the calculator ignoring this fact? If you think that increasing globalness will cause home price growth to be higher than inflation/rent growth, you can modify that parameter.
Martini is now succeeded by negroni, see: http://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martini...

(negroni is another coctail...).
There is a beauty to a system that has been designed and implemented so effectively where almost every example will be a unique deployment yet simply work. There is a whole other layer of directions on the taxi ways that ensures planes can keep moving and is standardised across all airports. Doesn't sound like an important factor, but when the wind changes and you have to have all planes take off (and land) in another direction ... and they don't have reverse ...
It's not the new 60s, because we already have existing computers to back us up in terms of automation, simulation and so on of whatever is to come. Case in point, the article.

It'll be the "60s" maybe for a few months, at the most.

Development is accelerating, and it'll never slow down.
Google code could have been great.But the UX sucks so much and has never been updated.

Github is successfull because of git AND its good clean UX.

Google code feels like developpers were in charge of the UX. It's a UX disaster and will be retired sooner or later.
Indeed, and that directly contradicts the paper I originally cited. The paper seems to claim it's impossible. That's the mystery, and it's very interesting! There's a contradiction that no one seems to know the answer to, which is the best kind of mystery.
yep. it is broken.

even in this win, they wasted time and money, that a bankrupt shell company cant pay back.

meanwhile, amazon paid a small settlement fee (which makes the troll case even better) and wasted those same resources hiring engineers to build a tablet or whatever.
Everyone keeps accusing me of not reading the article - but I did. The whole thing (despite eye rolls the entire time).

> just that is one more application of Solar energy (on sand, and with using silicon as a carrier).

You seem to have gotten lost in the argument here. I'm objecting to claiming that using by silicon somehow we reduce CO2 emissions.

We don't. Silicon has nothing to do with it. Sure by using the sun we reduce CO2 - but that's orthogonal to using silicon.

If you want to talk about using silicon as a load balancer, or a kind of rechargeable battery, then sure it's an interesting idea.

But don't start claiming it's some sort of super clean fuel or something like that because it's not.
I'll throw in a word for git-fat[1]. It works great and has a dead simple implementation that actually has a real copy of the file in the working copy of the repository (as a posed to symlinks).

https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat
That's very interesting, as someone who occasionally contributes to the odd Android fork. I kind of feel like repo is this weird semi-black box which does things I don't expect, like reverting my topic branches back to the remote branch but leaving the name in place (it does this if your topic branch does not have a remote tracking branch, and you run repo sync). I feel that at a minimum repo should play nice with standard git workflows. I should probably just read the repo source but I can't imagine why this behavior would be a good idea, and I'm usually left feeling like I would rather just use git directly than repo most of the time.
Well... using the new “nftables” packet filter, this will be the "normal" way of packet filtering. So, yes, please! ☺

http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/

❝Pseudo-state machine in kernel-space: the userspace utility nftables interprets the rule-set provided by the user (using a new syntax), it compiles it into the pseudo-state machine bytecode and then it transfers it to the kernel via the nftables Netlink's API. Roughly, the idea behind nftables is similar to the Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF).❞
I don't agree with mreiland about not sticking up, but I also want to point out something important that I get the impression that many feminists miss: That men in general have more power than women in general does not mean that all men have power, or that even most of them are in a position of power.
If buying MSDN works out to be cheaper than the Partner program, why not buy MSDN licenses instead?
Oh Prenda Law. My favorite angle on their scam was when they started embedding malware into gay porn downloads to extort money out of them.

I hope someone eventually gets to the bottom of who is behind that enterprise and they can be very publicly shamed and exposed.
A lot a good insights in this article. Some random thoughts:

We have a company here in SLO with a network of niche ecommerce sites (http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/ and similar). It was founded before Amazon and they're making a ton of money. You just don't hear about it in startupland.

Obviously the author is a little biased about the proprietary merch. angle. Personally, I think NastyGal and ModCloth (and similar like Ruche) are going to be big winners (i.e. IPO). They have huge loyalty and are already moving into the proprietary merchandise angle where the author puts Bonobos (NastyGal has their own line of clothes now).

I love Warby Parker but they will need to move beyond just glasses at some point.

One sector I've never understood is the flash sale sites. To me, they seem nothing more than an ecommerce version of Ross/TJ Maxx/Marhalls/outlet stores with some pretty CSS. Granted, TJX and Ross are both public companies with double-digit billion market caps, so there's something. I just never found them intriguing personally.

EBay seems like the one that really needs to get up-ended. I know a lot of startups are trying to do it via mobile–but is that the best route? I bet most of these other up-and-coming players still do the bulk of their business via desktop browsers vs smartphone (would LOVE any metrics anyone has on this).
I totally agree with you it is a class issue. May I put it in other words? an asshole issue. How to behave around other "human beings" has been forgotten and a culture of attacking the different has evolved.

Why? Perhaps to protect the individual ideas and create echo chambers where people feel "safe" from criticism. Although without criticism (critical thinking), and without dealing with real world evidences... I fear we're getting nowhere.

It is a pity that something as MRAs exist: why should anyone need a specific gender movement to protect its rights. It is a failure that MGTOWs exist: why should anyone hate the environment created around its gender.

Keep the humanism up :)
Excluding billed time for the process, it is amazingly easy to set up a corporation and transfer patents to it. Fixed costs for creating a shell corp are around ~$100.

Newegg's approach (Never settle. If you sue us expect to pay our legal fees.) is maybe the best way to eliminate the economic incentives, given the uncertainty of the US legal system.

There's a comment downthread by jacquesm detailing one way he exploited shell companies _against_ the trolls and they backed off...
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Fantastic article. I love when somebody who has been working on a particular business area writes a casual post like this with lots of hard-earned wisdom in it.

For example, like Marc Andreessen I've been believing that e-commerce will eat a big part of retail sooner than people realise and it will have huge impact on employment and how cities work. But I hadn't understand how tough the entry is for new players, because of Amazon's dominance and low margins.
Newegg are cheapskates. The publicity from doing this pays far more than the money they'd save by settling with patent trolls.
> start assigning some of the ones that are "reserved for future use" like 240/4.

The 240 block is problematic because a huge amount of legacy routing equipment is hard-coded to blackhole it. The best thing for it is probably to reserve it for unspecified local use, which would allow you to use it to NAT IPv6 addresses into locally, or use as additional RFC1918-style address space, or as ORCHID-style address space for IPv4-only applications using the likes of cjdns, etc.
> that list is very short and very expensive

It's not really THAT bad.

Off the top of my head: Chicago, Portland and Philadelphia are all fairly inexpensive with good transit.

If you're willing to pay a bit more: Seattle, DC, Boston, NY outside of Brooklyn and Manhattan, the unfashionable parts of LA.

If you're willing to live in the city center or put up with infrequent buses, Minneapolis, Louisville, St. Louis, Austin and Atlanta are all possibilities.
I know there are regulations for flying through airspace which require me to get permission depending on the type vehicle/altitude obtained. Are there similar regulations for space? Do I have to go somewhere to get permission to orbit in a certain plane or is it everybody for themselves?
Because you will lose, regardless of whether you hired a junior lawyer or the most expensive law firm in the world.
>>Recent medical and biological studies are showing that we are, in fact, evolved to live with an entire symbiotic ecosystem of fungus and bacteria.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't it common in the days of the past to see frequent outbreaks of contagious diseases?

Agreed that part of it is due to bad sanitation. But then one could argue that was a part of the symbiotic ecosystem too.

Perhaps we are meant to just die if get diseases until we evolve to tackle them. But then most people won't agree with you on that. Especially those who are dying due to those diseases.
QR codes aren't the sort of thing anybody has been trained to click though, there's no other cue to even begin to suggest that it might initiate a payment request. To me that would just be a QR code of a Bitcoin address that is in plaintext to the right of it. Showing me this page I would have said there's no payment request support at all.
Not at all:
1. He is talking about how people actually make money out of E-Commerce - that is driving sales and ensuring you have a margin on what you sell. It is very myopic to believe that the technology underlying the E-Commerce solution will drive the success of E-Commerce (a situation all to common on Hacker News - yes I am aware it is technology focussed, but not the exclusion of everything)
2. Andy Dunn has backed Spree Commerce through Ayr, Bonobos, Red Swan. I imagine, he has done that because he believes proprietary all in one platform solutions have inherent limitations. Spree Commerce has the opportunity to significantly disrupt the Shopify model (and likely will impact their valuation and/or longevity).
In case anyone's interested, the Chrome extensions is IPvFoo [0], a similar one for firefox is IPvFox [1].

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipvfoo/ecanpcehffn...
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ipvfox/
Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice
Attacking the credibility of the author doesn't address the merits of the argument. It's an ad hominem attack.
Agreed - there are thousands (tens of thousands?) of E-Commerce sites that have revenues in excess of $1m. It is staggering when you scratch the surface.
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There's a comment history on HN, and this is a shill account for jqm (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780587)
My brother who is deaf used this to communicate with all this friends and family. No point in having voice minutes when you can't used them. Integration with relay services made it the most important device you could have to always be able to communicate.
Shopify isn't an ecommerce store–it's an ecommerce infrastructure provider.

My only beef with shopify is that I don't see any of these fast growing etailers using them. I know why (makes no sense to give up that kind of % when you're at huge scale) and I wonder if it will hurt them in the long run. They seem to just help people with the MVP of their store.
Cancer is the inevitable outcome of aging in a long-lived multicellular organism.

It is a fundamental principle of evolution that things that replicate faster and survive better will prevail. We are made of coordinated, replicating cells. They happen to be in a mutual "truce" to act as one organism at the expense of individual cell survival. Most cells that break the truce do badly on their own and die out. However, given enough tries at the prize, some cells will find a way to beat the system and replicate at the expense of the other cells still serving the whole body.

Some people have genetic deficiencies that give potentially malignant cells a jump start on the process. Certain environmental exposures will increase the rate of errors and therefore the frequency of tries that cells will get to become cancerous. But the outcome will always be the same; as we prolong human life through better medical care the incidence of cancer can only rise.

It would be most accurate to say that cancer is an evolutionary phenomenon that occurs between cells of a multicellular organism and causes a heterogenous group of diseases.
Well, of course you can injure yourself in you try to squat too much.

But the squat is not a knee dependent movement, so if you injured your knee, you were not using proper form.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-rippetoe/squats-lifting-k...
My point is that for young people who grew up in cities like London or Vancouver, the choice is not buy or rent, the choice is rent or move away from the city they grew up in if they want to be able to buy a house on a middle class salary.
To add to this, people don't usually lose their jobs in a bubble. If you are losing your job, chances are a lot of other people in your area are also losing their jobs which makes it even harder to sell.
I'm sure you've seen TangleJS by Bret Victor. Its performance wasn't quite good enough for the way I wanted to use it, but it looks like that level of meta-interactivity is what you're going for.

Here's my favorite demo of the concept, discovered here on HN: http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction
The fact that they're being rewarded for their actions doesn't mean that those actions aren't laudable (especially when that reward consists of their being lauded).
Ask HN: How do I make sense of this counter-intuitive resume/CV advice?
I currently feel like I'm stuck in the CV-advice-from-hell-hamster-wheel and need some perspective from the tech community, if for nothing else than to save my sanity :)

One piece of resume advice that I see often repeated is "Don't use personal pronouns in resumes". Yet for the life of me I can't understand how this rule came about and nobody seems to be able to give a clear explanation beyond "it's unprofessional". Okay, but why?

Any hiring managers want to chime in on this? If you've seen such an offending resume, what exactly was your thought process? If you ever rejected a resume because of the word 'I', why so? What impression did it give you of the resume?

Besides that, what resume advice do you see floating out there that you actually feel is good? What about advice that is out there that's outdated? Coming from a small company / start-up hiring manager's perspective? I'd love to hear some thoughts.