skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see their YC application. I'm curious (in a genuine way) to understand what got them into YC.
Does this mean that N quantum computers can agree on the spin of an electron instantaneously, i.e., meaning that there's nothing like FLP impossibility result for distributed quantum computing? Or would that still imply violation of No-Communication theorem even if the observes can't exchange any information that way?
just trying to figure out this, won't the people who bother changing their DNS also use an Ad-blocker ?
I guess it's good for security... but if your computer can be hijacked by loading a website, you're going to have a bad day even if you're blocking ads. For example, I would bet hacked websites are a much more common malware vector than ads.
Many posters on Hacker News use identifying profiles, as do I. IMO a very small percentage of comments posted here could be damaging to that person. On the other hand I think that many opportunities can arise from being identifiable here.
> Mojolicious is like all the simplicity of Sinatra and all the does-everything-you-could-ever-want of Rails.

I'm not sure how to take this—I usually pitch Sinatra to people by saying it pitched out all the crap in Rails. Which one is it?
Simple proof that P is not equal to NP
This thread is a preview of our potential future and reflection of past conversations on this topic. I support, though, the concept of upvoting any shadowed user's posts into general visibility.
Ask HN: How to safely extricate yourself from a contract?
I was asked to fix a mess of infrastructure & code and for the most part I have, but the company hosts thousands of installs of an open source php app that gets hacked daily.

I have tried to communicate the danger of this to the owner, but he is oblivious and gets angry at me for telling him the risk.

He refuses to upgrade the php apps, and as a result there are countless known exploits running on the server.

He also has a really bad habit of acting like me giving him good technical advice is annoying him and that I am bothering him by pointing out very serious problems.

He has thrown tantrums and raised his voice when I try to solve this problem.

I want out, but I am worried that these hacks will destroy his business and that he may try to sue me, even though I did not create the problem and I have tried to solve it.

I have a clause in my contract that disclaims liability, but am not operating via an LLC, a rookie mistake I know.

I like the other employees at the company and feel bad leaving them in the lurch, but the anxiety & depression from this job is killing me.

What would you do?
This is a bit like blaming the murder on the bullet, not on the criminal who pulled the trigger.

The US government would be in a very different shape indeed, if it wasn't owned by the highest bidder. It might be inefficiently run for you; but for the special interests who own all the lobbyists in D.C., and who pay all the politicians - for them it's just fine as-is, thank you.
Qualified isn't the problem. Willing isn't the problem. When some old non-tech company needs a network engineer to work in some crusty old industrial town in the middle of nowhere for 2/3 what a qualified person would make in actual civilization, they cannot get one. Even if they paid market rates, which they find appalling, they couldn't get anyone to move into the boonies in an environment with little opportunity for professional advancement.

So they import someone on an H1B visa, work them for a few years, and send them home. They've solved the kind of labor shortage that causes immigration, without actually giving them the chance to become Americans.
Notice the headline doesn't say teleport information, but instead says teleport data - which is accurate. I agree, the Title on HN is a degraded version of the NYT version.
Not an oops at all you provided valuable feedback. I will add some verbiage on the incorporation page about the need to qualify to do business in other states. Thanks.
Anonymous talk review is amazing
Yes, but that does not mean it does not happen and when a very large website gets used to deliver malware through advertising it can be very effective. Such as this top10 dutch website:

http://blog.fox-it.com/2012/03/16/post-mortem-report-on-the-...
Exactly. Such empty threads. It's not like you can actually choose between different ISPs in the US. LOL
> Why does everyone have this aversion to giving the OpenBSD team the funding they deserve?

Given their work is avowdly OpenBSD-only and portability has to be added on in the case of e.g. OpenSSH it would seem a dead-end for anyone who wants broader platform support.
The word "left" is also associated with being bad: 'sinister' comes from "sinistra", Latin for left. 'Gauche', or clumsy, is the french word for left. And 'dextrous', another good thing, is from the Latin for right. And this isn't accidental, but because being left-handed used to be considered a sign of evil. Some nice etymology lists here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sin...
At $495 per license and free for non-commercial use, this is a pretty big deal. Interesting to see how Keyshot will respond to this.
But transferring instantaneously is theoretically possible through this method, correct?

So am I right in interpreting that if we can transfer particles instantaneously, that information time travel must necessarily follow?
I put a small gist up and hotlinked through githack.com
The way I see it, every single app that uses email for password resets (usually by emailing a link, sometimes a code) already relies on the security of email.

Even if you have the most secure password in the world, if an attacker compromises your email account, they can simply send a password reset email. It's the weakest link.
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> perhaps there should be a TerryFilterBot that can repost them, although of course it would have to be tailored to each readers comfort level.

I think this is an extremely cute idea and a cool hack.

It doesn't need to be complicated or custom-tailored; to start with, just make it not repost things that include racial slurs, which are easy to detect.

I've never heard of an online community having a user that is automatically filtered like this. So it would be an interesting first. Then again, perhaps HN doesn't need any unwanted attention.

If somebody wanted to do it (maybe a student for a course project?), you could feed the bot a bunch of samples and scores, and it would learn which of his posts are high quality and which are low quality. Then once the bot is in place, it could learn further by looking at how many upvotes he (it) is getting on each post. Though I would recommend starting with something simpler and making it open source.

Honestly, the guy's technical work is a real inspiration.
Boy, when it rains, it pours.

The thing that gives me pause when considering this story is that in many (most?) countries of this world, this guy's career would have been unscathed after a domestic abuse claim. More likely, he would never have been prosecuted to begin with.
Good to see a concept (https://medium.com/cyber-security/9ed56d483eb) at work.
Question: Is an ansible absolutely impossible for any current theorized method in physics?

I ask in light of current research on FTL travel with alcubierre drives.
Yeah, doesn't always have to be you teaching others that your way of programming is the "right" way.
It's a good catch to realize that the main downside to this approach is an inevitable lack of diversity in your friend group. That feeling you are basing it on is a general sense of cultural similarity and worldview similarity. Some of those similarities you want but many you don't.
How do you go from "people won't discover my own site under google's new algorithm" to no one on linkedin and other places will ever discover any articles linking to my site without google?
+1 for your answer. The OP's feature is something that should be solved by parent-child communication, not by new code.
And, as mentioned, they lean towards being run and staffed by immigrants. They can make a living, but I would doubt it affords them enough of an income to run a silicon-valley startup.

Many successful companies [citation needed] have been built by immigrants.
A silly self-learning asteroids-like game
Find ways to slip your past work into the conversation. If they ask you to solve a particular problem you've solved before, tell them about it. Tell them about the first time you solved it, and what your thought process was, and (if applicable) what better solutions you may have found after your first go at it. Better yet, don't lead with all that; just say something like "Ah, I've actually solved this problem before" and then give them a chance to ask for some detail. If they don't probe on that, you're dealing with an ineffective hiring manager, and are probably wasting your time unless it's a company you really want to work for.
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What is data without semantics? A RNG?
Ask HN: Lifestyle Decisions
HI All,

I've come here because I thought I would get some advice.

Right - I've got offered to work in a major city on a 6 month contract (IT Developer), and therefore left my place of birth and went to this country to work. Everything is going great in this company.

Before I left my place of birth, I had arranged a few consulting contracts with a few clients. One of my clients has finished a phase and will be moving onto a new phase very soon.

They have offered me a full time position to which I would have full control of building my own development team however that will be starting very soon (Which will be a massive step in my career).

The client work is innovative and something I've never seen before - And I actually enjoy doing the work.

However my initial plan was to work for 6 months in this company, save a money and then to go travelling for 6-8months, living off my savings and contract work. However I'm stuck at a crossroads to what to choose? And I am wondering what would you lot choose and help me decide what is best for my career.

However travelling has always been plan, and I’ve always wanted to go and explore new places.

I know ultimately it is my choice, but I want some advice before I make my choice. (Money hasn't been discussed yet, and may be a stumbling block)

Thanks all.
Could be related to the character on the long-running primetime soap Coronation Street. She started in 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre_Barlow
How could they destroy hundreds of small businesses, if they themselves were not profitable?

It seems like you want to have your cake and eat it. You want to criticize these guys for out-competing small businesses, but you also want to claim they aren't really doing good business, that they are just wasting their investor's money.
I wish they would but they aren't as far as I am aware.
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Where I come from it does. The police will blame the victim if they left their door unlocked and got burgled. Also, insurance will sometimes won't pay out.
Are we morally obligated to buy a Google car?
Another YouTube audio player?

There's a reason why they come and go so fast: YouTube API TOS.

II. Prohibitions

Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage or create functionality for Your users or other third parties to:

8. separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

9. promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;
I wonder if they're planning on implementing DNSSEC, given that this change is a prerequisite for full DNSSEC support. They would also have to be willing to use a less user-friendly method of blocking phishing domains (like return an unsigned NXDOMAIN that doesn't validate).
There is only one free-as-in-beer FDE project that has survived the last decade (loop-AES), out of dozens. The one other survivor (dm-crypt) is backed by serious money (the Linux Foundation). It's safe to assume the odds won't get better in the next decade.

That is, unless we support freely-licensed encryption software, financially, rather than just use it.
As a (very) long-time user of the Internet, I've become increasingly disgusted at what it's become, in particular the rise of the whole "SEO phenomenon" that's basically become a cat-and-mouse game between site owners and search engines. Large corporations and SEO spammers have the resources to play this game, while the smaller independent sites (often managed by a single person) don't, and when they get penalised somehow, it's much harder for them to solve the "problem". The often interesting, unique, and more personal bits of the Internet are being made less accessible.

I think the reason it became this way is entirely due to search engines encouraging this ranking game. Those who want their site to be at the top of the SERPs optimise for that, instead of focusing on what makes their sites' content valuable to actual users. The incentives are all wrong, from the perspective of what the Internet should be, and to fix this I think search engines should, instead of trying to develop more and more complex algorithms that the SEOs will just figure out how to beat, use a (periodically changing) random ranking. This would probably kill off SEO completely, as there would no longer be anything about the search engine to optimise for - everyone who wants visitors would instead focus on that content, so on those times when their site appears near the top of the rankings, they can attract and retain users who will preferably bookmark them and visit again.
> The only place I have encountered any willingness to set aside a conspiracy of wide-spread, omnipresent male power that ruthlessly exploits female powerlessness is the Men’s Rights Movement.

The author should think about taking some classes. The "omnipresent male power" argument is a staple of myths around radical feminism.

Most contemporary feminisms take into account historicity and contingency in power relationships, as do almost all of critical theory and queer theory. People need to get their asses off of their heads and of the myths that are injected into poorly formulated beginner-level feminist arguments.
There is enough identifying information about me out there that there is no point in denying it. That ship sailed for me many years ago. And sometimes it is convenient to be able to say something and have people realize that I have direct experience with it.

Of course you shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet. Contrary to what you surmised, I was actually born in California, did most of my growing up in Victoria, British Columbia, and Jennifer is not part-Irish.

Now if you want to get disturbed, go read my sister's book, Singing Songs. None of what is discussed there was stuff that I had any control over, so I have no shame about it. And it is all stuff I've said in public before.

As I said, that ship sailed for me long ago. There is no point in hiding it.
I guess I might be an amoral degenerate, because I found the beginning rather funny. As long as these are consenting adults (save the creepy touching on that one date), what's wrong? I think it was on second thought that I found the whole idea a bit strange, all of this money spent just to give a few tech men dates?
OpenDNS is used in a lot of places like coffee shop wifi where your users aren't the same as the savvier people who set up the internet. At least that's the only place I encounter (and then curse) their "guide".

Lots of people not using adblocking there.
I don't understand why a moderator took this off the front page without reading the article first. Can someone explain this?
Won't this logic be open source then? In some cases, business rely on such logic and would want to hide it.
How would writefully handle that?
> We have successfully commanded both of ISEE-3's data multiplexers into engineering telemetry mode. The current bitrate is 512 bits/sec.

BITS not even BYTES, let alone kilobytes.
re: "One way less for Google to track me."

Google says that they don't use Google DNS for tracking.

From the Google DNS privacy page: "We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information about usage as we could, while still being able to detect and fix problems. Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information."

They go on in some detail to say how and what they log.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
This should be upvoted so much that it stays on #1 for a couple of days.

What strikes me most is that if a man would write this, he would be shitstormed into oblivion.
Personally, I want to be able to search ALL THE THINGS even if it means that I sometimes have to wade through more crap

Agreed 100%. I often start looking at the search results beyond page 10, since that skips past a lot of the "sites that Google's algorithm thinks are relevant, but are actually useless". And thanks to their ranking algorithms, the linkfarms and spammy sites tend to cluster together so it's easy to skip past them too (or just add -site:spammydomain.com to the query and try again).
Hi All, Jordan, CEO of Washio, here. Happy to answers any questions.
After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest competitors from results
With the proliferation of real-time auction and backfill ad networks, the ability for a bad user to inject javascript or malicious Flash ads into the ad creative space carried on major sites has grown dramatically over the last few years.

It's hard to even tell who is serving up your ads sometimes without pulling out wireshark or some kind of HTTP proxy to look at the request chain.
For a few more dollars? He was sacrificing his public brand for his company!
I'm curious where you're from. In the US, the government being separate from religion is a pretty big deal so having taxes going to churches at all would seem strange.

The system in the US, for instance, isn't that non-believers fund churches with their tax money, it's that no one funds churches with tax money at all, members of the church donate directly to the church.

(Before someone comments, yes churches are often tax-exempt like other charities and non-profits, but that is different from actually receiving money from the government)
The vulnerabilities in OpenSSL seem to be symptoms of a wider problem, systemic problem, that comes from their project management.

It seems appropriate to point out that auditing and fixing the details is just patching symptoms -- and that many think a longer-term solution is needed.
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Show HN: An Android app that allows you to multitask faster than ever
For life, maybe. For "as long as the [struggling business] stays open", no.
We said browser changes over the years ate into that revenue stream. In other words, as our traffic volume quadrupled, we were essentially making similar amounts of money, rowing four times as hard for each dollar.

Part of it was the browsers, and part of it was us not wanting to do lame techniques like pop-ups, flash ads, and other obnoxious things.

It was an arms race we weren't interested in participating in, and one we ultimately expected to lose. Who wants to fight a battle for a cause they don't even believe in?

I could think of so many things I'd rather focus our engineering talents on than maximizing how many nickels we could shake out of each user. So we decide to do make the change and focus on creating things of value instead.
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Ah, good call. I was thinking of the sort of low-level simulator you'd want to play around with an unfamiliar architecture; but as the technical notes on that link say, no single-stepping. Once you want to actually be able to slow things down enough to watch a system run, then it's typically harder to speed them up again, unless you truly have two separate emulation modes which can switch off. It's doable.
But you can bet that at least the NSA and 3-letter-agencies around the world do monitor anything going to or coming from these two IPs. It's just a too convenient target.

More distributed resolvers (like with Cloudflare/Amazon datacenters directly linked to ISPs) would make this type of spying orders of magnitude harder (they must actively infiltrate the ISPs network instead of just tapping the DECIX/exchange switches, which e.g. German BND is ALLOWED to do!).

Shit, I'd pay for Cloudflare or any other service to build robust, interception-secured DNS servers. Or my provider, but providers have a shameful track record of building fast and reliable DNS servers.
Motherfriggin' Cron
As long as you're working there, put your risk advisories in writing, and address any and all concerns about them in writing. Don't be political about it, use fuzzy terms like, well, 'risk advisory' rather than using loaded/hyperbolic terms like 'danger' or 'countless', so as to do your job of communicating without making it confrontational. It sounds like your boass feels he's getting the blame for the situation, doesn't know what to do, and is dumping his stress upon you. This is bad management, of course, but he probably doesn't have it in for you personally, he just wants you to make the problem go away.

Try quantifying the performance loss involved, and the mitigation/maintenance cost. Mention and quantify replacing the PHP apps as an afterthought but don't make an issue of it (eg 'Doing A and B will cost C...and finally doing X and Y will cost Z. I recommend I and J, unless you want to re-examine the notion of replacing the PHP apps in which case the cost would be closer to Q and R.'). So, rather than giving him a problem (ugh) and requesting a green light for your solution, give him several solutions and let him pick one, but present as low a level of decision pressure as possible.

I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice, but my gut feeling is that he's most unlikely to sue you even if you quit - chances are you don't have sufficient resources to make the expense worth it, so the main risk would be to your reputation. At bottom this sounds like a people problem, and it's not all that uncommon for a deicison-maker to 'shoot the messenger' who brings them bad news - hence my advice to focus on the actionable solutions rather than offering a single unpalatable prescription that makes him feel like the situation is out of his control. Think back to successful interactions between the two of you on other technical challenges and see if you can identify what factors allowed the two of you to work together effectively there, and look for a way to replicate those factors in this new context.
That's how I try to operate. Everybody should get a break but me. There's a word for giving yourself a break for bad behavior: rationalization.
The logos of Path and Pinterest are very similar.

Pinterest was actually designed by Mike Deal and fontographer Juan Carlos Pagan. The letter P looks like a needle & thread (i.e. a pin).

http://blog.pinterest.com/post/31465690453/new-logo-design-n...

Path... is a font.

http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/32786/path-logo-font
You should see my other response in this thread. Maximizing ad revenue put us in an arms race for a cause we don't even believe in. So why continue it? Our time is far better spent elsewhere.