skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying this is my main problem (it is not). It is a question of logistics and I wonder how other people in a similar situation/lifestyle have solved it. If you want to imply that taking time off even as a founder is a sign of lacking passion or commitment: my personal experience is that people who don't recreate tend to blow things up really bad in the long run.
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what a waste of space
To me, this just seems a little silly. I can't imagine how difficult it will be to maintain a persistent, user-friendly account with this method. An emailed link every time a user wants to log in? Just plain silly.

Passwords are still widely used, and for good reason. I partially accept your point of passwords not being very secure, but why not just spend some time implementing a 2FA login method, instead of this?
Could you, or anyone, give some examples please?
I agree with you, I really tried to find another article citing this or similar article but couldn't find so I put it like that.
Currently, Intel has the Embree ray tracing project, which is doing lots of interesting things with ray packet algorithms and SIMD compilers.

http://embree.github.io/
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Actually, it was not removed from the newspaper archive, because the article referring Mr. Gonzalez was published under a judicial injunction. And so his request was rejected by the Spanish court of data protection. But the case was upheld against Google.

Full EU court ruling in the following link:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...

I think the case make a distinction between a newspaper publication that is rather ephemeral and spatially located vs a search engine that plays a big part in disseminating information or any other "data processor" that can potentially expose the information for ever.

The crux of the argument seems to be that even if you are only indexing, by definition, you are managing/duplicating data, and in some case, they are private data so you have a responsibility before the person being identified (the "data subject").
My point is that short of picking the search results randomly, any mechanism will have some rules (no matter how complicated) that affect how things get ranked.
Sure. I offer a service for free. I will back up all your email! Just forward it all to me and I will make sure you can get it back!

Does that sound like a harmless service? OpenDNS knowingly and deliberately broke the Internet for its customers. I have actually spent time debugging issues it caused just to find that the client was using their resolvers. They were not a free service, they were actively harmful. I am glad the profits are no longer there for them to keep up this malicious practice.
That is what I'm trying to ask, how do you define marking as an Advert?

Does every advertisement necessarily carry a 'Advert' banner?
Thanks for the answer, I actually tried something like that but it never worked out completely. There always was a small residual amount of noise that prevented simulating a true infinite pool. I tried to come up with the necessary equations for the pool margins so that I wouldn't need a hack, but couldn't figure it out. One of those days I will!
If your post is true it is an indictment of the poor logic and reading comprehension skills of the denizens of hacker news. Your post is bullying and stupid. Let's start with your "misogyny", which actually just means "prejudice against women".

If you say there cannot be such a thing as a woman who is into tech, that is prejudice. If you say that (generally) women aren't into tech, that IS NOT prejudice because you are NOT pre-judging.

So marincounty says he (I assume) has never seen
women having monomaniacal focus on tech. He has seen men having that focus. He has seen such focus helping men careerwise in tech. And he has seen women more interested in marrying up than in careers. Stereotype yes, generalization yes, prejudice no. This is simply describing his observations. Just because someone says something that doesn't go along with "Grrl Power!" doesn't make it misogyny.

By the way, you can read up on the research by Professor Catherine Hakim at the London School of Economics showing how women are not so interested in careers, just as marincounty observed.

Secondly, when marincounty is describing that women should be not into tech and helpful for some aspects of his life, he's describing his own dating preferences! How the hell is that misogynist? What right do you have to tell him who he should like? And who on earth prefers hurtful women instead of helpful ones?

Finally, when marincounty describes successful women as scary, he is describing other men's opinions! He is NOT advocating for that position, in fact he worries that he might suffer from the same defect. If he thought this way of thinking were OK, he wouldn't have ended with "I hope this changes in the future".

Do you really think it's a good idea to down vote people for thought crimes when they deviate from orthodoxy? Do you think you should be in such a hurry to condemn people in this way that you don't even bother to read their posts properly before you write screeds shaming them?
> You say that, but it's not as though this is a fundamentally hard problem. How many servers are running nginx today vs. even a few years ago?

How many years did it take to get there? How many servers are still running apache?

> And, of course, eventually switching from openssl to libressl will become as easy as spending a couple minutes with a package manager.

Eventually, maybe. That's no reason not to audit openssl right now, that people cannot switch - especially the ones that use platforms that the OpenBSD team decided to remove support for.
Leaving ethics aside for a second, neither of these statements are "completely" true in the real world.

In the real world, you have to deal with lots of rules and regulations regarding advertising (which is what paid links are) and companies with significant market power.

The real world is not some libertarian wet dream.
I love this. I know very little about xss and web app security so this is a fun way to learn.
Because trust is an important commodity on a project like this. Higher trust means fewer horrible things slipping past the review process.
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But this stuff applies only in the narrow echo chamber of SF, LA, NYC, etc. Fresh water is a necessity, and more people don't have that than will ever be a customer of Washio. I am all for people innovating anything and everything, but let's put things into perps practice: this particular service provides a luxury version of an already luxury service for the richest parts of the world.
You can imagine Virgin Galactic are wll positioned to accelerate this project.

They have the airframe building technology, and the commercial vision for affordable space access.

Come on Branson, bring this British invention to life!
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Buying links is fine.

Buying links in order to 'cheat' your way to the top of Google's search page, thereby skewing the accuracy of their results, isn't fine.

I'd liken it to Ford paying 500,000 people to drive a Ford car and then claiming to be the #1 best selling car in the country. If they did that publicly it'd be ok (and compilers of car sales listings would ignore them). If they did it secretly then it really wouldn't. Tagging a link with 'nofollow' essentially makes it public that the link isn't trying to cheat the listings.
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I think no. Given what we know, the most reasonable assumption is that the developers did not want to abandon the project to the wind and the future without leaving a proper landing page indicating that the project is unmaintained. Vulnerabilities could be discovered in the future.

This is true of every piece of software, always. No specific flaws have been mentioned by anyone. Here, the (supposed) developers flat-out told us they just lost interest. There hasn't been a release in years, and now -- if his identity were to become known -- a negative result on the audit (no vulnerabilities found) would not be interpreted as an endorsement from him that the software is secure.

When/if the vulnerability is found, he will not be required to say "I told you so" or "I'm sorry." The last ten years absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, that's just common sense.

And there is one vulnerability I think I've heard that's not surprising anyone -- TC keeps the keys in memory while the partition is mounted. Anyone with enough practice can supposedly freeze the chips, unplug them, put them into another machine, and boom grab your keys without disturbing the frozen bits. Presumably law enforcement and other APT entities will be getting better at this technique over time.

If you're worried about this and other threats, best to keep your partitions unmounted.
The FAQ for cryptsetup states: https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQue...

This means that if you have a large set of random-looking data, they can already lock you up. Hidden containers (encryption hidden within encryption), as possible with Truecrypt, do not help either. They will just assume the hidden container is there and unless you hand over the key, you will stay locked up. Don't have a hidden container? Though luck. Anybody could claim that.
I have yet to see a situation where widgets are actually useful.
Their guidelines suggest to use dropbox for that:

https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota

https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-large-files
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StampedLocks have been talked about extensively at least on jsr-166 mailing list and they required adding load/load barrier in sun.misc.Unsafe. That was the prime reason it needed Java 8, as previously it required a no-op CAS on the load path.

For most people StampedLock will remain quite a mystery as they are harder to use and the vact majority of Java developers doesn't actually write (or even use) low-level concurrency primitives.
As a female, thank you for your post.
I should also mention, I find this attitude very attractive, and if you are single, I would like to take you out to dinner. As long as you don't mind, of course, that I will pay with all the money I make from my tech job.
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Why is it tough for front end engineers?
yes, that is exactly what it does. It adds your tags inside of square brackets at the end of the file name before the extension.

It's built in node-webkit [1] though, so it wouldn't (shouldn't) be too hard to integrate websql, sqlite or some other database [2].

[1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
[2] https://github.com/uggrock/tagspaces
As jcooper said you can lose two engines from the same pair. The pairs of engines are in a rectangle configuration not a square. This asymmetry allows you to compensate for a missing pair by using some combination of the the other 3 pairs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring
but for many frameworks StampedLock is big progress.
Microsoft has special licensing models where the sources for OS are available. Somebody looks at that, at least comparable to that how somebody was expected to detect the bug in OpenSSL, or to review TrueCrypt and nobody did until recently, because, well let somebody else care.

So as far as I understand, it is possible to audit Microsoft's crypto code too. I can imagine the audit of crypto code wouldn't find anything. The real problem is:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/05/16/0955_peter_gutmann.pdf

"Crypto won't save you either"

"Crypto Summary:

Number of attacks that broke the crypto: 0

Number of attacks that bypassed the crypto: All the rest

- No matter how strong the crypto was, or how large the keys were, the attackers walked around it"
Nicely done, I am impressed.

Because everyone is mentioning that's like Android's Widget-Concept, and Android already solved this - that's not the case in my opinion.
I think it's too complex for users to know what a "widget" excatly is. This is more the concept of: Show me a little bit more than the app-icon - and that's it. Imho the user would understand the concept immediately and don't have to know what actually a "widget" is, or how to remove it.
Wow, Huhsmail was pretty silly with their claims:

the company that provides Hushmail, states that it will not release any user data without a court order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia,

This is malarkey. Someone in the US could say "I'll fight all the way to the Supreme Court!!!" but you would be a fool to trust your business to their determination. Especially if they say it about a subpoena, which means they haven't even retained a lawyer to ask about this. (If your business plan depends on being able to wage a legal battle, you really shouldn't be scrambling through the yellow pages for a lawyer when you get your first subpoena.)

Back to the topic, I'll have to point out that this still isn't evidence of a company being required to backdoor a product. Hushmail, the same company that thinks it can fight a subpoena for third-party data all the way to the Supreme Court, said "well, we might be compelled to backdoor our product." This is just more repeating of the meme without evidence. It's unfortunate because some developer who remembers Hushmail might take their ill-informed legal opinion as reality.

Of course, Hushmail had access to cleartext copies of the messages. That's the killer. The government has the right to evidence about third parties in your possession. (Canada derives from British law tradition like the US. The government's right to all evidence is a concept that goes back centuries. If you can show that Canada broke from this tradition I would be most interested.)
When (if at all) will it be feasible for a bunch of kids in a garage to make a feature-length realistic-cgi movie? Assume computing on the public cloud, movie budget $1M.
No. It's 4K. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution
One of my favorites: Indigo

http://www.indigorenderer.com
Circuit emulators are always a lot of fun.

The (first I think) project in Coursera's Reactive Programming class had you play with a circuit simulator written in Scala. It was an interesting assignment to work through.

I think all you did was add a demux (the assignment focused on epidemiology iirc) but it would have been a great project to expand upon throughout the course. For example, using akka in the simulator to model different components interacting in a "clouduino.

For those into building entire systems on top of circuits, btw, I can't recommend nand2tetris.org strongly enough.
I believe the answer you're looking for is "because that's where the money is"
It's not vaporware if they've actually built one. By definition.
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Maybe it's worth emphasizing that writing kernel code is a very responsible task, not to be taken lightly. Hackers coming from a userspace background tend to think it's just "userspace with a few quirks" which is grossly wrong: your code has to be completely free of bugs, as a dangling pointer, for instance, won't just send you a friendly SIGSEGV and terminate your ass, it will crash the whole system, leading to consequences for everyone who relies on its stability. Just imagine introducing a bug which crashes a Linux-based life support system. You could be responsible for endangering human lives. (I ageee that Linux isn't a sane choice here, but just for the sake of the argument.)

Also, standards to get your pull requests merged into mainline Linux are insanely high, but even given that, you can never rely solely on maintainers' code review to catch your mistakes. Take kernel hacking seriously.
I find them useful. Here's how:

- Weather info. Before heading out for the day I can see instantly if I might need a jacket or umbrella later.

- Tube status. I can see at a glance if there are any problems on any underground lines. If there are, I can click on the problem line to get more detailed information with a single touch.

- Calendar. Shows me my schedule for the day.

- Music. Control playback without having to launch an app.

I also have widgets I tend to only use when I'm travelling, showing currency and timezone information.
If they did fix their algorithm, no one would pay for link spam any more.
You sound bitter. Why do you get so worked up over 'nanny-state crap' that's going on on the other side of the world? Business interests in the EU and don't like to put in the extra effort? Or do you just enjoy that mode of righteous indignation?

I find it amusing that – even taking the Google shills out of the picture –, most of the 'debate' around this topic is along the lines of Americans preaching to Europeans about how they're 'doing it wrong', often with emotionally charged language, just like your comment here. Ever thought that Europeans just might have some slightly different values than you do?
So be open about the shortcomings in your algorithms instead of trying to show that the practice is bad, try telling people that your algorithm is not competent enough to know if the intentions are good or bad.

Hence your algorithm requires you to comply to the nofollow rule.
You should probably have someone proofread the English on your site.
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This has been its state for quite a few years now.
So, someone is allowed to say "maybe they could spare a few million for the children".

But when I point out that the federal government is already spending $67.3 billion, that's not enough of a counter-argument. That's "common knowledge", so I needed to provide extensive additional information to refute his statement?

I think we'll have to "agree to disagree" about this one.
Still have no idea what's the "unfixed security issues", and few guys mention about it.
I image there the "security issues" will be (if it exist):
1. because key are easy to stolen by coolboot or trojan.
2. because it has backdoor, will save key to a hidden place.
3. because it will leave some information in other place, like 2 but it's implantation problem.
4. because it use a vulnerable algorithm to generate key.
5. because pbkdf2 or aes256 is broken but nobody known it.
exclude 2 and 3, change to other software it's not help at all, algorithm almost same.
We, the user, are only going to lose some information on "common people", and only the one mindful of their public image, no public figure, on events that probably happened 10 or more years ago. So, yes, it could become harder to find if someone was drunk at their prom night, harder to stalk an ex, but I don't think we are going to lose anything crucial. Basically, we'll be back to pre web 2.0. And I am pretty sure that most people won't request any removal to anyone.
"the largest next to" often means "the largest except"; I think this was the source of confusion
It reminds me of Action Launcher's "shutters". You have an icon on your homescreen, and swipe on it to show the relative widget.

Not the same concept, but still closer than normal widgets.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionlaun...
Thank you for outing yourself as someone who finds witch-hunts and ad-hominem shaming behaviour attractive.
As a male, I would pay not to have dinner with you.
Hope they can give a gpg signed mail content.
> Things went so well for so long that they thought that the American Way was indestructible. Again, how is that 'Europes" fault?

You appear to acknowledge this, but just in case: it's our (Europeans') fault because we had two massive, hugely expensive, wars, which the Americans funded, providing them with an economic security that further compounded their preexisting view of their own exceptionalism.

This means that rather than appreciating the degree to which their position of strength was obtained through historical circumstance, they see it solely as a product of the superiority of their own way of life.

edit: Of more relevance to the story, this is interesting, though perhaps not to everyone's taste: http://www.philosophersmail.com/capitalism/the-rich-should-s...
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http://www.plaintube.com/ apparently. very much NSFW.
One example off the top of my head is Drum Workshop, they used to use Keller shells, but when it became feasible switched to making their own.
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There's something really distinctive about the kind of English that Polish people (especially the ones confident in their language skills) use in writing, it's really easy to tell.
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Just look at the difference in prices for laptops, those are nuts. I'm importing everything from the US, even if it's more expensive (and it never is), because I will not support this kind of price gouging.
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It's actually much worse than that. Plenty of the links that those removal requests are all about were placed by spamming comments, creating millions of bogus accounts across as many services in order to boost PR. That was done automatically.

So now, after the penalty hammer comes down the automatically placed junk supposedly has to be manually removed by the website where the spam was posted, usually accompanied by some vaguely threatening words to the effect of 'if you don't comply we'll use the disavow tool'.

I wish them good luck and refuse to honour any of these requests, they can disavow until they're blue in the face.

See, sending out those vaguely threatening emails is still almost at 0 penalty (it is an automated action) but using the google disavow tool requires a human.

Preferably google should add some really nasty captcha or hard to solve puzzle there for every link disavowed.
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That's putting it a bit harsh. Yes, if you plan on writing kernel code for your fleet of production systems, or for submission to mainline, you need to be very careful.

That said, starting out, you work on a development system, you write a bunch of code, it'll have a lot of bugs, and you'll learn from them and from the process of fixing them.

Saying "You could be responsible for endangering human lives" is quite overdramatic. If people only pushed code to the kernel that they knew 100% was "completely free of bugs", we'd not have a Linux kernel at all. I've had to roll out enough new kernels due to security issues just this year to know that.
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Your explanation makes sense. Though I'm still curious as to when this happened and what the impact was.
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I can't login with my credentials after confirming my email (confirmation hash: 160caba46334a76427bbfc0d127542f8), so that's kind of a show stopper.
This is an incredible amount of work, I know Bootstrap well enough (plus I use a 24 col grid with 16px margins for everything) that it wouldn't be much use to me.

Incredibly well executed though :).
Sadly, I dont think this the case. Most everyone I've spoken to about Snowden either didnt know who he was or was some what fine with being spied on the catch "terrorists."

I still dont believe the general public understands the gravity of the situation. Now the US is looking way worse than China. Most people still dont understand how tarnishing this is to our already horrible image abroad.
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