skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vincent van Gogh’s Ear Has Been 3D Printed out of Living Tissue and DNA
I guess I should have been more clear. Why not add the primitives to SJCL and leverage an existing code base--a code base authored by someone who is considered to set a very high standard in crypto--instead of reinventing everything? Setting a higher standard than Prof. Boneh seems like a tough thing to do. Why not stand on Boneh et. al's shoulders?
Hmm, turns out I am wrong about the second point. Obj-C does not store the refcount in the pointer address:

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-an...

They store it in isa field. Still, as long as you also call any virtual method of the object (or due to cache lines, use any field), it will still be pretty fast.
This was one of the most helpful pieces of advice I ever got as a founder.

Pre-product, when customers would say "Yes, I would buy this," we asked them to sign a non-binding LOI to that effect.

Nowadays, if a prospect says they'll buy when we have feature X, we ask them to sign a modified customer contract that says they don't have to pay until we mutually agree that the feature is done.

It has saved countless developer months spent on features that were not the real reason the customer didn't want to buy. And it sometimes causes the prospect to start saying, "well, actually, the issue is..." and then you can get the real feedback.
I feel very pathetic from this. You could have given me 265K lines and I wouldn't have figured it out.
An HDMI adapter that mimics a 4K monitor
Dharma is also a superstition. People put too much negative weight on the term superstition. Dharma is a way of life driven by one of some set of superstition beliefs.

If you doubt this, ask a series of "why?" questions about Dharma and drill down into it until you stop hitting rational thought and start hitting belief about the nature of the universe and belief about the importance of righteous action.
> Deciding "worthless" is up to the person paying them.

Exactly. Arguing that capitalism is "freedom" is doublespeak, particularly against anarchism advocates like David Graeber. When you must obey a boss's commands all day, your opinion is unimportant; the boss decides what your time is worth. You are the boss's rented instrument, regardless whether you think the work is useless or harmful. Under management's watchful eye, there's no free speech at work; so you'd better not discuss with your coworkers.

Exactly why people want to redistribute power more equally, just as in the ages of kings, slaveowners, totalitarian parties, top-down fake democracies, etc.
The idea that the cat memes and horrendously inane linkbait headlines that litter the social internet might be representative of the creativity that could be unleashed in even greater volume with basic income is the best argument in favour of "worthless" mid level marketing managers and the forty-hour workweek I've ever heard.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen dilettantes' blog articles that are more thought provoking than supposed social science classic writings, but in general the more user-generated areas of the internet - populated by adults as much as kids - we'd still mostly waste the free time we got anyway.

(I've been distracted from a bit of volunteering I was going to do in order to add a comment on a social site that won't be read by anyone after tomorrow, and probably won't be remembered by many ten minutes after they've finished reading it. QED, I guess)
Transit encryption requires that both sides are game. Google always supports it, but the server on the other side may not.
You meant Brad Fitzpatrick :)
Google has dataset search
Notable aspects --

Looks like they're taking it seriously:

"Are End-To-End security bugs eligible for Google’s Vulnerability Rewards Program?

Yes, we have specifically expanded the scope of our Vulnerability Rewards Program to include End-To-End. This means that reports of exploitable security bugs within End-To-End are eligible for a reward."

Should be an interesting trove of JS tricks:

"JavaScript crypto has very real risk of side-channel attacks

Since JavaScript code doesn't control the instructions being executed by the CPU — the JavaScript engine can perform optimizations out of the code’s control — it creates the risk of security-sensitive information leaks.
End-To-End requires user interaction for private operations in normal use, mitigating this risk. Non-user-interaction actions are rate-limited and done in fixed time. End-To-End’s crypto operations are performed in a different process from the web apps it interacts with.
The End-To-End library is as timing-aware it can be and we’ve invested effort to mitigate any exploitable risk."
I'm not sure if it's XCode / playground acting up, but array equality is broken for me: `[1, 2, 3] == [1, 2, 3]` returns false. This seems to contradict the core declarations though:

/// Returns true if these arrays contain the same elements.

func ==<T : Equatable>(lhs: T[], rhs: T[]) -> Bool

Works alright for dictionaries. Is there a bug tracker for Swift anywhere to report this?

Edit:

Whoops, copied wrong declaration. ContiguousArrays actually work fine, but require an extra cast. e.g.

ContiguousArray([1, 2, 3]) == ContiguousArray([1, 2, 3])
We're a Top-1000-ish site (in the US) with ~15M pageviews and ~50M backend transactions per month. We saw a ~20ms increase in response times across all requests (some are super-fast and skew things quite a bit) during the downtime. Luckily, our CDN strategy takes a lot of load of the backend and we were fine throughout the down time.

I'd echo rdegges point from eariler, Heroku has been (and will be for the foreseeable future) equivalent to a FTE in giving us the ability to build things and not worry (too much) about the hosting.

Edit: note the response time increase _during_ the downtime event.
1. My target market is outside of india. I concluded this from my website and my store experience. In my store, people will negotiate for long time just for Rs. 50. Most of my designs have handwork and it costs lot of money to get that. My margin is less than 10% so you can tell me how can i reduce prices further down. Everything else is so expensive like shop rent, salary of workers, fabric, material etc.

2. If you visit utsav.com or fashionforyou.com then you can find stuff for less as compared with my site but you can wear their clothes only 2,3 times after they will get worn out but not my clothes. I am not defending myself just sharing my experience. Have you visited meenabazaar.org
they are more expensive than me.

Live chat is offline because I am at my full time job. I like your idea about phone hook. I will implement it.

Thanks for your great comment
ThinkSwift: Discussion on the future of iOS [Live]
Realivox Blue lets you turn text into (sung) vocals
Well, I'm not sure what the point of this was. My team at the Chicago Tribune has been working on visualizing and explaining Chicago crime data for quite some time. Here's one of our biggest projects, which pulls in (I think) the same data Socrata used, as well as our own tracking of shootings, homicides and suburban crime data: http://crime.chicagotribune.com

How we built it: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2013/02/28/the-chicago-c...

More about the suburban crime data: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2014/01/31/displaying-cr...

Hopefully one of my coworkers will join in here who's more knowledgeable than me, but remember crime data, such as what Socrata is displaying, is just a snapshot of crimes that have been reported. It could mean those crimes were just more enforced at that time, or more people decided to report crimes, etc. It is not a crime victimization survey.
This sounds great. Thanks for your input
Not trying to be rude, but if you've tried and actually FAILED to learn Objective-C multiple times, then you will have a much bigger problem with actually learning the Cocoa framework yourself. Objective-C does have a non-standard syntax, but its barrier of entry for actual learning is purely psychological and not technical.
The article contains a section titled "When Should I Use It?" as well as one titled "What Should I Use Instead?"

Also, your rule of thumb knocking the use of absolutes sounds like an absolute.....
s/causes/solves/
I'd rather startups focus on delvering what they promise.
Because in America, publicly enjoying unplanned leisure is taboo.
This, and Home Depot also sells something called "moulding" which is used for lining rooms and what not. A 4x8 sheet of showerboard, and 25' of edge moulding (about $12 for fancy stuff) and you have nice large white board.
I've been using this stuff for years. Can't beat the price! Just be careful of scratching it too much. After a while my boards get pretty un-eraseable and the grooves will tear up markers at an unfavorable rate.
I think that the root of the confusion may be the contrast between an anthropologist's view of "worth" and an economist's view of "worth". He makes this contrast explicit in the article as well, but being an anthropologist, he tends to discount the economist's viewpoint.

To an economist, a transaction's worth is defined by the point at which the supply and demand curves intersect. The supply curve depends strongly on how much $$$ an employer has available to it. $1M for Goldman Sachs or $300K for Google is peanuts; $30K for the neighborhood bookstore may break the bank. So someone could easily be paid 6 figures at the former simply to keep them off the market and prevent them from working for a competitor, even though most people would say that activity is far less socially beneficial than becoming a primary school teacher and educating dozens of children.

To an anthropologist, all human beings have the same worth, and so it doesn't make sense that the top-line revenues of your employer matter so much more than your bottom-line contributions to society. Someone who is doing productive things, whether they do so on behalf of a powerful organization or not, should be rewarded more than someone who is not doing productive things.

I think the author goes too far in suggesting a widespread realignment of society - I wouldn't really want to live in an anarcho-communist utopia either. But one of his central points was that the dominant discourse in American society is to assume that if people are paying for work, it must have value, and your comment is ample evidence of that.
While this makes sense, if you use what you learn doing sales to actually improve your product (or the pitch, engine of growth, etc.) then you're back to doing marketing.
Guess I was wrong about 'like', it's 'is'. ARC is GC, what you call GC is a tracing GC. Any automated memory managment is garbage collection.

http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/g.html#glossary-g
Ask HN: How to go about patenting an 'invention'
Does anyone have any tips on going about getting a patent? Should I be talking to a lawyer, or a patent engineer, and where do you typically find people to help.
So is someone loudly hawking their wares to everyone on the street. However, Louis Vuitton's hands off approach gets much higher LTV from its clientele.
What's with the spike in sexual assaults on the first of every month? Some reporting artifact?
With the risk of sounding fanboy, this is really fantastic! This could actually be a viable, secure answer to mail encryption.

And this is aawesome too: "we have specifically expanded the scope of our Vulnerability Rewards Program to include End-To-End. This means that reports of exploitable security bugs within End-To-End are eligible for a reward."
Okay, here’s one for you…

You can work as an EMT, in the back of an ambulance, running 15+ calls in a 24 hour shift (which is basically back to back with a few minutes break between calls), dealing with anything from sick old people to immediate life threats.

And you’ll get paid approximately $9/hour for doing so.
My modal is powered by SumoMe, so I emailed those guys to let them to know to fix it for mobile.
Shareholders have a lot less influence over the running of a medium-large company than you would think.

In a 1000+ employee profitable company do you really think the shareholders will revolt because senior management has a few dozen worthless positions that help consolidate their power?
Marijuana offenses are not typically reported to the police as, or classified by police as: homicide, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, theft from a car, theft of a car, or arson. (I.e., the crimes that have dropped by 10%.)

So no.
You underestimate the power of bureaucracies, private and public.
Disclaimer: I contribute to the core crypto library in Google End-To-End.

I was also a student of Prof. Boneh. I took his CS255, and became a TA for his infamous's Crypto I class on Coursera. So I guess at the end of the day it's still Boneh's teaching that has helped my colleagues and me create this library ;-).

SJCL is a great library, but it didn't quite work for us because:

* It isn't a Closure library. We want to use Closure because it supports types, which in turn make it easier and less error-prone to develop crypto code.

* It doesn't support typed arrays. We don't have typed arrays in End-To-End yet, but we're working on that.

* It doesn't support all the curves we want, and it seems that the main developer isn't interested in adding new curves, e.g., Curve25519.

* It doesn't have ciphers or signature schemes that we need such as RSA, Ed25519, deterministic ECDSA, etc.
Website appears to be down.
We tried this at our work, where we use whiteboards extensively. I am not a fan. You spend a lot of time trying to make them clean over a 2 year period. It's annoying to be constantly replacing them.

We have moved on to http://www.ideapaint.com/products/ideapaint and are really happy with the result. Cheaper then traditional white boards and better then the Showerboards. The room we tested it in currently has had it up for a year and still works well and easily erasing things that have been up for a month.
How to raise $1 Million+ outside of Silicon Valley
What would happen to your posts and threads? What if you are successful and I want to delete my account in 2 years. Will I be able to search and find out if its possible, or will I need to start a discussion like this one?
> Deciding "worthless" is up to the person paying them.

This statement misses the point entirely. People are obviously being paid and that is why they doing the job.

But what we're talking about is the situation where someone is being paid for work that is worthless and unnecessary to those that are paying them. Mostly because it isn't a person paying them, it's an organization -- an organization dysfunctional enough to be paying for work it doesn't need.
Docker on AWS – 2X scale, fewer machines
http://nymote.org/ is running along similar lines and has some serious technical chops behind it (including some of the original Xen folks). I'm not so sure about their UX skills, but it's worth keeping an eye on.
Not true, Bill Gates put a computer on every table and made billions of dollars while at it.
Good god, typical coiner logic... An attempt at a fallacy of relative privation('whataboutery') that doesn't even make sense. Do you think state lotteries are being misrepresented for what they are? Putting aside people's innumeracy, do you think state lotteries fraudulently misrepresent the expected return of purchasing a ticket?

I too think lotteries are a little seedy, and it's a little weird how the state uses its vice regulating powers to create something of a vice monopoly to further its own ends, but surely you see how this comparison you're making is lacking in equivalence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
It supports Curve25519 and Ed25519: https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/source/browse/javascrip... and https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/source/browse/javascrip...
Ruby style each iterator to Cocoa/Cocoa touch Swift Array/Range
Pretty sure the author followed this tutorial.
http://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html
Steve Forbes: Link dollar to gold or face Great Depression II
Josh,

Its up and running! What do you get?
The killer app in messaging will continue to be presence awareness. I have yet to find an app that effectively communicates that I'm away from my desk after 5 minutes but still available through my mobile device.
Yes, you should talk to a lawyer specializing in patents.

How to find one? https://www.google.com/search?q=patent%20attorney

Expect to spend ~$10k (lawyer + patent filing fees).

That being said: if you don't have resources to defend a patent (read: hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in lawyer fees, months-to-years litigation) then don't bother getting a patent.
That's a good question. I've been involved with some research, outside of Google, on this exact topic. Because we don't have the same data sets that Google has, we have a slightly different methodology for gathering data and we found that hotmail (or any Microsoft mail provider) never even has the option to encrypt if you want to. We always though it was strange that they didn't, and this new data seems to suggest that there may be something else going on.

One possibility that was already pointed out is heterogeneous architectures. It's possible that different systems in hotmail, maybe in different geographic regions or across national borders, use encryption.
There is a thread for feature requests:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
Exactly. What the grand parent commenter doesn't understand is that even though he wants to work his ass off to emulate a lifestyle of the aristocracy (who don't have to work their asses off as much because they're rent-seekers and capital holders), because he bought into that culturally and he has the opportunity to acquire such a lifestyle, the majority of working class hasn't bought into that (shielded by the belief that they can't get there anyway because they don't have the opportunity) and would happily accept working less in exchange for staying in the same situation, i.e. no need for luxuries and the conveniences of consumerism--but that doesn't seem fair, right? If they work less, they should lose something! Except they're already far screwed over because they make indecently less than they're worth to sustain the rich's privileges, and well it's always been like that. The societies we end up with are not the "cumulation of free choices", they're cumulative politics and power struggles.

I read somewhere recently that being a leftist or a right-winger is in part wired up on your brain. I tend to believe that, one side just doesn't seem to understand what motivates the other to think as they do.
A dumb question/explanation, but wouldn't that be because the screen/viewing pane is flat, while your eye is a ball?

Another way to visualize that calculation, is to see it as if it's adding a curved lens on top of the viewing pane.

I have no idea what I'm talking about, though.
The problem with using shower board is ghosting. Even Expo markers will leave behind tracks.

The smoother and harder the surface, the easier it is clean. The actual whiteboard material is very smooth and hard, almost like porcelain. Glass is an ideal surface, so long as you don't have children around. Windows work pretty well too.
Spotify *still* doesn't care about users with disabilities
Notice driverdan uses the term, fraud. Which I think means he is implying that there are instances where the business plan doesn't go much if any beyond selling shares in their fledgling startup and then calling it a day. That is a different thing entirely from buying shares in a legitimate business that subsequently fails.
I'm sure this material works OK, but why not just go with glass? Glass will not ghost, and even paint can be removed easily with a razor blade.
helpers are awful

embrace OO
I tried a stick on whiteboard decal approach and it just didn't stay on the wall in Australian summer temperatures. Cost me $100+ and is now in the bin.

At the office, another business uses a thin magnetic sheet with magnetic whiteboard tiles they can move around, write on, etc. Means that anything likely to be written up for a long time is usually isolated to a small replaceable piece.
I've always figured the latter explanation - that the picture from our eyes is distorted like that, but the brain corrects the image (it also doesn't hurt that we have two eyes, where as cameras typically don't; I wonder if multi-lens cameras are also subject to that fisheye effect?).
Startup Chile applications for round 11 open today
Why hasn't anyone said anything about the new apple hardware shown?
this picture: http://www.cnet.com/pictures/apple-ios-8-at-wwdc-2014-pictures/2/

what is that? looks like new hardware to me, but i haven't watched the keynote.
On the mdma tangent, I push this website as hard as I can.

www.rollsafe.org , easiest website, straight to the facts, what they need to know. Stuff like this is what we need. If you're gonna 'harm' at least 'harm reduction' to maximize.

What you said needs to be said as a hedge to my statement and that's all good. It's the vague sentence that is not good. We need effective people and effective info with the information hedge.
Make this thread strictly ordered by most recent top-level comment.
Why did you think you were?
Male-NonIndian

Well, all the pictures are from the neck down. Is that strange? The prices are inline with what my fiancee's friends mail order magazines say, so not out of the ordinary. As far as style, I haven't a clue, it looks nice, I guess.

My fiancee has a lot of very close Indian friends originally from Canada and I have a lot of co-workers that are Indian. I see Indian dress here and there, mostly at parties and special occasions. The big question here is could I see any of them in those pieces?

Answer: No. It's just too expensive to justify. In the US, these are special occasion dress at these prices. These seems to me to be clothes you buy after a promotion or a big test. We are not exactly poor nor wealthy, household incomes are in the 80 to 120k range. Also, your site does not tell me that what I am ordering is a special occasion. It looks more like a site like alibaba or for computer parts.

Take this with a grain of salt: I am not your customer and do not order from you and likely never will. My advice is useless effectively.
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Wikipedia lays it out pretty clearly[1]:

> The basis for allowing corporations to assert protection under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and the people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively.

You're free to disagree and pursue an amendment to change this reality, but this has been settled case law for quite a while now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Most of the commenting on a new language, particularly here (as opposed to on e.g. Lambda The Ultimate) is from people who aren't going to write a single line in it in anger; it's not surprising that idle commentary would focus on syntax. It's of a piece with all internet commentary, which rarely gets below the outermost layer of thinking about anything.
> that you can simply decide not to buy

There's the rub. The business of both Apple and Microsoft is lock-in. Unlike Google, their lifeblood is you buying their next device or next software release. So they are under constant temptation to take away your freedom to choose. Hence iMessage, hence Facetime, hence proprietary locked down exclusive App store, hence massive integration between OSX and iOS. Hence proprietary office formats, file systems that don't interoperate, etc etc. So sacrifice your information and privacy or sacrifice your freedom ...

If you want to be cynical enough nobody is clean, probably not who or whatever generates your income either.
Could you elaborate on how the board of overseers were picked? Why these individuals?
Also any free tier apps that were asleep couldn't start.