skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There haven't been a lot of things that left me in awe in the past couple of decades but that did. That thing looks like something right out of a movie. Does anyone have a direct link to the flight testing program?

I agree with others that the vibration environment may be challenging. Most of the ships and ship mockups I've seen had a lot of work to avoid randomly hitting switches, it would not do to have an atmospheric bump cause you to make some mistake in commanding it. Presumably the entire thing can be flown on automatic so the first flight can be with just flight test dummies rather than people.

My other initial impression is that it makes NASA's efforts with the Orion project look somewhat kludgy in comparison. Sort of the 'go kart' versus an actual car. I'm sure a lot of that is just the resonance that Orion has with the Apollo capsule from the 60's and the modern look of Dragon 2 but the difference between propulsive landing vs parachutes is huge. Cost of operations goes waaay down if you land people on the ground.

I really feel like somebody from the future popped into the present and 'snuck' in design that wouldn't normally be seen for 50 years or so. I am massively impressed with what they've done so far.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29
I have to call bs on Matt's response for two reasons.

Digging a bit deeper I found that the bottom two links you mention Matt are both scraped from a site called freshome.com. This raises the question should sites/brands be worried about content that gets scraped and put on low quality sites? That sort of "manipulation" seems quite inorganic.

My second question is what about Nest posting on Freshome.com as well found here:

http://freshome.com/2011/10/26/greening-your-home-with-a-sex...

THEN we see the scrapes on the same sites found here:

http://doyoulovewhereyoulive.com/archives/greening-your-home...

http://arch.itect.us/2011/10/26/greening-your-home-with-a-se...

Notice how both NEST articles are found on doyoulovewhereyoulive.com AND arch.itect.us?

Case in point, Nest has links from the EXACT SAME SITES and didn't get penalized. This raises a huge red flag. If these links are the reason that Vivint was penalized, I'd love to hear how Nest somehow managed to escape a penalty.
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It's the escalation of an agenda of class warfare that some sides of the political spectrum push non-stop as their particular flavor of system abuse, power seeking, and greed.

It's going to get a lot worse. We're in the early stages of a huge revival in populism, and a lot of it is targeting the rich.
I have much doubt about that since BitLocker is certainly not good enough:

https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472195239005147136

And why not just writing that you no longer feel motivated to continue the further development of your software? It is very common after all …
Astronaut pilots should be on their way out. The STS required them because it was a semi-airplane. All modern and future craft will be mostly- or fully-autonomous. Soyuz still requires some technical skill, though not actual flying, but unless you're Russian you aren't going to be a Soyuz commander anyway.

But it seems the best bet to become a government astronaut is still to be a test pilot. The Navy actually seems to be a more popular source than the Air Force. Army or Marine aviation may also be good, as there are fewer of them and NASA seems to like to distribute picks among the services.

You can also go get a PhD (or, even better, two) in something hard-research-y. Something with bio- in the title is probably good. They do still pick a few civilians.

Even better is to have two PhDs and be a test pilot. That'll get their attention. If you have to pick one, military might still be best: NASA should probably be picking the best possible lab assistants, but old habits die hard and the astronaut office is rather invested in the test pilot idea. But they might shift a bit once they're all flying passenger on commercial transport.

On the other hand, if they ever get Orion flying, they'll probably want to staff it with test pilots. I don't think anyone else would be crazy enough to get on the thing within the next two decades considering their "test program".
Check out https://turtl.it too! (Disclosure, I built it).

It's a private, cloud-based Evernote alternative. It doesn't have nearly all the features Evernote does yet, but it's getting there. Turtl puts privacy before all else (uses client-side crypto to protect everything).
There's also the time and relative dimensions in space engineering.
Up for 12,957 days. I'm jealous.
Meg is an interesting one too, appearing from nowhere to become popular for ten years from the mid-50s to 60s, then disappearing again. But oh how dreamy she was in the Big Chill.

Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=meg&a=*C.meg-_*GivenNam...
The people pushing this agenda most heavily do not want a post racial society. They feed off the conflict, they profit off the ability to attack companies like Google, they gain power by ensuring there is no post racial end.
Here is the list of the Operating income of every team in the NBA. http://www.forbes.com/nba-valuations/list/

The Dallas Mavericks make about $40M.
It's not a panic about XP. The presented reasoning is:

- XP is the only widely used version of Windows with no built-in FDE

- XP is finally, truly, EOL

So TrueCrypt no longer needs to exist.

(I'm not arguing that- that is what the message is saying)
Bee v1.8 is out (Native issue tracker for GitHub, JIRA, FogBugz)
Perhaps the idea is to annoy knowledgeable people enough that they will rise up and edit until OWASP is left with an actually-decent reference?
> It will take years, maybe a decade before a new ssl library becomes the "default". OpenSSL has a lot of ground covered and a lot of history.

Why? The LibreSSL team are keeping the API backwards compatible, so it will literally be a drop-in replacement (once there are ports to other platforms). It should just require a recompile.

Since the barrier to entry will be fairly low, it is foreseeable that it could become popular quite quickly.
That's cool I actually wanted to do some thing similar ... a site that would guess your sex, age, and country of birth from the name you gave
I'm already in! And excited by the emails I'm getting about the next stages of their plan. I am totally willing to try to buy our democracy back. I miss it.
Yes, but how many people, and is it a problem they would pay to solve?

The problem with "us" having problems is that we are, all of us, very atypical. We don't experience "normal people" problems, being comparatively affluent, generally male, technologically proficient, and uniquely able to think in terms of systems, processes, abstractions, and algebraic math. There are also, relatively speaking, very few of us. The number of people with PTO and no idea what to do with it, is not as large as the number of people with PTO who know exactly what to do with it because they have families, which is not as large as the number of people who work hourly with no PTO at all.

In addition, we've all had the experience of an ignorant manager, executive, or client thinking they know better because they considered themselves a power user, or because they "used to" do the task we were designing or building a solution for, or because "it's just common sense." Maybe you were able to prove them wrong by walking them through it, or showing them usability tests, or maybe you ended up having to build the feature and watch it fail in the market before something changed.

You are never entirely like your user, and you are most different from them by the fact that you can build a solution (getting it for free after your labor is complete), whereas you are asking them to pay you for it (meaning they have to choose to not buy other things).

That's why Blank/Ries want you to validate by "getting out of the building" and focus on actually getting paid.
That's another thing my grandfather taught me - taking care of a forest means cutting down some trees. Although they were never chosen at random, but carefully selected, marked for their intended destination (furniture, planks or firewood) and then hauled away for sale.
I'm not justifying what Evan said in his emails whatsoever, but why are we chastising him for something he said many years ago when he was a stupid fraternity bro? Oh, he's a CEO now and that means we need to go bringing up his past and using it against him? That doesn't make it right. The real issue here is Evan's privacy was compromised by the leak of those emails. If he said what he said in 2014, then yeah, cause a storm of controversy, but come on.

And without casting stereotypes, the fraternity bro culture isn't just localised to one person. It's a cultural thing that has been happening for decades. People that attended college in the 60's were doing hard drugs and talking in the same vulgar speak as Evan. Sure, not everyone is like that, but this isn't new behaviour only limited to billion dollar app running CEO's.
One could just pick defendants at random from the general population and get most Americans to vote for a trial. We are jealous, vindictive bastards.
You realize that Evernote stores notes in XML? Not perfect, but pretty human readable.
I love the high level of polish and integration with other modern techs. Mojolicious has achieved. What I don't understand is the miunderstandings of the dependency and CPAN use design decisions: anyone using Mojolicious will notice the whole package is often smaller and faster than one of the specific packages they criticize Mojolicious to reimplement instead of just using, and most of such specialized packages are either useable or, when appropriate, simply used when available anyway. In the same vein, different kinds of APIs are exposed over the same efficient implementations (Mojolicious::Lite, B() ...). I find this an efficient and modern approach all new Perl projects should adopt and just count Mojolicious as a part of my core package tool chest (even when not writing a web application).
Go Mojo! (And ty kraih!)
The most aspects of TC were never publicly audited. People were using it on blind faith only: betting that if somebody had cared to audit he'd publish his findings too.

You can have the same assumption for BitLocker.
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Is it ok for a group of girls in City A to try to find a group of guys in City A? Like say through a speed dating meetup? But it is wrong if the girls are from City A and the guys are from City B? Especially when they claim City A has 2 girls for every guy, and City B has 3 guys for every 2 girls? What exactly is the issue?
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It matters because it's history and my daughter, for one, found it interesting. She liked the fact that other women did what I do for a living, except they didn't wear pajamas to work like I do. It matters because the world is going need a shit ton of good engineers and the more people who program, the merrier.

We don't have to sweat what happened back then too much, I think. What matter is what we choose to do tomorrow.
Thanks, I didn't see that. Upvoted. I also didn't see the 'subscribe and save' link for 10% off; the prices above are not fair to regular Ensure, which is basically at price parity with Soylent.

Ensure Complete is more expensive than Soylent and, while much more complete than regular Ensure, is still arguably less complete than Soylent. I think the only things it has going for it are taste (presumably), availability and an established brand name.

http://abbottstore.com/adult-nutrition/ensure-complete-milk-...
You aren't hitting anything other than "abort" during launch. And for a modern system, the space of problems where the computer hasn't already done it and you're not already dead must be pretty small.

It doesn't particularly need to have a "pilot", even. It's entirely capable of autonomous/ground-controlled operation, as witness the several unmanned Dragon flights. But it probably makes the passengers feel better to have some token control. And I suppose it gives them some options if things go wrong.
That's a fine attitude for normal code, but crypto is a whole different ball game. Linux security was significantly reduced at one point because somebody changed int i to int i=0, something most developers would thing is a positive. Side channel attacks are extremely easy to create and extremely hard to find. And, unfortunately, the "many eyes" thing doesn't work here because it requires experienced, knowledgable eyes, and there aren't enough of those, and they are usually busy getting paid, researching how to break software or building their own stuff.
I read this article on an android phone in chrome, and while the text is a bit gray, it was still very easy to read. Unless your settings are way off, I can't imagine the colors are impossible to read outside of absurd hyperbole.
Ask HN: What did you do (or wish you did) when you got out of highschool?
Basically, I graduate from highschool in a week and have no idea what I should do.

I currently live in a small town in Northern California where there's not much room for opportunity... So far my plan is to get a minimum-wage job and save up until I can afford to move to Sacramento, where I have a couple friends I can live with and obviously better job opportunities. I plan on going to college and getting a degree in CS afterwards, and then try to make my way into the tech industry.

Is this a bad idea? ... What should I do if so?
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Sometimes people make a mistake and just put it into 'email' (which is non-public) and not into 'about' (which is public).
Ask HN:Economics Classics?
What are the most important economics books one must read?Obviously Piketty's work makes the list.What else?
Well could you not simply take 7.2 and patch it back to something resembling 7.1a, thus keeping both the license and the functionality?
Great post Matt. Thanks a lot. Vivint is a super shady company in just about every way possible. It's no surprise that they resort to shady SEO.

If only Google could get rid of their Doucebag salesman as well...
I hate government intervention in these matters, I really do. But in the case of Google I feel that their search results should be walled off from any other business interests. They have so much influence over the discovered internet that maybe its time to separate search from their other business interests.

Page and Brin were geniuses in realizing early that search was the golden ring to reach for. They deserve their billions for bringing this amazing service to us; but now with shareholders muddying the waters I don't think this should be leveraged for other business efforts.
From the reddit discussion:

"I read an article on the SLS/Orion. They had a problem with vibrations making screens unreadable. It would have cost millions of dollars to dampen the pod vibrations so the pilots could read their instruments. Then a scientist realized that if you changed the monitor refresh rate to match the vibrations, the screens looked perfectly clear. The million dollar fix was abandoned for a 10 cent accelerometer that adjusted the refresh rate automatically. I see no reason why spacex couldn't use this solution to make the screens useful in the rigor of flight."
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why regulate so heavily what's to the right of the dot? Isn't the right path to be open?
55% of employed Americans believe Snowden was right to expose PRISM

A poll on "employed Americans" seems like a strange demographic to poll? I cannot think of why someone would chose such an odd demographic. I am looking forward to reading the questions.
No, they were already made. I meant to ask what he used to make them, but I never had the chance.
Being a Linux user and Evernote's strong desire to not even support Evernote for Chrome on Linux has been one of the main points against use Evernote.

I have wanted a true Evernote competitor for so long. SpringPad going down was a bad news.

I am glad there are open source solutions that can be used at least for basic functionalities.
4K for $649: Asus' PB287Q monitor reviewed
My google-fu seems to be failing me, does anyone know how exactly he obtained an 8% stake in the company in a single year?
Just an observation. I think Elon is one man who is not motivated and driven by money.

One who's driven to make money for the sake of having money often ends up not being happy and often self destruct, because there's always more money to make.

And then there are those are driven to achieve a goal, other than money or possession. There aren't many such people around and it's especially refreshing to see someone who not only has such dreams (other than making money) but is achieving them.
> our notice told Vivint it was for unnatural/spammy links to their site. It's really not hard to find these spammy posts.

Why dont you simply include these links in your notice, so that there is no ambiguity?
"So, thanks guys . . . we'll take it from here." seems like an understated reaction. More like a huge thank you for 10 years of hard work, with no personal recognition, providing the world with a free, trusted and increasingly useful aid to security and privacy. Whatever path the devs have chosen to take, TrueCrypt users everywhere are very grateful.
Actually the Soylent community is well aware of the alternatives, still none of them are up to Soylent's nutrition level! But you can see people using those things as bases in their DIY recipes [1]. You will start experience joint pain if you decide to just it Garden of Life [2], among other vitamin deficiencies.

[1] http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe...
[2] http://robrhinehart.com/?p=570
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How many of those take advantage of GPU floating point power? This is no longer a nice to have sort of thing, but a critical one, since as the new Mac Pro shows, there's going to be orders of magnitude more GPU than CPU power available in newer workstations.

I've seem some, like Furry Ball, that support only CUDA, but very few are vendor agnostic with OpenCL. I hope AMD tries to fix this.
> This thing looks so...empty!

I doubt they would stuff cargo into the same space the crew sits in. I think it wouldn't be that safe. They will probably continue using dedicated Dragon for resupply.
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"it doesn't sound like it's being developed by people who know what they are doing" and "I bet it would be as effective as Soylent" don't fit well together, you're being hypocritical.
Add redlining and housing discrimination after World War II that stopped black people EN MASSE from upward mobility at the time that most people from other backgrounds were benefitting from the housing boom, and its easy to see why African Americans are still cemented to the bottom of the socio economic strata in America.
They are redistributing the original unmodified source, so it shouldn't go against the 'derivation' requirement..
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Yes, the main settings screen has a "Cloud Storage" popup that doesn't exactly jump out at you (I looked at that screen several times before figuring out that's where the RemoteStorage option is). You choose either Dropbox or RemoteStorage. I just tried setting up a remoteStorage server and editing files from two different browsers on the same account, and I have to say, it's pretty buggy. Lots of waiting for the little "syncing" spinner to stop, reloading pages, wondering how I know whether my files have been sent to the server, etc. I did eventually get notes I wrote on one browser to show up in the other, but only after quite a bit of determined reloading and clicking sync repeatedly on both.

This really does look like an ideal application to me (and if nothing else, it introduced me to RemoteStorage, which I have a perfect use for), but I don't think it's ready to trust anything important to yet.
Corry's been shown in Ireland since 1978.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street#International...

Not saying it's not the reason for the divergence, but it seems less likely.
Actually it would be good if the webmaster behind this reboot got SSL set up. Especially if this is going to be the new most authoritative download source.
How does RVM know my name?
> Pales in comparison to baby daddies up and leaving the household

Thats an interesting assertion. Do you have any data to back that up? ... because I'd posit that these cultural "problems" that you mention

a. pale in comparison to the cumulative effect of Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of explicit racist housing policy from the federal government

b. are probably a side effect of a.
It's really funny. But I do have to comment: In Europe, a carpenter does not construct houses since their core is not made of wood (but of brick fe).
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The writing style in this letter is completely different from that on the TrueCrypt page. If this letter had been posted originally, the whole episode would have been viewed much differently. And why does the author of this letter assure readers that "As far as we know, TrueCrypt is utterly uncrackable", while the TrueCrypt.org page (or rather, the truecrypt.sourceforge.net page to which it redirects) screams (in red at the very top), "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"?

EDIT: Sorry - as brazzy and NickSharp kindly point out below, the letter was imagined and written by Steve Gibson. As the HN title at the moment is "One of the TrueCrypt Devs Responded", I missed that.
If you want to break into the tech industry, the best thing you can do right now is just start building stuff. Think of a mobile app or a web app that has a simple purpose that you think would be useful, then use the internet to teach yourself how to build it. If you can pull that off then you have a very good shot at a career as a developer. If you can't then you probably either don't have the drive or the aptitude, in which case you'll be spending a few more years figuring out what you want to do.
Google bows to EU privacy ruling
Pranav Mistri may give up his dream job to work for the Indian PM Narendra Modi
According to an Economic Times report today, Mistry wants to come back to India to work with the new Prime Minister. "I am waiting for him to pop the question... and ready to say bye to my lab," he told the news paper.
Take off your tinfoil hat, you are reading into this a bit too much. The basis of the "Legal Issues" section has been there since the beginning of 2012:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vivint&oldid=47624...

In terms of why it's marked as an advertisement, compare Vivint's wikipedia page to Nest Labs or Sonos and see what you think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_Labs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonos

The historical versions are written in the same way too. They are advertisements, some PR guy at Vivint has written them to try and make the company sound good and added loads of backlinks.
Needy ... Bay Area ... hahaha!
Hopefully with better success than NJ, but I doubt it. #california