skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that Bitlocker really wants a TPM to work properly rather than being entirely in software is a pain.

The fact the German and recently Chinese governments have specifically banned their users from trusting windows 8 + TPM doesn't thrill me with confidence.

The fact that bitlocker kindly sends a copy of your HDD recovery key to Microsoft if you have windows 8 linked to your live account doesn't strike me as brilliant, either.

Oh, and the fact I need to upgrade to the Ultimate or Enterprise editions of Windows means it doesn't help a large majority of users.

Even if truecrypt were written as part of an NSA/FBI joint project it's still works across the three main OS's and it has the source code available for scrutiny (deterministic build issues aside).
"Can't" is a bit simplistic.

Think of it like that old piece of software you wrote when you were young that you've since abandoned, because you know, about 20 years have passed, no one uses AppleII's anymore, 126 some odd other pieces of software that do exactly the same thing but better and faster have been released, and also mobile happened. Besides, you have a job now doing modern things for modern reasons that are actually valuable to people and the world and stuff, so really there's not even a reason to figure out how a 5 and a quarter floppy drive can possibly connect to your rMBP to have a look at the code and see if an emulator or whatever would make it run right.

But if someone wants to throw $151,000 in donations at it, sure kids, have a ball. And yeah, of course we'll reminisce and have some fun with it over a beer or two. Those were the good old days, after all, when we were real rocket scientists, and space probes Farquharing around the solar system on a perfectly choreographed dance of not just one mission, but three—no, not two, three—what do you think it's doing right now? You think this kind of thing just happens by chance? Have fun—and bring her back in one piece, will ya?
The callback in the hints didn't work for me in the game, but the other suggestions here are working and quite eye opening ...

That this works is really scary if not fully surprising: data:text/javascript;base64,YWxlcnQoMTMzNyk=

Thanks jehna1 ,	sebslomski , all!
I feel like the main takeaway is that they recognized non-commercial use of this crazy expensive software to be legitimate. I think this covers 80% of the use cases where people turn to piracy instead. Good on Pixar. Lets see if Adobe follows suit sometime soon. I know some design students who don't buy a lot of textbooks but have a hole in their pocket from Creative Suite.
shouldn't any attempt to visit a .ninja site end with a 404 anyway?
How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings
if there's no reason, then why isn't that already an option?
Better for what? I'm not sure how training women to work in tech and helping people from remote to date each other is related. Unless "women in tech" are viewed as a commodity that "we need more of" and these are considered as alternative ways for getting more of that commodity - which would be kind of disgusting point of view to me. But if we ignore such point of view, I do not see any relation between the two and why they should be viewed as alternative ways of spending money instead of complimentary ways.

>>> You don't need to be in the same physical place to get to know someone, thinking you do seems very backwards for a startup.

Depends on your definition of "know", I guess. Ultimately, there are things between men and women that don't work well over chats ;)
The prohibition of faster than light travel (or communication) in GR only applies locally. That is to say, it really should be phrased as "two observers can not have a relative speed faster than c at the same point."

If you're not talking about the same point of space, the space between the observers could be expanding and the rate of this expansion can legitimately be faster than c without violating the relativity principle.

The trick to creating genuine FTL travel or communication is to somehow multiple paths between the same points in spacetime -- i.e. a wormhole. If the new path is shorter than the other, then information can travel along it at a speed less than c, but still take less time than light going the long way.

Quantum entanglement whole different game. Once a measurement has been made, the entanglement is broken and the components are left in a particular state. But, while the observer that did the measurement knows the state of the other component, they can only convey that information via regular, light speed, communication.
Yes, this is why I wish we could disable password reset emails as an option. I seem to remember disabling that in gmail when I activated two-factor...
The eventual goal is not just as a meal replacement but a full diet replacement that eventually won't need to leverage crops, for areas with no arable land.

Most meal replacement shakes I've seen (not including those used in the medical industry) aren't suitable to replace your entire diet with and are generally very expensive per meal because of this. Most also warn against using the product to replace every meal with.

I think it's very good to have a mainstream product like this that attempts to cover 100% of the suggested daily intake, simply to bring into debate what the daily intake should really consist of? And if we can achieve it in countries that are too far from supply of actual crops.
So why would VC's fund these company's?
Life Lessons From Navy SEAL Training
Is that a requirement for every article? I'm sure a lot of articles don't help to encourage girls in technology, even those that include mentions of women and technology. It just wasn't the point.
> I'm so confused as to why some spending in your economy are "good" and why some spending is "bad".

Your terms, not mine. There would be no point in producing and in expanding production, if we weren't going to consume.

> How are you discounting the net economic gain from service jobs, but not discounting the net economic gain of a reinvested dividend?

One expands the level of production and the other doesn't. I'm not discounting them in a moral sense, though.

> I'm arguing against your insistance that service jobs are zero-sum which is patently false.

I said that if there were only enough production to equal consumption, it would be zero sum in the net. In other words, the economy would not grow.

> For instance, if I clean your home, landscape your yard, or do your laundry, it frees up your time to do something else more productive.

Yep, agreed. But if instead of doing something productive with my extra time, I work on a government boondoggle project like digging a ditch that isn't needed, there would be no net growth in the economy from that, because what is happening (within the confines of the scenario) is purely consumption.

Anyway, hope I don't sound too terse, this is a fun and interesting discussion and you are raising good points.
Is that necessarily a gimmick? Meal replacement shakes may have been around for a while, but they haven't been marketing to me. If Soylent can successfully market to a larger/different demographic than Ensure has been, then aren't they like any other company that introduces a new product into an existing market? Is there anything bad/dishonest about that approach?
It's easy to make this allegation, but very hard to substantiate it, since there are many factors that influence profit, and just because a company isn't profitable now, doesn't mean that the only way they can become profitable is by starving out their competition and then raising prices. Can you give a single instance of a venture backed startup actually causing price increases after driving out their competition?
A to Z comes up quite a bit with Amazon. The claim is that "Amazon's selection goes from A to Z".

Amazon has a development center named A2Z. There's also Lab126... Lab 1-26... Lab 'A'-'Z'.
As a Korean, I don't think I've ever been called white - the article does mention some good points, but I don't think its mention about asians being mistaken for whites is well-articulated.
I work with a very well known Java and Spring based ecommerce platform. I find that people new to the platform, regardless of Java and Spring experience, take a while to produce really good design and code.

You might know the frameworks and languages but sometimes you need experience in the specific platform.

I work in consultancy so I rarely have time to up skill someone into the platform.

Is my platform brown?
Line in the Sand
The higher-degree schizos in here are split between downvoting cowardly and cowardly downvoting...
"but it seems reasonable to say that the "OpenSSL runs of $2k/year" line is disingenuous at best."

Is it? The last contract listed on that page is 4 years old. Maybe they don't regularly get contracts.
8.8.8.8 is incredible.

Google's resources to get that > My resources to get that. :-(
If dating had to be like this, I'd become a monk in Tibet.
A big buyout is equivalent to turning a profit, since the buyer will expect to profit from their purchase.
Yeah I live in Hampton Roads and our only choices that I know of are FIOS and Cox. I loath both.
Steve Ballmer buys L.A. Clippers for $2billion
Does he make the slides in class? I teach and hate powerpoint, but it looks like he draws the slides as he teaches?
This was definitely good for a laugh. And yeah there are many managers who view hiring developers like this. However, I've actually seen a number of interviews go the other way. The interviewer was looking for a developer with a track record of successful projects. The interviewee was looking for a company who used a very specific web stack.
I've been using tiddlywiki (http://tiddlywiki.com/) for years, same concept except stores in a single file and as a plus uses the "Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library" for password protection, I sync this between machines (incl. mobile there are a few clients) with btsync
25 Government Officials and Their Substance Abuse Stories (incl. Mayor Rob Ford)
If you are creating a product or service for other people to use, it doesn't matter what you would "like."

I disagree. In many cases (and I belive in this one) you should create a tool, YOU will use. You should be the power user. It's hard to convience others to use a tool, that you don't use, don't like or don't understand.

Someone told me some time ago, when I was launching my startup: "we [people] are not as unique as we think. If you have some problem, certainly there are more people on the world facing the same problem."
This is what happens when we let one company get too much power on the web.
Smartphone productivity hack: no app, wording + wallpaper mods to stay focused
I suppose if you're being serious, yes, they are. Airlines exist for other reasons too, however. It's like saying that guns sales are murders: it's obviously not universal, but sometimes it's true.

I just want to be clear that I don't view prostitution as wrong per se. I don't know why it's OK to put out for a dinner or movie but apparently wrong for $100. What consenting adults do is their business.

That said, the line between "consensual" and "coerced" is very fine in the sex trade. The women in this article are engaged in a consensual business. They can walk away at any time. They presumably weren't tricked or lied to. But many in this thread find it uncomfortable and I presume we find it uncomfortable because you don't have to make very many changes to this scenario to make it go from "fun partying" to "pimping" to "sex trafficking". Hell, they've flown them cross country, all someone would have to say is "if you don't want to have sex, leave, but you get your own plane ticket" for it to go from a 6 to 9 on the scale the OP of this thread referred to.

Anyway, it's all beside the point. From the article it didn't seem like anything untoward happened. But make no mistake, something very similar is happening in Western North Dakota (women being flown in to "serve" a large population of single men) and it's sex trafficking all the way.
Whose problem does that solve?
I doubt Asians have integrated into "white" society the way American Jews, Irish and Italians have. E.g., their example of interracial marriage is heavily imbalanced by gender.
Using AngularJS to Pull Facebook Events
Getting a bit comfortable with AngularJS and decided to whip up this little tutorial. There's a working demo at the bottom.

If you have any critiques on the language/code please let me know.

Thanks!
Yeah but you don't pin things to bulletin boards using needle and thread so while clever, it doesn't really match their concept like you suggest.
The trajectory designer was Bob Farquhar. He's been involved with the space program since the late 1950s. An amazing guy. Here's his recently-published memoir:

http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=9781432759278
OpenID Connect is what you'd want to support, not OpenID 2.0. Google, probably the largest OpenID provider, is shutting down OpenID 2.0 support altogether in a year, and has turned off access to new clients as of this month. Thus, issue 1: access to your app is suddenly reliant on a third party, who can at any point decide to turn that access off.

Issue 2: tech-phobic people don't trust OpenID, OAuth, etc. I'm working with a client who wanted "single sign on" with a tolerated competitor in the same space (nonprofit, don't ask); that competitor's tech guy advocated for OpenID, and OpenID became a hard requirement. The problem: the client's membership fought tooth and nail throughout alpha & beta rollouts (change is scary. are we giving google/yahoo our information? we don't understand it. we're not a bank, why do we need tighter authentication? etc) and it was eventually scrapped in favor of a traditional login.
> My point is simply that, if one thinks that the problem is lack of “reflecti[on of] the demographics of the country,” “white[s]” aren’t the problem.

I don't think anyone is saying that white men are a "problem". There's so much defensiveness in these counter-articles coming out as though this is some specific attack on white males. I don't think Google was trying to shame itself over its own white male percentages, it was just exposing its own racial breakdown data instead of previously keeping it a secret.
Mojolicious::Lite is the bottle.py version built-in.
Is threesome kind of secret code embedded in the typos?
DRIBBLERS! DRIBBLERS! DRIBBLERS! DRIBBLERS! DRIBBLERS! haha ; o )
It's interesting that About gets cited as a terribad content farm, but I actually find they have a useful bunch of stuff for me while I'm learning French - handy reminders of rules around converting verbs to adverbs was one I used this week, for example.
It's not mentioned in the text of the post itself, but the $495 price represents a 75% discount on the previous price. A far more detailed overview is here for those interested: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/rendermanris-and-the-start-o...
At my last employer I worked with more than one P.Eng in software development. I've looked at the requirements, and they seem crazy for someone working in software.

Especially when you look at recommendations that on software engineers with a P.Eng should be able to do any sort of software architecture, and only easy-to-follow tasks should be doled out to the other developers. (I can't find supporting links to this now, but have read these proposals in the past)
not what "you" want but others can look at mesh nets
http://qmp.cat/
I either use Google Public DNS or DNSCrypt with one of these here (https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/dnscr...). Some providers even support Namecoin and DNSSEC validation.
Fermi's Paradox
Romance books for summer reading
The World Is Continuous, But The Mind Is Categorical
> 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 site

It's essentially a replay of what killed Usenet. And the "SEO experts" are every bit the vile blight on the web as spammers were on Usenet.
... it's seen attack ships off the shoulder of Orion..
This was linked from the original article in lieu of listing such examples directly in the article: http://www.volokh.com/posts/1208147286.shtml
No, the probe has no onboard computer. You just need a big enough dish (or network of dishes) and Arecibo is the only thing big enough right now.
>I know some design students who don't buy a lot of textbooks but have a hole in their pocket from Creative Suite.

An educational license for Adobe Creative Cloud, which covers virtually all of Adobe's products, is $300 a year. I'm sorry, but if you are in art school and can't afford to pay that there is something very, very wrong and it's not with the price. Many schools even have a site license and you only pay a nominal fee or nothing at all for Adobe CC while enrolled.
> Those who believe that he did the right thing will herald it as proof that he tried to go through other channels before leaking documents. Those who think him a traitor will use it as proof that Snowden didn’t really raise concerns with the NSA’s activities until after he shared those documents with the world.

Or maybe we could say, "It doesn't matter." When evidence of serious long-term criminal behavior is given, I find it reasonable to concentrate on the accused, not the accuser. This release is, of course, an attempt to get us to think more about the accuser, to argue about him, to make the debate about him.

From the beginning of this article, it seems that Mr. Mott has fallen for it ...

> That ambiguity doesn’t change the effect that revealing these programs has had on national discourse. It doesn’t change the fact that intelligence agencies, from the NSA and beyond, are compromising our fundamental right to privacy and justifying it with half-hearted mentions of “terrorism.” And it doesn’t change anything about the argument we are having about the NSA’s freedom to do seemingly whatever it wants. In the abstract, it’s an interesting email thread. But not that interesting.

... or perhaps not. But I fear that last paragraph will be ignored. So: Let's not ignore it.
Helps, but this arrow is really invisible, because you see the letters first, not the arrow - your brain is not wired to decode letters this way. The Amazon logo is more clever in that sense.
TrueCrypt must not die
As a South Asian Indian, I am puzzled by ethnicity questionnaires which never have an option that seems appropriate. "White" seems wrong as does "Caucasian", even if we are supposedly anthropologically related. "Asian" seems to refer to Asians except for persons of the Indian sub-continent. And "Indian" refers to American Indians.

Sigh...
This article seems to think that White will turn into the "winner's category", but historically this is what that meant.

"White" as a racial definition only exists to allow opposition to the "colored" races (for things like slavery, colonialization,etc).
Ballmer agrees to buy Clippers for record $2 billion
How would I go about replacing passwords with OAuth on my site? You mean like a "Login with Facebook" button?
Introducing Disconnect Search
Let's assume that when people say "PRISM" they mean "digital espionage", and when people say "NSA", they also mean CIA, NRO, FBI, DEA, etc.
it works, you just gotta use it like google.com/jsapi?callback=alert
In articles about the google diversity numbers, many people were "shocked by how overwhelmingly white and male they are" and similar things. The implication is clearly that overrepresentation of white males is a problem. Hence white males are part of the problem. It's obvious why this makes many people defensive, even though there is in fact a problem.
Amazon epitomises this.
I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware Nest HAD competitors. Not only that, Vivint was violating the rules and got punished accordingly for it.

“And, as they say, there’s no greater place to hide a dead body than on the second page of Google’s search results.” is a massively inflammatory statement.
Asians are in an interesting position from a sociological perspective. They're "white" in the sense that they're largely implicit and they mostly blend in, but they have the (misfortune?) of being largely ignored, even by those concerned with social justice, in favor of other minorities. This is also evident in discussions about diversity in tech.

On the other hand, white people are white people. They're always at the center of controversy and just about everything else, as is usual for a majority.
Woah woah! "Indian" should not be used refer to Native Americans in a questionnaire!
Hey all, I just wrote up this tutorial to pull in Facebook events. The working demo is at the bottom.

If you have any critiques on it, I'd love to hear.
ur a dumbo loser
it should be hand drawable
Keeping it Simple
Do not use multi-color (meaning no color transitions and shading, but can have more colors )
Should look good in B&W
Pattern should be easily recognizable
Use "git clone --depth [depth] [remote-url]"?
Asians account for 1.8% of Fortune 500 CEO's, despite being 6% of the overall population and 20-25% of the enrollment at places like Harvard or Stanford business schools. Not quite white yet by my estimation.
http://nayan-ambali.blogspot.in/
Say what you want about how Google handles penalties but I think it is silly to suggest that Google has acted any differently in this case than to the vast majority of sites out there who receive penalties, but don't have friends in high places to expedite the process of having the penalty lifted.
In a lot of interviews I have been asked detailed questions about tech that is not even listed on my resume. It's like asking a cabinet maker about masonry or electrical. Sure, you know something about it but, probably not as much as someone who does that all day.

Please read the resume before starting the interview.
Ad based software rules the internet, anyone who wants no ads wants to kill our jobs.

therefor i refuse to click this link.
>> who are more interested in finding a relationship than in making a "B-roll".

^^ THIS. There must be some pretty lonely guys out there. I can only hope the more genuine ones learned their lesson after it ended.

Best example: The poor fellow who left early to work for Yahoo at 8:00 am. He may have only understood the ethics that he had bought into after it ended.

Women who try and make anything off this crap are selfish to the point of degrading those around them. They're really horrible people to be around, let alone to sleep with -- because they're too self-absorbed with the money and free ride to factor in the precedent they're setting for the kind of interaction that's socially acceptable around potential mates.

DO WE REALLY want a society where people who work hard, are forced to compete financially to have an attractive mate fly in, do B-rolls, get high, and to demonstrate what a cold and mechanical interaction they actually want?

Women: How would you like it if this was the kind of world you had to live in to find affection from a man? Pay $1,000 to have him come in and show you that your money, work, and desire for affection is just as worthless as anyone else's.

Because THAT is what your actions convey.

I think I'm with my grandparents on this one: These women need to learn to treat others exactly how they expect to be treated. Otherwise nobody can be their friend, foe, or lover.

Because when we start pretending that relationships and affection can be bought -- we won't be buying real affection.
"a full diet replacement that eventually won't need to leverage crops, for areas with no arable land."

How will they make soylent? there are plenty of foods with 100kcal per/0z. that are shelf stable and natural (and healthy). Shipping in powder X vs other food Y is a false differentiation. Its neither more healthy nor, nor less bulky, nor cheaper to ship.

Lastly, you will need to ship in water which is 4-5x the weight of food per day.