skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a major improvement to privacy in the larger scale: the Google Analytics servers are a funnel for a substantial percentage of all web traffic. Read the write-up I linked to, specifically "How does that help the NSA?".

Usage of unencrypted Google Analytics + Google cookies[1] means that you don't need to eavesdrop on individual connections, just one small set: the endpoints to the Google Analytics servers.

Hence, the NSA or other large entities have an economical way to tap a large portion of web traffic.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10...
This is a problem in my home city of Chennai, India too. Not only is this a monetary loss, people start building homes on these bodies killing off water supply. http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Illegal-sand-...
Sounds great for a vacation. But considering I make a living talking to people who don't wear tinfoil hats, it's really not realistic to live the rest of my life disconnected from the net. I imagine the same goes for 99% of people on this site.
Cool and totally confusing and uninformative.
Awesome, thanks for the info. I might have to look into doing something like this. Right now I have a 1U with gobs of RAM and HDD space so I just virtualize everything. Having more physical segregation would make for a fun project since this is all personal stuff that I just like to use for tinkering.
My first real job out of High School (no, not college) was in 1991 at a Crown Bookseller where there was an Ingram Micro computer that connected to the Ingram database and nothing else. I was never the same :)
That may be because no one needs to be disappeared, because the plaintiff just won't win. Remember the Church Committee only managed to scratch the surface. So what makes you think that suddenly, now, there will be transparency and justice. And even if the court ruled for the plaintiff, what happens if the CIA refuses to comply? Who is gonna hold them to account? You? Congress? The president? LOL.
Why recommend Heroku for that as opposed to AWS RDS? The pricing seems to be significant (Heroku "Ika" is $750/mo, db.m3.large multi-az is $280/mo)
This guy gets his supposedly objective information about taxicab deregulation from a handful of studies of the taxi deregulation done in the 1960's and 1970's. In particular, he quotes from a paper [1] by Paul Dempsey from 1996 to come to the conclusion that taxi deregulation yields poor results across a variety of metrics.

Well, I actually read the Dempsey paper after reading this blog post, and I have come to the conclusion that the poster is deliberately misrepresenting the contents of that paper. Nearly every negative effect mentioned does not apply to Uber/Lyft.

For example, an increase in rates is mentioned in this blog post as being an effect of deregulation. In the Dempsey paper, this is attributed to new small time cabbies taking fares at cabstands, hotels, etc. These drivers, in an attempt to overcome the increased competition due to deregulation, would raise their rates. Riders had no easy way to compare rates or get an alternate ride. This simply doesn't apply to Uber/Lyft, as you can see the price right away even before the car shows up.

Another example: the paper also mentions increased congestion and pollution due to the increased number of taxis on the road. In the 1960's and 1970's this made sense as taxis would cruise the streets looking for people to pick up or possibly wait with their engines on at taxi stands. Again, modern ridesharing services don't have this problem.

The Dempsey paper also mentions many negative effects from new entrants into the taxi business during deregulation not being radio dispatched due to its high startup cost. But every ridesharing service is "radio dispatched".

I could go on like this, but in general ridesharing services increase the amount of information that consumers have, thus allowing the market to work in a way that it couldn't 50 years ago. This blogger completely ignores that, and just skips to the conclusions.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2241306
Doing "field work" like Odessa. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/08/false-flag-in-odessa/
It may depend on the ages of the employees that you know, since investments grow over time. Someone with a developer's salary can get a good fraction of a million dollars just by steadily contributing the maximum amount to their 401-K (plus company match) for 25 years. And, of course, you can save more of your salary in additional investments.
Considering the fact that timing attacks based on memcmp short circuiting were shown to be remotely practical a decade ago, latency isn't going to be an issue. The bigger question is whether you can get down your inputs to a small enough number to practically determine PRNG state (you probably can).
What is amazing to me is that when I ctrf-f for 'publish' on this page I get not a single hit (in tfa or these comments).

A huge part of what 'sharing' is today is actually publishing albeit to a controlled group of people. Often on social sites sharing is in fact publishing in the classic sense since many posts are public.

I wonder whether this is a branding thing. 'Sharing' seems to be a more intimate and special or exclusive one-one activity (think secrets), while 'publishing' seems to be a far more public one-many activity. Strange then that so many companies try to use 'share' to cover many to one. I guess you can 'share' a story around a campfire, but again, you probably know everyone you are sharing with.

Given the association of sharing with familiarity I think it is quite devious of companies to use such a term to describe an activity which is actually publishing.
The thing about open source is that the way it is licensed means that anyone who has acquired the license before it is sold (such as Google's Android) can redistribute it as long as it follows the license requirements. As such, ANYONE can still use the Google's version of the three dots or if anyone had acquired a license to the original before it was no longer offered (pre 2012), can also relicense the work. Can any of the other share symbols be freely used?
I suppose a single person with no debts whatsoever might be able to save 25% and live in a high rent area, or 50% and live in a lower cost of living area, assuming they are living in a no-income-tax state. But fewer than 25% of the population is debt free[1], and I'd guess the percentage of debt-free individuals capable of landing a $75,000 job out of college is even lower. Taking on any debt, or having any kind of "major" expense blows your computation apart.

[1] http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_business/debt_ad...).
IPhone 6 images leak from same chap who leaked iPhone 5S and iPad mini
Summary: No. "Buying now will not yield to you a big upside in 5 years."
I don't think I've used it, but it would have never occurred to me that the paper plane icon did anything other than send an email. Of course I'm one of those weirdos that just copies a URL when I want to share something.
How to Grow Your Employees Into Your Company’s Best Ambassadors
Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems

Knuth: Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation
http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/27
... It's happening again!!
In other words, they are still your bosses.
Maybe it's the word "share" that needs changing instead.
The parent didn't say "don't bother trying". They said it's not going to work. Definitely do it. But don't be shocked and surprised when it gets swept under the rug.

Edit: In fact it's important to do it, just so everyone can watch the system wrap it all up and dispose of it in full view. And then there will be less of the false choice inherent in "See how great our system is, you're allowed to criticise! Not like those Russians!"
That argument could be made for any service industry. Do all service industries require regulation? Aren't there some services we can just trust the consumer to choose?

I'm not saying that the use of automobiles doesn't require some regulation (although it isn't clear that commercial use requires more than other use), but this particular argument for regulation is weak.
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It's not "stuff you can fix in the protocol itself" so much as "things a really smart proxy can do" -- with different levels, basically "a stateless proxy with no real specific information about your client or server other than what is well-known", "a slightly-stateful proxy which can learn", "a fully stateful proxy", "a logging proxy which just has to identify threats retrospectively and alarm, rather than block".
These days, student loans can also be a significant expense.
Traction vs. Growth
These days, being an employee at at a profitable series B+ company may not make you rich, but it's a nice balance of risk and reward: you'll almost certainly walk away with the equivalent of a few hundred thousand per year, with a pretty cushy lifestyle on top of that. I know plenty of people who have jumped from one big valley name to another at mid-growth stage, and they're not hurting financially (plus, it makes you supremely marketable -- recruiters/investors/press go irrationally nuts over people who have big names on their resumes).

Entrepreneurship has never been an economically rational decision. You do it because you have to do it, or because you can't force yourself to work for someone else anymore. If you just want to gamble, go to Vegas.
What do people think of an "Outgoing Speech Bubble" icon? Here's a quick mockup I just did:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9f0w2tsrbc3c55/arrowbubble.png

and at 32px wide:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qe6t169zgobdwih/arrowbubble-small....
> Corporations do not pay income tax as such - they do have some filing fee type of taxes, but basically the taxes you pay come out of your payroll.

Are you sure that is correct? I am neither an accountant, nor even American, but IRS.gov says:

"The profit of a corporation is taxed to the corporation when earned, and then is taxed to the shareholders when distributed as dividends. This creates a double tax. The corporation does not get a tax deduction when it distributes dividends to shareholders. Shareholders cannot deduct any loss of the corporation."

(source - http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...)

For the 2011 tax year, Wikipedia pegs the US federal income tax rate at between 15% and 35% (depending on income level).

(source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_Sta...)

I think that only applies to C corporations, though I'm curious now about US tax law. Do tax shelters like you propose exist? Do you have any more information??
I disagree and think this is completely wrong. I've paid a ton of self-employment tax and the write-offs for a web developer have never made me better off than someone who makes 100K and doesn't pay self employment tax. An employee making 100K and paying regular taxes and low state income tax probably has over 70K left over after taxes. How can someone making 70K pre-tax that has to pay self-employment tax do better than someone who gets > 70K after tax?
That line threw me off as well. I think he was switching thoughts between sentences. He mentions Billion dollar companies,and then I believe he's saying "for any company exit [not Billion exit] - your average gain is $300k"
You can rearrange the inductor equation to get di = (1/L) dϕ. Then the quadrants are perfectly symmetrical except for the ugly 1/L. But that's just an arbitrary unit created by humans, you could fix that by defining the unit of inductance as the inverse of what we use now.
Currently using http://www.freshbooks.com

Definitely not the best in terms of user experience but it has enough features I didn't know I need, that it keeps me happy.

Things like multiple auto-reminders for late payments and reoccurring invoices saved me alot of time. I didn't need them when I was looking around at invoicing software but now I do.
Is this for an S-Corp / LLC? Because C-Corps pay income tax with a top rate of 35%. And is that how pass-through-taxation works? You only pay it once you withdraw it?
The IRS requires that you pay yourself a defensible fair market salary. If you're paying yourself only $15k, you will quite likely get audited, and unless you can defend the idea that your work is truly minimum-wage level work, you will owe quite a lot in fines. If this is advice from your accountant, I think you need a second opinion.

Edit to add citation. Also, I'm assuming you're talking about an S-Corp, since it would make not sense for a C-Corp. From http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... :

"If most of the gross receipts and profits are associated with the shareholder's personal services [i.e. not from other employees or capital], then most of the profit distribution should be allocated as compensation."

If you're only paying yourself $15k of the %80k your company brings in, and that $80k comes from payment by clients for work that you personally did, then you are definitely on the wrong side of the tax code.
Corporations pay tax as a separate person by default. What you describe is a Subchapter S corporation, or an LLC.

In general the deductibility of expenses to the corporation is a huge advantage (of a C, S, or LLC), if you're a "professional" with a lot of expenses. OTOH, going from "dollar earned by C corp" to "salary paid by C corp, with both sides of the various withholdings, UI, etc." to "personal income" to "personal income with taxes paid" is MORE of a tax hit than just regular wage income. S/LLC give you the passthrough tax advantage but still have higher filing costs. It only really becomes worthwhile around $20-30k in side income for purely tax reasons.

There are plenty of non-tax advantages to incorporating, of course -- some level of asset/liability protection (most debts are firewalled at the corporation as long as you correctly treat corporate assets and liabilities as distinct from your own), the ability to take outside financing or do collaborations with other people, etc.

(I am not a lawyer; I am particularly not your lawyer.)
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Hey, not a chemist :-) But wouldn't they be "reacting with water in the air" rather quickly if they burst?
Look up "Controlled Foreign Corporation". :(
This guy is completely innocent and has done no wrong, yet he feels so guilty and tip-toes around everything, just because he has white skin and a penis. That's can only be the result of a movement that is sexist and racist. That's the issue people have.

But I hear you. "He's privileged!" The thing is, he has no control over the privilege that others give him. And no one should feel guilty for something they do not ask for, do not do themselves, and do not have any control over.

The fault with privilege is in the people who give it to others. The only way to fix such a thing is for all of society to stop giving favors to people based on their gender, race and sexuality. What a fucking shame it is that these SJWs are doing exactly the opposite of that.

This is how the status quo of "social justice" has transformed:

Past: "No one should receive positive or negative treatment based on superficial factors, we are all of equal worth"

Present: "White men are all better off, therefore let's treat them like shit and do lots of favours for everyone else to even it out"

If that sounds like a positive transformation, and not a regression, then I am quite concerned. One seems to be an enlightened response, the other seems to be at the level of a teenage middle child.
3. The large amount of capital being injected into Uber are not indicators of growing real value, but instead indicators of a weaker-than-acknowledged business.

This is a common way for investors to get screwed, but in this case it may reflect their belief that Uber is well-placed to capitalize on the impending self-driving-car phenomenon. They could be wrong about that, of course, for any number of reasons, but at least it's not Groupon.
10-15mm isn't rich?
Growing up, I lived on an isolated 4 acre block, surrounded by forest. The only house nearby was an old house, built on stumps, a hundred meters or so away, with no-one living in it. One day a truck showed up, a team of workers put the house on the back of the truck, and took it away.

A year later detectives arrived at our house. They asked to speak to my mother, and told her that the house next door had actually been stolen, and the real owners were now looking for leads, hoping to find their stolen house.
> At a bottleneck, the water that gets through is moving faster, but the total volume of water going through is lower.

This is incorrect because the volume of water will be the same under I3 flow (called I-cube flow: Incompressible, Inviscid and Irrotational).

Due to conservation of mass, we have

mass = density x volume = density x area x speed x time

Measuring the amount of volume for the same time with changing area, the only quantity that can change is the speed (recall that we have fixed the time and already assumed incompressible flow, hence density does not change).

So, more area means lower speed and vice versa. But the volume always is the same under stated assumptions.
I think it is nearly criminal and probably legally actionable for Uber to advise people they only need "regular" car insurance, when regular car insurance very definitely does not cover carrying passengers for money.
Of course, it'll all be in hyper-HD 8K video and with 3D map fidelity down to the centimetre
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It's too bad the Android Google Finance app errors out when attempting to add Bitcoin (ticker CURRENCY:BTC) to a portfolio.
> Accepting bitcoin as payment isn't beneficial right now. There's no benefit for merchants, because it's instantly converted back to traditional currency.

I see another benefit. Merchants benefit from lower transaction fee vs credit card.
http://www.invw.org/article/benton-harbor-michigan-1280
Presumably "Cheese Pizza" is slang for child exploitation material?
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Expected value is the key phrase.

So 0.00006% of the time you start a billion dollar company and take home $300MM. 67% of the time you fail and take home $0. The rest of the time you fall somewhere in between, and so your expected value is $300,000. Divide that into an average of 4 years and your expected value is $75,000.

So if you're perfectly rational, you should be willing to work as an employee with no equity for an extra $80,000 over whatever you'd pay yourself as a startup founder, because your expected value is higher.
Ask HN: What to use for handling DDoS attacks on cloud application?
I am looking at a couple of options including CloudFlare. Any recommendations or suggestions on what to look for?
Looks like a very interesting social network.

BUT the presentation of the homepage felt too slow. Revealing a few words at a time quickly lost its appeal.
Self Plug

I wrote about Syntax highlighting in LaTeX

https://sites.google.com/site/jestinjoy/academic/latex/highl...
I'm afraid that in a government of rampant spying, secret laws, secret courts, and secret gag letters, believing that people aren't being silenced because you don't hear about it requires your own personal leap of faith.

One of the strengths of the US Government is that they're smarter than to whisk people away in the middle of the night. That's why they're around and the KGB isn't. It remains to be seen whether that's a good thing or not.
It's too bad they haven't caught up to MoLoSo yet.
memristors, like core memory, are destructively read. You measure the current to set them to 1 capturing the ones where you needed more current (they were zero initially) and the ones that needed less current (they were one initially). You capture the state in a register, and in the second half of the cycle you write the zeros back where the register shows the were originally zero.

As core memory before it showed, you can do this with sufficient accuracy if the hysteresis difference is large enough. The only requirement is that it take a different amount of current to set it to a known state if it was already in that state, than it does to set it to the same known state when it was in the opposite state.
In retrospect, my post, while making valid points, was a bit of a Negative Nancy whine.

I'm glad you pointed out this low-cost ZFS appliance for home and SOHO use. It's not like when Sun sold ZFS boxes with 45 disks. Instead it's low cost, directly competitive with Synology and HP MicroServer boxes.

As Marta Stewart would say: "It's a good thing".
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I simply use AWS for reasons like this because they provide anti-DDoS protections. Cloudflare is the only one i've heard of that provides a software solution.
If typing http:// before the url works, then obviously the TLD system isn't broken. It's unclear that anything is broken, but if it's anything, it would be the browser, not the domain system. The browser isn't treating the url as a url.
I'm still going on a vintage Model M. Heavy touch, satisfying clank on each stroke.
What does CoW have to do with anything?
Data plans are getting affordable now. State carrier BSNL offers 1GB for Rs 139. Thats roughly 2.341 USD
> That's what the situation in the article was, a hostile WiFi access point.

The point of the article was not the hostile AP, but to simulate a pervasive threat:

we would create a pint-sized version of the Internet
surveillance infrastructure used by the National
Security Agency... Porcello would become our one-man
equivalent of the NSA’s Special Source Operations
department
Funny how that roughly mirrors my experiences calling taxis the old fashioned way: about 1 in 4 won't show up.
I remember seeing a video [1] where a man discovered that old, corroded brass ammunition casings developed a slight memristance property.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlswP_qXbdA
Auto-starting/stopping minecraft server using xinetd
I was using invoicemachine.com but their API just wasn't cutting it for me so I switched to FreshBooks. The FreshBooks API is great: in a matter of minutes I was able to pull my hours from Harvest and generate a FreshBooks invoice. That's all I need
The P-value of the coefficient for the supply of new homes (0.10) is not statistically significant.

There's a high chance that the model is running into a correlation-implies-causation trap, since it's expected for prices to be correlated with macroeconomic interest rates.
That reminded me of something that happened to a guy I went to high school. Not quite as dramatic as your story but during the day when he was at school and his parents were at work some guys backed a moving truck up to the house and emptied the place.

This is in a city. The family in question weren't particularly friendly with their neighbors but at least one neighbor saw the guys playing with the family dog in the front yard and assumed all was well (as you probably would).

They apparently quickly got everything loaded up and were on their way. The family came home to an essentially empty house. It was very odd.
At a glance, that suggests the optimal time to start a startup is when you have 10 years of career behind you.