skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It never says how much the men work, just that they are poor.

Another choice quote: "responsible women and feckless men in the poor and working classes" - how are the women more responsible than the men? Don't they know who they are having kids with? And women seem to get something out of having kids, they are not just the victims of men recklessly impregnating them.

I didn't quite understand why they don't want to marry, either. The argument is "because the mates are low quality", but at the same time they seem to expect all the services usually given in marriage - doing housework, providing, raising kids...

I just don't trust that article very much to really provide the relevant data.
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That's a distinction worth noting. Monitored not for political leanings, but for membership in a violent organization.
And at what point in my post did I ever say to underpay the developer? I didn't.

Don't put words in my post/mouth. This is garbage.
Matt Cutts gave some numbers about how often the + operator was used - and even then it was mostly used incorrectly.

> > In the past, we provided users with the + operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the + operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly.

http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...

Check my math, but I think that means that + was used correctly in only 1 out of 600 searches.

People mention "power users". Google does not want power users. Google wants a mass market of people who see, and click, ads.

EDIT: i guess I need to say that I hated when Google changed the plus operator; and I find using Google now to be a frustrating and annoying experience. I'm shown results tha often are not relevant to my queries.

And Barrkel makes a good point about my confusing potentially misleading description of the times + is used correctly.
But they have servers / real costs, so knowing how they will cover those is important.
Heh. I also felt that way, spent the first month after leaving looking for next closest thing.

The most exciting thing I found was Nix <https://nixos.org/nix/>, a hermetic build system + linux distro + config-based service manager, all built around a purely functional language.

The way it's actually used to build a lot of existing projects is coarse-grained — the Nix build actions might be simply "get tarball; untar; configure; make". (I think it may be combined with distcc/ccache for per-object caching, not sure).

But if they run existing tool to do the actual builds, how do they enforce hermetic dependencies? They force a specific absolute path structure where all inputs and outputs dirs include the (transitive) hashes.
[There is also some crazy rewriting of hashes inside binaries, which they claim works fine.]

The drawback is you can't move binaries or libs around; the benefit is multiple versions can coexist in-place.

I was planning to experiment with some pieces I was missing:
- Use bup <https://github.com/bup/bup> to chunk build products for incremental transmission of similar builds.
- Their build farm IIUC assumes long-running slaves; I wanted to build on public cloud only paying for burst activity.

Then I suddenly remembered that I write python and now javascript, which I can use without any kind of build, and gave it up :-)

But if I were to toy with hermetic building now, I'd look at basing it on Docker.
The Android app has been open-sourced. See https://telegram.org/apps. The server side has not.
>The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This means that I can really use it with people who aren't on Macs/iOS all day for iMessage, which is most of the world outside of tech unfortunately.

And plenty of people in tech as well ;)
The shitty thing was that they dropped the + operator at the same time they significantly increased the "fuzziness" of their search algorithm.

For some searches it might have helped, but for extremely targeted or highly technical searches it was a disaster. Almost as horrible as the bad old days when search engines tended to use "or" for search queries instead of "and". Still it's very, very difficult to tell google that you actually for really really realsies want to search for all the terms you typed in.
My friend works at the IRS, and his computer, network, software and environment are a complete nightmare. Each congress votes less and less budget because they don't want their wealthy buddies to get audited or the corps that give them money to be messed with. So the agency responsible for collecting most of the US governments revenue gets further and further behind. Some politicians even want the agency abolished. How revenue comes in then is beyond me. Sure all government agencies waste money but the IRS is one of the few that actually brings money in. Like the Post Offices's crippling advanced pension payment that makes them constantly in the red, political decisions about funding is very much a large part of the problem. My friend just wants to retire and get out of there before it reaches the Stone Age.
Bing has quietly improved a lot and is actually pretty good now, certainly better than its reputation lets on. It's the Zune of search engines.
I'm not the owner, but I like that app. I think its possible to just track your expenses, but its impossible to take money from "nowhere" so you have to have at least one account. In this case you'll have negative balance on that account which will be set to 0 each month.

As for "How much do you want to spend each month", its not mandatory but gives a new user an idea how to use all app features.
FALSE.

Besides, ODesk uses a BIDDING system. They tell you the average bid price. Bid whatever rate you want.

If you are above the average bid rate (which sounds likely) and can sell the client on why they should pay you more, then put it in your cover letter. It's the exact thing that happened with my last devs.

You've seen the bad code out there. We have to be defensive if we want to keep our money around long enough to see the project to fruition. But I never said to underpay. I said to not commit to bigger things until you know what you're getting.
The keypair AWS generates can only be downloaded once, at the time of instance creation. Beyond that, they expect you to be in possession of the keypair when launching another instance that uses the same keypair. If you happen to lose the file, you're basically out of luck.

So to directly address your concern, you can't download the keypair at any point in time, it's just a one time thing. To me that seems much more secure than emailing out a root password and enabling password authentication by default.
As far as I know, no, there isn't. I've tried going away from Google, but always failed.

The problem is that Google clearly care about search less and less each day. If the trend continues, we'll be able to change some day, but not because the other sites got better.
It's the same on x86. Not all x86 processors have all the x86 instructions. There have been many extensions over the years.

The main difference is that x86 doesn't have low power processors like the Cortex M series so they didn't have to remove any instructions to lower die size (thus price and power consumption).
>A simple counterargument would be that cellphones do not consume a public resource, unlike the way taxis consume road space, so there is no reason to share said data with the government and consequently the public.

That argument would be incorrect, since all cell phones run over a public resource: the airwaves. These airwaves are licensed by the FCC licenses to private companies, but (in theory at least) the public retains ownership of those airwaves.
Okay - any bets on which company or advertising agency will be the first to apply this research to generate an irresistible earworm?

As many have already noted, this works best with native speakers. Sounds like (no pun intended) built-in demographic targeting.
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Of course, there's no way around that except to write block variants for those functions. stdlib on osx for example has block variants of most functions that take function pointers (`man qsort_b` for an example)

But if you write your program to use blocks from the start, that's not a big problem.
Decent idea but don't cinemas normally frown on people using phones during a film?
Are you sure this is the malicious code? It looks like the standard Audience Science code, to me. Perhaps they or their CDN was hacked, or a malicious ad was placed on the advertising network?
It's targeted at the Game Boy Advance, which has an ARM7TDMI (ARMv4) CPU.
What I liked about it: The fact that It can be accessed from webapp / browser plugin / mobile app, which means it will be storing all my messages in the cloud, and claims to be the most secure of them all.

Alright then, I use Facebook Messenger a lot, it can be accessed from the web, I can use it on my phone and other devices, and I don't need to add contacts as my friends are already using it. Bam!

And security? Well, does it matter?
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My previous employer was a company doing hundreds of millions in revenue per year built almost exclusively on ppc advertising.

I think the question is not whether ads work, but when and in which cases do they work.
There are also new annoying features of online advertising that might turn consumers off. Even after buying something I frequently see ads for the same exact product from the same exact vendor for several days. For some reason this annoys me so much that it turns me off from the vendor.
When you say "+ was used correctly in only 1 out of 600 searches", it seems to imply that it was used incorrectly in 599 out of 600 searches. Your phrasing makes too strong a claim as most people understand the language, IMO.

Let's not forget how large an audience any Google feature has, though. + being used correctly, even by 0.33% of users, is still probably a million people.
Try to avoid directly invoking "SHA256" in your own security-related code.

good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

gooder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt

Maybe avoid using SHA256 with them because of Bitcoin ASICs.
If your passwords get leaked in hashed form, even with these, you'll still want to tell your users and advise/force them to change their passwords. Forcing makes more sense if you have 2FA to something not likely to be accessible with their previous password (SMS maybe?)
The Django builtin functionality is more secure than that. Do not send passwords in email.

You should create a token, and mark the account with it, send the token to the user, and if the user sends the token back to you (at the URL, normally), you let him replace his password. The password itself is never communicated back to the user.
An alternative that claims to be secure with end-to-end encryption is Threema: https://threema.ch/en/
Android users better use TextSecure which is secure and even can send secure sms.
I'm seeing this line of thinking a lot, and it's driving me bonkers:

> A private company under investigation that responded to regulators, or a judge, with this sort of explanation rather than producing the requested documents would rightly expect to be handed an adverse judgment or a whopping fine.

Why? Since when is the onus to disprove on the defense and the onus to prove not on the plaintiff? If you suspect a conspiracy to cover up one's tracks, you can go after the defendant additionally for that. But you still have to prove it. I'm not a lawyer but if there is any truth to this statement it is a tarnish on our judicial system. A legal system that convicts based on the possibility of IT problems is hardly reliant on surpassing "reasonable doubt."
Thanks for the feedback -- I too really like the conversations with founders/builders.

I'm actually testing threaded comments in staging right now (might release today) and soon after we are adding a "badge" next to the founder's name so that it's clear who made it.
Same here. It felt like I ruined this whole experiment for myself ;-)
Do the thought experiment. What if there was a mega-Snowden who dumped the whole shebang. Everything.

Would that be an existential threat to the nation and the people? Or would be an embarrassment to the upper echelons of government and military?

Would it be better for the people for such an event to happen, or worse?
My suggestion would is to keep the same length like the one you have now. Bulleting in Home might not look so appealing and it's always good to keep the words Simple and small.

"Drive more Sales with Quality Leads from Social Media"

"Your worry of Lead generation is over. We create your Leads from Social Media"

"Lead Generation is just a click away. Get Quality Leads from Social Media"

Might be creepy. I'm not so good in copywriting, thought it might give you some idea.
Last time when Telegram appeared on HN it was strongly criticized for coding encryption from scratch instead of using something well-known and checked library. Now with all that story with Heartbleed bug it looks like this idea was not so bad.
If you like Game of Thrones, do not watch the South Park - Black Friday trilogy. There's a .... rendition of the opening song, where they add in some lyrics to the song. It becomes almost impossible to listen to the original song again without your brain humming in the South Park lyrics, which really detract from the mood of the song, to say the least.
Ask HN: Is it ok to pursue master in cs at Maharishi University of Management?
I am a software engineer from Nepal. I am thinking of studying Master in CS at Maharishi university of Management at Fairfield, Iowa. University seems pretty good and is affordable since I only have to pay max. $7000 in the beginning and it provides paid internship after 1st year at college and remaining fees is deduced from the earning. However I have found many negative reviews about university. Can someone from USA or those who have attended university before can provide me insights on status of university. Is its degree recognised by big companies of USA like it advertises on its websites. Please help.
It's called remarketing. If they're showing you an ad for a product you actually bought, they're doing it wrong. It's supposed to show you an ad for something you looked at, but didn't buy.
HN and reddit are a lot more sophisticated with managing spam and abuse than we are today. They also have staff 100% focused on those challenges. We'll get there! :)
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A lot of talk of passwording concentrates on threats at the technology end, and they ignore threats at the user end.

Emailed Passwords are a failure from a tech point of view, but they allow users to create more complex passwords without punishing them when they forget that password.

As it is, I have situations now when the complexity requirements of a password combined with the fact that I need to sign in to a separate mobile App and I'm given no way of seeing what the password was when I created it that I just throw my metaphorical hands in the air, and reset it to generic password "Green!12Letmein." on yet another account.

This is wrong of me. I know it's wrong, I'm aware of password remembering services and I'm technical but I still do it.

If I'm doing this, and you're doing this, then most of the world is doing it. By discounting passwords sent through email, then we may be making overall security worse instead of better.
I lost interest at the 'minimalist gossip newspaper' analogy. In my opinion the power of the analogy is exaggerated. The text was easy to undestand until that part.
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Why is this on top of HN? Their protocol is not secure and they do not encrypt 1:1 chats by default and encrypting group chats with end to end is not even possible!!! Guys, please read http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta... and http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ and go to more secure things like Threema or Textsecure!
> Now with all that story with Heartbleed bug it looks like this idea was not so bad.

To make that claim you're assuming their implementation has fewer exploitable holes than OpenSSL or some other well-known and checked library.

I don't put that much faith on them.
Do you have some context? Where is this exam from? It’s an exam to enter the university?

They use dots to mark periodic numbers, something like $0.\dot{2}2\dot{5}$ [1]. Was that the standard notation?

[1] I don’t know how to write that in Unicode, and I can’t find an Online Unicode Decorator.
Ad impressions don't work. Twitter & Facebook can't monetize. Facebook paid >20B for companies that don't sell ads.
End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland.

https://protonmail.ch/
That is utterly, utterly wrong because the jihadists don't hate us because of what we do. They hate us because of who we are.

They hate bald C++ programmers?
No. Not default. 1:1 encryption optional and group end to end encryption not possible.
Don't take this negatively. Your comment is absolutely muddled up.

Just because there is an absolute morality does not mean everyone has to agree on it. Why? Ask yourself this question. Physics is absolute. Do physicists have 100% agreement?

Nobody takes relativism seriously.
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Boringssl – Google SSL library
What this article also nicely illustrates is the tradeoff between readability and compactness. As a generally experienced programmer I can easily read the original versions and I can also easily imagine how I would make similar improvements in a language I'm very familiar with. The condensed Python version is only comprehensible to me after reading the rest of the article.

Is there value in code that's readable by non-experts? Sometimes yes, more often no.
We created something similar, but it lets you listen to the movies audio on your device using headphones.

We have a live demo on our site if interested - http://speakerblast.com.

We think 4D movies; movies that gets the audiences' devices involved into the experience could be a way of the future. Similar to the texting PSA in China created by Volkswagen (very effective).
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Sorry, but I absolutely disagree with you:

- first of all, their protocol is open
- XMPP is terrible protocol nowadays because of XML nature, it
costly to parse, big overhead for text and awful for binary
data
- I heard that recently XMPP require SSL mandatory,
but it wasn't from the start, as in Telegram

I prefer to consider that XMPP is as good as dead for mobile and probably for any new startups besides some enterprise.

I don't want to be devil's advocate, their server code is closed. They have some stinky discussions in past. But XMPP never was good protocol.
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The processing that produced the masked audio sample is very similar to the processing behind low-bitrate lossy voice codecs. I wonder what sort of program they used to produce it.

Perhaps one method of doing this would be to compute the lapped discrete cosine transform of the input signal, and then turn that into power spectrum density over time. For each time interval, take the N most intense frequency bins, and then create N sine waves at those frequencies.

It's kind of like having a set of beeping noises that follow the pitch of the loudest component of the sound.
Perhaps Steven Fry would not. But his mobile device's autocorrect certainly could.
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What Does Doodling do? [pdf]
Less than one out of six hundred trips takes anyone to the hospital, but we wouldn't want a car that breaks down as soon as anyone is injured.

People don't often need a power search. But when you do, you really want it to work.

Google gets ad clicks by building a brand, they want us to associate them with "competent to handle all my search needs." This is why Ford and Dodge make stock cars, not because they want to sell them on a mass market, but because they want to convince people the brand is capable of excelling beyond their needs.

UPDATE: I think you're right about Google's rationale, I just think execs are missing some counterarguments.
Yep. I think what he's really trying to do is find a definition of morality that's useful, not necessarily complete. As models go, it was useful enough to change my thinking a bit.
iOS Encryption and Security (2014) [pdf]
Closed-source.
I can't make it through a movie without peeing at least once, if not twice. The app works well.
Heh, hadn't seen that before. I mostly remember wondering why the teacher was always talking about pizza.
It used to be a common position of American proto-libertarians as well, in the "individualist" tradition, like Lysander Spooner. There's an old American 18th/19th-century ideal of having your own tools/land/freedom and not having your labor subordinated to a boss/master/government/lord/duke/company/whatever.

Even Abraham Lincoln had a very tepid defense of wage work. He argued that working for a wage wasn't slavery or serfdom, in response to southern claims that northern workers weren't free men either. But his argument boiled down to: yes, wage-workers aren't truly free men for now, but since they are paid and not legally compelled to stay, they can save up money and eventually become their own masters, therefore their subordination to a boss should be regarded as merely a temporary condition that they will be able to escape from.
This is interesting, but I don't see how it is news. Our brains can take gibberish and impart meaning to it if we are looking for it (as our brains are primed to in the example in this article). Maybe I'm missing the new insight, but this seems like a very old and already known thing. This is basically why you can see faces in clouds and things as weird as moldy bread--because your brain is looking for faces.
Illegal marketing of signal jamming devices [pdf]
That has to be the worst webdesign I have seen this week. Not only does it require JS to show anything but a blank page but it displays an "inner-window" window. Dear web gods, why?

http://i.imgur.com/qBHLCac.png
1Password has mobile apps so you can copy and paste passwords on mobile (pretty rare, since most services will remember you). Once you start using it you get really used to it and you won't go back. You just have to force yourself those first few days.
Actually Richard, that's conversation. Americans who do not pursue more detailed of factual news get fed a lot of bullshit.

And when we're talking about disposable income, that means the income after taxes, comparable to Americans after taxes, the health care is FREE because it was covered in the taxes before to make the calculation. We also call it free, because it is free to use the services, not free of cost.
Yeah we do: Coca-cola <-- The product offers no value other than "brand". (Brand is advertising).
Strikes me as more of an argument about why Python doesn't need an Underscore library, given its expressive syntax.
I think a lot of the posters supporting Telegram in this discussion here are astroturfers.
It's not choice vs. force though, it's indirect force vs direct force. To make an actual choice in this case would require that the person about to rent out his or her labor has some alternative to wage labor; such as enough land to be self-sufficient, or perhaps enough capital to work for oneself.
It's a data leak...very similar to snapchat's issue and the Apple iPad fiasco found by weev. It's pretty sad that an App with almost no functionality had any problem.

It's also interesting how these developers seem to repeat this exact mistake over and over. I don't understand how people don't see a public facing API call for mapping usernames to phonenumbers or phonenumbers to usernames as a bad idea...