skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's hilarious. People in Russia support Putin exactly because there are virtually no free mass media.

That's BS. They support him because he is not a bloody puppet like Yeltsin and co, and the alternatives are worst.

He might support cronyism, but that's nothing compared to selling your country wholesale to the highest western bidder, like a sorry excuse of a lackey.
The bidders who announced they did not win specified bids in the $400-$500 range. Draper likely won with a higher, but still below market, bid.
People only disable RC4 due to PCI audits, because PCI vendors think RC4 is practically broken. It's not. In practice, it's still secure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Security. The only way to practically attack RC4 is to obtain a "large number of TLS encryptions". How much?

"The number of connections/sessions needed to reliably recover these plaintext bytes is around 2^30, but already with only 2^24 connections/sessions, certain bytes can be recovered reliably."

This is even more than what is provided in a YouTube video.

You need 16 million connections with 1GB of data, _in_ _each_ _connection_ to practically attack RC4. Sure, treat that as a wakeup call, but let's be realistic about it. RC4 is only _theoretically_ broken, similarly to SHA1.

By comparison, OpenSSH still uses MD5 hashes for their private server and client keys. MD5 is practically broken. So, if you want to "do something", fix OpenSSH.
its the content servers that require RC4. You probably checked main site, not the server that holds video clips.
Just hang on until the "stockholm" phase.
10th Anniversary RX-7 owner here.

If you actually maintain your car and don't treat it like a toaster, it's not too bad. They combust oil to lubricate the engine, so you just have to make sure it has oil. If your oil metering pump is electronic ('89 and after), run it with premix when you fill up. And drive your car hard & rev past 6k once a drive or so to clear out the carbon. Yes, I've gotten a speeding ticket for doing this.

I love my car. It's about to hit 100k miles and it's a Turbo and despite what the naysayers say, it hasn't blown up yet and still has good compression.

The electrical issues are far worse than the engine ones. The engine is bulletproof if you do your basic maintenance and listen to your car.

Every sports car is high maintenance. The Alfa, Porsche and Ferrari owners have it as bad or worse - people just treat exotic powerplants like voodoo - I sure paid a hell of a lot less than they did though.

I would rather pull and rebuild my entire engine than change the power steering fluid on a recent Porsche. The latter has a nightmarish set of steps likely to break all sorts of tiny plastic bits that cost more to replace than my engine rebuild kit would...
No, he didn't buy it on the open market as this was essentially a private transaction between two parties. What it means is there's now someone trying to sell (instead of hoard) bitcoins worth $what_he_paid_for_it + %target_return.

That will have an effect on the price, but he's not going to dump them and drive the price down because he paid a lot for them and wants to make a return (unless there's some kind of panic in bitcoin and he just says screw it). Kind of interesting actually.

At the very least, bitcoin is going to be a data driven economists wet dream for years to come.
How to Get Rich: Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth
You Can Help Save A Four-Year-Old Girl's Life Just By Sending A 'Yo'
HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687900
Simple question. According to [1], middlewares are cloned for each request. Is there a good built-in way of accessing shared mutable data, such as a connection pool?

1: http://docs.ironframework.io/iron/trait.Middleware.html
Sadly, this often leads to a 50% rewrite where key features are missing because I he rewrite team ran out of budget or willingness to code the non-fun parts. Which drives users to misery or competitors.
"By just going ahead and building the app, we became familiar with the problem we were trying to solve, and the more familiar we were with the problem, the more obvious it was where we needed boundaries between aspects of the app. Every time we encountered something that clearly looked like it should be a separate piece, we turned it into a service."

THIS. This should be printed in 36-point font on every microservice article.
Just like it was the russians in Odessa that burned all those people alive? Please.

Russia barely supports anyone in the east. Even NY times(the newspaper that was fully pro Iraq war) went in, talked to the separatists and found out they're just pro federalization.

Your blind hate for Putin is apparent. You'll start blaming earthquakes in Oklahoma on him soon.
Exit nodes are already unnecessary; TOR allows you to operate services on the network itself ("hidden services").

However, it seems not everything is kept on the TOR network. I would've assumed that if someone were using TOR for criminal purposes, they wouldn't expose themselves to monitoring by accessing resources off TOR, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
It might be interesting to see whether or not an ideal decay time correlates with anything.
> Seems like needing the piston to change directions is a waste of momentum.

It's not, in a closed system momentum is conserved [1] so without friction, a free engine would rotate forever.

Also there is not conceptual difference between an engine and a ball sniping in a donut. In both case, the piston or the ball have to change direction (the piston has to change direction more abruptly though)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum#Conservation
@sp332:

>> I don't get how the rest of your comment supports this statement.

It doesn't. I didn't make that statement - you did.

I said they don't destroy lives _on purpose_. Neither are they trying to stop people from running exit nodes. They don't know what an exit node is. Somebody is doing nasty things using Tor. They look at the Whois record. Your name pops up. They knock on your door. End of story (I don't like the story either).

@cookiecaper:

The last paragraph of your comment isn't true. The Tor Project itself trusts and supports these organizations (like torservers.net - I'm sure there are many others like it). All nodes under control of one organization are marked as such inside the network so Tor clients can avoid using more than one of them at a time.

This talk might help:
Defcon 21 - Safety of Tor Network Look at Network Diversity, Relay Operators & Malicious Relays (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864FxA3jmHk)

---

By the way. What's with all the downvotes? You do realise that I'm not responsible for anybody's house getting raided by the police, yes? I'm tired of blaming the police while nobody is willing to sit down with them and explain to them how Tor works. It's just not helpful.
Olivier Janssens awards $100K bounty for software to replace Bitcoin Foundation
Why is nearly everyone who tries to drum up publicity here so clueless as to assume everyone knows what their product/app/library/whatever actually is?

What a terrible waste of publicity.

The very first sentence in any link should at least give a hint what the thing in question is and if it doesn't, it should not appear on Hacker News.
This is the basic weakness of Tor: while nobody can listen in on your communications, they can determine you're using Tor and communicating covertly. In some jurisdictions that's enough to put you in jail or to question you with the help of very nasty tools.
I said all of their bitcoin. Coinbase certainly doesn't have all of my bitcoin.

I didn't intend to make a conspiracy theory out of my question.
"Don't be scared" rhetoric is generally used to promote arguments not primarily through logic, but by painting the audience as fearful luddites, scared of progress and the inevitable better future based on whatever the speaker is advocating. The goal is to encourage the listener to convert to the new religion or paradigm, or be considered backwards, behind the times, and ignorant or stubborn. It's an effective tactic because any push-back is pre-framed as evidence the listener is among the ignorant backwards people.
Even with only using the preview on their website, Startuptabs provides something interesting: it's a super easy way to page through the websites of random startups. After bouncing through several dozen I see that:

-95% of these are thinly styled Twitter Bootstrap sites with huge hero images.

-Sweet jesus most of these load super slow.

-There are some interesting ideas here, but a whole lot of "[buzz word][buzz word][buzz word][buzz word], for the [buzz word]" copy.

In fact, this is a great way to see how you should change your startup's website so it doesn't sink into all this sameness.

Oh, and perhaps having a 1920x1080 photograph saved as a 1.3 MB+ PNG image as a background is a bad idea too...
RC4 is faster and less cpu intensive -- Leading to a better user experience, and lower costs which is probably why they force it.

I know a lot of times we prefer arcfour (RC4) for backend "trusted" ssh connections because it is faster the other ciphers.
ASCII art? The engineer is describing a low level header format. The RFCs describing many, many low level protocols that deal with bitwise operations on file formats (gzip, http, tcp, etc) all contain plenty of 'ascii art'. Maybe they could have included a link to the RFC for DNS in the comment, but this seems very useful IMO.
Linkbait gets links. This is a link site. Occupational hazard. It's a free Internet, but this makes HN look bad and "mature" language turns away mature audiences.
I'll happily agree that Painkiller has some more variation then SS, but on the whole it's much more focused with wave-based arenas. This isn't a knock against Painkiller at all, it's a favorite of mine - yet it's still a bit inaccurate to regard it as classical level design.
I still can't understand why they prefered Java over Smalltalk...
'Evolved' is someone's ego speaking. Gradle is horribly slow, and just as painful to use as most other build systems.
Do you plan to support handling XML? I mean XSLT transformation, XPath routing, XQuery?
First, let me note that it isn't really relevant to complain about a second party as "answer" to criticism of a first one.

Check http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny_ballistic_missile_atta...

Or other information about Russian atrocities in that war. (The whole point with drones is that they are pinpoint attacks, with relatively low civilian casualities.)

And USA is a tempering influence, re Gaza. Consider what would happens if Finland or a Baltic country used rocket artillery against St Petersburg? No, better to not consider that... (shudder.)

The same goes for most of your other examples.
There are several countries that would do exactly as you say, or would threaten to do it in order to get a few bribes to the right people.
Pretty cool, and I wonder if you could build the piston with two "heads" and put a cylinder head on either end and just shoot it back and forth. Magnetics of course have a hard time at high temperatures, so I'm not sure how you generate the stator field reliably.
Interesting. It looks like the page itself is encrypted with more standard crypto using AES [0], but the video itself is served from a connection using RC4 [1].

As far as I can tell from this article [2], attacks on RC4 are only theoretical at this point, but it seems reasonable that they should upgrade the video serving domain to be consistent with the page itself (though maybe it's done for performance reasons - either encrypting a large video stream costs a lot of CPU time or decrypting it on the client is too slow or CPU intensive for watching video smoothly, so perhaps they are sticking with RC4 for a good reason). Still, as my old crypto prof said, "Attacks only get better over time. They never get worse."

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/OcpziFa.png

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/57T8bay.png

[2]: https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/03/19/r...
Building a Data Pipeline from Scratch
Look over at http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinmarkets. The "analysis" there will probably make you laugh and cry at the same time.
As much as I would like to support the YC startup AirBnB, with a quick search on hostels.com I found a bed for €13/night. A similar bed on AirBnB costs €20/night. I'm not sure what price I can achieve if I find a private room that allows me to split the price with others.
I'm from TX originally, but spent over a decade in Silicon Valley. I responded to a craigslist ad that said I could telecommute, so I took that to an extreme. I chose .ph because of previous experience with people, research, and the ease of maintaining a visa. I'm a director at an ecommerce company. I love it--it's allowed me to tailor my life around the things I like and that make me most effective as a person. I don't miss home--I am not an overly emotional person. Filipino food is awesome :)
Please don't bring "SJW" here. If you can't say what you mean without a slur, even if it would cost 8 or 12 more words, maybe it doesn't belong here.
I keep trying :D
The problem with the RX-8s isn't the rotor apex seals (any more so than any other rotary), it's actually injection. A design oversight with how they inject oil in the '04-'06 models causes the engine to not be lubricated properly and this will cause a lot of problems. Even though they fixed it after '06, it's still not perfect. Like the '89 and after RX-7s, the RX-8 needs to run with premix.

But generally you want to avoid buying an '04-'06 RX-8 used.
Home invasions have a tendency to end up with someone dead. Don't help your friends commit them by giving them guns or the vehicles to get there. (Also, don't be the getaway driver for a bank robbery.)

And, I suspect a jury would add to that...Don't offer up your internet connection with the specific intent to aid in shielding the identities of child pornographers, spammers, and all manner of thieves.
great intro post! Maybe add something on use DNS infrastructure instead of an NLB as well, as those guys are also a limited resource in the end.
I've taken months off in the past to do interesting stuff or just screw around and enjoy life.

Either way, that just tells you the compensation for the non-compete should be at higher than your usual salary, does it not?
googlevideo.com is a CDN. Up to what point do they control it?
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NASA's New Satellite Could Unravel the Mystery of Our Changing Climate
I stand corrected. I'm sure I had read that some time ago but I can't find a reference at the moment.
It depends on your priorities. Do you just need someone to come and fill a spot or would you prefer someone that's actually a good mutual fit for the role?
It also gradually removes the barriers between workers and capital in a positively Jeffersonian way. Owners who weren't comfortable with that could, of course, fire people every 3-5 years, but firing and hiring isn't free either.

I've always thought that it might be an ideal solution to wage capitalism to force owners to sell equity to their employees at some predictable rate.
True story.

But I have the feeling, that a prio-list of the needed features is all that is needed.

People say what they need, you implement it, done.

I mean the way other companies steal your customers IS that they implement a better version of stuff you did. So it's either, they do the rewrite (in their case a first write) or you.
I ask one question to recognize astroturfing from the Putin junta:

If you check the larger democracy indexes, they have started to show Russia as "authoritarian" now, i.e. not democratic at all.

Is that a Western conspiracy?
Having trouble finding Automation Engineers, the secret is, you have them.
I touched a little on that with scaling unit segregation by subdomains, but it would be a great topic for a more advanced look. I'll keep it in mind!
Some comments on your PaperBox logo. The font feels a bit thin and spindly. Gives me the impression of delicate or fragile.

Might want to look at Kerning. The capital P is to far from the a, and the r is too close to the capital B.

The blue graphical logo is also too close to the text and possibly too big; it feels cramped and to some extent overpowers the name.

See LinkedIn [1] or Thompson Reuters [2] for examples on how to make your font more substantial and how they balance the graphical image verses the text.

[1] https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/branding-guidelines...

[2] http://thomsonreuters.com/site/reuters-brand-attribution-gui...
If the convicted will appeal, and if the appeal will arrive up to the EU Court of justice, this would be the first care in which it is debated whether TOR operators are protected by the "mere conduit" doctrine that is base on which ISPs are not held responsible. [1]

Too bad that it may take up to 10 years for this case to be appealed up to EU court of justice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Commerce_Directive_...
As someone who doesn't live in the world of market microstructure, what kinds of patterns or justifications did you expect to see?
It sure is a pain in the ass when that happens. I have a chipped ECU so I don't have to get out and pull the fuse to get it started, but I haven't installed it yet.

One of my cats is gutted and my exhaust is rusted to hell - right now my fuel economy is shit (~10mpg). This should actually improve when I put the Racing Beat exhaust in but then I have to upgrade the injectors and air intake and port the turbo.

My 10th Anniversary is still bone-stock and I'm sad about having to change it.
The people I've seen make a good chunk of change through software are the types that reinvest their money, start new companies, and play again.
"Considered Harmful" was not Dijkstra's idea, but his editor!
And there's no way to say that "PHP is good", that's just untrue in all universes.
The Snowden leaks most definitely present this as ongoing work: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor...
There was a story about a Retroshare guy from Germany being prosecuted in a similar case, but the Court cleared him.
Producing new hardware would probably require a bit of renegotiating, and there are likely enough devices out there either in new old stock or unplugged to satisfy demand.

I'd love to see a Chumby distribution for the Raspberry Pi, for example, to support something newer and in production, but that would require figuring out a way to legally license FlashLite from Adobe again.
There were also bidders who put in bids much lower than that, how does that mean he wasn't above market?

Do you have a link to those other bidders' claims?
Where does it say they provide the raw feed? Everywhere I look in the Facebook help, terms and privacy policy it mentions how they use algorithms to determine what stories appear, and how they use information provided by users to pick stories. They also mention using user information for internal testing and analysis.

They seem to be following those terms, they were choosing positive and negative stories for feeds, and then analyzing the data to see if users then posted more positive or negative posts in return.

1. '...we may make friend suggestions, pick stories for your News Feed, or suggest people to tag in photos...'

2. 'The News Feed algorithm uses several factors to determine top stories...'

3. 'How we use the information we receive... for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.'
1) That was not what I was doing. He was comparing Russia and the U.S. in the last paragraph, so it was very relevant.

2) If we're talking about atrocities, let's talk about 100,000 casualties in Iraq.(most conservative estimate). Additionally, 2,400 dead from drone strokes. Most, if not all, without due process in Pakistan and Yemen.

3) Tempering influence? Are you serious? Is it tempering to overthrow governments and install new ones while denationalizing oil contracts? I heard Lybia's a democracy now and not a shithole.

U.S. is just as bad as Russia. Your time of being the beacon of light and democracy is gone.
Start using the sponsor's product to help us win a contest set up by the sponsor, or this kid dies. Well isn't that a classy way to win a marketing comp. Is a bit like collecting twitter followers by threatening to kill a kitten.
Op wat moet je letten bij de aankoop van een loungeset?
The jury doesn't get to make up laws or charges.

Halle was convicted specifically under Florida's felony murder law, which lists a number of felonies (including arson, escape, home invasion, and carjacking) that, if you participate in them, you are liable for any murders that occur during them.

We might someday find that everyone is responsible for their Internet connection. But it won't be because of felony murder laws.
Companies don't just serve those who can pay the most. They serve, absent transaction costs, all customers who can pay more than the marginal cost.
Gradle is fantastic and hopefully it helps bring awareness to the under appreciated groovy language.
The Routing Resilience Manifesto
I only went to read this article because every title letter begins with B.
> That neither supports nor refutes my argument that Austrian's have no clue about Austrian style juries.

It's very hard to refute that claim because you did not provide any sources for yours either. I would not know how to judge how Austrians see courts besides my limited exposure to the few law related classes I took and observing one of our most popular judges for a day and that obviously is personal bias.

> I would much rather deal with an American court with Austrian judges.

I can only assume Austrian courts did you something wrong or a person you know. Austrian courts see so little public exposure that you literally have to pick individual cases together by force to get a (skewed) view of the world. For the most part court cases in Austria are ridiculously boring.
When are a group of no-ip customers going to file a class action suit against Microsoft?

Just because an ignorant judge gave them access to some no-ip domains did not give them the right bite more then they could che and fsck it up.

The whole thing is just bizarre, WTF were they trying to accomplish? ie they took over the business of providing name service to over 4 million hosts, way bigger more than most large service providers with the intention of traffic to and from the C & C servers, or identify which of the computers were infected and inform their owners?

Why didn't they simply set up some monitoring devices and get the judges or the FBI to compel no-ip to allow them to plug it into their network so they could monitor what they wanted without disrupting the service?

If the no-ip owners were directly involved in the scam then why didn't the hand the evidence to the law enforcement authorities and let them carry on from there?
Kenneth Reitz on Python 2.7 vs. Python 3
Where does the money actually go after the sale is complete?
If everyone is aware of these clauses, their implications, and their enforceability (in the hypothetical world where computer workers have any sort of group that represents and publicizes their interests as workers), they'll end up priced into wages as long as employers don't collude.
Is this me, or does the linked thread read like a warning about the brain damage bureaucracy can do to people?

tl;dr

- A company wants to be PCI compliant.

- PCI forbids using RC4 encoding.

- YouTube now requires encryption and uses RC4 for the actual video stream (I guess for performance reasons).

- Company employee thinks that opening YouTube somehow damages their PCI compliance, because the site uses RC4.

- The company employee would rather have YouTube serve its site with no encryption, rather than use RC4, as somehow this would be better for their PCI compliance.

What am I missing here that makes this less absurd?
OpenSSL Project publishes roadmap to counter criticism
Read the nytimes article, and look up videos from the Odessa massacre.
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Why six hours? This definitely needs another constant.