skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read, especially since today you might be called a "towel head".

I find in my day to day interactions that these days Blacks are less discriminated against than many others, but it seems it is now less about color and more about accent.

Likely what I am seeing is a bias against non-European immigrants.

Being a well spoken Black is fine to hire or hang out with. Someone who looks and sounds like Will I Am, or Quincy Jones, or Colin Powell all good choices. Flavor Flav likely not so much.

The same goes for 3rd generation Hispanic, but not 1st.

Those from India if they grew up in an affluent house hold and sound like they are from England, but those with a heavy accent no.

My home town has no non-white people. We had 2 half native American kids in school, and I think a 1/4 Hispanic girl. As odd as that sounds I think that helped with not being racist. There were no stereotypes because there was no history of seeing anyone of another race.

When I was in the Sudan, I told people I was Canadian, it was safer. That wasn't a Race thing either.

This may have rambled but I think today there is less racism and more Originism (I know that isn't a word) but I think where you come from matters to people more than the race. That's not better. Just different. It is still beyond your control.
what matters is what you can do, how much you understand the platform tools (it is not required of a junior developer to write renderscript kernels, but he/she at least need to know basic concepts such as view recycling or view holders) and whether you are able to write maintainable & extensible code.
This course probably help for at least some of these points.

I just reviewed a test made by somebody that would like to join our team.
There were some very weird use of view in there, for example holding references to dozens of view objects in order to display them in a grid instead of caching the bitmap themselves, among other things.
That was a big no-no. A junior developer is going to make mistakes (and she already has a couple of years of experience) but if each of his/her code reviews end up with a -2, both parties are going to lose their time.
Assuming you are referring to this image: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9603983.ece/alt...

What looks like a hole in the metal foil is the portion of the metal foil with the said material applied on it. It looks like a hole in spite of the metal foil having ridges and valleys as seen on the sides where the material is not applied.
Russia spotted editing Wikipedia page about downed Malaysia Airlines jet
Generally, one would use a Hybrid Encryption scheme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_cryptosystem

The file would be encrypted using a symmetric encryption scheme (like AES), and then the key for decrypting it would be encrypted to each recipient. Adding an extra recipient then just involves encrypting the 128 or 256 bit key, which should be negligible increase in size.
This story appeared a few times during the last days with different linkbait titles, like "Blackest: Scientists develop a material so dark that can't be seen"

This article is very interesting. This is the first article I saw that has a photograph of the new material, and not only some stock photos of black objects.

(I'm not ironic. I rally wanted to see a photo of this. Perhaps a spectrogram and some technical descriptions have more scientific information, but nevertheless I wanted to see it with "my" eyes.)
Academics might look at your work, but you'll have to make lots of effort in explanation and providing context via comparisons with existing and previous work. It may or may not be worth it to you, but we aren't as unapproachable as you think; we even have a conference called Onward! for these kinds if ideas.
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What the fuck. Did you just equate the human mind to an organ cell? As if a single neuronal cell can be compared to the collective neural cells organized in your brain?
You exaggerate the difference between the north and south in regards to race. You overestimate the tolerance of the south to Jews, or people with foreign accents, and you underestimate the discrimination against blacks in the north. Restrictions against selling to blacks were not unique to Chicago, they were largely universal. The NAR regarded introducing new ethnicities into a neighborhood as an ethics violation until 1968.

http://www.inman.com/2014/04/17/realtor-code-of-ethics-once-...

published in New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
There's a version of the story on Time (linking back to the FT):

http://time.com/3007430/carlos-slim-three-day-work-week/
I would use a secret key to encrypt the file, then encrypt the decryption key with each of the keys of those recipients, and add each (user ID, encrypted decryption key) to the file.

Reading the linked page, that's exactly what they do (with a nonce to thwart various (differential, known plaintext, etc.) attacks)

The header itself is a stringified JSON object which contains information necessary for the recipients to decrypt the file. The JSON object has the following format:

{
senderID: Sender's miniLock ID,
fileInfo: {
(One copy of the below object for every recipient.)
Unique nonce for decrypting this object (Base64): {
fileKey: Key for file decryption (Base64),
fileName: The file's original filename (String),
fileNonce: Nonce for file decryption (Base64),
}
(Encrypted with shared secret derived from the sender’s
private key and recipient's public key.
Stored as Base64 string.)
}
}

Note that in the above header, fileName is padded with the 0x00 byte until it reaches 256 bytes in length. This is done in order to prevent the discovery of the fileName length purely by analyzing an encrypted miniLock file’s header.
Hopefully they didn't keep any other 500 year old books in the cellars.
Blasphemy!

Ctrl+arrow all the way.
http://pastebin.com/hUc6uNgb

article text ^

paywalls are offensive
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cWK1zG...
I'm a little late to the party, but I ran the benchmark inserts with cached statements on both my Macbook Pro and my iPhone 5S. sqlite definitely fairs better under this scenario.

That being said I still find the speed of Realm pretty impressive. And it's hard to gauge real world performance from this test. In my experience the real bottle necks around insert are upsets and establishing maintaining relationships.

For reference here are the benchmarks without reusing sqlite statements.

Macbook Pro - Realm: 0.780414 sqlite: 0.464804 FMDB: 0.654659
iPhone 5S - Realm: 2.235381 sqlite: 2.786381 FMDB: 3.336679

And with statement reuse

Macbook Pro - Realm: 0.766406 sqlite: 0.189747 FMDB: 0.683823
iPhone 5S - Realm: 2.214847 sqlite: 0.991864 FMDB: 2.832800

Interesting side note: FMDB seems to be spending just as much time finding the cached statement as sqlite takes to prepare a new one. I didn't expect that. I haven't dug into it at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if this due to the fact that the insert statement is relatively simple.

EDIT: Just fixed up formatting for the results
Maybe he's testing a new app for friction-free abusive social media posting. It'll revolutionize human interaction!
Probably was an illegal eviction however, one that she could have received criminal charges for.
This is just an announcement. The actual library is not available yet.
PlayDeb – Games for Ubuntu
The Chinese poor, don't have to rise out of poverty to be vastly richer than they were a few decades ago. They had to get bigger desks in their school because all the kids are bigger because they can afford to feed them now.
this was fascinating, thanks for sharing
Or a CEO who can run a lemonade stand.
Sounds dicey. Typical rebels use MANPADS, which have max ranges around 2-4 miles, too small to hit an airliner at cruising altitude. Missile systems with longer ranges tend to be bigger and more complex, and mostly used by well-trained soldiers in proper national militaries who know better than to target airliners. It seems that we have an exception to that here, but it still looks like it was reasonable to assume that they'd be safe.
Nakagin Capsule Tower
A brief history of Britain's beer
hi, yes and no convey very specific things though.
"yo" means hundreds of things.
There tiny. If you actually look at an electrical outlet they have a fairly large gap to prevent shorting out and potentialy starting a fire.

PS: Science fiction seems to love the trope where tiny change destroys civilization but life needs far more than just an energy source.
Taxing wealth is simply a deferred tax on labor.
Back in 2009: http://www.wired.com/2009/03/ultrablack/

2008: http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/15/us-nano-black-idUS...

2007: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/March/01030701.a...

2003: https://web.archive.org/web/20030219071652/http://www.ananov...

Of course the goalpost is moving, but we keep 'reinventing' this stuff...
I love Maciej's writing. His piece on the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_t...) is one of the funniest things I've ever read.
"poke" had a more flirty vibe to it. this is more neutral, which is important.
From what I've seen and experienced as an end-user, it's just advertising. So no, I don't think there are a lot of business models. I'd love to be proven wrong someday.
The Middle East really isn't that bad compared to much of Central Asia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and so on...

Even North Korea looks good in living standard and life expectancy compared to many African countries.
No, the URL was changed after I posted that comment.

This is the image I was referring to: http://cdn.singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nas...

I assume it was just there to show how small carbon-nanotube fibers are.

From this page: http://singularityhub.com/2014/07/19/new-super-black-light-a...
Maybe this link can be useful for you:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/
[damn, i up voted before I got to the end. I'll never do that again.]

Taxation also does a lot of positive things. Your logic is filled with false conclusions. What do you propose instead of taxation and states?
> Considering to do the same now would cost nearly 5-6x as much, its no surprise that corporations haven't continued those programs.

Are you suggesting corporate profits have remained flat for the last 30 years? http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CP/
There are many ways in which paper can be destroyed. My mother has no pictures of her childhood because her home was burned down in a race riot.

And analog media has many disadvantages. Storing, reproducing, transporting, searching, or modifying analog stuff is really hard.
Yeah, we covered this even though it's an old type of material. The news is actually an improved manufacturing technique.
It's based off of the referrer, you might have an extension or something preventing your browser from sending that. Try it in incognito mode.
That sounds like a way to write programs that use a bluetooth attached gotenna. Is that correct?

What I am asking is, could I talk to a gotenna using another radio setup of my own creation. Are you publishing enough information about gotenna for me to do that?
While I think the presentation was interesting it was fundamentally just more proof that "the brain has patterns". Wish that the talk had more depth in terms of understanding or implementing artificial neural networks. Understanding that the presentation was primarily to endorse Spark to more data mining applications however, the talk seems successful.
I don't have much to say but I wanted to mention that I found your comment really insightful.

Applying that logic, what are some things a lot of people would like to do, but can't due to social stigma? And could also be remedied by an app that doesn't allow you to do anything but that thing. Such as send superficial pictures (snapchat) or contentless messages (Yo).
The End of ‘Genius’
The cops will not simply evict someone because they didn't pay rent. I have seen multiple cases where it took over 6 month of no rent to evict.
Heartbleed had nothing to do with certs themselves, but instead, with how OpenSSL implemented an aspect of connection negotiation. Hence, the issue was isolated to OpenSSL not other SSL implementations or the SSL/TLS standards themselves.

In terms of "credibility", the issue comes down to how many browsers include their root cert by default. As far as I know, IE, Firefox, and Chrome include it meaning that it will be trusted by default.

The way they make money is selling other types of services such as wildcard and "green bar" certs. I think the folks running it want to see a wider use of SSL, and see providing free host-based certs as a good way to accomplish that goal. Bear mind, there zero cost to signing a cert ...
Certainly a place to watch considering that they're going to run out of ground-water sooner rather than later. I imagine the graph of population will look pretty similar to that of reindeer on St Matthew Island:

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/nats104/00lect21crash2.gif
How do they segment neurons? How can they be sure they are ablating a single neuron?
Even if it could the quality of images would be abysmal, if even useful.

There are options for browsing in the terminal such as lynx, links, and w3m, obviously they don't have graphics support.
I remember reading a story in the recent Priceonomics book about a similar tenant conflict in SF. Tl;dr, a 75-yr-old lady was thrown out into the cold, but only after months of hearings and lots of money wasted on lawyers. Why do such laws exist at all in CA? Why not just send out several warnings in advance, explaining whole situation and the available options for tenant?

These two guys are just asking for a good old ass whooping. Throw them out, then let them try and prove that they were renting the place to begin with. Whatever the premises, you could certainly make it be your words against theirs.
Existing research strongly suggests that deriving asymmetric keys from human-provided seeds (i.e. passphrases) and nothing else is strongly inadvisable.

This is because it is possible to attack large numbers of passphrases at once, and it is possible to harvest large numbers of targets from public databases of public keys.

Additionally, entropy estimation tools generally are not good at accounting for the fact that human behavior results in non-obvious biases and patterns in passphrase selection.

To see an example of this model failing on a large scale, look at the number of Bitcoin "brain wallets" that have been hacked, despite having apparently strong keys.
Trying to start a business without having even a basic understanding of relevant laws is just stupid.
Thank you for your insight. I'll keep to it and will find out their policy on continuing education.
I rarely ever see wrongly gray comments, certainly not in a systematic way. I do see many rightfully gray comments, though. A comment being wrongfully downvoted is not actually quite harmful. There isn't any harm that happens. Unless somebody can't stand the notion that people disagree with their opinion -- but that's helpful because it drives them off the site. Usually, though, gray comments are not those where it's a matter of opinion.
This "30-day for just-cause-only eviction protection" isn't, as far as I know, quite right. Given that AirBnB guests don't really sign any contracts (aside from the website boilerplate), you may be correct in this case. But in general, it's very possible to sublet your apartment in SF and have your subtenant sign an agreement to wave their just-cause eviction protection on the grounds the rental is temporary. See this page for more information: http://www.hrcsf.org/subletting_basic.html
It looks like they could employ something like this baby:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor

Sadly it doesn't seem to be mainstream anymore.
Good, because it didn't work -- you sounded kinda racist.
I wonder if they have a file on me, even though I don't use facebook and a lot of blocking tools. Anyone tried? Not even sure how to request the data, when you have no account .
Almost always the "dead" posts are worthless, and the people who replied should have been downvoted for indulging the conversation.
A Tribute to Discomfort: Cory Richards
You have to trust them not to do that anyway right now, as they're a CA. You also have to trust any of the >100 other CAs that your system trusts.
Probably the case of an illegal eviction. Other illegal evictions include: changing the locks, shutting of the utilities, blasting music outside the apartment at 3am.
Never understimate power of a great story
What you fail to articulate is how anybody benefits from seeing the old URL.
We used them to secure internal only apps we ran, to stop staff getting used to ignoring the warning pages if the certs are self-signed. Yer ok the signup process is a pain but we had an amazing system admin who knew their stuff so got up and running in no time.
Note that the property in question isn't anywhere close to SF. It is in California, so those laws are relevant, but SF's laws aren't.
Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future: Interactive Video
Per the website FAQs, it seems the $60 plan includes only data from "Users" folder and specific file types. Is there a way to back up other locations, and all file types?

I have all my data in a separate partition, reaching 1.5 TB. With say 2 MBPS upload speed, it seems it would take about three months for the first upload.

Also, did you face any issues with data limits from your ISP for the first upload?
> Average users really have no say while they're here. There's no real ability to control or even influence how this site is operated.

I have to take issue with this. We change decisions all the time because of what users think, and I've left many records of that in the threads. HN moderation is really a collaboration between us and the community.

What HN isn't, is purely driven by votes. If it were, the front page would consist of outrage, gossip, and fashion. Those are the things that reliably get upvotes regardless of how substantive they are.
Isn't the cost of those services also a function of the number of requests? E.g. they bill on a request basis, not an hourly cpu time basis?
> Did you know that if someone rents a airbnb listing in SF for more than 30 days, they can stay there forever, so long as they keep paying rent?

Are the rent terms fixed at the time they occupy? If not, one assumes that the landlord could just up the price repeatedly to force them out.
FT is cloaking: http://i.imgur.com/j8dRamZ.png

Reported to Google.
> This would also solve the problem of original discussion referencing the old article no longer making sense when the article changes.

This isn't really a problem. It doesn't matter.
Small UX nitpick. You can't select the miniLock ID by double-clicking it. I think it was one of the reasons bitcoin used Base58 encoding.
Can the Silicon Valley be saved from ever growing cost of living?
When honest people fall victim to scam artists, I do sympathize even if they could have avoided it with better legal knowledge.
>>terms of understanding or implementing artificial neural networks

There is no motivation for a connection between artificial and biological computational networks. A production ANN such as those used by missile interception systems is not requires to match what the neurons in your brain do. In fact, the biologists may find that our brains are not very efficient and often make mistakes. As a practical matter, the behavior of neurons is still up for debate with many models of interaction proposed.

There are often more effective models for machine learning, especially if you have lots of data, such as Random Forest.
What bad things happen if there isn't a changelog? Somebody changes the URLs on you without a log? So what? What's the harm here? As far as I can tell, the only people that have a reason to get angry are those that post suboptimal links. Usually it's a link to a rather crappy article.
There's biannual/biennial: think quick, which means twice a year and which means every two years?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biannual / http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biennial
Probably.

Friends and family install Facebook mobile app, all of their contacts are sent to facebook which includes your phone number and email addresses. More data is gathered from other random sources online. Possibly even pictures from your college or mugshots.

Just imagine the data that was taken from the people who installed that LinkedIn "send all of your email through us" app.
Apple’s GameController Framework
No, I think he has a legitimate claim that the airlines are putting too much information into the database. His credit card number should not be in the clear in the PNR database. That's just ridiculous.
Is this not against PCI at all?
Steal this idea
I chose eryptfs over TrueCrypt because I wasn't happy with using encryption software written by an anonymous developer. Was this a naive decision or do others feel the same?

The audit linked says that it ecryptfs might not have been designed/written by a cryptographer. What would people recommend these days seeing as TrueCrypt is likely to be compromised and ecryptfs might not be as secure as it could be?
I also like Comodo+NameCheap. I once tried to buy Comodo elsewhere and the cert activation process was much less friendly (they didn't recognize my authorized whois email of record). Another nice perk I just realized, NameCheap gives you the whole term of the cert from the time you activate the cert, not from the time you purchase (maybe that's common though).

That said, I think the bad press StartSSL is getting is mostly undeserved. You can either choose a free cert with the outside chance you'll want to pay to revoke it, or just automatically pay up front every term. Probabilistically, they still have the cheapest option. And are site admins who can't/won't pay $35 really that likely to have a very secure server anyhow? That means they would have never bought SSL anyhow without StartSSL.
> someone invents a new language or approach and everyone flocks to it because it is simple and they can understand it and start assembling complexity on top of that ... (Gradle, which Tim refers to, btw, is a perfect example of that ...)

Unfortunately, Gradle chose Groovy for its programming interface, and Groovy was designed to be complex so its backers could sell conferences, courses, and consultants. Thankfully, it looks like Gradle's going polyglot soon, their Gradle 2 roadmap [1] talks about a configuration-on-demand build model which could expose an API usable by any scripting language, like with vertX.

[1] http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/revolutionary_new_gra...
I always thought that was against their policy but so many major sites do it.

@rgbrenner: I think that only shows up when you come from the Google search page, a normal link will just show the paywall with no option to bypass it.

Are sites allowed to show Googlebot the full article but show a paywall to everyone else? I think that's what was meant by cloaking.
This goes sideways as well. I was dating an Indian girl in High School (almost 20 years ago). If any older Indian men were around or crossed our path, she would say a few words in spanish. They would assume she was Mexican which would make it none-of-their-business who this "Mexican girl" dated and would stop staring.