skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few federal cases that say otherwise. In US v. Kirschner[1], it was ruled that forcing the defendant to reveal his password through a grand jury subpoena was a violation of his 5th Amendment rights. The prosecution used a loophole for In re Boucher[2]: though the defendant still had a 5th Amendment right to not reveal his password, he was required to decrypt his hard drive in order to produce files under subpoena that he had already admitted were in his possession. Because he had already incriminated himself by revealing to a border patrol agent that his laptop contained child pornography, he no longer had a 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination for the charges of possessing child pornography.

[1] http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/04/passwords-and-5th-ame...

[2] http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2009/03/5th-amendment-bummer....
> I wonder though if the real problem isn't the decline in wage parity since ~1970. It's not that innovation's stopped, but the rate at which people can afford new innovation has slowed since more and more people can't afford anything but basic necessities.

Parity is not purchasing power. Inflation adjusted wages for the bottom quintile are up 20% from 1970. The poor/middle-class getting poorer has only happened since 1999-2000 so I don't think that is responsible for a lack of innovation.

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Household-...
I don't see how this rule helps me figure out the meaning of sama's actions. At least five people (including myself) in that thread interpreted his actions as indicating that mods would use tactics like this (presumably escalating) against people they perceived as trolls. However, I would be happy to hear that this was not the case, and this action was a random occurrence.

Without any clarification, I think that this sort of thing has a chilling effect on discussion. People will self-censor for fear of being subject to harassment, either by mods or other users.
NASA: Send your name to Mars
US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says
It's extremely unlikely imho that surveillance capabilities will be ceded by any of the nations that now possess them. More importantly, the trust that's been lost can't be regained even if the wheels of politics eventually grind out some kind of compromise. So waiting for a political resolution doesn't look like a great option. What I expect to happen is for the engineering community to push more secure protocols forward (for example, a rejuvenation or successor of IPsec) to guarantee more secure communication. Individual nations will then need to decide if their citizens have a right to real privacy, or just the right to be lied to about privacy. Multinational corporations have some flexibility in terms of where and how they do business, but they have to acquiesce to whatever local laws apply in the countries where they operate - with their own statement of ethics being some kind of baseline, hopefully. One protection afforded companies based in say, the EU, is that they're under less obligation to backdoor their products under threat of the US et al. That gives them a better position of trust with the EU market base. Of course, their products destined for the US market may well be customised to accommodate CALEA etc. Open source projects and foundations on the other hand operate practically outside the purview of traditional government, it seems. They're decentralized, and the source is open, so... although it has happened but it's quite hard to get a backdoor into the codebase. It will take a long time to sort out but basically I expect things like Firefox OS, Ubuntu Mobile, and self-hosted "cloud" solutions (cozy.io) to take at least some market share from proprietary predecessors.
I think it's because there are two cases that require flawless performance: when you are pushing the limits of the hardware, and when you are adding a layer that people will build lots of software upon.

Games are a perfect example of the first case. Have you seen how much optimization goes into the rendering of a modern 3D game? They are not wasting hours to shave a single byte like the olden times, but the whole thing is piled with low level optimizations.

And languages are an example of the second case, where you are adding a layer. This is crucial because layer performance is compounded. If the OS is using 75% more operations than it should be, and the language is doing the same, the final application slowness goes up by 3x.

Sure, your smartphone app should conserve battery, and it would be nice if it finished its operations a tad faster. But that's a case where you don't need to scrub assembly code.
>This is a big if - If the data is to be believed, the plots on wikipedia show liberia getting a handle on it in the last couple weeks.

No this is a sign that the hospitals have stopped taking in any new cases as they have reached capacity and hence new cases are not being recorded. No one has any idea of how many new cases there are out in the community. It could be that the R0 has been reduced because of changes in behaviour, or it could be because people are dying at home unrecorded. I hope it is the first, but given the state of things at the moment I fear it is the second.
When you cross a threshold of recipes, we assign the domain. Else the whole page looks very empty.
The money is nice but just enough to allow us to continue working for 6 months or so. And the networking is certainly useful in the long run. What I'm most looking forward to, though, is the mentorship portion.

Specifically, I personally want to learn:

* how to run a Beta with the highest standards
* how to grow my organization and be an effective leader
* how to work with other organizations (partners, customers, etc) at a company level

Those are all things I've done in an individual capacity but not as the leader of my own company.
Not compatible with Moto G (Android KitKat), this is the first app I have came across which is not compatible with this device.

Edit - "Xim will initially be available in US and Canada only; we plan to add additional country support shortly" Ah!
What I learned about risk from a VC
I agree with your point, but I also want to point out that the term also has sexual connotations, which (in my experience) made up the bulk of the negative comments about it.
>Only the NSA could predict the output of the generator with the same level of security as ECDH or ECDSA.

How do we know, and be sure that this is true?
There was Islamist opposition to polio eradication campaigns before anyone in the West was sure that Osama Bin Laden was in Pakistan. (That's why it surprised me that vaccination campaigns were used as a ruse for verifying his whereabouts, but apparently Bin Laden's personal crazy ideas didn't include opposition to vaccination.) It's not entirely a coincidence that even before anyone heard about Bin Laden, the last few places on earth with endemic polio were all places with militant Islamist movements. Personally, I would rather have my children live long healthy lives, no matter whose idea it was to invent vaccines or to use a vaccination campaign as a pretext to find an international fugitive, but logic doesn't always appeal to people who are already making excuses for being illogical.
Just keep learning. Find whatever you are interested in and keep that curiosity that drives you alive.

A lot of people lose that sense of wonder they had when they were young. Don't pay attention to those external validation and "achievements". Something on the inside has driven you at your young age to overcome some complex technical challenges. Try and get in touch with whatever that is and keep it fun.
It'll be that thing that will help you overcome the challenges in life that we all eventually face.
But can you imagine what it would be like if Beijing had only buses instead of subways?
Ask HN: Does “diversity hiring” lower the bar for certain groups?
Hi HN,

Diversity seems to be a hot topic recently (e.g., see http://bit.ly/1n8Y8A9). Just curious, will companies have incentives to lower the bar of hiring for certain group of people to optimize their diversity statistics? If you are in hiring committee, what's your company's policy on this topic?
Your comment is quite irrelevant to the topic of this thread, which is efforts to prevent deaths from ebola, a disease for which there is currently no vaccine.
Ask HN: What about the founders in their 30s who fail?
Recently I came across a comment from someone on HN about failures of start-up from old founders might be viewed as ineptitude.

This got me thinking. I don't know exact financial conditions of anyone , however I would venture a guess that at least 60 % HN visitors and posters live moderately , work very hard and passionate about technology. Few are already working tech startups and many dream to start their own one day.
So what about founders who have not yet started their company and are in early 30s ?
Statistically this decade of 30 to 40 is life comes at interesting phase. Many get married , have kids, start saving all they could towards retirement , parents start get old ( assuming you were born in their 30s ) and having family means you have to try hard to make time for your spouse.
Mental energy required for running startup certainly creates enormous stress.

So what happens when such startup with founders in 30s fail ? Does society viewed them as ineptitude ? Since job prospects are changing way too fast , how difficult it becomes to get job in 30s after failed start-up especially if you have family ?

What do you think ? Do you think working on startup in 30s is okay and not been out of mind ?
Would love to hear from someone who have passed through this situation.
Griffin collected names through personal experience with sick players, and acknowledges that her list is not a scientific data set. But it’s enough to make her ask whether crumb rubber artificial turf...is safe for the athletes and kids who play on it.

That's all she's saying; doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Also, the Erin-Brockovich-was-wrong story is overly simplistic. Many epidemiology studies are inconclusive because of small sample sizes. What is known is that the chromium levels in some neighborhoods in Hinkley, California were hundreds or thousands of times the normal concentration, PG&E settled with the affected families for a nine-digit sum, and that the most-affected neighborhoods have been razed.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/05/erin-brockovi...
I don't know about AWS for this use case, if you use it more than 50% of the time I'm sure costs will be much much higher.
>"they can also unlock your stuff and look through it. All of it."

I have had this conversation. The response is, "I have nothing to hide. My life is boring." I have gotten this response from people I know have things to hide. One guy had cheated on his wife and was illegally selling marijuana. But he said "I'm a small fish. They have more important things to deal with."

For people who warned about NSA spying, they watched as the response went from "that's impossible" to "that's illegal" to "that's not happening" to "it's targeted" to "it's everybody overseas only" to "it's everybody but why do you care." What I learned is, many people are apolitical and they will just use whatever is the most convenient excuse that justifies continued inaction.
Your comments too are quite irrelevant to the topic of this thread, which is about efforts to prevent the transmission of ebola.
How real is this issue?

Isn't is true that today, I can easily clone iPhone's data by declaring I loss my phone and need to buy a new one and recover everything from iCloud?

Isn't it just trivial for someone to "recover" your data by pretent to be you by court order, NSL or other means?
> (IAAL, by the way. Sorry you hate me.)

I meant in general. When you see prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges deciding the plea bargain deals at strip clubs (with the pretense that they would merely "go through the motions" under public scrutiny) ahead of time, you tend to not respect the profession.

> I'm not sure what more there is to say, though, if you're not willing to actually defend your view.

My view is simple: I want that law to cease to exist through any legal means necessary because it gives prosecutors far too much potential for abuse. If vagueness isn't sufficient or is too disputable, let's find another attack vector.
> How do we know, and be sure that this is true?

Predicting the generator's output reduces to solving the discrete logarithm on elliptic curves, which is incredibly hard unless you chose the private key.

Just like in any asymmetric crypto scheme, given only the public key, it's very difficult to find the private key.

(Actually doing it requires knowledge of how the generator works. I promise you it is easy given the private key, but you can go into its internals if you don't believe me.)

> Isn't it just trivial for someone to "recover" your data by pretent to be you by court order, NSL or other means?

Without a "golden key," somebody would have to ask you. With the "golden key," somebody would have to ask the organization in charge OR you.
> but it was just as good

No. Read it again. It's neither good nor bad to me. I'll apologize if my wording is confusing.

> it's just not impressive like other things...

Trivially true. Universally applicable. Nonsense.

> It's just mainland Chinese culture

Agree. What I really want is to expose the underlying details about how things work here. It's not just simply 'different' in one or two parameters. It's not about good or bad. You can say it's bad, I've got no problem with it. But I really want to say that it's interesting, and it's not just China. The fareast countries are similar.

(Well talking about quality do you really think I'm arguing that pudn is good? Chinese open source is good? Why would you assume me that kind of person after all? :-)
>My variation of the potpie isn’t simply a fork of the ingredients and editing lines. //

There's a few recipes I've used for which this is the case. Same for my mum - I've got magazine clipped recipes of hers that say something along the lines of "add cherries at the end, use sultanas instead of currants; I add a dash of brandy" or others that say "you need to cook for about 45 mins, not 30".

I think variations allow for a sort of evolution of a recipe towards your own personal preference.

But of course that doesn't take account of the actual implementation of such a feature being possible to do in a way that works well and fits with the aims of this site.

I'd be interested to know what sort of edge cases make it complex. Surely it's just a pre-filled version of a page, that one edits and optionally has a link saying "based on $recipe". I could see it getting abused for people wanting to link their recipes to popular ones (like youtube response vids that aren't really responses) but beyond that sort of thing it seems pretty basic. Were you trying to digest the multiple variations to offer options within a recipe or something?
I dunno, "Birding with citizen science" might be quite an interesting dating site...
This is incredibly neat, I love it. I haven't used it extensively, but would there be any way to easily export things so you can import it to say AnyList for shopping? I normally would just use Paprika for this, however the recipes here looks gorgeous.

edit: Also, I forgot to mention but it's a bit annoying that there's an upper limit to password length.
>Kurzweil is not respected in the AI community. I have never heard of Moravec.

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

I don’t care what people think about when (or if) we achieve AGI, I want to know why they think a particular date. What analysis have they done to reach their conclusion?
Microsoft App-V has been around for 5+ years though it sounds like it would be a Docker to Bromium's Xen.

Sandboxie was one of the original Windows application virtualization options 10 years ago.

I was hoping something would become the 'Docker for Windows' but these programs are being snapped up by software security companies.
JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle. They got it when they bought Sun.

I don't think that they can capitalize on that trademark now though.
How about sonic.net business class symmetric DSL which permits servers, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-26/sonic-dot-ne...
10 Men Making Waves for Women in Tech
I have never bought bitcoin with the allowance. In case anyone is wondering, the government sells each Venezuelan $300 per year at the official exchange rate. This is the only amount that we're given without having to go through a lengthy process that typically involves having 'friends' within the government to pull strings for you. People usually buy Amazon gift cards with the money.

It's too scary to put your money in another volatile currency - I suppose people prefer dollars because they are stable and can be spent on popular e-commerce sites.
Wow! That far? I feel sad. Kurzweil had me hopeful that I'd be able to use it in next 30 years.
Yes. There are still many places the subway doesn't go. The buses are also crowded, and sometimes you have to wait in line for a couple of hours even to get on (especially to/from the suburbs). Of course, you might have to wait for 30 minutes to get on the subway during rush hour (e.g. finding enough space to fit in to an open car).

My only point here is that everything is quite relative (i.e. first world vs. third world problems).
You do what everybody outside the US does: build housing within easy walking/cycling distance of the stations.

And it's a simple matter of right of way, not "popular perception". A train runs on its own tracks, so it can be scheduled to the second and stops only when needed. A bus shares the road with other traffic, and is thus subject to traffic jams, traffic lights, other cars driving crazily and breaking down, nutcases running across the road and so on, which means lots of unnecessary stop-and-go (compared to a train) and a chronic inability to stick to a schedule.
I second hhandoko's question: is it open source? Or better yet, is it FLOSS?
Also, is an Android version coming anytime soon?
It's really sad that this is the case. It's hard to not be pessimistic about the situation when it's put like this. It's also really hard to explain to people why trying to protect this sort of freedom and privacy is important.
http://www.sophia.de/pdf/2014_PT-AI_polls.pdf

>We thus designed a brief questionnaire and distributed it to four groups of experts in 2012/2013. The median estimate of respondents was for a one in two chance that high-level machine intelligence will be developed around 2040-2050, rising to a nine in ten chance by 2075. Experts expect that systems will move on to superintelligence in less than 30 years thereafter. They estimate the chance is about one in three that this development turns out to be ‘bad’ or ‘extremely bad’ for humanity.
What kids around the world eat for breakfast
All bets require a margin to be escrowed on the blockchain. If the bet goes bad, it gets margin called. The bets are also fungible—holders of blockchain "dollars" can trade them freely instead of relying on the original backer of the bet. There is effectively no counterparty risk.
No worries.

My point is really to say, "what kind of sample size do you have in mind"? In this instance, the sample size seems to be everyone in a particular region who has played soccer. That's just too vague, in my opinion, to attempt to draw a conclusion.
Actually he is right - gpu instances are pretty cheap if you use the spot ones.
http://ec2price.com/?product=Linux/UNIX&type=g2.2xlarge&regi...

But the thing is I am not sure if amazon keeps a spot-instance reserve (i.e. what happens if all the spot instances get turned into on-demand ones over, say, a month and suddenly your service is shut down and you keep waiting indefinitely[you'd probably wait for around 24 hours and then try to get an on-demand one - which is 11x more expensive, costing around $600/mo for a shared gpu. and if you can't find an on-demand one, you will be offline for around a week until you figure out a way of provisioning a gpu instance from another service provider, which will probably cost you a lot more, but at that point you will have to do it not to disrupt the service for so long])
not really sure what the problem here is...
Berners-Lee: 'Computers are getting smarter. We’re not'
I really appreciate many points in this article, especially showing that people in the 60s thought that they were in just as much of a decline as we do now.

But there's also a weird anti-environmentalism threaded through the article. Toward the end, the author lists things that we now think are bad, as an example of how we've become pessimistic. Including: "New subdivisions represented a threat to the landscape rather than the promise of the good life. [...] Insecticides harmed eagles’ eggs." Those are and were legitimate concerns!

Just because we are correctly critical of some aspects of technological process doesn't mean we have become a bunch of petty pessimists who are just trying to make everyone feel bad.
Seconded for knowing a little more about the tech behind this.
Ya dude but Metro North isn't making tons of stops. East New York to the Bronx Zoo is def approaching two hours, kinda long for a weekend outing with the family. Factor in time spent waiting for a train, walking to the train, etc, and the number gets higher.
On the positive side, I was a kid and I watched some of those news reports on TV and begged for a computer because the idea of hacking into government computers looked so cool. That's what started my interest in programming.
It's not about the technically educated minority (though even they are vulnerable to falsehoods perpetrated via propaganda), but the vast majority of people who aren't aware of how computer security works and believe that the government is always working only in their interests.
> Your personal pics, videos... will all be leaked, a kind of secure golden shower

The humor writes itself
Step 3: profit!
At some point the difference ceases to matter.
Middle class income has been flat since the 70s and discretionary income has decreased.
Most of the commonly-used functionality in Ajax Control toolkit were things like the date-picker, various animated widgets, and making the deployment guy scream and pull his hair out. The actual ajax-side of it was rarely used, in my experience.
Seconded. The parser is very odd; it turns 'a nice cream' into 'nice cream' but 'an ice cream' is left alone. Moving the sentence structure around doesn't scan right, eg

Golden Rings 5
Calling Birds 4
French Hens 3
Turtle Doves 2
partridge in a pear tree

it's inconsistent, you have to retype things after correction to get something grammatical:

* '2 oz of butter' becomes 'butter 2 oz of'.

* '2 rashers of bacon' becomes 'rashers of bacon 2'.

it's wrong for some things, with apparently no workaround:

* 'five-spice powder' becomes 'spice powder five-'

* 'three cheese coleslaw' becomes 'cheese coleslaw three'

Apart from the last two - can't you just highlight the numbers without moving them?

Edited to add: looking at the way the recipes are presented on the site - with the quantities in a different column, rather than tagged on the end - makes me think that it would be clearer if it looked that way in the editor too, so you don't think of it as a sentence.
DoD 1033 Program, Ebola, and the CDC
Just because something works, doesn't mean it's right. How are you going to prove/test that the scripts really work as they should? After all they supposedly worked fine before Shellshock.
i managed to eventually brick one of these so be careful.