skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd like for people to start thinking about security measures, including encryption, as a cost function rather than as a boolean condition (e.g. safe vs. unsafe; stop the NSA vs. not stop the NSA)

Great point and one that I think typical computer savvy users already do. It is in the security-expert-fantasy-world that the perfect quickly becomes the enemy of the good.

For example, using SSL to send sensitive data like passwords or payment info is nearly ubiquitous. Yes, there are many flaws in SSL's trust model, but the cost is so small, using it is a no brainer.

However, PGP encrypted email is much more rarely used. It has numerous higher costs, from special email software to the social pain of getting your friends to also use it. The benefit is still high, but the cost is high too and that results in far less usage.

In the real world, informed people look at the cost benefit break down of security. Just like we all don't drive semi trucks around even though they are safer in a collision, we all don't communicate in the most secure fashion because there is a cost associated with that decision. With that in mind, the easiest path towards greater security in communications population-wide would be to focus less on improving the security and more on lowering the associated cost.
You can cut and slices test automation however you want to.

I usually have tons of unit-tests that rely on the use of mock, a lot of DAO/ORM integration-tests that require some sort of in-memory-DB (I'm fortunate enough that DBs such as H2, HSQLDB, Apache Derby exist in my world) to test queries (that includes DB migration testing).

The unit-tests and integration-tests cover a lot of code-branches (I use EclEmma/Cobertura to view coverage).

I still have full-stack functional tests but they don't have high coverage. They only ensure that the happy-path works.

I love my unit-tests because I can write them immediately without waiting for the DB/Storage to exist or to work.

I love my integration-tests because I don't have to wait until the front-end or some level of business logics are done (my DAOs/Repositories layer are kept minimal, most business logics exist in my Services layer, which are unit-testable).

If I have plenty end-2-end bugs, I'll revisit my strategy.
Speed camera are much more effective for speed limit enforcement. Helicopters work better for tracking high speed get aways.

Lamborghinis work best in video games though.
> First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", and NOT read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture.

Classic Linus
If you don't care about the safety of anyone involved and don't wish to go into a government building with your laptop, I'm sure thermite would be a lot more effective for its weight than a civilian acquirable explosive.

A thin layer of thermite, a magnesium starter, and a ceramic holster to keep the thermite firmly against the drive during the burn should work. Two thousand degrees of burning iron a few millimeters away from the nand should thoroughly annihilate it.
I still have my original copy of Zaks' book in my collection. I obtained it in 1981 from a friend. I did so much z80 assembly on the TRS-80 that I could "see" instructions in a hex dump before asking zbug to disassemble them.

The z80 was quite the chip for its time and I enjoy reading these articles has they look back into the deeper inner workings of the chip.

One could master the z80, I'm not sure many modern processors could be mastered at that level by a single programmer. They seem to have gotten so complicated that they're beyond comprehension in a single person's mind. I could be wrong but that's the general feeling I get. Sure you can be really good at them and maybe an expert in many applications of a modern complex processor but I doubt many people have a singular understanding of everything each chip has to offer.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.. :-)
I think the point about the 2nd law of thermodynamics helps to frame the narrative in such a way that he can point out how (as far as we know) unique and perhaps rare, and almost certainly fragile, the existence of intelligent life is in the universe.
Yeah, they know: http://www.zdnet.com/john-chambers-predicts-brutal-consolida...
There are people today who believe many health problems are the result of too many electrons in the body (so go walk around barefoot outside for a while to ground them out). This could have renewed interest today!
I think the article makes a good case for it having more to do with a kind of cultural globalization among financial elites than with QE, since the market has been booming more less continuously since the 90s and not just since 2008/9.

"Since the doldrums of the early nineties, the market for contemporary art, which has various definitions (work created after the Second World War, or during “our” lifetime, or post-1960, or post-1970), has rocketed up, year after year, flattening out briefly amid the financial crisis and global recession of 2008-09, before resuming its climb. Big annual returns have attracted more people to buying art, which has raised prices further. It is no coincidence that this steep rise, in recent decades, coincides with the increasing financialization of the world economy. The accumulation of greater wealth in the hands of a smaller percentage of the world’s population has created immense fortunes with a limitless capacity to pursue a limited supply of art work. The globalization of the art market—the interest in contemporary art among newly wealthy Asians, Latin Americans, Arabs, and Russians—has furnished it with scores of new buyers, and perhaps fresh supplies of greater fools."
Whatever. I don't get how two downvotes of -4 comes to -60 karma points though.
Alan Watts is regularly given as the prototypical example of 'beat zen' which is recognized as a debased form of Zen. This is discussed in the book I reference above by Wong Kiew Kit.

This is not my opinion per se. It is the opinion of many Zen masters. Just look at the criticisms section in Alan Watt's Wikipedia article. D. T. Suzuki being one of them.

However, having said all that, I still think the world is a better place because Alan Watts existed. Even if misinformed about many Zen concepts, he has brought joy to many people, and interested many people in Zen.
Mindfulness is awareness.

When eating you're aware that you are eating. When seeing something you are aware that you are seeing something.
When enjoying the sunset you're aware you're enjoying the sunset.
When thinking you're aware that you are thinking.
When selfish you are aware of that.
When sad you are aware that you are sad... And so on.

On some level it's like "seeing the matrix". Everything is clear, no longer overlaid by thoughts of gain or loss. No more "what's in it for me?"

Everything is wondrous. Everything is just there. There are no questions.

Wow... This just blurted out. Anyway, that's what it means to me.
Check wifi adapter support also (in general, not specifically on ThinkPads).
I agree with you, and for me the classification "integration" vs "unit" doesn't add anything. I'd rather distinguish between slow and fast tests.

In my opinion TDD is top-down (instead of bottom up) you must start with these things because you are not sure the abstractions you will have at the end. Your design and abstractions need to evolve from tests.
This is an opportunity for an experiment: Upon implementing "assessment centers," how many years will it take for affluent families to figure out how to hack them?
NYTimes doesn't let you highlight text?
MS-CHAPv1 (RFC2433) support has been removed from pppd(8).

This is sensible but means I can't use OpenBSD to connect to one of my client's VPNs. Unless there's another way?
If you go to their homepage (http://priceonomics.com) you'll see that they still are in the "data crawling" business. The blog is used to get visitors to their site.
Caveat laptopor. I installed OpenBSD on my X201 just to give it a shot, and the battery life is atrocious.
They've been there implicitly for a long time, I've been told MIT has looks for evidence an applicant can do projects. A couple I included in my 1979 application almost certainly helped push me over the top.
A book that liked a lot is "Buddhism Plain and Simple", by Steve Hagen.

It manages well to steer clear of all cultural trappings and mysticism and just gives an introduction into the core ideas of Buddhism (which as Hagen points out isn't even an -ism).
As an open source alternative, have a look at the Project Serval http://www.servalproject.org/
Everything 68k is gone?
Ok, now I wonder: couldn't you harass people using this technology by jamming the DSPS signal until they give up on it and choose something else? I bet that these hard drives are costly enough so that it becomes a problem fast.
It was only meant as a joke, not an actual suggestion. There are far more effective ways to contain Ebola than to introduce nuclear warfare.
Some jurisdictions force people to decrypt their drives under pain of contempt of court. Some jurisdictions use rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Full disk encryption protects against neither. This protects against both.
The unseen forces that influence innovation
Let's Talk about Reddit and Self Promotion
chemical scans probably will detect it.
> Those with less than perfect grades might go on to dream up blockbuster films like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg or become entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Barbara Corcoran and Richard Branson.

Alternatively, one might observe that modern colleges are for the mediocre, noting that college had little to offer the cited personalities and would likely have at best delayed their path, or more likely, prevent them from achieving what they did by socializing them into conformity and obedience of authority and convention.

We may certainly choose to daydream that "If only Steve Jobs and George Lucas had completed more college than they did, maybe they could have done something even more amazing", as if college has this effect on people. (Lucas has two degrees, so it's unclear what the article's author is really meaning to say about him, apparently that the author thinks he should have gone beyond a Bachelors.)
> the ecstatic truth

Usually known as fiction.

Or fiction intended to be taken as fact, which is either a hoax or a gag, depending on context.
Actually, you're trying hard to make sure it remains like a small subreddit, which is essentially what it is.
Yes we can certainly all breathe easier now! I know when I'm out with friends my enjoyment is so often ruined by the worry that the accounting isn't balanced to the penny.
Most of the 'Nigerian Scammers' use public computers in cafes / lounges. Would you expect people to use public computers for BTC business? How could they possibly secure these computers against Keyloggers and other means of 'hacking'?
New Privacy Surfing
Where does it say that?

Edit: If you mean mac68k then yes, but that platform was dropped after the 5.1 release. http://www.openbsd.org/mac68k.html
In this moment, I am euphoric.
How Social Engagement Is Taking Over Our Lives
I'd be curious to know how much this might exacerbate socioeconomic gaps, given implicit prejudices. The SAT might have cultural biases, but imagine a test where the entire point is to see how well you line up with them!
The Lady Gaga copter is quite funky http://www.10news.com/news/lady-gaga-takes-flight-in-hoverin...
There are intentional discrimination in many places ,including the now famous "Affirmative action" that is purposely designed by law to discriminate students by race. The world is not a perfect place. I am just saying unless more 'minorities' are taking STEM majors at very early stage, blaming HR at SV companies is not going to help much.
Social learning by imitation in a reptile: Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
> I'd like to know how the regular stock market deals with this. Are all stock exchanges regulated worldwide? Is there such a thing as a dishonest stock exchange? If so, how is that dealt with?

Holding a stock certificate entitles you to a percentage of the profits of that company (via dividends / buybacks). So when Facebook lists on the NASDAQ, only those who have shares recognized by NASDAQ & FB have any claim to the profits of the company.

There are shitty foreign exchanges full of speculation and manipulation and you can trade "Facebook" there, but if you own a share of "Facebook" on some third-tier Armenian exchange, you have zero claim to Facebook's profits. Your arrangement in that situation is with the exchange or the counterparties on that exchange to swap the shares back and forth, not actually with the company in question -- so they have no way of impacting the 'real' stock price.
That was beautiful and spot on. I see it exactly the same way.

I certainly can't claim to always be like that, but I can attain the feeling quite often.
Aric, I wanted to upvote your answer and believed I did it, but it seems that it got gray afterwards? I really miss the possibility to correct my vote in case the click was interpreted wrongly the first time.
It may well be true for clojure, but it is not for haskell. I know both clojure and scala have issues due to assumptions in the JVM execution model that don't play well with functional programming, but ghc was written explicitly just for haskell.
Untried, but you may be able to just recompile pppd with different options; the diff seems small.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/pppd/M...

Worst case scenario you'd have to restore some bits of old source (chap_ms.c and maybe the necessary md4 routines).
My guess would be:

1. They are excited by chip architecture
2. They achieved profound and ecstatic insight once they worked all this out for themselves, and want to share that feeling with other people.
3. They just like helping others, and in particular helping others to understand.

From the tone of the piece, I suspect it is mainly 2.
I found this a very helpful write up. I am glad this person exists and that they took the time and effort to achieve 2.
On the contrary, the statement seems correct.

End to end connectivity is the Internet.... and by contrast, privately addressed networks are not on the Internet but must reach it via gateways.

Reaching one another via centralized services rather than distributed federation is a problem, not a solution, in communications protocol design. See also: Everyone Hates Facebook.
The thing is that the person who took Eileen's place might be the progeny of a donor with a lot of money; or she will have a similar intelligence level so she will make the same financial contribution. So, apart from denying Eileen the Harvard experience, the college has not lost anything much.
The people who use these devices fall under two broad categories: those who operate within the law and those who operate outside of it. In the former case, any jamming can be solved by a call to the FCC to the effect of: "Someone has been operating a jammer near our office. We think it might be a van parked nearby with the license plate 123456." In the latter case, any jamming could mean that the authorities have caught on to them and that they should start destroying all physical evidence. The drive would serve as a canary, so to speak.
In a traditional economic sense, the optimal amount to spend on security measures is when the marginal costs equal the marginal benefits.
>Automated over the beach resupply without paying for air assets would be a large cost savings and allow resupply of larger and heavier inventory items like bulk fuel, food, aircraft parts and tanks.

Awesome, now al we need is a world war and we can try out our new, efficient, automated toys!!

Its a great time to be alive.
I think they meant "it's no guarantee against..."
"It's obvious that neither of the other two processors in your phone with DMA could update your OS" is a statement that needs more justification than "it's obvious". Quite a number of backdoors from the baseband to the actual processor of the phone have been discovered over the last few years, including commands that seem to indicate that it could possibly write arbitrary memory under the right conditions.

Similarly, the conjectured scenario is that the government is trying to get in to your phone secretly: it's hardly unreasonable to think they could compel both Apple and your carrier to assist them, in the form of Apple generating a custom wiretap update and your carrier silently pushing it.

> It would in fact be incredibly dangerous to update the OS without explicit action, if for no other reason than the fact that this would not give the user the chance to back up their phone in case something goes wrong.

Again, we're talking about responding to a sealed court order to aid in tapping a telephone, and not about what makes good business sense under normal conditions.
Should information like this be provided over an insecure HTTP connection?

signify(1) pubkeys for this release:
base: RWR0EANmo9nqhpPbPUZDIBcRtrVcRwQxZ8UKGWY8Ui4RHi229KFL84wV
fw: RWT4e3jpYgSeLYs62aDsUkcvHR7+so5S/Fz/++B859j61rfNVcQTRxMw
pkg: RWSPEf7Vpp2j0PTDG+eLs5L700nlqBFzEcSmHuv3ypVUEOYwso+UucXb
Ideas for geek weddings
Using the Windows10 T.Preview? Microsoft might be watching your every move
Caltech gets over 5000 applicants each year* for nominally 235 openings. Where are your numbers coming from?

* http://collegeadmissions100.com/caltech-admission-stats/
This is freaking cool by itself, but the video gave me an interesting idea: what if you used this as an IDE for coding in general? You wouldn't need to have multiple monitors, you'd have 360 degrees of stuff to look at.

Then again, the idea of being cut off from the outside world with only your code to look at might be a less salient idea, so why not put a camera on this thing, then you could have "projected windows", basically like the holographic interface of tony stark without the holograms. I personally think that would be pretty cool.
Not the point, but for a two year old game (looks like released in 2012) I wouldn't pay more than 30$ to buy it.
How much data do most people have? The page seems to be struggling to process my ~83MB.
Well, I assume we've all met people (particularly since this is a board nominally for entrepreneurship involving software) that did very well in school or in other activities where there is a very well-laid out set of steps to follow and flounder when responsible for picking what to work on. If cmu wants to have high-impact graduates, they may feel they have enough people who dot every i and cross every t and get perfect grades, and would like more of the people likely to be impactful in life.
Eating is a natural process, so I agree that eating and breathing generally aren't of moral consideration (though one could imagine hypothetical scenarios where they are).

Vegetarians and vegans just take issue with the raising and killing of livestock for eating, not the eating itself. And I don't think I need to explain the difference between killing microorganisms or plants and killing mammals, as that has been discussed at length in this thread already (most people draw the line based on an organism's developed nervous system, hence why some vegetarians have no issue eating oysters or jellyfish since they are very close to plants neuron-wise).
Having spent 6 months in Poland I have to say I'm a bit surprised by this too. In my experience a lot of Polish people still have issues with english.
1. I don't down vote comments like yours because I try not to down vote (I once down voted in anger and felt bad, ever since I've reserved them for the most ignorant comments I come across and rarely even bother then).

2. If I ignore it, I'm not up voting it. I'm up voting posts that I think have some value.

3. This site is about whatever people on this site find interesting. If evolution (an interesting subject) happens to come up, it'll likely get up voted and discussed.

4. We get some slow days when it's mostly fluff here. And then we get days when it's nothing but academic math papers. It comes and goes, deal with it.
This is just another example of how absurd the US college system is from the perspective of someone from another country.

The purpose of a university for undergraduates is not to select people of character, budding entrepreneurs,sportsmen,people with rich parents or anything else-it is to teach an academic subject to those best able to succeed at it.

The way to select them is to let the academic staff who will be teaching them decide. They will do that by means of exams and interview. How hard is that?
Responsibility of bringing forward new ideas in science
I'm able to highlight text using a mouse.
Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science
That sounds like code for admitting more of 'the right sort of people'.
peter -- this is a long involved answer, but basically, sf has fewer kids per capita than any city in america.

This means several things: a lack of parents in the city means a lack of support for the schools.

The schools have been bad for a while so there's an ugly cycle of the sort of parents that get involved in their kids' educations either leave for the peninsula, or put their kids into private schools. So the schools get worse. So more parents leave, or put their kids into private schools.

Having kids are one of the major reasons people move to the peninsula: you trade a $800k apartment in sf for a $1.2mm house on the peninsula, but save $35-$45k/year in private school fees (assuming you have two kids). Spending the money on the house instead of school means you get your money back when you sell.

Also, prop 13 destroyed local property taxes. This is another long involved story involving the wealthy getting californians to fuck newcomers, but it basically means very weird taxation.

edit: oh, and who goes to public schools in sf? Predominantly poor minority kids. The fastest number I could find is that 62% of students in sf public schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunches [1], a common measure of poverty. In order to qualify your family must make less than 185% of the poverty line, or about $40k for a family with one kid. And that's in a city where 1-bedroom apartments now go for $3500/mo. The demographics of public school kids in sf [2] are 11% white. The city as a whole is 48.1% white [3].

[1] http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/06/calif-school-districts-f...

[2] http://www.sfusd.edu/en/employment/certificated-careers/teac...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Race_and_ethnicit...
Parts of this article gloss over important facts.

> These new platforms are able to create a marketplace where lenders and borrowers can find one another and agree to terms, all without the involvement of retail banks or credit card companies.

Credit card companies provide revolving lines of credit; the author's "marketplace lenders" provide term loans. These are two different beasts.

While some folks do use term loans to pay off debt with a higher interest rate under a revolving line of credit, the non-professionals eager to finance consolidation loans would be wise to heed Mark Cuban's advice, "Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you."

> And instead of receiving 1% interest for keeping their money in a CD, active lenders on marketplace platforms receive, on average, an 8% return on their investments.

Most CDs are FDIC-insured. Casually comparing an FDIC-insured certificate of deposit to an unsecured note that has both credit and interest rate risk is insanely foolish.

> Earlier this year my whitepaper on marketplace lending forecast that the sector has the potential to originate $1T in loans globally by 2025.

"Marketplace lenders" are absolutely here to stay, but the influx of capital to this space has a lot to do with ZIRP. The author doesn't acknowledge this, but when interest rates start to rise, which could happen within the next year, the environment for "marketplace lenders" is going to change.