skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife has a 2011 MBP blessed with a 1280x800 screen and the Helvetica face looks pretty bad from a type point of view. It's not unreadable but the type has lost its definition completely.

Unfortunately "after yesterday", things are expensive I.e. to get our definition back, we have to shift the entire unit with an i7, 16Gb of RAM and Samsung 840 Pro and buy a new unit with similar spec, which isn't cheap because you have to buy up front rather than upgrade now.

Hmm.

(I have an X201 with same res as my daily driver and its pretty good with ClearType on windows)
You should never send a private key. Private keys are private. That is a poorly written tutorial - written by someone that may not understand PKI.

You generate the CSR and send that.
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From what I understood, this requires varying the complex-valued field spatially near the receiver. Isn't that equivalent somehow to having multiple antennas and creating streams with those (i.e. varying the field near the receiver and detecting it, aka MIMO)?
> get Airbnb to share their data with the IRS and problem solved

Airbnb does this already.
I would love to see how its done one day, though I get the need to make back the investment in time!
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Ask your landlord to reimburse you. If they do not, hire a lawyer and do what they tell you to. The first thing they'll do is write your landlord a letter. That will probably be the end of it.
The matter is not just about one couple engaging in 'stupid' economically self-destructive behavior.

The question is why is the issue so widespread? Why are these RTB businesses making such a killing exploiting a behavior that has become increasingly massive in the 7 years since the recession started? What is so screwed up in American society that the lower class families which should be saving up and making careful purchasing decisions to improve their lot in life, are instead throwing themselves at the wolves' mouths?
The first few trivial counter-examples which come to mind:

* someone adds a storage device. Now your server can't boot because what used to be /dev/sda1 is now /dev/sdc1. Yes, UUIDs partially address that but unless you were defining "decades" as "within the last year or so" you can't assume that they were used.

* init script starts something, which crashes / is killed by OOM / etc. and you'd like it to be restarted. Note that this is still unsolved with upstart if the process crashes for more than your respawn limit, as is common with e.g. networking-related startup failures but, hey, it's the same braintrust which required multiple major releases to accept that sysadmins need logging and daemons to be started as users other than root or that "hang forever" is not a valid error handling strategy.
It says "we had created a model with 64mb memory and a 580mhz CPU". That says literally nothing about the source of anything. All that says is "we stuffed various parts in a box".
Which was undoubtedly changed to more closely match the actual article title, rather than for censorship/family-friendliness reasons.
To be fair, a similar argument also applies to structs vs. tuples. Unpacking them is really awkward. I suspect language designers only tolerate them because they're so convenient in practice for representing mathematical tuples (where order is actually semantically significant) and have very lightweight syntax in cases where you want to use all or most of the values. But with variants, order is never meaningful and you can only have one disjunctive type at at time (which quashes both those points). There's a Rust RFC which proposes some rather icky syntax for them (match foo { (e|!|!) => ... | (!|i|!) => ... }) and that alone convinced me that this is a no-go.
Re: snitch.io

Have you considered somehow providing a demo of what I might see for my domain?
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I don't see why it would be any different in the case of Google; but I don't personally use the Google services to any greater extent these days, so perhaps I'm just not feeling the ramifications ordinary users would.
That is 100% correct and clear.
"What on earth do you think breeding does? It selects for increasing proportions of genetic variants in the phenotypically above-average members of the flock."...

... using certain operators that are not arbitrarily recombining DNA. "Crossover" and such may be somewhat oversimplified versions of what real life does, but neither are the real life genetic operations anywhere near "completely free" recombinations.

Your arguments based on conventional evolutionary operations do not apply to cases where we are engineering freely, without regard to what appears where on chromosomes or any of the other myriad ways we've evolved the ability to safely evolve.

I do also feel like perhaps you are sneaking a step in where the intelligent manipulator double-checks whether the gene combinations make sense, which, if so, would be subtly begging the question as my point is precisely that we would have to check.

Besides, if I may flip the burden of proof around for a moment and appeal to something that may only be a heuristic rather than a solid logical argument, do you really think superintelligence is going to be this easy? "Just" look up all the thousands of genes that contribute to intelligence, assume they must all be doing it linearly (in the "linearly-combinable" sense of the term), and flip them to "smart" rather than "dumb"? Really? It's never that easy, even for things multiple orders of magnitude simpler than genetically engineering intelligence. It would boggle my mind if the path, or even a path, to human superintelligence could be so thoroughly expressed in so few bits.
> I assembled myself with the help of a mechanic.

I believe in this analogy you are Argentina and your mechanic is Japan/Europe.
In this case you are trusting the javascript running in the browser that it does not leak the key it generated. It is safer to just not let the browser ever see the private key.
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No, I am suggesting that people who are not payed to search through archives will frequently lack the time to search through archives. Digging through newspaper articles at your local library to find information on the dozen politicians on the ballet is something that most people do not have the time/resources to do. For the most part, these people will have to rely on the media to do that for them.

Search engines are an equalizer, they allow people to search through massive amounts of data blazingly fast. This closes the gap between the research a professional reporter is capable of, and the research that the general public is capable of.
Why wasn't there a trigger warning for bad code? I doubt I'll be able to function the rest of the day.
I certainly agree that startups over-promise in the beginning, but they need to be very explicit and very clear as far as human safety is concerned. I work (up until the end of the day today) for a medical startup. We speak highly of our own product, but we make it unambiguously, blatantly clear that our product is NOT an emergency feedback system. If we lie and say we're a system like that, people could get killed. In this case, the publishers lied critically about the source of the parts and the system that was running on top. While perhaps not as immediately and spectacularly fatal as a medical device malfunction, if journalists or revolutionaries are using the product and there's a backdoor, there will be lives lost. They were NOT clear that the hardware they were using was actually a Chinese manufactured product from a Chinese design company. When it comes to surveillance, the Chinese government doesn't have a great reputation. There's plenty of reason to believe the device may have a hardware backdoor, as has happened before. Second, the software installed on the device is itself highly insecure. The original Reddit post pointed out that the device had a web-exposed remote administration panel open with the default username and password.

The only thing worse than no security is the illusion of security. This product, as sold, provided just that -- a minimal but ultimately illusory security.
But many would argue that these laws are unconstitutional. Free speech is one of the highest laws in the land and there's a court challenge underway: https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/aclu-idaho-and-coalition-fi...
You are not alone in drawing that conclusion:
http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordO...
I can't think of anyone more highly attuned to the instinct part of this than Dennis Rodman.
Hi!

The screenshots show you what the app looks like. And to your point all accounts come with a free 14-day trial.

I may eventually add a free "one-off" audit - but the value in a service like Snitch is that something is constantly monitoring and alerting.

Happy to answer any other questions - you can email me anytime. This username at gmail or currylabs.com
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I'm curious to know how the videos stack up to the tuts+ video series [0]. (Even though I think tuts+ is ST2 only.) Have you viewed those?

[0] http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/perfect-workflow-in-sublime...
Thanks for the feedback, jasode. Most of my piece was written from the perspective of Ruby, Python, and Node.js development, so your perspective on the state of affairs in Java is helpful. In this regard, Java sits in an interesting middle ground between Go and Ruby. Go completely relies on compile-time dependencies. Ruby completely relies on run-time dependencies.

Once piece of consistent feedback that I've gotten is that I didn't do a good enough job of clarifying that I was specifically dealing with the complexity of running applications. I'm pretty sure most people who have deployed Ruby or Python web applications would agree that deploying and running those applications is more complex that it needs to be. The examples of accidental complexity you gave are great examples of how it can manifest in code design.

I really liked your last point about the importance of use cases. I briefly alluded to that in the conclusion of my article, and I'm glad that you brought it up here. Use-case is extremely important.
You are the perfect example of the author's point, and the effectiveness of the modern Apple business model.
Use the coupon code LAUNCHDAY to make it $26 or $35 with the videos :)
While trying to look it up myself:

* StartSSL.com itself doesn't use SSL, so it could be hijacked

* I get a TLS fail (ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert) on https://auth.startssl.com on Firefox 32

I'd call the first a red flag, the second a critical fail. This is the entry point to SSL on the web?
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I thought D-Wave was a quantum computing company?
>Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use.

It's free to evaluate for as long as you'd like. Once you start seriously using it, and making money with it, you need to buy it.
You are correct. It generates a private key and then sends a SPKAC which is essentially a different format of CSR.
Other than for altruistic or PR reasons, I'm not sure why they would.

Currently, they aren't preventing Tor users from reaching the web sites of their customers, they're just making it a little more difficult.
I will talk to my wife this weekend. She may have some insight I don't see. For me I just like my phone, so spending any more time on it with a new app is more a chore. I am sure I'm an outliner with my attitude about my phone. That being said I would like to see you succeed with this, as I am sure it could really be helpful for the right parents.
I agree. I'm used to european prices and also haven't consider that Nexus phones are actually quite cheap. I bought my current phone (S4) over a year ago for around $650.

I'm going to stick to buying high-end phones now and yes, I'm excited to learn it's not as expensive as I thought anymore :).
Nokia 920
Pros > Windows Phone is actually really good + Cortana calls me sir, Nokia apps are outstanding, support for VPN and enterprise apps out of the box, I really dig the UI and unified look of the apps + xbox + windows 8
Cons > Windows Phone + Cortana is a bit bratty

Wants > Experia Z3 Compact, If nokia/microsoft doesn't release a flagship small form factor phone I may go back to android just for that phone.
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> And insulin resistance is an issue if you're overweight. For a normal person it's a non-issue.

68.5% of the US adult population is overweight [1], so even if it was only a problem for overweight people, in the US at least, overweight is normal. ("Normal" and "ideal" aren't the same thing.)

[1] Ogden C. L., Carroll, M. D., Kit, B.K., & Flegal K. M. (2014). Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012. Journal of the American Medical Association, 311(8), 806-814.
(disclaimer: I am an author of the paper)

Thanks for your comments. First off: yes, most (perhaps all) of the applied methods are not novel, some of them have been around for a long time. We only claim novelty on how these existing methods are combined to solve the problem of data availability and integrity on the web.

Yes, the magnet URI scheme is highly related, and we probably should have referred to it in one way or another. However, there are crucial features that magnet links do not provide (as far as I know): you cannot generate a hash that represents content on a more abstract level than byte sequences (MIME types by themselves don't solve that problem), and you can also not have self-references. All of the features from our list of requirements are supported by some approaches, but (to our knowledge) no approach supports all of them at the same time.

In terms of search engines caching research data, I agree! We shouldn't trust existing providers too much but build a dedicated decentralized infrastructure for scientific purposes (this is what I am working on now).

I am sure the performance measures can be improved (incremental cryptography might allow us to get rid of sorting altogether). The shape of the curve is however not much affected by the fact whether the statements are already sorted or not (they are not sorted for TransformRdf and TransformLargeRdf!).

I hope this clarifies some things.
See the previous discussion, here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8469438
DARE and a lot of programs like it have been shows, time and again, to be fairly ineffective. Hell, the DARE program was, in 2001 (curriculum may have changed since then, I don't know), placed on the list of Ineffective Primary Prevention Programs by the Surgeon General. Our current model for drug programs simply doesn't work. And consider too that in many, MANY areas sexual education is limited to abstinence only, which has been demonstrated to be radically ineffective the world over. I would imagine too that many of those areas are also in ones with a very low coverage of abortion clinics. So while you may have taken those warnings to heart, consider that such programs usually just don't work.

And I do agree with you that there are much cheaper ways to, say get a couch, but I do take issue with your food budget. You're making that out to be a low cost, when in reality $100 bucks per person per month is HUGE. If you've got yourself and a kid to support, that's say $200 (with very careful budgeting and probably fairly low quality nutrition) on an after tax monthly income of maybe $1200 bucks. That's an enormous chunk of change, particularly when coupled with other recurring costs like rent and gas money. Also, regarding the couch, as some in this thread have pointed out the idea that everyone thinks logically is unfortunately false. Someone's already under enormous stress from an erratic work schedule and barely eking buy, perhaps has other issues to deal with like health problems, and they want the sense of having one thing that 'normal people' do. It's a very, very powerful motivation especially when the store oh so enticingly packages it as being a few dozen bucks a month.
Configuring things is hard, and if you rely on Google to give you magic commands to execute instead of learning about what you're doing, you can really mess up.

If you don't have the time to spend properly administrating a system, don't do it; use a hosted platform so that someone else (who knows what they're doing) does it for you.
This reminded me of how much more people pay for houses on loan vs with cash. If you pay using a loan, you may pay double the cost by the time it is paid off. The only plus side with a house is the possibility that the value will increase and offset the difference some. No matter how you look at it, that furniture will never increase in value.
Mandatory XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/803/
A big issue here was the variable pay these people were getting. Obviously, that's no excuse to spend more than you make, but, it may help understand why it happens. If you have a steady paycheck, it's much easier to plan for things (even if it's a small paycheck).
They discuss it in page 13. It seems that you can do so for small set of angular momentum modes.
That's pretty weak, it ignores the underlying question: How many "Lead Engineer" or managers were women, and were men.

Basically, you could be obscuring...men make 87% of the pay at Microsoft, but for equal titles its equal pay!
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh23-1/15-24.pdf
The reason it raises blood sugar more slowly is because some of the carbohydrate is converted into, effectively, dietary fibre. That means you get fewer calories for the same serving size.
Not really. "range" returns a list, "xrange" returns an iterator. I assume that the list is much easier to reason about in a JIT. In python3, range is a type of its own and certainly more useful for in a JIT.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#typesseq-ran...

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#range
The other way of looking at the expense is "How much are we willing to pay to prevent another such disaster?" (assuming it wasn't a conspiracy of the pilot).
It's even worse than that as even if all the above is actually correct and done perfectly that you may still not get the "green" depending on the browser as the browser makers are moving to showing domain validated (via email) certificates as gray and only EV (extended validation) certs as green.

Things to note: EV certs are much more expensive. You cannot get a cert that is both EV and a Wildcard, single domains only.

Screenshots of how the various browsers show Domain vs EV certs at:

https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/visual-security-browser-s...
Their mistake was not to mention that the hardware isn't built entirely by them (mainboard is bought from China).
However, I don't think it's fair (the backslash). They bundle the hardware with a software, they will handle the support, future updates so it's not like they are simply reselling a Chinese item. If this sounds outrageous to you then you should be outraged by 99% of the electronics items sold (because you can always buy them cheaper in China).

I'm not a supporter of this anonbox but I don't get all the outrage.
I don't own any Apple devices, so i feel i need to ask a question that might have an obvious answer:

Do people have the choice of font?

From the sounds of it the newest OSX is squarely aimed at the future of paper-like displays, which is cool, but curses old devices with a badly readable font, regardless of what the user wishes. On Windows i can configure fonts and colors for a whole range of system gui components however i like. Does OSX offer the same, or are users really stuck with whatever a designer liked best that week?

--

Earnestly asking: Why the downvote? I posted this because i'm genuinely curious.
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The linked document shows that the lion's share of revenue is being made on rentals located in some of the most expensive parts of Manhattan. They are no doubt cheaper than similarly located legal hotels, but there are four other boros and the whole rest of Manhattan that contain legal hotels, hotels that in many cases are cheaper than illegal hotels listed on AirBnB in the most expensive areas of Manhattan.

I'd like to see the evidence that people would not visit NYC if they couldn't stay in Chelsea.

> NYC government also seems to think they'll be able to put the genie back in the bottle -- they're wrong. Airbnb has proven this is a huge market -- if they go under, they'll be replaced by a solution that is harder to regulate.

They didn't prove anything. We already knew flophouses were a viable businesses in the absence of effective regulation going back to the early 19th century. Businesses that privatize the profits and socialize the costs tend to be profitable.
I started using it shortly after I outgrew Coda. I went to Textmate at first, but it was around the time that Textmate seemed totally dead. Its interface reeked of 2004 but Chocolat was quite modern. I liked it a lot but I was eventually lured away by Sublime's ecosystem. Then I got sick of dealing with JSON for my settings and checked out Atom. But I find that I'm not really taking all those rich ecosystems that Sublime and Atom offer. It's probably time for me to take another look at Chocolat as well.
I think that way, and I think your math is super hand wavy. I can't think of a trip I've taken in the last few years where incidental expenses exceeded the cost of airfare + hotel.

If you spend $50 a day on food in NYC with a sales tax of ~9% we are talking about $4.50 a day. And $50 a day is high, if we are talking about people that are so price sensitive that they won't come to NYC at all without AirBnB.

Of the top 10 rooms listed in the AirBnB report, $100 a night seems to be the median price. With a hotel tax of ~6%, that should be $6 a day.

You can nab a real hotel room in NYC for $200 a night (with some work, even less). That yields ~$10 to the city a night in hotel fees.

It's hard to say without knowing a lot about price sensitivity whether or not your argument is true, but on the surface of it, I don't see it. Are there that many people that can buy a plane ticket, pay $50 a day in food, and $100 a night for AirBnB, but CAN'T pay $200 a night for a hotel?

I would imagine that more likely it changes the length of peoples stay. Maybe with AirBnB you can come for 6 days instead of 4 or something like that. But if AirBnB currently doesn't pay any taxes, I'm don't see how 6 days of sale tax instead of 4 makes up for the lost hotel tax.
Why was this popular in the first place? Why not just run TorBrowser?
It does. No crashes if VM is not running.
Here are some interesting threads from reddit:

-A user found an identical device on a chinese website: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2j8kyo/tor_rout...

-Updated thread with a lot of info/links: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/2j9caq/anonabox_to...

-The infamous AMA from the "developer": https://www.reddit.com/r/anonabox/comments/2ja22g/hi_im_augu...

Edit: formatting
The font on that site makes me feel like I'm reading something written on a misaligned typewriter. The x-height is inconsistent especially with v, y, and t.

But maybe I'll like it more tomorrow.
keypair generation is done by the browser using the <keygen /> element, not by custom JS.
You'd think that by now the poor user experience would trump the extra profit. Apple's reputation is built on "it just works", and 16GB of storage is starting to fail that all by itself.
So it is still free speech even if no one is allowed to hear it?
Another cool basketball article: http://grantland.com/features/expected-value-possession-nba-...