skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The second (B) is that the authors believed TextSecure to have swapped some of the parameters for the HMAC algorithm. Moxie has asserted that this is a mistake by the paper authors, and that TextSecure uses HMAC conventionally.

You don't need to rely on the assertions of the authors; you can find the source at https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure .
In other words... capitalism.
this comment is hilarious, btw

All employers resent their employees and are seeking to exploit them as much as possible for as little money as possible. Always. Every single one of them. Every second of every day.

Make no mistake- that air hockey table is a ruse to steal your money.
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Don't cat logs, databases or arbitrary files
Here's what I meant

> sure I agree but it is illegal. Constitutionally, Bonded labor has long been abolished in India.

I am aware of the prevalence of bonded labor in India. However, it is not the law but the law enforcement which is the issue. One of your links also mentions it

> In spite of the encompassing and seemingly progressive legislative framework,

My previous reply was to a comment who was trying to suggest that a bond or a one-sided contract was legal. It is a very common misconception in India and particularly in the IT workforce. The reason I took the liberty to omit the word because I thought it would be implicit that HN users would refer to bonded labor in technology companies. After all, that is what the original submission is about.
Remember that floobits are the people that threw a tantrum when upstream vim wouldn't accept their patches, and have a vested ego interest in pushing a vim fork.
In the meantime, Taiwan maintains traditional Chinese writing while using Mandarin for speech. Table for clarity:

Simplified + Mandarin -> Mainland China
Traditional + Cantonese -> Hong Kong, Macau
Traditional + Mandarin -> Taiwan
I think the security issues are exaggerated (MS certainly has a motivation to get people to buy their latest OS), especially for advanced users and developers who have a good idea of what their system is doing. A lot of the exploits being patched now are based on "user is tricked into doing X", and OSs are increasingly designed to be secure against their users.

XP is more hackable (in both senses of the word), but it also gives more freedom.to the user.
I'm curious if this is working for anyone with Safari? For any given game, I just get a blank white screen.
Most people coming on H1B are no less talented /skilled or hardworking that an average american techie. However, the H1B worker is not aware of his rights. The average H1b worker has no one to turn to for help as the people who are most vehemently against H1B have racist and xenophobic agendas. I speak from experience : while on a H1B VISA (and in middle of a unpleasant work situation), I sought help by seeking out the people behind anti-H1B VISA web pages. Not only did those people I asked for help had no assistance for me , they hounded me with hateful racist mails, phone calls and death threats.

The focus of this article and sadly HNers is to punish and prosecute the companies. Not one opinion has been offered to make the lives of H1B better. So let me offer one.

The US consulate can brief the H1B GRANTEE on his /her rights.Maybe include an DVD or training video on youtube along with a hotline or number of labour lawyers. Make the company sponsoring H1B agree to abide by labour laws of California or whichever state the the company is located in.
No, it's not two factors. Access to the phone number is entirely based on something you know.
If gays were treated 1/100th as bad as any minority in turkey we would have the gay liberation army fighting an insurgency.

You are talking about the country that invented the true modern genocide, applied it to the Armenians, and still arrests anyone within its borders who dares say they did any of the above.
I had a similar experience 7 or 8 years ago, except that I was working for a small company and doing both the recruiting and the interviewing. I would screen a person by phone, and they would pass a basic screen. Then the person would come in and be completely incompetent, openly bringing a basic book in the language that he or she was expected to already know.

After this happened a couple of times I got wise to the strategy. The phone screen was useless. Someone would prompt the person with the right answer. The resume and references also useless, filled with unconfirmable or suspect information.

I gained a little appreciation for what HR professionals have to do and lost a bit of my naivete that people won't try to represent expertise to someone who actually has that expertise.

The language was SAS.
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If you consider the neural pathway from the retina onwards, it does start with a pixel accurate input... You might have to resort to a short bright flash of a cat photo.

The neural pathway does many transforms so that things like scale and movement can be left out for some tasks.

An artificial neural network should evolve to do some similar transformations. It has been done.
A few quick thoughts:

1. How is this different than iA Writer?

2. How about a trial for new users? That ways people know what they're going to pay for.

3. Why not also create an online version like hemingwayapp?
I both buy laptops like this and build my own machines. It's always befuddled me that, when I'm building my own computers and once the hardware is all assembled, the clean OS install usually goes really smoothly and on first boot there's usually no problems and the machines run great.

Get the latest updates and now the computer is running like a Swiss watch.

But whenever I buy a laptop, there's always something wrong with the way the OS was installed. Weird stuff like the wifi adapter drops every 10 minutes, or the left side of the trackpad doesn't work.

Sure enough, I'll just nuke whatever the system came with and install the OS from scratch and it'll work like a charm. It's almost like the manufacturers are trying to fuck up the out of the box experience.

It would be better for them 95% of the time just to put together the hardware and install the shipped OS and put it out the door.
It is a one-sided contract which is commonly referred to as "bond" amongst the Indian IT workforce.

The law clearly states that a one-sided contract (even if written as a compensation for training expenses) is illegal in India.
It's interesting that the distinction between functional languages and imperative languages is not at all clear in the graph. This could be caused by the fact that the visualization technique used is not capable of showing this, or that there are simply too many types of edges (or because each type of edge is getting the same "importance" in the graph drawing algorithm).
Great examples. I recall back when I was grade school in Hong Kong, we learned to read and write Chinese the standard "Mandarin" way. It is like formal speak. But in everyday conversation, people speak the "Cantonese" colloquial way. It is quite weird when I think about it now how everyone speaks "Cantonese" when it's never taught in school. It's like us learning regular English in school but everyone speaks Shakespeare or something (of course it's not that dramatic of a difference).

The written system in Hong Kong uses the standard "Mandarin" saying. Most serious Hong Kong newspapers (business, etc) "speak" the standard "Mandarin" way.
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And now it can get legally drunk in every country on the Earth, where drinking is legal ;)

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http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat is a TV calendar I have been using for like 7 years, damn thing is great.

Not sure of their exact traffic but it's pretty popular.
The only example I can think of is HN.

It's probably the only example I can conceive of existing, too, since it's in a pretty unique position of being cheap to serve and indefinitely funded (hence not under pressure to grow, monetize, or advertise to cover costs).
http://sleepyti.me - simple concept, simple implementation, lots of users.
http://idonethis.com/ is a simple idea that lots of people use.
It's a quote I grabbed from Nest they had a billoard ad in San Francisco a few months ago...it's to convey that from now on this is how you can browse the web don't read into it so much :) all marketing. you can see the ad here I was inspired from

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kTPACMU9fPw/U7zRNEAfU_I/AAAAAAABYL...

I left out the details to focus on pics and a video that's coming soon because I'm focusing on not localizing too much as most of our users are outside of the us...just being very strategic as I have to localise all of the messaging. Still a work in progress.

The website was done in a few hours...still working on putting it together.
But you have to try quest out for yourself really to fully understand why it's different.

But I'll work on adding a few pointers on the site
Here is a tour video https://www.dropbox.com/s/4sg2j1c1kb1bz0q/qv.mov?dl=0
me demoing Quest
Some main features are better clutter free user interface, no distractions.

Faster browsing speed

Private browsing as we auto delete history and cookies on close

Auto Paste function to automatically paste a url or text from the clipboard into the address bar

Only browser you can use comfortably with one hand/finger on a iPhone 6 or 5 everything is gesture based

Pull to Refresh

....list goes on the rest you'll just have to discover for yourself.
Asus is giving users a bad Windows experience so it very much is a problem for Microsoft to address. This is no different than Google going around and trying as much as it can to force the many companies releasing android devices to put out less junk and keep them up to date. In both cases all we the users know is we picked up a Windows or Android device and it was a horrible experience and so I will probably not do that again.
FreeBSD has reached the legal drinking age! Cheers!

I just hope that they don't change their license model into just "free as in beer" :)

And I hope they one day implement all kernel functions that Linux supports, so that switching from Linux to FreeBSD becomes less painful.
About 7 years ago on a project I earned 100 an hour... No idea though these days...
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Bad quality food optimized to trick the human senses to prefer it to actually nutritious stuff.
You can also look at makeup, rhetoric, politics etc...
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I have had the same experience: writing on my iPads (II and then mini) has been just fine with markdown files in Dropbox and using the lean pub publishing system. Admittedly my standards for working a little more slowly than with my laptop are probably a little lax. I also write and edit on my Android phone although it is not as facile as using an iPad.

I use my laptop for software development (mostly Lisp languages, Haskell, and Ruby). Otherwise I like mobile devices.
We have to pay an extra $50 to have 7 instead of 8 on our Lenovos
I too love listening to podcasts every day. But I think this article has completely missed the mark on its main point. Most of the podcasts I listen to don't have ads (or just have a 5-10 second "sponsored by" spot), which is why I prefer them by far to commercial radio. On those that do have ads I fast-forward through them.

Edited to add: I often donate to support the podcasts I listen to in the hopes of keeping them ad-free.
My experience of the Pro2 was seamless, as you'd expect from a reference machine. Everything just works and is correctly configured out of the box. Set up your profile an go. If you already have an online profile it'll pull in your existing settings.
I make 65/hr on a remote project. Had an offer of 95usd/hr on w2 for an onsite project.
I'm totally fine with #2, if you do have a good separate compilation unit story. I'm fact, it's how many lisps work, and it works out quite well.

However, I wasn't talking just about your compile time asserts for #1. There's also syntax errors, undefined identifiers, missing or extra arguments, etc, etc. That stuff is hard to get right if you want to report many independent errors. It gets much easier if you can change your language, so don't wait too long to take a swing at it.
There are fundamentalists in law, just like in religion. A conviction exonerates the lawyer from any responsibility for injustice. After all, the opponent was declared or admitted guilt. Just as a religious leader exonerates himself from responsibility for enabling pogrom or ethnic cleansing as being the written will of the almighty.
Ask to see a psychiatrist. A proper diagnosis will require a history going back to childhood.

I'm 33, I was diagnosed about a year ago. It's made a positive difference on my life.
There is no legal loophole. The lawsuits in India (in majority of the cases) carry on for eternity and that's the endemic characteristic which companies exploit. That said, you yourself can try to use a legal threat as a means to turn the tides in your favor. In my personal experience, it has worked. I have made a detailed comment on the relevant laws [0].

I wouldn't prefer the legal gun option. You can show salary slips from your previous employer to show your proof of employment to your prospective employer(s) should you ever land in a bond-like situation and want to quit. Most prospective employers have no problem accepting that as a proof of employment in the previous firm. The issues arise when your "bonded" employer asks to deposit money in escrow accounts, educational certificates etc. with them. However, these are very good indicator(s) to avoid such firms. Keep in mind, that by law - it is illegal to withhold such certificates, money etc. to the vulnerability of the employee [0]. The MD of the company and the immediate manager can go to prison or have to pay fine or both for this stunt.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546534
Exactly. At late nights when I am unsure about whether to sleep or continue working, I simply go to the site and calculate when to sleep. It has become a habit!
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The noise is not random, one can see exactly where the artifacts were added (the white parts of the image). And for this solution to work the down sampling must happen inside the program, not in the file system, therefore all network-braking noise would have been already discarded.
Nothing new unfortunately. Sluggish operation, Windows updates take forever. Updates fail, reverting changes, installing ~150 updates more after 8.1 upgrade. Random SDBUS BSOD, reboots, WiFi / 3G connectivity issues. It seems that everything is working badly and update installation failures and blue screens are quite random and common. Eventually after tens of reboots and installing all kind of stuff you'll get everything installed. If you're lucky. Then you'll install upgrades by the device manufacturer, which take long time and require multiple reboots etc.
Luckily I'm able to install these in volume as well as tasks are rarely urgent. So I can put tens of tables on table and run updates, after a few hours I'll revisit those, see what the situation is and continue. Yes, it's not consistent, some tables and laptops in the batch can be much slower to install and other faster, others fail and some won't etc. It's just basically absolutely horrible experience. I feel and know very well the feeling you described. Suddenly touch screen is totally unresponsive, or doesn't work at all. You'll need to use USB-keyboard and so on.
As well as the sleep mode (aka connected standby) sucks life out of the battery really quickly. Properly hibernating device automatically is made quite hard, but is doable after all.
I think that the AIDE IDE is a great piece of work! Admittedly, I have only created fairly trivial apps using the template projects, but it is amazing to be able to compile Java code and create a bundled Android application on my Android phone.

It seems to bother my son a great deal that I have always used Android phones and never an iPhone. It is the availability of things like AIDE that make an Android phone also functional as a "real computer."
Alan Kay has a novel sense of depth perception.
International laws and regulations as well as doomsday scenario planning that is surely already underway by the US government.

I would argue that we actually have stopped nuclear weapons thus far (not the proliferation, but the usage), as well as mass global terrorism, mass extinction from disease, the list goes on.

I agree that AI is a threat – I'm legitimately worried that the AI capable of doing a programmer's work isn't all that far off. I see things like Mozilla's Webmaker popping up and its obvious that the process will become more streamlined and automated as time goes on. I also don't think that all sense and reason goes out the window - we will come up with a way to solve it like we solve everything else – boring laws.

We should be more worried about the human beings that will no doubt use the new wave of machines for their own ill will. I'm sure what the NSA has right now will be laughable compared to what it will have in 10 years.
Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll
My wife grew up speaking Taiwanese (Taiwan dialect of southern Min Chinese language) at home, and then attended school entirely in the medium of Mandarin. She says that school pupils used to be fined for speaking Taiwanese in class. The pupils responded by learning sentences that sounded like legitimate Mandarin sentences, but were actually sound-alikes for sentences that made crude insults in Taiwanese. The last time we lived in Taiwan (1998-2001), the government had relaxed its former stringent prohibitions on public use of Taiwanese, and we would see handwritten signs in Chinese characters in markets with obviously Taiwanese vocabulary and phrasing. Similarly, when I have traveled to Hong Kong, I have seen printed official signs that are quite baffling to someone who has only studied standard modern written Chinese, but are perfectly understandable to readers who know how Cantonese is written in Chinese characters.
Jonathan Dale has passed away
That's a fair point here. But every single time I've bought Asus stuff like this, its had problems out of the box. Even things like monitors, that you would think they could get right, still have issues where it crashes - literally crashes - and you have to unplug it to reboot it.

So my general rule of thumb with Asus is: stay the hell away unless you can take the time to return/exchange it 2 or 3 times to get one that works. And never let Asus repair it because they break other things in the process, and they take so long that you can't even return it by the time you get it back.
A while back, there was a HN thread about Jonathan Dale, who was battling cancer, and his fundraiser. His wife announced on Twitter early this morning that he has passed away.

His family really needs support.

Here is a link to his GiveForward campaign: https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w704/beating-cancer-o...
http://jsonip.com/ has quite a bit of traffic
Again, all it means is that it's OEM crapware free.
Dig the concept, great way to easily kind of dollar cost average into btc without being tempted with market timing. Would be great if you could specify an overall allocation into different crypto (i.e. that $.75 extra split into 60% btc, 40% ltc, etc.) that you could manage and monitor your overall crypto portfolio.
Neat concept. I wonder if crypto portfolio management in the future will be like portfolio management nowadays in that you sometimes hire a professional to do it. Like, does the concept of professional financial advisement go out the window (along with all of the other traditional fiat aspects that we seem to be leaving behind)?
In my experience nerdtree is bad. You loose a lot of goodnes that splits can offer you. Netrw or netrw+vinegar is more vim friendly way to do file navigation.
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$100/hour
Eh, happens even to the best companies in US. Microsoft employment agreement stipulates that if you quit earlier than one year, you have to pay back all relocation expenses (visas, temporary housing, etc). Easily tens of thousands of dollars.
Hey, it reached legal beer-drinking age 5 years ago! 3 years ago it became legal for it to drink higher percentages of alcohol and to smoke weed (well actually it's not legal, they will just ignore you with under 5 grams in your pocket).
...Greetings from the Netherlands.
If you'd like to improve mental health care in the United States, forget the funding issues for a moment: instead, start with disassembling the likes of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a division of Health and Human Services which is staffed more or less entirely by "consumer/survivor"-movement flunkies and uses its $3.6 billion annual budget to oppose everything the modern medical establishment has to say about mental health and mental health care, whether it take the form of psychiatry, drugs, or outpatient treatment.

But these margins are too narrow to contain a full discussion of the matter so I'll leave continued research as an exercise to the reader. :P
I stepped into the Microsoft store yesterday - they had the Microsoft band front and center and it lured me in. Every time I go into the store I keep saying "this is cool!" at every station. But I still find myself struggling with the usability of Windows 8.

The final station I stopped at in the store was the HP Sprout PC which uses a digital projector mounted on top of the monitor to project a virtual touch screen input device where the keyboard would normally be. So it can appear as a piano, a drawing surface, etc. Once again I said "this is cool!". I've never even heard of this thing.

I used it for 5 minutes before I somehow put it into a buggy state where it stopped responding to input on the virtual touch screen.
There's already Linux compability layer in FreeBSD's kernel for years now, allowing you using linux binaries on FreeBSD. Anything in particular you'd be missing when migrating to FreeBSD?
Is that hotlinking? Is the podcast community fine with that?
I'd strongly recommend using Rust's nightlies.
http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html - they've even got pkg installers for Mac.
They do get the internet. But the future income of the top brass depends on not getting it right for the consumers.
My reasoning was "what if an HN reader is trying to rent their apartment in Paris". The probability is so low, but for problems that are not usually recurring, you can find help in the most unexpected places.

PS: I am not relying on HN for this, I am using other rent specialised services as well. This was just a message sent out in the universe, if caught by the right eye I'll go from 0 to 1, otherwise, I am staying in 0, not going to -1.

Thanks!
Forever grateful to FreeBSD as it was my first non-windows/mac distro that had installed on one of my own machines. I snagged a copy of FreeBSD 4 that was bundled in a book that they sold at BestBuy. I spent all of Christmas installing it on a old Packard Bell Pentium 1, several times if I recall correctly (disk partitioning was rough for a newbie). That one day set my path for the next ~15 years