skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hushmail is a similar service, but uses a java applet for the client side crypto. It's my understanding that they have been legally compelled at least once to deliver a backdoored applet to the client in order to access the clear text email. I think they're Canadian. I don't have references to hand, but a Google search should turn some stuff up.

Whilst yu, "doubt any democratic government should be able to force them to do that", I on the other hand suspect that most (if not all) democratic governments have ways of doing exactly this.
tomc1985: hope you see this - your account has been hellbanned for over two years (about 850 days, with one comment visible 270 days ago - not sure how that happened).

Your comments over those years don't seem bad at all - sometimes perhaps a little confrontational but not aggressively so. Perhaps HN could allow users above a certain karma threshold vote on [dead] posts, with those scores going towards a "repeal fund" - make decent comments over a certain period and get temporarily un-banned.
I immediately thought "oh, this looks like wave". The problem is that still don't think that this (or Apache Wave) is a whole quanta better than the good enough solutions that are out there.
I would assume Prolexic or Incapsula, assuming they're using a high end provider (which they should, DDOS attacks against smaller DNS providers being so easy to carry out).
> if you wanted to publish your book as audio

Higher-Order Perl as an audiobook would be quite an experience!
Nice demo! Quick back of the envelope calculation for the current to overcome dynamic friction:

I = mu_friction * Mass * grav_acc / (Turns_per_length * Area * Br_magnet)

Say Mass=0.1kg, coil at 600 turns per metre, hand-wave mu_friction=0.2, and a rare-earth retention Br=1Tesla, gives a current of 3A. Maybe more to chug along, would deplete a 2000mAh battery in about 30 minutes. Wire looks about 20 AWG, should get quite hot.
I am interested...
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Anyone else notice the Berta Lovejoy comment? :D
"everything I said was regarding the source of capturing a sound"

Well, the rant is about reproduction of the sound. For capturing sound he basically agrees with you, 24/192 has its place in studio, recording and music production.
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Cory Doctorow also put together a well-written account of his views in the recently published "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age." He covers DRM, copyright, publishing, the music industry, etc. The book's target is aspiring artists, but the general audience will find it valuable as well.
Were all import and income taxes paid?

What was your profit after said deductions?
noöne? really? when did 'no one' become insufficiently clear?
I'm not sure.

They offer these 'challenges', but other than that?
For me, this comment of yours would we something I'd agree with if

- Telegram would start out with a protocol that works/is 'accepted' (OTR, TextSecure)

- Would make chats encrypted by default/all the time

That'd be awesome. Given that they seem to know a bit about cross-platform development and design the result might be extremely interesting. Right now? I'm not convinced.
Looks good. It actually sees the problem with XMPP at least.
Part of this is that it's an unusually good book. But I think the longevity is partly because it is available as a free download. Imagine that person A asks a question on an Internet forum, and person B says that HOP has a section that could help with the question. If B wants to follow up, they now must find a copy of HOP. If the book is out of print, this can be difficult. It may not be in the library; it almost certainly isn't in the bookstore. Used copies may be available, but you have to order them and have them shipped, and if you don't like it once it arrives, you are stuck with it.

Small publisher here. I believe other factors have contributed to its longevity. I just did a quick lookup of the book on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Order-Perl-Transforming-Program...) and it has a couple of things going for it that help contribute to long-tail sales:

* Availability of new copies of the book, which signals the content is probably still relevant/not obsolete and may also indicate it’s a classic/foundation title considering how long it’s been in print.

* A relatively high number of professional reviews and reviews from experts in the field

* A moderate number of great reader reviews, including many “Verified Purchases” from the past year

The current sales rank (579,897) indicates it's probably selling 1-3 copies per month on Amazon U.S. The fact that there are so many used copies available, not to mention the free PDF, no doubt reduces sales of the new book, but there are still enough people out there who want a new copy of the print edition for their bookshelves to keep the trickle of new sales.

Regarding the convenience issue: These days, it’s possible to buy a new book online and return it or resell it later (as 63 other owners are doing right now on the Amazon U.S. site). It’s a pain to list it and handle the packing, but so is driving to a bookstore to bring back a return.

A note about free book downloads: Free titles are indeed very convenient for those who are unable/unwilling to purchase the print edition, but they are less likely to be read. I currently have a title available for on Amazon and it’s been downloaded thousands of times, but through various mechanisms (including reviews, follow-on sales of the 2nd volume, clicks to the website from the ebook edition, etc.) I have determined it’s seldom read -- I'm guessing less than 5% of the people who have downloaded the Kindle edition have actually read any part of it. I think many free ebooks and PDFs end up on people’s devices and don’t end up being read because of a lack of time and all of the other free content that’s available out there.
> What I'm missing is how this article is HN-relevant

How much did you read? It describes the inner workings of a fascinating bureaucratic system. Flag it if you don't like it.
The sad thing is while Russia has oil, and oil prices are high, the Russian government can do pretty much what they want to do, with major support from the population who benefit from a decent standard of living.
Is that an inherent problem in XMPP, though? Something wrong with XEP-0013?
Yep. The HN community is not at all representative of the market -- people here tend to be both more experienced and working in better positions than most -- and I can confirm that for non-tech companies the prevailing wage for entry level tech jobs (do-it-all programmer, web dev, etc) in the SJ/Milpitas/Fremont area is in the 70s, going up to ~100 after 10+ years experience.
Been there. Ended up running something on my own.
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Ask HN: Which websites use GPG public/secret keys for user password retrieving?
I think email accounts are fragile because you must make sure both the client and the server are secure.

If you use GPG public/secret keys, then you don't need email for password retrieving any more. (and no email spams about that)

1. For registrations, upload your public key and use your secret key to verify that you own the public key.
2. Retrieve your user password is simple, too. The server encrypt some text with your public key, then you use the secret key to decrypt and submit the original text to verify.

Nowadays, more and more people use password managers to generate strong passwords. Why not use GPG? Is any website using GPG for password retrieving?
Agreed, amazing new interfaces could be made if we could touch a complex 3d topology. Although the demonstration fell flat of those expectations, I still think that sound is the way to go in the future.

I could wrong about this intuition, but I think this mainly because of the simple fact that sound is just disturbances in a medium that we are walking through constantly and can feel to some degree (ie air).
As a former recording engineer, I completely agree that there's value in capturing audio at better than 16/44.1. 24-bit means I don't have to care so much about "filling up the bit bucket" when I set input levels because I have a lower noise floor. And if I'm doing any DSP, obviously I like having more information rather than less.

But I'm not at all convinced that distributing recordings at better than 16/44.1 has any real benefit. I've done some blind tests before and was never able to reliably beat 50/50 on figuring out which tracks were "higher quality" - and while I certainly don't have the best ears on the planet, I feel pretty confident that my hearing is more developed than the average person. Not to mention the fact that probably 90%+ of consumers are listening on systems with poor speakers and worse DACs.

I often hear audio people explain why music should be distributed at higher bit and sampling rates, but I have yet to see anyone who can reliably tell the difference - especially on a consumer-grade system.

Edit: Downvotes, really? Was there something objectionable in there?
Our daughter is into dolls and dress-up. What are programmer parents to do?
Swedish government close to collapse
Effectively, every Russian's salary just depreciated 50% to a significant portion of the goods they buy.

Local businesses might come out on top of this due to their goods being more competitive vs imports, but the population is screwed again. Rich guys become richer, poor guys become poorer.

But that's just the exchange rate. Credit rates hiked up significantly and foreign investment into Russia dwindled. Big projects are put on hold due to uncertainty. My outlook is negative.
And god knows how many times the top music videos on YT are played at parties & other semi-public events! Heck, as the parent of young children, I've probably watched things like Gangnam Style >20 times just within my house.
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My standard gripe with OpenText (or WhatsApp etc) is the identifier. A phone number sucks.

a) I hate the discoverability. Just because I install an app doesn't mean that my ex from ten years go should see that I'm online. Heck, my mom or aunt don't need to see me showing up in the address book either.

b) Desktop clients. Tablets with wifi only.
Well, they can quote the most advanced encryption algorithm, but you still can't be sure if they have really used it unless they share their code.

Bottomline: You either trust them or you don't.

One reason for them not sharing the details could be that they want the potential hackers to keep guessing rather than making their life easier (No encrytion is foolproof)
Unfortunately the killer app of bitcoin is probably ransom ware. Malware infections won't go away, and ransom ware seems a good way to monetise them.
There were one or two turkeys in my string of samples, but for the most part the candidates were worth a phone screen.
No, I didn't mean Putin T-shirt (I never saw that one before), but the same page has a photo of what I meant: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://im...
That page isn't very good.

It says that the UK doesn't censor the Internet yet we know that there are two levels of censorship in England:

i) the IWF lists - these cover sites that distribute images of child sexual abuse

ii) court order - these cover sites like the PirateBay.
Playing with encryption is like playing with fire. Much worse actually. There are no partially broken encryption products, only 'not yet broken' and 'broken'. Time and time again, here on HN and elsewhere, people with cryptographic capital have staked their reputations on calling out Telegram as 'broken'. So why would anyone even want to touch it with a barge pole? It may turn into a 'not yet broken' product someday. But that day is not today. By pushing Telegram as 'secure' i.e. 'not yet broken', you and others are doing a disservice to the users at large and the crypto community in general. So stop calling the bloody shovel a spade.
Let me rewrite the first paragraph:

"Flying to Vegas? Look to your left. Now look to your right. Statistically speaking, everyone of you is about to get ripped off."
Oil prices are nose diving aren't they?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18a2df62-7949-11e4-9567-00144feabd...
..and please let there be decent keyboard shortcuts (I'm looking at you, Skype)
Or if you're willing to spend more, Beyerdynamic DT-770/880/990 family stuff.

Or if you want IEMs, you're not going to beat Hifiman RE-400 for any IEM under $300.
Slack does support IRC and XMPP transports, though? So even if $management wants Slack, I can use a single client across several networks. AFAIK Slack doesn't do federation, but one out of two, is better than none out of two.
Here's an example of that for PrivateSky:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gchq-forced-privatesky-secure-email...
So that's where Bernstein comes from.

This advice has a lot in common with his (& others) advice on how to write safe programs with a small trusted base---and the other elements seem a matter of shared taste.
Not sure if anybody offered here, but if you're in Russia and looking to leave and Paris sounds like a good place, maybe I could help out. Currently I'm doing a lean startup and that means that I don't have a lot of resources, but I do know a few people who are hiring.

The area is: golang, python and js mostly.

alex @plugaru org

p.s. I speak russian.
Gamify it a bit.

One Twit of words [140].

First link counts as one word. Each after that counts as ten.

Five free new lines. Each one after that counts as ten words.

'!' counts as ten, just because nothing is that exciting about job ad.
I never paid anything to view birds and snakes and lice and dogs and cats and...

Did someone hijack nature to extort money from unsuspecting passers-by?
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I mentioned this in a previous thread on russia but it got short shrift. Their (Russian Politicians) zealotry can easily be turned against them.
Sorry, but I'm not going to hire anyone for a technical position if they don't even have their own domain name. Seriously, talk about turn off. You're willing to spend £1500 on getting a job, but you aren't willing to spend less than £100 getting a domain and hosting for a year? (And I know that you can get domains for like $2 a year, and good hosting for less than $25, so £100 is far more than you need.)

Any professional tech person shouldn't having their email @ gmail (or any domain that isn't their own), or their website at something.wordpress.com or blogspot.com.

You can still use Gmail and Wordress.com, that's easy. If you're exceptionally lazy and can't be bothered using the incredibly easy ways of installing WordPress on your own hosting system (and using IMAP for email).

Also, for your education, I suggest recording it, to put the important stuff first:
2000-­‐2004: Bachelor of Computer Science (or whatever it was in), Babes-­‐Bolyai University, Cluj-­‐Napoca, Romania.

And if you speak Romanian, put that as well in your language section. If you only speak English, take out the entire section (looks stupid with only one language).
Nope:

Failed to connect to cpudb.stanford.edu port 80: Connection refused
GPG doesn't easily lend itself to be wrapped, or even used for that matter.

You are welcome to try.
As far I've tried NC headphones, nothing comes even close to what Bose offer with QC25, any other brand I've tried cancel out less noise than the bose. Sound quality might not be the best, but the intented environment is the limiting factor anyway, and they do a great job at dealing with environment noise.
For example, they store the message database on the shared mass storage partition (a.k.a. SD card), where it can be read by all installed applications.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "cross-platform app". Sounds like a contradiction in terms, to me.

We have XMPP and OTR, and with chatsecure on Android or various clients on Linux it's pretty pleasant. I believe there are a few OS X clients as well, not sure about iOS.
That article, as far as I can tell, makes a single point, namely that rapists shouldn't be expelled from campus, for various reasons.

I'm not sure why that points to gaping holes in the UVA case. While some of the criticism is valid, frankly I find the overly sensationalist deconstruction of the original article for the sake of attention and page impressions rather distasteful.
Bose QC15s and QC20s are the best active noise-cancelling headphones out there... but the problem is, hey still have very mediocre sound, but they do the noise-cancelling part well. They are also massively overpriced.

Sennheiser HD280 Pros have extremely good passive isolation, and will beat QC15s at a fraction of the price, in both isolation and audio quality.

So yes, Bose still loses when you look at the big picture. Bose is very good at marketing, they are not very good at making quality audio.
Who cares what you have by definition? What matters is whether you're on average better off in practice.

It's cold comfort to have legal recourse technically available, if it's never worth the time and money to pursue it. If you have to seek recourse at all you've already "lost" --- the recourse never really makes you whole, given your broken expectations, time to pursue, etc.
> It's not even competetive with bank transfers which costs me a flat fee of about 5€ to transfer funds using my banks internet portal to any other eu bank account.

They charge you? These are free for me.

In fact, EU law says that your bank cannot charge you any more for a transfer to another EU account than to a domestic account.
Yes, XMPP supports video. It even has several incompatible ways of supporting video to choose from, most of them called Jingle.
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True, the HP48 pocket calculator was a "4bit" cpu with 64bit fp-able registers.
Exactly this.

I don't think Google can give a good match to a Javascript CV with only Angular.js written

Yes, it's stupid. Yes, do it.
The problem is that he is biased. He is selling books explaining how to self publish on Amazon. So it is better for him to say that you will earn more money doing so.
I work in a relatively small company, everyone here has a private Facebook account, and I see no way in which Facebook chat is in any way worse than Skype. Both are closed-source, privately-owned, centralized servivces. But only one of them I tend to have opened anyway, as I use it to communicate with most of the people I know, and I can use it through Emacs when I find myself too distracted by the vanilla version.
I was referring to basic payment processing, where the standard is 2.9% + 30c, not special rates for non-profits (which are sometimes as low as 0%).

There is no real standard fee for non-profits, it varies between the normal fee, a discount fee (as you have) or no fee at all.
Wow, AIM's not dead? With the stuff happening at Yahoo, one would think they might just go ahead and move to XMPP (and enable server federation for good measure...).

BTW: If you have XMPP anyway, you can use that for chat.facebook.com. Shame with Hangouts. But everyone wants their golden silo, I guess.
That's not exactly specific, unfortunately.

What's poor about it? I'm genuinely interested - not to convince you that you're wrong but to check if I missed a gotcha in my setup here. So far .. I don't see an issue. I could complain about missing features/XEPs that I'd love to have and cannot right now, but .. chatting should work just fine.

That said, you DO want Stream Management.
CORBA. Java RMI. EJB. To a certain extent Erlang (which may yet succeed), or the various Lisp S-expression serializations.

(My view is that turing-complete code is the wrong abstraction and we need to draw an explicit distinction between serializable code and non-serializable code, but that would require a programming-language-level solution and a rewrite of approximately everything. Sooner or later I'll get around to writing a language based on this notion)
Kerckhoff, 1883: "[T]he security of a system should depend on its key, not on its design remaining obscure."
Now that Android supports USB DACs, you can just get portable DAC+Amp combos that you can stick in your pocket with your phone. No need for a dedicated device anymore.
If you exclude a single outlier (a candidate rated poorly by the experimenter scores 100% in the resume test), the resume test doesn't look too bad.

Apart from that one, the consistently well-rated CVs are all from the strong side.

So it could be argued that CVs work pretty well for recruiters - hiring from the best CVs makes it unlikely you'll hire a weak candidate.
XRay Unreal Engine 4.5 source code
"Bottomline: You either trust them or you don't."

That's not true at all. Trust isn't blind faith. Their choice of algorithm, and other factors they can disclose tells a lot about their understanding.

"One reason for them not sharing the details could be that they want the potential hackers to keep guessing rather than making their life easier (No encrytion is foolproof)"

This is security by obscurity, an example of a poor choice. Overall, your statement says more about your lack of understanding of software security than anything else; as their statements can about theirs.
Also LINQ Rx.
I wonder who made the stupid decision to remove the downvote feature in the YouTube comments. I heard that they couldn't implement it because Google+ only has upvotes, but why they don't simply allocate another column in their database is beyond me.
The HPC folks work in the niches where people will pay extra for better performance; those niches do exist. But they are small niches.
I disagree, at least for the foreseeable future. The amount of resources and energy needed to convince the general public to fund "difficult-to-understand" research which is needed to solve larger "difficult-to-understand" problems will be too great of barrier to overcome for most research groups. I think crowd-funding in research will be ancillary at best for a long time.
Interns at elite major law firms earn the annual equivalent of up to $160,000 a year.

http://www.thelawstreetjournal.com/1l-2l/law-school-internsh...

MBA summer interns from elite schools can equal or exceed this as well.

We don't talk about a "shortage" of lawyers or MBAs, though because we know that this isn't typical. Also, for some reason, there seems to be a stronger cultural objection to engineers getting paid as well as lawyers, MBAs, or physicians. I think it's partly because when you say "lawyer" or "physician", people think of a serious, middle aged person with grey hair. When you say "programmer", people think of a young socially inept person. I don't agree with the stereotype at all, but I think it's part of why people would be so quick to conclude that an unobjectionable salary for a lawyer is "astronomical" for a developer.

I'd also say that comparing software development intern salaries at well paying companies probably represents developer pay in its best light. I'm not saying it's misleading or inaccurate - it's a perfectly valid snapshot. But software developers draw higher salaries out of the gate, but may fade in the stretch. Comparing what career developers earn at age 50 with their lawyer or doctor friends would probably give you a different picture that should also be considered. Ultimately, look at the general data - in San Francisco, the median salary for a software developer is just a little more than it is for a dental hygienist and a little lower than for a registered nurse. Yet many people feel that this indicates a severe shortage - I agree something doesn't add up here, but to me, the evidence suggests no particular shortage of developers.