skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
stampd.io is a web application which helps you apply a blockchain stamp on your art or creative content in general. I would be very happy to hear your comments, suggestions or any questions if you have the time to spare a look. A blockchain stamp can allow you to certify the existence of your content at a specific point in time. If your content is original it can also allow you to prove unquestionable ownership without having to rely on any third party service or authority.
We are confident that this new technology can revolutionize the intellectual property rights of creative content.

The time stamping used in stampd's process is carried out in a way through which the user is able to undeniably prove the stamping in the future without relying in our service (or to anyone else's).

Any user of stampd, just by having in hand:

(a) his electronic file (the one with the original content and his signature)
(b) the PDF certificate that we issue after stamping which explains all the technical details of the stamping on the blockchain.

...may prove his stamping to anyone needed in the future, simply by using the above and any of the available blockchain explorers.

We would be glad to hear your impressions or any suggestions you might have.
Although the anonymous nature of Yik Yak encourages people to share things they wouldn't normally share in the analog world.
Ask HN: What are people using after Lavabit?
It's been a while since Lavabit has shut down. What are people using now and why? How did you evaluate their integrity to privacy/security?
The Nature News article says:
"Because Scholz’s star is puny and sped by quickly, it would have had a negligible impact on the Oort cloud, Mamajek notes. And any comets that the star might have sent hurtling towards the inner Solar System will not arrive for another few hundred thousand years, says Tremaine."

http://www.nature.com/news/star-buzzed-solar-system-during-h...
Drones and satellites spot lost civilizations in unlikely places
Neither is a conversation on the subway, but no one wants a stranger butting in trying to sell something.

When it comes to communications technology, what is possible is not the same thing as what is acceptable--or welcome.
I changed my comment somewhat, because you're being very squirmy, as per usual.

Do you think something like TrueCrypt shouldn't exist?
> search engines that explicitly dishonor the spirit and purpose of instructions not to crawl pages

If you believe that to be true, then you should be arguing for a solution to that problem.

A robots noindex meta would work perfectly well to suppress an online bankruptcy notice about an individual.
I would appreciate any feedback on improving the design of my portfolio website, as well as my design skills in general.

Any advice on marketing myself to potential clients is also appreciated.
"the patents concern a specific feature of Bluetooth 2.0"

That's not a "feature" of Bluetooth 2.0+, it's a fundamental part of the Bluetooth spec. Without it you couldn't have Bluetooth. So the headline is correct.
The wording on the top of http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ leads me to believe that TrueCrypt is no longer being developed, and bugs (including vulnerabilities) are not being fixed.

If that's the case, what's the purpose of of the audit?

Thank you, tptacek, for the huge amount of time you're spending answering questions in these threads.
Thanks Thomas.

This is Matt Green, one of the two people running the audit. As tptacek explained, we went down a few blind alleys following the public collapse of the Truecrypt (development) project.

In the last few weeks we've signed a contract to begin a commercial evaluation of the cryptography in Truecrypt. We've also been doing some internal evaluation of portions of the source code. For reasons related to getting the best price, the start date of the audit was allowed to drift forward a bit. This was necessary to make sure that the donated money stretches as far as possible.

Rather than giving all the details in an HN post, I'm going to write an update on my blog (blog.cryptographyengineering.com) but it won't be up until we've notified everyone involved that we're making the details public, probably around 4:30-5pm ET today.
UMass Amherst Revises Approach, Accepts Iranian Students into Science Programs
Totally agree. It almost looks like you are my colleague ;-)

At any point, we have at least 3 different feature branches, which can be relatively long running (minimum 1 week), this is because we have a range of products sharing the same base platform.

So when come merge time, well ... we merge and do not rebase master before doing that (well, technically we merge on an RC branch but that still applies). If we would rebase, we would have 2 teams that need to go through a potentially painful rebase process.

Besides, on each branch, there are usually at least 2 developers, so it would be even more chance to have a problem for the developer that is not doing the rebase.

Well, all of that to say that we just do a merge (with no squashing ...I really dislike a big commit, even more if it shares some frontend and some backend stuff in the same commit).
It is not only full disk encryption. I have used a file container encrypted with financial information on linux and windows over the years. I can mount that file on either OS.
I never said you were telling the world anything.

I'm asking you a question to clarify your stance.
Sadly, it still has issues with importing footnotes/endnotes.[1] It was one of the main reasons cited by our marketing team for resisting LibreOffice and going with MS Office 2010 instead.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58521
My understanding is that early SOU papers weren't delivered as speeches, but were mostly technical reports intended for what today would be regarded as people like the OMB and similar congressional bodies.

More recently they're vehicles for delivering messages to the public.
They didn't "run the numbers", they googled the numbers. I was expecting someone to have resolved millions of domains and matched them up with IP ranges for each company.
I haven't tried that, I am looking for comments attached to usernames attached to articles/other comments in a tree and the subreddit that they are contained within. In order to define each user as an agent who has a probabilistic membership to the set of all interest groups (subpopulations) within the data set defined by a mixture model.

My pipeline right now looks like:

list of most popular SFW subreddits of all time -> gnu parallel -> curl on comment listings of top articles within subreddit -> json processing with jq -> gzip -> store on filesystem

So at the end I should have a directory of 5000 subreddits containing a gzipped json file of the comment threads of their top 500 posts.

I'm new to this kind of data processing but this is the easiest way I have found to do a short term, one time scrape of this data.
And yes, there is value in noting the difference between block-level and full-disk encryption, mostly because they're different.
The author says the device is a USB modem. So, under Linux, the author could have simply written a udev rule to use the name "whiteboard" for that particular USB modem's device file.
I'm not being "squirmy". You're playing a semantic game with the word "disk". The technical issue with FDE is that it works at the level of blocks, and so lacks information about message boundaries or the storage flexibility needed to (a) randomize the encryption and (b) store authenticators. Encrypt a physical disk, encrypt a file that pretends to be a mountable volume, same issues.

I get that not everyone understands the technical issues in designing storage encryption, but don't take that out on me.
Mark Showalter is like the Moon Whisperer.

How can any single person these days discover six moons and three planetary rings?
Exactly, if you have pushed it other developers might have referenced, merged or cherry-picked your code. Even if you marked it as a work in progress. And to roll back to a previous state it is not needed to rebase and/or have a linear history. Also see my article about this https://about.gitlab.com/2014/09/29/gitlab-flow/
Yours is a hilariously catty response to a fairly benign question.
Fun idea. It would be nice if the README had an example of some text before and after.
You would have to come up with a new definition for what we currently call planets, since they are clearly different (more massive, more regular orbit, etc). It's more reasonable to call the newly discovered things something different instead of renaming old things.
> And they force Motorola to stop shipping devices unless Motorola agrees to not use SkyHook

The trial stated that this was not the case
[Scala] the Future is not good enough: coding with async/await
Modeling Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer in High-Resolution 3D
Try running a search on Twitter--you'll see some nasty stuff, depending on the search term.

Yik Yak is basically just location-based search, so there's no social filtering. (As opposed to on your Twitter feed, where you create a social filter by selecting the accounts you follow).
Interesting. How?
Impressive! Out of curiosity, did you have good reason to immediately suspect it couldn't possibly be true? According to Wikipedia, this question had been considered considered by Perrin himself (way back in 1899), but was only first resolved by Adam and Shanks in 1982.
It's not really a big deal. I'm just used to seeing the most recent changes first.
Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious with Mobile
Says the person who wrote "Are you really trying to suggest the world shouldn't have a tool like TrueCrypt out there?"
> Fact: They got in trouble for the bundling of IE.

Fact: They were charged with illegally maintaining their existing PC desktop operating system market by, among other means, tieing IE to Windows in response to a perceived threat that a competitive internet browser market on desktop OS's would undermine its desktop OS monopoly, and simultaneously for attempting to monopolize the internet browser market by leveraging their existing Windows desktop OS monopoly through tieing IE to Windows. On both sides, the relation to the Windows monopoly was a key element of why they got in trouble.

They didn't get in trouble for bundling IE except in the sense that someone who gets a jaywalking ticket gets in trouble for walking.
The podcast "Reply All" had an interesting episode about dealing with hate speech in Yik Yak:

http://gimletmedia.com/episode/9-yik-yak/

I like how Colgate University dealt with the problem, but it's unfortunate that it's still there. On the upside, it allowed the conversations about the hate speech to happen in the first place.
Hi there Javabu, I'm starting a similar path, I have not released anything but I know a lot of Unity and Unreal programming by now. I'm interested in working together with people with greater programming experience than me and you sure are one of them, so if you can get in touch that would be great (ivanca => gmail)

One of things I can offer is access to great 3d/2d artists cheaper than those in the US, I could even cover the 100% of their costs if we agree something out that benefits us all.
Yes, that is literally the sentence I wrote, and a sentence you never responded to.
nikic is an incredible asset to the PHP community. I feel slightly less bad about my own programming abilities now that he is no longer a teenager ;)

Everyone likes to rag on PHP's chain, which is fair enough in some regards, but it has become a far better language recently, with more useful features, faster development cycles etc. People like nikic seem to be at the forefront of this.

Since PHP is a major part of my day job this all makes me very happy!
I think it depends on the place. And a lot of it is learned outside of school through TV and the internet, which is primarily American English.
I'm not sure I could even list all the authoring tools I've used, which includes writing a few college papers in nroff. I'd mostly stuck with straight text and graduated to HTML (the lingua franca of the Web) in the late 1990s. I actually got stymied on Lyx with some of its insistence on specific structures for documents and fighting those.

In the past year or two I actually took out my copy of the Lion Book and sorted out what I'd been missing with LaTeX. I realized that a decent set of templates was much of the issue, and now have a basic book and article template that I use for most of my work. And while futzing with specifics of layout can keep you from a final output, it won't stop you from writing. And that's the key problem most of the time.

I've also been exploring Markdown (thanks to reddit, Ello, Diaspora, and numerous other sites which rely on it), and Pandoc, which is nowhere short of amazing and astounding.

More often than I care to admit I'll take content from a website and either reduce it to its HTML core or, with depressing frequency, straight ASCII text, add back some light Markdown, and present it as PDF for reading. Web design has gotten that freaking annoying.

On the Medium discussion -- I find the site pretty good, actually, and disagree with the arguments Butterick raises against its minimalism. Good design is light design, and Medium is among the most minimally re-styled sites I visit. Changes?

.highlightMenu { display: none; }
.metabar--affixed { position: static; }
.metabar--bottom { position: static; }
.notesMarker { display: none; }
.postContent { color: black; font-weight: normal; }

Virtually none, by my standards.

Mind that I don't publish on Medium (at least, not yet). Though I've considered it.

As for "typewriter habits", among the advantages of the typewriter -- as a composing interface -- is that it simplifies input. Tools such as LaTeX then perform the job of transforming typewriter input into typographic output. Most often with very minimal additional directives from the author. Tools such as Markdown reduce that still further.

Two spaces after a full stop? Absolutely. Why? Because in my typography it helps me to distinguish between stops following abbreviations and sentences. Which is a useful thing. Mr. Brown. The first stop terminates an abbreviation. The second an entire sentence. About the only of the conventions that I need to consciously apply is ``quotes'' around quoted passages, though search-and-replace of "straight quotes" is actually pretty easily accomplished with some regex magick. Markdown removes the need entirely.
Like Charles Dimino, you're not following the point. The security limitations of FDE come from doing crypto at the block layer. If your cryptosystem is giving something that (a) transparently encrypts and (b) mounts as a filesystem, it's block crypto, and shares the same problems as whatever cryptosystem unlocks your boot drive.

The problem is block-level crypto. It has nothing to do with whether it's layered on top of a hardware disk drive.
I beg to differ. Unread is a good example. Making 42k on 1 app in a year is pretty popular. 42k isn't really enough though. Maybe 60k (which is what it would be without the 30%) isn't enough either, but it's much closer.

http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/93118460565/a-candid-look...

Personally I'll pass 100k paid out to apple this year. That is the difference between me making slightly below market rates for the last few years to being able to hire another developer or designer.
A fair concern. I think Task Router is less going up the food chain and more going up the stack - we're trying to provide more abstraction for the state common to all these problems as a pure platform.

My hope is all our customers can leverage these primitives to invest more development time in their applications rather than solve the same mundane problems over and over again. I think that's the promise of a continually improving platform rather than an elbow move.

[edit: typo]
I love the way it writes, it has so much personality.
That directly trades size for less efficient code. The structure packing described in the article keeps the same code efficiency while decreasing the size.

There are good reasons (as mentioned in the article) for this feature but it's not equivalent to manual structure packing.
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Thanks! I followed you on Twitter, but the email address (domain) linked to from your VB profile page seems to be to a place holder site. Is it valid?
You're confusing a subsidiary with a division or at least a wholly-owned subsidiary.

A subsidiary is a company whose majority stakeholder is another company, which is exactly what reddit is. If reddit weren't a distinct corporate entity, they'd be a division.

Now, since AP doesn't have 100%, reddit isn't a wholly-owned subsidiary, but a company doesn't have to be wholly-owned to be a subsidiary at all.
Size, software used. The crypto might be the same, but this isn't just about the crypto itself.
This reply is golden. It starts off completely dismissive with "this isn't news" and it ends completely dismissive with "end of story." I am quite sorry my free internet post failed to meet your quality guidelines.

A wise man once said: Things have now gotten to the stage where I flinch slightly as I click on the "comments" link, bracing myself for the dismissive comment I know will be waiting for me at the top of the page.
The list is here:
http://oeis.org/A013998

The first is P_(271441) with 33,150 digits
Yes, a company that lays off part of the staff without severance is telling all the remaining staff "get the fuck out now."
Nice writeup. I had to do most of those things for my startup. I replaced the home screen in its entirety so there's no way to escape our app at all. If we need to administer it at all there's ssh installed. I just spent today building logstash-forwarder into the image so we can view logs from all devices in real-time.
> It's especially troubling that the posts aren't removed, but rather, get softly automatically downvoted over time, making the process almost invisible.

Seems perfectly reasonably to balance the expression of users with "fading" spam. If a post really has strong merit, it can still get some visibility, whereas a deleted post can not.
Part of why i ask is to get an idea of what those tens of thousands of instances are doing. How much of your leviathan scale is about the sheer mass of requests, how much of it is about the depth and sophistication of what you do to serve every request, and how much is about providing an environment which supports deployment and operation of the code which serve those requests?

I used carbon-relay in one job, and if you're using that, i'd guess you have 1000 machines serving users, and 30000 collecting metrics!
You're obsessing over the crypto, but we're talking about the user experience. It's block-level crypto. We get that. No one cares, in the context of this conversation.

What you're not getting is that TrueCrypt offered a particular interface experience and cross-platform compatibility that doesn't exist elsewhere.
> In simple terms, writing with longer sentences and bigger words yields a higher score (grade level) than simplistic writing.

I wish people would start using dictionaries of words taught at different grade levels instead. There has been an effort throughout the years towards greater clarity in writing and speaking; I don't think shorter sentences should imply lower reading levels.

Here, let me take an easy example: Federalist Paper #12, written in 1787, from my copy of "Charters of Freedom":

> By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.

That's beautiful writing. It's artful, it's poetic. It's also dense and aimed squarely at college-educated people. As Samuel Clemens said, "My books are water, those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water."

The implication of the priceonomics article is that literacy is declining. I suspect the opposite is actually true -- literacy is at as high a level as it's ever been. What's declining is florid writing, and where political statements are concerned, that's not really undesirable.

And the thing is, it's not that hard to compile dictionaries by grade level. I did, and I'm a dumbass. Feel free to rip off the work I've done so far:

http://shomisearch.com/api/vocab/grade/{pre-k, k, 1, 2, 3..12, college}

or, if you'd like the data sources included for each word,

http://shomisearch.com/api/vocab/grade+sources/{pre-k, k, 1, 2, 3..12, college}

I hope someone that's better at statistics can take the data and analyze the state of the union addresses with it. I'd love to see how it compares to the traditional measure of reading level.
> Well, in addition to the actual basis of the case indeed being "tying" with regards to Internet Explorer

The actual basis was illegal protecting their existing desktop PC OS monopoly by tying, and illegally extending their existing desktop PC OS monopoly to the browser market by tying. Both the existing monopoly context and the purpose were important parts of what made the tying problematic.
Lots of people still depend on Truecrypt, and have depended on it the past, and those people need to know whether it was ever safe to do that, and how urgent it is for them to migrate to something better.
And frankly, it's easier than having to purify the protein from another source, figure out injection conditions/strengths, etc

I see where you're going, but you don't avoid a lot of that work with gene therapy. You still need to produce and the test the virus, and then scale up product along with all the purification needed. The FDA will also ask you to test various doses to provide you're giving the right amount need for the desired efficacy.

In addition, gene therapy requires additional tests to prove that the inserted genes don't end up in some weird place that causes even more issues. Not a huge cost driver, but a concern that small molecules don't have (admitting they still need carcinogenicity testing).
Seconded. I was quite puzzled by this whole issue when it happened and surprised to see that there hasn't been much clarification since. The developers who posted this message are real people whom others have been in contact with since, correct? (such as https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm ). There was a very unambiguous claim of _existing_ security vulnerabilities in the EOL announcement. Have the developers explicitly refused to elaborate on this? Is there no reference to these concerns in the dev mailing list or elsewhere? Have they refused to take ownership for the statement?
Some insights on social epistemics and data modelling for the masses (2012)
> Just because you don't doesn't mean that nobody does.

The article claims though that everyone does which is what I take issue with.
Filepicker un-grandfathers plan, cost goes up 5x
The legacy $9/month "enhanced start" plan (Nov 2013) allowed 5000 uploads/month and 150,000 conversions/month.

According to Filepicker today they are "upgrading" such plans to their $49.95/mo startup plan, which allows 2000 uploads and 6,--- conversions, but they are increasing the uploads to 5,000.

So it looks like 5x more $ for 96% fewer monthly conversions.

The email does not say when it takes effect.

text of their email:
I wanted to let you know about an update to filepicker's service. To sustain our level of service and future upgrades, all legacy enchanced start plans will be upgraded to our standard starter plan at $49/month.

In addition we've rewarded our existing users with more than double the starter file allotment to 5000 pics/month. We want to ensure you don't incur overages in the future. Please confirm with me when you're available and thank you very much for using filepicker!
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