skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear how cell phone carriers could use end-to-end encryption to protect the particular kind of data at issue here; from the point of view of the GSM protocol, the carriers are the other endpoint. It's like the way your ISP couldn't use encryption to blind itself to whether or not you're currently using your home Internet connection: if packets are being routed over that interface, you're using it.

I think this situation is horrible, but we don't, in this particular case, have a ready-to-deploy encryption remedy that carriers could simply choose to enable. A lot of the problem is found in the architecture of the mobile network itself.

For the larger picture, a challenge is the prospect of much larger numbers of users yelling back at the companies who do adopt end-to-end encryption, because the companies become unable to reset the customers' forgotten cryptographic passphrases. So you can expect yelling on both sides. (I heard that one company that specifically advertises how it can't read or access your data already gets a considerable number of support requests from users with forgotten passphrases who, in the moment, don't believe that's even possible, and the company must be lying because it doesn't want to help them.)
Rationally, I know that any PDF could infect my host, and that the NSA doesn't need me to download it from them to get an intrusive payload. Still, I am not opening that PDF.
We've been working with these guys for several months now and the savings are pretty massive. On Amazon, in our experience, about 5-10% of purchases will qualify for a refund. It's a set-and-forget type service, so you literally don't have to do anything after signing up.
> then entrepreneurs are giving up far too much equity because the investor is actually only risking $10M.

Either that or the valuation is inflated artificially 5 fold.
I can think of quite a few companies that are big enough to require something like Aerospike, but wouldn't be willing to outfit all their machines with a GPS receiver.
Looks like your MyDef is bootstrapped using itself; it seems to be written in "MyDefized" perl.

Bravo; it is much more readable than regular Perl.
that really is fast
The most complete example of a structured editing system I know off is Doug Engelbart's NLS system from the mother of all demos (from 1968!) [0]. In the system text, drawings and code are all structured hyperdocument data. It is quite different from most software we use today. As seen from the demo, structured editing works well not just on code but on also on text.

I have been experimenting with implementing some of these ideas in the browser[1]. I primarily use the system to take text notes with and write down my ideas. You can't program in it yet, but part of the program is driven by datastructures that are created, edited and manipulated in the system itself. Instead of looking and manipulating the raw data, however, you can render the data to look like a pseudo dsl.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

[1] https://github.com/smarks159/hyperdocument-system-wiki
That's cool -- I like the variety of sources you've collected. I considered adding custom RSS feeds to progscrape as well but haven't had a chance.

The multi-device checkpointing in serializer.io is really cool! I find that the volume of stories from Reddit+HN is too high to keep up with all of them so I use the 'read' status of links to keep track of what I've seen on the homepage.
Great example of what to expect from the Edge browser. Well done!
Running Commands on Vagrant Guest from Host
John Blanke – 16th Century black musician
The Synthesizer Generator (1984) [pdf]
This seems to make the same assumption as analysis of the prisoner's dilemma. That is that it's an isolated decision. If you take the decision into any kind of realistic context, you'd never say something as cold as "I'm sure you'd do it anyway" (similar to defecting in the case of the Prisoner's Dilemma) as any reasonable analysis will show it to be suboptimal.

I've often encountered thought experiments like this with a moral along the lines of "Some times it pays to be bad, it's upsetting, but it's the truth and here's the maths that proves it" but it's always been equally interpretable as "look how bad a job naive game theory does at explaining real life".
Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations more credibility by withholding information about the source's financial connection. [0]

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
This is pretty rad Zach.
Tech-based wealth management
How Pattern Lab Fits into Lean UX
Hmm... your "Farmer's Dilemma" description makes me want to call this a Free-Rider Problem, but that doesn't quite seem to be equivalent

Maybe it's that you're about contemplating incentive structures underlying the creation of a public good rather than the traditional Tragedy of the Commons maintenance of a public good?
The analysis in the article shows that Aerospike is designed, intentionally or not, as a loosely accurate data store. It doesn't matter how you set it up or use it.
Leaving Something for the Imagination
Help a small San Diego non-profit school teach kids programming
Hi everyone! I just found out the non-profit school I volunteer at on the weekends is having a 24-hour fundraising drive and it ends at midnight tonight.

Anyway, I teach kids programming on the weekends at a non-profit school in San Diego. It’s super fun, and I enjoy giving back to the community and future generations.

After 9 years, the school has reached maximum capacity and is looking to expand to a second location near the new Downtown San Diego library, get new equipment, and increase the scholarship coverage rate from 20% to 50%. Also, if we successfully get the Downtown location funded, I might get to teach the kids Ruby instead of Java :)

I would super appreciate it if you would consider making a tax-deductible donation here: https://givelocal15.org/#npo/the-league-of-amazing-programmers

Hear what the kids have to say about the school here: https://vimeo.com/113855340

Finally, more information about the school here (also the place to go if you miss the midnight deadline): http://www.jointheleague.org

Thanks for reading this, and I hope you will consider donating. Even $25 can help change a child’s life in a positive way. :)
Great find, thanks for posting.

As the author points out, it's very unusual for anyone to be in the position of financing a decent-size production budget out of their own pocket. Generally that means investors who get first position on repayments from gross revenues, 25% interest, and 50% ownership of subsequent profits. Payment of deferred salaries, profit participation for actors and so on usually comes out of the producer's half.
here is the link to the story (copy of the original pdf):
http://gapurov.com/files/codinghouse_tell-all.pdf
It's probably somewhere in the middle. In any event, entrepreneurs and later investors are clearly getting the short end of the stick here. I can imagine the conversations that lead to these capital returns..."you're failing....if you don't return capital now, you'll never get another investment from a major firm again" (that's if the investors don't negotiate enough board seats/voting rights to just return it without the founder's consent).
Hmm, I clock in at < 100ms on Chrome

http://i.imgur.com/pBvA8Li.png
I thought they were going to extend the analogy to contributing to open source software...
> Maybe I have a bad back, and digging is more costly for me than for you. This may or may not change the Nash equilibria, and it may or may not change the amount of sympathy we each get in the various continuations.

And this is why money is nice. Because it enables the outcome with greatest total utility in this case: that the healthy guy digs the ditch by himself and gets a promise of future reward.
Are you using a custom bootstrap.less to only include and compile components that you need?

Why haven't you upgraded to bootstrap 3? It could be a bit lighter when you consider the mixins for grids that it provides.
About this:

"Why was this process so smooth? The team had never worked together before, and the scenes they were shooting that day required many different complex tasks to happen in harmony: lighting, makeup, hair, costumes, sets, props, acting. "

If the subject actually interests anyone, I strongly recommend the work of Ted Goranson, who has devoted decades to studying this issue:

The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools

http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Virtual-Enterprise-Cases-Metrics...

He offers a comparison of modern entrepreneurs and the old sea faring culture, in a small pamphlet called "Whale of a Tale.":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/whale-tale-historical-perspective-Pe...

It is tragic that this pamphlet is now out of print. It was only 25 pages, and did a brilliant job showing how the old laws and cultures of the seafaring nations became the basis for the modern understanding of entrepreneurs.

In his pamphlet, Goranson did a great job of arguing that whaling ships were the worlds first Virtual Agile Enterprises. Very insightful reading.

The whaling ships offered a model for modern Hollywood, and tech startup, culture: lots of skilled professionals, who had never worked together before, coming together and working together smoothly.
Err, I certainly didn't mean to be raising any middle fingers. I've just always thought it was weird Stripe doesn't have a lightweight payment page, considering how simple it was to build this with Stripe Checkout and their automatic email receipts.

I've been sitting on this idea for almost three years, and with time it got so easy to build that I finally took a few weekends out. Here's a post from back when I'd have to build out the checkout experience and receipts myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4507050

I'll have to look deeper into this trademark issue though. Anyone have any alternative name ideas?
Can't say I'm surprised.

Their CTO Brian has got to be one of the most obnoxious, arrogant neckbeards I've ever had the misfortune of working with.

Though in the valley these days unbridled and unwarranted confidence in your product is often an asset.
ok, question. since i'm trying to shave some time off of load times on a new project. here's the network graph for the MS site [1], and i'm seeing the same thing in my case.

why is the css download blocked until the entire markup is loaded when the css is in the head? it seems like the loading can start instantly, but instead you lose 200ms.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/sZJ3iAC.png
You are right. I am blaming too much on external circumstances. Will work on it.
What is the rationale for storing monetary values in this sort of system? Not being snarky, just legitimately curious what scale of service could possibly necessitate that and what solutions didn't work beforehand.
Who let the SEO dog out
The service is brilliant. It's a set it and forget it app which has already sent me four refunds. I recommend it to all my friends, especially those that frequently shop online or use Amazon Prime.
See if you like my work at https://nojvek.com (contact at bottom)
1 HTML page (of course), 1 JS file (discounting analytics), 2 CSS, and some assets. As it should be! So many sites overdo it with frameworks. Good to see MS improving these days.
It looks like most of the images are .svg, and the majority of their assets are coming from the same URL which could help them pipeline the resources if the server is using SPDY or HTTP 2 (though it looks like HTTP 1.1 to me).

It's mostly a static website so I don't really know what's so fascinating about it loading fast. Nothing to see here, move along.
He doesn't, because France is not delivering the Mistrals as part of the sanctions on Russia.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/russia-to-order-french-m...
Sorry, I meant "normative" in the philosophical sense, as in normative ethics.

My non-normative interpretation is "toys marketed to and widely considered to be intended primarily for boys" and "toys marketed to and widely considered to be intended primarily for girls."
Hover your mouse over the the wide blue part on the right of the top line in the trace. You'll see that the time is spent in "Waiting (TTFB)" phase. TTFB = time to first byte, so it spends most of the time waiting for the document to begin. The complete transmission of the document once it begins is nearly instant. (I'm not clear on why there's a gap after that bar ends and before the CSS one begins, though.)
That's with resources cached. HTTP Status 304 means the resource was not modified, and thus can be retrieved from the local cache.
I wonder if French law makers realize how much power they will inevitably be turning over to foreign intelligence services.

French services has immense new legal authorities and permissive operating environment. They lack access to the financial resources and technical capacities of the NSA and GCHQ.

It seems inevitable that French Services will invite in the NSA to make best use of their new legal authorities. Soon they will find that NSA's primary customers are able to get intelligence at will on internal French matters.
According to this tweet[1] it's actually mp3juices.se with a different skin. That seems to be confirmed by the same habit of using dl.<domain> for media serving, the very similar layout, and the same (apparent) choice of hosting provider.

[1] https://twitter.com/Mackaber/status/595744227084115969
I am wondering how can you dodge this if you are a security researcher in the US.
"schemaless" nope
Rkt, appc, and Docker: A Take on the Linux Container Upstream
It's mentioned in the article, but if you're in NYC, take a trip down to Modern Pinball (http://www.modernpinballnyc.com/).

I'm no aficionado, but paying $12 for unlimited play on around 20-30 machines for an hour was a no brainer, even just to see the difference in mechanics and design between modern day and old machines.
"Win tix to unique SF events!"

How about no. <close tab>
Did you look into alternatives to mammal meat? Farm 432 comes to mind: http://www.kunger.at/161540/1591397/overview/farm-432-insect...
It's got a vertical carousel that offers no navigation between the two states, gives no indication it's even there ... exactly what I've come to expect from MS's approach to the web.

http://dev.modern.ie/
Empty cache load 340kB in 2.92s for me on FF 37.0.1. [403kB in 2.70s on Chrome 42.0.2311.90]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/?icn=tabz
Empty cache load 630kB in 2.65s for me. [714kB in 3.56s on Chrome]

Nice tools though.

Edit: What surprises me a little is that neither of these resources gets a brilliant PageSpeed score. developer.mozilla.org doesn't minify all its javascript; dev.modern.ie apparently isn't compressing all its SVG nor specifying image dimensions. Would be interesting to read the rationale for these decisions (I assume on such big site there is one).
Fast, functional or reliable... pick two.
Very exciting. Running some of the demos on Firefox Nightly (it's had SIMD and Typed Objects for a while), there's a fairly consistent 3x speedup. The Mandelbrot demo at 70fps is pretty cool.

By the way, if you've been looking to speed up your JavaScript code I'd start considering SIMD - it's highly unlikely WebCL is going to be implemented in major browsers, and the next version of WebGL looks to be a while away still.
You find many politicians giving speeches for money and having a non-profit they are involved in or named after them.

The only reason why Bill Clinton is being targeted over the others is because his wife Hillary is running for President. So the news media and this book Clinton Cash investigate where their donations are coming from. I'm sure we will hear more about it as 2016 comes closer.

Bill Clinton used to invest in startups, then he made the Clinton Foundation to help out the poor and sick in third world nations.
> 2013 Hack Reactor grad here. I had actually heard this about Dev Bootcamp before applying to HR, so I asked the HR founders during my interviews if they did this and they emphatically said no.

Huh, interesting. I knew DBC does that too but they seemed much more upfront about it in their ad copy (and in fact it was touted as a selling point). FWIW, a/A sounds similar to HR by how you describe it; they want everyone to succeed and will give you plenty of support but if you still aren't pulling your weight you'll get booted. There was a guy in our cohort who dropped right before final projects and they let him come back at the same point in the next cycle but they made an exception for him because he had personal reasons for dropping.

But yeah, besides that, great learning environment, everyone wants everyone else to do well, build cool shit and get good jobs. I'd recommend a/A in a heartbeat to anyone, with the caveat that you've done enough programming to know it's something you enjoy doing. (But the amount of Ruby you have to learn to get through the admission process successfully is a pretty decent litmus test.)
Kind of surprised it didn't really talk about the modern pinball "emulation" scene.

Here's an example of a custom build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hP9RipKg0

And some software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Pinball
There is something amazing about it, this is a major site, and I'd say there are many web developers that can tell you how hard it is to fight business requirements that insist on bloating the payload. They need 6 analytics, 4 ad slots, 4 different stylesheets, 10 different domains.
Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April
Do you really need ready switch? Couldn't you just start after a few seconds having greater than X players?
Mystery person puts shuttered music site Grooveshark back online
oh ok, i didn't realize blue was waiting. but then what on earth causes 100ms-200ms delay in serving a static css asset?

i'm seeing this on my nginx setup as well with 0 traffic, static assets (fonts, css, js) "wait" anywhere from 80 to 200ms. is this a gzip delay? i imagine not.

EDIT: nvm, i guess it's internet routing overhead. locally the "wait" 1-3ms. i suppose i can't get meaningfully below 250ms in real life.
For instance, Secret’s failure to quickly address the bullying on its network eventually led to its downfall.

I didn't get that from the secret shut-down at all. From all the talk here after the shut down it was largely a factor of 1. low quality secrets being gamed to get to the top and thus not interesting and slowing growth and 2. it's rebranding making it dull.
How Sony Makes Money Off Apple’s iPhone
No, the constitution doesn't reference race at all, with the exception of the "excluding Indians not taxed" passage.

But it was broadly understood that states wouldn't allow black people to vote, and the constitution at the time didn't prohibit that.
I've used Aerospike at scale (approx 1MM tx per second) in private network, and smaller loads in cloud. I have always found it to be fast, reliable and extremely easy to operate (upgrade, modify cluster members, etc) w/o any downtime or interruption. It is a critical tool in my toolbox. I also have found their support and engineering team to be excellent.

I admire the work that Aphyr does - though at the end of the day, I need to build systems that work for the problem I'm trying to solve (and I have to choose from real things that are available).

Aerospike isn't the solution to every storage problem, and if you are choosing technology based on marketing material, you're probably going to be disappointed.

These technologies in general are trying to address really hard problems and design and architecture is the art of balancing tradeoffs. Nothing is going to be perfect. Yet.
This is an invaluable comment — thank you.
Anecdote: Grew up on a vineyard and blueberry farm ... did not stop allergies from crushing my sinus cavities aka chronic sinusitis
How does this compare to LilyPond, which is Scheme-based with a vaguely TeX-like syntax?
> It is also incredibly expensive to treat with conventional medicine, like $100k/year and up.

I've read some of your posts with interest. Apologies if I'm making too much of an assumption, but how do you afford to pay for your medical condition without a job and how can you take proper care of it without housing? The kind of money you talk about in your blog is measured in fractions of dollars, not hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to properly care for yourself.

I'm sure I'm missing part of the story here and would be interested to know more.
@developers

Players are choosing the color of the background, thus making them invisible. Please fix this.
But hopefully with a smaller stack?? :)
Publish the fact that it can be done without publishing how to do it (yes, you have to be reputable). I think it's interesting that the lawyer focused on the fact that they depackaged the chip when the (in my mind) bigger vulnerabilities don't require that.

I think it would be interesting to sue a company like CyberLock for false advertising ... "impossible to clone keys" is clearly false.
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The link just sends me to AP's web site, not an article of any kind.
Many kudos to Stripe for funding this. Truly a great gift to the community.
The bug tracker says “done” but what does “done” mean?
One of the most interesting economics lessons from the Secret shutdown relates to the $6 million of stock sold by the founders to investors.

Because the founders had taken some money off of the table, presumably now sitting in the form of a money market account + a red Ferrari, they probably didn't have to ride the Secret company all the way down to zero - they could see that the app wasn't going to be the next Snapchat or WhatsApp, and now that they had a few million dollars, their time was suddenly worth a lot more - they could take some of that money, create a prototype, and shop it around to get more funding.

Compare that to an app like Path, which has raised lots of money, but hasn't gotten traction anywhere except Indonesia. Now they're using their late round investment dollars to try to see if a GIF selfie app, a chat app, or a concierge/customer support service will take them to the next level. Of course, that's just what they've launched - presumably there are lots of mobile app prototypes that haven't seen the light of day.

Will Path's investors get their money back? I don't know. Secret's investors at least have their money back to fund more app ideas, after they've shown some promise.
I got 600-1170ms with the cache disabled, and 410-515ms with it enabled.

That's fine. I wouldn't call it "insanely fast" though (or even just fast... it's just ok).

Has the bar dropped this low that we now think 500ms is "insanely" fast?
The problem is, even if you don't like git, subversion is a "better CVS than CVS." Just to give one example, the OpenBSD guys have to periodically manually delete old versions of various files because CVS has a limit on how many old revisions it can track. Now that is just silly.