skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His ideas are mostly hugely idealistic and categorical, ignoring real world scenarios and downplaying the downsides of free softwares. People who believe in complete anarchy can perfectly choose to live in their enclosed community, but if the world were to follow their way of living it would be a total disaster. Though of course debating their ideas would contribute to the development of practical, real world ideas in some ways. Better to have such a voice around than not, of course, but most people, after thinking it through, would just rightly reject taking his ideas verbatim.
I don't see the crucial similarity to the housing bubble: renting out to people who cannot pay. Actually, their policy seems to be the exact opposite, strict collections.
It doesn't actually send any of your data to anywhere; it runs locally in your browser, using history data it already has.
Watch as Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski gets up, and defends the program... then take a look at her top contributors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=n0000...
Chrome's flexbox support ain't exactly perfect either.
> Removed: Mediastreaming (requires non-free library: play-services)[1]

I understand removing EME and DRM support, but they are removing a feature simply because it only works when a certain closed source library is installed. Is graceful degradation somehow "below" them?

That's like banning packages that use .NET (when it was non-free) on NuGet. You can create open source code that supports proprietary libraries without having to compromise your morals, with the sane choice of graceful degradation when you absolutely need the library.

This seems like a very petty reason to completely remove video streaming support from their distribution of Firefox.

1. https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.mozilla.fenn...
Senate Blocks Bill on N.S.A. Collection of Phone Records
I would say there's a balancing problem.

The best practices change over time, but old literature, and especially old online resources, have lots of inertia. We can call it the stagnating force of cargo culting, or the dark side of PageRank. The literature I remember reading clearly stated that in DH the security lies in the data used for key exchange and not the parameters. The use of well-known parameters are in fact encouraged. You state the same:

> Yes, if you're going to use 1024-bit prime group, you definitely want to be using one very few others use. [...] It doesn't much matter how many people use your (properly selected) 2048 bit group; no amount of precomputation puts it in reach of attackers.

Using standard, known-secure parameters is clearly a winner here. So: the best practice is to use provided DH parameters. What do people deploying applied cryptography do? They use parameters available from their chosen crypto library. Parameters, that were set as defaults years earlier.

Around year 2000, it was computationally (relatively) expensive to generate your own DH group. And, because using your own group makes it harder to bootstrap trust, it would have added complexity in an already complex mechanism. Hence, the best practice of using known DH group made even more sense.

The fact that Logjam mitigation strategy includes the recommendation to generate your own DH group flies against the face of established DH best practices. (Can we just assume that the modern crypto libraries will catch a faulty RNG and refuse to expose clearly vulnerable parameters? For sake of brevity, at least?) Those deploying applied crypto in the field are now faced with conflicting information. The established and easily discovered (PageRank[tm]) literature states that the best practice is to use known DH groups. The same literature also states that for compatibility reasons, using >1024 bit groups are not recommended. Now contrast this with the Logjam paper: those who require compatibility are suddenly in the need of their privately generated DH parameters. So suddenly the best practice is to ignore established best practice?

That's a nasty conflict.

Of course the sane and secure route was to simply make sure all servers were using ECDHE. But if you need to serve clients that are using ancient browsers, you probably still have to accept the known 1024 DH groups too.
Why are European Muslims (admittedly the sad, hopeless losers) falling into this trap? Could it be a lack of civic, constitutional nationalism and Habermassian public civil religion as opposed to bog-standard ethnocracies?
I've read tons of reports that wealthy people from China had been descending on US soil and gobbling up pretty much everything on their way with entire deals in cash.

Similar things are said about London.
Probably because for performance reasons, much of this is hard coded. Buffers of a fixed length, etc.
Cash-strapped councils switch off CCTV cameras across UK
What is also fun is that neither IE or Netscape support DHE_RSA_EXPORT, and they didn't bother with DHE_RSA_EXPORT1024 at all (only DHE_DSS_EXPORT1024).
They're planning on implementing ads based on browsing history, although it's supposed to be without violating users' privacy, apparently.
> the actual text/content

First, the metadata is probably more interesting in most cases. Being able to map usage patterns (from the timestamp) and relationships (from the src/dst metadata) is an incredible power. This is why I am utterly amazed how with how little attention COTRAVELER has gotten. Even without section 215/etc, just letting the phone company construct a surprisingly accurate map of your life is far too tempting a power. All because you carry a transponder in your pocket.

As for the actual text, you have to pay attention to the word-games the NSA plays. The NSA has stated several times that they only record "foreign" communication. Leaked documents indicated the record the full-take of several countries (the Bahamas, etc). The trick was confirmed by Snowden explicitly in his interview with John Oliver (and hinted previously), this is referring to the wire, not the people at each end. If you data goes is routed outside of the USA, they record it. This suggests an explanation for those strange BGP attacks a while back, where all traffic to places like google.com was routed through various remote countries.
Open source development is the future of software
Well, okay, quick and dirty scripts where you are expecting (or want) things to be blocking are probably the one place where you need things to be sync.

I suppose though that you could always just call process.exit() when a callback was called or a promise resolved. Personally I'd love a file-level await statement.
I'd really like to see you try and claim that loading a folded-up wheelchair that the occupant themselves regularly loads into a car on her own, is "overly burdensome".

I know the american legal system is pretty much fucked, but surely even you lot would have to accept that putting a folded wheelchair into the boot/trunk of a car is "reasonable accommodation".
"All our 401Ks and retirement funds ultimately ends up at groups like Blackstone"

I really think we should abolish tax-deductible/advantageous defined contribution plans like 401k, IRA, Roth, college funds, etc. This automatic investing scheme is giving inordinate amount of power to wallstreet, and force money to chase after equities and securitized products because that's all they know how to 'invest'.

If you're going to invest in stock market, you should make conscious choice to do so using after-tax earnings just like other forms of investment. The only reason why people plow money into these accounts is because of tax benefits.

Take that away and people will find more creative ways to put their money to work.

That could ultimately be a good thing for this country
History Repeats: MySQL, MongoDB, Percona, and Open Source
Seriously. I've run into static from fanboys at pretty much every job because of it. People getting prickly because of criticisms about Java, because...well, they write Java. (I rarely say they know Java, but, different problem.) Seeing some frank discussion, as is going on in this thread, is really nice.
I tend to be worried when I see somebody describe themselves as "passionate" about a programming language. Good programmers, I have found, are passionate about programming, and all too often those who are passionate about a given tool are really much closer to zealots.
What I don't understand about human nature is that many of us take it as a personal affront when someone else does well. Shouldn't we be happy for them. Instead it makes us evaluate our own performance and leads to fear that we may not measure up. If only we could be better humans.
Sounds like a very weak study:

>The researchers ran two online experiments to find evidence of the misperception. They asked some participants to describe a time they had bragged about themselves (self-promoters) and asked others to describe a time that they were on the receiving end of someone else’s bragging (recipients).

>Taken together, the data from the two experiments indicated that self-promoters overestimate the extent to which people on the receiving end of their stories are likely to feel happy for them and proud of them. At the same time, they also seem to underestimate the extent to which recipients are likely to feel annoyed with them.
The NSA's "upstream collection" program involves copying entire datastreams (actual content) from internet hubs across America. The EFF mentions it on their main "NSA Spying" page here, https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying.
I would have benifited from expertise in OpenGL. Answer questions, keep them culturally involved - which in many cases might mean giving a T-shirt.
Good news: those don't require empathy, as such. All they need to thrive is people's desire to look empathetic without putting much effort into it. Click the upvote arrow to show compassion for starving children and puppies and the grand canyon. Retweet if you think that saving the whales is good.
I don't know which is worse... that they're doing this, or that for "only" $1300 a month, I would probably rent from them if I had the option.
Sharing our SaaS metrics for B2B business in India
The article states that they are assuming a 95% occupancy rate at all times. What happens when they undershoot this number and aren't able to make the yield payments? Isn't that analogous to "renting out to people who cannot pay"?
Using the VRIN model to evaluate web platforms
It comes from inflation. Purchasing power of $1mm in 10 years time will be probably the same as 500k today.

The investment works because in 10 years time you own bigger chunk of the asset (Mostly due to inflation but also debt repayment from rent).
It's because success is about status, and status is a zero-sum game.
Wait, I was the under the impression that the minimum downpayment was increased to 20%. Am I misremembering?
i would be slightly more targeted- abolish tax incentives for investment in real estate. investment in real estate is literally rent-seeking, unproductive and is widening inequality , particularly between young and old.
The Key to story structure in two words: Therefore and But
This is indeed very nice. Having Lists and Procedures really helps teach children about computer programming. Using Scratch had this as quite a challenge.

I was able to download the github repo and run it locally. I was wondering how we can save projects on the disk and run them.

This would be a big help when schools don't have internet access.
Which real estate market are you in? The article states that many of the purchases were done in areas hit hard by the recession. I can't imagine $1300/mo is actually that good a bargain. Also, as other posters have mentioned, you aren't likely to keep that $1300/mo price tag for long if the area does recover.
Well, some things at Mozilla seem a bit odd.

A few weeks ago Nightly ended up having "Pocket" integrated, and rumour said it would replace Mozilla's own open source Sync plus the integrated Reader.

Addons will soon no longer be able to be installed unless approved by Mozilla. (Another walled garden. Sigh...)
>Any stream of cashflow that has a reasonable amount of predictability will try to be and can be securitized given demand from end buyers.

Regarding end-buyers, how much of this demand for yield is one that has been artificially created by the ongoing depressed interest rate environment?
Omg, they should with Japan, their logic on territory is so warped.
Well, the idea behind F-Droid is "free-of-charge, free and open-source software". If the software doesn't live up to that, I feel their are in their right to remove it.

And honestly if you want the full featured software and don't care about ideals, just download it from Play.
This is very good, I hate having to constantly remove malware plugins off friends'/family stuff, hijacking new tab, hijacking search providers...
Mortgage securitization didn't start out with subprimes and "NINJA" loans. It just got that way as demand for the securitized products got out of hand and the banks had to produce more and more of the product from somewhere.
Herodotus writings are also very interesting to get an idea how society was back then.
>Even if 2008 repeats, you might lose 5-25% of value unlike stocks where anything is possible.

That depends on the market. Palo Alto or Atherton won't budge in the next crash, but look what happened to Las Vegas.
> towards standardization and reliance on a few very carefully designed curves

That was the subject of djb's recent talk[1]. He brings up the very good point that we don't know that curve wasn't designed to have some weakness that was creator has kept hidden. This includes the case where a "random", "not biased" generation method, which only moves the attack point back one step.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9568659
Uber has cleverly saddled their workers with the worst aspects of being employees and few of the benefits of being contractors.
I don't see that anyone is being exploited here. Pre-2008 in my area rents were far below the equivalent house payment because there were more people who wanted to own property and rent it out than there were people who wanted to rent. In effect the renters were subsidized by buyers who were betting on rising home prices.

Historically, in the US at least, as a land owner your appreciation tracks the CPI pretty closely. It will go out of whack for a few years, but then there's a correction. I just can't buy into your exploiter-exploited mindset.
concrete examples: Mortgage tax deduction (up to $2.4mm in loans iirc), low property taxes from Prop 13 leading to lower running cost vs renting, and capital gains carryover upon a sale of primary dwelling and purchase of another one.

I am sure there are more.
Amazon to begin paying corporation tax on UK retail sales
"Performance reasons" is one of the better excuses to use if you want to force a committee to approve a weakened version of a standard. It has the air of "meeting everyone's needs" and it is unlikely that complaints about the potential weakening (or downgrade attack) will be listened to.
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Student Pressured by School to Remove Photography Portfolio
Indian Newspapers Balk at Mom’s Ad Seeking Groom for Gay Son
I found that quite interesting actually.
Implementing this kind of thing in an open source(!) browser may be the only way to deliver custom ads without violating the user's privacy.
That being said I still think it is a horrible idea...
Hard to believe Amazon got away with this for so long...

"The group made $8.3bn (£5.3bn) of worldwide sales from British online shoppers but for 11 years all these internet transactions have been booked in Luxembourg."
Success can be defined in many ways, some of those involve status but plenty do not. As soon as your definition of 'success' involves others then you're in the status domain but if your definition of success lets those other people out it becomes a much better driver and is no longer a zero-sum game because you determine what you believe to be your standard for success.

For instance, I could define my measure for success as my ability to fix something and then go and do it. If I'm successful I win, if I'm not successful I still learn. It won't matter at all in the eyes of others (to me, at least) what the outcome is and the world as a whole will be better off, even if I'm unsuccessful.
Yeah, I was becoming genuinely interested in the study's results until I face-palmed at the methodology. Relying on 'remember a time when...' anecdotal evidence surely is not the best qualitative data they could come up with.
Create JSON-LD / Hydra / Schema.org API in Minutes (Symfony Inside)
While general "computational" tasks are bound to be slower in Perl, it holds its own in text processing. I've had better performance from Perl than awk, grep, and even sed in some of my own tests (not to mention that the programs are orders of magnitude easier to write).

It even seems from those benchmarks you posted Perl did quite well in the reverse complement and regex DNA tests, as I would have expected.
Business idea: make it so easy as to click a link to do a donation on the likes of facebook and so on, make a retweet of a certain tweet cost you some money.
And I should have put this in the first comment I made:
This is not legal advice, nor is it financial advice. Please seek professional guidance for specific situations. This only serves as an example of one specific deal I am involved in. And even I get the numbers slightly wrong sometimes - H/T to gamblor956 for reminding me to state this.
And I should have put this in the first comment I made:
This is not legal advice, nor is it financial advice. Please seek professional guidance for specific situations. This only serves as an example of specific deals I am involved in - H/T to gamblor956 for reminding me to state this.
I'm confused - this looks and sounds like Phratch but they don't mention Pratch at all (although hint towards it by mentioning BYOB (Build You Own Blocks) which is something that Phratch had).

EDIT: My bad, BYOB seems to be separate to Phratch, and they (Phratch) added it to Scratch to create Phratch. http://www.phratch.com/ - Snap is a separate in-browser implementation. I think I'm less confused now...
Ok, I don't usually bite this bullet, but this is ridiculous.

I never bought an Apple product, because it is shiny or because everybody cool is getting it.
I only bought Apple products because they were better. They were better because, they work reliably, have awesome support (infact, they are industry's best), are well thought out(UX wise, Apple usually beats everybody else) and hence intuitive. A shiny pig does not merit a second look. I understand this is anecdotal, but I don't wear any thing blingy(not even a ring), wear fancy clothes, or shoes. There are some of us who recognize and appreciate the qualities I listed above.

I also never bought an Apple product just because it has better CPU, memory or camera. For me, those are meaningless without a well working package. Android might have the latest/greatest features, but we know not every phone can get the latest OS, nor can you get all phones without crapware installed, nor can you find a local store that fixes your HTC phone(or others). Remember when only Android phones had NFC and no body used Google Wallet?
Why is that? It is not about the features your gadget has, but what I as a consumer can do with it.

Your camera might have fancy lens, but the end of the day, nobody is impressed by your camera, but only by your photos. This usually applies to any tool. How consistently it performs, how easy is to use so you may use it in ways original, describes the quality of output. Good tools do this by getting out of your way and solving the problem completely. Steve Jobs understood this and hence Apple products work seamlessly. This, is Apple's contribution to society, not cell phone or a watch.
Makes me think there could be a little more to this. On the one hand, if a friend or colleague has something go well (personally, in business, whatever), I will be happy for them, and certainly wouldn't begrudge a twitter/facebook "yay me".

Alternatively, if someone is constantly self-promoting, they'll quickly find themselves unfollowed. Seems to me general politeness rules apply: brag all the time, and people will think less of you.

From the original title, I was expecting a study into the latter. Doesn't come across that way in the end.
Sometimes IE7 statistics based on user-agent strings is unreliable.

We have a phantom measurement of 3% IE7 usage when the actual usage is 0% (our web app prevents IE7 users using JavaScript because it is too broken). The measured IE7 users are actually using IE8 (as a control embedded within a Windows exe, actual usage measured using @cc_on @_jscript_version).
There's quite a difference between 'check out how successful I am' and 'check out how successful Someone Else is.' It's the same difference between someone trying to sell you a product or service, and someone observing that the product or service happens to be popular (but who has not interest in persuading you to spend money on it).
As we are just getting started, we look for at least 11%, and will move that higher as we get more experience (and more patience :)).

Property management in both locations is about 10% of Gross rents. One company also charges half of the first month's rent to cover turning, advertising costs.
Such a crucial similarity will only develop if this system continues to develop with ever-hungrier competition (e.g. "Blackstone's competitors announced that they, too, would develop similar securities") and thus snowballs from a lack of regulatory control on applicant approval.
Yeah,but you need to look at the growth trajectory too. Yammer was exploding in use, and people pay a premium for that.
Well this does work. Storing your ground coffee in a sealed container in the freezer is the single easiest thing you can do to improve the flavour of your coffee.
I have met some braggers in life who had low self esteem; I truly didn't mind their bragging. I just wanted the person to be happy. If you were poor growing up and you become wealthy--I understand a little bragging.

Now, if you have high self esteam, high wealth, and they were braggarts; That's the combination I always found obnoxious. I would encourage these braggers--hoping they wouldn't change. I know it's wrong, but some of these people were sociopaths in suits. Most of them made their money the wrong way--taking advantage of someone, or exploiting a bad situation. Their wealth was legal, but morally made the wrong way. Why should I help a person like this?
I don't replace my phones before they break, and it is a long time since any of them lasted more than 3 years.
Awe-spren?
> banking, consulting, and law firms... use a definition of merit that is linked closely to social class... aspirants without elite qualifications or connections—or evidence of pedigree—tend to have slim chances of earning an offer

So people who overinvest in pedigree get funneled into jobs of painful drudgery (banking, consulting, law firms). That's pretty funny.
I still have the same Patagonia fleece that I got when I was 15. I'm 43 now. I just had to retire a pair of Patagonia long johns I bought in about 1994 and have been used during numerous hikes and winter bicycle commutes.

It's not just marketing. With stuff that last longer you just buy less, and actually spend quite a bit less money in the long run.