skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason Scott has written a bit on the impending doom of 5¼" disks:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191
You can buy a little parcel of land to put your mobile home on too. Mobile home parks are not the only place they can be put.
there is another video about the design of the surface:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2326
m2crypto is a pretty big item on the list of those that still don't support python3.

I've got a few relatively new projects that had to be done on python2 due to this.
They are definitely helping, but I do wish there was wider awareness of the implications of G-A everywhere.
I was expecting the patent [1] to describe some kind of Amazon Echo, stuffed into a teddy bear with responses and a personality.

Instead, it seems to turn the toy into a glorified TV remote that sends "media device commands to a media device, instructing the media device to change state".

Shame about the click-baity article, I though this had potential for an interesting discussion about AI around children.

[1]: http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?PageNum=0&docid=20150138333&IDK...
I'm not from the USA, although I don't think it's illegal here either.
From working a few different jobs in retail, I can say it is not to uncommon for people to walk away after paying, leaving their just-purchased items behind.
> The forum will pay up to 15 XAU

Somewhat interesting that the bounty is not priced in terms of Bitcoin.
Anyone know what this table means:

1 word 0
2 words 0
3 words 0
4 words 3m
5 words 19d
6 words 405y
7 words 3My

Does it mean that if your password contains only 4 words, it 3 minutes to crack regardless of the words?

Is https://xkcd.com/936/ bad advice?
Thats a really good question that I'm unfortunately not qualified to answer. When I said "real stake", to an extent I mostly just meant being a founder or an executive, where you have a seat at the table and if your shares are going to be diluted, at least you're trading it for something.

As an employee, for some of these equity packages you'd almost need an MBA to decipher if they're any good with all the things that can happen, so I usually don't even bother and just go to places that pay fairly or have interesting work.

Maybe a simple way to think about it: if your market salary is 100k, and they offer you 60k/yr and 2% of the company, is that 2% of the company worth 40k? (And how far can they dilute it?) To me that generally sounds like a bad deal, but your milage might vary depending on the circumstances.
Honestly I never understood that social norm of not wearing a seatbelt in a taxi. I'm much more confident in my driving skills than some dude yelling in some foreign language on his cell phone the entire time we're driving because at least I'm focused on one thing at a time. Sometimes the taxi doesn't even have visible seatbelts in the back (this is Philly I'm talking about, where getting around regulation is only a $200 bribe away!).

The one great thing about Uber/Lyft/et. al. is how they forced the taxi companies to step up their game and make getting a cab less of a shithole experience, at least here in Philly. Cabs are much cleaner, the drivers are not always distracted with some bullshit, and you can even hail them with an app. Before Uber came around, taxis were well aware that they were the fastest way from point A to point B (if you don't have a bike), and they gave precisely zero fucks whether you were having a nice/safe time.
Demystifying Chris Roberts on Aircraft Hacking
> LastPass and 1Password are good choices if you don't care about letting others host your (supposedly encrypted) passwords.

That statement doesn't apply to 1Password; AgileBits does not host your data.
His wife Alicia was also killed in the accident.
I don't know why you got downvoted. Maybe it's the furry thing. Cryptopals is still ongoing (there's a set 8 in the works, all elliptic curve attacks). As for posting the solutions: we're doing that, too, in the abstract, but we're all busy and every time we bring it up a bunch of people say "noooo don't post solutions".
I would really advise agains even trying, unless you are simply bored. I created a system with exact parts recommended by tonymacx86 and it took days to get everything up and running. Even then basic stuff kept braking like sound. Speed stepping didn't work at all so I abandoned that ship...
In a large city these are all city services, which implies that a startup could work with the city as the customer.
Why does the article make a big deal about the faraday cage but not explain why it's being used? Is the rest of the office too noisy and they want to test TVs with a single wifi configuration?
There are optimized parts for a hackintosh, which is why it is best to DIY.

As far as buying, the retailers will skimp on areas that are negligible or ignored by the consumer, e.g. motherboard, RAM, PSU. This makes it difficult to work with compatibility & OSX from a straight buy perspective versus choosing each optimized part in a custom build.

As a warning, you might run into issues with seamless integration that is normally experienced with Apple products via MBP/iPhone/iPad. The 'ecosystem' doesn't like Hackintosh :D

Seconding Korni22 and insanelymac forums.
I was talking to a cab driver in Bristol about that and it is apparently because drivers were getting robbed by people strangling them with the seatbelt.
The thing that puts RSA-2048 in reach of attackers is going to eliminate RSA altogether.
There's a gem right at the end from 1878:

"Oldest known publication of a recording of recognizable phrases in the English language (“Brown University”; “How do you do?”)"
QNX used to run from a floppy as well.
XAU is ounces of gold so the price of 15 ounces is about 18,000 USD at the moment.
Professionally I can essentially work anywhere with a high speed connection, and my wife is in healthcare and can work anywhere near even a somewhat built up area. We would like to do low-intensity farming, have some chickens (primarily for eggs), ideally have some woodlands, and so on. My wife really wants to try keeping bees, and the honey products from that.

I'd love to have enough land to have a small nanny-suite house, a bunkie off in the woods somewhere, etc. With connectivity (which is starting to appear in even really rural areas via wireless options), I really have to imagine that more of an exodus out of urban areas will happen by the people who want the more remote living and had only moved to urban areas out of proximity needs.
Very interesting.
One of my favorite aspects of scala is the ease of buildig DSLs with it.

On a side note, Scala seems popular at Berkley. (Amplab developed spark using scala)

Was that a spontaneous decision by graduate students or is there some faculty members who suggested going the scala way?
Yep. There is a study on this, worth to read, it is focusing on the historical aspect and how we got here:

https://twitter.com/lix/status/589171043010412544
90s web portal Lycos returns to sell its patents
In Switzerland the driver has to make sure all passengers have their seatbelt on or they will also get fined.

Cab drivers here won't drive if you don't put it on.

Seems like a good solution to me.
The diagram on page 14 (page 3 of the machine description) vaguely resembles a Markov model, which I could imagine would be useful for cryptanalysis, but I don't see how such a system would be reasonable for encryption or decryption if you have the keys. Am I misunderstanding the machine?
It's weird to me that a cookbook exists for this, though if it's helping people I have no problem with it. I'm just not sure why we think of "RESTful APIs" as anything other than using HTTP to its fullest capabilities. Even HATEOAS is really just "hey, shouldn't our APIs be as easy to navigate as the rest of the web?".

I also find it ironic that there are lots of articles around condemning "the Web" for its idiosyncracies, the biggest offenders are JS folks complaining about how the DOM is implemented (disclaimer: I think it sucks too sometimes), yet these same circles champion things like "REST" and "HATEOAS" and "JSON API"...how are those things not part of "the Web"? Why do we only use "the Web" when we're pejoratively discussing it?

All that aside, this book seems relatively well-written. Good job guys!
Buildings take time to build, do I have to make that clear?

Also, it's not about ethnic make up, it's about culture and identity. The neighborhood can go in a wildly different direction, and that's what people are lamenting, specially if it's culture-producing centers (let's admit it, the most that tech nerds produce are open source libraries for other tech nerds to consume). Anyway, urban centers come and go, SF's death will be a sad thing, but it happens all the time.
If it would be priced in terms of Bitcoin it would
make the bounty less attractive for a lot of people.
Bitcoin is highly volatile and not everyone believes it will rise.

15 XAU is by the way currently around USD 18000.
pass[1] is a pretty good choice. But you also have to make sure your provider really follows decent security practices.

gandi.net is a pretty decent provider not full of BS (as their slogan states).

[1]: http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/
Remember that BASIC, Pascal, Modula, Oberon, Ada, and LISP were used in the past for OS's and system software on machines with almost no hardware by today's standards. Ada, Java subsets, and Astrobe's Oberon are still used in embedded systems today.

What makes today's software bloated is the crud built-up over time, standardization, security, reliability, a trend toward easier maintenance/productivity over raw speed, and so on. Here's [1] a simple program that got trimmed down to mere bytes. You can see how much overhead the aforementioned items add to C code which, by itself, produces very efficient assembler. For people wanting a middle ground, there are High Level Assemblers such as Hyde's HLA [2] and I've speculated we could do something similar with LLVM's bytecode.

[1] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

[2] http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/H...
yeah also I forgot to mention that there are no benefits yet and I'm having to pay health insurance on my own... the only reason I've not left is its buying me time to work on a side project while having some income stream
Did the article or researchers say it was just because someone was in a different room? The title is "Walking through a doorway makes you forget" not "You forget because you're in a new room."
I've had Digital Ocean reset a VM on a different account (a client's) just by asking politely from my own account (not impersonation or anything alike on my part).

While it was helpful on that occasion, it should probably go completely against policy to do stuff like this.
Some of them, yes. I've been on some buses (usually tour buses in some part of Europe) where the driver insists everyone buckles up.
Have you looked at The Odin Project? I think it's best suited for you.

http://www.theodinproject.com
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft [I suspect it's not bundled to avoid running the risk of antitrust litigation]. Anecdote is not data, but I've been using it for five years and have had no problem, and unlike commercial antivirus, its business model isn't based on selling your browsing history or recurrent credit card charges.

Windows firewall has a bad wrap because XP shipped without it turned on/installed for years. Since Vista and the new security infrastructure it's about what one would expect as part of an OS. It just took Microsoft a while to overcome the problems of Windows' success in less technical installations.

None of which is to say a person can't easily do something stupid. But the same is true for Linux or a BSD based OS.
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
-Mewtwo, from Pokemon: The First Movie
Pretty amazing. This old reddit thread mentions work being done on extracting ambient vibrations potentially imprinted into pottery.

http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/1bwyf1/extracting_a...
Selfless plug.. May also want to check out Surf for web scraping.

https://github.com/headzoo/surf
Docs: http://www.gosurf.io/

Among other things goquery is baked in to easily select page elements using CSS selectors.
The oddball TLS libraries do not have poorer "code quality" than OpenSSL, though they are not perfect and have received far, far less scrutiny than OpenSSL, so if you have to bet on which is going to have memory corruption, OpenSSL isn't a sure bet.

But my concerns aren't about code quality. They're cryptographic.
If you care more about what people say than your business's success, it's time to fold the business. Shameless plugging is a valuable skill.
I agree with this. When people say "Hey, what about Portland" I tell them, no, Portland and Kittery are actually part of New Hampshire since they seem to get all the actual benefit.

Like, you know how when you travel between states, theres the major highways, and theres tons forest, and no actual towns or anything for miles? It isn't like that from NH into Portland, it IS like that from Portland into Augusta or on the way up to Bangor.

Oh, and as for all the paper mills? We're killing those off. And our one large major employer that isn't in Portland/Kittery? Its rumored that since Jackson Lab couldn't open a big new location here in Maine and opened it in Flordia instead, they're moving their existing location here down to Florida too (and with that, probably thousands of jobs will go with it between the people that work there and the people that support those people in that community).

Its like, can we just leave the US and join Canada already?
I had the same conversation with a private hire in Salford. He said that it's easy for someone to strangle you from behind with the seatbelt.

My dad never brought that curious aspect up (ex-taxi driver of ten years) but you can pick up dangerous people. I remember when I was younger, he had to take me to the police station as he identified someone in a photo book. He said at the time it was a 'runner' but I later found out it was because of a man who he had dropped off who went on to attack his ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law with an axe, which he had the whole time in my dad's car.

Knowing about these sorts of experiences, I can understand why they would forgo protection of a seatbelt when they potentially pick up these types of people.

It wasn't all bad though. He has fond memories of picking up famous Manchester Utd footballers, his favourite team, before they were famous, e.g David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, etc.
Sorry, let me clarify, income taxes. Poor don't pay their share of income taxes.
I had a friend named "tommy" that hated bloated software. He followed guides like this [1] to experimentally delete files off his box. Backup, delete stuff, see if everything works. If works, new incremental backup and repeat. If not, restore and make note to keep that. The result over a few years: a WinXP install with Firefox, AV, Office Suite, etc that backed up fully on a 650MB CD. Mindboggling.

Note: It was a blessing and a curse. He was a Windows XP holdover despite security issues and his preference for security. He wouldn't transition. The reason? He invested too much time into his XP box to give it up. Plus, looking at the Win7 default install, he figured it would be less fun next time.
Interesting article but I don't think the movie is bad. It's just romanticised. In my view it doesn't distort the real story in a meaningful way for the audience.
What's broken with (western) education?
I saw education appear on YC blog for industries to be disrupted - and while MOOCs have been awesome, it has got me thinking.

I've been rolling around two questions: what is the real purpose of education, or the education system? And then, what is broken with it?

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The above is the question I posed in Reddit earlier tonight, generating an interesting conversation IMO (linked below). I have been pondering how we can _really_ take what we have seen with MOOCs and transform education.

I'm going to keep my views to myself for the moment. There's a big opportunity to fix the system, but I was very privileged, having participated in experimental education programs that fostered STEM progressive and independent thinking. So I'll be bias.

What's HN's views on education? Can SV transform education really?

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/3734mh/serious_whats_broken_with_western_education/
I don’t have Firefox open now, but I remember there are three such options in Preferences > Advanced > the second tab from the left. I think two of them are checked by default – they involve sending anonymous usage information. You can uncheck the checkboxes to disable them.

On the second launch after a new install or new profile creation, Firefox shows a notification bar about these settings with a button to quickly change them. I don’t remember how long ago those settings were added, nor whether they showed the notification bar for those updates.
What I understand is that in Britain, for most cases CCTV is actually owned by private companies---like a shop will have a CCTV that watches its alleyway.

Even in the case where CCTV is owned by the government, its operated by individual city districts.

It's not a singular invisible omniscient organization.
I definitely agree about seeing the raise to market level... When I was hired they were supposedly going after 2-5M funding (so far its been ~1M in family money put into it), they said once either the additional funding or 50k mrr was hit that my salary (and the others) would go up. A few months ago the CEO's position shifted to wanting to "grow organically". Now it's pretty clear it could be 6months - 1 year before either funding or the mrr are hit (if the company survives that long) and I don't plan to wait, BUT, the main reason I hadn't made a move yet is because it's buying me time to work on a side project while still having some income stream. The thing is I don't want to get played like that and if the company suddenly sees growth (possible), I don't want to be stuck with low equity for all the work I'm contributing. I also only meant senior level in terms of development work, I'm sure I have more to learn in the startup realm.
What is the best way to attract your first 10k users?
How do your attract your first 10k users especially when faced with a chicken-and-egg situation such as an ad network, for example?
>compared to the average doctor the average nurse is an idiot.

After that statement, I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about or you're in some odd part of the planet where nursing is taught on the job.

Around here, nursing requires years of training. Psych, biology, pharmacology and I don't know what. We have different level of nursing qualifications, with the longest being a nurse practitioner, capable of legally prescribing medication.

It is a field regulated by the same governing body as doctors, and is not trivial in any way.
I wonder if it would be possible to do this semi-automatically. Boot it in a VM, check what is actually accessed during boot / a couple programs starting up / running. ("Just" automate this.) Remove the files / parts of files, check that everything still works. If yes, repeat. If no, try binary searching until you get something that does work. Repeat.
This is a good piece, and it is always good to take to heart lessons of ethics and professional responsibility. Ultimately I don't think the situation from the practitioner side is much different from that of civil engineers, architects, doctors, etc. We're all trusted to do something beneficial with the arcane skills we have mastered, and at least in the first instance do no harm. I do think that software is unique in its ubiquity and penetration into every corner of life, and it may well be that there has never been a technology relied on by so many while being understood by so few. But the responsibility incurred when you build something that others will rely on is what it has always been.
Triple Town implemented in Scratch
yes very true! although the main reason I haven't made a move is it's buying me time to work on a side project while still having income... as my gf's dad said, "prostitution goes two ways"
If you’re a perfectionist
"They treat it as an insult" — also some US drivers. I just say "Oh, I trust _your_ driving, it's the drunks and crazies out there that I don't trust."
QNX is an excellent example of OS design: minimal TCB, efficient, self-healing to a degree, and supports popular runtimes/libraries. You don't need to imagine what a consumer version is like: Google a Blackberry Playbook demo to see its power. To be accurate, that OS is a combo of QNX and Blackberry addon's. Most couldn't run Internet and two games at once without lag. ;)
What I mean to say is that the attribute isn't categorical, even though it is treated as such in the discussion. I'm also not saying the regulation cannot "work" by picking a threshold, I am appealing to our moral intuition that regulating private behavior is wrong to explain why regulating "commercial" behavior is also wrong.
> For most engineers, including a number of very good and ethical people at Facebook, it’s surprising that this is even an issue.

Wow. That really hit home. I work for a large enough company that's constantly running experimentation, usually as A/B testing (not Facebook). It honestly never even dawned on me to consider how borderline ethical that is.
> (there's really no such thing as "dying of old age", despite the myth)?

There is. I was talking to a buddy of mine, whose in his seventies, says that some people don't really have anything wrong with them, just that everything slowly stops working. Nothing to point to as wrong, just a slow decline.

> Yet, it's understandable why people get angry when people start philosophizing about death when someone dies.

My biggest problem with secular culture is that we've lost a certain perspective and ability to handle our own mortality. People just get utterly irrational when it comes to death.

Life is beautiful, certainly, but death also has a dignified beauty to it too, and if you strip death of its dignity, then what you get is an abomination to life. So you see this culture where you lose control over your own dignity to satisfy other peoples' lack of emotional maturity. Really sad.

A car wreck isn't at the top of my list of preferred ways to die, but it's far from the bottom. Way more dignified than a lot of the alternatives.
Many comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9596160
That's a strawman. (And wow, am I surprised to be able to say that to anyone on HN).

What's actually argued is advertisements aren't 100% effective, in that they can't force you to purchase a product as a mind-controller.

Ads let you know a product exists, may convince you that it's worthwhile or better than competitors, and offer reminders to keep the idea of the product on your mind. However, that's all the same things a carefully crafted in person sales-pitch could do, and sales pitches aren't mind-control even though they are far far more effective than any number of internet banner ads can be.
Good point. Most of these projects that are silo'd die or get gobbled up over time. SkyOS comes to mind. Better to invest time or energy into community-driven, alternatives.
My personal libraries are full of metaclasses and decorators that don't translate over very easily and I rely on Py2's import system very heavily. When I start something new I use Go or Py3 if I can but it is still faster for me to use Py2 most of the time. Over the next year I plan on fixing this as I am really excited about asyncio (right now I am using a py2 port of it https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius).