skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be more competetive and productive to customers, an effective and customable mail server is a must. mail services provided by big enterprise can not fit everyone's need.
The Cloudflare ECC introduction is well written and very accessible - however I notice that it omits a very crucial bit of explanation.

In the billards example it's stated that for a given player starting at point A:

"It is easy for him to hit the ball over and over following the rules described above."

arriving at some point B after some number of hits N. However, regarding some other player who knows point A and B

"they cannot determine the number of times the ball was struck to get there without running through the whole game again"

The question of course, is "Why not? Why can't the second player just start at point A and keep hitting the ball until it gets to point B, and count the hits?

The answer is that the first player does not run through the the sequence one hit at a time! Knowing N, you can take a mathematical shortcut from A to B. The simplest of these is known as "double and add" for elliptic curves. This is similar to the "square and multiply" method for fast exponentiation. The shortcut is the critical advantage, because it's the enormous computational complexity of running through the entire game without the shortcut that is the basis of ECC's security.
I use Session Manager [1] for this. It has a "restore tabs on demand" option. I usually end up restarting the browser every week or two, either due to Windows updates, Firefox updates, or getting enough active tabs that the browser crashes. When it reloads, I only have one loaded tab, and start the cycle over again.

I think the lazy loading on session restore has been built in to Firefox for a while now, but I still use Session Manager. It shows me the number of tabs in the session before I choose to restore it, and if I hit a problematic page that is making the browser immediately crash, I can remove that page from the session before restoring, as well.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/session-manag...
What Happens When You Witness Human Kindness
I'm not sure that refactoring our genome is going to be enough. We need bodies that can survive cosmic radiation as well as maintain structural integrity for the thousands of years required for most interstellar trips. We probably also need a psychology that doesn't recoil in horror at the thought of 10,000 years in space. And frankly, we probably aren't smart enough to do space travel well, even if we did have radiation-hardened bodies with million-year lifespans.

Even saying "we need a rewrite" doesn't cover it, as that still implies the same design goals. We need to rethink ourselves from first principles to have any chance. To draw upon the IRS example from the article, this isn't a matter of slapping a web front-end on software from the 60s. This is more like trying to adapt 50 year-old tax return software commissioned by the US government, to run the server for your new MMO (and, I suppose, reworking that web front-end to act as the client, heh). There is not a single thing about the human body adapted to space travel including our brains - why would there be?
I was fortunate enough to lock in my last name as a domain, so I have first@last.com as my primary address. Sure looks a lot better in my correspondence and on my resume. I just host it via Google hosted domains, it's worth the $5/month.
If it is so trivial, then why do all wireless keyboards not do this?
I have different problem - keyboard I love doesn't come as wired keyboard, only wireless. I want something to turn into wired one. Why? Because wireless microsoft keyboards aren't secure. And I'm talking about Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard...
> Great wealth is functionally equivalent to political power.

You're still behaving as if you didn't understand that it is very much possible to refrain from accepting trades, even if your counterparty is stinking rich. If you don't consider five million dollars worth the loss of dignity from a blowjob, then you won't do it. I can imagine someone choosing to not accept that trade. Maybe they're doing just fine and don't need the money that bad?

> Asking someone who is dangling from a cliff for all their money in exchange for pulling them up, for example, is not a trade I am interested in promoting.

Sure, that would be highly scumbaggy of you, but that's not the kind of deal I was suggesting either.

> Yet this is precisely the kind of trade upon which capitalism is built.

Now there's a claim that requires backing.

> Under capitalism, many / most exchanges are not voluntary.

Complete nonsense. We all go through voluntary exchanges every day, any time you go shopping for groceries for example.

> If I'm rich and I hire a private army to coerce you into doing something, does it really make any difference whether I call myself a king? From your standpoint we haven't really "abolished" political power.

Coercion is immoral, and what you'd be doing is irrelevant to capitalism. But yeah, political power is basically thuggery - it's just that people don't see that from underneath their brainwashing.
Perhaps onion2k could just be remarking that dpatrick86's comment is a good example, and in fact he isn't assuming that dpatrick86 is assuming that the author is a moron? :)

Ad infinitum.
Windows and Linux should be able to do that, too [1] - any idea if Chrome or Firefox make use of it?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timer_coalescing
> Perhaps the "dark net" has improved the safety of drugs by removing the violence of street dealing, but exchanging drugs without government regulation is still dangerous; most people rarely, if ever, test the drugs they receive from China and elsewhere.
> When drugs are trading under names like "acid", "molly", and "ecstasy", it's almost impossible for typical users to pinpoint exactly which chemical they are about to ingest.

Of course, the obvious solution to this is to increase education and availability of testing kits.
You didn't refer to anything specific.
Taylor Swift's “Bad Blood” music video – Play it anywhere you can
Does he have any claim to fame beyond very elaborate trolling? I've been trying to figure out what's up with him recently.
Do we have any idea why the vote buttons are a won't fix? Surely it can't be that anyone thinks the current design is good?
Start simple, with the problems around you...

Hunger, conservation, disease, drinking water and dare I say it: war

There is no incentive to solve most of these issues, which is why there are so many poor and hungry people in the world today.

If you only obtain info from HN, escape it for a bit and read blogs about NPOs doing work in Africa.

A little perspective on reality will help you realize how meaningless "free internet" is when somebody is looking for $3 to buy some rice for his 2 kids and wife each day.
In fairness, the guy is a sailor, not a writer. I'm sure I would make more than several mistakes if you put me in charge of a nuclear submarine.

But yes, the effort to dismantle the Cold War nuclear arsenals should never have been allowed to fizzle out. It should be restarted now. Retaining those things today is crazy, particularly since, as OP observes, they are of no use against today's enemies.
I'll take that into account, but right now I'm more interested in improving my free time. Working from home is perfect right now. :)
Then everything on HN caters to the neuroses of the middle class.

You got food 'n' shelter, what more do you want? Why you interested in Rust or Elon Musk?
I thought that is usually a translator's voice.
Thanks for this. I was unclear on this point. So looking at the discrete log problem vs a trapdoor function:

Discrete log: for f(x) = y
- Easy: given f and x find y.
- Hard: given f and y find x.

Trapdoor: for f(x) = y
- Easy: given f and y find x, given a secret, e.g. (p-1)(q-1) in RSA.
- Hard: given f and y find x, without possesion of the secret.

Is that accurate, or have I misstated the essential difference somehow?
English is possibly the least expressive language in history regarding relationship terminology. It is very common for non-english speakers to prefer idioms that more carefully map what they are thinking of instead of the highly limited and simplistic possibilities of english.
Ask HN: Why not add a Follow button?
So that HN users can improve their feeds by follow somebody.
>Of course it might depend on the definition of fitness. It was certainly true that
>the wealthier teens had more opportunities to create offspring than I did

As far as mating fitness, that's actually all that matters. The weight of millions of years of biology are behind that drive. The fact that modern society has abstracted "success" to so many other things is a recent novelty.
I'm not sure about the environment you work in but the enterprise office (Bank) I'm in at the moment has a monumental caffeine intake. I've had a problem with energy drinks since high school which has carried on into my later life but this is just me. I find I work best on an if needed basis, I won't just have a coffee or Rockstar or something if I don't need it, just if I feel myself dropping off, usually in the afternoon.
Wonders for YOUR readability. Other people have different viewports and screen sizes/resolutions and that would most likely interfere with some of them. Some people might even prefer dense text and long lines (doesn't bother ME).

As others have pointed out, you should be able to adjust your browser to get the reading experience you want. Turn your tablet vertically if reading in landscape. Open current tab in new window and make it as narrow as you want. Or have smart browser extensions that do it automatically for YOU.
Twitter unveils custom emoji for Taylor Swift's Bad Blood music video
There's got to be a better term for it.

But yeah, this kind of design doesn't seem to work well no matter the density of the buildings. Cities really need to work around pedestrians.
More like a recognition of the concept as demonstrated and practiced.
What's the state of the art in damageless scanning? Do you still have to rip the pages out in order to get good, fast results?
(Can't reply to your comment yet, because of HN's reply cool-off time).

Add '@gmail.com' to the end of my username, and we can go from there.
Work with Exchange Sever Using WebDav and EWS Protocols inside Java Apps
PAGING LENNART POETTERING

Yum/dnf haven't been merged into systemd yet, please merge
If modern the web experience is "optimized" for anyone or anything, it's optimized for Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
"You just have to figure out which part of the animal kingdom you're in" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940
Heaven forbid we judge viewpoints on their merits and not on the identity of the speaker.
Self-driving cars don't have to be left somewhere. They can go and transport other people. Or they can drive themselves out of the way somewhere to hang out for awhile. Or some combination there of.

I'm not sure how much I want to comment on your math equation. It's obviously much more complicated. It can't be reduced to an equation.
Excellent questions. I bet it's largely because lots of open-source people want things exactly their way.
I was more intrigued by the article linked in the second paragraph: Readme Driven Development (http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...)

This is close to what I do (and encourage my team to do). I usually start by writing a commented code snippet demonstrating proper usage of the class/function I'm about to implement.
It is likely that some of the functions are trap door functions. That is basically what is the theory behind the random number generator that the NSA paid to have set as default in BSAFE library. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Internet.org: Myths and Facts
Work from coffee shops and just people watch when you take a break from your work. I find working from somewhere else to both be mentally stimulating and relaxing.
Why do you even care seriously there's a million things to focus on in life why this
I agree it's a great tool, except for the nagware messages and their content.

Imagine if the author of 'cp' or 'bash' had the same attitude...
1) I think most people are stuck with mundane career based on the choice they made, when they were 16. Finding their interest/potential today and matching with opportunities could change the economic landscape completely.

2) Increasing conflict between nationalistic and religious ideology is a problem with fear appeal. While country's representatives are elected by people with healthy criticism, religion's representatives are accepted through faith. This creates leadership vacuum to resolve conflicts (or misguided leadership that causes more conflicts).
Too late for me but future generations of HN readers thank you!
Also, do you follow the 'rules'?

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"If you use '--will-cite' in scripts you are expected to pay\n", "the 10000 EUR, because you are making it harder to see the\n", "citation notice.
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That would be rather operatic...
Population is growing exponentially already, and that means there are many more young people than old people. Consequently, extending the lives of old people has a much less significant effect than reducing the birth rate.

Urbanization, good retirement systems, voluntary birth control, education and economic opportunities for women, and lower child mortality are all proven ways of lowering birth rates. Many developed nations hare having children well under replacement rates.
If the answer is 'at least one of them always write down "heads or tails"', then lol
That has a scissor switch like on most Mac keyboards. It doesn't have Cherry MX switches like those found on the Das Keyboards.
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Electroloom – The World's First 3D Fabric Printer
SupplyHub is looking for a dev-ops engineer (Los Angeles)
If I wanted to poison HPA with a fake key, why would I create a degenerate one? A fake key with strong factors would have gone unnoticed, at least by this analysis.
Check out yoga studios nearby. Because it's class based, it's more directed and time sensitive than working out, and a lot of them also foster community, so it might be easier for you to strike up a few conversations than at a gym.

Give a few of them a try to find the one that's right for you.
A lack of empathy for other people. Hopefully an increase in connectivity with help to bridge that gap. I don't think I am truly empathetic to the struggles of the people that produce the goods I use everyday. It is also nearly impossible to abstain from using the things they produce. So would empathy be paying a much higher price so they can live a better life? I'm not sure.
Hot Chip – Why Make Sense?
It's worth noting that HN does adjust article rankings:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

Compare the gradual slide from the peak of other articles from the same time as the one in question:

http://hnrankings.info/9560839,9561606,9561693,9561599,95619...

Moderated forums aren't censored, but they do get... moderated. What else did you expect?
Fixing typos or improving documentation is another super easy way to contribute. You could probably find many typos in many repos you use, especially in code samples.
Spoiler:

Bob always chooses the same as his flip, Alice always chooses the opposite of her flip.

B A
H H - Bob chooses heads, Win
H T - Alice chooses heads, Win
T H - Alice chooses tails, Win
T T - Bob chooses tails, Win
Popescu is waging a pathetic little personal war against FetLife [1]. He's a textbook example of a self-deluded crypto-narcissist who, if there's any justice on this earth, will see his comeuppance. People like him always do.

[1] He's been scraping the profiles of young women (specifically) and posting links, names, and hometowns on his blog. Yes, as technologists, we know that this kind of indexing is trivial. That's no reason, as a decent human being, to terrorize innocent people.
Wealth.

Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC.

http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu
You can't have an "epidemic" from drinking raw milk, since it's not a contagious disease.

However, two of my daughter's classmates were hospitalized just a few years ago from drinking raw milk. It was touch and go for a while, but they recovered and didn't need kidney transplants. http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/04/raw_milk_...
Do they not? Probably because they're using simpler chips and they're conserving battery power instead of sending the message at 5x the necessary strength every tenth of a millisecond.

Or because they're hooked up to USB, or using 5ms of debouncing anyway, so the extra bit of latency isn't enough for them to care.
Ask HN: How Open-Source libraries should be rewarded?
When using many open-source libraries in a corporate project, what is the best way to reward those underlying projects ? Should it be donations, what kind of amount and how to value the comparative importance of each library ?
According to estimates I've seen, if accidents are the only cause of death and we maintain our current accidental death rate, we get an average lifespan of about a thousand years. Assuming people become more cautious, it could extend to five thousand.

To actually achieve that we'd need to be good with infectious diseases, cancer, acquired auto-immune disorders, etc. But a lot of this stuff hits older people harder anyway.

So I'm thinking I'll stick with SENS and related efforts for now, and if I make it through the next century or two, I'll have another millennium or two to support mind upload research.
Yep, its a nice problem. Reformulating it such that there are two possibilites (the coins are either different or the same) rather than four (permutations of two coins) is the way to solve the problem.

I was going to post a hint rather than the solution, but you beat me to the punch.
What?

Nearly every city already has public transportation, mostly buses, though more light rail/streetcar lines are built year by year. I know that very, very small towns (e.g. of the size you can walk across in 20 minutes) often have no bus system, but of course one isn't needed when the town is small enough.

No one's restricting your freedom by building public transportation, either. I have no idea where you're getting any of this stuff.

I know of no US city that's looking at an auto ban in the city core, not like some European cities have done. If you do, I'd love to hear more.

I can't even make sense of the the last paragraph you wrote, "if self-driving cars don't happen, give up your public transportation dreams"? Public transportation already exists, and self-driving cars are decades off from being available to the general public.
> This is a great solution performance-wise

Do you have evidence of this? If you're worried about performance, then this ought to be the foremost concern, and not relegated to the last paragraph.
I'd like to believe that the commenter meant to express admiration for your strength in getting through so many difficult years. But if he didn't feel that way, I sure do, and I bet most people reading this thread do. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Why people repeatedly trying to sniff GSM with varies devices? from a RTL-SDR to real SDRs, point has been proven for many many times, GSM encryption is broken since a long time ago.
My experience arriving at this solution made me a bit curious as to how others solved it. Was there reasoning involved before you arrived at a strategy and verified it, or did the strategy just come to you? Did you try multiple strategies, and if so, was there a method to generating/iterating on them, or were they just coming to you and you tried them?
Yeah, added a little spoiler tag.
Nice, the world need more of this type of closed-sourced software, it is the only way of preventing of information from being compromised. There's simply nothing better than closed-source security freeware. Well done! Kudos to you!</sarcastic>
>You can't have an "epidemic" from drinking raw milk, since it's not a contagious disease.

Is that really a requirement? Wikipedia says "infectious disease", and, for example, here's a study that refers to an "epidemic" of foodborne illness: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7727673
You are right about minimizing risks and making easier hiring decisions, having a more scalable process.

But this strategy only works if you don't intend to keep employees for a long time and these employee don't individually hold much of the value you produce. They might stick for years, but it's not the case you'll be optimizing for.

I think well fit employees don't stay if they don't grow with the company, but these employee won't be easy to find with a risk averse hiring process (or you have entry jobs with very low needed qualifications, but then you have very small hiring risks anyway)

Then if you're ok with only keeping a decent performance in average, it will harder and harder to even keep your hiring bar at the same level, as you'll have more and more unmotivated employees in your rank, and you'll have to give more and more perks for really motivated people to come in and work for you.

In my experience, even companies hiring hundreds of people every year actually spend quite a lot of time reviewing profiles and care a lot about getting the right people for the job, at least for any non entry level position.
I made a table of all four possibilities:

A_coin B_coin A_guess B_guess
H H ? ?
H T ? ?
T H ? ?
T T ? ?

Then I tried to fill in the guesses, given that A_guess has to be based on B_coin and vice-versa. After making Alice guess the same as her coin flip, since that's a simple thing to try first, it was clear that Bob had to guess the opposite of his coin flip for each row to have exactly one correct match.
Tracking Axact's Websites
Mozilla is missing, and should actually fork of Netscape (and into Firefox).
Nvidia  Pascal GPU Architecture to Provide 10X Speedup for Deep Learning Apps
Do we know how much he's actually worth?
Create Blu-ray from Videos
> The beachball on OSX frequently causes the whole UI shell to freeze solid. This literally never happens on Windows

As TazeTSchnitzel said, this happens on both and is quite rare. If you're not just trolling and actually see this on a regular basis, it's either a hardware problem, misconfiguration, or something like using an unreliable LDAP server (this was the last time I saw it, back somewhere around 10.5 and, surprise surprise, Windows clients also wedge solid with a slow/flaky domain controller – I see this every time I use a Windows 7 domain client on a VPN).

> Also all IO on Windows is asynchronous. It doesn't support synchronous IO.

Please contact the folks at Microsoft so they can correct the first hit on Google:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

Remember how we were talking about backwards compatibility? All of those traditional ReadFile/WriteFile/etc. calls aren't going away anytime soon. Even the teams at Microsoft who work on things like Outlook, Word, IE, etc. use synchronous I/O a lot since it's so much easier and there's no major downside on a local file system, particularly now that even a cheap computer can dispatch thousands of IOPs.
The forum you are referring to is 8chan (http://8ch.net/), yes? Are you sure you are not trolling?