skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watch a bunch of shows where a camera man follows the police, and see people confess all the time as soon as the officer asks "Are these your drugs under the car seat?" etc.

One time I saw someone who didn't confess, they were released the next day with no charges because they couldn't prove the owner of the drugs. Another case was someone who didn't pay for petrol at the gas station. The police caught them red handed, but they just kept saying it was an innocent mistake (obviously wasn't). Police had to let them go after they paid.

Unless of course, you really are guilty and want to be punished, don't do it.
>In short, Peeple lets you keep a log of people who knock on your door. Chuter thought about this project when his two little boys left the house and played in the street without his consent. Even if your door opens from the inside, Peeple tracks these events. //

It uses an accelerometer.
I'd advise anyone trying to learn by implementing ECC to be careful using this article as an introduction. It's written as if you can follow along, but there are some omissions (see the comments section).

James D'Angelo has some good videos that go into some of the detail too

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgo7FCCPuylVk4luP3JAgVw
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Article mentioned metro/streetcars - these were not profitable, so were closed. Of course you can make tax-paid public transportation, but I guess because it has to be funded locally vs. funded federally as in case of interstate highways, it never happened.
I'm impressed by the cost. Remodeling a city and building 4 new bridges for approx 10% of the cost of the new east section of the Bay Bridge...
This is why I hate how we Americans have bastardized the word "liberal."

Liberal used to mean something concrete. Liberalism was about liberty, including economic liberty and free markets. The most liberal party in the US today is the Libertarian party.

Yet in most American's eyes, anything the Democrats do is de facto liberal -- which is not the case. I would describe someone like Elizabeth Warren not as liberal but as a moderate democratic socialist.

And progressive... I don't think anyone really knows what that means in a modern context.
Eisenhower never intended the IHS to go through city centers, though.
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I guess the urban planners at the time included people like Robert Moses. From his Wikipedia page:

> His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
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Read the Robert Caro book about Robert Moses. Racism was definitely a part of the man, but his existence wasn't defined by it. He was a man of his times.

He screwed over many a German farmer on Long Island, and those low bridges on the Northern and Southern State Parkways weren't seen as a problem for the powers that be in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Hell, the KKK was active there in my dad's memory.
I have an Mail Server by my own. I think its something about having control.
This is an excellent article and I can relate. I'm in my early 30's and I took up piano a year and a half ago. Learning music has been a great outlet and gives me something to study that has nothing to do with programming. I've taken lessons the entire time and I've found the best help my instructor has given me was telling me what I was doing wrong that I'd never be able to see. It's fun to learn something new and I feel music is a mystery that was similar to when I started down the engineering path. Even though its an escape I still ended up making an iOS app to practice sight reading since I didn't like what was out there. It's a shameless plug but its available and is free with no ads or iaps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-note-sight-reading-tra...
When I was a kid, I used to go visit family in Dayton, Ohio. We would take a day to "go downtown" and hop on the local electrically powered trollybus, pay some minimal fee and get a comfortable ride from suburbia to city. We'd go and walk around and hit a few department stores, eat some food, maybe take the bus a couple more times, and then grab a trollybus to get back home.

It was easy, cheap and just worked. I understand some of the system is still active in the city. It's kind of mindblowing to me that there's only 5 such systems in all of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Dayton
They used the GCD (greatest common divisor) algo to find any common divisors between 2 large keys. 231 was such a number.

This signals to me that both the keys are corrupted/bad to have really small prime factors (3, 7 and 11).

I have taken courses on discrete math, cryptography and read a few prime generation algos. Its a standard first step to check numbers against primes upto a million or so (nowadays, a billion). No prime generation algo I can imagine generated these keys.
I don't know much about autobahns. Do these go through cities, or go near cities?
I've found myself in a similar situation, I think. I'd like to do some travelling but I find myself getting hung up on money and overall I just don't know what I would spend my time doing. What did you do once you arrived in a town or city? I really would love to have an idea of what one would do in a situation like that.
Sorry to see you were downvoted. Parallel reconstruction has completely undermined my faith in what the police say was their procedure for gathering evidence.
Ask HN: What are some of the best HN comments that you've read?
Have you read a comment here that influenced you significantly, had some great ideas in it, was memorable for some reason, or was just fun to read? Share the link here.
Yes, and my point is that this is very similar to how, for example, convicted harassers aren't allowed to talk about their victims on social media, even if it isn't in a manner associated with their crime?
Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets.

Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.
A little Javascript bookmarklet should do that nicely. I'll write one tomorrow, if I don't find one.
I actually think LA is very different case. The 101 is the backbone of California for a reason - it's been there since the Spanish built the California missions.

Los Angeles grew up around the highway, rather than the other way around. So instead of a beltway being built around a city, you've got a city stretched out along the highway.

That said, there are plenty of micro examples of defaulting to pavement over rail for public trans in LA. The so-called "black and blue" line in the San Fernando valley is a pretty amusing example. (Rather than put in light rail, they built roads that only buses could go on. This caused a lot of confusion and there were a lot of accidents in the first 6 months, thus earning it the nickname "black and blue") It was sort of a clever solution. The city knew how to build roads and so it stuck to what it was good at.
I'm confused as why you wouldn't just use a USB breakout board and a bluetooth or serial modem (e.g. [1]). Having to desolder every key seems like an immense amount of work and risk of error. At any rate, an awesome hack. I love my Das Keyboard, and wireless wouldn't hurt (gaming isn't my use-case).

[1]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12700
This is awesome, and reminds me of what Eckhart Tolle is describing in his book "A New Earth". Essentially, "your purpose in life is whatever you are doing right now".
I believe they are referencing Atari Teenage Riot.
You're generalizing quite a lot, and I'm not sure how you expect your divisive viewpoint to help the situation anyway.
Betteridge's law seems apt here: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
The firmware on the device is a black box that controls a more complex black box in an undocumented way and where errors can break it. You don't JUST swap the firmware out. Even so, he may have meant it in the context of the onboard software and modifiable hardware (eg switch they flip at factory to permanently set behavior). Sometimes a hardware engineer will call both firmware speaking shorthand. If it was the latter, you're unlikely to change it because they blow a physical fuse (antifuse?) inside the chip.

Some IP vendors are also offering encryption, tamper-sensing circuitry, and obfuscation to help chip-makers protect the systems better. They really want that extra few hundred dollars. ;)
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Why does it have to be a trolleybus? What's wrong with a regular (possibly hybrid) bus?
It is highly likely that this is the work of a troll.

The RSA subkey that was factored has an invalid self-signature in hpa's public key[1], which means that it wasn't really hpa who added the subkey. Since the sks-keyserver pool doesn't verify signatures[2], anyone could have inserted that subkey. So anyone could have purposefully picked an exploitable RSA subkey, added a fake signature to it, and uploaded it to the sks-keyserver pool.

Luckily, GPG will drop the subkey when retrieving hpa's public key since it doesn't have a valid self-signature. But for anyone scanning all the public keys without verifying signatures (for research, etc.), this key might get recognized and cause a shitstorm. Which is exactly what has happened.

So far, there's no evidence that there is a conspiracy to weaken RSA keys. There is only evidence that someone inserted a bogus subkey into hpa's public key. There will be evidence of a conspiracy if we find a weak RSA key in the strongset that has a valid self-signature.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ba23ca66d2ca249e6f84#file-...

[2]: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2015-March/029...
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If its a frequent problem, you can use a mouse bungee [1] [2] [3] to prevent it.

They're targeted at the gaming crowd and most "pro gamers" use those. I'm sure you could rig up a cheaper solution with sticky tape or something if you don't want to buy one.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/l8Ynobn.jpg

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Bungee-Management-Fixer-Holder/d... (~$9)

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Tt-eSPORTS-Galeru-EAC-MSB0... (~$20)
Have you read William Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum

A dodgy Russian site has the text http://lib.ru/GIBSON/r_contin.txt
Yup, just look at Berlin and Munich. Munich is surrounded by a (partially) 8-lane ring, and numerous Autobahns end within 10min driving distance of the city center.
Yeah, that's what he said. So, that makes two of you saying this is industry standard for cost-cutting and increasing yield. I'd probably do the same if I made chips. We do it in security engineering for high assurance stuff for similar reasons: the more flexible, certified design can be reused in many applications with minimal extra work & (hopefully) max ROI.
Perhaps it would help with latency a bit?

Key signal > USB > Wireless
vs
Key signal > Wireless
Also with such a high salary, people would quit very quickly just because they would be able to retire.
As soon as you start working on the building, you pretty much have the replace the panel, as 1) it has to be secure, and 2) you have no guaranteed network connectivity.

The closest to what you are asking could be a 2N IP video intercom with a 2N 2Wire connector (uses the old copper/coax cable of the analog intercom system for IP), costs around $1,000.

People would then have to connect the network cable from the 2Wire box on their apartment side to their home router and setup their phone to connect to the intercom in P2P mode (intercom acting as SIP server).

Other options is connecting the intercom directly online, which makes setup much simpler but incurs a recurring cost for the building association.
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It was built in 1888, doesn't smell, probably cheaper than laying track and moving trollies around.
It seems like the search queries against all books, it would be nice to only query the text you're on (or maybe just a checkbox). Very cool though!
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I can't see a reason a Freedom of Information Act request wouldn't be proper against the contents of BL held photographs assuming the photos are out of copyright.

http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/foi/overview/

However, I'm sure the BL have lawyers standing by ready to stop you under one of the mentioned - but not disclosed - "exemptions" in the above link.
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Meanwhile, on the original post, the author is acting like HN was tampering with the ranking of the article because it started doing poorly after people realized that a real key wasn't factored:

> "Update II : Amusingly enough, it seems Hacker News hand-diddled their story list to remove this discussion. Way to go Ydumbinator crew!" [0]

[0]: http://trilema.com/2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-...
No, but this sounds kind of amazing. I'm adding it to my queue right now!

I'm going to give the TV adaptation a quick watch also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BmRiDxrnPQ
In the Bay Area, Foothill Expressway literally replaced a good sized chunk of a rail line.

Prior to the early 60s, one of the Penninsula Commute rail routes actually split off in Palo Alto (right where Groupon is now, and where a Y existed until 30 some years ago), went down across El Camino and through where the VA is, and down Foothill to Los Altos, ultimately connecting up with the extant Permanente Branch. That was an alternate commute route from San Jose to San Francisco, hitting the west valley and south of San Jose.

Outside of the Key System, that was I think the biggest loss of rail transit in the Bay Area.
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Then you follow the first three tasks. Just leave the video on the first task and do something else for five minutes and then come back to the computer. Then do the second task which is just sharing a link on Facebook (you can share the post to yourself) then once you've done that just go on your Facebook and click the link and then click proceed on shoe money. The third task is just watching the video till the end (30 sec video) and proceeding to the payment.
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Frankly I find it uninteresting because it doesn't talk much about chaos, which is the normal condition of classical mechanics. You certainly can model aspects of resonance with classical perturbation theory, but the most remarkable think about classical perturbation theory is that it doesn't work very well.
Wow, this one really is a lot better. Love the Eleanor Roosevelt quote too, she was awesome.
I've been fighting the fight to be more proactive about signature verification, but there's little interest in changing the status quo.

Relevant GPG thread: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2015-May/05354...

Relevant SKS thread: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2015-05/msg0...
Most curious would be whatever is happening in some alternate universe where up is down and left is right. But I'm guessing you knew that already. I think what is curious about urban planners being absent is that most people would expect the blame to be placed on their shoulders. That the blame is not placed on their shoulders is curious only if you aren't aware that the profession barely existed at that time.

In other words, the fact of the profession barely existing at that time is not a premise to the curiosity of their absence. For more of this, you should follow me on Twitter where I explain why jokes are funny.
It's pretty standard in anthropology circles that whoever can generate the greatest share of prosperity in a group (protein in primitive societies, money and influence in advanced) will have the greatest power.

So when such high power men get married, chances are pretty high that the women they marry will be less powerful, and thus relegated to a subservient position.

I wonder if there have been similar studies done of family structures where the woman is the primary breadwinner?
ASK PG: Why search display comment's score?
I noticed that the search feature display the score of old comments

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment&query=Do%20not,%20do%20not,%20DO%20NOT,%20try%20writing%20raw%20transactions%20at%20home.

( picked this randomly ).

The website, and the HN API doesn't. Any reason for that?
It looks to me like boilerplate that allows you to more easily interface between the python world and the vim world. So instead of putting a bunch of python in your ~/.vimrc, you would install this plugin, and then put your relevant python in your ~/.vimrc.py.
There's a reasonable argument for busways over light rail -- the non-disaster failure mode of buses is a lot more reasonable than the non-disaster failure mode of rail. If a bus has mechanical issues, it doesn't stop the entire bus system. With rail -- a bit of engine trouble breaks the whole system.

I've seen them work reasonably well in Pittsburgh, along with the Bus lane going opposite traffic on the one-way streets (as opposed to say, Philadelphia, where everyone drives in the bus lane).
I've found snowboarding to be an amazing activity to partake in alone. I'll take a mid weekday off and drive to Tahoe (I live in CA) and most resorts dont have lines at the lifts.

At my own steady pace, I'll get somewhat lost in the woods. Total silence and just the trees and snow. Maybe sit down and take it all in. I find these trips to be the best vacations and often I don't stay more than a day.
Terribly written article. This guys lives in an academic cave.
There is. It's called Cloud Foundry: http://www.cloudfoundry.org/index.html
It probably also doesn't help that most of the math fails when one of the factors used to generate the key is composite.
Given the founder resigned last year, rumored to be due to Kremlin trying to control results, this doesn't seem to enticing.
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They're probably procrastinating more important projects.
Saying "highways should exist" isn't racist. Saying "highways should exist, and we're going to bulldoze neighborhoods where mostly darker-skinned people live to build them and route them to connect mostly areas where lighter-skinned people live" is racist. And it's what we did.
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>At least US is not in complete denial and that is quite laudable. Hopefully, more progress is made to that end.

You are clearly in denial to the point where you need to look at other nations 500 years ago and conjure things that never happened, to make yourself feel better about the U.S., a country that has never been democratic nor free.

As for Ingria in Sweden, still exist, have their own language and the state/county is still named after them, Ångermanland.
The overhead of that must be ridiculous.
Negative nature impact of mass production of batteries(at the gigafactory)?
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I often worry about what the world will look like after he dies. There doesn't seem to be a RMSjr in the wings anywhere.
The "garden city" movement was a thing, but not quite what you're describing. "Towers in a park" was an organizational scheme for cities proposed by Modern architects, such as Le Cobusier in his Ville Radieuse proposal, and is maybe more like what you're thinking.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse
I know as someone who was a caretaker[0] for a partner, it's incredibly hard to separate making responsible choices for someone who can't always make them from your regular actual friendship or relationship with them.

If you were already friends with the person, I really don't see them ever wanting to treat you formally. In the worst case they might have to make the almost impossible decision between involuntarily committing you (if they think you are a danger to yourself/others) and losing a valued friendship, or not committing you against their better instincts to preserve their friendship and risking you harming yourself/others. (Not that you are necessarily in that category ever, but if you're making a decision like "Can I ethically provide treatment for this person?" you really have to think about worst cases.)

[0] I don't have any medical/therapy training, but I wound up spending a few months taking care of someone I was dating who was having a pretty severe manic episode. Very irresponsible of her doctor, in retrospect, who later said the reason he hadn't hospitalized her was because she had me to help take care of her/watch her--and we were both college students and he had met me once, briefly.
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"Hipsters" nowadays are people who shun trends and only want in on the "underground" stuff. "Hipsters" are also those that are all about being trendy. "Hipsters" are also those who care about the new-and-shiny, even if they don't bring anything new or useful to the table, or if it's a reinvention of some wheel. "Hipsters" are also those who indulge in retro stuff, even though they may be archaic and not useful any more...
That's really an oversimplification. In the early history of the USA, there were two camps, the federalists and the anti-federalists. The federalists explicitly wanted a strong central government. The anti-federalists, which you might describe as the "small government" side, wanted a freedom from monopolies written into the constitution, with the understanding that the government would revoke corporate charters if any company got too powerful.

Even so, the federalists didn't really want an environment where strong corporations check the power of government, they wanted an explicit oligarchy where the most wealthy men around were Senators.

Neither of these camps really sound like modern libertarians to me.
101 would have still been there, as he 405 and most of others.

Check out this map of the old system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric#/media/File:Lo...

With enough patience, one could have travelled from Woodland Hills to Redlands or Corona. Unfortunately, I do not know the time it would have taken, but the current bus system makes it nearly impossible.

If the freeway system was built in the same way that I see BART being incorporated into say the 580 in the Bay Area (right down the middle of the highway), it would have been a great setup. Want to drive the car? No problem! Want to avoid driving a car? We have you covered as well!

The routes 101, 405, 5, 10, 110, etc. cover are great. There are many intersections allowing for "hubs" and so on. Unfortunately, only choices are either cars or buses that have little advantage because they sit in traffic all the same.

Busways may be a middle ground, but I have not seen them work out very well in San Fernando Valley. I'm guessing because there is still insufficient density and poor bus coverage of perpendicular routes to the busway itself. Just a guess though...