skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add that passwords are used because they're the best default given all the constraints and risks:

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/05/22/the-quest-to-...

They fail when their correct use depends on human beings. Just like you said.
Tasker (for Android) does, to let you choose one to launch automatically when something happens. But apart from automation and possibly "personal analytics", I don't remember any other use case.
It's not clear that there is any other solution besides something you could call "thinly veiled communism." Either everybody gets some ownership or share in the productive capacity we're increasingly turning over to machines, or some people just get left out not because they're unwilling to contribute but because there's no labor market left.
My understanding is that there is no parole in the federal penal system; parole wasn't an option available to the judge.
Twitter really is a terrible:
Refer to first comment in link below. In the name of providing open source tools to Developers, They are collecting Contact lists of app users that has their SDK's:
http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/37hx7y/twitter_j...
http://coursebuffet.com/sub/english

https://www.coursebuffet.com/cb/english/402
It's better to 'lose the job' by raising your rates than to just flat out quit, because it lets your client save face. Telling them that their work is so bad that you refuse to work with them doesn't. So just pick a number that you don't think the client will be willing to pay and that's enough to take away a little of the pain.

Then the worst that can happen is that they pay your unreasonable rate. But it also means that the relationship has changed and your input is recognized as much more valuable, and therefore more likely to be heeded in regard to staffing. And by "worst that can happen" I mean that you will be paid two or three times as much as before.

On the other hand, if they turn your new offer down, you've essentially quit with no downside other than "we just can't afford it anymore." Not really even a burned bridge since they pulled the plug, not you. So long as you couch the change in rate as a simple evolution of your business based on the changing marketplace, they've got enough BS to rationalize their decision.

Good luck.
It's an inconvenient talking point for people who want to hold Ulbricht up as some type of hero.

Painting over it is their only option.
He was convicted of the charge to which that allegation was formally attached.
I once thought like that, until an accountant friend shared his point of view on the matter.

That project you don't want to do, what amount of money would it take for you to accept that project? I'm not talking about what you think is a reasonable amount based on the work involved, put those thoughts aside. How much money would it take for you to actually be happy accepting that task? An extra 150K$? 500K$? 1M$?

Because that's what you tell them your price is. They can shop around and go elsewhere if they choose, but don't immediately respond with a flat refusal, because this is an opportunity for a win-win.
The only sure thing in Computer Science
Aww. I read this title as Beat Detection-Algorithms, hoping it would help with some gray-hat marketing we've been doing.

Still interesting though.
> It's disingenuous to say she "mentioned no one by name" when she was clearly talking about the student that filed the complaint.

Read the article carefully. The student that filed the complaint wasn't the one who she mentioned in the previous article. It was someone she had "mentioned fleetingly" -- so looking at the previous article [1], it might be the grad student that the professor had previously dated, and that he subsequently filed a lawsuit against. His reasons for doing so are not mentioned in the article.

I fail to see how mentioning that the professor filed a lawsuit against someone he had previously dated is retaliatory. It is a simple statement of fact, and if anything, paints the professor in a bad light.

[1] http://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes/190351/ (paragraph starting "The aftermath...")
to be fair the web apps work well. I did the same on my mobile, no more snooping. But i had to root my phone to remove Twitter and Facebook so everybody can't do that.
This has nothing to do with what he did. They're making an example of him.
"One of his programmers in particular--who is currently his most-senior on-staff programmer--is bad."

If you have a good relationship with your client make your concerns known and the consequences (price). A good client will take this in and may give you some insight. Give yourself a set time-frame or project. Wait, see what happens. If nothing happens, increase your prices adjusting for the losses and get a new client.
That article links to this Twitter support page, which is undoubtedly why someone submitted this to HN.
Google IO: A Little Badass. Beautiful. Tech and Human. Work and Love. ATAP
Cleaning and repairs startup Homejoy (YC S10) is up for sale
Speaker of that talk launched http://ghcformacosx.github.io/ a couple weeks after Bay Hac '14.

I wonder sometimes if it was already on his mind or if it was because people were complaining about Platform at Bay Hac.

Bob is awesome :)
By far the most interesting talk of this year's Google IO.
If you watch one talk, watch this one.
Ask HN: What are the implications of Senate Bill 593?
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593

I got an email from Airbnb asking me to email the CA state senators to oppose SB 593. I'm not entirely sure if it's a good or bad thing. Any explanation as to what the long term implications of this could be would be super appreciated.
Great! I love being incorrect, it's always a good opportunity to learn.

Could you please show me a C program live-diagrammed like the following CPU: http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

Since they are basically the same and I was just abstracting away what was convenient to me. Hey, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

I think there's a difference. The reason we can make a live diagram like that for CPUs is that they don't care about the "state" they operate, and hence are immune from problems therefrom. C programs care about the state they operate (they take conditional jumps on expressions that might be null pointers) but CPUs don't. Every branch test the CPU runs is for sure run over a register and for sure will either succeed or fail, there's no third choice, no bottom, no chance of it going wrong.
We've designed app graph to exclude apps that appear to be especially sensitive, such as ones dealing with your health, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.

I was alarmed until I read this. It is really nice of them to choose to keep our sensitive private information private. Thanks Twitter!

( Of course I completely trust Twitter to make the right decision on which apps are considered sensitive. )
Fencing electronics are, at least last I looked, suuuuuper janky.
It means he doesn't know about those PCI card firewalls specifically designed to enforce security policies on traffic flows within the network (or enclave). They're an uncommon thing in industry because most industry thinks outward-facing firewall = secure. Others that know better didn't want to spend money on a security device attached to every server they own. So, the companies in the 90's offering highly secure versions got acquired after little sales, the current ones are obscure, and all he got to see were the more limited crap the industry adopted en mass.

A sad, recurring theme in INFOSEC industry. They're figuring out a lot of the old stuff, though, slowly but surely. Especially in cutting edge datacenters doing things like OpenFlow.
Yeah, that's what I would do. First apply an IIR low pass filter (e.g. 200 Hz), downsample, apply a window function (e.g. Hamming, but there are probably better choices) and then autocorrelate the window. The peaks in the autocorrelation should give you the beat. If you use a higher frequency you can get the sub-beats. This should work with all music types ... kick drum or no kick drum.
Special Forces Test Hummingbird-Size Drone
Do atoms going through a double slit ‘know’ if they are being observed?
Self-replicating nanostructures made from DNA
"If you don't shop at Amazon, you just don't value your family that much." Someone call the marketing department....

Amazon used to beat competitors on both price and convenience. To imply those unwilling to compromise on price have screwed up priorities is spurious, glossing over how Amazon either cant or wont compete on price.
If you opened by saying "Firewall MARKETING is just some stupid crap ...", people might hear your message better.

Yes there's huge complacency about security. But the problem is people, not firewalls.

Holistic security is important and a huge opportunity created by this mass hypnosis. There's never been a better time to raise money. Happy to discuss, contact info on my profile.
Very true. There's a tremendous amount of wealth extraction happening at the moment, and in general, the beneficiaries don't care at all.

In fact, if the masses are poorer, then the rich are richer in both relative and absolute terms.
Collab ended up with the business version, SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE), which was a Java rewrite of sourceforge.net shipped as installed software.
It's not often mentioned as a reason to learn Esperanto, but the literature of Esperanto is really quite wonderful and makes learning the language well worth it. I've only read a handful of books in Esperanto so far, but it has been an excellent way to read first-hand accounts of people writing about their own cultures and experiences.

Last night I finished reading Vikitmoj (Victims) by Julio Baghy. The book is a semi-autobiographical story of the author's experiences in a Siberian prisoner of war camp after WWI. It's a fascinating glimpse into life in these camps and how the different populations (POWs, soldiers, peasants, Jews, bolsheviks, etc.) all interacted with each other. As an example, one practice Baghy writes of is a kind of "duel" that the POWs would sometimes engage in between each other. (In the book it came out that one of the POWs had been sleeping with the wife of another of the POWs back before they had been captured.) They weren't allowed weapons, so they had to be a little creative. They would draw lots and the loser would have to provoke the soldiers on one of their marches so that the soldiers would beat him (sometimes to death).

If you learn any national language, you'll be able to read people in a handful of cultures write about themselves in their own words. But one of the unique features of Esperanto is that after you learn it, you can read the works of people in cultures all across the globe without the need of a translator as intermediary. (Of course the subset of people in a culture who write in Esperanto is not representative of the general population, but it's better than nothing!) In particular, many of these works haven't been translated into English (or any other language for that matter), so you would have no way to read them otherwise anyway!
This is how they do it:
https://github.com/danielamitay/iHasApp

The read me explains that Apple does not approve of this.

Twitter should back off on this. The goodwill lost is not worth what they are getting here.
why fight the client ignorance? as long they paid you okay.And as long they dont interfere or mention the bugs of the system you created. okay.If they started to take lawsuit then diff matter.
Well that took about 2 seconds to delete..
Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services.

<ashamed>Raises own hand.</ashamed>

I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's herd.

Time to make some pretty heavy changes...
Apple's integration is independent of the Twitter app, though.
...and the banks ended up with those houses. Which were then packaged up and sold as rental back securities[1]. Rent-seeking in the most literal sense.

1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-06/blackstone...
You have cancer. Get that health insurance.
Really? Did you read the rest of my comment?

Seriously though, do you actually believe scientists at Google or even managers want to cash in on an obscure scientist when they already have adword and adsense? How would that make any sense? This was obviously a tribute, come on. There may be tons of reasons to criticize Google but this is not one of them.
> You're not talking about a "CPU" here. You're talking about the abstraction that a CPU provides about how it's assembly instructions will be interpreted.

This says it all. No, you are talking about assembly and pretending I don't know about registers. I'm talking about this:

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

In other words, how the CPU takes its steps.

Now that you know what I'm talking about, if you still insist on your point, and if you'd like to help me understand how I'm wrong, which I would appreciate, could you please show me how that live diagram would look like for a C program and its state, since as you say, C programs with its variables and the CPU with its registers are the same kind of "stateful".

A pointer that may or may not point to gibberish is not the same kind of stateful as RAM that is always a list of booleans no matter what happens. That's a pretty strong guarantee. That's a strong type. When in a C program do you enjoy the guarantee that something you are manipulating will always for sure be a certain way no matter what? CPU designers enjoy that guarantee towards registers, program counters, caches, and all the "state" you defend to be so alike that of C. There's a set number of registers and it never changes throughout execution. There's a set number of bits in RAM and it never changes throughout execution. Whether these bits over here and those over there are 0s or 1s are immaterial to the CPU because guess what, the CPU does not care, it does not understand the semantics of my program, and so it can never take a "wrong" step - any "error" is my fault for coding the wrong instructions. (Except for the occasional CPU bug as I have been shown exist).

Please stop trying to talk about assembly. I know assembly. I've programmed Win32 assembly (you can make fun of me, it's fine). I'm not talking about assembly here. I'm talking about the CPU designers or programmers and the guarantees they have when programming that we rarely do in HLLs.

Think of this another way: say you are designing/coding a CPU. Isn't every possible error that can happen your fault? Is that the case in C? Whose fault is it if the computer runs out of memory? If memory gets corrupted? If a hacker pokes your memory to cheat in a game? It's no one's fault, those things can't be predicted. But when designing a CPU you can be sure you have the power to predict every possible thing that can happen in your problem domain. Because you're designing a dataflow grid and an adjunct list of booleans whose semantics are immaterial to you. But in C it's just not possible (nor in any other language, C is just a stand-in here) because you are invested in the semantics.
Hmmh, you could be right and I could be wrong. NYT article didn't say life without parole so I wasn't sure where that came from. But other people are reporting it.
What is being sent to the server then?

And by plain-text, I mean the server receives information that could then be used to authenticate later.

For instance, if you send the sha of a password, and then store the sha of the sha, you're still sending the password in plaintext, it's just that it's not the password the user entered.
Stick this in 140 characters: "Twitter has and always will suck, as a service and as a corporation".

The medium is ridiculous, I really see it as the dumbing down of our society.
That may be true, but there are other ways of doing creating problem solving in mathematics that aren't as .. specialized. I'd rather figure out how to teach fields to get you that experience more effectively on more generally useful problems, than regress to proxying a math education with a compass-construction education. [seriously, if you read those old Harvard entrance exams from the 1800s, more than half math is compass problems.]

I actually got to do lots of creative problem solving somehow, but I understand how many did not. Coding is where that really took off but I did math contests and stuff when I was younger.
First, that sucks, and I'm sorry.

Second: if what you're facing is lymphoma (not unlikely given what you've said), you've probably already been told this, but: lots of good outcomes, especially for younger patients. I've known multiple people that faced it (more than one of them older), and all of them beat it.

Third: what you really want to know: do nothing differently. Retain your new job. You're fortunate in that you have a career in which you'll be able to remain productive during treatment.

Having an illness doesn't make you an albatross. Your condition almost definitely won't meaningfully impact your employer's HR costs (speaking from some experience here), and those costs are not your problem. You are not endangering your new employer. Don't listen to anyone who suggests your are.

Stay frosty, and do not casually make decisions that will impact your insurance coverage.
Live.

Breathe.

Your chances of living happily for a long life are very high. In doing so, you are a valuable person with immensely insightful lived experience.

What decision makes the most sense for someone living to 89?

Make that one.
The problem is that any solution we come up with will have to scale, as everyone gets treated the same.

In other words, we'll end up letting these people go free to find more victims:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Williams
They don't explicitly provide it. Twitter uses a form of IPC built into iOS (canOpenUrl) to find out by brute force whether or not well known apps are installed.

In other words if you just submitted mynewobscureapp to the AppStore, Twitter would not be able to detect it until they added your app to their targeted list.
The best treatment I've found on the web over years of autodidactic investigation (I'm not a medical researcher) is Artemisinin. Couldn't hurt to watch the video..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Or8xLOGBu8
The US Tried to Stuxnet North Korea’s Nuclear Program
Recently read an article from a femnist Harvard prof, which defines this contention as feminists not managing the transition between an Advocacy (victimization) standpoint, and Governance (legitimacy).

http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/02/trading-the-megaphone-fo...
The sarcasm is strong in this one. Hopefully.
They don't explicitly give it. You can define your own URL schemes, e.g. hackernews://, and the OS will tell you if a handler for that URL scheme is installed.
In case anyone wondering why there's so little discussion in this thread: There's another thread that has many more points and has a shorter age than most stories on the HN front page that (apparently) the moderators of HN have chosen to penalize for unknown reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626985
It doesn't necessarily match the software, but if you read the documentation, the source of the name (and many others) should quickly become evident.
Just came here to say very sorry to hear this news, that really sucks. I will pray for you tonight. There have been a few cancer threads on here in the past, hopefully some people who overcame it can chime in with some infinite wisdom (srsly no pun intended)
You should absolutely, completely, without hesitation do what it takes to get insurance.

I don't know if a company's insurance premiums actually rise if an employee gets sick. Even if they do, that's not your problem.
Apple may not remove it, they'll just refuse updates.
It takes planning and plenty of work, but I have almost completed migration to my own domain and away from gmail. I wish I had done it sooner, everyone needs to make their own place on the net. No need to be a serf.
It's sad how true that is. Reminds me of the early days when Apple would ban all "sexy" apps, except Playboy and such.
while possible, what benefit would it have over the current default of capstone for x86/amd64? I've never heard of zyan before.
Imagine you didn't have cancer, but I told you that if you killed yourself, I'd give everyone at your startup an extra $200/month for a couple years (or however long you would've worked there). That's it. That's the entire deal.

Would you take it? I imagine not, but that's essentially what you're proposing.

Everyone will want you to survive, and anyone who begrudges you for being human because it cost them a trivial amount of money shouldn't really factor into your health decisions.
In Canada it was argued that democratic consent of the death penalty means you personally would be prepared to act as executioner. Most voters said no, legalized murder of other adult citizens is ethically unacceptable whatever the conditions. If the death penalty was done like jury duty, where citizens were asked to take turns being executioners nobody except the deranged would agree to it.

Reminds me of various cables from the front sent to commanders of the 'Axis' where they lamented how soldiers were uncomfortable or downright refusing to execute prisoners so they abstracted the entire nasty work of organized state murder away to solve this problem. Replace human conscience with bland prison bureaucracy and systems structures. Everybody passes paper, nobody thinks they are ethically responsible.
Slack Has Seen 8-10 Acquisition Offers So Far
No, the best treatment is SEE A FUCKING DOCTOR. Yes, the chemical in question shows promise. It's nowhere near ready for prime time though, and certainly not something you should be peddling.
Join back the medium-large engineering job if you could. Cancer treatments are getting better everyday. But priority one is buying yourself as much head room as possible both in terms of money and time.
That's been my big hold-up. I've always believed "I succeed when my client succeeds". It's hard to think of leaving. Leaving--when I know they don't have anyone to replace me and their hiring process won't likely winnow out a suitable replacement--feels like abandoning them.
...Which is why I said "over a secure connection".

This method is no less secure than the standard "client sends server password over HTTPS" scheme.
I think the parent's point is that the constitution isn't that vague.
It sounds like it wasn't his second choice anyway.
What the fuck? Is it April Fools?
They didn't say it was better for you.

They're likely making it better for their customers. (Hint: if you're not paying them, you are not the customer).

There's a big difference between a user and a customer. Users are the raw materials used to make the product that gets delivered to customers.
It's interesting if you look at this from Google's perspective, as a data collection project.
No one is asking the Web to concede defeat
I've noticed this with other services, apparently it's difficult to distinguish between "love thing X so much you share it" and "hate thing X so much you complain about it"
Logically Esperanto would give you a bigger boost in European languages, since it's a European based language. However, if the innovation is in teaching methods, you might also see a boost in other languages as well, though I wouldn't expect nearly as much.
My solution is to install as few apps as possible. Go to mobile website, from browser menu select "Add to Home Screen". I get fewer features that way but fewer distractions.