skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cable is just what he had at his house: a smaller one is better. Not sure why you keep bringing up smartcards as alternative to long cable: two totally different things. Only realistic alternative to his cable w/out extra risk is point-to-point IR transfer: cheap & hard to grab if nearby (unlike Bluetooth/Wifi).

It would be nice to get more people on GPG or Linux. It's what I use, too. The problem is their Trusted Computing Base [1] is ridiculously huge. Even amateurs regularly break NIX systems, browsers, and so on. The methods for designing things highly resistant to attack are out of reach for most projects. See my framework [2], for example, to see the gap between high quality coding and truly secure systems. Most developers, even many security "pro's," have no idea about so many of these things. Just ask anyone building one of these "NSA-proof" crypto tools to see their Covert Channel Analysis with breakdown of all residual storage, timing, and resource exhaustion channels. Observe the blank or confused stares.

So, Markus was trying to shortcut around that using concepts he learned and we discussed. It had to be provably immune to software attack despite weaknesses in components. GPG on Linux/Android means GPG or Linux/Android must be breached. Although GPG is solid, Linux/Android breaches abound because they're insecure crap. So, that won't work against event a good black hat. He couldn't build a High Assurance Guard [3] by himself so he had to eliminate almost whole TCB. TFC was a clever workaround. TFC and Linux/Android-based clients have no comparison given only one can make a strong security argument under all conditions of software attack and the others just have so many real-world attacks... Apple to oranges, my friend.

For cascading, it might be overkill and might not. Note that many real-world algorithms working in isolation had problems. Cryptophone used a AES + Twofish cascade as insurance. The idea is that one algorithm or trick failing won't compromise the system. It applies to regular crypto users as much as anyone else given we use same algorithms. I agree it might not be necessary for majority of people, though. They use Gmail or Facebook over HTTPS for their critical communications. Clearly different privacy needs, there. ;)

I agree on the overlap: it's why I push the strong stuff. :) The reason, though, is that all the bad guys aim for the same thing. Plus, the nation-state methods (esp firmware attacks) are starting to be used by non-nation-states. The methods for stopping software attacks by nation-states are same as for anyone else. It's why our systems need to be redone (example [4]) to simply enforce fundamental protections to stop all that shit. And meanwhile, we have to use GPG, TFC, air gaps, and other kludgy solutions to make up for how bad we have it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing_base

[2] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/essay_on_fbi-m...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_%28information_security%...

[4] http://www.crash-safe.org/assets/ieee-hst-2013-paper.pdf
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I'd call it Art – made me think about some things I hadn't thought about before (well, back when I first saw it, in 2011.)
My model of the obesity crisis is that it's fundamentally a mental-health issue, not a nutritional one. Food and eating is connected to your motivational and emotional centers on a deep and fundamental level. The actual mechanics of losing weight is fairly straightforward, but turning an over-eater into a healthy-eater isn't.
Greece is much larger than Cyprus, their debt is much bigger in absolute values and the outcome of the current status so unknown that it's very difficult to compare the current capital controls against those implemented in Cyprus.
It looks like achievement in games, seriously.
1) They will assess the failure, maybe change some elements minimally, and launch again. It does not look like they'll go out of business anytime soon, and that would be the only reason not to try it again and again.

2) The legs have nothing to do with it, based on what we know (and it's very unlikely, too). Manned flight certification could be impacted, e.g. assessment period will be extended, but insignificantly (assuming they find a cause and the next launches go well). USAF certification will probably not be impacted since they reached the minimum amount of successful flights (assuming there are no other rules like "no launch failure in last X flights").

3) No, the rocket was probably terminated, i.e. explosives fired to break up the malfunctioning rocket. So you probably saw the debris.
Interesting - what were the differences between the orbiters that you had to account for?
Europe can financially afford Greece defaulting. Can't afford Spain and other markets. So an example has to be made of the Greek people, before other countries get any bright ideas. Its going to really suck for them.

This is a long, old crisis, many years. There is a famous graph I can't find (the world needs a graph search startup?) of the future promises of post-austerity growth vs actual results and the separation is staggering, like 30+ percent difference between promises and reality. Given the trends during the crisis the article seems to miss the point that trying year number eight, or whatever it'll be exactly, of even more austerity absolutely guarantees Golden Dawn taking over, despite that being a claimed result solely of grexit. Obviously continuing with the failed BAU strategies is a total non-starter. It is also possible that trying "anything else", which is finally a political necessity, will somehow make things even worse.

The fundamental problem is you can't have a partial union. Everything else, the root cause of the crisis, the attempts to fix it, the politics, all follow from that fundamental problem.
Growth Case Study: What TTBooks did to get its first 600 subscribers in 2 weeks
Not OP, not Argentian but watched a proper Dutch documentary about it : http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2011-2012/Argentinie....

Teachers don't get paid : need to fabricate and sell souvenirs to tourists on the beach. Every day. Large black markets are created, adhoc currencies get created, lots of crime ( burglaries, robberies ), people living of collecting waste paper etc.
They said at the press conference that this wasn't the case.
At this point there is no easy fix and an international market calamity is unavoidable. The only thing to do is to minimize the damage and make sure that creditors won't freak out. Markets will take a dip regardless of what happens because Greece has gotten to a point that the ECB did not want Greece to get to. The actual ideal solution depends on what is to prioritized. If Greece's economic growth is to be prioritized the solution will be to actually forgive portions of the debt and screw over the investors. This will help the Greek economy, but it will piss off investors who will be much less likely to invest in Greece or the EU in the future which is why this scenario is just out. If repayment is the priority and keeping creditors happy, the ECB will have to pony up more cash for Greece, and Greece will have to find a way to get its finances under control which is a difficult task. The difficulties lie in two areas for Greece. The first is that a vast percentage of the population in Greece is employed by the government and as such the #1 employer will have to cut back which is going to cause problems for Greece who has no strong industry but a very strong currency. The second problem Greece has is that it has a culture of tax evasion. Greeks don't feel that it is their duty to pay taxes, as a matter of fact there is a strong culture of avoiding ones taxes. This means that Greece will have to find a way to insure it gets its revenue, even while its population does worse off. At the end of the day, Greece shouldn't have been given the money it was asking for, but we are well past that point.
Although, given that rocket launch failure is a fact of life anyway, then putting the LAS on unmanned payloads means you get a much higher chance of testing it for real. Which means you have a much higher chance of knowing whether it'll work when you are in the Dragon it's attached to, which I reckon is a good thing.

Also, I thought the whole point of the Dragon v2 launch escape system was it uses the engines and fuel already in Dragon for orbital manoeuvring and landing; even the unmanned version is going to be using that. So it shouldn't be that heavy.
I have always thought universities should have a mandatory get to know available majors day. Everyone knows Business and Social Science (the majors that fall under these) but there are majors such as construction management, soils management, and yes even computer science that a lot of people don't really know about. Along with this should be the employment rates and avg salary.

I say this as I randomly took a construction management course maybe my last year of college just to see what it was like. Nearly all the students (all male) had a family background in construction. They knew about the major before coming to college.

Will the gender ratios change dramatically? No but at least give students a chance to really understand their options. This is especially true of students who first generation college students, who would tend to be black/ recent immigrant hispanic.
From a doctor I'm friends with who introduced me to Paleo years ago. He thought this was pretty funny that we keep rediscovering the truth and keep ignoring it.
Our staff reacts to this week's historic gay marriage victory
They said in the press conference that it wasn't a commanded event.
The regulatory reaction to eBay [Josh Kopelman tweetstorm]
Tank exploded but I don't think it ignited. The rapid breakup you see is due to the air pressure forces at that speed most likely.
4-5x extremely minuscule is still minuscule.
Bubble Talk 2015: Say we are in one if it pops today what would actually happen?
Please don't use outline:none unless you are prepared to create your own custom outline.
It reads like it was written by an undergraduate for independent study credit, or as a lit review for a future non-doctoral thesis. Certainly no result here, just a survey.
Protocol design is popular "these days" so everyone eventually chooses UDP, and reimplements a subset of TCP in their own protocol. (edit: not everyone needs state in their protocol, but everyone needs to implement rate limiting)

If you're unaware of a large interest in protocol design, or don't understand the cost and complexity of DDoS attacks, what point were you looking for?
Opening the link in an incognito window also works.
Another great resource is the Internals chapter of Pro Git. This opened my eyes. I've always been a Mercurial fan. Learning git from the bottom up really helped me understand what all the fuss was about.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...
what is the ui layer going to do when you have both hello.txt and HELLO.TXT? if case-insensitivity is to be done at all, it has to be enforced at the file system level that the two names refer to the same file.
Lowercase Capital Founder Chris Sacca on Bloomberg
Argentina is still experiencing some monetary controls. When I visited Buenos Aires two weeks ago, the official exchange rate was ~9 pesos to the dollar, however there are prevalent 'blue' (black) market exchanges that will readily give you over 12 pesos (I got 12.3) to the dollar.
I suggest that you follow this Twitter account: http://twitter.com/GreekAnalyst

Summarizing in a post the Greek problem is almost impossible, but I would say that the referendum is a terrible idea, especially at this moment.

(greek student/developer)
When it comes down to it - is there anything that can't be cracked?

Make sure you learn secure coding practices (especially if your games are going to involve networking), and then go ahead. I don't think there is anything inherently "unsafe" about indie games - except perhaps that they tend to have only a small number of people working on them.
Vidinterest makes embed playlist feature live
We are launching our first major upgrade on 27 June to what already is a mean looking Vidinterest. Now there is a whole lot more for a content marketer on top of the existent discovery/curation platform. We have also fine-tuned the design and tightened the code to provide a pleasant experience.
The new embed feature lets users fix a whole playlist in their site. The code pulls the entire collection thereby removing the need for searching and embedding individual videos which can be done in your time of choice at Vidinterest. Not only that, you can even embed public playlist along with the ability to sort the videos. The facility to be able to sort video playlist is a pretty useful feature. So there is a clear opportunity especially for curators to organize and publish their materials easier, better and faster. An embedded collection can consist of videos from YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion too. This provides a one stop solution to users who don't have to leave a site to enjoy continuous full-screen video play.

The ease and speed at which videos are consumed today is breathtaking borne by the simple fact that they are more effective as they combine the senses of sight and hearing. Riding on that wave is Vidinterest, which has pushed the experience one notch up with features like ability to collect and share libraries of videos.

We have come a long way in about a year that we spent on research and coding the new features. The platform has matured and is entertaining a lot more visitors than before. And now Vidinterest has an appeal to both casual surfers and hard curators alike. This is a very positive progression and the team will unceasingly try to accommodate even better features to simplify access and organization of video material in the future.
This was an decent comparison / contrast. It did make me wonder how they're coming along with the BEAM jit these days, I found this from a while back: http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2014/frej-drejhammar

It also reminded me how much I wish there was an actual specification for BEAM, finding out the details of the how the bytecodes work is an arduous task compared to the JVM where everything is explicitly stated. IMHO both VMs are excellent in their own right, the HotSpot JIT is incredible, but I still can't deny that I find the beam process model on concurrency more elegant than the JVM one, though in practice I've only toyed in erlang so I have no real-world grounds of comparison there. Does anyone by chance?
German scource in which the president of the ifo institute says that the Grexit is the best alternative for all involved parties. I heard him speak at talkshows and while his argumentation is a bit harsh, it made sense when I heard it.

Fact is, no one can prove that his stategy is the best alternative.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/eurokrise/griechenland...
Ask HN: Exploring other tech fields
I've been self-teaching myself to code for 2 years now, and Im working now as a mobile developer. I get a constant nagging feeling that mobile development isn't for me, it doesn't excite me, and I don't find working with UI's that thrilling as I keep working in mobile. Im wondering what is a good way to explore other fields and really get my feet wet there.
Ever noticed these guys all just setup blogs about how to blog and make money while traveling? Which of them is actually setting up blogs that aren't about this topic? It seems like a big ponzi scheme.
I think the problem not in tech giants, it's much deeper: schools, colleges etc. If large groups of people don't have (or don't want) access to education that's the problem that must be solved.
> I believe that the JVM is a strict superset of any Erlang VM.

I don't get how JVM is a strict superset of Erlang VM when it doesn't have pre-emption.

If BEAM set have preemptive scheduler as an element and JVM, IIRC, does not have such feature, then JVM is not a super set let alone a strict super set.
If it truly was built by self starters then you'd expect the makeup of Silicon Valley to reflect the rest of the country. Yet it doesn't. Do you think there is something inherent in the genetic makeup of white men that makes them more able to self start? If not, it's worth examining why more diverse groups haven't been able to match that success.
Why not just move C++ development to modern C++ development? I don't see the real problem, from the article.
Because for professional development, there's really no comparison; Qt is on a different level from GTK entirely. I just did a keyword search on Monster India - Qt: 69 jobs, GTK: 3 jobs.
How are their posts that are 4 hours old when OP is only 3 hours old? How does that work?
The billion dollar question is, if the Grexit will be followed by Portexit, Spexit and Italexit at some point in the future.

My crystal ball says, if that's going to happen, the EU or at least the Euro will be toast.
Funny that the economist mentions the "history of coups" when in fact these military coups and dictatorships were instigated and supported by the US and UK to prevent a communist government. (like they did in Iran back then)

What would happen if Greece defaulted on western debt and aligned with Russia and China is certainly not a repeat of the fascist military dictatorship they had back then.

They most likely would have social-democratic governments in the next decades, exorbitant financial investment from both Russia and China and lots of Russian military bases on their territory.

This would most likely be the end of the EU (and NATO) as we know it, because from there Russia and Turkey would work on pushing the EU out of the Balkans, which would most likely work considering that all of the populations there have a strong preference and historic ties to either Russia or Turkey, depending on what country you look at.

Even in Bulgaria, which is currently in the EU and has a pro-EU government, about 80% of the population have pro-Russian sentiments regarding the conflict in the Ukraine.

This is why the EU and US will do whatever it takes to keep Greece in the EU, even if it means that they have to orchestrate a military coup in Greece or that they will have to print trillions to cover for the debt.
Haha my project is tiny, yours is mental haha that's bonkers
So with a 5.5% margin the $1.6 billion contract would be expected to yield $88 million in profit? Given what I'm assuming are large R&D expenditures on top of launch-related costs, I wonder whether the business is sustainable.
>For Greece the gains from defaulting would be slight, and the costs potentially vast.

Translation: FUD.

>True, the country could walk away from debts of €317 billion, or almost 180% of GDP. But that is worth less to Greeks than it sounds.

Translation: pretty please don't.

>Although the debt is huge, it is at bargain-basement interest rates and repayable over decades. Interest payments until the early 2020s are just 3% of GDP a year. Even for Greece, that is manageable.

Translation: You may have had to do with massive unemployment and without life saving drugs by kowtowing to creditor demands ( http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/325955 ), but you'll "manage" if you continue doing it.

>Nor would leaving the euro do much good. In theory, with a new drachma and its own central bank, Greece could devalue and gain competitiveness. But Greece’s trade is modest. And it has already lowered nominal wages by 16% without a boom in exports.

Translation: we believe so fervently in the power of suppressing wages to improve economic performance, that the idea of trying anything else is literally unthinkable.

>The costs of Grexit still outweigh the benefits By contrast, the cost of Grexit would be exorbitant: bust banks, slashed savings, broken contracts and shattered confidence (see article). Politics could be devastated. Syriza, Mr Tsipras’s hard-left party, is anti-market and anti-enterprise.

Translation : Attention target readers of the Economist - elites, captains of industry, rapacious financiers - Mr Tsipras is your masked villain.

>Neo-fascist Golden Dawn and the Communists, with a combined 12% of the vote, would thrive.

Translation : please ignore the fact that they already are thriving thanks to the Economist-stamp-of-approval austerity measures.
The Nakamoto Signature
RIP Jebediah Kerman.
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"Why do you say they are libertarian?"

They themselves say they are libertarian.[1]

[1] https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Normal
Pre-launch and post-explosion threads were merged.
"Creativity is doing something new and interesting"

Uh, I don't doubt that this kind of sentiment arises when one has worked with robots for a while and done some impressive stuff but had them consistently fail to inspire a feeling of interestingness in one.

But the statement itself is, ironically, neither new nor interesting since beyond interestingness being something people sense, the statement gives one not a clue what the criteria is for determining its presence. And a remarkable number of critiques of AI by very insightful people come down to a kind of vitalism - come down to a long, round-about way of saying "robots just don't that special something".

And, of course, humans so far have failed in producing a wide range of human-like behaviors in robots and programs. There is something of a psychological tendency to take everything a computer can do and deprecate relative to everything a computer can't do - playing chess was once something people imagined would involve "intelligence" but now no longer do, etc.

All that said, I'd like to shout-out for Douglas Hofstadters' Fluid Analogies [1] approach, which actually makes an effort to describe and define some aspects of creativity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_An...
First, this is a false dichotomy.

Second, "loyal" and "obedient" are different words.

Third, if your team thinks something is a bad idea, and your investor tells you to do it anyway, maybe you need a more "loyal" (i.e., obedient) team, as this investor is arguing. Or maybe you need an investor who has more respect for your team's opinion.

After all, sometimes the team is much better-informed. Sometimes "a difficult decision" is just a nice way to say "a bad idea." Sometimes you might tell an investor that you think their incredibly stupid idea is great, and you wish you could do it, but you can't, because you'd lose your team, and we all agree my team is valuable, right?

I mean, yes, there's also the great loyalty Steve Jobs inspired, and for once "inspired" is the right word there. But even Steve Jobs had to listen when people told him he was wrong, at least once in a blue moon. He came back from a trip to Japan convinced that he was going to set up uniforms for every Apple employee, including engineers and executives, and that everybody was going to love it.

Edit: and yes, mission-driven companies are a good idea.
thanks for the post.

yes taking an extra 10 seconds to name a function in a more clear way could probably save hours of frantic reading and cross referencing for another engineer down the road, especially when fixing urgent bugs/issues
Does the author resent staying out of school because... it didn't prepare them for the awfulness of school? I kind of got that impression.

Imagine if all the state money that went into your schooling were invested instead for your minimum basic income: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-...