skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sure they can get my info. Or anyone's info. And they could totally reconstruct my life. But they only have the resources of to do this to maybe a couple thousand people. Out of a billion westeRners.

What most people haven't thought of is that the government doesn't NEED to do that to everyone to massively impact society.

I lived in Cuba for a while. Almost everyone was left alone to speak as they pleased. But the government had data on what was said, who associated with who, etc. It was collected by neighborhood watch groups.

They knew when someone actually became a threat and had the means to make their life difficult.

Oppressive systems only need to oppress those who would make waves.
Well, it's a little better than "Courier" ;)
I've dealt with PII, and soft-deletes are explicitly disallowed. But I work in an industry where "delete" is something to be very carefully defined.
Naive. The NSA already has access to the complete pipe, so they have 100% of what Google has as source material, then they can also issue requests to Google for anything Google has-- they have far more than Google does. The NSA can also refer your information to foreign governments for more analysis, and vice versa.

You are already tied to stupid things you said online. They have categorized this information and will sit on it for an indefinite amount of time. There are groups such as JTRIG who will use the stupid things you have said to turn you against people you may be aligned with, if they think it is necessary.

Should you ever run for public office or become an inconvenience, you are already in their pocket. It's already "full fascist", you just haven't toed the line of their rules yet.
codingdave seems pretty certain
"Yet they didn't understand systems enough to realize their models would easily precess and we'd end up with the unchecked behemoth we have today."

[citation needed]

A review of the literature will produce a lot of skepticism dating all the way to the beginning (and a bit before) that this could work at all. It is completely ahistorical to believe that the Constitution was written, approved, and everybody involved considered it a perfect work that was certain to stand forever after without challenge.

I tend to agree that they may not have forseen the exact ways in which their goals have been subverted, but then, even if they had, I'm not convinced it would have changed much. I mentally run historical simulations in my head (just to be clear about the exact level of reliability you should place in that), and even had, say, the commerce clause included a "No Seriously Only When The Commerce Is Literally Between States, You Should Never Use This For Anything That Is Even Remotely Plausibly Isolated To One State" clause, I don't expect it would have held for much longer. The historical pressures to violate that were strong, and the stronger you make the commerce clause, the only thing that you do is make it more likely that it would be wiped away with an actual amendment.

People inevitably get the governments they create for themselves, with a 20-40 year delay on them.
I searched "gift" expecting "poison" from German, and was disappointed when nothing came up.
I have a phone for a reason. It isn't to send telegraphs. I don't carry my phone with me to work, because people who need to get in touch with me have my work phone number and I live a few minutes away from the office. If your ego is so fragile that you need realtime validation of your thoughts, then we aren't going to get along. I'll keep on doing what I'm doing because it works for me, and I hope you find people who are willing to spend all day looking at their phone. I'd rather see everything else around me.
In polish it's "psipsi" which is clearly an onomatopoeia.
I think Polymer is in Google's strategic plan and will be in much more limelight even going forward.
Lack of rye bread, corned beef, and sauerkraut. You've failed to assemble a reuben sandwich.
Wouldn't say that it's perfectly fine but yes, it's probably more likely that the CEO won't care if something bad is being said about an employee that broke the organization's rules, than the reverse.

I would think is this common sense but HN never disappoints.
> For example, would you ever do it when I'm talking to you on the face and asked "So what are the plans for tomorrow?". Do you expect one to stay there staring at your face while you acknowledge that you have received the question but don't "feel like" answering it right away, even though you have time? Technology, in a lot of ways mimics physical life.

I think it's important to acknowledge that, while technology mimics physical life in a lot of ways, it does not replicate it. The medium of conversation matters and should be considered. For example, no I wouldn't stare at their face until I felt like answering it, but I also wouldn't say, "Dear John, thank you for your question.." as I would only do that in an email. Likewise, I wouldn't speak out loud a lot of common phrases I use in texts, because having a conversation through the medium of a phone is psychologically different than in-person, and I think that's the issue I was getting at. While texting, you have to be more cautious about word choice and sentence structure so that you can convey not only the message, but the tone as well, which will naturally come out in-person. 200 years ago, all instant communication was done in person. This is a relatively new field of psychology that hasn't seem to be explored due to the fact that, especially texting, is an extremely new form of communication.
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"[X] could care less" is idiomatic English, not a mistake. It may have been an identifiable Yiddishism at one time, but it's a naturalized citizen at this point, and has been for decades. If you are looking for a living language in natural, everyday use to conform to some sort of formal logic, you have a lifetime of disappointment ahead of you.
Clickbait title with a lot of bunk broscience.

First of all, how does losing weight make you more productive? Because you drank coffee? Also the earth is round, news at 11...

On top of that, anything "bulletproof" is marketing crap designed to get you to buy their brand of overly-expensive and overly-caloric coffees. There is no reputable science behind Bulletproof Coffee.

Finally, ketogenic diets, like all diets, are not cure-alls. Yes, you may reduce body weight. But what if your blood sugar goes up? This is a common side effect of a ketogenic diet[1]. It's an extreme diet, and research has shown time and time again that extreme diets are excessive and ultimately detrimental in the long run because people can't stick with them and end up rebounding with more weight than they started. I'd like to see where this guy ends up in 5-10 years in terms of body composition and ketogenic adherence (hint: I'm not betting any money on it).

Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, a little meat and some oils/nuts/seeds have stood the test of time throughout every fad diet. Don't overcomplicate your life or think there is a magic pill.

[1] http://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose/ketosis.html
People in power by definition have that capability. That's what it means to be in power.
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I don't know, I never really liked Less and never understood why they picked it over Sass in the first place. In Less everything looks quite slick until you start doing loops, loops are just looking terrible (you can have a look at the documentation here: http://lesscss.org/features/#loops-feature). Since having loops is a big advantage of having a preprocessor, I never understood why Less was so popular.
How much does it cost to hold cash vs holding stocks?
This is a pretty big thing. It heavily opens up the door to go after any 'cloud' company that does a poor job securing customer data.
You could not pay them enough for that. The mere presence of a pay to opt out feature devalues all the other data they collect on people who don't pay.

It's the number one law of inescapable advertising. The more people are willing to pay to avoid advertisement, the more lucrative advertising to them is.
Is it a viable to raise fund from customers instead of professional investors?
If they mean closed source, that list could include Google +, Google Reader, Google Wave, etc
Check out JTRIG. The stated purpose is to degrade and disrupt all kinds of lawful and nonviolent organizations.

As far as democracy vs dictatorship goes, consider that there is a third (and probably many other) alternatives: inverted democracy: all the totalitarianism of a dictatorship paired with passive "participation" to rubber stamp the majority of the regime, which is not subject to any form of democratic oversight. I think we're headed there rapidly, if not already there.

Remember the study that showed that public opinion is less important than moneyed interests? That's part of it, too.
Here’s what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers
Did you read that link?

> This has since been debunked.

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Actual paper: "Learning from mistakes in climate research" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-015-1597-5
I was/am doing something similar (haven't touched it in a bit though).

I avoided putting anything in linker scripts that didn't have to be there (IIRC, memory blocks and VTOR (for assembly startup routine that can handle flash or RAM)). Peripheral addresses stayed in Rust so that the optimizer could see them (eg writing to RA and then RB, the high u16 stays the same).

BTW F103C8 "dev boards" are available from China for $5.
I think that the popularity of julia is exploding (but I'm biased - am writing an... interesting library for julia right now).

"There is really nothing wrong with R"

I think there is one thing wrong with R - it's name. Pretty much impossible to quickly google for help on it.
You have valid points... I think it sucks that people can sit on domains without using them but you can always make the argument for why they should be allowed to.

So now I have to decide between a .tv or .io domain (or hey I can use .rocks, .world, .xyz!!!)

Do you think it is too risky to keep a name for a social startup (that has big potential) when the .com is taken? if it gets funded and gains traction, is there more of a chance of acquiring the domain down the line?
I think the stranger thing is that he thinks everyone here has a career or even works.
There's two very different things. A government that suppresses fringe elements versus one that oppresses the majority. NSA spying programs enable the former, but the majority is rational in not caring about that. Current NSA programs are irrelevant to the latter, because if the government went full fascist and tried to oppress the majority, it wouldn't take them long at all to build their spying apparatus from scratch by just occupying the headquarters of a few key internet and telecom companies.
Where was this when these guys were picking their name?

http://pidora.ca/
Ask HN: Is it viable to raise money from your customers instead of investors?
I am working on a product for lawyers private offices. Its a free product so I cant have an upfront sale. Yet I am thinking instead of raising fund from professional investors, I might be able to raise the fund from my customer and give them equity. With this approach they would be spreading the word too and be religious advocates for it. Would it be a viable solution to do this throughout the lifecycle of an startup to only raise money from your customers?
Slick. It also points out how inaccurate GeoIP is depending on which data source was used for that IP (eg. where the ISP is registered vs. where the endpoint may physically be).
We used to say the same thing about application software. However Chrome's auto-update feature has been a tremendous benefit. I would argue this is a reasonable direction for consumer OSes to go
Remember everything you browse
A really disoncerting experience on LinkedIn. Thoughts?
I was just on LinkedIn and was quite shocked when I saw a suggestion to connect with someone I haven't heard from in about 9-10 years.

- This person was a friend from a community college course I took in high school and have not seen or spoken to since.
- My LinkedIn email has no correlation or correspondence with either the community college or with him. I know LinkedIn has a history of pilfering contacts, but I use a business email that wasn't even created at that time.
- I don't even mention on the site that I took a random robotics course at a community college or was even enrolled there.
- There are no mutual connections.

So how in the world would LinkedIn think I know him?
Bitcoin, but like any of those could be hijacked by a group with an ulterior motive.

LSD and Tor were developed by the US government, but took on a life of their own, quite the opposite of what is described in the article.
Slightly off topic, sorry, but I do HATE how blogger.com sites are totally unusable with JS turned off / noscript / etc ...
Another well written piece by the rockin' Pipeline DB team!
"ICE and CBP, claim the power to search both people who are arriving and departing the U.S. under that authority"

Yes.

There are pilot programs at land borders requiring US citizens to submit to exit interviews and obtain permission to leave the country East Berlin-style. Searches on departure are being stepped up every year.

Recently in Atlanta the border cops were stopping everyone in the jetway boarding my international flight for an exit interview and search. They appeared to be looking for money and drugs and asked all of us in plain view to account for exactly how much cash we were carrying before we could be allowed to board. Since the place I was going and Atlanta are both known for petty robbery, I obviously didn't want to answer; the amount I was carrying was under the legal limit but enough to be worth stealing. The border cop was obviously annoyed and insisted on me saying the amount in front of everyone.

As long as police agency budgets shoot skyward and Americans are happy to submit to authorities, the sky's the limit.
Feminism is fine and compatible. Misogyny isn't and not compatible.

I'm assuming expressing hate towards a group counts as an "exclusionary practice" whereas demanding equal rights isn't.
Yep. I do the same with mail. Read receipts are just a privacy intrusion as well.
It's not very good for being precise or understood, but it is quite good at being a weapon. The vaguer the definition of a crime, the easier it is to accuse your political opponents of it while minimizing equivalent or worse behavior by your allies.
Missing Zune which means Penis in Quebec.
I see now that you're trolling, but being in power does not necessarily imply mass surveillance capabilities ;)
I completed 23 courses on Coursera and I love the platform. But I don't buy the notion that Coursera is becoming the lead generator for the traditional universities. I would never trade in my learning experience with one where I have to be physically present in a classroom to learn. And by and large most universities are still organized around the classroom experience. Until that changes, I don't think I'll be applying for a traditional college degree.
You often hear the phrase "It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission" especially hear on Hacker News and around start-ups. Microsoft is taking the same approach. I agree that opt-in and full transparency would be the best in an ideal world. But the reality is that people don't care enough and most people wouldn't opt-in willingly or wouldn't realize what they could opt-in to.
It sounds like this app needs a monad for interacting with the host file system and network.
I think in both the examples you give, what starts out as 'innocuous' and 'well meaning' will inevitably be subverted for something far more nefarious.

Not everyone with a different opinion to you is incapable of forming their own conclusions, or susceptible to groupthink.

Is Bruce Schneier also a victim of this 'nonsense'?
"No, it's because it hasn't actually been tested anywhere."

Then it is condemned by that too. If "psuedo-communism" kills millions, real Communism is so impractical and unhuman that it collapses so fast into tyranny and despotism that one needs specialized equipment from physics to measure its duration.

This is not to its credit as a practical system to run a country on.
I never ever wasn't "away" in ICQ and most in my friend list did the same. In my narrow experience its use tends to erode pretty quickly.
How to Protect Your Life Savings from Hyperinflation & Depression, 2nd edition by John T. Reed

http://johntreed.com/hyperinflationdepression.html
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Impugning the integrity of people on a public forum, without putting your name to it, and without providing evidence, makes you a coward.
One detail to consider about Spanish is that each country has it local variation, so there are some words that are totally safe in some countries but have a totally different unwanted meaning in others. For example "coger" means "pick" in Span and "fuck" in Argentina.

(If you say it in Argentina with a Spanish accent the you will not get into troubles, but the people will give a subtle weird look and someone will explain the local meaning later.)
Programming must by hard for you. Have a cookie.
Honestly, the only action I can think of that would create a greater stain for Windows reputation is to close itself up, and only permit sandboxed software from a market.

MS may reverse things if they act fast, but Windows is mainly a corporation thing (in revenue, if not volume), and corporations care about information security (in a very incompetent way, but they do care). If Windows gets the fame of sending all your data abroad, it will suffer.
Any reason why all CloudFlare connections bounce through TeliaSonera in Switzerland? It seems grossly inefficient to cross the Atlantic twice just to get from Massachusetts to California.

Also, MIT -> Facebook : MA, MI, Singapore, Ireland, CA?

How accurate is the data?
I'm no expert on phonetic matching, but a product I worked on many years ago used Soundex. (It's meant for English pronunciation, so you'd have to research other languages)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
Doesn't make sense. My AWS servers in Northern Viginia are being reported as being in Seattle area. And the route goes through London.
Doesn't support even the most dirty Dutch words! Could use more languages :)
That's because direct solvers can't scale. If you want to solve a large (distributed over hundreds of nodes) sparse linear algebra problem as fast as possible, decades of research have been poured into efficient techniques (Krylov methods, Multigrid, preconditioners) for solving them iteratively.
Consider that every time you drive in traffic, your life is at mercy of other people. The only thing preventing the driver of that 8-wheeler from ending your life is his (and other people's) general sanity and good will. It is certainly not the lack of technical ability: you are literally one decision away, no paper even has to be signed.

Similarly, as long as society remains healthy at large, not pushing itself to the brink where emergent properties of dictatorship take over, I believe we are safe. In contrast, for a rotten society you don't even need advanced technology to make everyone's life miserable, as been proven many times over in modern history.
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Chrome's auto-update is barely noticeable and quite polite, in that it doesn't nag you to restart (or forcibly shut down your current work). Doesn't stop you from shutting it down and barely slows down the next time it starts.
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It actually took me more than a few minutes as well, had to use BitBucket's search since Google (rarely enough) was returning crap
You may want to look at slang as well. I tried both "knob" and "bell end". It said both were safe. Maybe they may be safe-ish in the US, but in Britain they are definitely slang words that could result in quite a chuckle if you named your app that.
Link to the talk: http://gensho.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/...

Other DebConf15 videos: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/
Are You Living in a Simulation? – Silas Beane, SETI Talks [video]
Mr. Robot represents a new, increasingly common TV archetype: the alienated hero
Not to mention that Tcl has Unicode in the core, has had Unicode in the core for at least 8 years, and the long and short is that EVERY string operation is Unicode aware.

You can have unicode procedure names, if that was your fancy.
Grit is for cowboys
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> osX invented all this. MS is just catching up. and apple don't even allow you to disable things.

I was pretty sure that I had disabled all my Mac's and iPad's "phone home" behaviours. (Of course, technically, iPad and iPhone are iOS, not OS X.) There are certainly a lot of dials to twiddle, but I thought that I'd hit them all and had found a reasonable amount of privacy (at considerable expense of functionality). What are the non-disable-able features?
This sort of assumes that the objective of a language should be to create "an awesome IDE experience", while there's a good chunk of people who think having to have an IDE is simply a flaw in a language.
So when people act in bad faith it is "ok" so long as we mistrust them anyways?
The lambda architecture and the split between the heavy slow processing and the interactive processing reminds me of how a few of our customers are blending Hadoop and Couchbase for similar use cases: http://www.couchbase.com/fr/ad_platforms
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Share it and they will come
If people aren't rioting, the companies will never get the message.
Tonight someone invited me to give a talk at his business conference in NYC in front of 80 potential customers. I refused. I don't travel to US:

- I have porn on my computer, obviously not underage but what am I supposed to say if the border agent asks me "Is this subject underage?"

- I use a false name on Facebook. This is impersonation against an american interest.

- I've downloaded torrents. Even if I delete the files, I'm pretty sure there are footprints everywhere. Pretty sure there's jail time for piracy, and being my third offense in this list, I'm pretty sure it could be considered as a repeat offense.

There's a reason why we have a right to privacy. It's because everyone has very fluid limits on things that are forbidden, and everyone, including elected officials, breaks them. But not everyone is punished. So I'd rather not cross the US border.
the last document linked to at the end is a really good read too - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.37....,

Also I agree with him on the fdisk/mke2fs, I've often asked myself the exact same question. aparently, its not a so popular opinion though, since they're always tucked away in sbin...
But until we know something provable about genetics and mathematical aptitude this line of thought is just hand-waving. You still don't know any better than anybody else why somebody is having a hard time with math.
What does people owning domains and not using them for a long time have to do with them hiding who they are? What would you gain from knowing who they are? If you are in a position where you can force them to release the domain (e.g. because of trademarks) you can be quite sure that the registrar will either reveal the client or hand over the domain.

I didn't comment on the other point because I don't know enough about how both involved offers look like exactly.
Distance from the sun is a huge issue with regards to whether you can have water laying around. From Jupiter's orbit out you often have tons of water on the surfaces of moons with no atmospheres. Where Ceres is it looks like water sublimes but not too quickly, so that patches of ice exposed by collisions last long enough for us to see them.