skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Finally, cutting the server out of the equation is seen as an opportunity to reset the Web’s balance of power regarding cookies and other forms of tracking; if you don’t request content from its owner, but instead get it from a third party, the owner can’t track you.

This is somewhat of a concerning line. Off the bat, I imagine it's not outside of the realm of possibility that CDNs could collude with "trackers". Yes, idealistically, a completely distributed model performs in such a way that provides no favor to any particular individual. But I don't think it is anywhere near close enough to being proved that the free-rider problem won't skew the issue towards providing trackers a de facto centralization.

Also, this doesn't eliminate other bottlenecks, like tapping into internet exchange hubs. If there are too many CDNs with which to collude, there are certainly not too many hubs. It works better for them, actually, as they can start dragnetting traffic completely outside of even more modern tracking systems like Super Cookies.

We have long past the point that people can no longer intuitively understand what data they leak on the network.
> Why does this plateau happen?

If you're asking why weight loss slows down in a diet the answer should be pretty obvious. You continue to lower calories to keep yourself in a deficit, at a certain point your calories become very low and people have trouble with compliance.

Either that or the body enters a special high efficiency mode where it becomes a super efficient energy conservation machine all of a sudden?

The simplest solution is probably the correct one.
So why not use these techniques where land is cheap instead of on expensive urban rooftops?
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Does anyone know of any good usability testing software/service that lets you record screens, the user, and their audio as they go through your site.

I am looking to bring in users into our office and want to install something on my laptop to record them testing the site for about 45 minutes.

All the services I have looked at cost an arm and a leg.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I had this illustrated to me early in my career in a mostly harmless way.

I worked on an early-childhood / social work combo grant program as a "Data Consultant"[1]. We were in a building that had celebrated its 100th year, and it had one bathroom. The nurse had accused the males of "poor aiming". In a memo about fairly normal stuff, I included a paragraph in my status rebuking this claim and pointing out we have young children using the bathroom who might not be quite up to our level. I also pointed out this would be something that the early childhood people might need to work on with the children. I am pretty sure every word of it was viewable by a nun since we had one on staff. I was a very sarcastic person and not a bad writer of tales at the time.

About two weeks later, I got a call from the assistant project officer inquiring about this bit of information. He also informed me all of our correspondence internal to the program was reviewed by the project office in DC and a section of my memo was "well reviewed" in said office. Given the data requirements, I am pretty sure there is a box in a warehouse with this memo in it.

Since then, I write e-mails and memos like they will be reviewed.

1) It was a research grant and they needed help with data reporting and I sure as heck didn't come up with that title.
> need decent open source atomic force microscopes

If the LHC stuff pans out, we may need open source replicators. :)
Because the average person has no idea how to use it?

Because both parties have to have it set up for it to work?

Because setting it up wrong will grant you no protection?

Because it just encrypts the communications in transit but when you're already under suspicion they can grab your computer, which has the unencrypted files on it?

Because in a setting like this (trader's work computers) you're often not even allowed to install any software?
I worked extremely hard at my last start-up to the point of being completely burnt out. I'm happy because it made me stronger, but I'll never forget being over and for about 4-5 months after, never looking at a computer. I didn't want anything to do with them for awhile, and pursued a vicious "I'm gonna go pro in golf" campaign (can't take the idealism/ambition out of a true entrepreneur).

I'm really happy now, but I understand burn-out at a much deeper level than I had before. There was a time when I would think "just get over it," but now I understand it has very real effects. When you don't want to think, it's not always a simple case of laziness. It takes work to switch into your "system 2" (as called by "Thinking Fast and Slow") -- your focused mindset. Then once you're in this mindset, it's no picnic.

What's fascinating is that if you stay in system 2 for too long, you begin to show signs of paranoia and depression. You become withdrawn and isolate yourself further from society. You might hypothesize this is a natural reaction of an _injured_ animal, but it's hard for you to understand that your brain is exhausted and needs to rest. Instead, you say "go faster!" and it begins to try to come up with more & more schemes to prevent you from going into system 2. Fantasies that would have meant nothing to you well-rested are now of utmost importance because you're actually procrastinating because you're actually fatigued.

Burn-out is a real thing. I love work and I work very hard, but there's times when you have to say "You know what, this weekend is all mine." Those are the weekends I sleep anywhere from 10-14 hours each night, and not because I'm indulging, but just like muscles, my brain is resting and hopefully "growing".
Well I didn't make any assumptions. But fair enough. I am sorry for causing you extra work. I know being a moderator can be an annoying frustrating position. And it is really easy to let power go to your head. Thanks for keeping a good balance.

I think it is hysterical: being super polite to others attacking me personally gets them all hot and bothered. When people start getting all ad hominem on me, I try to be more polite the more hostile they get.

(btw, I am bummed he/she never did tell me about the love life, I lost 100 billion status points and I didn't get any NSFW details).

But o.k. I will stop responding. Have a better day! :-)
The author's paper has the technical details not present in the article:

https://people.redhat.com/~fweimer/rsa-crt-leaks.pdf

and some interesting remarks:

"The OpenSSL case is slightly complicated because
this library performs a verification and re-computes
the signature without the CRT optimization if a
fault has been detected. We believe that this poses
no immediate danger—Lenstra’s attack on RSACRT
certainly does not work even if a second fault
occurs because of the unoptimized second computation.
Depending on the nature of the faults, this
could conceivably still reveal the key over time, but
several thousand faulty signatures are needed for
current key sizes [1, 8], each one preceded by an
RSA-CRT fault. As shown in [8], it is possible to
construct a faulty CPU which indeed leaks keys
in this way, which is why there are some lingering
concerns about the reliability of the OpenSSL
hardening."

And from the conclusion:

"In the short term, implementing a checked RSACRT
signing operation, like NSS or even OpenSSL
already do (despite some theoretical concerns about
the effectiveness in the case of OpenSSL), seems a
very reasonable hardening measure. Longer term,
TLS should perhaps switch to a non-deterministic
signature scheme like RSASSA-PSS. However, none
of these measures will help those operators who
have been using unchecked RSA-CRT implementations
for years, and are now wondering if their
RSA private keys have already leaked."
One of the things I always encourage people to do as part of an acquisition is to handle the transition gracefully (1 year-ish), and then start looking around for what else you might want to do inside the acquirer. Often there won't be anything, and you can just bide your time or flee the scene - but other times there might be a perfectly interesting job elsewhere in the organization that you can use to build your skills, beef up your resume, and live out your golden handcuffs.

But too many people that I see just sit there, quietly miserable, while their product dies around them.
For their size,its funding history is even more impressive:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pocket
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Not a bad effort! Actually playable to an extent minus the network lag. Only gripe is, once you figure out where your mouse needs to be in order to shoot accurately, all I had to do was move around and spam the shoot button. Started getting kills across the map.. Fun. Cars on the other hand.
The new "vendor" system is basically that the Go compiler will look in vendor/ for your import before trying to traverse the GOPATH. This means you can manually download and freeze dependencies there. However, Go leaves the management of this vendor directory to you or some hypothetical helper tool — or with git submodules, for that matter. "go get", for example, still works just like before (ie., stores stuff in $GOPATH/src).
I suspect that the answer is 'badly'. V7's chroot() seems to be more than a little bit of a fast hack, one that was good enough for some things but not at all comprehensive or problem free.

(There are PDP-11 emulators and V7 disk images available through tuhs.org, so intrepid people who want to find out for themselves can actually try this out on a live V7 system.)
It looks pretty clean to me to have dedicated intel servers with lots of memory and local disks for DBs, and workers that can be easily started with an API!

We are currently running on online's dedicated intel servers (among others), but we've kept an eye on their ARM offering...
But if we were working entirely from observed measurements, we'd never have discovered relativity. It wasn't evident from the measurements you'd get from normal experimentation.

I mean, it is possible to measure the effect. But you need to first design the experiment in order to make the measurement. It was necessary for Einstein to sit and think for a long time, to come up with the idea, which others were able to design experiments around.

You can't just say that somebody would have noticed the discrepancy sooner or later. Really, doing experimentation that way is a statistical error, of the sort that's really plaguing the sciences these days.
A little bit confused here. HTTP is already distributed, right? It's an open protocol with a very large number of servers serving a variety of content with little to no coordination.
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Because then you're still transporting it to the populated areas?
Surely using PGP would also be a big "investigate me" signal in this context.
I don't think the strain on any of those things is caused by immigration. If we improved them to make them better for current residents, it would also increase our capacity for immigrants. But I'd see that as just a side effect of fixing broken systems.
I've been following Cerebral (https://github.com/christianalfoni/cerebral) for a while, using it on side projects after playing with Baobab and Flux. It really is an amazing little project and community. And it truly feels like "the next step" after Flux. Christian (@christianalfoni) is a great developer and is doing an excellent job keeping Cerebral focused, small, yet ambitious.

A few things I like about it:

-cerebral-router - https://github.com/christianalfoni/cerebral-router.

It's the first routing implementation I've seen that works in a reactive/component architecture that truly embraces the single state store. Routes simply point to a state in your app and you can update the URL bar as needed. Huge contrast to the normal approach of mapping a URL directly to a set of components in your view layer.

-signals

State changes happen when signals are triggered. Signals then call actions or chains of actions, which are simply functions. You can look at these chains of actions and easily reason about your app's behavior. These actions are also incredibly composable-- using all the nice functional composition techniques you already know: functions can return functions, or function chains, chains can be composed, actions can be reused across chains etc. all without sacrificing readability, which is key!

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Cerebral has a chrome extension that logs all the signals in your app, so you can easily observe what's happening. You can inspect the state tree and soon you'll be able to inspect the input and output of each action that's run. Even more impressive, you can "time travel" debug ala Elm, Redux by replaying actions back (and forward).

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> he slagged off Pratchett's writing calling it pot boiler and calling Pratchett himself mediocre, while being preachy about his taste.

Hence the trolling. And while it might be clickbaitish, he did have a very good point, and just pointed out what we all do, which is namely to select, and usually from a position of ignorance.

While the call to read Great Literature can be seen as preachy, it survives for a good reason: Great Literature enriches, makes people better for having read it. It's one of those things people should aspire to for self-improvement.
I received a buyout offer with the terms of being prohibited to do anything that "directly or indirectly competes with <company>". Indirectly? So if I take a contract from a competitor and work on improving a DB engine, well that's indirect. It transitively closes over essentially everything. Especially difficult as I contribute to some OSS projects that a lot of businesses in that industry use.

I just kept refusing that part and eventually they gave in; it's not like they intended to prohibit everything, they just needed tighter language that wouldn't harm me.

My favourite part is when people say part of a contract is "just there" but it'd never be used. OK well in that case, let's just remove it and I'll just agree to be nice.
They're the bits you could push down to C and/or use one of many jiting options.
> benchtop factories

This is feasible even using current production techniques. Just make smaller tools.

Open hardware designs are a bigger part of the problem, IMO.
Part of the thought was to also reduce transport cost. So if you have effectively the harvest and distribution localized one would reduce footprint in other ways.

That being said I'm not saying "expensive urban rooftops" are where we should be doing this. I was simply suggesting there are other changes afoot that are, for example, increasing yield. Any location will have pros on cons such as locality, cost, infrastructure, space reuse, etc.
I'd say the currency should be always specified even if it was USD. I don't see why the US should be the "default" for everything.
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Because guessing games are fun:

Slickle is clearly onomatopoeia for something I probably don't want to know what.

Cadine is a name (which is certainly a type of word): http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-cadine-891835.htm

Tribution and Revergent are likely plays on con- prefix removal and substitution (contribution, convergent). If they are not part of some jargon, they will be. Similarly, the morphological construction for Unitory (-tory is the latin agency prefix) I can certainly believe it to have jargon usage.

Trephony could be a form of this noun for different grammatical situations: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trephone That would suggest to me that it may be a biosciences jargon term already.
Switzerland has been taking far more per-capita than other European nations. Understandably they recently tightened.
Seems mostly like a reflection on Bloomberg's target demographic - those who will think ctrl-f is fancy tech stuff.
I've had a similar experience on Linode as well. In fact, in the few months that I have been using Digital Ocean for a personal server they have had more outages than the past ~2 years on Linode.
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Yeah that opt out theory was nice some years ago. Now it's not that simple anymore. Most of the times you just have no choice.

What right has Amazon to do this? They get their share from the fact that I buy stuff though them. So I pay and still get analyzed. There are many more services that work like that. You can get around some of them by spending much money or acquiring special skills that would allow you to run things on your own but all that will remain a solution for few. The majority is trapped because data mining became natural. The legend of "free for data" now just applies to everyone. It went so far that some advertise with the fact that they DONT data mine.

Privacy as a product.

Also it's not like this majority ever understood what they are saying yes to. You know that long awful text nobody reads.

The government looks very small to me if I consider all the other data mining parties currently active. Even with what Snowden toughed us. This fear that now somebody really connects the dots is a healthy one. Strangely the revelations did not lead to the same conclusions regarding the private sector. Good marketing.

My workaround to this: I teach people how to create and manage useful fake identities.
I've been delving into burnout for the past years. If I can get into flow, I'm fantastic and do very well. But getting there is increasingly more difficult. I've given up many contracts and work, only keeping a few clients. But just having anything, even if it's 1 day a week, it seems to keep you "involved" mentally and you're not really free, even if most of the time you're not doing anything. The sick part is that to really pull out, I need to work a lot more, to set things up to take a year off. So it creates this spiral that seems rather hard to break out of.
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You should outsource things based on value, not price.
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Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept. Private information isn't "information I don't want the government to have" it's "information I don't want anyone else to have."

You are incorrect. Your line of thinking runs in direct opposition to Roe V. Wade.

You can share information with your doctor that you specifically do not want the government to have. There's nothing special about doctors, in a constitutional sense. They are a third party providing a service and it is most certainly possible to have shared information with a third party that is still private.
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AFAIK it is an enormously-long wire that is extended out of the submarine. I am not familiar with the logistics of doing this (e.g. unspooling it using the sub's momentum through water or motorized extension, or if the antenna is extended vertically or horizontally). I have a Navy friend that was a squid and this is his information. It could be totally different these days, as my buddy was on subs in the first part of the last decade.
>doctors

Might want to remove them from your list. Mandated reporting by therapists and doctors does more than most anything else I can think of to stop those most needing therapy from seeking it. From potential offenders who fear being outed to victims who fear their therapy records being made public at trial and used against them.
Some of 'great literature' is dated and of questionable value. But of what endures, much is very good (or it wouldn't have lasted of course).
Its 2015, we have the ability to make these cool synthetic fibers that breath super easy, and look pretty dope. (we have had this tech for a while btw)

I mean I see how in the commercial process of killing the seals is messed up (natural rights to live...skinning then leaving the meat of the animal on the ice vs consuming whole animal)

But seriously theres no need to wear the animal if your not living like the Inuits.
Third party web resources can now be verified with a hash in Chromium version 45
> Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept

You clearly don't understand the US Constitution or existing US law. Saying it's cut-and-dry doesn't make it so.

> Information is either private or not

I'm sorry, I made a mistake. You don't understand privacy as a concept at all. Privacy is about access controls.

What's more all this frothing about privacy is not the issue under consideration. The issue is about extranational data being subject to US law because the legal entity in control of the data, is a US company. Other countries have similar requirements (Want to run a cloud service in China? Set up shop in a chinese data center, no AWS for you), and it makes sense to me as a nationalistic interest. What's more, you have these companies deflecting HARD "timeless values should endure. Privacy is a timeless value" which is a red flag. I don't care that the French have a firm grasp of privacy, this is a US issue. These companies are free to leave the US if they really believe this is wrong (they wont).
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Corruption may be a problem in the US too, but, having lived here for a decade, I can assure you I've never been asked nor offered a single bribe. Corruption doesn't affect the common man directly here. In any case: just because it's in some other country, makes it all right to do it in India, right? Instead of racing for the bottom, why not try racing to the top, and compare India to Sweden, Norway, etc.?

Secondly: I never brought up privatization.