skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, really? I was planning on only using the tools to write out the initial certificate file, as I don't want too much running on my servers. This has certainly put a damper on my excitement about Let's Encrypt.
Hey,

I am not a lawyer but I did grow up next door to you (in St. Lucia) and I ran a series of movie, anime and video game download sites in the early to mid 2000's. I got these notices all the time.

When I got one I would simply remove the content from one server onto another and all would be well. The end.

Yes I know I was blatantly infringing copyrights, but I was young and didn't care. Also maybe things have changed but my understanding is that there was no way for you to be prosecuted in T&T. At worst your server gets shut down (which did happen to me) and you are banned from using their services.

I think you'll be fine.
Oil is fundamentally rent-seeking. You're pumping money out of the ground. Software platform companies are the real equivalents.

I think the difference is that the state of the art shifts so quickly, long term survival for platforms is questionable. There's always a new player.
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I can't wait to see how this industry will change after LE is fully running -- this is amazing. Are there any stats about the different cert types, specially about their deployment count and usage over time?

One thing I don't understand about the guarantees given by CAs is the one about the warranty, like the "$1,750,000 Warranty" from Comodo. How exactly can they provide that? Or is that some sort of MUST have if you want to partner with an insurance company?
Any idea which ones these are?
I agree that it should be mentioned. But afaik you often have to be certified to even use packet radios.

This article almost exclusively deals with unlicensed, spectrum and consumer grade hardware.
The Fourth Amendment requires a warrant, which in this case the Government has. The Amendment protects citizens against warrantless searches or open-ended warrants (i.e. fishing expeditions).
Can't believe I am writing it, but I am siding with the government here. Apple arguments are just weak. They created their device with the ability for them to decrypt it, not only the owner. So do as you are told.
Capitalism is not a victim-less crime.
The online users part of the site is pretty concerning, I wonder if they intend to keep it there? I wouldn’t want to sign up to a site that broadcasts when I am online…
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They have some sort of regex they use to flag business domains. For example, if your domain contains the word 'billing', then they won't give you a cert.
Increasing income increases freedom. But you get diminishing returns the more you increase income of a person. Here 500e/month is effectively "yeah, I can choose what I do with my life". 5000e/month is still not enough for "yeah, I fly whenever I want and where ever I want."

Also monetary freedom is only one subset of freedom. Being able to pick where and how much you work are valuable too. If we assume that due to taxation we play monetary zero sum game, giving more people choice on what they work increases total freedom.
How IT sector have been a boost for Internationale Business since 15 years? How IT sector have involved lots of change in the business world? How IT field have change some kind of industry since 15 years?
The Government already has a warrant; so the Fourth Amendment is satisfied. The question in this case is whether the Government can compel Apple to help them execute the warrant.
There's some interesting case law around locked things. One train of thought is that the govt can force you to give the key to a safe, but can't force you to give the combination to a safe.

The Apple extension would be that the govt can force unlocking by Apple (since they have a key) but not by you. All the more you reason to make it technically impossible ...
Can you give me an example of the kind of things that can't be done on Shopify that I might want to do?
It's more or less open to everyone who has a business, costs barely anything. Any accountant will know about it, and they won't make the wink-and-nudge like there's special about it.

If you ask about the schemes, the advisor will openly tell you they expect a ruling, ie there is some contention about whether it's actually legal.
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> I agree but I think registration and configuration should be split a little bit more. I personally won't trust it with my config files (and god knows what other wonderful webserver will emerge next month), but having an automated cert-generation tool is great.

The official client can be ran in 'auth' mode, in which it will not write to your server configs. It can still automate the authentication process for you by looking at where the DocumentRoot is, and placing a file there. But this is also optional, since there is a manual authentication mode as well that just gives you a file, and you'll have to make it available under your domain somewhere and tell it when you've done so.

> Also, they absolutely must improve OSX support. One of the main objectives is to help people who are in the web field but wouldn't otherwise bother learning the intricacies of SSL configuration; these people by and large use Macs.

They also use Mac on their servers?
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In your expert opinion, what is the real problem ?

The symptoms of gluten intolerance are not serious enough for a doctor to be interested, it is also easy enough to try changing your diet for a week or two in order to see if it makes a difference.
Very nice! I'm looking to do a simple store just like this for a physical craft and was considering options. Could you explain or link more to how you used Heroku?
This was actually the topic of the closing address at the Master Brewers Association of America (basically a modern guild meeting + trade show).

The main thrust of the talk was that nutritionally, beer and wine should be about equal, but everyone believes that wine is healthy and beer isn't - which is not scientifically accurate.

A more nuanced view: ethanol (alcohol) accounts for nearly all of the cardio-vascular benefits, and thus, beer and wine are equal. Wine contains more anti-oxidants and anti-aging properties, but you would need to get very (very) drunk to get those benefits (well past the Ballmer Peak). Beer, specifically craft beers, have great phytonutrients and macronutrients - and you can get those benefits from a single bottle.

In my opinion: advantage beer.
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The most disappointing thing about [insert topic here] is how little even professional journalists understand it, or care to.

You've heard of Gell-Mann Amnesia?
As an employer, you don't need to fire contractors. You just let their contract expire and do not hire them again. Very clean, no pain, no conflict, and the contractor many times walks out the door not even realizing you would have fired their ass under different circumstances.
Thanks. We're pretty excited about it. There's lots of big challenges to solve, especially on the data from. Full 30x coverage of a human genome is (uncompressed) around 180gb. So the core problem we're trying to solve right now is:
1) Compressing the files locally and sending via FTP to server
2) Aligning 180gb files against the reference genome (180gb also) in less than 5 minutes
3) Storing that data in a performant way so that you can do comparative genomics (compare multiple genomes against each other)
4) Do the above with 100's-1,000's of genomes a day.
It's pretty rewarding. Apart from the cool data side, it's feels good to know that building something like this could really help accelerate critical research in finding diseases.
Oil is finite, one day there won't be anymore. Software is potentially infinite as long as you can produce electricity ton run it.
I either didn't explain things well or you didn't bother to read what I wrote:)

You get tax sheltering two ways.

1) you get to collect gains on the amount you would have paid tax on originally, so if you shelter $120,000 for a year, you get the 20% in gains on that amount.

2) you don't pay the dividend rate until you pull out the money from the corp. So you can leave it in the corporation for 20 years, allowing it to grow at our imaginary 20% rate per year.

working through the example again individual 1 is still $360,000 his $500,000 - $200,000 from taxes(I'm Canadian), plus the 20% gains on his $300,000.

Individual 2 gets to shelter the entire $500,000 for the year allowing her to get gains on the whole amount so she has $600,000(with 20% growth, we are a hedge fund after all). She then has to pay the %20 corp tax on her original $500,000($100,000) leaving her with $500,000.

She is then free to let that amount grow until she wants to take it out, at which point its taxed at the 20% dividend rate.

If you compare the person who leaves their money in the tax sheltering corp for 10 years vs the person who takes their bonus as income you'll find that the corp comes out substantially ahead.

I've done the math and seen it play out in the real world:)
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"Indentured servant" has too many syllables.
Peon might be a better term, because its meaning leans towards economic rather than legal subordination.
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Given that cigarettes kill orders of magnitude more people annually than have ever died from nuclear power, I would posit that it is far more dangerous. And the fact that the people who are most likely to smoke are likely to be relying on taxpayer-funded subsidies for health care, I'm having a hard time determining where you got your "nothing" number from
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* In that sense, oil companies have more in common with independent nations than with other companies.*

This is no joke. I grew up around big Oil coming from Houston. There was a joke that Chevron effectively had the second largest combat navy in the world because of how many resources they devoted to platform and tanker defense.
If you look into the ownership of major gym chains you'll find that they are owned by financial companies - more specifically billing companies.

It seems like providing the gym itself is more of a side hobby to the main business: find people to bill and keep billing them whether they like it or not, and build a core competence to avoid ever not billing someone.
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This is a fascinating analogy and shouldn't be written off, even though the OP is missing many of the parallels.

Michael O. Church wrote about this in a recent blog post ( https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/the-four-sta... ). The core argument is that Silicon Valley is now a resource-extraction culture.

Ultimately, I’ve come to the conclusion that the source of Silicon Valley’s ethical failure is pretty simple: it’s a resource-extraction culture. I doubt that its culture is any more negative than, say, the oil or gas industries. What is this resource? There are two key resources that drive Silicon Valley. The first is the flow of passive capital into an oligarchy of careerist bureaucrats (venture capitalists) who invest other peoples’ money into supposedly technological companies. The second is self-undervaluing talent, which arrives in waves each summer in Northern California. The combination of these resources, along with optimistic overvaluation (worst of all, not only by investors but by the workers) of the companies and the career opportunities they will provide, creates an environment in which a small number of individuals can become very wealthy.

He concludes that the finite resource being extracted is the good will of the American middle class. To that, I would also add the prestige of the U.S. abroad, since the country remains a destination for hard-working immigrants. As the Valley runs out of its ability to run on middle-class American good will, as people eventually learn that their startup equity isn't going to make them millionaires, it will instead run on third-world desperation through the H1-B program. So it has a long way to go before it dies out entirely, but the observation that VC-funded technology is a resource-extraction culture is spot-on accurate.
There is also an actual gluten allergy that a few people have (much more rare than Celiac), which would be a good reason to avoid gluten. Of course, like Celiac, it's the kind of thing where the symptoms are really obvious and you know if you have it (e.g. anaphylaxis last time you had a piece of bread).
Academic writing isn't a field; or if it is one, then it's not one of the (many) fields that's being discussed in this article.
Your revenue-producing side-projects are strangely inspiring. If you don't mind me asking, how do you market them?
The US tends to more of an Orwell (monitor) and Huxley (distract) approach to control rather than heavy handed blocking. But then, they have more experience in propaganda than the Chinese.
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That's also why I think the government shouldn't be bypassing the 4th and 5th amendments by going to third-party companies to get your data. I think civil liberties groups should aggressively push for this to be in the new ECPA reform bill.

They should make it clear from day one that if this doesn't pass, they will oppose the bill - unlike what they did with the USA Freedom Act, where they compromised, and compromised, and compromised to pass..."something".

I should note that Microsoft already supports something like that (warrant directly to the customer), but only for their corporate customers, not for their individual customers (last paragraph before "A new path forward"):

http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/20/the-coll...
> The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen.

Ask Western oil workers in Libya or Nigeria or Venezuela or Mexico (depending on the decade) how accurate they feel that sentence is. Oil concessions have been regularly expropriated.
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Let's Encrypt is already very easy to use, but for those looking for a totally transparent way to use it, keep an eye on Caddy. It's a web server with Let's Encrypt built in to serve HTTPS by default: https://caddyserver.com/blog/lets-encrypt-progress-report - no extra tools or configuration needed.

Just a few details left before it's ready: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/284
Monetization is a huge deal, because once you start monetizing spending as regular policy, you undermine both confidence in the currency and confidence in the government debt; one of the whole reasons that governments have made monetary policy separate from fiscal policy through central banking is precisely to preserve that trust.

While UBI itself can be managed so as not result in runaway inflation (and, unless you deliberately build a positive feedback loop into the level setting, should be self-limiting to avoid that in the long term, though the wrong initial setting could have high short-term inflation), monetizing the UBI, like monetizing government debt, is a great way to produce high average inflation, destroy government creditworthiness, and increase volatility in the currency.

If you want to redistribute downward, taxing the wealthy directly is a lot more sensible than monetizing spending. And, in any case, none of the people that are opposed to taxing the rich are going to support monetization, and plenty of people that do support taxing the rich are going to oppose monetization, so it doesn't even make sense as a way of getting around the political difficulties of tax-supported UBI.
I think jargon is a bit of a scapegoat. Documentation and writing about technical topics has roughly the same risk; I think we've all seen sentences or paragraphs that are entirely impenetrable if you don't know the terminology and technology under discussion. Much of this writing could also be simplified and made approachable, but unpacking all of the jargon all of the time is an impractical burden on writing not meant for general consumption.

It's probably also worth noting that there are rarely-discussed personal and professional risks to making your scholarship too "accessible" if it's the sort of thing people outside of your field or outside of the academy altogether are even a little likely to find controversial enough to harass you over.

That said, I think much could be done to improve the situation by encouraging journals, academic presses, awards and other mechanisms of scholarship review to:

1. Establish pragmatic readability standards describing roughly who should find accepted articles readable, with or without a given condensed reference.

2. Where needed, develop and maintain condensed references (perhaps in conjunction with other institutions in the field) which provide enough background and terminology to meet the readability goal.

One example might be "to be accepted, your submission should be rated as readable with the aid of our condensed reference by a small sample of undergraduates in your specialty, masters students in your department, and doctoral candidates within your college." Even fairly permissive standards (i.e., just PhD candidates in your specialty) of this sort would guide most academics towards being much more conscious of how approachable their writing is.
Yep, there are a number of contradictions in the Amiga scene at the moment. One is that, and the other is Amiga being now some sort of nostalgia effort to keep outdated tech alive when it was pretty much the opposite: cutting edge and clever engineering.
Couldn't you also use HPKP to pin the EV-only root?
The author just inadvertently left out the word "on" as in "we are long on software", or "long on gold", "long on the euro", etc. It's typical phrasing that describes a long-term bet on something going up in value.
You may want to rethink the presence of that unreachable footer, given the contemporary presence of infinite scrolling...
I think its interesting that Apple has been doing this years, suddenly has a change of heart and now the DOJ is trying to get a judge to get them to do that.

I guess this goes deeper than just the searching of the phone. Is Apple not allowed to ever change its mind, on anything?
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the finding of this study defies common sense. Children supposedly first improved but then magically became statistically significantly worse by third grade. I would argue the most likely explanation for such weird results is errors in either data collection or analysis
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'Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ' (1984 George Orwell)
"It is thought that many MEPs would have been reluctant to begin a process of amending the regulation given that it might have delayed another aspect of the rules - the abolishment of mobile data roaming charges."

That probably should have been the first paragraph of every article (8th in this one) about these amendments. I can see why a politician would value abolishment of mobile data roaming charges more.
Mostly, I don't.

In the beginning (for each) I found a few people asking on forums for software that solves the exact problem that these products solved, and then posted the software as a solution.

Since the first few weeks, I haven't done any marketing at all—everything comes in via search, or referral traffic.
So would this be similar to if some bit of evidence was in an obscure language only one person knew and spoke, and the government is trying to compel that person to do the translation?
If you don't mind sharing the details, What is the tech stack?

Also most of headlines are trimmed off. I have to click on the link just to know what this post is about. Longer headlines should be displayed so people can decide before clicking if they want to read it (There's always the tooltip feature)
Sensitivity to gluten-containing foods has been documented in lots of people without celiac. However...

* People with IBS may find their symptoms improved by going on a low-FODMAP diet. That does take out bread, but it also might involve taking out onions because of their sugar content. Doesn't have anything to do with gluten per se.

* People with digestive problems may find that alcohol is an irritant. But then tequila should also be dropped or moderated; doesn't have to do with gluten.

* People who do an elimination diet and find that standard American bread upsets their stomach may also find that more fermented items, in moderation, aren't a problem. American bread will cause me embarrassing borborygmus and other digestive problems, but moderate consumption of beer or northern european sourdough rye is not bad. Someone once told me this was a difference in reaction to the glutenin vs gliadin proteins that make up gluten, but who knows. No one knows the science yet, but bread sure does give me non-celiac trouble!

For beer and wine, it's really useful and interesting to consider the effects of the processing and fermentation. Malted barley is used in most beers: you sprout and then roast the barley, releasing and cooking all kinds of sugars that you would not find in beef-barley soup. Barley has hordein instead of gliadin (rye has secalin, oats have avenin). Then the yeast crunches through those sugars to create alcohol and carbon dioxide and who knows what else. Fermentation often does have an effect on these proteins and can in fact have an effect on the amino acids that people with celiac are sensitive to, but we don't really know what's going on entirely. There are some Italians who can make gluten-free sourdough wheat bread in a lab just through getting the right yeasts going.

Beer, wine, pickles, yogurts, sausages, fermented shark... With all we are finding out about microbiomes inside our guts, there is going to be an explosion of commercialization of these traditional fermented foods. Start your own now so that you don't have to be reliant on corporate mega-strains in the future! Microbiome independence now! :)
This sounds like something my grandpa would say about programming. :)
Yet ask people where they would prefer to live and more want to live in New York than Houston. A city is more than just a sprawl of houses. Much of the attraction of cities comes from other things.
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> "Housing is only an investment asset in certain disfunctional housing markets (e.g., NYC, SF). The problem in these markets is that it's illegal to sell only housing"

What's the reason for dysfunction in the UK housing market then? It's perfectly legal to sell only housing over here (note that this graph is adjusted for inflation, people are spending roughly 4x the amount for a house compared to 1952 after correcting for inflation):

http://www.jackpeppercampbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07...
> I deeply hate the fact that anybody thinks anything on my personal devices belongs to them. I think my devices should fall under the inviolability of the physical body and that decrypting them is akin to forcing me to testify against myself.

If only that attitude were documented in the most basic law of the U.S., clearly defining the strictly delimited powers of the government. Maybe something like this:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

ETA: Yes, I know the government has a warrant in this case. The judge is considering the question of whether that warrant is reasonable.