skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your interpretation is a huge stretch from a tiny piece of data

Did you read the article? That's exactly why I source the NYT and Google's blog for more data - I'm not saying I read that this was a broad attack against 34 international corporations spanning nearly all major industries because they guy flinched one way or another, I'm saying I noticed him flinch (without the sounds on) on questions which happen to also be half-truths by the content of his blog post.
If you get to pick your patients of course it's much easier to rank first...
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Hm, I guess I always assumed we would end up with SCrypt or something similar running on the client side with a nonce etc so the server never even sees the plaintext password.

Even if that means a new protocol that uses SSL to send the javascript, etc., and we're 15 years away.

Do you think designing a system where the server never sees (or has the opportunity to store) the plaintext password is the way of the future?

(Edit: more emphasis on future, not short term, ambitions.)
This guy really rocks ! Should give more talks like that.
> "Why do you even feel the need to justify the murdering of the natives?"

Wait, what? Thanks for going all "think of the children" on me man, where if I'm not with you I'm for murdering the natives. You are (apparently) representative of the moral absolutism problem I am talking about.

I'm not defending the extermination of native American natives.

The problem with this article is that it cast native American society as a utopian paradise, and the white European invaders as evil, ruthless, and completely without moral compunction. This sort of historical revisionist "blackwashing" doesn't help anyone - because it has not fairly represented either side. The natives were not utopian societies, nor were they savages deserving of murder. The Europeans were not ruthless monsters, nor were they benevolent conquerors. To represent this situation as black and white is both ignorant and unproductive.

By "blackwashing" I mean skewing the facts and injecting calls to emotion where it doesn't belong, to try and make something seem worse - where whitewashing is the opposite (skewing the facts and injecting emotion to make it seems better)

[edit] Also, to address specifically why the moral absolutism is a problem: by casting the Europeans as ruthlessly evil, you have removed any deep introspection into why the murder of the natives occurred. You've transformed a complex human situation into a fairy tale - where the bad guys need no explanation. You've also effectively discounted the possibility that bad things can happen for relatively benign (or at least, not overtly evil) goals.

Not to mention dehumanization is inherently dangerous - even if the person you're dehumanizing is the "bad guy".
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>How much does California benefit from New Mexico or Virginia being a net tax recipient?

Potentially a good bit. If Federal tax dollars help improve the overall prosperity of Virginia, then Virginians become more likely to consume California's products. I bet affluent Virginians watch more movies and buy more MacBooks than poor Virginians.

Is it an overall net gain for California, though? I have no idea. Maybe an economist can answer.
I'm sorry. I thought you mean Javascript challenge-response, which is a very common and very evil suggestion as a way to get SSL-like security without having to do SSL.

You mean things like 1password. That's fine. I use Keychain and head /dev/random | md5 for any password I don't have to remember.
I'm actually trying to do both at the moment(try to go out at least once a week). Seems to work ok so far.

The thing is that I'm prepared to make sacrifices to get what I want. To me right now building a successful startup is more important than women.
This is a prime example of why the (domain.com) section at the end of links on HN should be the full hostname, and not just the top domain. I only looked at this because I thought it was a Google posting :-)
Some people can cope better than others. I've been suffering with bipolar disorder for about 7 years now (signs were there before that, but it didn't really start affecting my life until ~15 or so), and while I've managed to find ways of dealing with the swings and using both sides to my advantage, it's not always easy.

In a particularly bad depressive period, it's not uncommon that'll isolate myself and feed into it, eventually ending up with suicidal thoughts. Thanks to a solid support network and years of learning to cope, I can typically at least pull myself up to the point where I can tell myself "this isn't really what you want, you're just in the throws of depression". If my support network were to crumble at the same time as a major event occurred (like what seems to have happened to him, w.r.t. the very premature babies), getting through this would be very, very difficult.

I can't so much as imagine what he was going through, and my condolences go out to his family and friends.
Lost Sleep Can't Be Made Up, Study Suggests
Learn more history.
Added benefit of it spreading word of the service.

Didn't investigate beyond the explanatory video, but it looks like a half decent idea. Just work on the public/marketing site a bit and I think you could pick up a few users. I also like the idea of intro seeds/credits.

Well done.
A large number of people who make failed suicide attempts don't try again, it's why making changes such as making it harder to kills yourself with a household gas supply has a significant impact on suicide rate. Depression isn't a temporary problem, but the final suicidal impulse often is.
The $5 wrench comes to mind: http://xkcd.com/538/
You're right, I misread SSH as SSL.
This is a good overview of the issues so far. The inclusion of a link to a Chinese newspaper's reporting of the issue (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/13/content_1280408...) was especially welcome, as it was something I hadn't seen before.
GFW=Great Fire Wall?
I'm CEO of OpenDNS and wanted to put the overly neglected EveryDNS service in more capable hands.

Simply adopting it into OpenDNS didn't make sense for all kinds of strategic and positioning reasons, amongst others.
Thanks. 9 years is a long time to run a service, and I'm happy to fully focus my efforts at OpenDNS and some non-DNS related interests I have (yes, I have them).
Funny enough, that site still appears on the first page of google search results for "god".
4000 lines?

I am curious as to what is different from the default SE install? What functionality did you add?
The idea of glamorizing indigenous peoples has always fascinated me.

Do those historically connected with a particular place throughout its history never experience cruelty? How does one explain the slaughter in Rwanda and similar places if tribes living in one place are said to be imbued with an innate purity that should exempt them from having the same impulses toward evil and genocide that characterize the rest of the world?

As I ponder these things, and consider the lurid facts depicted in this article, my intuition tells me that this might be as much a case of selective reporting as anything else - reporting that seeks to shape a narrative consistent with a particular worldview held by the author of the piece.

I know there have been atrocities in the United States and in the Americas generally. But there is undoubtedly something very good as well to be said for the United States in particular, where (whatever its shortcomings and inconsistencies) freedom has been upheld for the benefit of all sorts of people and with which most of the world pales in comparison in terms of opportunities, or at least that is how umpteen generations of immigrations scrambling to get here have seen it.
When you complain about how the Victorians ran things, you have to compare it to something.

How about pre-Victorian rule? European profit seeking turned Congo in to a hell hole.
Only was able to see the maintenance page so watching the tour video was about all I could do.

I would suggest simplifying the tour video a bit so it's more "what is" and less "how to." Not that howto videos are bad to have, but I got pretty bored by 30 seconds in when all I really wanted was to learn what the service offered.

Along with that, consider a voiceover on the video. I think you could pick up the pace a little that way instead of waiting for people to read everything.
What's really needed is a language specifically written for the job. C was built for writing system software. English was built for writing poetry. Neither are ideal for precisely specifying the terms of a contract.

Maybe if Lessig got together with a few linguists and information architects...
Zombies Exist?? Does Proper Output Equal Understanding?
It could be 1 line. sloc doesn't mean much for C++ unless the code is sanely formatted. E.g. an if/else should be at least 2 lines, usually 4.

Edit: That said, I'm still impressed.
Why does it even matter who was "evil" and who wasn't? The fact remains that one party killed off the other. It seems clear that among the killers there were some "evil savages", but of course not every European was evil. It doesn't even make sense to think in such generalizations. However, if some actions were ordered by "the state", then it seems to me to make sense to hold "the state" responsible for it. Whatever kind of entity the state is - of course not everybody in the state endorses it's actions, but they still benefit or suffer from it. I suppose you can not hold a soldier in a war responsible for killing, because he was ordered to do so and presumably had no other choice. But that doesn't validate wars - and if said soldier later lives on the farm of the person he killed, it seems fair to ask some questions.

I don't think in modern times if you murder somebody, the court will be very interested in whether the victim was a good or a bad person.

Also I have to admit I still don't understand what you are going on about - if the European invaders where not evil, ruthless and completely without moral compunction, how were they capable of doing the killing? (The ones who did, let's assume not everybody participated). Who did the killing?
Swordfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(film)
The last paragraph is oh so true - both depressing and kind of soothing. It made me think of "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again." from Battlestar Galactica.
Many natives were farmers, but those farmers were also hunters and gatherers. Hunting provided essential proteins. Europeans evolved to get a lot of proteins from cows milk, but natives are lactose intolerant and so would not have been able to drink milk (http://www.amazon.com/000-Year-Explosion-Civilization-Accele... ). Europeans also evolved to deal with farm animal borne diseases, having natives try and use European farming techniques (with animals) may have been a death sentence. And even if the natives could have adopted farming, very few people will give up their old way of life and ancestral lands voluntarily, without putting up a fight. The low density hunter-gatherer-farmer life the natives lived was in many ways more attractive than the dense settlement agriculturalist way of life.
Nothing much I can add. I didn't know him personally, but I was a huge fan of Sam Roweis and I learned a lot from reading his papers. It's very sad to think that there won't be any more.
In the long run, this is actually a very good and profitable business decision by Google. If the Chinese government is allowed to continue their human rights abuses, it will have major economic ramifications for everyone as China continues to grow in power.

"If you dance with the devil, you have to pay the piper."
The natives being killed does not make Europeans bad. Doing the killing does. (if we have to speak in such general terms - talking logic here, not actual history).
I'll bet nobody asked for this feature when Geocities was all the rage ;-)
I don't think I've even worked less than 10 hour days in the last 6 years, and once burned through about 2000 hours in 4 months

I hope you're getting paid a fortune, or better yet are working for yourself, because 2000 hours in 4 months is 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. I cannot think of a single corporate job that would be worth that kind of hell.
Dude!

Where on bloody earth have you been? Could you please MIT the source code for Gordon so we can work on it?

People refused to touch it because of the license.
automatic video embedding, affiliate link insertion, ask question box on the homepage, modification of related posts search results, social media submits, a new option for logging in + text to guide, a few presentation tools, a few text adds/deletes

A lot of it is in the css though, since I had to pretty much customize every single field.
Google Gets On the Right Side of History
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Luxrender and OpenCL
I lived in the UK for 27 years, and then moved to California and have lived here for 7 years.

I agree. The American health care system is barbaric, and is just about the only reason my wife and I occasionally think about moving back to Europe.
The study didn't actually demonstrate that it can't be made up.
Of course, there is little talk about the increase of cost for all of that extra ink.
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Yeah, discuss.joelonsoftware.com is for shareware developers.
Judging by the pictures, he used really expensive Swiss chocolate from Lindt.
Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050795
> "if the European invaders where not evil, ruthless and completely without moral compunction, how were they capable of doing the killing?"

That's precisely why it matters who was "evil" and who wasn't. This kind of "pure evil" doesn't really exist, and by assuming it does you are glossing over the real causes of the native genocide. It's far too easy to ask "why did the Europeans murder the natives?" and answer with "because they were evil, ruthless, and completely with morality"

It's a feel-good answer, because moral absolutism makes us all feel better. But it's far from the truth - and masks analysis that can actually help us prevent things like this in the future.

For example (and apologies for the Godwin): we know that not every Nazi soldier was for exterminating the Jews. Heck, we know that many German soldiers guarding the extermination camps were not supportive of the cause, yet they went along with it. Why?

The simplistic explanation that makes us feel better is that these men were evil, without morals, and participated willingly in mass slaughter. But this ignores much more useful insights on mob mentality, the power of coercion, propaganda, misinformation, and a slew of other things that actually help us understand what happened, and prevent these things from happening again.

We're talking about an event that occurred hundreds of years ago - playing the blame game is pretty pointless at this point. It really doesn't matter what is whose fault; the importance of understanding the European conquest of the Americas is to determine the factors that caused a bunch of perfectly reasonable people to exterminate entire civilizations, so that we may better understand our present selves and hopefully prevent such things from repeating.

Which leads back to your original question:

> "Why does it even matter who was "evil" and who wasn't?"

It matters because by playing the blame game, and telling this story as a fairy tale of black and white, good vs. evil, you are bypassing the need to analyze what is, in reality a complex situation of many causes and effects. You are robbing a heinous and dark event of its proper gravity and complexity, and grossly simplifying something that carries relevance today.
Fix Mexico (legalize it)
I'd kind of disagree in terms of people that are working on there start up only which is profitable yet.
Yeah, that's how I read it as well. It just showed the deleterious effects of one particular sleep regime ... which surprised no one I expect. It was clearly for the whole "how do we work residents" issue.

I was impressed by the reaction time loss. 2 seconds very long.
A nice summary to pass on to friends who aren't aware of these issues.

Also, I was unfamiliar with this Firefox extension:

RequestPolicy 0.5.12

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727

Be in control of which cross-site requests are allowed. Improve the privacy of your browsing by not letting other sites know your browsing habits. Secure yourself from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and other attacks.
I disagree that neoliberal is a word "to hit others over the head with", any more than "socialist" or "christian" or "pro-life" or "pro-choice". It is a word that describes an ideology; most neoliberals I know would be quite proud of it. I think that most readers of HN lean toward the libertarian side, and are thus sensitive to the critical connotations of neoliberal, but if the shoe fits...

Additionally, just a person might have an ideology even though he or she doesn't announce it explicitly. I reserve the right to describe people in ways they would not describe themselves.

So, I think the downvoting of me this time is flawed.
This reminds me of the good ol' tupper party in several ways:

- all aspects of the product are explained in detail by a competent person,

- product recommendation comes from someone you trust personally,

- explanation and recommendation are based on demonstrable personal experience using the product.

While this seems to be an excellent approach to uncertainty reduction in the sales process, I'm not sure how that scales as a business. You can't make a living selling one TV set a month (or a week, for that matter).
It's hard to see VMWare's strategy on this, but here's my guess:

Maybe they've actually got some finance guys looking at their P/E which is in the 70 range. So they're probably using their premium stock price as a good way to pick up some bargains while their core business revenue is slowing down with the rest of the economy (and with tough competition).

In my mind, it makes me think that they worry about (or are at least are hedging against) their core market being eroded by other players. If they did believe it was VM/VDI for the long haul, then they'd be investing in technologies with far better synergies than the ones they're picking. I mean "cloud" technologies pretty much applies to anything these days, so it'd be a stretch to say these are really "good fit" acquisitions.

I have a feeling this could work out okay for VMWare, though it feels more like a business play than a technology one.
It seems like it would almost be easier to clone the functionality of SE and make additions to it NOT using javascript. To me, it seems like that much JS would be a bitch to maintain, no?

Sorry, I couldn't reply to the comment below. Guess PG doesn't want threads to continue off the page. ^^
"[...] The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. [...]"

Yes, just look at criminal-suppressing services like (inequitably-funded) public schools, emergency medical care, free kidney transplants...

P.S. I voted you up, it's a good point that you made. But your rhetoric writhes with dogma.
you don't really eat steak and/or eggs every day do you?
It's an emotional issue, and when someone dismisses it as a casual case of melancholy, it can push some buttons.
Greater variance in the average reproductive success.
I actually had the whole niche Q&A idea before(back when I heard about SO launching), and based on my calculations it'd take me 1-1.5 years to build something like SE on my own. Which just didn't make sense.

Yes it's easy to clone SE, there are like a dozen other solutions. But the reason I like SE, is because it's a turn key solution. I don't have to worry about servers or security. These have always been my achilles heel, and this way someone else who actually knows what they are doing, can take care of that.
The study examined a sleep schedule equivalent to 5.6 hours per day. That's not studying if sleep deprivation can be made up, that's simply studying sleep deprivation.

My own experience with sleep deprivation is that the sleep it takes to make it up is longer than the amount of sleep I was missing, especially if I put off the recovery.
Basically the value proposition is providing more granular privacy controls for Twitter; you can decide who can see a piece of content or not.

I think it's a good idea, although I probably won't use it since I don't have enough followers on Twitter in each group that I can nicely classify as: "family", "co-workers", "hockey club", but that may change over time as more people adopt Twitter and I am able to label all these people.

Right now, when I want to share something, Facebook is still my primary since most of the people I know and keep in touch with is on Facebook. For me, Twitter is for some people I know, but mostly a discovery tool to find new people I previously did not know. That said, if I have private content, I am unlikely to post it on Twitter. Because if I did want to share it to people I know, they're all on Facebook and there's privacy controls there.

(Just sharing my use case)

Entrepreneur to entrepreneur, I am just concerned that Twitter will decide after you have gained traction that "hey, people _do_ want more privacy controls, and they build in privacy controls and give it away free for everybody" aka what Amazon Web Services did; knee-capping startups that innovated around the edges and giving away their value proposition for free.

Any sane founder will keep such a threat in mind, however much of a stretch it may seem.

It'd be nice if you have a way to hedge against this risk, imho.

- or -

you could be lucky and get acquired, like how Twitter bought the Mixer Labs for the value their created for Twitter users.
It's more a problem of certificate chain trust models. You have to trust the security of every podunk CA in your browser's root store since they all have the ability to sign anyone in the world's cert. Should the government CA of Taiwan have the ability to sign bofa.com? I would say no. Let them have * .tw.

The funny thing is that x509 has the ability to limit signing to various CNs, so it's possible to limit signing powers, but no one seems to do it.

> The alternatives are worse.

Hardly. Some alternatives might be worse (plaintext everywhere, for instance). What I would like to see is a * .example.com signing cert being given to all domain owners when they buy a domain, signed by a single * .com authority (or .net or whatever the domain is). This would prove to the https client that the domain they are connecting to is really the domain owner. This is a basic level of trust that would be an option for everyone who owns a domain (without any stupid yearly charge for the certs).

Banks and other important sites could go above and beyond and buy certs that verify that their business is what they say it is, which is another trust level entirely (this already exists and can be seen when you go to paypal.com in firefox and get the green location bar thing).

I think that would be a much better alternative than our current system.
I have 300 servers from the Kimsufi to PRO and the support is pretty much the same.

As for the throttling, that doesn't happen (as far as I'm aware) however they do have poor peering connections to the US so it's pretty normal to get 5kb/s there which is much worse.
Thanks for your input. I agree with the video having audio. We are working on it.

Sorry guys that could not get in. We had to migrate a server and do some last minute stuff. If you can please try again.