skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A large group of people surrounding one someone and screaming at them, or barging into events and disrupting them, or spitting on people? That's mobbing and it's wrong.

Are we even looking at the same videos from FIRE? All I see is one woman screaming at one man in a crowd. ONE, not two, not three, not many. ONE person is screaming in the FIRE video. Secondly, where in the videos is anyone spitting on the Yale staffer?

Also, lets talk about disrupting events. That's what even my dad (an old hippie) would call a protest. Mind you, my dad is more conservative these days (a Catholic and the like), but I'm sure he wouldn't call modern protests mobbing either. Disrupting events to raise awareness to grievances (whether or not they're genuine) isn't immoral. I think that's something you and I will never agree upon.

>Would you feel the same way if it was Tea Partiers doing the exact same things?

Yes, they can be as loud as they want, imo, and they have been already loud as they want. It seems you want to play a mind game where people should be silent unless it falls within your standard of legitimate complaint. You and I don't get to decide what's a legitimate complaint since we only do what's good/bad for ourselves. If the some conservative Catholic organization wants to stage a protest to prevent ENDA from passing in Congress who am I to tell them otherwise? The 1st Amendment furnishes them such a right to peaceably assemble. If they're rude or otherwise impolite about it, that's a matter of mere taste/sentiment. It's not a matter of law.

>These traditions are what allow people with strongly varying societal views to coexist peacefully in a large country such as this one.

You mean the tradition of silence is acceptable because it gives way to false peace? Really?

>The only alternatives to such traditions are either segregation or civil war.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy.

Simply put, if your views require everyone to remain silent or never raise their voice when the established order refuses to change, then you will get civil war. As for segregation, people already do that without raising their voices, Google white flight.

TLDR-version:

1. Can you show in the article's FIRE video where anyone but one person is screaming? Also, what spitting (there's none in the video)?

2. You're making some faulty assumptions that the Tea Party movement didn't have disruptive protests when in fact there were several small scale protests around 2010 throughout the US.

3. You want people to peacefully coexist, but you also want people to basically STFU unless you approve of their views. I'm not inclined to agree. People have the moral and legal right to protest. It's not for you or me to decide.

4. What's with this segregation and civil war hyperbole? You really think one screaming woman at Yale equals massive social disorder? Maybe you and I are not on the same page here, but I honestly think you're being dishonest by this false equivalence.
My 6 yr old daughter cried the first time she saw a commercial and was convinced I changed the channel on her.
...what does the tuxedo button do?
I hate almost all software. (2011)
Also seeing as it's the Russians that are still launching humans into space--with no US spacecraft in sight--Russia seems to have won the space-marathon.
Destroyed? Hyperbole. You had to have insurance to drive a car already - did that destroy it?

Yes the balance of rights of individuals in an every-more-entangled economic and social world is shifting. And we'll have to do more to adjust to social media, the speed of the internet, cheap pervasive surveillance by anybody (drones, minicams etc) of anybody, and so on.
"DNSSEC: everything will be fine as long as everyone moves to domains in Bouvet Island's .BV. Brought to you by Cloudflare."
That is not at all what the blog post is claiming nor is it the reality. It's also not what the commenter you're responding to is complaining about.

The complaint is not about losing data in a volatile cache the complaint is that drives will lose data even after the drive has claimed to have flushed it's write cache after being given a write barrier.
Yeah, that comment also jumped out at me as well. I really cannot fathom their thought processes.
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> You are free to make the helmet decisions you see best for yourself and loved ones.

Not when that is made illegal.

> Almost three-quarters of fatal crashes (74%) involved a head injury.

That's unsurprising, particularly if 'head injury' includes a broken neck; people rarely die from broken wrists these days.

> Nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet.

What percentage of bicyclists don't wear helmets? What percentage of bicyclists in accidents don't wear helmets? That's important.

And of course, what percentage of cyclists who died without helmets would have lived with them? That's the only number that counts, and every bit of research indicates that helmets only make a small improvement in survivability of certain crashes, while also increasing the rate of neck injuries and the rate of accidents in general.
I assume so. Last few weeks I've been able to get frontpage repeatedly with very few upvotes.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550329
Interactive demonstration: http://eva.cmucreatelab.org/
Thanks, just saved me a few minutes :)

Springer (and Elsevier) are so freaking ANNOYING sometimes :(

And links to them instead of something actually readable... perhaps even more so.
> One should expect them to be as smart as those working for internal agencies, if somewhat less focused on attacking real-world systems.

It's this reason, along with DARPA and similar funding, that I call it the military-industrial-(higher-)education complex.
Better yet, directional li-fi through transparent panels on your devices guided by compact adjustable optics.

Example of what tech such optics could use:

Solid-state variable optics: https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-18-13-1...

Compact non-conical optics: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/out-with-the-old-in-with...
Or for people without a gaming desktop, but yeah, more or less. I imagine there are a lot of folks who have a computer running Windows already, but it's a 4 year old Dell with an Intel HD 3000. So they'll play a lot of the Indie games, but not the AAA graphical showpieces that advertise better. And IMO a lot of those indie games (Bastion, FTL, etc.) are better on iPads than computers/consoles anyway.

Outside of the tech crowd, actual GPUs that can compare to current-gen consoles aren't very common. Steam Machines are an attempt by Valve to widen their market and include more customers who want an off-the-shelf "it plays games" experience.
and exactly what country is safe from the whims of politics? I was just reading about censorship in the Netherlands and other Euro states because of fear of offending religious people, especially muslims. If the far left Europeans can't protect speech, then who can? DNNSEC just enables centralized government control on a level that's not needed. DNS is fine as-is. Domain authentication should be done via the transport layer like SSL. That's the way things are going now anyway.
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I've come to the conclusion that most VCs do not care at all about technical due diligence, or more broadly speeking analyzing the idea from the inside. They look at trends, momentum, traction, etc. It doesn't help that they are investing other people's money.

There's some logic to that: they can't invest the time and effort to understand all the problems in all the industries inside out. As a result, they look for proxies. The flip side is they get bitten by Goodhart's law. They end up being adversely selected by founders who mimic the signals the VCs have learned to pick up on.

Technology X is trending? Problem Y is a big problem? They'll fund a company that applies X to solve Y without asking themselves if X can actually solve Y or isn't even suited to solve Y. It's harder to be gamed if instead of following such trends you focus - as YC seems to be doing - on founder based signals. But people learn to mimic those signals too.

Signals which are costly to fake tend to be better. So investors will pay close attention to those. For instance, working full time on a project pre-seed investment instead of being payed for a full time job is a costly proposal, and thus potentially a good signal for investors. The flip side is that it can be faked by people with mediocre skills and no real opportunity cost, or people who are otherwise financially secure.
That page doesn't explain it properly. Try this one:

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/theres-a-name-for-tha...

> Stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky coined the former term in 2006 to describe the syndrome in which a concept or thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere. It’s caused, he wrote, by two psychological processes. The first, selective attention, kicks in when you’re struck by a new word, thing, or idea; after that, you unconsciously keep an eye out for it, and as a result find it surprisingly often. The second process, confirmation bias, reassures you that each sighting is further proof of your impression that the thing has gained overnight omnipresence.

> The considerably catchier sobriquet Baader-Meinhof phenomenon was invented in 1994 by a commenter on the St. Paul Pioneer Press’ online discussion board, who came up with it after hearing the name of the ultra-left-wing German terrorist group twice in 24 hours. The phrase became a meme on the newspaper’s boards, where it still pops up regularly, and has since spread to the wider Internet. It even has its own Facebook page. Got all that? Don’t worry. You’ll hear about it again soon.
Nice analysis. I'd also add that smell is a lower-brain function. We react to smells; we recognize smells; we have visceral responses to smells. But our language must label smells by the indirect response we experience. So we call them by other-sense names (sharp; hot) or by source.
Oh, sorry; I wasn't clear :( The question :)

Climate change (and that it's almost certainly human-induced) seems pretty clear-cut. Like a forest.
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hmmm ... interesting point
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
Obligatory responses to tptacek's article:

- http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/

- http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150318_is_dnssec_worth_the_e...

Collectively thousands of words have been written on this topic within HN - and there are stark divisions between those who oppose DNSSEC and those who believe DNSSEC is a helpful and useful method of adding a layer of security to the Internet.

We don't agree. We won't agree.

Meanwhile, those of us who want to see DNSSEC more widely deployed applaud this move by CloudFlare because it both makes deployment simpler for many people and also advances the usage of stronger crypto (ECDSA) within DNSSEC.

This is great news!
It doesn't matter what I am. The point is that twitter doesn't monetize properly right now and the primary reason for that is that people don't consume the content twitter links to on twitter but somewhere else.
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> that rice is much more healthy than the vitamin-fortified substance made out of bleached, white flour that we call bread nowadays.

On what basis have you arrived to those conclusions?
Do CDNs use link shorteners to cache content in specific regions? Let's say A often shortens links and users B and C read them most of the times. So once user A shortens a new link the CDN (who would need to own the link shortener) could cache the content close to users B and C.
I for one am a PC only gamer. I had an Xbox 360 for free that I barely used and prior to that there weren't enough exclusives I was interested in to make me want a console.
I sometimes wonder if there are people here (as on reddit) that try to game the system to get upvotes... seems ridiculous as there's no functional purpose of accumulating upvotes here.

I assume that a lot of the top posters spend a large volume of time submitting and commentating on HN-- myself included.
Why seahorse's tail is square?
A laptop running down its battery should shut itself off gracefully. That won't trigger the SSD power loss problems.

It isn't a clean OS shutdown usually, but an orderly transition to a hibernation state of some variety which should include flushing drives.
Don't forget self-driving cars.

The most divisive thing you can do on HN is point out the obvious true fact that there's no such thing as a self-driving car yet.
It's more nuanced than that, those are tighter rules for ITV1, C4, C5.

The other channels, including the "freeview" offerings can have more advertising:

(Other services)
1.1.2(B)
(a) The total amount of spot advertising in any one day must not exceed an average
of nine minutes per hour (15 per cent) of broadcasting.

(b) This may be increased by a further three minutes per hour (5 per cent) devoted to
teleshopping spots, but this additional 5 per cent must not be used for other forms
of spot advertising.

This doesn't at all change your point of course, we have good tight advertising laws in the UK, including a complete ban on any product placement whatsoever. (There was talk about loosening this rule, but I haven't seen evidence that happened to any significant degree.)
What's the decision behind not testing Samsung with "On On" cache and barriers? Is it so much slower that it's not worth testing? Shouldn't barriers allow the cache on the disk to "know better" how to organize writes and still be faster than without the cache turned on?

The "disk cache" is a disk hardware option (how it uses its own RAM), if I understood, and the barriers are just an option of the FS behavior (software). I'd expect that the performance penalty to the former is much higher than to the later?
IT people and politicians in my experience

And by politicians I mean not just those already established but also those in youth organizations.
Many weekends ago, I did a bunch of research on UBeam as I had an opportunity to invest.

I hope I'm wrong (because wireless power would be cool), but after ~5-10 hours of research, I think wireless charging is unlikely to happen at any scale that would make UBeam a good investment.

The amount of sound power required to charge even small electronic devices is enormous relative to the volume of the sounds we hear every day. Therefore, charging must occur at a pretty high frequency that we can't hear. Power efficiency begins to drop at these high frequencies, however, and sound at these frequencies might have other unintended consequences beyond human hearing. Power transmission efficiency is low pretty much regardless.

The only way for UBeam to work, I think, is for people to think it's so cool to wirelessly charge things that they'll pay a lot of money to try it out. "Killing the power cord" on any sort of larger scale seems very unlikely.
Yeah a helmet is sort of a hail-Mary. We say "I'm hurtling down the road at 20mph on a contraption make of pipes and sharp things, wearing shorts and a t-shirt. But I've strapped a block of Styrofoam to my head, so I'm Safe!"

Its clearly not enough. But what is? Its kind of like, you cycle, you sign up for the risk.
People only stare at Google to find content that lives somewhere else. There is alot of value of linking users to content they are interested in.
iOS or Android or whatever else OS

You just answered your own question.

Remember the screen paradigm. In the 80s, Nintendo made it possible for developers to make games that worked on Zenith TVs, Magnavox TVs and RCA TVs, but they only had to develop it once, for the NES.

The Playstation VM means the developer only needs to make the game once, and Sony is doing the work to make the VM work on iOS phone, iOS tablet, Android phone, Android tablet, Windows, Windows phone, Visio TVs, Samsung TVs, etc etc etc.

Plus it can't be understated that there still needs to be a controller. Touch screens just don't offer the immersion that controllers do.
There can be pretty good diversity of well-informed and well-argued opinion here. I'm not sure I would call it divisive, but take a look at any of the threads regarding surveillance/police states, economic inequality, geopolitics, etc-- lots of people taking different positions, though admittedly there are a few positions that are more dominant than others.

Interestingly, I think that the SJW-phenomenon would be divisive here as well, but it's seldomly mentioned because of how inane the events which prompt discussion are.

Edit: I appear to have struck a nerve somewhere.
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I think the parent is referring to CloudFlare not requiring SSL between CloudFlare and their customers.

An SSL-terminating load balancer is in plaintext between the LB and your servers, whereas CloudFlare Universal SSL can be plaintext over the internet.

Since the latter still shows users it's a secure connection, it would be reasonable for CF to require HTTPS between themselves and their customers. Last time I asked CF about this, their answer was "yes, but not our problem".
It's around $6/month per subscriber - http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/how-much-cable-subscribers-pay-...
Without Gecko, extensions and addons, I think that what is left from firefox is more functional Safari skin.

Apple are not helping mobile web to make big strides in advance.

Lets hope for good adoption - it is better than nothing. And Mozilla still try to fight for web freedom when they can.
> Chinese are actually eating.

Considering how popular street vendors are and crappy restaurants, who have been caught using gutter oil, well, China may not be the miraculous country of healthy eaters you think it is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/28...

Fried foods and obesity are huge concerns in China right now:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-...

Chinese kids are almost as fat as American kids:

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/29/as-obesity-ris...

"The country is now No. 2 for obesity, with its number of obese residents outstripped only by the U.S. Its obesity rate has skyrocketed over the last three decades, resulting in 46 million obese Chinese adults and 300 million who are overweight"

They have more overweight people than the US has people!

>Modern processed food managed to increase our daily calories intake while decreasing the essential nutrients that we need.

This sounds like bullshit that falls into the nostalgia of the past fallacy.
1. The roots and TLDs remain RSA-keyed.

2. As recently as months ago, those keys were 1024-bit RSA.

3. If the zones above those Cloudflare manages are RSA, it doesn't matter if Cloudflare's own zones are ECDSA.

4. ECDSA is itself outmoded and dangerous.[1]. Cloudflare has the first significant deployment of curve-based DNS on the Internet, and because of standards group torpor, they're forced to use bad NIST-curve DSA, while the rest of the world has moved on to better curves and deterministic signatures.

5. It takes just a few hours to write a new draft for ED25519. Pretty much the entire browser vendor community agrees that TLS needs a standardized Curve25519; a draft for that was submitted over a year ago, and still hasn't made it out of committee because of bikeshedding. Worse: browsers can enable Curve25519 piecemeal, because TLS is a negotiation protocol. DNS isn't. Because DNSSEC advocates have pushed deployment of broken '90s crypto, it could take close to a decade to get Ed25519 deployable in DNSSEC.

The idea that better DNSSEC crypto is just a standards document away is a pretty good illustration of what has gone wrong with 21+ years of attempted DNSSEC standardization.

There's a better alternative than DNSSEC, and it isn't DNSCurve: it is literally "do nothing". Don't break the Internet. Don't create a massive new deployment of embarrassing old curve crypto. Don't effectively sign keys over to the NSA. Billions of dollars of commerce flow over the Internet every week and none of it, not one bit, is protected by DNS security. DNSSEC isn't useful, it isn't needed, it certainly isn't a priority. It's in this case a way for Cloudflare to make some extra money, and nothing more.

[1]: http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html
What's interesting is that it's very popular in Canada.. but for some reason not the US
The basic argument is superficially appealing, but it's far from clear that it's true. Critiques of failing institutions have more force when there exists a credible threat to walk away. See e.g. "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty"
Most push media work exactly like tv. Magazines and newspapers have ads in between the content and don't forget about radio that works exactly the same.
Discontinuing the tab groups feature in Firefox
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Hi, would you please point me to a link that talk to the potential tax liabilities that you mention could happen in the LLC case. I have spent a lot of money because my lawyer and an investor's lawyer were arguing whether such liabilities exist or not. I walked away from the deal by then but I still want to know whether my lawyer was right. I would really appreciate more information.
Also, poor spelling. I'd expect members of an intelligence community to be more [drum roll] intelligent. "precidence" instead of "precedent?" Really?

And this, I think, is an even bigger giveaway: "... and no longer useful in maintaining their freedoms." "Freedoms" is one of the hot-button words of conspiracy theorists. As far as I've been able to tell, even the most heavily oppressive American 3 letter thugs tell themselves that they are indeed struggling to _preserve_ the citizens' freedoms.
Honestly I'd prefer a merge with KDE Plasma Active (designed to handle multiple formfactors well), maybe with Android API:s and VM embedded. Don't know what ChromeOS offers specifically that would be an improvement here.
Still sounds like an improvement over the current PKI where any CA can sign any cert for any domain.

How many roots do you have in your browser's trust store? How many of them would roll over and mis-issue certs if presented with a secret warrant in their country of residence? (All of them.)
Thats not at all how Google works.

Google works because it give you a selection of what you are looking for right now. It knows whats top of your mind and.

Twitter gives you things other people are interested in or find interesting.

They are in no way comparable.

One is letting you find things you are looking for, the other is mostly showing things you don't care about sometimes things that are interesting to you.
It's funny. Every time I mention Walmart and how actual people who don't have all the advantages in life handle finacial transactions, I'm down voted. I think there are some blind spots in some of HN's users.
They allow "SSL termination" where traffic to/from Cloudflare's Edge is protected with TLS, as well as full TLS, where you also provide your own certificate and the entire chain is protected.e.

So, you can very easily opt out of the "MITM" if you buy your own certificate. You can use a self-signed one to get a little more safety within Cloudflare's network, or a CA-signed one for a lot more safety.
I also find it astounding that people pay $50-60/month for a cable service that is 30% adverts.

At that ratio, the cable service should be paying them.
Are you implying that an anonymous, unsourced pastebin could possibly not be authoritative?

How much does the government pay you to distract people from the truth?