skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

A long (but relevant) web comic.
What again? Seriously, this shows up here every couple of months.
> They're just driven by demand. It's not some shady nebulous force at work trying to screw everything and everyone.

A great quote I read somewhere:

In marketing, there are those who satisfy needs and those who create wants
I found this post very inspiring.

She's not really saying "don't work on secure messaging apps," but something more like "let's not focus entirely on secure internet messaging, but also help nonprofits and other organizations with a diverse variety of secure collaboration tools."

The list is fantastic.
> This is absolutely dangerous thinking. There are a lot of people researching crypto and making sure it's secure. If you're using non-standard crypto, you don't have that safety net.

Absolutely dangerous thinking is to declare cryptography off limits. With that in mind eventually you just scare more people to participate in this process and eventually be left with a tiny core community.

And this discussion is very moot anyways as telegram uses standard cryptographic primitives.

> They're using primitives that are proven to be insecure against certain types of attacks (non-checked DH, MAC-then-encrypt, etc).

Except they are not using them in any insecure way and they are doing this for very good reasons. This Twitter thread is also full of misinformation collected together from an age old post that was itself misunderstanding how the protocol actually works.

> You can't just invent something and claim "last time I checked it's not broken".

Sure, that's exactly how SSL works. We invented crypto systems and we are using them until they are broken, then we phase them out for something else.
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I want to post an insightful response to this, but all I can seem to muster is "what a load of horseshit".
Lots of things are farmed that are not patented.

From your own source, "The identity of silphium is highly debated."

-_-
The internet dream is almost here! Patents and IP have lost their bite compared to the 80's (continuing to do so) and piracy is easier than ever.

More countries are participating in the global conversation than ever before.

Enhancements in security and privacy are evident and improving (albeit slowly).

The internet is becoming a lot less like TV and will continue to do so. People care more about commenting and creating content. They care about participating more than they ever did and this is increasing. In fact, this is a problem because the quality of participation is diminishing as EVERYONE jumps in.

Existing power structures are not being retained. As the internet enters the equation new laws are being put into place. Look at Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb. The only difference in how they are regulated is basically because they are internet oriented.

Yes we still have work. Infrastructure is still a big issue. If we want to reduce centralization, we need better infrastructure and equal access to it. That one is very political.

We got this ;) Stay vigilant friends.
I appreciate the link, but I don't understand why, in this day and age, we should pay for a self-help book (or "system") to cure a depression.

If depression can be cured with information alone, this information should be freely available on the internet!
That is by far more insightful than the article!
Great to see progress, but 1668 dropped frames in the test is a bit underwhelming.
The comment I was responding to was specifically equating these people operating this drone program as described in the article directly to Nazis. I don't see those incidents you describe mentioned anywhere in the article. Are they relevant to the subject we're actually discussing, or are they completely unrelated incidents you're throwing in as smokescreen for the specific issue addressed in the article, because you've run out of relevant points to make?
I really like this idea.

Without knowing too much about bar associations I feel like a programmer association with a code of ethics similar to the ABA model rules (perhaps including the Six Fixes[0]) would be a great start to reining in privacy violations.

I immediately see that it would need to be government mandated for it to have any effect, and given that many governments routinely violate these terms I don't know how it could be enforced.

[0] - http://idlewords.com/six_fixes.html
Awesome! Does anyone know of a similar library for Ogg/Opus?
Oh the market is about people when it commoditizes them, and that just makes the consequences even less moral.
It is my dream one day - to sell my startup, and get some form of mechanical computer, and have it in my house as an art display.

I would like to integrate it somehow to my existing systems - so that, no matter how little it can contribute, it can click and clack away.

I shall name him Switch
More info here (one of the wikipedia sources):

https://web.archive.org/web/20060720074622/http://www.wolsel...
I did not implement VOIP on PS4 but I know for a fact that on 360 and XB1 the encryption for VOIP data can be entirely disabled. In case of XB1 they make you provide files to strip the voip stream from the rest of your game packets for this very reason.
Didn't know that, thanks!
> "Personally, I struggle with this one. My default reaction would be yes, a curated internet, fact checked for accuracy would be better."

And now you've made the problem worse. This is the idea of a benign monarchy. Who fact checks? Who is the gate keeper? Who keeps out content that doesn't meet the standards? This is censorship. You may think it's beneficial censorship but all censors believe their censorship is beneficial.

All power has the potential to be used maliciously, and then it becomes far more damaging than the benefit of it being used benignly ever created. The only checks that seem to work against such things are individual freedoms and democratic governance. They're far from perfect but the alternatives are all much worse.
Humans suck sometimes
POPFile – Automatic Email Classification
One of the three OpenBSD users
Study: Want to play the market? Count the Fed leak weeks
The UK has at least 4,000 co-operative food stores [1], most of which use a common brand even as they're run by different groups. (There are probably a few independent co-operatives, too.) I'm curious how they decide where to set up a new one.

One of my relatives was a very strong supporter of the Co-op movement. He shopped there, used their bank, bought appliances and energy from them, took their package holidays, and left instructions in their will that he was to have a Co-op funeral. I was impressed that he stuck to his belief for his whole life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_Food
Most versions of cp also respond to ctrl-t by printing current statistics
Thanks! Helps against the nautilus one. Not at "yesmagazine.org" unfortunately :)

I wonder how possible it is to make something more advanced that blocks these things programmatically by detecting the behaviour (rectangular thing in center modally popping on top of large amount of text).
While DNA samples would be a great thing to have, I'd hate for that to be the only trance of them left in the future. Imagine one day, when all we will have is a huge book of DNA samples of everything we used to know.
A better solution would be to deploy a media server that can provide multiple stream formats. For example, Microsoft IIS Media Services [1] supports Microsoft's Smooth Streaming, HLS and MPEG-DASH without having to re-encode video for each format.

With such a solution, nearly every client out there can use a natively supported stream format without overhead. Also, Microsoft has a decent cloud offering with Windows Azure Media Services [2] that fixes all of this for you, including optional DRM.

[1] http://www.iis.net/media
[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/
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Uber China Team Is Rubbish China Support Team Is Shit
especially this week, when combined with all the crazy events going on all around the world.
I was just addressing (nitpicking?) your characterisation of the browser security model. Some protocols do use the HTTP proxy settings, but eg mail and news protocols don't. Granted those have been phased out of many browsers, but traditionally the browser security model was never "everything goes through HTTP proxies".

Off the top of my head I can't think why WebRTC wouldn't work with normal SOCKS proxies though, like NNTP and mail protocols did.
Is it relevant to your question?
http://gizmodo.com/the-isolated-vault-that-could-store-our-d...
In the first majority-Muslim U.S. city, residents tense about its future
I think, to put it short, the middle path is the right one: partway socialist, partway capitalist. The capitalist side has had an upswing in Sweden recently, and the development it started is noticeable. Socalism can and does lead to stagnation, while capitalism can and does lead to overexploitation.
Ok the real question is, how does this compares to CentOS/"Prominent Linux Vendor" relationship

And Linux Mint also recompiles and replaces the trademarks no?
I don't think its just China. Horns used to be one of the ingredients in classic chinese medicine, but its drastically reduced next to none after horns were banned a couple of decades ago. India itself is a big importer of horns and I think much bigger then China
I'm glad the co-op is able to bring the community together, however, I am disturbed by the fact that like the title implies, residents were "stuck." Grocery stores were 2.5 miles away, but that was too far to get reasonably priced food and instead residents were gouged for $5 gallons of milk at the corner store.

I fear that the $2 million being invested into the co-op could have been better used for infrastructure, not only enabling folks to journey to nearby grocery stores, but also opening up more employment opportunities.
That is such an awesome text.
Doodle Fb Video Profile Maker
By the way, here's a project Saitta is involved in, an app for distributed secure messaging.

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works.html

> Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging tools such as email, Twitter or Telegram, Briar doesn't rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users' devices. If the Internet's down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet's up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance.
But inside the browser, how do you actually verify the media path is secured properly? You end up trusting the server of the webpage you're on, since that's what negotiates everything. And if you trust the server, then you can just offload things to the server in the first place, and going P2P doesn't really matter.

Outside of the browser, sure you can negotiate your own way and tie the media to an established key.
This study is long due. Is it good that we are now past anecdotical stories from friends or family ( "I can eat that a lot, but if I just take a piece of this I will feel bad" .. " For me is however the other way around..." , and so on ).

Nice to see the usage of machine learning to detect the dietary patterns. Too bad that this methods are very far from being used in the field ( i.e. my local family doctor ).
The MPEG-TS container (from 1995!) is also a lot less efficient than the more modern MP4 container. Overhead can range from 5% to 30% with bad muxing settings.

See:
* ​http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/12/08/announcing-the-clouds-mo...
* ​http://features.encoding.com/blog/2014/02/24/simplify-http-l...
* ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15661664/how-do-i-alter-m...
* https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2857
Asynchronous Microservices in Node.js
Business idea: Let people send in blood samples taken before and after meals, and analyze specific markers (especially glucose). Why a selftest? AFAIK the conventional way would be too expensive to do at a doctor's, at least here in Austria one glucose tolerance test is about €30 (and you would need 10-20 of them). It's also uncomfortable (1-2h sitting in the waiting room).

Does something like that exist yet?

UPDATE: Just found http://www.metabolic-balance.com, who seem to analyze hormone levels to create a personalized diet plan. But not exactly a low friction solution?
Why Most Successful Apps Started from Prototyping?
Considering the amount of heat Telegram is receiving, I'd expect someone to demonstrate eavesdropping by now.

Aren't they using "their own" crypto just on top of standard methods?
Did he now have a computer with internet? How can you be bored when you have the internet.
i3 is a brilliant DE for hacking, but I found it rather wanting for "normal" use, so I went back to Unity on Ubuntu.
Rhinos would only be farmed if they could be patented.

That makes me wonder percentage of the world's farming is done under a patent.
When i saw the example code, the first thing that is see is the use of globals:

from main import app
app.html

This is a reason i would never use a library like this. Flask has the same issue with globals. I think is a common problem that python developers have, because its so easy to create global singleton modules with state.
"At Google, women make up 30 percent of the company’s overall workforce, but hold only 17 percent of the company’s tech jobs"

Hence what? In France prison population is 96.5% male. Does it prove sexism? That's it, I quit reading women, they can't write without pulling the cover to themselves.
The biggest thing was that SlackBuilds weren't being updated for the new release. There was also some unfriendliness in the mailing list related to getting it fixed (in general, nothing I experienced). I don't remember exactly what it was though. This was quite a while back - probably 13.1 or 13.37.
Capitalist morality merely poses as amoral. The moment you propose a more sensible alternative, you're hit by moral arguments about terrible things happening when you interfere with the invisible hand (of Providence).

When we mention "satisfying people's needs", those with more money get more satisfaction. That's how markets work. Like advertisers (corporations paying other corporations to spread propaganda), nation-states (which must control their populaces pretty much by definition), etc.
Correct me if I am wrong, but to my understanding, both Unity and Mir are open source, and nothing stops other distros from adopting it.
I'll wait for the day when a rewrite of the universe in JS is available on GitHub.
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Or practically, if they would scan the entire IPv4 space, which doesn't take too long on a decent connection (5min with 10Gbps, https://zmap.io/)
Currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It has served me well, but I am planning to migrate to elementaryOS later this week. (I want to try something new, and I love the beautiful design of eOS.) I've tried out Arch on an old laptop, and while I really like the total control you have over your (bleeding-edge) system, I find it would require too much admin work to use on my main computer.
But then you need to build the rocket to have reinforced attachment points for the rail sled and be strong enough to withstand the lateral forces during the rail launch, with the attendant cost in increased weight.
On *BSD and OS X the keyboard command Ctrl-T sends a SIGINFO to all processes connected to the tty. Many tools such as cp, mv and even dd display their progress when they receive a SIGINFO.

This signal does not exist on Linux.
> People are choosing to use Facebook, Twitter and other sites

Which people, the early techies OP was talking about, or the other bunch who joined the Internet later on having no experience and knowledge how to use it to keep their privacy and maintain same responsibility for other online participants ?
"Theranos’ biggest “mistake” was running two businesses at once."

No, it was being shit at what it was supposedly meant to be good at. People don't go back to Uber because it offers a good vision, they go back because its easer/cheaper/more convenient.

Charging money for blood tests that are hilariously inaccurate, and then allowing them to be used as the basis for life changing decisions is precisely why these industries are regulated.

This is so that "moron in a hurry" or "the man on the clapham omnibus" doesn't get killed because he(or she, or their health professional after some extra profit) chose the wrong service to do blood tests.

Basically what is being advocated is the pursuit of money at the expense of human life.

On a purely capitalistic level, Theranos didn't work. It's weak and therefore should be mercilessly exploited till it dies.
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Cross-posting. to add colour to Uber China outsourcing partner Concentrix, a company that also took over some Lenovo/IBM support functionsan ITO / BPO firm that farmed off Lenovo/IBM and other contracts several years ago.

Salary is very low, around 2000 Yuan per month, Employees of Concentrix providing Uber services complain of providing bad advice including foul language at customers. Not isolated problems, but across the organisation, both Concentrix and their client Uber
They are open-source, but they only really work on Ubuntu. Upstart is another example, and it's part of why other Ubuntu-specific things won't work on other distros.

Other distros could try to port Ubuntu projects, but why would Canonical accept their patches upstream?
The problem is also more than just "medical value". There are collectors who would prize a trophy on their desk/wall.
Feudalism may have lifted more humans out of poverty than any other system that came before it by leaps and bounds. It's a good thing we didn't decide to stop there.

Secondly, I'm not sure we should so quickly even concede your point. What if The Enlightenment, mathematics and science, and democracy were actually greater contributors to lifting humans out of poverty? All the greatest advancements in mathematics and science (think Einstein) don't appear to be profit driven.
> And Linux Mint also recompiles and replaces the trademarks no?

Sure, but presumably that took a lot of effort.
Chromium Re-Enables HTTP/2 Over NPN
>Uber does to the taxi industry what Theranos does to diagnostics—it makes it more convenient and less expensive while providing a much nicer user experience.

I think it's a very fitting comparison.

Uber is also a company that's notorious for ignoring the laws that concern them.
Is Signal's crypto really "well-reviewed"?

The best description of it seems to be at https://github.com/trevp/axolotl/wiki and it's not really understandable by someone who doesn't already know the protocol, so I doubt many people that don't work on Signal have reviewed it.

It looks like the authors know what they are doing though, so it's probably good, but there might be a small risk that they overlooked something.
Presumably the first.
To be honest, I'm struggling to think of any profession which less resembles the concept of wage slavery than programming, Compared with other jobs it pays relatively high salaries, offers more opportunities for remote and flexible working, more opportunities as self-employed contractors and more opportunities to start companies that don't even rely on contracting for others.

In a company of any size, nobody has absolute agency and complete immunity from stupid shit that bosses envision, not even the zillionaire owners of the company who don't have to do performance reviews or attend standup meetings.
Why is this even so popular today? Vodafone started it years ago.
What about the "reader view", either the one of iOS either Pocket or Evernote?
The proxy can be generated from the Parle Browser extension which overlays HN and Reddit discussions directly on the page. You read more about it at https://www.parle.co
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Npm module for the the ClojureScript programming language
Most, but it is not (AFAICS) a required portion of the spec - I'm pretty certain you'd need something similar to the multi-laser strategy that CD/DVD combination drives use.

The Blu-Ray Association says[1] that they expect it to be the case in practice, but that it's a market decision for each implementer, which sounds like it's not a requirement.

[1] - http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_backwards_compatible
The DNA Bank Network [1] indexes DNA samples held by several DNA banks — there are more banks not indexed by this system.

There are 224 different mammals so far, but no rhinos.

For plants, the Millennium Seed Bank [2] is collecting and storing seeds with the aim to have all species. They have 13% of plant species so far.

[1] http://www.dnabank-network.org/

[2] http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/collections/millenni... (my previous employer; they're recruiting for Linux analysts at the moment).
Yeah you're right JonnieCache, I meant a more physical-like interaction but sliders are as well.
>Absolutely dangerous thinking is to declare cryptography off limits. With that in mind eventually you just scare more people to participate in this process and eventually be left with a tiny core community.

Anybody can participate, just don't claim it's secure.

> Sure, that's exactly how SSL works. We invented crypto systems and we are using them until they are broken, then we phase them out for something else.

The only difference is there's a maillist with actual cryptographers (https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/threads.ht...), that iterate over design. If you look at the history of TLS, you'll see how tricky is to get crypto right. There has been lots of attacks on the protocol, that no one person could've think of. You don't have that if you roll your own and/or have "very good reasons" when people point your mistakes out.
Mind sharing what the impact of the result of that search is supposed to be?
"I wouldn't be surprised if a few kilobytes would suffice to describe the components from which any grammar can be built - much smaller than the full grammar itself."

yes - e.g. BNF
The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently optimised for Chemistry).

Ah, I didn't notice that, because it's cut off at "Select specific article source (currently optimised for". There are several font problems, most alarmingly some 400px high text. And there is apparently no way to select the journals, despite what it says.

SemenaticScholar does have the option to change the timeframe

Thanks!
Thanks for reporting fit2rule!

It's weird, I'm running it well on Firefox and Chrome on OSX but I'll test on other setups. The presets should be empty to begin with and only save ones you want locally.
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor to begin operations this month
OTR is.

As far as I know there's been one whitepaper on TextSecure itself (https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf).
If someone wants to chip in for a copy of XBox One Fallout 4, I'd be happy to look at adding support for it this weekend - it's 100AUD which is a little crazy.
> strace is very powerful, but probably not the tool I would jump to at first to solve this mystery. Instead, just go to the source code.

Though from a learning perspective, it might be useful to play with something like git using strace then compare with what you find in the code. This could help you learn how to interpret results when you don't have access to the code when diagnosing something else later.
As much as I dislike a number of practices in Hollywood, I don't think that the international distribution problem is a consequence of their contractual terms, but on how distribution rights are region-specific, so Hollywood may not be able to grant distribution rights in a market they already gave an exclusive distribution contract to someone else for.

I would love nothing more than for this to be a trivial problem to be solved by negotiating with one (albeit enormous) loose group of companies, but I don't think that's the problem here.