skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Why? It's true. If you look about the possibilities then they were way more limited. In in a more general sense. The Stasi was limited to a handful individuals that they wanted to surveil. If their limit was reached they had to choose which other person to give up. That means that there still was nothing even close to mass surveillance. That's an established fact that one can read up in a random history book.

Civil Liberties are not big in the US anymore. I think that's also kind of established. Or do you have something that disproves that?

Also hint hint, I've got no reason to talk bad about the US. I actually often talk good about the US. There is a bunch of stuff that everyone should copy. Like the Freedom of Information Act that still seems to be pretty much unique to the US. Have I confused you now? ;)

And yeah, I am sorry. I didn't write that sentence in the nicest way. I am however not even denying the fact that there is many countries doing worse and fewer and fewer that could be doing better.

But if you think I only wanna talk bad about the US it's your right to do so. Just saying it's not true as I actually think that a change in US politics regarding these things is one of the few chances for pretty much the whole world to stop being in a downward spiral when it comes to civil liberties. Right now everyone is pointing at each other being like "It's okay that we take those liberties away, because country X is doing it too".

It's like history and long thought for rights are getting reversed. And the intention is not to talk bad about the US, but to talk bad about all those things, kind of hoping that the US starts a trend for civil liberties (again), because I think that's maybe the most likely country others will copycat from.

Sorry, having no national pride, so I'm usually a bit blunt about those things and how I word them. Will try to find a better wording next time. :)
Except that that the kek and horrible crypto are different in this project, it's really not a different approach.
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> n the quarter century following the war, America’s economy grew at the fastest rate ever in the history of the country.

This is exactly my point. Fastest ever growth. 1945-1970.

> In the half century between 1870 and 1920, the number of Americans employed in manufacturing jumped almost 450%, climbing from 2.5 million to 11.2 million. This created a vacuum that encouraged immigration and, during the same period, 27.5 million immigrants came to the United States. In order to support the country’s burgeoning population, farmers increased the number of acres under cultivation by an astonishing 234%

This is simply population growth. Economic growth, as a metric that actually matters to quality of life, is defined as Real GDP per person.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5671.pdf

If you look at the main chart in this paper, you will see the growth was, relatively speaking, rather flat throughout the gilded age, which was also characterized by wild swings in the economy. Growth becomes higher and more constant after WWII (largely due to the rather left-wing policies at play that started with the New Deal, and later the restrictions imposed during the war, and high tax rates immediately after the war).
Absolutely. I live in an authoritarian country and people would love to be able to vote politicians out. Americans really can but they just complain then vote for the same two parties every time.

Clinton caused some of these tough on crime and drugs laws. So if you voted for his party (Obama), then you voted for this.
Depends what your goal is as well, I've no interest in creating a startup with the potential to be a huge company, 1) those ideas are really hard to come by 2) they will inevitably attract competition 3) unless they are not trivial well funded competition can and probably will catch you rapidly 4) first mover advantage works on a product that has network effects but not much else.

The product I want to build next is a niche product for a very specific (but quite large in absolute) terms demographic, profit per user (after tax/VAT/Hosting minus staff) is approx $6 per month, at 500 users I'd be doubling my current income, at a 1000 I'd be able to work on it full time, at 2000 I'd be very comfortable, anymore than that would just be gravy.

It's not even a difficult build (I've built much more complex projects for clients) but the market doesn't exist at all (which means it's either a really good idea (unlikely) or a terrible idea (more likely)).

In either case I'm gonna give it a shot since it's a product I'd have bought if it existed immediately and happily.
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I'm guess it's from old emails, but somehow they found people that I haven't emailed with in 10+ years and also several accounts ago from places I've never logged into on this pc and that I don't even remember the passwords or usernames for anymore.
etsy is clear case of poor management, just taking a brief look at their financial statements it is clear they are doing something clearly wrong. Their revenue is growing but their expenses are growing at the same rate so they remain unprofitable. from 2014 to 2015 revenue grew from 29 million to 45 million per quarter while general expenses grew from 22 million to 31 million. Amazon is another company that does this but at least they have the sense to keep the company slightly in the black to slowly gain small amount of cash reserves, etsy is just burning through their capital for no reason, they earn plenty of revenue to be able to turn a profit
Because people are actually kind of shitty at estimating probabilities, and overconfidence in this area is likely to kill or injure a lot of people. I'm a utilitarian by temperament, but a deontologist in practice because I'm aware that my powers of foresight are actually quite limited and I will very rarely be presented with neatly predictable conflicting imperatives as in the trolley problem. Many self-professed utilitarians wildly overestimate their own intellectual and analytical abilities and come to grief on the rocks of failed predictions. Unfortunately this also tends to involve a lot of innocent casualties too.
No.

US markets are closed on Monday: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/which-markets-are-closed-on...
> In that week, I was kissed on the cheek

Yea, that sounds inappropriate, though it'd be nice to get context.

> asked to sit on my manager’s lap

Wtf? Yea, that's messed up. Again, it'd be nice to get some context.

> told about my manager’s sex life and virility

Inappropriate work conversation sure, but not necessarily "sexual harassment".

> told that “all men go through an Asian fetish at some time,”

Again that might be inappropriate work conversation, but I wouldn't necessarily deem that sexual harassment. Definitely depends on the context.

Why wasn't the manager fired?

My one gripe with these kinds of articles is that context is generally ignored. We've seen enough false accusations (eg. Adria Richards) that I think it's important for real victims who're going to write articles on these topics accusing others of wrongdoing to be more detailed in their accounts if they want to be taken more seriously. (Remember the fiasco with the Google employee who claimed that she was sexually harassed because somebody she looked good in a bathing suit at a work retreat?)
It depends on the company and the system.

Unfortunately the rather depressing trend seems to be towards shoving it all on devs and not paying them more then justifying the reasoning as "if you are the one being paged then you are incentivized to fix things.

Unfortunately, and this is what you are seeing, too often they don't give you the resources to fix things and you just end up in ops hell.

They get away with this because we (devs) have allowed ourselves to get screwed over because we chug the koolaid. We don't get overtime because for some reason we're exempt, this lets companies get away (financially) with crunch time caused by incompetent management. Oncall rotations which don't pay extra are just another offshoot of this.
I think that would be my complaint too - malnutrition rather than direct starvation.

That said, that has a LOT to do with our guidelines via the FDA and draws down from that moreso than inequality.
Spurious correlations (Ridiculous things that inexplicably correlate)
https://cdn.rawgit.com/darach/my_little_pony/master/my-littl...
So there may be valid arguments in here...

Gee, thanks!

Ah yes, we must look under the lamppost. Sure, that's a pressing concern for "professional" "researchers" who must write grants somehow, but that doesn't oblige the rest of us to believe their tenuous constructed bullshit. Correlation might make sense, ceteris paribus, but they're comparing USA to nations of vastly different sizes, locations, and histories. Rather than, say, nations of similar sizes, locations, and histories. We are a high-population colonized nation of the Americas. We're not the only one, but we are the only one that shows up in this "research".

By that same argument...

Indeed. Normal voters have ignorance as an excuse (although that's less tenable as time passes) but every single legislator and drug warrior and surely every social scientist eventually figures out what's going on. Cops still don't join LEAP until they get their pension. Researchers continue to write grants that get funded rather than ask questions that data can possibly answer.
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it could work to where there's no tempting "cryptsy jar" to reach into

Something, perhaps your idea, needs to be done, before Bitcoin can have long-term success. Because you're exactly right. It's just too tempting. This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Not the second time. Not the third time!!!
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Ask HN: Who has sold an algorithm and how?
Can anyone point me to a person that has successfully sold an algorithm, a general algorithm, for an appropriate amount of money? How did the transaction take place? What would an algorithm writer need to do before the transaction? Take PageRank. Larry and Sergey were unable to sell it as an algorithm or even as a website. What should they have done, short of starting Google, to get a fraction of the proceeds for a (surely different) fraction of the work?
>I am also sick of hearing these 'rumors of one engineer at Google' making millions being cited as if it was a BLS salary report or something.

Yes. Also assuming that everyone who works in tech is a ".com millionaire", because either you worked at a startup and made millions in your stock options or you work at google and of course make at least $500k.
Price fluctuations make bitcoin a non-starter as a savings account anyway.

It would be better to store savings in an interest bearing account with a bank or other investments, some of which might include bitcoin and some of it's possible successors.

For me at least, the compelling thing about cryptocurrencies is the possibility of cheap transactions, but bitcoin itself doesn't really seem to fit the bill as it stands, so it seems like a high risk investment.
Reminds me of this, regarding a woman who (allegedly) can smell Parkinson's:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/301485.php

While I know of no reason to dismiss these out of hand, I'd also be more comfortable seeing them discussed in more depth. Can anyone with actual medical knowledge speak up?
Another story also previously posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906636
Many domestic products become more expensive as the currency adjusts downwards as producers take advantage of higher foreign prices.

In the long run, this can depress foreign prices and even increase manufacturing demand here due to lower labour costs. But these changes don't happen overnight.
I'm not sure our society, as a whole, does 'tolerate' it. Can you tolerate something you're completely ignorant of?

I'd say the vast majority of US citizens have no idea what asset forfeiture is, how it's used, what it's legality is or isn't... and what they do know, if anything, is that it's a tool used by the police/govt to keep those pesky drug cartels in line... because that's what the media tells them.
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It's very simple and almost certainly a practical necessary to do this, but changing the logic behind the programme to "nobody in this country should have to work" to "only foreign-born people in this country should have to work" rather undermines the idealism of the whole project...

Introducing a work requirement - even if only for some people - is of course rather more compatible with the traditional welfare state view that entitlement to state handouts should be linked to evidence of willingness to contribute to society through paid work. In which case, why not go the whole hog and not pay out to citizens that don't need the money enough to be prepared to look for work?
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These are great posts!

I've recently discovered https://www.browserleaks.com/ which has tests for several sorts of browser fingerprinting.

Edit: The follow-up post cites the W3C draft on fingerprinting: "elimination of the capability of browser fingerprinting by a determined adversary through solely technical means that are widely deployed is implausible". But there is a simple strategy. Just compartmentalize online activity, such that everything that a particular persona does can be safely linked by adversaries. And it's fun!
They can obviously make money by raising a transaction fee a little bit from 3.5% to maybe 5%-7%. eBay has done it to 10% + PayPal fees and they are making billions in net profits.
The free loader problem exists but it's also known that it's essentially an edge case. It's not going to get smaller by making people poor or envious of others so that they work harder. It's a fixed problem.

And this is hardly "a free living", £6000 pounds is $8550. The average monthly Social Security benefit per year is $16092.
Suffice it to say I was making $1X0k/year in a second tier American market (Chicago/Seattle/LA you know the deal), so I didn't feel underpaid per se -- more that, for those weeks when I was missing a lot of sleep, I got the sense it was a pretty raw deal.
...and? Would the company not do the equivalent to them?
> Before we get wildly over-optimistic, as every HN thread on AI becomes, realize that neural networks have basically nothing to do with actual biological neurons.

Yes. I think I was already fully agreeing with you, and suggesting the same but in softer language. Maybe you meant that for the parent or more generally the thread, but I think that I should add something: I may have unintentionally conflated the discussion on neural nets and the biological research my friend was talking about.

My limited understanding of what he said - and I'll go ask him for a reference - is that we (as in scientists somewhere, not me personally) have come to a more or less clear and complete understanding of the chemical and electrical processes in the neural functioning of these simple life-forms, from top to bottom. (I don't know that's true, but that's what I think I heard.) They then tried to put together a complete simulation of this simple lifeform's neurons. This simulation, as I understand it, is not a neural network per se, but something trying to be much closer to a biological simulation. And when they turn it on, apparently, it doesn't work.

That story, if true, tends to confirm what you said; we're missing something in our understanding of biological neurons. Which, I think, lets me say more confidently that we can't suggest we have the building blocks for AI yet.
There are a tremendous number of other ways this could be implemented.

Authenticated encryption? GCM? XTS?
Salt the CFB? Guard against interblock attacks?

The crypto needs to be completely reworked. This is an asymmetric kek around symmetric encryption, which is done in many other projects.

Half-backed crypto such as this is worse than no crypto at all, as it lulls people into believing they are using a valid cryptographic system. But, the project implements (poorly) a subset of what is needed and pushes the rest into application code - but app writers don't know this and wouldn't know what to implement even if they know of the shortcomings.

Cryptographers see this all the time. People think they invented a new concept but only implemented a well-known design but did it incompletely and with well-known flaws in the crypto. Then, people defend the system, when it would be far easier to use better primitives.
I think more of what @CamperBob2 is alluding to will happen to be honest... Unfortunately.
Actually the real problem I'm suggesting device designers need to solve is doing the bare minimum to make the public (ie decentralized vulnerability seekers) believe that the application processor is likely secure from the cell network. Doubly so because the entire history of their industry has been the exact opposite philosophy.

I have no doubt mobile chipsets contain a surprising amount of complexity. I'd love to be surprised by it! But I've only ever run across vague references to various improvements, which are worth just as much as saying "Our code uses AES!".

It's obviously easy to restrict a core to certain memory ranges. But how is that restriction set? Is it fixed in the mask (leading to inflexibility), or is it set through registers? The bullet point is enough to satisfy a PHB's sense of security, but we know it's the details of those loose ends where the exploits lie. And the threat model of Qualcomm is quite different from the threat model of a phone's owner.

Simplistic points like the OP are really a symptom of this not knowing. Can you blame them for not knowing the exact vulnerability? It's like someone picking on a binary blob, saying it can contain a backdoor password. Well, the industry having moved from backdoor passwords to challenge-response isn't really a defense to the overriding point, is it?
Relevant HN thread about that story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10434974

It's has comments definitely worth rereading in light of this story.
Yes, currently he gives me that. With no equity.
According to Howard Zinn in "A People's History of the United States", the political party and electoral system was created as a facade to placate the poor from revolting against the wealthy. It worries me how much of this may still be true today: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
This is not disk encryption. This is file encryption.
Completely disagree. Apple sincerely wants to maintain its current encryption policy. It has substantial business value and improves the quality of their products. There is no evidence whatsoever that Tim Cook goes out and tells lies, as you allege, about major pieces of Apple's technology.

See also:

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/12/apples-tim-cook-lashes-o...
That require PayPal?
This can't be used for assymetric encryption. The reason you can still see files and filenames on normally encrypted drives is because your OS holds the encryption key AND decryption key in memory (they're actually the same because it's using symmetric encryption). The problem with the assymetric case is that you no longer have the decryption key, so if you encrypt a filename, you don't get to refer to the file anymore, of course unless (as another user commented) you encrypt the filename you're using to reference the file every time you reference the file, which isn't a terrible idea.
The way civil forfeiture is being used in these examples is a violation of a citizen's constitutional right and the perpetrators, no matter their appearance, are criminals and must be dealt with as such.

I'm sure there are some lawyers out there who might say otherwise. They will tell you that "this" is how the constitution is interpreted. But the constitution, particularly the bill of rights, was written so that you could understand it, irregardless of what politicians and lawyers say.
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There is this cppcon presentation by Stroustrup where he is talking about the GSL annotations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A but too bad that it all depends on this unreleased big black box proprietary code analysis tool.
I guess it depends on the background, I wanted to keep the spirit of I Am Not A Lawyer that I have seen so many times on forums, but I guess if you haven't seen it before it does look awkward.
Under what language / toolkit? Folks are pointing out counterexamples below and I could name a few myself, but I'm curious where you're coming from :-)
Doens't really matter whether it's public information or not in my opinion. Most of the nastiness of doxxing isn't from private info becoming public, but from it being posted in a highly public place. The occasional stranger phoning/emailing you can be dealt with. Thousands at once? :(

Whether it's "technically" public or not, any inbox posted like this is going to have a very bad day and be functionally useless until it dies down.
Bit flips will be detected on the next read via MAC failure. Bit flips can still be obnoxious, but they are prevented in the sense the CPU will start a reboot before accepting corrupt memory.
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Slightly related is a kick-scooter that goes by the same name. Made by the hacker MechBern who is also part of the Bodenstaendig 2000 band. Together they produced a great song and promotion video for the Plankalkül scooter called Extreme Einkaufing:
http://www.bodenstaendig.de/plankalkul/video-en.html
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Ah, in retrospect that makes sense and I misunderstood.

> And for all the talk about funding developer time, discussion about the operations side is notoriously quiet. There's a few good actors that help us out, and we're trying to raise awareness of the issue.

> You just don't see a lot of volunteers to get paged in the middle of the night when the website is down.

That's a great point, that's some good work you are doing and I'll admit that I needed my awareness raised on that issue as well. Thanks.

> In a sense, it matters whether your charitable goal is to reward lifetime contributions, or to gift the community better software, and in small ways these can be contradictory. Especially if continued funding relies on demonstrating return on the gifts, merely perpetuating the status quo is a problem.

Well put, I'm a believer in the end goal being better free software and rewarding contributors is a (complex and risky) means to that end.

Good points about the benefits of bringing in juniors and the subtle but important differences between openness at different architectural layers as well.
This is why you should never take phones into any kind of sensitive meeting or at least put it into a faraday bag.
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Agreed. No consumer is going to say I want to buy a less secure phone because that is better
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However it's also not illegal for them to confiscate the money from you with the only reason for suspicion is the amount of cash.
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I recall a Doom II level that created, as much as was possible with the engine, a "downtown" feeling (it may have been simply called "Downtown"). Many of the buildings were enterable, monsters could shoot you or lob fireballs at you from the windows, etc. In some ways a richer and more interesting design than even the "huge city full of textured solid parallepipeds" that many "open world" games feature.
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