skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. The founders of the United States very deliberately avoided democracy, as strictly defined, in lieu of a complex layering of representative government, to secure a set of values in public governance and personal life. That system has undergone evolution over time, and has as often as not hit "progress" when the law triumphed over the majority of popular opinion. In the briefing of this study, certain simplistic generalizations are made which I don't know that most people would agree with. The reporting should be clear.
yet downvoting me won't make that kool aid taste less bitter :)
>Some of us, I think most of us, still have internal and interpersonal lives that are not shared with our devices.

I'm having difficulty thinking of a single part of my life that isn't shared with my devices.

My smartphone can be used to discover where I am at any given time, and where I probably was at any given time. Reasonable guesses about my state of mind and stream of thoughts could be constructed from my search history on the device. It can access any and all of my personal documents, photos, and financial information. It provides access to a matrix of nearly all of my social and professional contacts, and a fair bit of history regarding my current and historical interactions with them. It provides access to entry and exit logs for the doors and windows in my home, recordings of all persons approaching or entering its doors, and even logs about which lights I turn on and when.

Most noteworthy is that the information above is almost certainly of higher quality and breadth than anything law enforcement previously (in a pre-digital age) could have assembled on their own.
"Some Errors, Try later" - it was in anonymous mode?
I think most generic EC2 instances you'd spin up are hopelessly blacklisted, but I would hope that SES would be less affected by that since AWS would keep its address ranges separated from the EC2 wild west.

But after Googling SES deliverability it seems like SES may have suffered a slight amount from some lax spam reporting standards - the results seem a bit stale so not sure how valid it is any more. Hopefully using DKIM and SPF will help lessen the blow.
One of my colleagues, who is from Spain, was struck by the speed of the clouds when he moved here.... :-)
Not animated, but there's a diagram here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11197681
I'm definitely going to look into this to help with on-boarding for my web app. I wish this had existed weeks ago.
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I have to complete agree with this. I was lucky enough to live in the Bay until September last year and the variety is just unparalleled. There's something about having the moderate whether where you live and then being able to travel in at most 5 hours between a desert or a ski resort that is unrivaled.
Friedman argued you could use free markets as kind of a trojan. Once they get implemented even in an authoritarian regimes it is easier to transition to an overall free society. Chile is generally seen as having made that transition from Pinochet to full republic by 1990.
Even Bernstein doesn't argue that the NIST curve seeds are actually backdoors. Schneier isn't a curve researcher; in fact, he's more like an anti-curve pundit. I'm not sure his opinion is all that powerful.

Regardless, I'm not suggesting new cryptosystems should use the NIST P-curves. They shouldn't; those curves are just as tricky to use as RSA.
EC2's IP range is scorched earth, yes.

SES is in a separate set of IP ranges, and their feedback loops with major ISPs lets Amazon manage their reputation much more closely.
I think you also have to account that the majority of the UK population trust the Police/Security services. If not absolutely, then definitely benefit of the doubt. I feel like the US has a much much more adversarial attitude to those people. When you mention GCHQ - they're the ones who cracked Enigma etc. The NSA doesn't have that glossy veneer somehow - they are predominantly portrayed as suspicious and self serving.

I wonder if it harks back to culturally significant episodes like watergate?
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One rule stands-out, hire only people who are better than you. And importantly, “hire by committee.”

> http://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights-Inside-Transform/d...
Agreed - although important to note it seems that _Marak_ is the sole developer so that makes sense - hard to be awesome at everything! I'd recommend using an out of the box theme to make everything look a little more professional and trustworthy :)
I'm glad that nobody was hurt. It takes some of the emotion about getting to the fixes.
Vice laws
Seriously?

From The Article you linked to:
China risks growing old before it gets rich
As China’s population becomes richer and more urban, it's also getting older...

Extend the graphic out a few years and its an inverted pyramid. I'm sorry you're unaware that working age population means much more to a country than simply the supply of labor...
What's with this trend of vulnerabilities getting a catchy name, domain and even a logo?

Is that because people don't pay attention when there's just a CVE number?
Use Curve25519.
I don't know her work history, but I can easily speculate innocuous reasons why her name could be on a patent.

1/ A previous employer may have filed it on her work. There doesn't need to be any specific agency or effort on her party to do so.

2/ In her early career, when patent trolls were not so prevalent, she might not have considered patents to be a bad thing. Her current thoughts on patents might be quite different.
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It seems like this change is to avoid being on the hook for those non-{legal, non-spam} emails.
This has to be the goal of the change. Move people who into paying mailchimp customers who are taking advantage of mandrill. The issue is they alienate all the people who's problem set doesn't fall into mailchimp's offering. Who knows what that percentage is but my guess is over 80%, so they understand they are screwing over the majority to make a profit off the minority. This is from Ben at mandrill:

> "I can say today that–believe it or not–there is a subset of Mandrill customers who want combined functionality and pricing, so it’s not as illogical as it seems on the surface (also, we’ve lost many more potential customers like these by having two separate products and brands). There’s another subset who want a utlitarian service provider, and who would understandably find the new pricing unsuitable."
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Developers that are likely to expose exploitable side channels in curve software are just as likely to expose them in RSA software. But developers that use curve software are going to avoid a bunch of vulnerabilities that are specific to RSA. They should use curves, and avoid RSA.

But I don't know why I'm letting you off the hook on this. Can you be as specific as you can about the additional moving parts you're referring to? Is your comment about the difficulty of getting constant time key agreement or verification specific to legacy Weierstrass curves? And are you concerned about timing leaks in something other than scalar multiplication? If so, what are those other things?

When you say there are "more moving parts", are you referring to the fact that there's both a modular reduction and a scalar multiplication that need to be protected?
Would implementation of a very minute, random delay (if you give it a range) be an acceptable fix for some of these timing attacks? I'm thinking along the lines of adding a config param to /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf (Ubuntu).
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For the endowments, the 1y and 3y returns didn't look like noise. Hiding the noisy data is hiding the fact that the ETF strategy is more risky than the endowments.
I stand corrected, I erronously implied that the fact DDG uses its results implied the same policy about privacy which does not.

"
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>So even if this large population of savers were to start spending their money, what are they expected to do with their lives, jack off until they die?

VR girlfriends? A comfortable retirement as the economy expands. There have been far worse fates in history.
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"with the excellent bus and tube system"

Let's just say "reasonably good"
Because they are spending donated money on something with a huge chance of failure and limited upside.

Some probably even suspect that it is a vehicle for funneling the donated money to the top management's personal pockets since that's a good explanation for why they would go ahead with something so ill-advised.
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Busses here have been natural gas for a while.[1] We don't have many lorries here, mostly very large 18 wheelers and local deliver trucks...I count the delivery trucks amongst the regular car drivers. I wouldn't say they're more dangerous, though not less.

1. http://anga.us/blog/2013/5/16/cleaner-transportation-powered...
OT but arguably, the world could possibly be a better place if we didn't have prisons or banks at all.
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Read a few more lines down and they state that the amount will most likely be more than $1 million, thus keeping the previous two quotes consistent.
> The editorial content is a little slim to my tastes.

Usually the "editorial content" is just filled generic information not necessarily related to the topic at hand. Given the choice I'd much rather a slimmed down article filled with just the relevant information.
Do we really need a wi-fi enabled water pitcher?
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The core security of any password based encryption is the means to slow or prevent brute force attacks on the password. Weakening the PBKDF to make brute forcing possible is exactly the definition of weakening the scheme.

There are at least 9 phones they want this on today, and other sources have "hundreds" more. So you can say they want to do this on "any specific" phone, but I hope we're well past debating this as if we're talking about a single phone ever.

I couldn't be happier with yesterday's ruling denying the government motion to compel using AWA in a similar case. I think we can see the forest for the trees in these case and should have an honest debate about how much police should be able to control the software on our devices, without trying to skirt the issue by tying it to a particularly haneous crime.

I'm convinced and I believe it's well understood and settled that if AWA works the way the Fed wants in a specific case, it works in every single investigation, regardless of the brand of device or type of software. Magistrate Judge Orenstein certainly saw it that way.
I vaguely remembered that HDMI had something and had looked it up and checked if the cable box supported it before I posted; it doesn't (unsurprisingly).

The sad thing is that it is so easy to imagine so much more. If the cable box provided the available programming as data, I could use whatever interface I wanted to access it. Instead, I'm stuck with their customer hostile crap (no way to hide channels, etc.).
> The plating of a dish is nice, but flavor really counts.

Perception has been shown over and over to have dramatic influences on flavor: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201402/th...

Presentation is often seen as important as composition in culinary circles, and for good reason.
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>Will these roles involve working with a non-standard Haskell compiler?

They have a pretty well known internal compiler for a strict dialect of Haskell.

>What level of Haskell experience are you looking for ... what are some milestone Haskell skills that could help someone quickly identify whether they are plausibly a good fit?

They're unlikely to answer this and I don't work there, but you should probably be able to reason about things like GHC's RTS as a baseline.
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I'm not a technical writer, but I've been at a few firms that have hired them. A couple observations:

1 - There's an enormous gap between great technical writing and so-so technical writing, but it is hard to get paid for the great work unless you're working for yourself. (Hard for a company to pay one technical writer $50K and another $100K, but they can pay $100/hour part-time vs $50K full-time to someone who can do clearer work in a quarter the time)

2 - Many people write books with secondary agendas (to promote their day-career) so it's hard to just make money off the book. A well-written book is a fantastic calling card, though, and beats any resume.

3 - For better or worse, some of the coolest folks in tech are the writers. I don't know why. Perhaps because they're in it for interest rather than getting rich?

4 - I don't know any dabblers who have made a career of it, but I know several who have said "This is who I am" and have made a decent living.

How to start? Start writing a blog! Then share your portfolio. Meet people until you find one that has a need. It's a different field than engineering where every company has holes. It's more like there's 0 or 1 spot, and you want to be top of mind to someone who has 1.

Good luck!
You're not in any way explaining how China has a working age supply problem when they have 400+ million people intentionally being held in subsistence farming because the state has nothing else for those people to do.

They have 400+ million 'farmers' with nothing to do. You can't have less of a working age labor problem than that. It proves they have a vast oversupply of working age labor.

Unless for some reason you think China needs ~35% of its population to be farmers, while the US needs only 1%, and no other developed nation needs anywhere near that 35% level.

Please explain what happens to those 400 million surplus farm workers if China allows their farming efficiency to rise.
What do you mean ? The shorter term you look the more noise there is. I'm not sure that it's exactly the same 1y period, you are just averaging out a lot of funds. I would say the fact that ETFs overperformed on a long term means they are less risky not more.
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That's a great way to put it. With the usual things-can-always-be-improved caveat, I suspect that the same things that make Wikipedia such a valuable resource (crowdsourcing, broad scope, etc.) will continue to inevitably lead to tensions--whether organizationally or over things like inclusion/deletion.
I disagree. Poverty increased because mortality rates dropped precipitously, leading to an unprecedented uptick in demand. Whereas most people would have simply died, capitalism and particularly its industrial revolution allowed these people to actually live. Supply could not possibly be increased quickly enough to handle the new strains placed upon nations by these successes.

My estimation of the 19th and 20th century reactions against the protection of property rights is that it led to a diminished capability of private industry to rationally and reliably deal with the issues posed by this great expansion of human procreation.
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