skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> …so I don't have to begin the regime of psychoactive drugs that don't guarantee any less liver damage than the alcohol.

I can't think of any antidepressant or antipsychotic medication that is as bad for your body as the amount of alcohol it sounds like you're drinking.

Some alcohol is fine (probably even good for you), but if you think, "Maybe I drink too much." then you almost certainly drink too much. And that's really bad for you. It won't just screw up your health at age 50. It will hurt your cognitive abilities much sooner.

Honestly, it sounds like you're rationalizing. If you want a drug to distract yourself from psychological pain, there are far less damaging (and less expensive) options than alcohol. Please see a doctor about this. They can almost certainly help.
People die all the time after committing nefarious crimes. In this case the police killed them. Maybe the police is to blame for the fact that we can not get to the truth about the crime. If there is any truth to be found, other than disillusioned religious people go on a murderous rampage all on their own. I mean justice, well in many cases there can't be justice. The long arm of the law can't reach everyone anywhere, especially after death.
Hmm, I wonder if there is anything interesting you could do by creating a Service Worker for the CDN domain. It seems that the CDN will serve arbitrary files with a text/javascript Content-Type, which is the requirement to set one up. Once created, AFAIK, such a worker remains attached to the domain until an occasional attempt by the browser to refresh it fails, and it can intercept and modify any requests from webpages on its origin, as well as navigation there. But it doesn't affect requests to that origin from other origins, like the typical <img src> from facebook.com, so it won't be able to do much.

It seems that you click "download" on Facebook images, you'll get redirected to a CDN URL. So there's that. You could see what images the user is trying to download and edit them in flight... not a big deal, but it's something.
IRCv3.1 Support – Servers
Even if the FBI has thousands of phones it wishes to unlock with a valid court order, where is the problem? Why are you against this in principle? How is your phone fundamentally different to your house?

Regarding it being like cancer - why? How can it not be like smallpox? What is hard about clean rooming these phones and hacking them?

Specifics please.
Sure, but that same government can jail you for using it, or jail you for refusing to turn over the passphrase to your encryption key.
How many people share that Hetzner server for 39euro/month?
I wonder what the final cost of the whole thing is. Parts, board, etc...
I perceived his point as more subtle than what you make it out to be.

The whole debate is about what's grey vs what's gray. I don't think there's a clear cut answer either way to the question "Is encryption an inviolable right?" The exercise here is to try and find a border between gray and grey, preferably avoiding any knee-jerk reaction such as backdooring every encryption scheme.

Note that I'm assuming such a border exists, which is, to be honest, not on such solid ground. It might very well be that this is an "all or nothing" deal, considering the nature of encryption...
> Seems a little like saying, you burn some gas and your car goes, and if it goes 80mph, that's just physics.

So, if you want to try to use this metaphor, the situation is actually a little bit different. Try this:

"Seat belts make it safe to go faster than 20 MPH, and tolerable to go faster than 80 MPH. Unfortunately, sometimes bank robbers use them while going faster than 80 MPH, so we have to ban seat belts entirely to prevent them from robbing banks."
whitman, i think, is the greatest writer

rather than this being because of his work directly, it's more because he understood and lived the idea that change is inevitable and necessary

he only wrote one book his entire life

publishing edits through the years

it is amazing to see how the poems both change and remain the same over time

when i read a whitman piece i always read it as i know he himself would have:

how can i make this more beautiful and inclusive?

http://whitmanarchive.org/
> maybe the OP is asking "for a friend"

That's what I initially thought, but it's a throwaway account. There's no risk that the post will be traced back to a real-world person. And a first-person accounting would invite commenters to help directly. I've seen Ask HN threads where the poster had a substance abuse problem. The community is very accepting when it comes to these things.
Well, encryption is already effectively illegal in the UK. Using unauthorized VPNs is illegal in Saudi Arabia. And Iran, I believe. Tor and VPNs are effectively illegal in China, although mostly they just block access.

So it will be interesting to see where the US goes on this. The lines are being drawn.
Good to know my handle won't necessarily hold me back.
I don't know.

The point I'm trying to make relates to the facts as they are before us.
Doing physics or chemistry can directly harm people. Doing math or drawing pictures can't.

This argument might have worked, up until the point when they criminalized cartoon child pornography.

You will perhaps agree that encryption has the potential to directly harm people just as physics or chemistry?

No.
I wrote a Matrix client library in Qt about three weeks ago, and it was really braindead simple.

JSON in, JSON out. HTTP codes tell you what response you got. TLS on an https connection for secure communications. WebRTC for voice calls, and you just query the API for the signaling server to use.
Well, of course a man can have valid experiences. A man can't have the experience of being a woman, though, pretty much by definition.

That's not sexism, the claim that a man can't experience life as a woman would. In fact, that seems like a really uncontroversial statement.
> Now that information is all locked away behind encryption.

Moreover, more and more of that persistent information is casual communication that historically would have been securely erased by the whispering winds of time. No judge can grant investigators a time machine to travel back and spy on thousands of conversations over the last 5 years to fish for evidence. But now they can have the next-best thing (and getting better).
Performance benchmarks of older vs. newer (Nim, Crystal, Felix etc.) languages
The double defection outcome is undesirable because they each serve 2 years. The double collusion outcome is desirable because they each serve 1 year. The other two options are more desirable for each prisoner, but would never happen. Either they can't trust each other and both defect, or they can trust each other and both collude.

Likewise, taxes paid for selfish reasons cannot necessarily be optional, as you suggested. If the tax is optional, you cannot trust your fellow citizens to pay it, and therefore you won't pay it. But a compulsory tax removes that distrust.

My point is mainly that you can be selfishly motivated but still require consensus. The author supports Scandinavian policies not (entirely) because it helps everyone else, but because it helps themselves. Yet they still recognize that everyone must participate for it to help anyone at all.

I'm not trying to make any claims about how efficient a socialist system is. Simply arguing against the point you made about paying optional taxes.
Congrats to your achievements, Jennifer. I heard of you previously from Pieter Levels (12 startups in 12 months). You guys are my role models!
With barely a minutes effort I dug up his linkedin.

1) There's no indication he's not US born and raised, but you're free to make assumptions based on his name, I guess.

2) Regardless of that he's been working in the US since 1994, which would put him way beyond the maximum limit for an H1B (6 years + possible extension during change of status). So no, it's not some H1B teaching you.
Power cycle the modem and see if the hotspot disappears and reappears with the modem. That would be fairly conclusive.
Can you give me an example of a job where latency matters that much?
Cassandra and BigQuery are not at all comparable. BigQuery's open source competitors are Impala, Presto, and Drill.
> You will perhaps agree that encryption has the potential to directly harm people just as physics or chemistry?

I would not agree. Encryption can only indirectly harm people, in the same vein as speech.
Vdev: a device-file manager and filesystem
And Maxis released the source code under the GPL:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis
I for one welcome our Matrix overlords, where all our communication needs are done over HTTP json requests, and you can have interop servers into every other network through federated gateways.

Honestly, it is the future. Everything except Ring / Tox* should just pack up and start contributing to Matrix :p

* Because there is still use for anonymous fully peer to peer messaging, but the marginal utility IMO does not outweigh the incredible tradeoffs you have to make to implement it for normal people (ie, no history, the need to pass around account tokens between devices, slowish message propagation).
Easy, and this code helps creating the computer that will run your code. It is a 0th order class language.

library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;

entity and_or_top is
Port ( INA1 : in STD_LOGIC; -- AND gate input
INA2 : in STD_LOGIC; -- AND gate input
OA : out STD_LOGIC; -- AND gate output
end and_or_top;

architecture Behavioral of and_or_top is
begin
OA <= INA1 and INA2; -- 2 input AND gate
end Behavioral;
You find yourself in the same position that Trillian did, what, 15 years ago?

Thanks for giving it a shot, at least. It's getting to the point where if I wanted to keep in touch with most of my friends all the time, I'd need to carry two or more devices (thanks for keeping iMessage closed, Apple).
Thank you! Pieter is awesome :)
Ketosis, memantine (anecdotally) may cure certain allergies
re: Open Protocol, isn't XMPP a viable open source standard?
> As long as major content providers want it, there is going to be DRM one way or the other.

It's not so simple. Content providers want to distribute on the web. Yes, they have the ability to just pull out and avoid that space entirely, but that's not good for them. The web needs their content, but they also need the web.

In other words, the W3C saying no to DRM would apply pressure in the right direction.

That suggests positions can be shifted. And we have seen them shift before, with music downloads, which used to be DRM'ed, but no longer are.
Start using GPLv3 and AGPLv3 like you were supposed to for the better part of the last decade, and stop listening to the divisive arguments from pragmatists who don't care about the ethical consequences of permissive licensing when it comes to these kinds of things.

Even if you want to get post-copyright (I certainly do) we don't improve the situation fueling the copyright lobby with technological force multipliers through our own hard work. Keep them honest with copyleft licenses to keep users free of this kind of nonsense.
This is sort of how I have always felt about the idea of "legal or exportable levels of encryption." It seems a very strange thing. However, even though we may be right that it lacks sense, I don't think the government is moved by such an argument.
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Douglas Rushkoff: A New OS for the Digital Economy – [59:59]
Source: http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
>Our government has legally been allowed to knock down whichever door it has wanted to for centuries assuming it has received the proper warrants.

But it hasn't been able to trawl for evidence mechanically and automatically. Now it has the technology to do that.

The default has always been privacy, for practical reasons. Encryption simply continues that tradition by continuing to make evidence gathering non-trivial.
Your comment perfectly illustrates what's wrong with your side of the argument (but don't worry, you are on the side of most of HN):

Isn't the current case in fact exactly what you would hope to see from a government changing in response to gitmo and warrant less wiretapping? If not - what would you expect to see assuming the govt was changing? Honestly curious here, as you seem to want to fight the govt even in the face of "clear and present danger" and even if they had reformed.
Those are all good points (hell, I've been using IRC for nearly 17 years and I still don't know what half those flags mean). I think it's the first time I've seen a good argument about not using IRC!

I still think it'd be fairly easy to set up a company-internal server and make the whole process pretty streamlined for users. The only somewhat difficult part, then, would be the password. And I'm not sure how valuable message persistence really is, anyway, especially when you have your company email directory (and you could have IRC logs).

And for the record, I don't claim IRC's UX is without it's problems. It could certainly be improved a lot. I just don't think it's bad enough that people can't be expected to figure out how to log on and start chatting. At the same time, I think switching to a proprietary service that's run offsite is not a good solution. (We use XMPP where I work, but strangely not with conferencing. It works very well, but we're forced to use a shitty client (Cisco Jabber)). I've got high hopes that IRCv3 can start making improvements on a lot of the things you mentioned, but only time will tell.
Are there any companies out there making smart doorway camera and such like this that just work off your home wifi network, and can stream directly to your phone or store to local media (or cloud media like Gdrive, Dropbox, etc.) without requiring a subscription?

I really don't want that data hitting some random company's server (setting aside issues with trusting other cloud storage providers), and I just don't feel like adding any more recurring payments to the list. I want one and done.
For some reason it causes me a bit of difficulty to understand the headline on first pass. Something seems to be off with the gramar. Why not just say "Walt Whitman's letter to wife of dying soldier" Easier to understand in my opinion.
Aesthetically, SQLite is some of the most perversely formatted C code I've ever seen. I find it more painful to view than GNU-style C.
With no VR product, has Microsoft missed the VR game and killed the Xbox One?
VR - it's big news.

But Microsoft placed their bet on Augmented Reality and has no VR product.

Is Microsoft's failure to compete in VR the death of the Xbox One?
The thing is that Google moved from XMPP to something proprietary specifically to avoid federation. The big players don't want federation and any protocol will suffer the same fate unless it becomes popular without reliance on the big players. I think it is fair to say that XMPP isn't any more dead than any other protocol in this respect.
I was able to use the PPA to upgrade my install on Ubuntu 14.04 and everything went smoothly.

The new theme looks really good!
Except the web doesn't really need their content. The web exists and will continue to flourish regardless of the availability of commercial hollywood films and television on it. It got this far without ruining open standards, and the MAFIAA lobby forced DRM bullshit upon it because they fear for their long term viability.

That is a sign they were losing the battle, and they absolutely were with the rise of youtube, facebook video, twitch, etc - alternative video sources were / are starting to get professional, with many major youtube channels having production crew and proper film / showmaking.

The web would have been absolutely fine without them, but they knew they would not survive without the web long term, especially internationally.
Reconciling Privilege
First emergency video app
This hot robot says she wants to destroy humans
Often I forget to disconnect from IVPN while playing low latency games like FPS. I mostly don't notice.
It's a free market at the top
I really like this paper. Why? Because it is a randomized controlled trail. There are not enough of these in the medical field. This is the gold standard for scientific research. Unlike in the comment section of most health related science articles, there will now be no discussion of "correlation is not causation!!!" because the subjects were chosen at random. Additionally the subjects were studied genetically and the results were used to divide the results into two groups: those who metabolize alcohol quickly and slowly. This allows for much more understandable results because it explains why the treatment does not work in some cases or works well in others.

The results of the study are not earth shattering, however, it is able to come to a much more firm conclusion that the typical epidemiological study that relies on statistically examining the population at large. Those types of studies are great for figuring out what to study next.

Notice some correlation (even corrected for all the biases that you could come up with and measure) that people who eat more saturated fat have higher chances of heart disease? Then do not change the diet recommendation for all Americans. Instead, do a randomized controlled trail! Then make your recommendations.
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Unfortunately, the NSF announced today that it was suspending support to natural history collections like the Field Museum. Hopefully they'll reverse course but in general museums are on the decline and it's possible that our ability to do this kind of work with fossils and other organisms will be limited in the future.

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503651
I feel part of the problem is that people recognize what you say, and understand its helpful, even necessary for government to have warranted access. The big BUT however is many of us are losing trust in our governments around the world as digital collection and access has been systematically abused in almost every major developed nation.

Until governments can return confidence in their actions and motivations Avoid an even low chance 1984 scenario is more important than making law enforcement/counter terrorism do their jobs the old fashion way.
Also check out:

Sick Beard - 'Internet PVR for TV Shows' (can use SABnzbd for as a backend)

http://sickbeard.com

Couch Potato - Similar to Sick Beard but for movies

https://couchpota.to

NZBGet - alternative to SABnzbd written in C++ but still open source

http://nzbget.net
The government also can't stop you from robbing your neighbor, but that's not how laws work. Laws are about punishing you after the fact. If they catch you, of course.
Yes, I am indeed a man. But I've worked on teams with women, and worked for women, and gotten lunch with women, and hung out with women after hours. I've never seen them be discriminated against, nor have I ever heard them mention it.

Like I said, I'm sure it happens. But it also seems to me like it's either worse in other locations, or it's blown completely out of proportion in terms of frequency.
IHS teardown reveals Galaxy S7 costs Samsung $255 to build
Gather data, which Apple already does and provides. Not write wholesale operating systems, sign them, and maintain them for only the government to use.
One of the problems with outlawing encryption is that it takes nothing to prove the crime, and therefore it is impossible to prove one's innocence.

Would it be possible to outlaw the possession or transfer of data that appears random? Nearly all data is random data, and nearly all processes randomize data. All data could be "proven" to contain information under at least one encryption scheme. It is the ultimate guilty until proven innocent argument.

If your credit card were erased with a magnet, could you now be prosecuted for the possession of encrypted data, because it could be proven that using a certain one-time pad it could be transformed into something meaningful to humans?

It doesn't end there. All things could be interpreted as information. We would have to start explaining the arrangement of books on a shelf, of spices in a rack, colours of stitching in clothing. If encryption were illegal, we would all be guilty all the time.

Fine, some would argue that random data isn't proof of guilt. What about the means of encryption? Now all random data are one-time pad keys. Prepare to rot in jail.
I equate encryption (right to privacy) with free-speech.

I could babble about the similarities, but smarter, better educated minds have already done that.
Reporty – 1st of its kind mobile video emergency app
In korea, video panels are just wired in to every apartment, even really cheap ones.

It's pretty cool because you can get video feed from the front door (or ground floor elevator door if the building is open and has a front desk). As well as from your front door.

Also it tells you when you have mail, or a package waiting for you, and you can push a button and call the elevator to your floor.

It's got a panic button too.

Oh, and often there's a panel for in the bathroom, as well as behind the inside of your apartment door. So you can buzz people up even while you're taking a crap.
D3 Geo Path – Free Video Tutorial
Well, extending the spec could be the solution too. What I was trying to convey was more that there will be a lack of such clients until there is either an agreed-upon extension to the standard, or a popular enough fork of the standard. (at least as far as XMPP is concerned)
I think this is mostly true. There are a lot of us now who grew up with very advanced programming languages that allowed us to learn very advanced programming practices and principals at a very young age.

We've also been allowed to learn modern languages very quickly, half attributed to our spongey brain, the other to the free time we had growing up. They're the same languages that companies are built on nowadays.

Now we're in the workforce, in a few years time we'll have a wealth of knowledge not considered deep by experts, but "good enough" by many. And if we've stuck with a particular area, or a particular language we'll be able to flout ourselves as "masters", when in reality, we've just screwed the bolt so many times, we know how many screws it takes.

And the bar will be raised. Because you raised it for us, and then you made it easier for us to learn to raise it ourselves.

The complexity of development has increased massively in the last 15 years. Not just the languages (arguably becoming less complex), or the frameworks, or the different patterns or technologies (ala queueing, authentication, architecture and environments).. But the sheer wealth of knowledge required for an entry level dev job.

We're full stack. We can do a DBA's, an architects, a BA's and a technical writers job - we've been doing it on our own since our age reached double digits.

We haven't just built the car. We've designed it, we've tested it, we've pulled it together and have gone on to become professional drivers. Sure some of the parts.. We don't know how they work. But we know that they do work. And we know they're reliable. Why reinvent the wheel when you can import it?
Ask HN: How do you find a good domain name these days?
I'm starting a consulting business .. trying to establish a business name and a web presence, I met a huge struggle during the past 2 weeks trying to come up with a domain name that is (remotely) relevant, available, and short.
That, alone, is not the major issue really! but those who buy domain names and park only to trade them and turn a few bucks of profit as a business model!
iMessage works fine with SMS and MMS.
Private cloud for Education
The kind of intelligence working dogs were bred for is a very specific kind of intelligence.

I'd like to see a species selected for social intelligence—the kind of tribal-affiliation status-dynamic thing that is theorized to have brought about language.
Wow. I hope he alerted facebook before posting the blog entry.
charming overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMxw3r5cnw