skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, rats, I think you are right.

I was hoping for a client I could run on all the machines I use and it encrypt locally and decrypt centrally.

Now that I think about it I think you really need a 3 tier setup.

Clients have to be trusted, otherwise all keystrokes are recorded, all files could be corrupt, ransomware can strike, etc. So tier1 encrypts locally before sending to the tier2.

Tier2 is less trusted, never sees plain text, but you trust it enough to not spend significant resource attacking your client.

Tier3 is not trusted, may be run by other individuals or organizations, may ship copies of your data to entities that try to break your encryption. Think of an offsite backup service or some distant friend/relative that's willing to let you store offsite backups on their potentially insecure machine.

So tier1 encrypts locally with convergent encryption (symmetric is easy, not sure if there's an asymmetric version) and offers encrypted blobs to tier2.

Tier2 does a dedup check and either accepts an upload or just tells the client they are subscribed to that encrypted blob. Then applies a reed-solomon to add some redundancy in case one of the offsite backups dies.

Tier3 just receives fixed size encrypted blobs to provide additional copies of backups in case the tier2 site dies. Maybe even have the tier3 find each other with a DHT. People just decide how many copies they want to keep, what redundancy is acceptable, and the tier3 maintains that.

So trusting sorts would use the tier1, a shared tier2, and keep 3-4 copies in the tier3's. They would enjoy deduplication benefits.

Non-trusting sorts would run a tier1 and tier2 on the same client. More secure, but also no benefit from deduplication across clients.

The really paranoid sorts would run a tier1 and tier2 locally and only trust manually introduced tier3s that they have a high confidence in.
Sounds like you perfectly summed why our education system isn't effective. It fails to teach students how to learn on their own!

And there's nothing to say that _homework_ is essential. It's perfectly plausible to have students get everything done during the regular school day.

Well thought out assignments are obviously good. Why do they need to be done at home? It's not as if third graders are listening to lectures from 8 until 3.
Learning a new trade here in my adult life and finding a tremendous amount of information I learned in school all coming back to me. It's allowing me to speed through learning what i need to know.
Even the article says it isn't.

"we want to note that the sample of the present study probably is not representative of the US as our study is restricted to the specific sample of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers and has a relatively small sample size for an online survey. Thus, one cannot make inferences about the entire population of the US (or other populations of other countries)"

plosOne is unfortunately fairly gamable with this sort of thing.
VOX is the answer. And ... geeks backup.
> as opposed to one of the NIST's DRBG

I certainly wouldn't go anywhere near another NIST DRBG..

> https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/438

From my brief understanding Aumasson's paper uses a different seeding routine from the example provided in the c implementation which allows the weaker states to be produced - indeed it's mentioned on the author's website.

> Finally, why is deterministic PRNG suggested as a replacement for OpenSSL's random number generator? In general, the advice to write your own userspace PRNG replacement for OpenSSL is not a good advice, because many people are not competent enough to do it.

If you read my above post I clearly do not suggest this.
Are you being obtuse on purpose?

There are C compilers for N platforms. There are Python interpreters for M platforms. Since the Python interpreter is written in C, N >= M.

The programs I have ported are more than a million lines. Not the largest, sure, but not trivial. And they run on platforms where Python does not.

The size of the C code or the Python interpreter code does not matter. What does matter is what subsystems are required. Python is general purpose and has a wide set of requirements (networking, file systems, process manipulation, dynamic loading, the list is quite long). Oh, and the Python list includes compiling C programs (for extensions). A second reason backing my absurd definition.

The C programming language requirements placed on the hosting environment are much smaller. So the language is more portable for that reason as well. It is beneficial to only port what you use, instead of having to port a monolithic interpreter, including the parts you don't need (which may not even run on the target platform easily or at all).
Is the money better in the hands of a super overgrown and overstaffed organisation like the US government when most of it goes to paying interest to the lovely central banks folks and the public has almost 0 transparency over its expenditure? The perfect portrayal of profound inefficiency and over-bloated corporate structure.

It's fun and easy to point fingers, and while tax avoidance should by no means by encouraged, why is 35% of your money the direct property of a government who does superb things like conjure into existence some of the most criminal oligopolies in the medical industry?

Maybe demand Apple to build the infrastructure themselves at their own expense, and let them manage it, seems they can actually get things done.

Uncle Sam's virtues seem to end with insane taxation used to bomb other countries and slowly but surely kill its citizens through rudimentary medical care bills in the hundreds of thousands, maybe leave real work to other people, who don't spend 600 mil of taxpayer dollar on a website.
He ordered Starbucks coffee not pizzas.
>and have the energy to actually make something you're thinking about a reality.

"Imparts reality" is not the same as realization -- it's more like "instills reality" (shows "subtle creativity" what's real).
That's what you get for using Apple.
Yep, me too. I didn't find http://to-round.com. For the interest i tried to find https://www.youtube.com and https://www.instagram.com, but nothing happened.
google takeout my friend:

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
...And which gives you a modal warning box that starts "Heads up! This will delete n original photos and videos from your device". And will only proceed if you click an all-caps confirmation button labelled "DELETE".[0]

That's hardly comparable to Apple deleting things automatically, silently, with neither warning nor confirmation.

[0] http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/themes/ap2/ap_resize...
> Is the money better in the hands of a super overgrown and overstaffed organisation like the US government

This is the municipal government complaining. Municipal governments are in charge of education, local police, and water supply... to name a few things.

The federal government barely does much at the local level. The USA is a very decentralized system.

So how about you at least complain about the right thing? If Cupertino's municipal police forces were locking people up unnecessarily or were an ineffective municipal government, that'd actually be relevant to the topic. But methinks you're just ranting about unrelated subjects.
> all kinds of crazy DRM

Like? I feel that we've reached the stage where it's pretty easy to pay for digital music/streaming at this point. As far as saying that it's almost entirely easier than pirating music.
I have my doubts when it comes to replacing colorful, tactile user interfaces with voice conversations.

I don't like the idea at all. I want to interact with my device using a visual interface, which I can "feel" and interact with, rather than a metallic voice.

I want to see what that pizza looks like, not imagine it.

Voice interface is totally unusable in a place were there are several other people - an office, train, bus, doctor's office - places were we tend to dive into our devices.
The view you're espousing is wrong. When you actually test if what you're calling human universals actually are universal, you generally find they're not:

"Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western societies are regularly published in leading journals. This review suggests not only that substantial variability in experimental results emerges across populations in basic domains, but that standard subjects are in fact rather unusual compared with the rest of the species - frequent outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, categorization, spatial cognition, memory, moral reasoning and self-concepts. This review (1) indicates caution in addressing questions of human nature based on this thin slice of humanity, and (2) suggests that understanding human psychology will require tapping broader subject pools. We close by proposing ways to address these challenges."

(The thin slice of humanity referred to above is westernized college students. Perhaps mechanical turkers do not suffer from this bias? seems unlikely though)

http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/Manuscripts/Weird_People_BBS_H...

also see http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/psychology... and http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... for pop write-ups.
OK get you, I personally don't mind that sort of thing if I am explicitly asked but I see what you are saying.
>Apple are re-distributing.

Only to the user they got the audio themselves. Any proof they're redistributing random X users not tagged in their collection files to others?

In any case, the whole "piracy" angle is BS (not to mention it lacks intent and profit from explicit piracy).

What's at stake is plain bad program behavior -- deleting users files without explicit confirmation, making bad matches to different versions of songs, etc.
Intellectual property comes to mind. A draft of a book, a screenplay, a scientific discovery found by a corporation that they want to keep a trade secret.
wavs having "more samples" is a new one to me. Neat.
Do not listen to the naysayers!

The problem with this kind of endeavour is how to convince people their genuine need for it. I call this the, "green eggs and ham" paradox.

People will say they make lists on paper, or in a pocket book. They say; Oh it's just a notepad, or Why not use Google Keep? Or, why are you taking on Evernote?

But the truth is, they lose those bits of paper, Google Keep gets overcrowded after a few dozen things and Evernote is clunky and _really quite expensive_.

For years, i've been putting my information into digital form, but i've yet to find the ideal app for it. So much so that i've begun to develop my own. Unfortunately, yours doesn't work for me either (eg major requirement, offline access).

But the principle still stands that there's a growing need for a digital means to accommodate personal information, because there's simply too much junk for the human brain to remember it all.

I've looked at a number of other online note-taking systems. none seem to be gaining much traction, but i don't know why.
The way I see it, the first time you 'make it' you make someone else rich. It's only the 2nd time you make it that you make yourself rich.
> Trump is not exactly a bullshitter, and that seems to be a major component of his appeal.

The Trump University lawsuits are accusing Trump of fraud, which sounds exactly like bullshit to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University
So Apple is already contributing nearly twenty percent of the city's budget? I think the real problem is not enough diversification.

Apparently there is also an agreement where the city refunds sales taxes back to Apple? Originally 50% and now down to 35%? Why does this even exist?

The way to get Apple to pay for infrastructure improvements is simple, don't do any near their campus and their own employees will be impacted and that will get Apple to agree to help redevelop the area.
Statement #4 kinda sorta starts to sound deep if you let your guard down. I'd argue it's the strongest bullshit in the lot.

That said, I LMAO'd over #9.
Having bots fill out forms and write emails is optimistic, but Google already publish how to structure your (HTML) data to make it readable by their bots so that it can extract useful information for their knowledge graph.

Ideally we would have a standardized declarative service description language that “digital assistants” can use to not just answer questions (already possible) but also purchase services and goods.

Although we can’t just trust any “service” discovered on the internet, someone would need to actually vouch for it before it can be used by a digital assistant.
Worst case scenario for the surgeon is a single death, worst case scenario for the truck driver is dozens. Better stay out of hospitals...
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> Well, to save precious local storage space of course. Apple's just being helpful here.

Yeah, storage that was made precious by apple by not supporting an SD card slot. Very "helpful".
Heh, sorry, I actually did stop reading just at the middle finger, which was right before.
I just commented elsewhere, but the Trump University suits are fraud suits. They're exactly about bullshit and lying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University
Malpractice insurance already exists
I see this as far more sociological than psychological, where the standards for sufficiently large and random samples are much higher. It's wrapping too many particularities of todays politics to be immune to failures in fair distribution outside IQ and mental illness.
I never let the facts get in the way of my prejudices.
What is Linux 16.04?
> Barry Chang barely made it into the lobby when Apple’s security team surrounded and escorted him off the property.

I had to read it again to make sure I'm not making a mistake. Its unimaginable in some geographies. Evokes mixed feelings like : "cool, they can do that?" to "that's quite arrogant"

Also reminds me of a video where Steve Jobs met the council. The mayor was delighted like a teenager, showing off his iPad to Steve, asking for free Wifi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M ( t=19:54 )
I've heard stories of people not spending thousands of dollars to extend a power line. I guess in those situations, the utility just has to accept them as a customer. It makes sense to me to put that cost on the property owner, but it also really softens the meaning of must provide service.
you don't need a very random sample, nor do you
need a very large sample. It's got to do with the
fact that our brains largely function the same.

Do you think, if I did a study of political leanings among college undergraduates, that I'd get the same results as a study of the general population because "our brains work the same" ?
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I agree. This is... worrisome behavior of a Mayor.

> Getting local politicians to battle Apple is hard, Chang said. He recently proposed that Apple – which is building a massive new campus its own employees nicknamed the Death Star, or more favorably, The Spaceship – should give $100m to improve city infrastructure. To move on the proposal, Chang only needed to get a single vote ‘yes’ among the three other eligible council members. He failed to get that vote.

What's his logic for this special Tax on Apple? It sounds like this guy is an anti-corporate loon, drinking too much Sanders juice or something. Sounds like the other council members are more rational.
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> > honest HN community members who voted for him in good faith?

> How many such people exist?

raises hand

Hi, my account is 3000 days old today, only a little less old than your own. I went back and checked and it turns out that I didn't vote for Pinboard, but that's largely because I hadn't been active on HN in quite a while and I didn't think it was necessary. I did voice support for Maciej in the comments there.

I genuinely wanted to see him go through the program ("like a bowling ball through a python"), and not just for entertainment purposes. I think it would have been a valuable cross-pollination for everyone involved.

I've generally felt that HN -- and to a greater degree, YC -- aren't particularly welcoming towards people like me. I got fed up enough that I wrote a news reader to mine HN for articles just so that I wouldn't be tempted to visit HN as often, and when that broke a while back, I never bothered to fix it. Literally the only reason I'm here now is because Maciej mentioned it on his Twitter account. I've always been an outsider here. Seeing YC accept another, more successful outsider would have been nice.

This fiasco has all the scent of cliqueish hostility towards Maciej, you have been non-stop and relentlessly accusing him of being a troll (and you're smart enough to know better than to claim to know someone's psychology better than they do over the internet), and the results stink like a US election.
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Why couldn't they? It's private property.
I'd seriously been considering a Macbook, for home use, mainly due to the iPhoto app, since on Windows there is only Google Picasa, and they've killed it.

If there anyway to turn off that syncing and keep files locally only? Your comments have made me rethink my upcoming purchase!
Thanks! That's interesting, seems I might have had it wrong. I should've brought that up during my friends master thesis presentation, maybe he wouldn't have got his diploma ;) Are psychology researchers in general aware of this review? Obviously my friends master thesis was just a small inconsequential study, but if the universals that are now commonly used have turned out to not actually be true wouldn't that mean huge swathes of researchers have to retract/redo their research?
Perhaps it just means you are 40% aligned with the nexus of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism
But it is an Apple issue. Whether Google does something comparable is no justification and does not make Apple any better.
You could have a two wheel car if have a large flywheel.
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This is exactly why I use OneDrive to backup my photos along with the google photos thing. I've tried explaining my logic to several people but usual replies are "but I can still see them on the website!". "But you won't have the image files anymore." "But I can open the website and see the pics, right?" At this point I just sigh and give up. Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original files. All the files are much smaller than the original images.
Maybe in the US - but its not outside. I've been trying to play this streaming game for now

1. Spotify - doesn't allow you to buy premium (which is availble worldwide) if you have a non-US credit card.

2. Apple Music - is available, but I use a linux laptop.

3. Rdio - shutdown.

The vast majority of preference of the the people how they enjoy their music makes put "friendliest DRM" in the leagues of Unicorns.
Certainly true. I didn't mean that Trump has never been a bullshitter (and presumably still is in many other contexts); rather that his campaign personality is strongly built around this perception of "lack of bullshit".

I edited my post to make this point clearer.
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/first-of-its-kind-rail-energ...

"One of the striking things about the ARES project is its size: 50 MW of power capacity and 12.5 MWh of energy. That would be large for a battery storage project, but for ARES, it is on the low side. “Fifty megawatts doesn’t get us to economies of scale,” CEO James Kelly said. “We are more efficient as we get larger.”

Kelly said ARES projects can be sized anywhere from 50 MW to 1 GW. “If we had a 500 MW project, we could double the capacity and it would only increase capital costs by 20%,” he said."
The majority of US homes have 240 available, it just isn't used for most outlets. The bigger issue might be the amp rating of older grid connections.
> The way to get Apple to pay for infrastructure improvements is simple, don't do any near their campus and their own employees will be impacted and that will get Apple to agree to help redevelop the area.

And whatever they build they will control. I think you might be slowly giving away the city to a corporation.
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That would be the source of some crypto code, not necessarily the code the app itself uses. Since the app is closed, there's no way to verify.
If you phrase #4 as "There's a chance that what seems irrational today will make sense in the future" then it makes perfect sense. You can't understand it yet because you don't have all the facts (or enough wisdom to understand the facts).

However, it could also be read as "Everything makes perfect sense, given enough time" and that is pure bullshit. Some things are irrational now and always will be.
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Even with the warning, people assume that backup means they aren't losing anything, and can get back the original pics whenever they like. In fact, image data is being lost here. You can never get back your original photos, only highly compressed smaller sized JPGs that will look OK on a mobile screen.
Am I the only one who recalled the 1984 ad an cringed?
>More importantly, I met President Reagan and though I was against almost everything about the man, he 100% won me over with a 90 second conversation and some candy.

I've read that a lot about politicians, artists etc, usually with hack journalists describing their magnetic personality, intensive eyes, some hold they have on people, etc.

And while for some it undoubtedly true, I can't help but wonder if it doesn't in most cases just reverse cause and effect. That is, we are indeed captivated by the person, but mostly because we already know that they're famous and we should be.

(As an added empirical observation, this also happens with famous people we meet that we otherwise could not care less about, and never thought of their looks as charming or their presence as charismatic. It's mostly a sort of "wow, my friends won't believe who I met today" thing).

A similar observation can be made for "good looks". There are people on the street, in clubs etc, that are 5 times as good looking as some artist in some "sexiest people of the year" list -- including artists downright ugly or average, which people still obsess over and find good looking.
I still can't help but hate the teacher who gave the honor's class an enormous mythology book over the summer and gave it less worth to our grade than a ten minute grammar assignment.

Camel's back, etc, I failed the class, got kicked out of the mostly white honor's program to being the only white kid in most classes. I got picked on less there and enjoyed life significantly more after that. Probably the best thing to happen in my life, actually.
You can install Google Drive Desktop and sync them to your computer all at once.