skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Which patronizing statement? Is "it needs to be made clear..." patronizing? Surely asking why you'd want to use something is reasonable.
How about you just don't engage with comments about politics if that's what you prefer? Don't ask people to silence themselves on perfectly relevant topics.
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I saw this talk live. Bradley did an amazing job ! I would recommend anyone interested in Copyleft or Free Software licensing or the Software Freedom Conservancy to watch !

(Disclosure, I'm on the Conservancy Board of Directors).
With Wordpress you can even produce static content from your blog using the many plugins that are available.
I'm trying to get this demo working on an extremely inexpensive plain VPS (running Debian 7), and I'm getting "WebSocket connection to... failed: Invalid frame header". Is that what you saw when you as a result of hitting the 40-50 client limit? I am getting the error on a first connection, so it's probably something different.
On a side note, there's more than one kind of butter. I hate mainstream US dairy products; most of them are from Holstein cows which have the highest milk production of any breed but whose milk tastes insufferably bland to me. If you can get milk from Jersey cows, the difference is like night and day - much higher butterfat content.
1. I'm not to keen about OSHO aka Baghwan Rajneesh. See: http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/rajneesh....
https://www.quora.com/What-did-J-Krishnamurti-think-of-Osho-...
Because 70 meters isn't challenging enough?
I never got around to actually implementing the following in the PathScale compiler, but my idea was to add logging in all the places where allocations do something, and then create lists of optimizations that I expect to have successfully fired in various functions or programs. This would be especially handy for checking that new optimizations didn't disable important things for various SPECcpu benchmarks.
"The subjects were broken into two groups. One was given a diet in which liquid corn oil was used in place of usual hospital cooking fats (including butter and hydrogenated oils) during meal preparation. The other group received meals cooked with common margarines and shortening. "

Where is butter in this study?Am I missing something?
I'm pretty sure they mean sites that only allow approved members to see their content.

Additionally, one positive answer on a list of 48 questions doesn't equal "terrorism".
Can you get to https://sni.velox.ch/ from your phone? What are the first few lines?

In particular, I'm curious if this is a misconfiguration on the server end, or a misconfiguration on the client end. Certain VPNs or malware can break SNI.
Ugh. Let's Encrypt will issue you a single certificate for multiple domains on the same server. It's easy to set up, too.

It's not just for multiple subdomains like sub1.example.com and sub2.exmaple.com. You can have any unrelated domains you want on the cert.

You don't need multiple IPs and you don't even need SNI with its legacy client compatibility problems (now mostly well past). Just get a certificate that covers all the domains you use.

There's no reason at all to suffer with the setup and security and resource problems of SNI or multiple IPs outside extreme scenarios.
The Reddit comment you linked to - essentially a huge "NO" - is the focus of my reply. So I agree that your comment in and of itself claimed nothing of the sort.

But if you insist, I can request that HN mods delete my comment, as I can't edit/delete it anymore.
Trump has vowed to repeal it.
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True. tinc: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ is another option for distributed VPN

But if you're ok with discovery going through master/server and then connecting directly to peers for traffic, I'd stick with Wireguard.
I was about to comment pretty much all of these points. As soon as I read about multiple IP's I wondered what was going on.

I'm starting my own tech blog for similar articles, maybe I'll do a simpler example for my first post.
I think the latest limit is 2 articles per week, it used to be higher, the change has been introduced recently, I remember seeing a pop-up announcing it.
Absolutely! The glucose mix initially produced from corn is about 50% glucose and 42% fructose, which is roughly the same ratio as you get from beets or cane. You can then _optionally_ raise the percentage of fructose to 55, 65 or even 90% fructose. The 90% stuff is usually diluted/mixed before use.

HFCS is just sugar syrup with an intentionally elevated level of fructose. There's nothing that specifically ties corn to high amounts of fructose, other than that corn is heavily subsidized in the US while other sources of sugar are hit with import tariffs. So corn is what US sugar producers will tend to use as a source.
PeerVPN – Open-source peer-to-peer VPN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025792
>* An enormous installed base of clients that won't do encryption, meaning that at best you're attempting to tunnel encrypted messaging over an unencrypted transport.

All encrypted communication on the internet is 'attempting to tunnel encrypted messaging over an unencrypted transport.' That's literally the entire point. I don't care that my messages are broken down into unencrypted IP packets, because my messages are secured by PGP.

>* A protocol that leaks metadata, including some message content, at the envelope layer.

Could you elaborate more on this? I don't really understand what you mean.

>* Hundreds of millions of users that primarily access messages through browser clients that can't meaningfully implement crypto.

They don't. They could, but they don't. There's no lack of capability.

>* An archive-always UX that ensures that huge amounts of plaintext are scattered around the Internet by both senders and receivers.

That's nonsensical. Nothing about archiving data requires that it be stored in plaintext. Again, that's basically the whole point of encryption.

>* An unencrypted installed base that ensures encryption will be opt-in for the foreseeable future, meaning that users will routinely reveal plaintext accidentally by, for instance, quoting messages and forgetting to encrypt.

That's just bad UI design. At the end of the day, your intended recipient has to be able to actually read the plaintext, and they will always be able to reveal its contents, if they want to. No matter what you do, they can always just take a screenshot or show someone their device's physical screen.

Making it easy or difficult for them to accidentally reveal it is entirely about UI design. If you quote encrypted mail when composing an unencrypted mail, make the screen go red!

>* End user demands for things like search that can only be delivered efficiently at scale by databases of plaintext (most likely at centralized servers).

Rubbish. GMail is clearly what you're mainly referring to, and the idea that GMail requires big plaintext databases for spam prevention or searching is bullshit. It doesn't.

>All these problems are probably surmountable (with enormous, concerted effort).

Most of them aren't real problems, and those that are, are quite easily fixable.

>But: why bother? Email is just one of dozens of messaging systems available to Internet users. Better to move sensitive conversations to things like Signal, WhatsApp, or Wire --- the double ratchet construction is designed specifically to make IM-like protocols secure even when conversations are sporadic and last months.

Sorry, but I have no interest in proprietary messaging protocols. I want to use email. I like email. Everyone understands email. Git understands email.
This bit:

"And the move infuriated some of Medium's publishers, who were not warned and had bet their livelihoods on Medium and the business model Williams was ditching."

This reminds me very much of when Dave Winer very suddenly shut down weblogs.com. I remember everyone was furious with him then. The rage was personal back then, as the group of people who were weblogging was smaller, and the folks on weblogs.com tended to be the tech elite, many of whom knew Winer personally.
So in the existing §230 structure, intermediaries are immune for liability related to speech of their users. However, the intermediaries are still immune if they, for example, remove things they disagree with. That does mean that openly editorially biased sites can and do benefit from the immunity.

This still seems to be point-of-view neutrality on the government's part: an anti-fooist site that removes fooist comments gets the same immunity as a fooist site that removes anti-fooist comments (or a neutral site that removes neither). Is your view that it's wrong for the government to, in a sense, help the fooist site in the first place even though it's equally willing to help the anti-fooist site in the same way? Does that mean that there shouldn't ever be a subsidy for "newspapers" (open to any newspaper regardless of its editorial line or policies), but only for "neutral newspapers" (that don't editorialize)?
I wouldn't screw around too much with the sign bit. The way it's laid out is really kind of cool... Negation is simple two's complement.

In my software posit library (which is intentionally strictly binary and not backended by IEEE floats), (https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers) I did everything by first inverting negative numbers and doing decode in the positive domain.

As I design the hardware, it's actually better to NOT do a two's complement inversion to do the decode, and keep the fraction as two's complement!

Also the 4 bit posit was just a simplification to help you understand the structure from a constructive point of view. posits can be of arbitrary length; they have a property I call isomorphic - so appending zeros exactly preserves the value of a short posit when increased in length; conversely, rounding a long posit to a shorter one reports the "nearest representable value".
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Her first name has two parts, so she just combines the first part of her first name with her last name. It's incorrect but still matches more or less what she has on her password.
Friendly is a mistake. It should be hostile, unforgiving, difficult and hold just enough promise for one to justify continuing.

Prepare people for what's ahead.
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Not sure why this is on the front page. It looks like blog spam.
Economics.

Attacking all end devices all the time is incredibly difficult. It simply not economically practical.

So we need to secure all communication and all data at rest. That's most important. Fixing all bugs in all end user devices is a hole bigger problem (or doing something to avoid escalation). It is getting a lot of attention too, for example Linux Kernal Hardning project). People switching languages away from C also helps.
Ask HN: Which Domains/Services would you block to regain some privacy?
Hello HN!

I'm getting more and more interested in privacy and already use different VPN's, disabled JavaScript in my browser switched to Linux.. well you get the point.. Now I'd like to block specific Domains like Facebook, Gravatar etc. that are known for disregarding privacy.
Mainly stuff that tracks you while visiting websites.

I'd be grateful for any contributions!

Bonus Question: A while ago I found a big list of all Facebook related domains here but unfortunately I haven't saved it, anyone to the rescue?
Touch sth. with your hands? Or touch it with your mind? Is all everything? Or just the things we can remember? Do your eyes see everything, or only the important parts? Do you remember every second of your life? Can you remember everything?
Read my damn words twice.
Presumably none of this is taken in isolation. If all you do is use encryption and camp I doubt they're going to think you're a terrorist.
>As he's the founder of a successful security consultancy who has friends among academic cryptographers, I took his comment to mean the belief among himself and his peers.

Security consultants are who you should trust the least when dealing with security. They aren't interested in reliable, easy-to-use and widespread security. They are interested in difficult, interesting security that breaks and needs consultants.
(I spelled it "Monocypher", without the first "h".)

I need SHA-512 for tests. The only test vectors I could find were for the official ed25519, with SHA-512. The option is there anyway, I might as well provide it.

I do transparent naming because the choice of primitive has user visible effects. If I have the SHA-512 of some file, I can't just use Blake2b to check that hash. Same for encryption and authentication: changing them is transparent only for transient messages. Encrypted files won't convert themselves to the new encryption scheme, and neither will the authentication tags. Same thing for long term secret/public key pairs.

That said, the high level constructions don't mention the primitives. They're all called "crypto_lock" or something.

Long term, changes are not expected to be transparent. The only backward compatible path is to stick to the older version of Monocypher. Any transition will need to be handled explicitly. I think that's okay, because I don't think I'll need to make breaking changes often. I expect a stable version to last at least 5 years, possibly 15. Then the next version will break everything, and users will just have to cope, most probably by supporting both v1.0 and v2.0 for a time. Hopefully that won't be too hard, given the small size of the library.
Tinc (http://www.tinc-vpn.org) works well for me and can do meshing.
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Because there's a difference between intellectual understanding of the Self or non-dualism as a concept, and actually manifesting that "truth" by living it. Or as someone once wrote: Philosophical truths are transmitted through "praxis", not like pieces of eight. You've spent years conditioned to think a certain way, decades building that self-model you call "you". These associations will not be destroyed easily, just by someone saying so.

The Hindu/Vedantic systems emphasize self-enquiry and the importance of having a teacher guide you, which may look like pushing belief systems to outsiders, but it's really a process.

The western mystical tradition is more explicit in how important process/techniques are rather than dogma.
That guy using a Surface you keep seeing around town could be a spy
But common carriers do have nondiscrimination obligations, while sites that benefit from §230 don't.
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The penalty for misclassifications is higher for false negatives than false positives. In fact, what happens if the FBI exhausts its budget investigating the positives from this classifier? Do they try to improve the classifier accuracy or do they seek a larger budget along with the prestige of playing a bigger role in the War on Terrorism?
Sadhguru is your usual run of the mill Guru who talks a lot of bullshit disguised as feel good nonsense. His oratory is perhaps his only skill.
The strategy the article suggests is basically

1. Don't argue with the disinfo trolls. Instead, counter disinformation trolls with your own disinformation trolls.

2. "both
NATO and the United States have a range of capabilities to inform,
influence, and persuade selected target audiences.
Increase the flow
of persuasive information and start to compete, seeking to generate
effects that support U.S. and NATO objectives"

3. "then jamming, corrupting, degrading, destroying,
usurping, or otherwise interfering with the ability of the propagan-
dists to broadcast and disseminate their messages could diminish
the impact of their efforts."

So basically create your own fake news, hire a tonne of social media shills and finally, start blocking websites and banning any social media users that disagree with the desired narrative. Scary :_)
Maskirovka.

To me, this deliberate sowing of confusion in the mind of you enemy is a continuation of well established Russian military doctrine that's gone in to overdrive.

Around the time of MH17 there was a short radio documentary on Maskirovka on the bbc: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050674y
You can just use Keybase to distribute PGP keys though, right?
Thanks for letting me borrow you as evidence. :)
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Interesting post. I tend to agree with Jacques. The value-add of many sites these days is disproportionately low compared to their size.

My site is pretty lite :), though not in the ball park of the OP. Used to be even lighter, need to trim it down again some.

https://vasudevram.github.io/
Not true. A lot of people pay far more than 30% of their earnings on housing costs, which is the federal benchmark for affordability.

Also, at current prices, we are spending a fortune on primitive old houses, and the current obsession with "neighborhood character," some people spend another fortune and only manage to redecorate the interior.

We really should be tearing down and rebuilding. Not preserving merely the façade of the neighborhood.
> Are you saying my observation isn't valid
No. I'm just saying that it's hard to have a constructive conversation about in this forum based on my previous experience. I might also make the argument that to "literally follow the scriptures" is fundamentalism, and isn't necessarily a mark of a "true" adherent of the faith in question. But that is a bit of a tangent, and none of this has much to do with ocean trash so I don't have a lot more to add.
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I'd bet money on it.

Political groups who rail against how the established media provides coverage will continue to push the "fake news" meme. Establishment-friendly political groups will paint fringe/alternative media outlets as "fake news".

Social media companies will play the part of the military-industrial complex in the "terrorism" scenario; in this case they'll rush to prove to users that they have the best "fake news" filtering capabilities. Some will partner with one of the aforementioned political groups to help shape what media is deemed trustworthy, and which is "fake", to push a particular narrative.

It may not be called "fake news" a year from now, but it seems like many of the biggest players are eager to get involved with smiley-face censorship.
Perhaps not. Anders Brevik in Norway definitely checked a lot of the boxes in this questionnaire though.
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Leaked document appears to be from 2013. Have you considered the possibility that the FBI was itself the source of the leak and the questions/methods have since evolved?
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I feel like that distinction isn't as hard as you're making it sound
Real-sugar soda variants in the US (we do have them! And not just imported Mexican coke!) usually come in glass which makes it harder to do a useful side-by-side tasting. I do prefer them, but I'm not sure how much of that's the glass. Meanwhile, I can tell instantly when I've accidentally tasted something with artificial sweetener in it. I've even picked it out from products that have real sugar but are supplemented with a bit of something artificial, waaaaay down the ingredient list, having no idea in advance that it'd be there.

[EDIT] I should add that I'd be surprised if the sugared variants typically have no difference to the HFCS sort other than subbing out the sweetener, so that's another wrinkle to attempting straight comparisons of sugar vs. HFCS
Sugar was the default super food for decades as a result of the 70's and 80's push to lower dietary fat.

It's only been recently that the medical community has realized that sugar is actually the number one hidden danger in the modern diet.
Up close and personal: Alternative realities still suffer from tech. constraints
The most interesting part of that quora discussion is the comment about the airline attendant[1] who fell from 33,000' without a parachute and survived.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
It's almost elegant the way the Trump camp seized on the term 'fake news' that was first used to classify this new brand of viral make-believe that flourished among Trump-supporters on social media, and somehow turned it into a catch all term to just dismiss any reporting that they deem unfavorable. When you have an audience not accustomed to critical thinking or fact-checking, there is almost no repercussion to making claims that are demonstrably false, or dismissing things that are demonstrably true. Everything is just opinion versus opinion. At this point, the fight isn't even about policy anymore, it's about the very meaning of words, how we as humans determine what reality is. The Last Week Tonight segment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecEV4dSAXE about how Trump gets his 'information' is fascinating - he's essentially managed to have his own misinformation fed back to himself in a feedback loop.
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>A quantitative analysis reveals that immigrants, even illegal ones, tend to commit fewer crimes on a per-capita basis than their legal neighbors

I'd be interested in the source on that. I'm also curious if they're taking a blanket average, or if they account for the fact that a huge proportion of American crime occurs within a few square miles of blighted urban terrain in Chicago, DC, LA and Baltimore. For most people, such 'average' crime stats are irrelevant in the same way that skydiving death stats are irrelevant to someone who never skydives.

>we are emotional animals and emotional experience matters too.

But which emotional experience matters?

There are millions of relevant emotional experiences being had. You can't relate to all of them on an emotional level. So, the only question becomes which emotional experiences you choose to privilege above all the others and synchronize your own emotions to.

As parent indicated, this ultimately means surrendering your own motivational choices to whoever has the power to put emotional imagery in front of your monkey brain.

You become a slave to power, used to fulfill the goals of others, tugged blindly toward the beliefs they choose by the leash of your own pathological empathy.
At least on my fb feed, it's a far-right trope that refugees are admitted with no vetting process whatsoever. Enough that I managed to research it and found this very informative infoposter from the Obama administration:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infogra...

note: multiple stages of bio checking, numerous three-letter agencies, additional steps for Syrians.

I used to post this every other day on fb, but lately I just realize there are simply groups who repeatedly gaslight each other and aren't interested in reality. One of them referred to my post as "liberal facts," implying, apparently, that the government doesn't perform the above screening process which it claims it does. shrug.jpg
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