skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify: identity servers are strictly optional and are used just for mapping 3rd party IDs (3PIDs) such as phone numbers and email addresses to matrix IDs so you can be discovered or discover other users by 3PID.

They are only centralised atm because we haven't really started to attack the problem of decentralising them. What we really need is a decentralised equivalent of Keybase, but nobody has really built a suitable one yet. Blockstack is close, as are a few others, but we'd rather wait until we found something which nailed the problem and stuck with the jury-rig until then. I spoke about this at FOSDEM the other weekend: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/matrix_future/

There's also renewed community interest in fixing this over the last few days: #matrix-identity:matrix.org is a thing.

I would argue that Matrix itself is fully decentralised; it's just that some of the solutions to the optional identity discovery problem happen to be centralised. Just as some folks publish their Matrix E2E pubkeys on keybase etc.

In terms of Matrix revealing metadata: yes, it does so to the servers participating in the convo. This is really not very unusual; the problem of protecting metadata for realtime comms is very much still an open area of research (see Alpenhorn etc from CSAIL)! Hopefully it's not really a reason to turn anyone off Matrix though. I also briefly spoke about this at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/encrypting_matrix/
War will never be "over", but it can be minimized. One good way to do that is through (real) free trade. Countries that depend on each other economically are generally less likely to go to war with each other. Wasn't it Jack Ma who said "when trade stops, war starts"?
Actually, number of people using ad-blockers has more than doubled between 2015 and 2016 according to the PageFair report [1].

[1] https://pagefair.com/blog/2016/mobile-adblocking-report/
Reports are from 20-30% of desktop and mobile users make use of some sort of adblocker/privacy tool. That is a very large set of users, and in some industries and domains the numbers go much higher.

Purely for self-protection/anti-aggravation I absolutely recommend it to every casual user I advise.
This comment is a gross misunderstanding of what good executives do, and they are indeed critical players.
And a million MBA heads just bobbled as they agreed, "Yes, yes, we pay engineers too much! Mwaaaahahaahahaa!"
What I find most frustrating when it comes to GPG encryption and email is the lack of support for public key encryption for generated mails. I've seen very few sites supporting GPG and if they did, I found it always just worked and I imaging not much of a big deal to setup. So why do even the biggest shops not offer this? I really would like to be able to upload my public key to e.g. Amazon. It's great to make the checkout process and everything super secure, but just to send every purchase you did and your personal data in an unencrypted mail across the web afterwards.
Wish I could sell my iPad WITH the hundreds of apps I've purchased. It sucks that I can't. Maybe I can.. just sell the email address with the iPad and give buyer passwords. Buyer changes both email and iTunes password and it's a done deal. I used a generic web email to sign up to iTunes, I don't mind losing it. Apple would never find out. I wonder if anyone else has tried this? Edit.. (or maybe just change the iTunes account email address to the buyer's email is enough).
Probably because they're capable of way more than you're using them for. The ones that just do U2F are only $18: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/
Thank you! To answer the user/conversation question:

> two users talking with each other, is that one conversation?

Yes.

And thanks for asking, this means it's not clear and we will have to add this.
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That's the case with Medium comments, but comments on my site do occasionally point out holes/mistakes in my posts. Removing comments is certainly an option, though.
I assume OP didn't mean to link to the #postal-addresses anchor?
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Thanks! NOTIFY is much nicer to use today, since you can also include a payload, and there is a clean way to format data to include in the payload using all the new json functions. I understand that NOTIFY has also been sped up over the years...
> you can plainly test acidification with two cups of water - tap and sparkling

How are the acidities of tap and sparkling water related to the acidity of the ocean? Don't the people who processed the drinking water exercise basic (no pun intended) control over its pH?
That's a bozo of an excuse if I ever heard one.

Lack of vision, lack of direction, failure to set expectations or execute a plan, better opportunities elsewhere, poor management... those are all reasons for brain drain.

Gave them too much money? That's absurd.

Honestly, it looks more like a propoganda message to pre-explain shrinking bonus money.
It looks like navigator.sendBeacon is not very well supported across browsers. [1]

Is this really a good idea?

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
But what if:

1) you become unavailable?

2) you don't have the physical capacity to develop everything that the client needs?

3) you don't want to implement some feature that the user needs, for reasons? (related to the software architecture, or the direction you want the project to take, or whatever).

Open source gives the commercial client the flexibility to adapt the code to their uses, in a way that being tied to a single provider will never achieve.
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Crazy thought... If this is even possible, create a standard for everything key employees should know. Pay people great, but not GREAT. Bank up "eff you" money for them. If they want to quit, they get the banked money as long as there are enough people on team to carry on without that person.

Might not be practical for a number of reasons. Just sounds interesting, without having put any thought into the idea beyond the time it took me to write this comment.
Spot.im is a direct competitor to facebook, disqus and livefyre comments.
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My argument is that South Ossetian leaders did do "whatever they wanted" there, and the Russians condoned and helped them, contrary to what you're alluding to above.
Reading a couple of slides in, this report applies to Asia-Pacific demographics.
Yeah, could a moderator please remove that?
Long term, I think this is a good move for Nikon. Phones have eaten the DL's intended market, and at the DL's price there are already better options available in the same form factor.

Mirrorless is the future; if there was a mirrorless Nikon camera that could take advantage of decades of F-Mount lenses, surely they'd be on to a winner
The analytics setup we use on every site we build is "". We don't burden our users with JS tracking and we do all of our analysis based on server logs and backend instrumentation.

GA is an insult to users and it should not be tolerated any longer.
It's simultaneously true that infinite growth isn't feasible, and yet true that most predictions on resource depletion haven't been borne out. We can make soil more productive, find new ways of creating potable water, create energy out of seemingly nothing... Most of the suffering from limited resources have been a case of artificial scarcity owing to monopolistic control.

I don't think it's unduly optimistic to agree with the mindset of "Spaceship Earth":[0]

> It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we sail through space. If the bread and beef above decks seem to grow scarce, we but open a hatch and there is a new supply, of which before we never dreamed. And very great command over the services of others comes to those who as the hatches are opened are permitted to say, "This is mine!"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth
One interesting question from http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate...: is “Fred Bloggs”@example.com actually a valid email address, given that the plain ascii double-quotes seem to have been converted to "fancy" ones by the blogging software?
> It's a big industry where profitable addictive foods also support a lucrative obesity healthcare industry

And that's the crux of the problem, isn't it?

If the U.S. had a single-payer healthcare system, you can bet it would care a lot more about issues like obesity, pollution, and all the things that make people sick and would make the government pay more for healthcare. It would have an incentive to reduce those issues.

Instead, the U.S. has a system where it's "profitable" to have sick people, so the stuff that makes people sick is kept in place. It's the same kind of the same perverse incentives we see with the private prison industry.
All due respect it not exactly mind-blowing that to compete with some of the most successful businesses in the world you have to do things they can't. The author often likes to use catchy quotes so let's go with the classic "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it". They make their money selling licenses and consulting for centralized messaging services. It's not in the interest of either party to have disagreements on this issue.
you're right, i mis-used "prominence" and meant "relief above local terrain"
Think of it rather like this: if a goal is hard to achieve then there won't exist a surefire solution (otherwise how is it hard to achieve?). Instead, you must work your way towards it consistently and diligently, in order to improve the odds of accomplishing it. Depending on the goal there are probably a lot of factors outside of our control, in this case high level political maneuvering and the fortune that is the unpredictable swings in uninformed public opinion. That doesn't make the effort that could possibly tip the scales wasted though.

Whether all the effort is worth it depends on how you rate your odds and how effective you think your efforts are at increasing those odds. If you want to argue the particulars then that's legitimate, but simply pointing out that attempting something every year in the past didn't yield results doesn't prove it is irrational to continue doing it.
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Obesity isn't strictly a lifestyle choice for everyone afflicted with it.
You usually seem like a very smart and reasonable man but here I feel you are missing major parts of the picture and I don't understand why you would.

Given what we have seen from Facebook so far I am not convinced they wouldn't sell data to anyone including Hitler as long as they paid for it somehow.

More realistically though I fully expect them to sell (misleading) data to insurance companies, Indian (and other) support scammers etc without asking many questions.

For that reason I prefer almost anything including email and Telegram.

(My opinions might be somewhat coloured by the fact that I was an enthusiastic Whatsapp user before Facebook bought them and even stayed and gave Facebook another chance with Whatsapp. )
How often does a channel become a brand name?

Netflix became a household name in the DVD era because they had a unique and useful value prop. Ditto Facebook (well, not unique at time of creation but they managed it very well). But nobody says they want to sit down to watch an NBC show or some RCA music.

Even when you manage the content creation the name brand is hard to maintain Yes, Disney and many of its sub brands, and a very small number of news sources like NYT, but they are the exception.

In fact the channel model tends not only to be a painful business (has to be made up in volume) but chews up the branding further downstream (car companies worry about being genericized by self-driving fleet managers).

Medium has chosen a tough row to how.
I think part of the problem in this case was that it didn't seem likely they would get such a big payout again.

On Wall St, there's always a bigger bonus to aim for at the same firm next year. At Google, if you wanted to take your big bonus and turn it into more millions, you'd better try starting a new business.
I agree with him, I express myself badly.
Maybe it's a bit late to ask, but is the live session still planned to happen? I'd personally want to dial in, but I don't know the details.
Some people may be wired that way but plenty are not. Especially in the US people believe that it's in human nature to always want more but I think it's only a small percentage that are wired that way. Most people are happy living a stable life where their basic needs are met. The top guys should be happy about this, otherwise they wouldn't find employees that are willing to work a for a stable salary.
> If you're home, you have to let them in. If not, they are allowed to break in.

Right, but is it really a crime not to unlock the door?
> with increasingly capable smartphones chewing through the dedicated photography segment. Still, it seems Nikon has suffered it worse than most.

The damage from smartphones was done a while back. The truth now is that Nikon (and Canon to some extent) failed to be at the forefront of: (a) action/drone cameras, (b) 4K video recording, and (c) mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. Sony and Fujifilm have seen a real renaissance in their mirrorless camera lines (I switched from Canon to Fuji and haven't looked back). Sony has small mirrorless cameras that shoot 4K on par or better than Nikon. GoPro created a billion dollar public company yet Nikon only just recently announced their own action cameras.

I worked in the photo industry for several years and Nikon was once the gold standard. IMO they have no one to blame for their current state than themselves.
"F- you money" is the amount of money that allows you to do what you want, i.e. leave when things do not go your way. This must mean the staffers did not want to be there for some reason or another.

This is interesting because they were helping build the future. It's easy to see why people might not be excited or passionate about the next CRUD app but self driving cars seems like a passion project to me.
This is a very high school perspective to take on the difference between developers and executives.

I imagine you'd rather live in a world ruled by programmer-kings who are the only people capable of creating value, while all the other peons toil away in the service of their creation with their inferior, bogus skillsets.
Or, you could just use Protonmail and be done with it.
Empirical studies have actually shown that consumers of child porn are unlikely to molest children. Those that are arrested for possession of child porn AND have a high likelihood of future molestation ALREADY had a history of molestation.

This shouldn't be surprising. Consumers of rape fetish porn are unlikely to actually rape someone, but actual rapists are likely to consume rape fetish porn. Furthermore, in countries where porn of all kinds was legalized, including child porn, enjoyed falling rates of child molestation.

The OP is making some of the same old arguments people have trotted out against porn for decades, just couched in pseudo neuroscience. The fact is, we don't understand these relationships to the degree the OP needs to justify his causal claims.
What language were you using? I wouldn't be too surprised about this if you were using Java or some other language with a lot of boilerplate but I'd be really surprised if this were true of python or a lisp: I'm pretty sure I can finish a simple script in vim in roughly the amount of time it takes to startup an IDE and start a new project. Also, were you letting people use their own vim setup or just a generic one?
> You can add additional NVME drives through the expansion slots but these are not natively supported by the platform.

It's still completely unclear what the hell you mean by that. I've yet to encounter a platform that cares which PCIe lanes a NVMe SSD uses when it comes to boot support. Nobody really cares about whether the software RAID supports NVMe, and I'd count it as a benefit of AMD's platform if they don't implement Intel's obscene hacks that make their NVMe software RAID work. Do you mean that the chipsets for Ryzen will only have enough PCIe lanes or ports to provide one PCIe x4 slot?
It's a good thing I've had '0.0.0.0 disqus.com" in my host file for years, then.
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You control which CAs you anchor your trust to locally. Additionally, the encryption part isn't tied to the CA system -- you encrypt directly with the public keys of your recipients. You can use the CA system to validate that the public key belongs to someone validated by some attributes -- certificates are used for this.

The US Federal Government (FPKI) and US Department of Defense (DOD PKI) use S/MIME heavily.
Have we tried not allowing financial crises to grow in the first place?
Why does there need to be soil?
I would go aeroponics then go vertical.
Rowbot seems a first step if you still wanna do soil based.
I would say get fiveof your best friends start going vertical with aero.

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I'm not a big fan of the metallic aspartame aftertaste.
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My parents are from Sicily and we only recently found out that our ancestry is Ashkenazi. In fact, my family is even from a town right outside Siracusa which makes this article all the more interesting.

Although I know very little of my ancestors that would date back to the time of mandatory conversion to Catholicism, I do know that many of my family's traditions and dialect words blend together Greek, Egyptian, Jewish (passover traditions!) I'm always amazed over the rapid transformation s and upheavals people from that part of the world must have experienced.
Yes. Most new Windows 10 devices such as a Surface Book or Surface Pro have facial recognition built-in. I haven't typed in a password in over a year.
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Thanks. I'll make sure to take the correct steps next time. :)
I am guessing you are a Romanian yourself, judging by your use of Romanian spelling of "Bessarabia". I would remind you that Romania actually joined the alliance with Hitler and provided more than a million of troops to the Eastern front. Funny that you forgot to mention it.

Due to historical happenstance Romania received a lot of land after WW1. Then it opportunistically took Bessarabia from Russia, it's former ally, while Russia was in the state of civil war. Less then thirty years afterwards Russia annexes the land back. What is there to be outraged about? Phew, Eastern Europe and its border disputes.
I'll try again: How is Trump not a plutocrat riding populist anger into power to enrich himself and his friends?
Most people worldwide don't even have a credit card to pay online. If anything you should celebrate the fact that you are so privileged that you would rather pay for something most could not even dream to afford.
It is a legal email address per RFC 5321.

In practice such email addresses are not possible in many server configurations, and it usually makes sense to reject such email addresses.
I recall him mentioning that he would have liked to see it as a television series, or someone approached him about making it one. I think now would be a perfect time to do so - I'd love to see a Netflix or an HBO take on something like this.
There's a very clear person at fault if said nefarious driver drives the tractor into a person/object-of-value. If it's an autopilot, the liability issues are much more murky.
There's a big dilemma with using centralized systems for sensitive communication.

* You have to use one that is not economically or legally dependent on a jurisdiction hostile to you.

* There can never be many different centralized messaging systems that are economically viable because that requires network effects.

As a result, there will always be a large number of people who will not be able to find a centralized system that protects them reliably.
It's a tough business if you just sit back selling mediocre cameras and don't innovate. Numerous companies from Leica, to Sony, to Fujifilm have thrived in recent years even with all the improvements in smartphone cameras. It seemed to have taken Nikon and Canon much longer to adapt to the changing market.
The ruggedized point-and-shoot(p&s) cameras saw greater focus in the last couple years due to the eroding of the regular p&s market by smartphones. With intrusion protection being the new bullet point on high end phones' feature lists, this niche market is going to be impacted as well.

Despite all that there still seems to be a significant market for p&s cameras, Sony has no less than 20 different p&s cameras. Most of those cameras seem to be variations of the same base model. That sort of variation seems to imply there's a significant demand.
The initial image presented is pretty deceptive considering the author doesn't explain until the very end that all the characters, health bars, etc., were all added by them, and the only "generated" part of the image is the tiles, which they manually sampled and arranged in to a level.
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>I don't think getting paid a large sum of money is the contributing factor for the departures.

the stop of that large money is what seems to have happened:

"In December, the car unit morphed into a standalone business called Waymo, and the system was replaced with a more uniform pay structure that treats all employees the same"

>Engineers care about achieving something they can feel proud of and if the project lacks that, they move on.

they achieved "milestones", got handsomely paid for that, after that the payment structure changed back to regular with no such payouts in the future, and the real achievement - fully autonomous car - is still long in the future with a lot of grunt unglorious work to be performed in order to reach that future ... While other companies invite you to make the same glorious "milestones" for even bigger money - sounds like no-brainer.

Google wanted that division to be like a startup - they seems to have got it right to all the details, including that exodus after cash-out on an "exit" with product barely reaching prototype stage and powerpoint of trillion dollar business. An expensive at that - 16x "valuations" growth applied to 4 years of an engineer's bonus and equity - i.e. something like 16 x $1M = $16M per engineer (nicely matches market going rate for AI and other hot aquihires. man! i should have made a career out of that GC hobby back in 2004-5 :) - i'd not be surprised if Ruth had heart attack upon seeing those numbers :)
It means email federation is alive and well.
Immigration is more-or-less irrelevant to the common worker either way. Macroeconomic labor conditions affect the common worker more: if labor's share of income is large but immigration is high, people are fine, but if labor's share of income is low with zero immigration, people are still miserable.

How much immigration is there into, say, Belarus? Practically none. How well-off is the common worker in Belarus? Miserable.
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