skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decentralization is good to help protect the user against abuses from the central service provider.

It also encourages competition, since the user can switch to a different service, and not be penalized by network effects preventing them from communicating with other people.

I use MX records in my domain so that I can switch to any mail provider I want, and people will still be able to contact me with the same address.

How is this possible in a centralized system? If I switch from WhatsApp to Signal, I lose all my contacts. If I want to keep communicating with them, then I have to convince them to switch to a different app, or just never stop using whatsapp. The network effects dynamic here makes it very difficult to switch from one centralized encrypted chat provider to another. If you try to leave, you lose all your contacts.

The other thing I dislike is that they all seem to require a valid phone number. This puts you at the mercy of the phone company. If you change your phone number, then you have to get all your contacts to change their contact info for you. This is a huge step back, compared to email with own domain and MX records!

The other thing I dislike about these centralized encrypted chat providers is the lack of client choice. 1 company can only support so many platforms, fair enough. But that will likely mean I'll never see the company develop a Linux desktop client, or a terminal based client for their network. And because of centralization, no-one else will be allowed to develop one either. In contrast, there are many different tools I can use for sending and receiving email on the Linux desktop, cli based backup tools, etc.

And as far as the spam problem goes, I'm not sure how Signal/WhatsApp are better in this regard? If you have to give your signal address to out for people to communicate with you, or to do business with a company, then I don't see why companies can't just spam you. Signal can centrally filter all messages you receive to make sure they don't have spam in them and block spammers messages from going through (but this is no different than what many mail providers also do). You can block individual contacts, but that doesn't help if there are a very large number of different accounts sending spam. You can whitelist your contacts, but then noone you don't know that wants to talk to you can contact you.

It also doesn't stop known contacts from sending spam to you either because

- They are forwarding spam messages to you, like chain letters.

- They got a virus or some malware which sends spam to all their contacts

- It's a "legit" company you need to receive communication with, but sends spam mixed with vital communication: marketing lists you get auto-opted into (imagine if all the "give us your email to read the article" pop overs got replaced with "add us on signal to read the article"), amazon sale ads, facebook constantly trying to entice you to go back on the site, etc.

If signal replaced email, I don't see how it could remain spam free.
That's a really smart observation I hadn't made, thanks for explaining!
Oh, but so near in the past were the days that the phone company made more money the more time you spent on a dialed call. They absolutely had an interest in helping you connect and send your message. Phone companies also sold Yellow Page ads.

Print shops typically have a waiver that you own what you're paying them to print and that you're not publishing illegal content. Then they take that content, print it, and send it to you to mail out or otherwise distribute. In extreme cases they can see up front that you're lying, and will refuse the job. However, FedEx Kinkos in most cases is not liable for the speech you pay them to replicate.
Stories can't have both urls and text, so you need to pick one. If you keep the url, you can always post your text as a comment in the thread. https://www.ifliix.xyz/thousands-of-people-protest-creativel...
The Nano at least is not fingerprint-based; it's simply a capacitance thing - any conductive thing touching it, connected to you, will be treated as a touch. I have at least one coworker who strung paperclips from their Nano to someplace convenient, and they just touch the paperclip.

As well, I just performed a test by rubbing my nose on my Nano, and it worked as intended :)
Amazing story!
Minimising the CSS/HTML would be one extra improvement, and removing HTML comments.
Early Adopter Startup Deals
Does anybody really believe that, though? It's something different to say that we have large reserves of productivity to feed both economic and demographic growth for the foreseeable future, taking into account the natural slowdowns that advanced development bring (demographic transition...) and to to say that resources are literally infinite. I dont think anyone believes the latter, and it's a little of a strawman argument.
Apple Genius Bar got a 30 year old Mac SE running
Thousands of people protest creatively against Romanian government
Thousands of Romanians took to the streets again on Sunday, in what turned out to be the 13th day of straight protests the Social Democratic government. The protests were peaceful and very creative, just like last Sunday when some 250,000 people gathered in Bucharest light up the night using smartphone flashlights in a symbolic message against corruption. Using the same piece of technology, thousands of protesters recreated a giant Romanian flag in front of the government building....
http://bit.ly/2lIeOTp
yes, likewise! stopped reading after a few years for common reasons. its been ages so a good reminder, thanks OP.
Global Oil Production: The Geopolitical Impacts
The USAPATRIOT Act and the expanded surveillance powers were "intended to sunset," eventually.
piwik or just grep your nginx logs.
Not sure what you need a helicopter for...

The hole is too narrow for an adult "dude".

A kid on a rope could work. Maybe.
Can you elaborate as to what sort of spam you are referring to? Do you mean bots viewing your pages? Or is it something else?
Fast then fast is better than slow then fast.
Maybe 2.5 of those are true

>[NSO Group] claims to sell its spyware only to law enforcement agencies to track terrorists, criminals and drug lords

>An NSO spokesman reiterated those restrictions in a statement Thursday, and said the company had no knowledge of the tracking of health researchers and advocates inside Mexico

>NSO executives point to technical safeguards that prevent clients from sharing its spy tools.

LE says to NSO that this infection will be used on a track terrorists, criminals and drug lords by ticking the "We will only send this to infect terrorists, criminals and drug lords" checkbox, NSO gen's the unique link that needs to be visited to infect the device and then either LE or NSO send the target the text.

In other discovered 0days the servers the links where pointing to were in control of the group selling the hacks and no LE. My bet is a part of the "controls" they have inplace is not actually handing over the exploits, but offering an "exploit as a service".

Ofcause that doesn't stop LE saying "Gen link for number X, number X belongs to a bad guy..." and number X being a device belonging to their own tech teams to reverse the exploit and then they create their own.
I find the librarian profession absolutely fascinating, especially because of the distinction between how they see themselves (rightly) and how the general public sees them. They have integrated mathematics, logistics, anthropology and literary theory into one profession, but I think most assume they simply stock books all day.

I think it would come as a shock to most people that professional librarians must* have a Masters degree [1].

[1]https://lockedinthelibrary.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/why-does...
Direct physical access to your computer is not the only thread. Even if you have in your computer all the time it gives you better logins, easier and safer. Specially protection from phishing.

When I leave my computer out of my eyes it usually locked (unlock with password), so I don't expect somebody to quickly go in and do something. If I leave for longer, I sometimes pull the Nano out and put it somewhere I don't lose it for a while.

The advantage of your system is that you can use the U2F screen unlock instead of the password.
I was under the impression that Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews derived from that population in Rome? Did the Ashkenazi come directly from Palestine to the Rhine valley?
what happens when you lose your yubikey? Has anyone ever lost their keys?
The initial impetus is not really important. It may have been something as trivial as a book, or a friend, or somebody on TV. People start all sorts of pursuits for all sorts of silly reasons, and usually end up abandoning them for the next-best-thing to come along. Promises of a better life ("the end of suffering!") are tempting to the unfortunate and downtrodden.

A better question to ask is what _keeps_ people dedicated to this quest? And of course I mean the ones who end up fulfilling it or getting close.

Once you see you can't unsee. Once these practices (that are numerous and not constrained to the East) are followed, things happen. You catch glimpses of the absolute. Mystical experiences and synchronicities become common. The intuitive aspect of yourself comes to the foreground and it's the one that drives this process. One gets all the validation one needs, not from teachers or gurus, but by direct experiential knowledge.

Once on that path, it's hard for someone to turn back. He'd have to delude himself by repeating lies often enough that he'd come to believe them (what are beliefs but thoughts you keep having?).
Ask him to create a detailed transition document for anyone else taking over his projects. List out any helpful tools, tricks, processes to get the job done.

Assuming that you need to back-fill this position, it might be worth asking him a professional referral. Who do you know that would be an ideal match for this role?

Finally, if he's amenable and there's good tonality-- a fair/favorable review on Glassdoor.
I picked up a 35mm rangefinder with a f1.7 lens for about £20 off ebay. You still can't get a digital camera that good for under £1,000.

Digital is still a long way behind 1960s technology / price point
Just because there exists such an angel of a man who would fall under this policy doesn't mean this policy is bad or should not be enacted.

True, but the policy should be judged on its real costs and benefits. So far, the administration has consistently emphasized and exaggerated the supposed security risks of the status quo to make an argument from necessity for drastic changes. I'm trying to be neutral in describing this but I think it's fair to say that the claim that bad people are 'pouring in' to the USA is an exaggeration.
> I'll interpret this to mean anyone can script a submission bot which automagically submits to hackernews so long as the articles could be perceived as interesting.

Yes, I would say so. Nobody is going to complain (at least not with a valid complaint) as long as the articles are perceived as interesting and upvoted. In fact, I imagine you could do a good Show HN about the bot if it worked well enough.

The problem is when the quality slips, and it starts sliding towards spam (even if the intention was good).
> Population growth has stalled in 1st world countries and living standards are continuing to rise.

For whom exactly? Insofar as I'm aware, the current situation seems to be the exact opposite. Things are trending downward.
Enlightened self interest.

The idea that if we help each other when we are in a position to. (Low cost for us. High cost for other).

Also don't cost others suffering.

How you look at it. Are we being selfish or selfless is up to your personal preference of optimism / skepticism. It doesn't really matter.

Ideally if you believe in a type of consciousness rebirth - Likely not taking anything from past life but as we were never dead our consciousness probably* mutates to being a different person.(Do you really think you "Are" the person you were at birth?) -

Then you will want to have enlightened self interest.
Personally I believe causing others suffering (Eating animals ect) is a kind of cannibalism / self inflicting harm.

Why is it that we think of ourselves as OTHER?

Survival is at our core but otherwise it is foolish not to work together.

I'm afraid society is moving towards a kind of semen race to the top. Mindless acquisition of material goods to satisfy the ego. We can do better.
Foster parents always have the option to adopt. Not to be a negative Nancy, but the system is pretty terrible and many, MANY foster parents act more as halfway houses for kids than any sort of "parent".
do people add chatbots to messaging apps? is there way to advertise a chatbot and have someone click on the ad to "add" it to a messanging app?
Whatever – new unofficial Evernote client for Linux desktop
There are some connections. The people who founded it. Google are early investors. Google are also one of the most important costumers.

I think that makes it even more secure. Google house lots of people running around with these.
Well, you could embed a machine-checked proof that instruction sequences of the targeted form will sometimes survive previous optimization passes and therefore the given optimization will always be contributing something.

But that's hard, so every compiler I've used leaves it to human engineering instead.
I find that most people understand the general concepts of basic calculus. What's hard to wrap around is when you start getting into proofs (ie. delta-epsilon, trig, e,...and that's just some general ones).

I suppose that's how they differentiate the good students from the just okay students. Personally, I don't think youtube videos will help that much when it goes down to the nitty gritty. You really have to sit down, think, and understand.
One or more Zero-Day exploits
> Most users are going to do this via FFI

The C interface is the first step. I may consider C++ and OCaml bindings in the future. Still, point taken: calling C from other languages is always a bit of a pain.

> libsodium is not anywhere near the size where static analyses become impractical -- do you have any evidence that would support that?

It's not much, but the TweetNaCl papers indicate that its size made it possible to automatically prove the absence of a couple classes of bugs with an algorithm prone to combinatorial explosion. Even being twice as big could have been too much for those.
The Panic Room one is kind of a neat novelty VR app... you are put in a room with the room's rotation controlled by a person holding a physical box the size of the room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NYDN7sd0k
You can use WinRAR with zero compression and recovery volumes.

This is useful if you have a bunch of little files - you WinRAR them into a single file with recovery volumes, and then you can create a bunch of PAR2 files on top.

I'm not saying this is a sensible thing to do.
Given that polychlorinated biphenyls are so much more abundant in the deep sea trenches than even "In grossly polluted areas, like the Liao River in China" the scientist in me suspects that something other than pollution might be at play.

Perhaps deep sea organisms synthesize polychlorinated biphenyls as an adaptive response? (weirder things are known...) Or perhaps the chemical degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls is inhibited by the environment?
> There is no parallel to the teachings of Gita..

Well there is Ashtavakra Gita, personally I liked the asthavakra more as its context is more refined.
It's working for me now. Thank you!
No startup is truly defensible against a company with tens of billions at their disposal. "Google could clone it" is so obvious that it doesn't seem rational to even consider it a problem. Yes, they could. You can't let that stop you though.

It's far more sensible to worry about your idea being cloned by a teenager in her bedroom who could give the same product away for free a week after you launch. That's the real threat for most startups.
Threats of job security might not be the only threat they see. In a society with a lot of automation where you need a high level of education just to get a job, taking in a lot of unskilled immigrants means very few of them will be able to land a job, and overall poverty will rise.

Poverty is detrimental to societal security.
The "web of trust" is not about trusting everybody you happen to merely know.

It's, and the name is kind of a hint, about knowing those you trust -- it's a web in that there's higher level trust (people you personally know and trust yourself), secondary trust (people trusted by those you trust), etc.

And in cryptography it's even more specific:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

It's not in any way about trusting someone just because you know them.
Discomfort as a Tool for Change
You can extend this logic indefinitely. From the Futurama episode I Dated A Robot:

> All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex.
It's fascinating that you see it as a caricature of the left, given that Huxley was a left-leaning pacifist who even today would be far to the left of at least the last 4 Democratic presidential candidates on quite a few issues.

Sadly, the entire western world is just a lot more authoritarian than it was during Huxley and Orwell's time.
Synopsis claims Ubiquiti Networks is unlawfully using software
If you consider:

1) Most of Linux source code is composed of drivers;

2) Most drivers for Linux have really bad quality code, with very few exceptions;

Then Linux is a perfect example.
It is an absolute violation of my expectations for you to say that a browser cannot meaningfully implement crypto.
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fact.
If your SSH private key is on the Yubikey then you will not lose your private keys. Even in the case of U2F, the attacker will not figure out your U2F private keys or even all the places you are registered.
The first one is the flat list (x y z); the JSON one seems to be equivalent to (x (y (z nil))).
Musical.ly launches their 4th app, impressive company
Well, this just convinced me to snag a cert for myself. Are there any services like keybase for sharing S/MIME public keys?
The technology to convert sugar to ethanol probably existed in the 6660s. BC, that is. (And yes, it probably involved yeast.)
What, a couple millimeters?

So, Earth surface 510M km2, 70% water that's some 350M km2.

Everest 8km by, say, way too generously 10x20 km2, that's 1600 km3 worth of rock prism.

1.6k km3 / 350M km2 = 4.5 micro km = 4.5 millimeters.

(Yeah, a couple mm.)
It's not just security. Nicholas Nassim Taleb even invented a word for this kind of thing. He describes his complaint, in typical pugnacious Taleb style, here: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
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In other words, you have 0 evidence. K. I'm done.
He is probably talking about the infamous "vitaly referrer spam". It shows up on the referrer tab of GA dashboard with a really long domain like "merry.christmas.go.to.this.link.to.get.a.price.vitaly.com".
I should probably install a web server on my ROS box so the autonomous gokart can serve web pages.
For now, the encryption plugin is only available on the older version, Nylas Pro. No reason for that other than time to port and QA the plugin to the new free version, which has a completely written mail sync engine that runs locally rather than in the cloud. We're working on porting all Nylas Pro features to the new version as fast as we can!

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Whatever you read into it i guess. That's the power of it.
No, the actual lesson is you hardly or rarely need to put anything but text in it.

And it seems it wasn't learned...
I think GP meant that there are many children going through that, most not as lucky as the one getting that man as a foster father.
Så morsomt! Thanks for posting - this was a wonderful bit of distraction.

I love Everything is Calm - probably because I'm a bad person. :-D
Hmm, that explains a number of things. Still, I've dug through libsodium, and it's still a bit of a mess —not that I would've done better given the constraints they had.
The "fastest blog in the world" mentioned:
http://prog21.dadgum.com/

Both sites score 100 / 100 on desktop & mobile on Google PageSpeed Insights.
There is an RFC extension for OpenPGP that does just that: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vb-openpgp-linked-ids-00

It's implemented in Android OpenKeychain.
Looks like this might be a good day for muut:

https://muut.com/pricing/

(Not affiliated, nor a customer - just became aware of them because of their open source js framework, riot (riotjs.com)).
Like a mind map?

https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I have that reaction to all USian soda (am UKian) because of HFCS rather than straight up sugar. Honestly, to me, the diet stuff actually tastes slightly less awful.

Weirdly, diet Tropical Tango tastes better to me than the sugared version, possibly because its flavourings are so artificial already that the artificial sweetener fits better ... or possibly just because I'm weird.
I use the Yubikey Neo with my phone via NFC to unlock my master password database which I use KeePass for. I wear my Yubikey on my necklace, tucked under my shirt and never remove it (it's waterproof, I shower with it.) I type my master password and just tap my phone to my chest to unlock.
So the question remains: What must he do to prove his technical skill?
it wasn't meant to be presumptuous. I have an older smartphone that's limited to 3g (and way to often Edge). What i wanted to say: instead of manually selecting and limiting yourself we should invest in simple, transparent tools that help you get reasonable fast.

I would choose a static site, preferably github pages because of its simplicity and easy update-process. We use elaborate compilers every day to optimize our code, so why is there no "global" optimiser for static pages that exclude a few common libraries that one assumes are already cached (if you really need js)? Maybe it's because i don't know that much about "real" web development besides some dashboard-frontend for a way more complicated backend. But this was more composing bootstraps than developing. I usually am more interested in the backend. But to me these seem to be client-problems. Some quick inlined js for selecting the correct image and whether to load the font should not waste much time. Or is this possible via CSS? In my mind this should not be an impossible task.

I have always wondered why some website display nothing until loading of font finished.
Why is this considered relevant to "Hacker News"?

To me, being a "hacker" is being someone who is interested in understanding the world, and then using that knowledge to create a better experience of life for himself and others, typically by cobbling together a new and creative combination of existing components.

Yet, "Jewish life is stirring" just makes me think there is a growing number of perfectly healthy children being held down as people slice away chunks of flesh from their sexual organs... you know... to please the creator of the universe, or something, as per some ancient fairy tale that a bunch of people took way too seriously.

That seems like exactly the opposite thing that hackers should be celebrating; then again, perhaps this website is trying to celebrate all meanings of "to hack"...
He says "can"... so I think it's open to interpretation.

I think if you deplete the term like that, it becomes meaningless, but the difference in scale between "I'm helping these people to glorify my name" and "I'm helping myself directly" is significant enough that the term still has meaning. We have a Newtonian scale concept of selfishness that works even if we don't have a quantum scale concept that works.