skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a practicing IP, software and information attorney.

I wrote (as in, me personally, in Node) and just released http://gibber.it , which is currently in beta, to allow users to send end-to-end encrypted messages through basically any place in a browser that you can enter text.

It currently works quite well on gmail, nytimes.com comment boards and on reddit. It will soon be working on facebook (their content-security-policy is very strict - rightly so - and I am making the extension compatible with these requirements).

* It currently functions as a chrome extension.

* Sign up, invite connections just like any other social network.

* Encryption is end to end, AES 128 with nonce'd salts.

* Use a password you share with your connection (NOT your login password) to send connection invites - this is used to encrypt your keys during the invite process. (Make sure to accept the return invite! This is how your connection sends his or her keys back to you. Also note that you will likely need to reload any tab running the extension after accepting an invite in order to get the keys to load.)

* Use the chrome extension to encrypt and decrypt messages as you browse.

You can see it in action here:
https://www.gibberit.com/#!how

Mobile coming soon. HIPAA compliance coming soon.

Terms of Service Here:
https://www.gibberit.com/terms

Privacy Policy Here:
https://www.gibberit.com/privacy

Please note that the system is in BETA. Still many tweaks to work out. Use is at your own risk.

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. I welcome any and all feedback. Love the system? Hate the system? Please let me know. More about me here: http://www.lawyernamedliberty.com

Edit: Please note that the gibberit homepage - AND NO OTHER PAGE - uses google analytics. This is clearly detailed in my privacy policy. Aside from that, I do not use any tracking software.
If these guys were knowingly creating massive externalities, and they are blamed and penalized for it, how do you put a price on the damage without putting a stop to modern civilization? State AGs are now taking these companies to task much in the same way big tobacco was tried. Not everyone smokes, but everyone participates in petroleum fueled global economy.
Why is humanity the "subject" of History and technology simply the "object"?

Why do we always think like this?
Yeah i remember that one. You could order a squad to move somewhere only to find them hunkering down behind a wall or something because they were afraid that some sniper was out there.

I think the map was even "deformable" in that if you ordered a tank to move somewhere it could break down walls and such to get there, walls that soldiers could have used as cover while moving around etc.

Note though that the graphics was top down 2D, so it was "cheap" to replace a standing wall tile with a broken one.
You haven't explained why having a lot of work is bad.
How does the threat model where employees are the enemy differ from the threat model where malware running inside the network is the enemy?
> If your database's primary key is 32 bits (SERIAL in PostgreSQL, INT(11) in MySQL, etc.), you want at least 8 bytes for the selector.

32 bits = 4 bytes. How can we store a 8 byte selector in a 32 bit integer then?
>Charge $0.01 per tweet

Guaranteed to kill twitter within a year.
Because crawlers spend most of their time waiting, you might as well use python's gevents.
I wonder if we are going to get to the point where people no longer "own" any traditional media, such as movies, music and games, and rather pay monthly subscriptions to have access to a giant library of all these things.

It's certainly in both the consumer's interest (massive library of content) and the company's (revenue generated for dated content).

I worry about the implications of this, ie. exclusive content released only on certain platforms or just the lack of control over the media you're paying for (titles removed, modified, etc.)

Interesting to think about.
It's not the math, it's logic. I see this parallel too -- legalese is incredibly dense because it is very specific, and its unreadability stems from (our) natural languages' disinclination towards specificity
We're not asking for perfection.

> Water is great to drink yet it gets you wet and drowns you if you breath it.

If we're going to carry this analogy to Dwarf Fortress, if water was DF, it would be great to drink unless you happened to drink it from an aqueduct that carried it more than 20 miles. It would also make you spontaneously explode if your cat also drank from the same container, and you would be able to demand that your landlord replace your front door with one made of water and would go berserk when he didn't comply.
"again?"
That's actually a good point - I like that I can figure more about the game by looking how it's made.

That's the point of it, and I think it attracts all sorts of interesting comments and exploration, like the massive study on the impacts of various types of arrows and bolts on subjects.
Are corporate accounts free or do they cost? I've always thought that they should charge every big corp that is using their platform as a marketing / customer service tool.

Does CNN pay Twitter every time they read someone's tweet on the air? I'm not talking about a "newsworthy" tweet (for example one from a politician's account), but CNN occasionally says, "Let's see what a random person on the internet thinks about this development." Then they prominently focus on a couple tweets. I think CNN (or who ever) should pay for that content.
I'm jumping on it I just don't have the kind of money, time or user base. Anybody want to get involved?
I mean the demo feels over-engineered. Create an account, activate account by email, and login... just to download a 1-page pdf. I understand that the point of the demo was to show the ability to create a working web-app, but a better demo would showcase something with more meat than a single file download. Perhaps a simple twitter clone with file attachments or something along those lines instead of a file download app that has no other functionality.

Thanks for the reply!
I've just run a small test (crawling a server running locally) and it comes out at 243 pages per second with one process. This crawls a webpage, adds its links to the queue and saves the URL in a Redis set. This is running on a Macbook Pro.
NSA guy #1: "Hey, Fred, Google released another Microsoft zero day. Those things cost us millions to buy. Can we punish Google somehow?"

NSA guy #2: "Sure, let's release our Google zero day!"

#1: "Oh, but didn't we spend millions on that?"

#2: "Yeah, but it'll really screw up Google!"

#1: "Okay, do it."

Google: "Oh my, thanks for pointing out that exploit. We're so glad the NSA is getting back to its mandate to alert American companies and organizations when it had identified security holes. And....fixed. Let us know if you find any more!"
Does it though?

If people don't care about privacy, then government is wasting their time creating regulation that doesn't matter to people. That's not useful.

If people don't know about the privacy implications of technology, is adding regulation the best way to inform them? There are lots of organizations like EFF that are much more effective with their resources to inform people compared to government. And wouldn't it be speculative to create regulation without first determining how people feel about it?

Don't get me wrong – I think privacy is extremely important – I just don't think government can address it nearly as well as the free market, which is much more in tune with how important it is to people.
There's a HD version on Steam.
Crowdsourced moderation always results in groupthink, without exception. If you don't forcibly specify and ruthlessly enforce the groupthink as something respectful, considerate, reasoned and elevated, then you will get Nazis, and you will turn into Reddit. This is an iron law of the internet.
Developers, developers, developers. I would open up the apps store and the API -- embrace developers once again. The media companies trajectory that they're currently on seems like that which Yahoo was on, and it did help Yahoo much.
Twitter should buy the Sutro Baths, renovate them, and charge admission.
1. Remove post length limit.
2. Limit the number of tweets per day instead.
3. You can pay to remove the above limit.

This solves the problem of timeline being unreadable once you subscribe to enough people. Ain't nobody got time to read all that crap. Once everyone is rate-limited, everyone can easily digest their timeline. Without length limit, tweets become more thoughtful.

4. Fix the UI. Make it easy to view replies. Make it easy to view embedded images. Make it lean and fast. That would give Twitter advantage over similarly bloated services.

5. Anti-trolling measures. This one is really obvious! There should be no indication that you're blocked by another person, they just don't see you anymore. If the blocked person doesn't know they're blocked, they don't get the satisfaction of being blocked, and they don't know when they need to create another account to annoy you. This should be the basic rule when you implement a blocking feature.

6. Open up API. This one is obvious.
I would try to eat journalism.

I would create a system where subscription to News on Twitter helps to automate payment for individual articles.

1. The lede or quote gets pulled into the tweet.
2. http://t.co becomes a payment-debiting gateway (402 Payment Required).

Basically, you would monetise the audience on behalf of the publishers who would be able to make their paywalls more porous.

Almost everybody would benefit from this arrangement:

- Users would no longer need to buy multiple newspaper subscriptions.
- Journalists would be better positioned to ask for revenue share.
- Publishers could gain a larger paying market without needing to
coax user's through the account creation and subscription signup hoops.

Edit: If anyone in Twitter wants to do this, please hire me - I'd be super interested to work on it. Wouldn't even need to be the CEO. ;)
I don't know what this statement is supposed to mean, could you rephrase or elaborate?
Am I not correct that 1.3 got backed out of chrome for the current issue? So 1.3 isn't even there now... Which breaks anything that explicitly requires 1.3. My fix would support all cases and not break anything. Unless I missed something?
that's interesting thought. i wouldn't be surprised if (big if) twitter opens up again and young developers embrace it for the first time (and old devs come back).

it clearly still has mindshare.
Informative piece on circadian rhythm -- not sure how it justifies getting rid of the 40-hour work week.
> His expenses are low — $860 a month in rent, $750 a month to Zach for his help and a few hundred dollars for utilities and food

Uh. The US... sorry, but if you spend like $1600 before food that is not "low expenses". If you can get below $1300 WITH food then I'd say that's low. Some people have to live with much less than $1000/month altogether.
or they did not communicate anything to P0
Many things come to mind.

I love Twitter, but it becomes less of a platform for personal expression and more of a machine operated tool for propagandists and spam garbage when you just widely allow botnets. For instance, do a little digging into some of the accts that constantly retweet Trump (Dems are no better). Maybe they tie back to alt-right blog-nets - not humans - which also managed to hijack the search engines to some extent. That ain't personal expression.

If they can't generate some new excitement, the BUMMER is, messaging is the future. I'll argue FB and everyone else will be known as messaging platforms - not a face book or social news feed.
I would look at sitecore. It's still .net, but it is closer to wordpress in that you wouldn't necessarily build a sharepoint in it, but you can build pretty much anything else in it.

Disclaimer, I work on the UX/UI side of a company that focuses solely on sitecore.
> It might be different in other countries, but I have to imagine that anyone in the US could get their hands on a Zero if they wanted one.

A zero, sure. But I want like 20, haha. Unfortunately my nearest Microcenter is 600 miles away. If I can't get 20 for $100, they're not really $5 each.
I use it and like it. It works well. I've had occasional network hiccups that caused brief slowdowns, but they're rare. I've never had a hiccup bad enough to kick me out of a game.
Show HN: Build and Ship Embedded Analytics
As long as the refi goes through I suppose. This lender quoted me the best rate and technology notwithstanding, otherwise seems on top of things.
Ah, ok.

Actually I find those cascading of build dependencies quite productive.

Sometimes I wonder if Pascal variants had gotten more love from gamedevs (TP was my Unity), if they would be always coming up with tricks to speed up their build times or force reloading of C++ code.
This is exactly the kind of defeatist attitude that leads to nothing ever getting done on contentious issues
Which version of PHP does WordPress support that doesn't support parameterised queries?

Here's a hint: Wordpress since v3.3 needs PHP 5.2+. MySQLi was added in PHP 5.0, PDO in 5.1

WordPress v3.3 was released in 2011.
Yep. You needed imps to dig out rooms, reinforce walls, and carry corpses (turned into zombies or something in the graveyard room) and loot (used to pay of your other monsters and cast spells, iirc) back to your dungeon.

You could do things like pick up imps to make them prioritize a task, or slap them to make the work faster (took a slice of health out of them though).
I'm not exactly sure what people mean when they reference "aggressive SJWs" but many would prefer stricter moderation on Twitter. Racists and targeted harassment is a big problem. I doubt that there is a pattern of "social justice warriors" who are seeking out and harassing those with mildly opposing viewpoints.
Black and White stands as one of my favorite games of all time for this reason. I'd argue it was the pinnacle of this behavior as far as Molyneux's games go because of the creature. It had a sophisticated AI that enabled it to actually be taught what was good and what was bad through experience. If it ate a villager you smacked it around and it'd learn it shouldn't do that. If it helped water your crops then you'd rub its belly and it'd know to do more of that.

It was especially interesting because in order to train the creature what behavior was or wasn't desired you had to catch them in the act doing that thing. Since the creature was an independent actor who you could only influence, you had to rely on the randomness of the AI to do certain things so you could teach them what was good and what was bad. E.g. you can't teach it eating villagers is bad unless you catch them in the act and smack them around. Such a shame they almost completely did away with that teaching-through-doing part of creature-training in favor of simplifying down the creatures behaviors to basically sliders like "good vs bad" and "friendly vs aggressive" in BW2. Still waiting on a proper spiritual successor to BW1... what a brilliant game.
You can send your kids to an average or even below-average school, be able to spend more time at home, and more than make up the difference. Education driven by the parents is always going to be better than education driven by a public school board anyway.

Which is better, having your son be the salutatorian of the average school district in a suburb nobody's ever heard of, or having him be 75/350 in an amazing school district in a suburb nobody's ever heard of?

School district quality matters of course but I think it's overblown when everybody thinks they need to live in the best school district within a 50-mile commute from the job they ended up with more or less randomly.
Google calls time on the Pixel laptop
Spontaneous 'dust traps:'Astronomers discover a missing link in planet formation
40 hr /week is anyway going to die due to massive lack of jobs. Governments/businesses will get forced to either layoff people or reduce hours. Till now layoffs seems cleaner solution to tackle less work/more productivity scenario. In first world tech sector where where 6 figure dollar salaries are common, less work even with lesser pay may be manageable scenario. For the poorer and heavily populated 3rd world productivity gains will increasingly cause massive rupture in social stability.

Just today I read in India increasing automation is causing either major layoffs or no new jobs in sectors as diverse as mining, banking, IT, manufacturing etc.
Ask HN: Is S3 down?
I'm getting

{
"errorCode" : "InternalError"
}

When I attempt to use the AWS Console to view s3
True, though that seems unexplainable. Vox had a good piece on it a while back, concluding that it's probably the sum of a lot of small factors.
This is literally the only time I ever use twitter: to see, in real time, what people are saying about a certain event. (The Oscars, Presidential Debates, the Superbowl, the début of Stranger Things, etc).

But the app brings in so much clutter, and the interface is poor for quickly incoming tweets...
Reconsider how much entropy a password really needs and why?
(I think you meant to reply to the parent)
Yep, same here.
I didn't know about Reddit Gold and don't use Reddit enough to answer this.

Even if mechanism is same, I think result will be different for Twitter.
Looks like it. Brief panic caused here.
You can't really call someone out on assumptions when your rebuttal contains "probably".
This feels more broad than digital media.. Car sharing of expensive autonomous cars means nobody will own a vehicle, the 'capital class' has purchased most of the housing as investment so far fewer people will own homes, all of the fiber and most of the WISPs use expensive proprietary equipment so to access the internet you need to rent their devices, etc. etc. is there any area where ownership is actually increasing?
Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers
Seeing it here as well.
No, it would require purchasing an antenna. You can plug that into a computer.
We're getting errors indicative of an S3 outage too.
My house was built in 1920 and I spend more on my car payment that I do on all my utilities combined. Even if you buy a house that costs a lot of heat or cool, it's at most a weekend project per room to rip down drywall or plaster, put in new/better/any insulation, and re-drywall.
Saudi investment money means none of that is ever ever going to happen. Twitter ain't ever going back from regressive left ideologies. If anything they're going to double-down.

The fact that Feminist Frequency is on the "safety council" should tell you enough about it and how useless it is.
State law is what determines when and how breaks are to be taken. In most states, there is no law that requires an employer to give their employee breaks, let alone pay for them. In my experience, I've had mostly unpaid break times while an hourly employee.

So it's common to earn 8 hours pay working 8-5, with two 15 minute "cigarette" breaks and a 30 minute lunch break.
Same problem bro...
It might be a personal thing, but if I had to choose between working for a customer A with SharePoint and customer B with WP, I wouldn't hesitate to choose customer A, even with SharePoint 2007.
- fix abuse & troll problem

- clarify community guidelines

- threaded replies

- upvotes

- groups public/private

- add channels

- follow anything, focus on live

- then I'd buy Reddit & Imgur.
FCC head Ajit Pai: You can thank me for carriers’ new unlimited data plans
Not sure if it's related... but I'm having issues with Amazon Cloud-drive.
4 things I want to see in Python 4.0
> It's currently a bunch of left wingers that don't care much for freedom of speech...

There's this idea that I hear mostly from the "right" that "freedom of speech" means "let people be assholes to one another with impunity."

We need to fight back when the government attempts to abridge free speech. That's what the ACLU is good at. But Twitter is a community -- a community under no legal obligation to include toxic users.

"Freedom of speech" gives people who don't fit in at Twitter the right to go build their own community that's as toxic as they want amongst themselves.

As a Twitter user, I don't want to have to worry about being attacked or experiencing floods of toxic responses to something I might say. Thankfully I don't. But I do see toxic content directed at people fairly regularly. Toxic content meaning: Stuff that attempts to make no point, just attempts to spread hate or fear.
> Http.sys also seems like a more secure product than openssl

How is a goddamn HTTP parser in THE KERNEL more secure than a crypto/TLS library?

http.sys is a fundamentally horrendous idea, see CVE-2015-1635 https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-034 An exploited HTTP parser shouldn't lead to RCE "in the context of the System account".
What are some of these tools?
This reads a bit like Neal Postman in Technopoly, but I think misses, like Postman, a few critical points. Most of them can be reduced to "technology does not exist in a social or cultural vacuum".

For example, what dos this even mean:

> Once decoupled from their economic motivations, devices like automatic-flush toilets acclimate their users to apparatuses that don’t serve users well in order that they might serve other actors, among them corporations and the sphere of technology itself. In so doing, they make that uncertainty feel normal.

How can you possibly decouple these from their economic motivations. That is precisely the reason these technologies exist. They may not serve their ends well, but they don't perpetuate themselves. Someone feels they are saving money. (As an aside, automatic towel dispensers have certainly reduced the amount of towel waste in our public bathrooms and I think the automatic faucet is much more hygienic and stops people from leaving it running.)

Or

> Go to Amazon.com and search for an ordinary product like a pair of shoes or a toaster. Amazon wants to show its users as many options as possible, so it displays anything it can fulfill directly or whose fulfillment it can facilitate via one of many catalog partnerships. In some cases, one size or color of a particular shoe might be available direct from Amazon, shipped free or fast or via its Prime two-day delivery service, while another size or color might come from a third party, shipped later or at increased cost. There is no easy way to discern what’s truly in stock.

I can admit to having been confused by Amazon's options before, but frankly the ability to get things I cannot get at my local big box and for less is almost always worth the occasional confusion. The time I spend reading and sorting is time I would otherwise spend waiting in traffic or looking for a parking spot.

Just like the ability to find information quickly without reading through many web pages or going to the library every time I want an answer generally justifies a Google search for me. I haven't internalized these things. I have made a rational comparison and found one to be superior.
any one get more info from AWS?
The "cartoons" are buried in the navigation at the end of the post:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-crash-course-in-just-in-...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-crash-course-in-assembly...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/creating-and-working-with-...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fas...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/where-is-webassembly-now-a...
Tell that to my manager?