skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oscillococcinum is just sugar. And yes, I've been fed many Oscillococcinum pills as a kid because my mum was into homeopathy - did my flu go away? You bet it did! But there's zero evidence that it happened because of Oscillococcinum - it would have passed away naturally without me taking sugar pills few times a day.
Don't take this the wrong way, but as a non-lawyer, I try to heavily caveat any statement I make about the law.

Would you consider heavily caveating statements you make about information security? A lot of what you say here is basically wrong.
https://www.thedodo.com/people-are-farming-rhinos-1592752412...

> Hume is also one of the people who sued the South African government so the domestic rhino horn trade could be made legal again. Why? It isn't quite clear, since people in South Africa don't really care to buy rhino horn — that market is in Asia.
I found the "tight" code collegues generated (quite possibly much different then yours) harder to read. It was pretty much impossible to read high level overview of what was supposed to happen without having to go through all the low level details. When things were split into smaller functions, I could come to unknown code and read it fast. Reading what it is supposed to do from vim written code took much more time. It was harder to mentally split it into self contained pieces that means something.

Refusal to use helper fuctions also led to a lot of code repetition in various (especially on click) handlers. When you have bugs from people forgetting to change fourth place where pretty much same thing is done, then the code is bad.

We had deadlines and I really think that everything would be way more effective if we took advantages of ide and generated code that express intent better and is composed of smaller units. Instead everything took longer and complexity was pretty much unmanaged (since they refused to use helper fuctions they never learned how to use then effectively nor how to effectively modularize code - the codebas was fine while small and increasingly unmanageable as it grew).
If I'm not mistaken then the NYT has shown in the past that it can get basic tech/security facts like these straight.
I've not seen a case that what Shkreli did reduced the availability of his niche drug to patients.
I don't know about you, but I have no desire to become a digital pariah and avoid useful technologies just because they may, at some nebulous point in the future, be used against me in some nebulous way.

If and when that happens, we can fight it then. I'm a believer in picking my battles, and see no reason whatsoever to pick this one.
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You're commenting on a release that includes CIA guidelines for structuring file metadata specifically to avoid US attribution... And arguing that questioning the integrity of file metadata is a conspiracy theory...

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_14587109.html
>Shitheads (am I allowed to say that?) like Shkreli will always do shitty things. But those cases don't drive most drug prices

Are you sure about that? Shkreli himself disagrees with you, see his website:

http://www.pharmaskeletons.com/
Greg remind me of Jared in the Silicon Valley TV show
>misinformation is part of Wikileaks' job.

YES! Because they are Russian stooges and they helped Trump get elected!
Listening locally for a trigger word != listening, recording and transmitting. The point of the echo is to have an on-demand voice channel to an artificially intelligent assistant.
This is what scares me the most. Anyone of his family or friends could do the shorting. No one will ever catch them as the President will ensure the SEC is kept in the dark or suppressed. He might not even know they are doing it. Imagine knowing we are about to drop a nuke somewhere (like NK), you could make a fortune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...

Potential assassination?
Interesting page titled "ConnectifyMe Research" [0] appears to be reverse engineering Connectify [1], which is an In-Q-Tel funded project!

[0] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_16385111.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectify
These are great arguments against super power private institutions (corporations) that operate in secret and are essentially unaccountable to the public.
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I would like your take on a more specific question: Do you think that Google applications (GMail, Search, Translate, Maps, etc) themselves can get access to the necessary kernel subroutines to catch information which is intended for encryption? Or would running a custom rom (ie. cyanogenmod) while still using Google applications suffice to mitigate these attacks?
Fair enough, the Seth reference was probably unwise. Wikileaks has responded to these claims saying that they weren't implying that Seth was the leaker or that the murder was in any way related to the publication.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/763565863861616640/phot...

(Although I don't think deleting random comments on HN will help stop people spreading the conspiracy and that wasn't the only point the OP made)
Though something that gets lost in the "aargh, socialist death panels" style discussion in the US, is that there are plenty of market-based mechanisms within the most "socialist" health care systems around the world, and there's a whole bunch of weird, anti-market bureaucracy in the American system.

So you're right that talking about rights is unhelpful, I'd go further and suggest that just making healthcare provision better, rather than more/less market-based should be the main discussion to further avoid the conversation bogging down into "reasoning about ideology, rather than outcomes".
> If we all now dismiss as unconvincing any information that contradicts our opinion, you get, well, the Trump Administration.

The complete absence of self-knowledge and high level of unintentional irony here is astonishing. "Confirmation bias and groupthink happen to other people, not me."
This is often overlooked, but very correct.

"Classification" only pertains to how the material should be treated within the government.

Once its out, the only penalty can fall on the person who let it out into the wild.
I agree with you. NSA or NIST should be tasked. On the other hand, its their mess and they should clean it up.
I'm still rockin Firefox 33 (released 2014) on one of my PCs. Sad to observe websites which fail and throw errors without any grace including big sites like Netflix and others.

Strange errors and broken functionality usually without any mention of my browser being the problem. That's sloppy development. A browser from 2014 isn't "Netscape 3".

Signed up to Google Firebase recently. Tried navigating to the console on my PC with Firefox 33, "there was an error completing your request". That's because I was using a browser from 2014. No mention of that in the error. At first I thought the service was down, then I tried a newer browser.

Backwards compatibility or at least graceful degradation and error handling is accessibility. Your site either has it or it doesn't.
The article never includes a good photo of the rock, irritatingly. Here's two: http://www.trbimg.com/img-5568f702/turbine/la-me-ln-bahia-em... http://media-channel.nationalgeographic.com/media/uploads/ph...

Note that it looks to be more than half matrix, with the remainder being actual gemstone.
Think of it as a keylogger capturing the keystrokes before the app sees them.
> Mention "Signal" in any article and you'll have @tptacek running here to defend it with any costs.

You made a new account today just for that?

You would enjoy Yasha Levine
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40yashalevine%20signal&src=typ...
I've observed a correlation between people who place a lot of emphasis on not being a chump and the probability that a person will pursue marginal benefits at significant cost to others (including myself). I think it's because both behaviors are rooted in a similar world view and economic model.

Specifically for this context, if Musk and Altman conspired to do wrong by someone, it would be much easier to 'quietly beat them with a $5 wrench' than to engineer and construct OpenAI to publicly serve some cold dish. That's not to say it's all warm and fuzzy, but businesses that can succeed on aligned interests are better than those that seek cut throat markets.
You're advocating for wealth being over the law. I don't see how you can feel that this is not a big problem.
One of the many reasons I drive a manual. RIP Michael Hastings.
Totally not possible. 1.2kbps * 10M devices is 12Gbps, or greater than the bandwidth of a STM-64 link. Not practical to either receive or store, even for Amazon, and certainly bandwidth consumption on that scale would be extremely noticeable.
I see, so most employees in Product would be his subordinate but not someone in a different organization, and this is typically the line at which American coorporations consider a relationship problematic? Thanks for the clarification.
I made a little lambda calculus with super limited possible ASTs last summer to see if I could get a RL algo to learn to program in it. It failed horribly, but it was fun and I learned a lot.
Makes the conspiracy theories regarding journalist Michael Hastings' death in 2013 seem more plausible. [1]

Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard A. Clarke said that what is known about the crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack". He was quoted as saying "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car. So if there were a cyber attack on [Hastings'] car — and I'm not saying there was, I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."[68]

Cenk Uygur, friend of Hastings' and host of The Young Turks, told KTLA that many of Michael's friends were concerned that he was "in a very agitated state", saying he was "incredibly tense" and worried that his material was being surveilled by the government. Friends believed that Michael's line of work led to a "paranoid state".[80] USA Today reported that in the days before his death, Hastings believed his car was being "tampered with" and that he was scared and wanted to leave town.[81]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)
Well, in fairness, it is a very solid product.

I haven't quantifiably measured the time that each operation takes, so I might be biased to some extent.
I'm the CEO of Pembient, one of the companies working on this problem [1]. I would be happy to answer questions on what we're doing. Additionally, it is worth pointing out that a lot of the initial research done on rhino horn usage by conservation NGOs has been debunked by Yufang Gao, Karl Ammann, the Wildlife Justice Commission [2], and others. That is, the use of rhino horn as medicine is not what drives poaching.

[1] https://sosv.com/why-pembient-is-confident-in-synthetic-rhin...

[2] https://wildlifejustice.org/cn/overlooked-rhino-horn-demand-...
Why would you be surprised by the fact that if your phone is compromised, even the best encryption software in the world isn't going to help?
The best thing you can do is give them a little food. If you give them money, it is usually going to an adult that is exploiting them.
This solution is sort of weird to me. To me, the allure of a static site or a static blog is to simplify the stack; To bring it back to the basics. Static HTML served by a good ole-fashion web server.

Adding the cognitive burden of "serverless" and/or lambda just to schedule seems to complicate something that isn't very complicated. Its almost like an invented problem.

That said, long live this static site generator movement.

I'm betting this movement will continue to grow which is why I'm bootstrapping https://www.remarkbox.com (comments-as-a-service)
What conspiracy theory? Assange, the person most likely to actually know what happened, has stated that the source for the Podesta emails was a disgruntled "washington insider"

In addition, former British ambassador Craig Murray (a man with a solid reputation and little reason to lie) claims to have personally met the source and insists that the source is definitely a political insider without ties to Russia.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence...
Huh? known_hosts files are hashed by default.

If yours aren't, it's probably because you have `HashKnownHosts no` in your config somewhere.
Hi all, I'm on the engineering team for this release. Will gladly answer any questions.

You can read more on the technical side here: https://medium.com/descartestech/geovisual-search-using-comp...
It's harder (but not impossible) to have complete service lossage like this in a federated protocol.

That's why you didn't hear about the great email collapse of 2006.
You often hear about founder salaries being set intentionally low by VCs to keep founders hungry.

While I don't dispute the power of stress and pressure to light a fire under someone's ass, I don't think it should come in the form of a person's livelihood.

For example, it's not hard to imagine founder(s) that have been working for years on something with no pay, putting them far behind their traditionally-employed peers. They may even have family obligations on top of that. Proceeding to then pay them low wages in the interest of motivation isn't exactly the best idea.

Granted, I do tend to agree with the ethos of having the founder being the lowest-paid employee in the company. Ideally that just ensures everyone else is paid really, really well.
Some laws are dumb.

There's a distressing trend on HN recently of people citing "the law" as if it were the end of any kind of practical or moral discussion.
Multi-process support for Windows touchscreens should be coming in Firefox 53, according to the release notes. 53 will enter the Firefox Beta channel this week or next.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/53.0a2/releasenotes/
Wait, what?

If you are running something based off of AOSP, you're running code that was touched by Google employees. Is your fear that Google is installing backdoors to help the CIA? If so, why are you afraid of that?
On the flipside, I, for one, view Uber’s regulatory maneuvering in a much more positive light. After all, thinking about the “spirit of the law” can lead to a very different conclusion: the purpose of taxi regulation, at least in theory, was not to entrench local monopolies but rather to ensure safety. If those goals can be met through technology — GPS tracking, reputation scoring, and the greater availability of transportation options, particularly late at night — then it is the taxi companies and captured regulators violating said spirit.

I agree with this. Taxi regulations might have started with noble intentions, but quickly evolved into protecting a monopoly at the expense of consumers.
The problem is that those people control an important and ever increasing number of drugs. And many pharma companies are no exception.
NYT is pivoting to a model that brings it more clicks.
This is one the few times I've felt actually disappointed in Thompson. He is exactly right that Google (and basically every other company in SV) is totally implicated with the same problem. But saying that Kalanick should get another chance to turn around the company? Look back to 2014: Kalanick tweeted out an apology for one of his execs threatening a (female, natch) journalist, but decided not to fire the exec in question, because "I believe that folks who make mistakes can learn from them- myself included." 2014 was his opportunity to turn around the culture. He failed, utterly and massively- and Fowler (who didn't join the company until almost a year after that tweet storm) and plenty of other women paid the price for his failure. We're now three years later and clearly the culture is even worse, and there is no evidence of improvement. Again, she didn't join the company until a year after he promised to work to show "that Uber is and will continue to be a positive member of the community. And furthermore, I will do everything in my power towards the goal of earning that trust." Where is the evidence that he should get another chance? Ultimately, it's that Kalanick is a high performer, the same excuse Uber gave Fowler.
* Proxy as a service
* Improve DynamoDB to support transparent data encryption and access log on data access
* Ditto for Elasticcache
* Scheduler as service
* Developer portal as service
This is certainly a big headache not just for munitions but lots of military equipment. A famous recent example was the Navy Seals blowing up one of their (experimental) Stealth Black Hawks when it was damaged while landing during the Bin Laden raid.

Edit:

scuttle; (verb):

sink (one's own ship) deliberately by holing it or opening its seacocks to let water in
Seriously as I am typing this right now, on Mac OSX, the "kernel_task" is using 50% CPU for no apparent reason and fans have been running for > 20 minutes
Absolutely agree.

As you get further into a project you tend to need subtler tools. But for the rough work when starting out, my preference is to be stricter, which can be relaxed as necessary, rather than starting out lax and reaching a point where tightening becomes Sisyphean.
Fun fact: this situation is also called monopsony (i.e. when there is only one buyer in the market)
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> CC0 is deprecated by CC themselves

As far as I can tell this is simply false. At https://creativecommons.org/retiredlicenses/ there is a list of "retired" (deprecated) legal tools, which does include a "Public Domain Dedication and Certification" but in the right column says "Replaced by two separate tools: the CC0 Public Domain Dedication and the Public Domain Mark." Furthermore, at the top of the page it says "CC will no longer offer these licenses via its license chooser or other mechanism for any future work" and if you click on the link (https://creativecommons.org/choose/) there is a "Want public domain instead?" link to https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ which prominently features the CC0 dedication.

So you can see that CC0 is still recommended it and it is in current use. Mike Linksvayer (former VP of Creative Commons) uses and recommends it: http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/11/25/upgrade-to-0/

> CC requested the OSI to not approve it

I actually read through the OSI mailing list thread about the CC0 dedication once, and as far as I recall the OSI people (I think it was Bruce Perens) had reservations and eventually the CC side decided it wasn't worth pursuing, see https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero for the OSI summary.
For me it suffices, though I too would prefer if "View source" just showed this same content. Maybe an extension could hijack Ctrl-U and display fetched source?
You guys sound crazy. RT routinely gives airtime to all sorts of fringe characters that other stations don't, it doesn't mean those people work for, have "cut deals with" or are otherwise owned by Putin himself.

As to "when did he piss off Russia", did you ever consider that maybe he doesn't get many leaks from there? If someone leaked stuff to Wikileaks and then Assange sat on it for his own reasons, the leaker would just go somewhere else. It's not like there's a lack of outlets that would publish such info: any western newspaper would do it. Wikileaks came on the scene because western media proved that they would not publish leaked material that made the US administration look bad, as the NYT's handling of Iraq related matters made clear. It was only after Wikileaks gave leakers another outlet that Anglospheric newspapers started to get the balls to publish government secrets, knowing full well that if they didn't Assange would use his own channels to do it for them.

And today they're at it again, trying to foster doubt about the safety of secure messaging apps among journalists (unsurprising, given Putins history of murdering journalists).

If phones are hackable they're hackable, that has nothing to do with Putin. Remember we're talking about the CIA here, not the FSB?
>although I can't imagine the CIA wanting to hack the election in Trump's favour

CIA is overwhelmingly republican, just like the FBI. So yes they would.
"I can buy a ventolin inhaler for £10 over the counter"

Ventolin inhalers are apparently available over the counter in pharmacies in the UK - where does the government enter into that?
I don't see that type of unprofessional behavior among the users I collaborate with.

I guess that's the drawback to working with Millennials. Lazy and time-wasting and always think they are new or funny.
UPS and Fedex pay New York millions in parking fines as a cost of doing business[1]. How come we don't really think of them as scofflaws, but we do with Uber? (I include myself when asking this question)

[1] - http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130526/ECONOMY/305269...
Strangely the most successful country in the history of mankind by all criteria.
1940-1945 Nazi; that is; someone who participated, contributed, collaborated... in the Nazi government during WW2.
> Note the easy conflation: avoiding regulators, allegedly tolerating sexual harassments, it’s all the same thing. Well, I disagree.

I would say there's an equal danger of conflating their disrupting regulations with innovation or progress. There's some relation, but it's not equivalent. Treating them the same is only good for Uber.

Or maybe it's that "innovation" and "progress" are mistaken to be only good things.
FYI was initially blocked , was able to view by copying link into google search and viewing the cached version.
Still does not address how generic drugs with the same chemicals cost a fraction of those from Big Pharma.
That's why the CIA doesn't operate inside of the United States.

It is beholden to the laws of the United States and tasked with protecting and upholding the Constitution.

But there are no stipulations against doing bad things in non-US lands.
There is no compelling evidence that Oscillococcinum performs better than placebo[1][2]. And, at 200CK dilution there wouldn't be a single molecule of the active ingredient left, it's literally just sugar water, so yeah it's junk science or quack medicine and no better than rhino horn. If you use it and feel better, that's the placebo effect because there's nothing in Oscillococcinum but water and sugar.

[1]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001957...

[2]https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Oscillococcinum+evidenc...
Why are you using such an old browser? Part of the reason sites are built for current browsers is that responsible users should be updating their browsers frequently.

With as many ways as you can have your machine compromised by simply browsing to a website that had some malicious advertising code embedded, I can't imagine why anybody would use such an old browser if they weren't absolutely forced to.
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Founder of DNSimple, author of the blog post, as well as the primary implementation author. I'll be happy to answer questions if you have them.
> Given Google's stance of not encrypting local storage in any way that I am aware of, this is fundamentally unsurprising. I have long been saying that Android is insecure and that storing passwords in Chrome is dangerous.

ChromeOS and Android both implement FDE. There are some legitimate criticisms of (especially) the latter, voiced by e.g. Matthew Green, but you're just speaking nonsense here.

There's very little value in per-app encryption on desktop OSes; it's security theater.

I shudder to think of what your "secure communications" app does. I hope you're a good lawyer. ;)
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