skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Patrick Gray's essay actually adds more confusion. His effort to clarify the confusion by differentiating the layers between "metadata" vs "encryption" is technically correct but the extra details ends up obscuring what governments want: cleartext

Yes, I agree with Patrick that framing the arguments on "math of encryption" is misguided. Yes, it leads to thinking that legislators are stupid similar to trying to pass a bill to redefine the value of pi.[1]

Let's be clear.... the lawmakers actually don't care if the most powerful supercomputers at NSA/GCHAQ can't crack WhatsApp's latest 2048-bit-quantum-elliptical-encryption used in conjunction with Apple iOS tamperproof enclave chip.

All that math doesn't matter. It's a mistake to think that government is retarded because "math is irreversible". That smugness makes people lose sight of the ultimate goal: the cleartext.

If getting that cleartext means new laws that require all Android/Apple phones include a software keyboard interceptor (the onscreen keyboard) to log keystrokes and send the cleartext to a government server, then so be it. Such a keystroke logger would then make the "irreversible math" a moot point.

Tldr: Don't frame the policy in terms of "encryption". Instead, focus on the "cleartext".

>The first problem actually has very little to do with end-to-end encryption and a lot more to do with access to messaging metadata.

This is true, but it's misleading because we know that governments eventually want more than the just the metadata.

>Now it’s all very well and good for WhatsApp to argue that it doesn’t have the technical means to do so, which is a response that has lead to all sorts of tangles in Brazil’s courts, but the Australian law will simply say “we don’t care. Get them.”.

This line dances close to what we really should be discussing (the cleartext). If you find yourself grumbling "the government wants to weaken encryption!", it means you're thinking like a computer scientist. On the other hand if you imagine, "if there was a new algorithm for _stronger encryption_ but it didn't matter because all the cleartext was available for monitoring", it means you're thinking like the government.

>Do we believe that law enforcement bodies should have the authority to monitor the communications of people suspected of serious criminal offences?

This question is another way of framing it which is closer to the aims of the government. They want to monitor the cleartext.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
If economics is the study of macro-psychology, then it would have the same problems as regular psychology: the inability to do truly controlled experiments, only with an even smaller set of entities to build your N out of.

I think the closest we can get is to compare the predictions from their theories to reality X years later. It anyone has done that, I'd be very curious to see it.
You do realize that without Western support current Saudi government will fall victim to internal opposition, which is much more fundamentalist and is not significantly different from ISIS, right?
nah, telcos granted free usage rights for the day. It's absolutely absurd.
Same except I am using Advanced Tomato firmware.

https://advancedtomato.com
The bigger problem seems to be that most don't seem to realize they're a branch of psychology. How often have you heard economic talking heads talk about logical fallacies and biases, for example. It's not that what they're doing has no value, it's that they're mostly besides the point.
Elections behave differently depending on scale [1]. This may be a function of the law of large numbers [2], or that the difficulty of coördinating scales exponentially with the number of people one must coördinate [3].

A small group of people with absolute authority to decide who does and doesn't get to live in a building can be more tyrannical than a large group of people forced to compete on just price. (And vice versa.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
Thank you for your considered reply. I did read all of it, but I'd like to focus on the following first:

> "The problem is that you're implicitly assuming that Britain will be no worse off and then concluding that businesses will spot that so that we're no worse off.

Let's be realistic: the pound is worth 80% (give or take) what it was before the referendum. That isn't felt in your pocket immediately, but the effects works their way through the economy. Sure, purchasing power parity and the economy rebalancing will ameliorate that, but it's in no ways going to eliminate it."

The following distinctions are slightly crude, but hopefully they serve a purpose. There's a difference between the productive economy and the speculative economy. The productive economy is based around changes in the material world. The speculative economy is based around opinions. Stock markets are effectively opinion poll trackers (opinions either baked into mathematical models or in the heads of traders).

It's no surprise that the pound dropped after the Brexit result, because we're looking at a period of uncertainty, which makes predictions harder and traders more risk averse.

However, in the productive economy in the same time period, there hasn't been an 80% drop in the output of the real economy. The jobs market is still strong, people still produce roughly the same level of goods and services as they did a year ago, etc...

What I predict will happen after the period of uncertainty ends is that opinions will catch up to reality and traders will realise their models of economic output were out, leading to a readjustment in the stock markets.

The problem is, as people have gotten so hysterical about Brexit, the period of uncertainty will probably last longer than it should, and this loss of confidence can have an impact on the productive economy over time. That's my main concern over Brexit, that it'll be the reaction to it that causes a longer economic downturn than is necessary. My only hope with this is linked to more people becoming adept at seeing through the mechanisms of the UK's toxic media institutions.
I've long thought economics is the art of controlling an unstable feedback mechanism into spiraling out of control slow enough that generational amnesia prevents greater society from noticing.
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SF has no finance companies.
First Battery-Free Cellphone Harvests Power from Ambient Radio Signals, Light
Voice will change the chatbot game ...voice recognition is already good enough...the true bottleneck is lack of methods to create generative models..at the moment all cbots run on a retrieval model.. it's likely to change in next 5-6 years..
Soldiers tend to follow orders. And the crazy gun people are also loading up on body armor.

That doesn't really matter, organized soldiers always slaughter an untrained rabble. The armed wacko thing is all about intimidating the police and their fellow citizen in a time of disorder.
That makes sense, thanks.

I've been searching around (self-proclaimed) 'all American' clothing sites - it seems 'shirt' -> 'dress shirt', and 't-shirt' -> 'shirt'.

I suppose it makes sense that as a new garment starts to dominate it adopts the shorter name - I haven't really noticed it over here though, except with polo shirts, but even there I'd say the more common contraction is 'polo'.
On the flip side, cloud hosted jira is soooo slow now.
>They didn't because most of the UK public supports UK being a monarchy

Of course they do. After all they are indoctrinated in its favor from an early age.

I don't see what rational people, starting from first principles, would agree to a bunch of do-nothings sitting in a palace, aristocrats owning huge plots of land that just got handed down to them, that aristocratic class having huge say in politics, networking their kids everywhere, etc.

(As for the "it's good for tourism" argument, you can have your palaces and castles made into tourist places even after you have thrown out your royals. The Palace of Versailles makes millions in tourist fees every year for example.)
I'll offer a point of clarification - and I do agree that the situation is a lot more complex than 4 dot points.

That said; point 4 can stand if (wages growth + unemployment drop) < (increase in the M2).

I haven't checked it in America, but in Australia the M2 is growing at about 8% p.a. I'm confident assuming total wages aren't growing that fast, because it would be very visible on the ground (people getting jobs left right and centre). The new money being created is mostly going elsewhere vs wages.
I was confused what you meant because I read it on my phone, where it just scrolls normally - vertically, with pictures followed by text and no scroll shenanigans. Then I clicked the link on desktop.
Death to C, ++
> Over time, successive economists slid into the role we had removed from the churchmen: giving us guidance on how to reach a promised land of material abundance and endless contentment.

I don't think the author understands Christianity at all.
The 1967 movie that got a lot right about how we live now
Did some research as I was interested.

Win32/Lineage[0] is a bit of malware (or perhaps a characteristic of malware) that steals credentials. It looks like other software has had false-positives for this before (i.e. optipng[1]). You can also submit eul as a false-positive here[2].

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...

[1]: https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentials2013/issues/5...

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
>Currently, a little bit more of the half of the population supports Erdogan and the other half hates him.

So, just like most politicians?
Just inherited exactly that.

The final cherry is that it uses zero joins, it's all done in code.

It's going to be a bastard to unfuck that mess.
How we read another’s mind by looking into their eyes
So do the Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost .

If you can get close to a satellite however, you can take photo's from up close or from arbitrary angles. Spy agencies might be very interested in this. You could conceivably also put in inside your cargo bay and bring it back to the surface for 'disassembly', though its owners would probably be unhappy about that.
Very true. Good concept of this currently on hn show. Input data like gems
I've been using Cloudant for several years and it's been extremely reliable. Support is good and they have contributed a ton of open source code and docs back to the community. The communication has been transparent throughout the IBM acquisition process so I feel confident in continuing to start new projects on the platform.

It's really easy (largely thanks to Cloudant) to host your own Couch instance but it's also really affordable to let them do it.
Stitch Fix is letting algorithms help design new clothes
Even though i tanked the CPU, i really liked the SVG masking demo, initially i thought it was just playing some video :-P.
Because Queen doesn't have almost any real power.
Economic research can be roughly divided into three subfields: Macroeconomics, Micro theory, and Empirical Micro.

The first 2/3 of an undergrad curriculum at most universities is all macro and micro theory. So, most of what an undergrad sees is prove this or solve that.

But far more econ faculty focus on empirical work for their personal research.

It's possible that we focus on theory because it spreads economic orthodoxy faster than empirical work. But economists spend much less time doing theory when they are outside undergraduate classrooms.
Facebook is re-sculpting our memory
Of course, there's lots of animosity between them because of that shared history. So don't mention the similarities to their face, unless you know them well.

Cuisine in western Turkey and Greece is basically the same, too.
I am reading the book 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck' by Mark Manson. Quite an interesting read. Also have bought Deep Work by Cal Newport.
That sounds an awful lot like the Global Liberal Conspiracy. If they don't even have a common ideology, how can they be said to follow the teachings of any cleric?
We've already gone down those paths. Societal expectations and legal precedent have been building for this since the 1880s where registers of telegram metadata were kept. I don't understand why everyone is so naive with respect to the internet.

The Government's main argument is "Why should the internet be different from the 'real world'?" Telephone companies have had to comply with these kinds of government requests since telegrams were around. No-one I have heard has had a good serious argument against this.

Saying no-one should have this power is great and all, but its waay to late. These powers to get access to this information with a warrant have been around in some form or another since before WW1.
Agree... most of the concern over money printing are overblown. The M2 money supply growth is in-line with historical trends. The hyperinflation many in 2008-2010 predicted failed to happen. Look at it this way: someone who shorted the treasury bond market in 2000 anticipating debt-related inflation would have lost substantial money despite the national debt rising considerably since then. That's not an invitation for wasteful spending, but it means that concerns over the debt are almost always overblown.
Sorry, been playing too much Diplomacy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)). They use the old spelling for historical flair.
Ansible vault, separate repository to the code and you're fine. You're up shit creek if you lose your code too unless you're 100% perfect so there is no distinction in policy.

Hell if you're using vault you might as well chuck the config in with the code. The vault key distribution is what needs to be controlled.
My claims are backed up by the code I've spent blood and sweat to create. Disprove me please because I need to know of scenarios that I need to solve that goes into vNext, scenarios were I'm currently not doing great.

Edit: and also: I'm reaching out to you guys not because I want a pat on the back or free PR. I'm looking for advise as to how to move from having unique tech to having a business. Is this the right forum?
Ten Fold – mobile structure that unfolds itself in 10 minutes
That sentiment from Trump is not "recent". I quote this from the video I linked (which was when they withdrew from the Paris Accord):

"I’m willing to immediately work with Democratic leaders to either negotiate our way back into Paris, under the terms that are fair to the United States and its workers, or to negotiate a new deal that protects our country and its taxpayers."
Fast indexing with Rust and Tantivy
That recruiter must have been pretty inexperienced to talk like that.

You should seriously question your compensation if a recruiter is willing to top you up 50k without a second thought. Chances are you are severely underpaid.
That’s true except fractional reserve banking means the lending of those “debts” out by the bank multiple times. Doesn’t seem really like a liability in the normal sense.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart Told the New York Times to Quit Calling Her Mrs. Putnam
"Groonga is an open-source fulltext search engine and column store."

We seem to be at least cousins. Thx for that link. I will have to get back to you.

Edit:

Groonga seems to be cloud software. ResinDB is a in-process library, not a service.

Put ResinDB behind a service end-point and you have "ResinDB as a service", much more like the Groonga architecture.

Orchestration of read/write in a distributed service-like environment is something that is not solved within the ResinDB codebase. ResinDB is intended to be a component of a distributed database, not a distributed database in itself.

Groonga has been around since 2011. I started on ResinDB last year, in March of 2016.

Groonga make monthly releases. I take long pauses because of my lifestyle.

Groonga is a team of devs. I'm an independent solo dev.

Groonga is unmanaged code. ResinDB is managed code.
> Again, the main arguments against the EU were not about the economy. Clearly you're mostly pro-EU, but do you see any flaws with the current EU?

I am very much pro EU. I also see flaws with the current EU, but to me they can only be solved by more EU not by stepping back. More democracy, less state-involvement to solve legitimacy problems, more financial responsibilities to solve Euro and Southern economic problems.

To me the benefits (stance in the world, peace, freedom of movement) outweigh the costs and problems by such a huge margin. I was born after the cold war and to me the integrity of states or peace always seemed like a solved issue, but as you can see in Ukraine it is not at all.

Compare problems of that scale to working out some bugs in a monetary union, which btw. is even working pretty well, considering that something like this has never worked before.

It is a monumental and exciting project. Some sort of peaceful empire, where every nation and people actually benefits and nobody is forced to participate. We are basically writing history. To me "Then Asia, but Europe lived happy and peaceful ever after.", seems like a perfect ending of the current chapter.
It want to capital infusions for major banks and QE-related asset swaps. It's not like money was printed and given to people.
Yes it was a "hardware lock" i.e. the holder of the spoon was allowed to diff their copy with the master on a file share and update that. The spoon was used as a casual weapon to beat idiots as well in jest ;)
How Summer Vacation Took Hold in the U.S
It probably would have been cheaper to erect a wall between Europe and the middle-east, and station guards on top of it. You know, how a border is supposed to be like.
The big problem I have with having conversations on Twitter is that I wasn't even able to sign up for a Twitter account the last time I tried. It wanted me to provide a phone number. I refuse to do this, as they have no legitimate need for that information, even if it is just a lousy technique to try to avoid spammers from using their service. I think the account was automatically canceled or locked or something like that, just a few minutes after opting not to give my phone number. I don't know if this is still the case, but it turned me off of Twitter.
If you go on Arxiv and Journal of Finance, the quant papers there are very technical (very advanced statistical and PDE methods). Not saying it's harder than physics, but it's not a walk in the park either.
Another anecdote (engineer here): We were told in my econ class how difficult the math was and I always struggle with core math classes like calculus and differential equations, so I was worried. I spoke to the professor and he asked my major. When I replied with "engineering", he asked my GPA, to which I replied 3.6. He then laughed and said I'd be fine. In the next few classes I found out that your beginner Macro & Microeconomics courses basically need you to be able to add/subtract/multiply/divide and find the area of a triangle. So basically any 5th grader could do the problems although terms like marginal cost might sound scary. I know in more advanced courses things like probability & statistics come into play and that there are many professors who know what they're doing. Despite that, I feel like many graduates probably don't know the background, just the tooling to use for a particular class of problems. As much as I hate to admit it, the derivations typically done in Math/Physics/Engineering serve a real purpose (besides annoying students) in that they show you how things really work and came into being. Without knowing the why, you're basically plugging numbers into a black box and hoping you don't do something that causes it to break down. Despite all this, there are some real gems in Economics that are very useful. I'm re-learning econ at the moment and it is helpful to know how markets work.
You forgot to add the heat units, like BTU and calories, and the units for food like "kalories", and the units for air conditioners, like "frigorie".
I honestly don't know what "sublicensing" exactly means. However, Canonical's CLA which explicitely says they can relicense at will has a special clause for that (and as a result, many people don't want to sign this CLA). I don't think that "sublicensing" (which is present in many CLA people are happy to sign) means the same thing.
Exactly why tracking and aligning eyes would dramatically improve communication and understanding in video chat.
Thanks for the tip in broadening my negative experience. It makes sense that big banks do employ some brilliant people to do some VERY complex things which would blow my mind :)
Short short answer: because those voltages are "nominal", not what's really observed in-circuit. The available output charge (ampere*time -> charge) is much more controllable during manufacture, as it's directly related to the quantity of available reactants within the battery.
There is not enough data to back test a trading strategy, no volume, no reliable exchange, so I don't see any reason to redeploy part of my capital from the stock market to cc, maybe one day all this will change, but until then it is pure gambling to me...
From 27 June 2016 to 12 June 2017, U.S. M2 grew about 5.2% [1]. From June 2016 to June 2017, total U.S. non-farm payrolls grew by about 3.3% [2]. Finally, from June 2016 to June 2017, total U.S. average hourly earnings for private employees rose by 2.5% [3].

(In case you're curious, median usual real wages and salaries for full-time employees in the United States, 16 and over, rose about 1.2% from Q1 2016 to Q1 2017 [4].)

Side note: these statistics were collected by economists.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2 13514.5 / 12844.8

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS 146404 thousand / 141742 thousand

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES0500000003 26.25 / 25.62

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q 350 / 346
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Anybody have a dockerfile that will run this? I'm killing myself trying to build one.
What would a spam-resistant successor to today's email protocols look like? Is such a thing in the works by someone?
Most people (e.g not hackernews readers) only care about how easy it is. Assuming that most people would prefer to simply use existing authentication services is accurate (even if it makes some of us cringe).
Yea, sounds like a baseless jab.
Why are you avoiding explaining what he was jailed for?
In Go you can just do "go doWork()" and the scheduler runs the function as a coroutine on some kernel thread, thus allowing your program to make use of all cores.

The ability to just throw goroutines at the scheduler changes how you approach writing programs. For example, say you want to process an input that consists of lots of individual records. You can run the input stream in one goroutine, then spawn a bunch of worker goroutines that each receives records on a channel for processing. Since Go uses real threads and doesn't have a global lock, you can get nearly linear improvement in throughout here.

You wouldn't do this in, say, Ruby or Python, where the concurrency situation is about the same as in OCaml. Ruby has threads, like OCaml, but their slowness means they're not really usable in the same way as goroutines.

Parallelizing apps by forking child processes and communicating input and results via pipes is something I've done a lot in Ruby, and it's a really awkward, heavy-handed concurrency model.
Most people (e.g not hackernews readers) only care about how easy it is. Assuming that most people would prefer to simply use existing authentication services is accurate and not remotely absolute (even if it makes some of us cringe).
It was until the 19th century, when it was somewhat normalized (census, etc.). Since the 20th century naming in Spain is pretty the same as Mexico and other Spanish speaking countries. All my known relatives names/surnames are without "y".