skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, and I am very sure governments have been doing that many times since they can force you to keep quiet -- and they got away with very criminal methods probably tens of thousands of times.

Hence, the good crypto is really only the most basic first step. Full privacy should be the second and a very important step. Fine, I might have an account in <insert-trendy-social-network-here>. Fine, my real name is known there.

OK.

But there are plethora of cases where having a user profile and personally identifiable information is simply not necessary -- like web search. Even e-commerce like Amazon can be mostly anonymized: you can pay with an e-gold kind of currency (Bitcoin, Ethereum) and Amazon can only ask politely another API if the goods are deliverable to your address (while Amazon won't have an idea about your physical address). Then, even if that mystical-another-API has your physical address, at least it's not in the hands of Amazon -- fragmentation of personal info gives us a small degree of protection, even if Amazon can eventually procure the info under the table. Hey, every little bit helps. Make surveillance expensive and many will drop it (not everybody of course, I recognize that). Again, every little bit helps.

Of course, due to a mountain of vested interests, nobody is talking about such technical solutions. "They" want your info all over the net. It's easier for them, so why change anything? The current status quo is sadly very logical.

Back to your example, thugs will just be angrily gnawing at their nails if they have no idea who you are and where you live.
Using brainwaves to guess passwords
This isn't illegal. It's no different then having a scholarship, these are sponsored internships with other companies, not with the non profit. you can still intern with the companies outreachy works with, they are just specifically supporting and seeking members of underrepresented groups.

In other words, all things being equal, with a big enough sample size, a companies intern's racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identities should proportionally reflect the country's population.

If that's not happening, that means some, possibly subtle or systemic issue is depressing the number of an under represented group. Attempting to compensate for systemic underrepresentation is not discrimination, but a response to it.

After all these are interns, not normal employees. Internships are meant to be education opportunities.

And diversity is definitely beneficial to a business, even if it is for employees. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ekaterinawalter/2014/01/14/reap...
Sure, that is an advantage but I wouldn't say it is a strong advantage.

With app stores I can view screenshots and videos before installing the software. The app runs in a sandbox and I can uninstall it very easily.
25 सितम्बर नवरात्रि के शुभ सोमवार के दिन इस पेड़ का पत्ता हर मनोकामन
"Virtually all of the Los Alamos engineers tasked with keeping workers safe from criticality incidents decided to quit, having become frustrated by the sloppy work demonstrated by the 2011 event and what they considered the lab management’s callousness about nuclear risks and its desire to put its own profits above safety."
Yes, kind of. The true advantage of Org-Mode is the extensibility, which comes from it being implemented in Emacs Lisp and living in Emacs. That's how people have been able to bolt on so many useful things on it like Babel (not the JS thing) and the export mechanism, and how you can have many types of useful links both inter- and infratextual. It's so easy to link somewhere in the document, in the file system, in your mail boxes, and to some piece of code etc. Editing functionalities help, but Markdown too has similar stuff (spaces before code, > before quotes, etc.). The actual benefit of Org mode in emacs is that I can really easily program it to do what I want. I use the same tool to digitise and store my prose; create PDF documents with citations and whatnot; store all my personal and lecture notes; keep, interact with and browse my agenda; keep executable notes from my shell sessions with links to documentation and screenshots etc (a la IPython); and publish my website; and all these documents are easily hyperlinkable, and anywhere in them I can have to-do notes that I can easily have pop up in my agenda, and then export to ICS or CalDav to access them from my mobile phone (there are MobileOrg and Orgzly for viewing documents on mobile, I use the latter). I don't know how you can do such things in another environment than Emacs, while both providing the same interactiveness, the same extensibility, the same customisability, and remaining resource-efficient on the computer and using only a single programming and configuration language.
Clicked link. Second item was a sex toy. Was not disappointed. Hit the link 10x more, always sex toys on first page. Yup, it is unfiltered!
The author definitely has valid arguments about web's security but I think the rest of his arguments are all lazy, anecdotal and not accurate. Comparing Google Docs to an old version of Office for example. They are incomparable firstly because they are running on completely different platforms. Office would take a long time to install while Google Docs are available almost instantly, they can be updated almost instantly and secondly include many more benefits that come with being part of the web.

I have myself developed GUI application using author's beloved C++ and Qt and I can admit its a far better designed and convenient experience compared to the web, but it's hardly possible to achieve the same amount of flexibility in UI/UX design that is available on the Web. I think the fact that things are changing so fast, standards are badly designed (at least initially) and there are so many inconsistencies are all only because web is a fast moving platform that requires the consensus of many players to happen and move forward. Also the amount of commercial interest and developers working on the web is incomparable to other platforms, hence the fast moving nature.
1) have fun doing what you want

2a) build up a portfolio of programming stuff to show you can program

2b) that portfolio should also demonstrate polite professional communication skills. People discriminate against age (both too young and too old). They shouldn't, but this portfolio might help.

3) Get hold of any of these books, and implement the examples in a modern language.

Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty by Clifford Pickover (anything in this would be a good ShowHN, especially if you put it on a website with interactive sliders) (it's available as a download somewhere)

Any of the A K Dewdney books eg The Armchair Universe or The Magic Machine.
I think you also need parenthesis, in mathematica they are inplicititally inserted in the notebook
W (ctrl--) δ₁ρ₁σ₂ (ctrl-5) 3β
{W (ctrl--) δ₁}ρ₁σ₂ (ctrl-5) 3β
{W (ctrl--) δ₁ρ₁}σ₂ (ctrl-5) 3β
{W (ctrl--) δ₁ρ₁σ₂} (ctrl-5) 3β

I believe that such a standard would be extremely non-extensible.
Sadly I agree, Homo Sapiens hasn't collectively evolved enough to recognize the dangers of centralization.

However, what we can do is make decentralized tech absolutely idiot-proof and put it in the hands of non-technical users. If it's convenient, fast and reliable, it will at least have an equal footing against the centralized services. Let's get to that point and fight the other battle you mentioned then.
No, it wouldn't. The end plus-sign must be at the end of the word.
Stuff like Apple's FaceID might help. I am eagerly awaiting to see how will Apple entrench it in their services because I am sure they will.
Compact multi-threaded data loader for torch
Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes (2001)
Margrethe Vestager on Holding Silicon Valley to Account
Airport police demanded activist’s passwords. He refused. Now faces prison in UK
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The situation I see this happen the most is Company wants to encourage high morale with positive internal messaging, which gets the echo chamber treatment from management. This messaging minimizes self-critical/negative feedback, which results in problems going unhandled, which results in them developing into worse problems until Company becomes embarrassed into taking them seriously.

But I can see how a positive echo chamber could help get something off the ground.
I don't like Trump and his administration, and I think they are doing bad things like you have outlined.

However, I don't think they are doing anything new other than being blatantly obvious about it. We had Eric Holder under the Obama administration who was supposed to be in charge of the arm of the government that focused on the rule of law. Instead he "... considered the economic fallout that could result from prosecuting major banks for their role in the financial crisis..."[1]. Before that we had Dick Cheney and Haliburton under Bush. There are countless other examples of naked oligarchism under both administrations and that covers the past 16 years, and I would not be surprised if you found other examples of this magnitude under Clinton, Bush 1, and Reagan. Someone born the day busy was elected would be months away from voting right now.

We are undisputedly an oligarchy and are on no path to change that

[1]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/holder-big-banks-c...
Is this dangerous? Genuine question, it sounds like I should also be appalled but I don't know anything about plutonium.

Edit: Answered my own question:

> keeping bits of plutonium far apart is one of the bedrock rules that those working on the nuclear arsenal are supposed to follow to prevent workplace accidents. It’s Physics 101 for nuclear scientists, but has sometimes been ignored at Los Alamos
I like this. It's a design that doesn't require fusion power and has very high specific impulse. I imagine it would be perceived as dirty though.
The web isn't a solution to this problem. Drive by attacks are real and easy to place via malicious ads.

The only real "fix" to this situation would be to make software vendors actually liable for the correct functionality of their product. Imagine no more warranty disclaimers or other bullshit in the licenses for "final" products (compiled binaries, executable JS in websites...). All other engineering professions are legally held to their respective standards. It's time we start raising that bar for software as well.

I'd like to see some software company execs soil their pants because they know that their products are lousy crap.
You've missed eru's point.
A fact is a fact. IMO we should approach the problems one by one, even if that means that privacy will remain a pipe dream for a while still. But we can gradually tighten the grip and I think every little bit will make the adversaries panic a little.

Example: make a strong standardized crypto (I still have to workaround API requests to several servers and hardcode TLS v1.2 as a requirement which is not okay!), then work on making a Tor-like net tech, then integrate the blockchain in the picture so anonymity is stronger, then probably put all that in mesh networking, etc. etc. The current internet is broken, many of us know it.

I am not an expert so my example might be naive and stupid -- but recently I am very interested in the area and I'd contribute. After I educate myself first, though.
The performance is apparently close to xargs (if speed is key, why not just use xargs?). Rust parallel does, however, have some issues that would rule it out for me:

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....
Me too. Particularly I am interested in knowing if the setup auto-suggests items from the bibfile when typing [@

That's a big one for me that I've only gotten to work in online latex tools.
You can say the same about Windows 2016. Recommended RAM has gone up more than 100-fold, from 16MB to 2000MB. Developers use the resources made available to them, that has nothing to do with the web.
Fun fact from https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html

> [GNU Parallel] was originally a wrapper that generated a makefile and used make -j to do the parallelization.
> Trying to impose cultural changes on people by external force is historically not a productive method.

Correct, but tolerating cultural practices incompatible with modern societies is causing local populations to feel frustrated (not to mention the imposition of guilt onto them).
Ahh, I see a sysadmin with users! :)
Or you just encrypt it properly and with a secure password you have memorized, and upload it to a cloud server which you trust will not disappear all of a sudden and upload it there. Then, you decrypt it every know and then to check the files integrity and that you still remember the hash. If you ever believe the account might have been hacked, you just move the coins to another wallet just-to-be-safe.

Another alternative (if you are not good at remembering passwords) is to give a piece of paper to a family member or good friend with the key and tell them to store it safely. This is no different then giving them a spare key or give them authorization to your bank account/deposit
Student loan payments do not go to zero as your income goes to zero. You still accrue interest if you aren't making oayments. Additionally if you have any sort of cosigner, which is not uncommon, then the banks go after your family for those loans if you cannot pay. I know I have turned down risky startuo jobs because my parents credit would have been hit had I been unable to make payments
Indeed, all problems in the world can be solved by SV software startups staffed by hipster brogrammers. The only real difficulty is which JS frontend framework to choose.
I think the modern world has messed up peoples sleeping, getting jarred awake by an alarm is unnatural and unhealthy.

I'm a big fan of the 'natural' way of sleeping[0][1].

Basically, sleeping twice, like two 4 hour sleeps through the day. Sometimes I don't sleep at all or only get a couple of hours, there's a gene that helps ABCC9[2] (also DEC2).

[0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

[1]https://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/overviews...

[2]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111124150237.h...
Canonical and Microsoft Make Azure-Tailored Linux Kernel
It's the most dangerous thing that can happen at a nuclear weapons facility. Too much plutonium in one place and it starts going critical. It doesn't explode, but lots of radiation comes out suddenly and people die of radiation poisoning. People have died from such incidents in the past.
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. Shirt Pocket would not "access/modify/create low level block devices". They would also be working at the file layer. If you mean that you think that they are implementing their own way of reading the filesystem through the POSIX node, I really dont think that they are, and also it would be crazy to try to do that.
My beef with this article is that it's unreasonably reductionist to conclude that DDG provides an "illusion" of privacy based on the fact that they're as vulnerable to being targeted by the NSA as anyone else. The issue of privacy is so much bigger than that.

If you use Google Search and someone obtains access to the data they have on you, legally or illegally, they could end up obtaining many years of your browsing history. If you use DDG they have nothing, and the most they can do (as the article states) is start collecting your search habits from that point onward.

I don't want huge companies to amass giant archives of data about me. There are so many ways it can be abused by a multitude of actors. It's a selling point to me when a service retains little or no information, and if it needs to retain something, it requests limited permission in clear and simple terms.
Here's what people get wrong about discrimination laws IMHO.

If you accept the premise that humans are anything significantly more than just a sum total of arbitrary biological attributes that they can't control i.e. skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc. then you have to admit that diversity or anti-discrimination laws are the antithesis of what they claim to be. This is because the laws actively reduce individuals to a minutiae of attributes which the people themselves cannot control and then judge those people based on this gross reduction, actively ignoring - in this diversity equation - personal character, abilities, achievements, and essentially everything which an individual can indeed manipulate and claim some responsibility for.

On top of this ill-defined diversity metric, the laws draw broad generalizations of groups and apply them always and only to individuals, regardless of the wants and desires of the particular individual. Thus, the proponents of anti-discrimination always speak of "whites" or "blacks" or "men" or "women", but at the end of the day it is a particular person who is given a job and another particular person who is refused a job all based on absolutely nothing which either one of them could control.

To me this seems to be the worst form of discrimination, for it is completely unfounded and truly morally malevolent.
Giant D20 Is a Critical Hit in More Ways Than One
America? Student loan debt has surpassed both auto debt and credit card debt in terms of percentage of the countries toal debt as per the Federal Bank of New York[1].

How many people do you know who could just shoulder double the car payments or credit card payments while taking in little to no income? It is not an insignificant burden

[1]https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/interactives/househo...
This is key. It's hard to find criticality safety engineers, and their absence (as well as management not giving a damn) was probably a key factor in the 2016 incident.
„The exact cost to taxpayers of idling the facility is unclear, but an internal Los Alamos report estimated in 2013 that shutting down the lab where such work is conducted costs the government as much as $1.36 million a day in lost productivity.“

Homeresque
Let me introduce all of you to the 60% people living in Catalonia who are against the independentism movement and who are being forced yes or yes to participate in an illegal referendum or face ostracism. This referendum is not democratic at all.
It's the largest malware vector because it's the largest software vector. It still remains true that running a random website is a million miles away from running a random exe.
The title and idea are great, the post itself not so. However, one part of my 'not to-do list' ist my /etc/hosts file. All the worst time wasters go there and redirect to 0.0.0.0.
Show HN: Give your progress-bar some brand style. This is for React Native stuff
Gravity Blanket – A natural solution for a stressed-out society
It's not even the largest

By population EU is larger than US

It's not even the oldest, probably Iceland is, its parliament was formed in 930 by Vikings.
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I agree with you that not everyone has the desire or ability to do stem, but the poster you are responding to accounted for that. We have to catch them when they fall if the open market does not value those people, but we as a society do value them. We shouldn't continue on our current path of telling people to follow their dreams or that all careers have some value and then throw them to the wolves when it comes to paying to live in our society. This applies mostly to the US
As someone who has been in the field for a while, I would say it's difficult. You face a lot of competition, meaning there is someone out there who is younger and can do it for cheaper. You also face older people who can do it better and faster than you.

Like any other business, I'd only recommend it if you know your competitors and are convinced you can do it 10x better than them.

If you're decent you probably make enough to pay the bills and have a nice car, and it's more profitable than, say, running a restaurant. So I wouldn't say no.

Whether it's better than working for a web dev shop depends on how good you are at the business aspects.
Indeed, check out the infamous Demon Core:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
Introducing another location based chat app, fully anonymous
Hi hackers!

Today I'm very excited about introducing new app!

The app, allows people to chat with others in the same area with anonymously. This app alike snapchat for ideas. You can chat others with same trend topic, snap ideas, even ask a question to the whole country!

Tick has privacy for preventing anything dangerous from occurring because visiting the site and allowing your location pinpoints your exact location. By default, Tick blurs your location.

Tick's main aim is to removing prejudgments. Best for freedom, discuss an idea. Without harassment, without upsetting others.

find it here http://tick.chat
source code https://github.com/cagataycali/tick.chat

Thanks
Is Constant Corporate Monitoring Killing Morale?
By itself, per se, no. But I imagine when dealing with weapons grade plutonium you want belts and suspenders turned to eleven. So such breaches of protocols are indeed serious business.
>Even if you're right, these sort of boilerplate talking points don't serve good conversation

This criticism makes no sense. If these were "boilerplate talking points" they would be somewhat well known and you would probably be at least vaguely aware of their veracity.

>I hope it's clear that this is not a defense of Summers

Explicit condemnation of the sharing of a series of contextual facts about a public figure under discussion in the name of the vaguest of vague ideals - "good conversation"?

It actually does seem like a defense of Larry Summers.
Nope, building stuff and learnign is more accessible then ever if that is you wish. It is also much much cheaper. You are nor special geek anymore for making nice looking Web and you don't count as techie for chatting with kids over IRC anymore - anyone does that now over facebook. That is not because geeks lost to suits, but because it is easy and masses know that.

The original "geek" hobbies are mainstream now.

Then again, I always found geeks vs suits immature and hypocritical. Suits are stupid cause they judge people by cloth, but we won't hire someone who listened parents advice and came in suit not knowing it is uncool. Totally.
The author is as quick to describe it as a "natural malfunction" as he is to his findings of his toy models to large complex societies. Can his analogy be applied on a different order of organization? Cells have very limited means of communicating with each other like this model, and in multi-cellular organism, they have a tendency to cooperate with things that share their code. Could this be said to be a malfunction?
I smell an ICO.
I think the fact that most facebook users only access it trough mobile is because of the general shift to mobile. Even most web usage is now on mobile:
example source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/11/01/mobile-web-...
EN][Keynote] Towards Ruby 3x3 Performance / Vladimir Makarov Vnmakarov
I don’t know for sure, but I thought I read somewhere it was called “tickling the dragon’s tail”?
A friend and I made www.timetaco.com, which gives you a countdown to an event you specify, and can send you a notification a few minutes earlier. I think that's one of the few legit use cases I've seen.
Instagram mentality dies hard.
We think we know more than we do–including how machines will behave
I love org-mode, but have to write GH flavoured markdown for work. It really is a second class citizen in comparison.

Org tables are sublime. I quite often fire up orgtbl-mode just to create tables easily in other text documents.

Writing code blocks, in a
language's major mode, is amazing. Just C-c ' and you're away, complete with your emacs tool chain, which for me means I get Python syntax highlighting, autocomplete and a PEP-8 checker. Then you can use babel to present your output.

Export to html, pdf, odf works brilliantly, and I can specify a CSS sheet to style it however I want.

And lastly there's https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal which let's me make slide decks effortlessly.