skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ProtonMail has a publicly available threat model: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/

Without a threat model (that is, the set of threats that one is trying to secure a system against), you have no idea what someone means by "secure". It could mean unpickable doorlocks, it could mean unbreakable windows, it could mean angry-Hippopotamus-proofing. It could mean that you smelly farts can't escape your pants.

Any claim of security without a threat-model is in the most literal sense meaningless. And don't get me started on "Military Grade Encryption", which is a term that at this point should give you a sense of concern, rather than safety.
if you dig a little bit, you'd see that the claims weren't fraudulent.
How likely is it that someone would describe Lenovo Service Engine or Lenovo Accelerator as Chinese spyware?
I would argue that it is odd. We assume there must be something separating matter and anti-matter, but the list of possibilities is getting really short.

Sort of like a murder misery where everyone at a party has a reliable alibi. Suggesting something even odder must be going on.
From my experience, Linux CPU and I/O scheduling got good from 2.6.x (also around 2007) around when AIO became robust.
I signed up last week and it isn't inconvenient at all. Security keys are only used when you first sign in to a device, after which devices are "remembered."
All this talks about how it will will prevent your isp spying on you. But what stops your isp providing DNS over TLS?

And who ever you use for DNS knows this data about you anyway. I’m sure Google won’t use it to spy on you though. Do no evil and all that.

Sure I see the benefit of preventing of anyone else along the hops sniffing or even modifying unencrypted dns queries.

But having this pushed as preventing your isp spying on you is bull (still have the ip client then connects to after the query.) esp when it’s Google who will be taking the default place afterwards.

I’m all for a more secure dns, just drop the “prevent spying” crap when it won’t.
You have no personal judgement and no idea on how to deal with bad situations? If you have no umbrella do you sit in the rain? No. You choose your company and make good decisions.

It's on you.
The problem with this is that you're attempting to do an event-driven app that has a network layer inbetween and a language that has very little safety sorrounding it.

Event driven architectures are appropriate for services. Just not a JS based website.
how can you claim that? the first could have been converging all these years to make zero mistakes the first time around.
Do we need a background in neurobiology to understand Hawkin's - "On Intelligence"?
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In the meantime, there is:

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
So what makes you so sure the studies demonizing sugar are not equally as flawed as the previous studies?
It's also possibly partly due to Steve Jobs and his RDF (reality distortion field). I actually found that biography pretty good. I think he did the best that he could with it. By presenting all points of view, its really up to you to decide. I don't think he ever said he is a liar (as someone commented) -- not sure how he could have done that. If you're reading that biography as if it's the freaking bible of Steve Jobs, then no. But it showed a lot of the sides of Steve that I did not know before and did not like. I knew he was an a-hole, but didn't know how low he had gone. I especially found the part about his first wife and daughter Lisa so very, very sad -- and he made Woz cry. What a guy.
Edited, thanks. I doubt the downvotes will be undone, though.
I suspect price segmentation is a big reason for that. Apple's always been competing against a wide range of prices in the Android space.

SE: only small choice, starts at $349

6S: 449
7: 549
8: 699

6S+: 549
7+: 669
8+: 799

So each "normal" size is available at 3 price points. Horace Dediu has talked a lot about price segmentation and umbrellas in the past; this seems like a perfectly reasonable strategy, and I doubt people are all that confused about what they want. Pick a size, pick a price point, buy.
Disclaimer: Sample size 1.

Laboratories definitely worry about cross contamination for reagent (or even worse, culture) containers. The vast majority of containers used in Microbiology labs are disposable and incinerated after use.

And they certainly dont drink or eat their contents, which was the point you were responding too.
Uncle Sam can’t dragnet root everyone’s machine, but they can (and do) dragnet surveil large email providers not focused on security.

“The government can hack anyone, just give up” is a dumb objection if you view security from an economic perspective. Defenders have a huge advantage over attackers that we aren’t sufficiently taking advantage of yet.
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I see, thanks. So they use SRP with the password to authenticate, and then KDF(password) to decrypt your email (as they say). I would hope (and they probably do) use the latter to decrypt an encryption key for your email, rather than using your KDFed password directly, as that would mean they'd need to reencrypt all your mail if you changed your password.
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Thank you.

That is all
"Zero Knowledge Encryption" is just a marketing term...
I wish marketing would not cross wires with real crypto, it makes me skeptical that they really know what they're doing. They're not the only company doing this and they should be called out for it like spideroak [1].

ZKP[2] is real branch of cryptography and they do not use it AFAIK.

[1] https://spideroak.com/articles/why-we-will-no-longer-use-the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
Outperform for what? Just the feeling of accomplishment? OK I guess, if you require it. For money? Very, very bad strategy (much easier is to simply switch jobs).

It is overrated if you work in big corporations, it can be invaluable if you work for yourself/small team, depends.

Time and HEALTH are the most invaluable things we have, both are shrinking till we hit 0.

Personally, I stopped pursuing latest gimmicks in tech after work, latest frameworks (which would be probably obsolete in couple of years) and one of reasons I don't jump into javascript bandwagon yet. it just feels wrong and like it will pass, hopefully before I need it.

If I can learn it during work, cool, otherwise socializing, climbing, adventuring, whatever has always priority. People and experiences. Imagine what amazing experiences and new friends you could have from those 250-500 hours yearly.

Logic is simple - right now is the best time of my life, my health won't get magically better, and life will probably bring more problems rather than solve them. I would feel guilty wasting that little time I have by putting in extra hours. So I don't unless its critical.
Hey Ronnie -- long time! We should catch up -- drop me a line (personal email is hn username at gmail).
I ran into the same issue a couple of years ago. We had an existing WordPress site. Issues were continuous paving over by consultants resulting in a overweight and fragile site with zero support for true mobile-responsive content authoring. When we discussed our needs with consultants the universal response was to just use WordPress. Clearly Wordpress had frozen this space with their just barely good-enough solution. The other factor at play was the rise of site builder SaaS platforms like SquareSpace and Wix. Their tooling was very slick, but not something you could consider a true development platform, i.e. something that developers and content authors would both consider truly meeting their needs. I liked Locomotive a lot and they used to have a page on their site that really nailed the WordPress shortcomings, but they were in the midst of working on their next major release and we couldn't wait. We ended up going with a cloud based, platform neutral CMS, prismic.io. We got our responsive authoring capabilities and fairly easy integration with our Rails stack. It has worked well. I think our content authors would say they would like more control over the presentation, but I would say that is part of the reason why we like it, because they can't hijack the entire page which inevitably leads to quality issues because the authors are not prepared to test their work in multiple browsers and mobile devices. It also lacks the out of the box blogging structure that WordPress has, but if you are looking for a more versatile publishing capability then it may fit the bill for you. The market has evolved, I'm sure, and I have not kept up with it. I would recommend looking at Locomotive and prismic or other cloud based CMS options but I don't think anything is going to emerge as a dominant CMS platform al la WordPress any time soon, if ever.
Both political parties have a different take on a solution. The right will probably claim that tax-cuts and deregulation will stimulate the economy and "float all boats", while the left will probably claim that taxing the rich will create more money for post-high-school education to help lower-income families climb the economic ladder and compete in the world economy, and provide more social programs, which also generate service jobs. As far as "deregulation", the devil's in the details, but the left generally believe such often leads to pollution and health risks, noncompetitive oligopolies and monopolies, and financial crashes. The right believes this to be an exaggeration.
> where you think of blocks of code as "I can see this on the screen" than "up to the end of the current curly brace," which seems like a legitimate difference in mental processing styles, not a consequence of lack of learning.

I see this a lot. I tend to think of things visually, be it abstract concepts or code. I remember code by how it looks on screen and how it fits together conceptually, rather than the words. I remember the "shape" of pages of specific papers I read 30 years ago that influenced me, but not the precise words - both literally (I remember what the text looks like and how it was laid out on the page) and conceptually (the takeaway of specific "shapes" of text).

To me this seems like a major difference in thinking that alters the type of languages I prefer. E.g. Haskell to me is noise. I can sit down and decipher it. I read many of the original Haskell papers, and implemented my own lambda calculus implementation etc. to try to get my head around it, and many of the concepts stick with me, but the language is too visually messy for me.

I think this distinction of thinking about symbols vs. visual layout is very pervasive.
Apple sold three generation of phones during the Jobs era. The carriers sold them
On contract at $200 $100, and "free".

Along the same line, the 8, 7, and 6 are the same three generation of phones that Apple sold under the jobs era. The only difference is that the market demanded larger phones but still some people like really small phones (the SE), what are now considered regular size phones (6s,7, and 8) and their "phablet" equivalents.

Also, Jobs was also well aware of the "price umbrella". They are able to get in the midrange market with the perfectly capable 6s line.

And don't forget, under Jobs, they went from one model iPod to four - the shuffle, the Nano, the "classic" and the Touch.
Multi-column layouts for data-dense displays really like this really need some way of differentiating the different sections. Something as simple as:

.link-section { background: #212327; padding-top: 1rem; }
.links-list li:hover { background: #1a1c20; }

Would make a huge difference in readability while still maintaining the overall aesthetic. Which, I might add, is pretty good looking.
Protonmail is not email, and should stop misrepresenting itself as email.

My favorite 'feature' of protonmail is that you can't access your messages via imap or pop, and their suggestion regarding exporting messages is: "At this time, you are able to save individual emails by using the "Print" function found inside each email in your account."

Protonmail had a very weird role in campaigning against the new sigint-law in switzerland, they used it for marketing for their service... now they say it's not that bad because protonmail advises the government on it.

I am very dubious of protonmail's claims. They don't release their server-side code, so nobody can audit it. There is no way to make sure a PGP encrypted message sent to a friend is actually encrypted with their public key only, you have to trust them.

You are also just one XSS away from losing your private key...

The reason not to open source the backend code is... terrifying: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source/#comment-...

What about the other things that are important, like does protonmail do full disk encryption? do they log ip addresses? They require you to sign up with a phone number if you use tor, but "promise" not store that. How can we trust them?

Their ToS states: "you agree to not use this Service for any unlawful or
prohibited activities". But hey, if Mr. Robot uses it, it must be good!

They also have a very shifty claim of e2e encryption and a weird de-facto disabling the use of pgp. They do use openpgp.js, but for encrypting your mailbox, not for actually using pgp to mail other people.

They do actually support incoming pgp just fine, but I like to think of e-mail is bidirectional. To be fair, that is something they've had on their roadmap, but for almost three years now. Giving up the ability to send pgp-encrypted e-email is not a great trade-off (and let's not even get started on their notion that you're somehow better off with gmail as long as you use pgp).

So, trust the server, trust the HTTPS connection, trust the browser to not have any backdoors or security flaws in all extensions, and trust other apps that can access the browser's files and syscalls. Trust us, we are in switzerland. Why do people think that switzerland makes them somehow better position to deal with legal issues? Anyone from switzerland will tell you that they are not immune from evil laws and different parts of switzerland are significantly more draconian than others. Tell me how switzerland is some safe-haven that you should use as a criteria to determine your opsec. This selling point is pure snake-oil.
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It obviously contains a business CTA, as I’m also trying to gain experience on the sales side of things since I’m coming from a technical background.

I would love any and all feedback! It’s all about the learning process right now as I try to stairstep up the experience ladder.
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It’s not changing.

However, above that “case 4:” there’re another cases, “case 10: case 28: case 30: case 92: ” without break at the end of the code. Unlike some other languages, in C and C++ this means execution continues to the next case. The behavior is called "switch statement fallthrough".

That source code has the comment saying “No break. Continues to next line.”
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If the purchase is for digital goods, would it need to be for Google Play in-app billing, whereas if the payment is for physical goods, then it qualifies for Google Payments API?

What does a subscription for a membership for physical and digital goods fall under?

Thanks for the pointers.
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On a phone with Google Play Services, I think Google essentially has root, and can access whatever they like, so it's possible; but it's unlikely. Google is more likely to read the email if the content is posted into the notification feed, or the android search apis.
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It's true that the columnar inhibition is not the best supported part of the theory but seems a very strong deduction based on many papers that don't directly support but show the same behavior as this part of the theory. We know that minicolumns exist and cells in minicolumns share receptive fields. But they aren't always active together and HTM theory provides a hypothesis for why. This very recent preprint paper out of Michael Berry's lab at Princeton shows almost identical behavior that HTM sequence memory would predict and I'm not aware of other theories that would have predicted this behavior:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/10/03/197608

As far as sparsity supporting robust pattern recognition, this paper details the math that shows this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07469
Yes, easymotion is very nice! Still, it's a cognitive overload I'd rather not have.
Is it possible that you're working yourself to the bone to avoid thinking about your life.

I used to work crazy hours in workdays, on weekends I felt sick and sad. I actually wished for the stress of working at a high tempo. The downside was that I knew deep inside that the constant stress was detrimental to my health.

For years I've aimed for a work/life balance. But I am yet to achieve it. Either I work super hard, or I spend all my days procrastinating.
Just use bluebird
Yeah I'm in over my head. He says basically:

1. We have too many programming languages

2. Goldman Sachs is developing some cities to do programming language research (ish?)

3. Jumps off the deep end into how MULTICS handles control flow vs context better, and UNIX isn't good enough due to a recession in the 70s?

Sorry, I'm just lost here apparently.
As I mentioned, 500+ is already financed by debt as the alleged other budget savings that were supposed to pay for it never materialised. (They amounted to populism.)
Seconded! You could add Tutanota + 1$ per month = you will never see ads for a <insert_item_name> like the one you just bought, plus you will be driving Uncle Sam crazy!
the gig economy continues to expand.
Oh, the many christmas presents made in slöjd! As the saying goes, "Ärad var gud i höjden, det här har jag gjort i slöjden". ("Prized be the lord in heaven, I've made this in slöjden" could be a best-effort translation)
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The HN community has quite a wide variety of views and tends to value civil, considered, constructive discourse (as well as refraining from commenting on down votes). Tone as well as content go a long way: there have been plenty of comments over the years that are critical of Snowden. Choosing to use a pejorative nickname and phrases like "HN worships" don't do anything to promote your argument. You're choosing to participate on HN, and are therefore part of the community and its culture. I doubt you include yourself when you say "HN worships", yet you're participating here. Consider that there may be others on HN who wouldn't categorize their opinions of Snowden as "worshipping" either. (And there definitely are.)

You mention the "divide and wreck of culture of this nation", which indicates to me that you care about such things. Are the comments you've posted going to do anything to make this better? Likely not: people who agree with you are likely going to continue to agree with you, and those that don't are likely to write you off due to how you're presenting yourself. If your goal is to help make things better, I encourage you to think on ways you might be more effective. People may not necessarily agree with the positions you hold, but they may also have reasoned and nuanced reasons for holding the positions they do.
Uncle Sam can read paper. If Uncle Sam is the threat vector you're better off using telepathy.

In other words, your comment is pointless.
But what can't be thrown together are truly great content authoring capabilities that support mobile responsive. Those are sophisticated UI heavy features that are hard to do well.
What's friction inducing?

What size phone do I like - 4, 4.7, or 5.5?

How much money do I want to spend?
There's also Dave Winer's "river of news" site with various tabs including Tech, NBA and Movies http://radio3.io/rivers/

Protopage is somewhat similar to Readspike and you can add your RSS feeds of choice.... http://www.protopage.com/
That sounds like something you could do with Lisp-style macros.
I've never had one. At least not one of the ones people consider social media. HN and Slashdot are both social media, but nobody seems to call them that. So, no Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc... G+ may have made me a profile. The others may have data about me, but they aren't my accounts.

I never saw a need for one. If people want me, they know where to find me. It's not some secretive thing. It's just more inertia. I can't be bothered to make accounts and they'd just take away more of my time. I am not even all that private, people know who I am. I've had many, many Internet friends in my home. One stayed for about five years, as she and I decided to date. Similarly, I haven't ever used online dating sites. That just kind of happened.
>Chinese are really smart about protecting their own economy.

So is the West. Ironically, the USA was one of the most protected economies around the second world war. And GB before that.
You mean make UBI start as an actual state pension not tired to years worked?
No - it's actually pretty straightforward. I think I should read it again :-)
But most devices will have it in the next 3 years. It's better to start today than to never do it.
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It makes sense because of the way that you say it. “January 1, 1970” == 1/1/1970.

Other formats don’t make sense.
Interesting, thanks! We will maybe make that an option in the future for those who prefer text vs icons.
> When relatively few neurons are active relative to the population, then such pattern recognition is robust.

At a high level, it seems that the constraint of having only a few neurons active is equivalent to a simplicity constraint, thus implementing Occam's Razor and yielding generalization.
> So, to do what you want, I'd have to make different versions of all the supporting documentation for each possible date format, and then get each version translated.

??? I'd never said that I wanted a label explaining the date format for me.

> For example, how am I to make a website comparing date input widgets for different locales?

The input widgets return ISO 8601 regardless of the locale. Or what do you mean?
Yeah I think that's true. Maybe the point my economics book was trying to make was altruism doesn't exist and it only appears to exist due to incentives. I agree with you true altruism shouldn't depend on incentive.

Also, I disagree with my economics book I believe true altruism does exist. I just believe people aren't perfect, but their desires and character can make them truly altruistic.
Apple has been beleaguered and/or doomed since 1976.
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which would be pure muscle memory to an experienced vim user

As selecting some text with a mouse would be for anyone who's ever edited text with a computer. It's hard to see this kind of argument as more than a statement that learning arcana can be enjoyable. It's true, but then you might as well be learning Rust or writing a tutorial on understanding monad tutorials.
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You seem to have good writing skills. Can you now respond to my post whereby I’ve made the claim that Snowden has committed treason, weakened US national security, and possibly ticked off a decline in interest for working for US intelligence?

If the public is aware of our intel capabilities as a direct result of Snowden’s action, it seems close to certain that my points are correct.