skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We actually received that question from a reporter yesterday, and I wrote an answer (one which is in the new version of the FAQ that hasn't been pushed :/) that I vetted against the other security people working on our protocol, so before I write something one-off, I'll copy/paste that and see if it is sufficient (as I'd prefer to not accidentally make any security claims that we are not prepared to stand by ;P).

> We are working on techniques involving "traffic steganography" that will make the the traffic used by Orchid look like "normal" internet traffic (such as web requests and video calls). There are also existing simpler techniques such as "domain fronting", where you send your traffic to a large company such as Amazon--one which uses a CDN to efficiently route traffic--and cause their CDN to forward your traffic to your servers; this has been used successfully against the Great Firewall of China in the past.

> Of course, we also need to hide the list of destination servers, as otherwise these could be collected by the adversary and blocked outright. Our current solution to this involves cycling through large numbers of random IP addresses on various hosting solutions, which we believe will force anyone trying to block our traffic to end up blocking large areas of the internet--such as every server being hosted on Amazon Web Services--which would cause a serious problem for Chinese businesses and residents.

> For more information on this, see our discussion of Firewall Circumvention Features (Section 12) of our whitepaper.
They came close with the 360, and then took 5 steps back with the One.
You can also use ABCL in order to get access to JVM frameworks.
> While users who run nodes can choose to forward content to anywhere on the Internet, we want to provide people a feeling of control ...

Are you concerned that,

1. If node operators have the power to control content, they will be held responsible for the content by authorities? For example, consider a node operator in mainland China who allows access to criticism of President Xi.

2. Unpopular content will be censored by node operators just like it is now by more centralized powers?
>so all you will need is the address and public key of another node (which you will need anyway in order to connect to the network).

But this begs the question. How does the user get the public key and address of a node without connecting to a public directory? How does he know he's connecting to something trustworthy?
I can buy a pair of spy glasses for $100 to record at 30fps for an hour in full color 1080, 60fps for half that time. There are no giant lenses on the sides with lights that show my glasses are even capable of recording.

I can even order those glasses with a prescription. They will help me see, and nobody else will be the wiser about being recorded. I'm not saying that I go out of my way to discreetly record people - I don't. But that shows to me these commodity glasses are a superior product to cartoonish looking Snapchat Spectacles.

For me, that is why Snapchat and all other similar recording spectacles will fail.
Going one further, when I was in the agency world there was a major publisher whose goals were buying traffic for $.01. they did not care about quality.

When I found out about this and pressed the agency team, I learned it was because they were arbitraging it into inflated reach for justifying their CPMs and then selling the garbage traffic.

This stuff is pretty pervasive and the reason why savvy media buyers bill off their own IAP certified numbers with some quality/viewability vendor in place.
> You make it sound like "more choosy" is a bad thing. Aren't all the big technology companies choosy about who they'll hire?

Let me rephrase - less willing to give someone a chance who may not have done well in the job interview.

> employment rate is not unusually low

Wouldn't that also suggest that finding another job won't be difficult?

> fire people for personally motivated reasons

Why would you want to work for someone that dislikes you and doesn't want you around?

> People tend to work better when they aren't worried about being fired

A workplace where people hate each other doesn't sound like a happy place, either.
More choosy means that work will be perpetually understaffed, and there will never be enough people to do the work, even if the company WANTS to hire more, they just can't take the risk.
The differences is those members of the press were explicitly given access and permission by Apple to do those reviews.

This person clearly hadn’t been given permission.

I don’t see how he couldn’t know this would happen, I wonder why he did it.
Certainly incomplete as it is still a draft, though I'd contest "dishearteningly". Also, why do you find it disingenuous? We're not shying away from what entry nodes and bootstrap of user clients is one of the hardest problems to solve.
Check out Tipe. https://tipe.io.
If he had a pre-release unit I’m guessing there’s no chance he didn’t sign a bunch of paperwork explaining exactly what he could and couldn’t do.
This is the boat I’m in too. My last PC build was sourced from Amazon at about a 10% premium over where PCPartPicker sent me, but i knew in advance that if I had any issues, it would be painless.

That and cheap, fast shipping.
I use KeePassXC for my password manager on Linux which is open source. I can't comment about web browser extensions. KeePass is the Windows version.
As soon as I see "Ethereum" I stop reading.
I dislike how FB presents their data by default, but if you know where to look or how to set things up it is something you can mitigate (unless you need to get view data into your ad server for something using Custom Audiences which they don't allow).

It is admittedly less of an issue for performance advertisers than brand advertisers as the former can rely more heavily on conversion tracking to inform quality.
People didn't want them. That's why they failed. It's that simple.
Would you consider changing "China" to something like "Chinese government"? Or, if I'm understanding it correctly, maybe something like "Our initial release operates with a threat model of an authoritarian government's internet censorship, such as those seen in China, Turkey, or Russia."
I don't disagree. Just saying that you seem to mix what's created by the Swedish unions to protect the workers, with the corporate decision to move production where it's easier to exploit workers. So not the same people. The union has no saying in this and would most certainly condemn treating workers as disposable assets.
We definitely do not have any centralized servers. The currently-specified mechanism to determine routes is that they are decided by connecting to a distributed peer-to-peer network that is modeled in many ways after a distributed hash table, at which point you do lookups of random keys in the hash space, which results in a randomized scalable lookup. There are mechanisms in play (and which I assume are already described in our in-progress whitepaper) to protect against eclipse attacks, sybil attacks, and some other miscellaneous attacks on the routing infrastructure. That said, this is also some ongoing work, and we are actively engaging with and being reviewed by people both in academia and in the field with respect to our techniques.
He wasn’t fired because the video ended up online. He was fired because he let her film the video. That was a direct action. As an outsider, I agree that this level of secrecy seems over the top. However, that is what the employees accept when they join, so it’s their obligation to hold up their end of the bargain.
yeah, what they need are programmable drones that follow them around, recording. Bruce Sterling suggested such a thing in "The Artificial Kid" - and I think we've got the tech to actually kinda do it now.
fair enough! and not easy. My grandparents, remarkably, were subtle and much more patient than I am.

I do not believe that HG's ideas will solve all our problems, but I do believe that recognition of what he saw and enactment of his recommendation will put us on the road to solving a lot of problems that are generally regarded as unsolvable -- housing affordability and supply, poverty, sprawl, pollution, water shortage, wealth concentration, money in politics, better cities among others. Necessary, though not sufficient. And it is frustrating that so few people are even remotely familiar with the ideas.

Two of my favorite recent books on the subject are "The Mason Gaffney Reader: Essays toward Solving the Unsolvable" and Walt Rybeck's "Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle."

I think there are solutions, and want others to have the chance to consider them!
Are there any public details on the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens?

Sorry for nagging, but I'm one of those skeptical of greedy people acting maximally greedy saving the world as a process waste.

Edit: typo
The devs got bored. Bored devs do this kind of stuff.
> If you have a captive audience of tens of millions of people, you don't need to create buzz around your product

The guerrilla marketing was to keep Robert Scobles [1] from setting the Spectacles' zeitgeist. In that, it worked.

I agree that after they had lines they should have started marketing in app. A smooth transition would involve selectively marketing to those deemed to be general influencers, and then working down to the broader population. As a social network, it does seem odd to give away that home-field advantage.

[1] http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5826657846e27af2008...
Why? Do you understand Ethereum? I'd like to understand it better
Hoping it will be one at some point :)

We first wanted lively.web but then came the .web tld disaster .

.next was chosen b/c there were / are several versions of Lively over the years with version numbers LivelyKernel 2 [1], Lively4 [2], etc. lively.next should simply signal that this is the ongoing and evolving project in the Lively family.

[1] https://lively-web.org
[2] https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively4-core
I've thought at times about contacting the CEO or the board of the company to let them know that their executive might be screwing them out of tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars by being lazy and selfish, but I'm beginning to think that this is just the way it's supposed to be.

Maybe it's for the best that they don't make a smooth end-to-end ecommerce user flow, more money in common folks' pockets in Taiwan and Western Europe, and more money in the pockets of developers.
No. What in my comment made you think I think that?
Reminds me of the Narrative Clip: http://getnarrative.com/
1. The web page says open source repeatedly. Where's the code repo?

2. What's your privacy policy? What do you log, and what could you log (but swear you aren't)?

3. What's the open source license?

4. What's your code rights assignment document?

5. Does this differ from "Tor, but supported with a cryptocoin to buy exit bandwidth instead of hoping for donations"

6. That's a lot of investors. How long do you expect to have to supply servers and bandwidth before the network reaches self-sufficiency?

7. What are the threat models this addresses?

8. How do you vet new nodes to determine that they are not being controlled by [DC|Beijing|Pyongyang|Ottawa|Moscow|Paris|...]? In particular, if one entity controls more than 50% of the nodes, is it likely that they can trace who is requesting what?

9. Are you planning on making this affordable by civil rights activists in poorer regions of the world? How so?
Has any wearable succeeded yet? Beyond the obvious ones like earbuds, the smart watch?
Well put. Was thinking over this in a similar way earlier today, but didn't have a word for the strength-in-numbers effect. "Synergy" is a decent word for it. :)

With the bit about it not really applying to armies... not sure why it wouldn't. If you cut the communication lines/avenues between units in an army, they'd generally be less effective at co-ordinating (less synergy). eg less able to mount effective defensive or attacks.
He reminds me a lot of that Abercrombie CEO who said that they didn't want fatties and uglies in their stores, which was a winning strategy until it suddenly wasn't.

To be fair, my impression is that this aspect of their marketing wasn't the problem; the Great Recession was the problem, because suddenly no one had 2 – 4x the money to pay for a piece of clothing that only differed from the competition in that it told other teens you have 2 – 4x the money.

Great Recession + fast fashion seems to be the real culprit.

The market for elitism has never disappeared in that domain. Maybe any domain.
> Your response however typifies one reason I'd never call myself a Georgist -- people who call themselves such come off as believing they've discovered the single truth that obtains social salvation, ie religious nuts -- who need to dump that single truth on people they encounter at the first opportunity. Seriously, if you want to be effective, and I want you to be, please tone it down.

What? Of places to share one's enthusiasm for Georgism, there are few more appropriate than in an internet thread about a Georgist town they're a resident of, after explcitly being asked for references.
Oh, I'm sorry: because I have been living and breathing this for months, it is very easy for me to assume context :(. Once you connect to the network, you are able to judge the size of the network to know you aren't on a fake network (this is a scenario similar to judging the size of the longest chain of Bitcoin blocks) and you are able to verify signatures of routing table entries (which have been built up as the network was formed by nodes verifying reachability properties of other nodes), which itself is more trustworthy due to proof-of-work and "cryptographic puzzles" which are used to make the cost of sybil and eclipse attacks prohibitively high.

Given that context, you really just need the address of any node, not the address of a particularly "trustworthy" node, so you can get one from a friend's client or from a random website. We have discussed some alternatives, such as being able to put out a bounty on an existing peer-to-peer cryptocurrency blockchain (one which would have to not itself be fully blocked for you, of course). We also have been getting interest from some people in academia who have a number of other techniques, which again are mostly viable because of the background that "what if we can provide enough mitigations in the network itself and use what has been learned from blockchains to mean you don't need to find a trustworthy node".
That was one of the ideas that we pitched to the CEO. Only sensitive actions would require 2FA. CEO shot it down, saying it would require too much work on the part of the customer.
And the company will turn to other ways of getting that work done: contractors&temps.

Maybe this is why the "share economy" is so popular lately.
What's the download tariff on Polymer vs React (I'll admit, I haven't checked library sizes for polymer since 2014) Do they allow for this 150k initial bundle?
One reason for this is because the Tobacco industry benefits enormously from manufacturing economies of scale. Take for example Reynolds American's (mentioned in the article) largest manufacturing facility in Tobaccoville, near their HQ in Winston-Salem. The Tobaccoville plant is capable of producing 110 billion cigarettes a year¹, and employs just ~1,200 people².

Let's say the average revenue per cigarette pack is $5, and there are 20 cigarettes in a pack. That works out to $0.25 revenue per cigarette. The Reynolds Tobaccoville plant is capable of producing $27.5 billion in revenue alone ($0.25 x 110 billion), for a labor cost of roughly 90 million (1,200 x $75,000).

1. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/23/business/what-s-new-in-tob...
2. http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/updat...
There is a possibility that Snapchat realized that aspect of the influencers population, and sought to expand their revenue base by creating another large use case with Spectacles.

I think we're in a spontaneity uncanny valley for that kind of use case, though, and we have to wait for the hardware (mostly low energy processing and battery) tech to catch up before we climb out of the valley. A lot of the popular content has some element of surprise/spontaneity to hook eyeballs in. I suspect a device form factor like Spectacles, or really, the "recording others" use case, won't take off for the masses until it is as light as normal sunglasses, as stylish, continuously records HD video and high-grade audio 16-20 hours before needing a recharge, and is coupled with management software that makes it easy to pick out what you want to publish (if you exclaim, "Woah! Did you see that!?", or more prosaically, "Worldsta-a-a-r!", that's picked up for a potential clip to publish, so you don't have to scrub through hours of video). Maybe coupled with an AR interface that gives you on-the-spot access to the publishing interface.

Until then, the "recording others" use case will likely continue to be dominated by right-place-right-time smartphone recordings, and pro/pro-am publishers/bloggers with scripted/guided content like what we see on YouTube today.
Oscilloscope Music Tutorial 4: Harmonic Oscillation, Additive Synthesis
Then this sort of software makes it recursive.. it's teaching itself...
If you can't honestly evaluate ideas, how do you know that you are right about any of your views? How do you know that pride is a frailty? What kind of standard could you even apply to decide "harm" or "benefit" of an idea?
For many years (decades even) starting during childhood or adolescence, I used to wake up exactly 4 hours after falling asleep. One moment I was sleeping soundly, the moment right after I was wide awake. It was so precise that I used to look at the clock, subtract 4 hours, and know exactly the time I managed to fall asleep the night before.

It was not stressful at all. I would get up, go to the bathroom, drink some water. Maybe read a book, a manga, study an algorithm, or write something. It was a very peaceful time of the day—rather, the night—to do something with a clear mind; no noise or other people around. I was not sleepy nor groggy and I could choose when to go to sleep again. But I knew I should not drag that time forever, because I still needed to get around 4 hours of sleep before finally getting up in the morning, or I would have a miserable day.

I never thought much about it, until reading about 'biphasal' sleep and how people of times past used to sleep like that.

These days my sleep is more troubled than in my teens and twenties and I have a tighter sleep schedule—probably because I've always been a night owl and I don't have anybody nagging me about going to bed early, so I don't. Somewhere along the way, I lost the habit of biphasal sleep.

I cannot say whether it's correlation or causation (let alone which way), but I used to sleep much better during my biphasal sleep years.

PS. articles like this describe me to a T, dunno if it has anything to do with it: https://lonerwolf.com/9-signs-youre-an-old-soul/
Essentials for a successful agripreneurs
It's a shame and a terrible irony that one of the most successful industries on our planet is also one of the leading causes of deaths on Earth.
This is likely borrowed from Haskell where functions starting with special characters are treated as infix. Parens and backticks allow for switching between the conventions

add a b = a + b
-- these are all the same
3 + 4
(+) 3 4
add 3 4
3 `add` 4

The article might also make slightly more sense in context, I think it was in part an idea for how to make infix notation more useful in Kitten: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten/issues/174
I'd not heard of these glasses before, but for action sports they seem like the perfect fit. I kitesurf so I can't hold a camera, I tend to clamp a GoPro between my teeth to film. Same with surfers.

If these glasses had waterproof headphones I know tons of people who would snap them sup.
They also have giant emerging markets around the world, far more numerous than Canada, the US, and Western Europe. If history is a guided then generations of tobacco execs can strike it rich by killing people, before the gig is up.

Edit: Reply: Indonesia meanwhile...

China controls about 41% of the global market, but Asia Pacific market overall is 64%. That’s... a lot. Then there’s India... Africa...

Still it is true that China is the number 1 in the world in terms of both production and consumption.
Besides inhuman, how stupid must an executive be to do such a thing? -- the firing I mean.

Even if it's "justified" by 2000 NDAs, no way this is gonna bring good publicity and/or karma to a company.

At least it's a teenager -- if it was like a 8-12 year old kid playing with iPhone X everybody would be very agree at Apple for firing the father.
I host my own ala, pass(https://www.passwordstore.org), and qtpass on windows. It uses gpg encrypted files in a git repo. Pretty sure it's as safe as gpg is.
I believe it's called Common Lisp, specifically SBCL :)

Live the dream :P
Paper bag reveals forgotten history
Is this a darknet or a way of accessing the clearnet or both?
Can you post a link to those spy glasses you mention?
Yeah, but if you've already bought the product it isn't likely that you need to be marketed to in order to buy it again for the purposes you stated.
I was confused because I just presumed this was some guerilla marketing by Apple and a way to virally promote the phone.
I just didn't think that the daughter could get away with filming it otherwise.
When is enough enough? No-one gets to say. For better or for worse, a race to the bottom is a coordination problem where the incentive is always to be the defecting party. This means that however well-intentioned you are, global capitalism marches on without you, your choice is to jump on the bandwagon or become irrelevant. Politics doesn't matter much, it can only stall the inevitable, usually at great cost.
> If you're using your brain more than the yoga teacher then it makes sense you need more sleep.

How could you possibly measure these values?
Or are they using reasonable leverage to protect themselves from employers who fail at their jobs (good management, training, obtaining and allocating resources, etc.) or who fire good employees for bad reasons (whistleblowers, scapegoats, to protect the job of the person you're sleeping with, etc.).