skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Folks seem to like my "polluting a river" analogy in the parent comment.

Yes, definitely!

Eben Moglen makes exactly this point in his lecture, Snowden and the Future Part III. He puts it as privacy being 'ecological not transactional', and uses 'pollution' as you have.

I can't resist an extended quote; Moglen puts it very eloquently:

> Those who wish to earn off you want to define privacy as a thing you transact about with them, just the two of you. They offer you free email service, in response to which you let them read all the mail, and that's that. It's just a transaction between two parties. They offer you free web hosting for your social communications, in return for watching everybody look at everything. They assert that's a transaction in which only the parties themselves are engaged.

> This is a convenient fraudulence. Another misdirection, misleading, and plain lying proposition. Because — as I suggested in the analytic definition of the components of privacy — privacy is always a relation among people. It is not transactional, an agreement between a listener or a spy or a peephole keeper and the person being spied on.

> If you accept this supposedly bilateral offer, to provide email service for you for free as long as it can all be read, then everybody who corresponds with you has been subjected to the bargain, which was supposedly bilateral in nature.

Full transcript+video+audio at http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html
افضل شركة مكافحة حشرات بالمدينة المنورة
So how precise would this make our location?

Could I replace my 3D-mouse by a cellphone using this technique?
The fun part is the conference he started this in (Geekcon) didn't have internet this year. Very appropriate :)
Perhaps that's the reason why it's the only model that's sold out.
The other thing is, you can string wires along the rails relatively easily, and power everything directly with electricity - which offers substantial savings from efficiency of large scale power generation, even accounting for distribution losses. Better yet, you can then use regenerative braking, and feed energy back into the line.

I do believe there's some benefit from the tracks themselves as well, though. Surely there's a lot less friction (per ton of weight) between the train wheels and steel rails, than there is between truck tires and the road?
It's as if he was a musician and decided to release a glam metal album today

There's still plenty of interest in glam metal. Steel Panther are doing well, and back in 2014/2015 when Mötley Crüe did their "final tour" they were one of the best selling acts during that period.

It might be better to say that "his sense of what niche to target, and how to target that niche, wasn't as well developed as it should be". In the same sense that you can make money selling glam-metal today, he probably can make money with a pixel-art dungeon crawler, if he can figure out how to target the specific group of people who are into that sort of thing.
Thank you for pointing out the difference, I learned it today.

See a good Reddit post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uj2qe/difference_...

However, I still don't really get the usage difference between SSS and multisig. In a M of N situation, you give N secrets to N people, and M people together can spend the funds.

In my mind, Shamir secret sharing wallets (e.g. Armory) belong to the family of multisig wallets.

It would be nice if you could elaborate on that point.
I'm happy to use a service that is not Gmail or Outlook. And I like the fact that I can use my custom domain easily.

In the end I'm not really using it though, simply because none of my contacts uses it. In that case ProtonMail is simply begging the question when it comes to privacy and security:

You can set an expiry for emails to non-Protonmail recipients, meaning they just receive a link to the contents of the email. Obviously you must also password protect it (otherwise gmail / outlook will just follow the link). Now the point is: how do you safely communicate the password?

Either you know how to safely communicate a password; in that case why not send the message without ProtonMail? Or you do not know how to safely communicate a password; what security does ProtonMail offer then?
Arguing hasn't much success, what I recommend is cruel but perhaps work. Get some "not too private" but definitely not publicated photos of her and tell you found them online. Maybe you can make a fake website as well. Ask the question her if this could be stolen what else they can access.
I did consider it. But the lead partner jumped through some hoops to get me admitted directly as an outsider (I had never worked in a big four). To take that job with an intent to leave in a year or two would have reflected poorly on him and me.
I would go more with, a lot of sad, fat kids at home, discovered the world of computers, where they could shine, because nobody cared how they looked in the real world, it only mattered what they could do. And this stereotype definitely still exists, I would be curious, how many of the HN crowd fit into it, but I can understand, that nobody wants to out himself like that.

edit: and I believe every fat person, knows and knew, that being fat is bad, but when you are sad and eating is your allmost only joy, what can you do? Starving and give up that little bit of happiness?
> we're seeing 'this eu realpolitik is unfair!' arguments from the UK

No, you're not, if "the UK" is the government and London elite. Brexit voters are a demographic of their own, in a nation run by another demographic hostile to them.

> keep the high-paying jobs for ourselves

isn't the issue average wages vs top wage jobs? ie what the wage of unskilled labour is. Which demographic is saying "Oh damn.. well let's bring back.. Oh wait no.."? factory workers, or owners?

> Literacy in India

EU would require you prioritise a Pole over an Indian immigrant, it is protectionism at a European scope.
The ? operator used to be the try! macro: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/error-handling....

It's used for shortcut error handling: when for instance you receive an error result from opening a file, you usually want to also return with an error. It was used so often that the ? operator was introduced as a shortcut. Now the operator is being extended to Option<T>, which works similar to Result<T, ()>.
My dad was in computers, but more on the sales / it solution design side. Regardless the exposure was there, and when I was about 8 or 9 or so I had saved for a year of diligently doing chores and got my Vic 20 in the early 80s

I was never going to be anything else than a programmer, although it took me a while to realise it. :)

Today I have a son age 7 and he's on Tynker, and Dash & Dot. I reckon programming is going to be more of a skill to have which can then become the basis for other engineering things, we'll see I guess - but he'll have that from an early age at least.

(FWIW, I was so impressed to see Tynker introduce pub sub events in their courses early on. A lot of work places could do well to use such patterns..)
4 months of expenses, not necessarily 4 months of full-time-employment income.
And as a result the US federal debt more than doubled in the same period.
Yes, absolutely. That sounds like valuable expertise that involves both business and engineering matters.
What people like you[1] are missing is that Internet providers all benefit massively from regulation that PREVENTS competitors from threatening them. NN rules are just a counterweight to all that mess.

There is no way in hell that we are going to see real competition between ISPs in Amarica this year, next year, or five years from now.

We all want it, but it’s not going to happen (obvious, even to a casual observer).

So tell you what: let’s get competition first, and then talk about eliminating net neutrality rules. Because doing the latter certainly won’t accomplish the former.

Your argument is exactly like “We don’t need laws regulating guns, we just need people to stop shooting people with them.” True and helpful, as long as we live in a fantasy world instead of this actual one.

[1] That is, people who keep trotting out this “competition is better than regulation” trope, in the context of net neutrality, where it has relevance only in fantasy scenarios (e.g. a superhero named MarketMan appears to blast everybody with his Competition Ray, and somehow open up an industry that is more protected from competition by regulation than almost any other that exists).
Why is it that he's so popular on HN? Did I miss a recent front page post or something?

I swear every time I'm in a nutrition related thread I see somebody mention his name or a book he wrote or talk he did. I used to be pretty deep into weightlifting and nutrition, and I don't know that I ever once ran into his name in all my reading, and I spent a stupid amount of time reading about macro + micro nutrients.
It won't happen anytime soon because PoS is still theoretical and might even be impossible to do securely.
Both books are filled with pseudoscience and unfounded speculation. As with any "avoid these specific foodstuffs!" diet, it is destined to fail, because we humans are imperfect, we will not be able to adhere to such diets in the long term, and we will do everything in our power to find loopholes and excuses.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/wheat-belly-arguments-are-based-on-sh...

The only diet* I've had any luck with is the No S Diet: No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds, Except (sometimes) on days that start with "S".

So while I agree that cutting out added sugars is a damn good idea, I very much disagree with the unfounded "all carbs and grains are BAD!" alarmism.

It's not perfect, it doesn't make huge promises and it's not going to make the weight magically disappear instantly or even over a period of weeks, it's a long-term thing. But it is straight-forward and (most importantly) relatively easy to adhere to, and it doesn't require massive amount of effort, like diets where you have to count every calorie and in-depth micromanage your nutrients. Of course there is plenty of room for cheating (you could eat a whole plate of chocolate and call it a "meal"), but that's a fault of all diets where you're not actively forced by someone else to adhere to the rules.

Short-term diets are stupid and counterproductive. We don't need diets or temporary crash weight loss, which just leads to yo-yoing. We need actual, lasting lifestyle changes to make sure the weight stays off and we stay healthy.

* http://nosdiet.com/
No, I am a skeptic, not a Marxist. I try to keep this question of Einstein in mind: "What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?" We never know how much we are missing, what points of view will come and go back and forth between unrecognized and undeniable.

I've been following these fashions for some time (I can trace my skepticism to reading Parkinson's Law when it was fairly new and I was 11 years old). When I was taking my degree in economics, the theory of the firm said that the firm exists to cooperatively advance the combined interests of its suppliers of capital, its suppliers of labor, and its customers. Later, that was expanded to also recognize the reasonable expectations of other 'stakeholders.' The apotheosis of wealth has changed that so much that deciding how much we have gained or lost is much like the index-number problem in economics -- unresolvable. We cannot value what we have today by standards that we used to embrace, nor can we value what we used to have according to today's standards. We cannot not change, but changes over time confound the problem of evaluating change.

I might suggest that the single biggest cause of the runaway worship of vast wealth was the arrival of the New Hampshire lottery, the first modern lottery in the 50 states, subsequently imitated by almost all the others, in 1964. Now the man in the street can identify and sympathize with the millionaire because it is only a matter of time until the right numbers come out (lottery investments in the USA are now around $1.00 per capita per day). Belief in American capitalism runs on optimism; optimism and denial sustain each other.

This too shall pass.
Confounding effects.

Mum works in military => lives near military base => more likely to get job in military than general population (regardless of parents)
If one is to write such simple code in unsafe mode, might as well just use C!

We have https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html#method.as_b... for accessing a str bytewise. No need for pointers and `unsafe`.

The whole point of Rust is being safer and higher-level than C, and if you don't want to use its features, there is no improvement over C.
So it's not "more expensive to keep safe", it's "more expensive to use as a trading asset", which is completely different.
Your suggestion sounds very much like that of a Silicon Valley start-up guy ("Machine Learning to the rescue!") but I believe here a deterministic detection of the underlying drive, possibly tied to a warning on start-up, would be easier to code, less bug-prone, and faster.

OTOH, if you speak about the general problem of optimizing configuration, then I distinctly recall having read something about automatic server configuration, IMO on AWS, but quite possibly only as a feature request.
Even If You Think You Don’t Know Micro Apps, You Already Do
> I mean, that's like

No, it isn't. Spa membership doesn't dictate what you cannot do outside the spa. Spas do not collude other competing spas to exclude you from interacting with them.
Isro's plan: A rocket that can be made in 3 days
Microsoft caught flack not merely for including IE, but also for requiring OEMs like Dell to set IE as the default browser. Google deserves the same flack for e.g. their requirement that OEMs set Google Search as the default search engine.
> The webcrypto api also can't stop the server from sending malicious javascript to a user which when run uses the webcrypto key to decrypt the user's data and send it back to the server.

Yes, but virtually nothing protects against proxying requests. Non-exportable keys protect against using them when the device is powered off.

> Also, if the server is malicious on the first connection, then the server could just not use the webcrypto api to begin with, and just make use a key that the server knows instead.

Agreed, but it's kind of like Trust On First Use. I guess it depends on one's trust model if they consider it a good trade-off.
Have you checked out scalanative? I've heard good things, though I don't know if its viable for production use yet.
You can have a monopoly. What you cannot do is to abuse it.
Microsoft was punished for abusing its monopoly position, not for having one.
Well, that a cream, not dust. So is more of a skin issue, so then the question there is whether it penetrates the skin and turns out to do stuff to the tissue underneath.

I guess that the problem with a lot of these things is that we don't have good (enough?) predictive models for long-term damage.
Verge3D – next gen WebGL framework released
The net neutrality in the EU isn't perfect, but it does allow for QoS for things like VoIP.

EDIT: Example: Free Music Streaming by T-Mobile [1] is active in EU as well. So if you stream from Spotify its "free" yet when you stream from your home server, via a VPN, or an unsupported service it isn't "free".

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/t-mobile-stops-counting-da...
In C, the value of x in that fragment is still the same: a pointer (ok, not exactly, but something which behaves like a pointer) to a memory location where an int can be stored. The f(x) call can't change that pointer.
I'd also say increased engine efficiency resulting from being able to have a bigger engine to move more tons.
Indeed that would be a cruel way to teach her. My point is that I'm having a hard time finding 'down to earth' arguments why one should think about online privacy.

Whenver I give an argument, she usually can't relate much to it e.g. 'once you hand your data over, you can't get it back. it's out there and no one knows what will happen with it and who will control it.'
> Plus it's way cool since you can impress your kiddie friends.

"So you want to become a plumber, but with APIs and data instead of pipes and water?"
Added sugar is the insidious enemy. Forget the anti-grain alarmism and so on, if we can just cut the added sugar from our diets, that's a 80-90% solution that's actually achievable, compared to the insanity of trying to completely cut out all carbs.

We're hard-wired to be attracted to sweet and fatty foods, because those were important back when food was scarce and a calorie surplus was basically unheard of. Now that food is abundant (at least in the developed world) that same hard-wired attraction is a burden that we need to consciously challenge every day.

I'm a big fan of the No S Diet (http://nosdiet.com/ - no affiliation) because it's straight-forward, easy to adhere to and has worked for me. It also doesn't try to sell you anything, it just asks you to cut out added sugars, limit your meals to single servings and to not eat between meals.
After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing
I have Firefox Nightly installed now (with no extensions yet) and a blank profile which works so there's no need. I do appreciate the offer to help though.
Quite fun, got addictive!
Yeah, it's the kind of thing I might have been interested in 20 years ago. Now I looked at it as a result of this thread and thought "that's cool!".

But do I want to play it in competition with so many other things I could play? Not really. Sorry :( I'm sure it's very well done and I might enjoy it, but there is no reason to move it to the top of my large to-do list...
I don't want to sound negative but I guess almost 100% of the web relies on quickly updating resources and being fresh so I wouldn't hold my breath for when "resource pinning" would happen.

For the record one can already do it if all resources would use Subresource Integrity. Hashes of leaf resources would be embedded in parent resources up to the root document that you could announce out-of-band (e.g. https://example.com on 23rd of November 2017 has hash 1234566...). Then you'd have a cryptographic proof (like a Merkle tree) that nothing in the page changed.
This is so COOL!!!!
It's funny you should mention Emacs...

I was initially a fully paid-up Scrivener user, but just couldn't get on with it. I found myself fighting with it far more than I would have liked - especially around generated output. Granted this would have been nearly ten years ago now I think. I switched to Ulysses. I found I loved writing in Markdown! I then upgraded to Ulysses III when that came out and never looked back.

But GitHub changed everything...

Now I write pretty much everything in Emacs. I initially used AsciiDoc markdown, but now I use Github flavoured markdown (GFM) in Emacs. Public writing is in a public repo on GitHub and I have a private repo there too for personal/work-in-progress type stuff. Full revision history and command line goodness. Lovely jubbly.

The way I tend to write is each chapter is a GFM file. I can use command line tools to turn that into HTML/PDF and sometimes roll my own tools in Python/shell. I do sometimes write shorter pieces and combine them.

I do still use Ulysses for things like lists and odd notes, but it's getting less common.

I guess at the end of the day it's whatever works for you, but yes Emacs with GitHub is working really well for all my writing needs right now.
US has similar contacts actually.
> I am real curious why people think that the Internet, which is a communication medium, is not within the regulatory authority of the FCC.

Despite the name the FCC does not regulate communications. The FCC regulates spectrum and interstate commerce thereof. Despite the definition on the FCC.gov site and the Wikipedia page the FCC cannot regulate cable even if they wanted to as mentioned by both Pai and Wheeler.
I've setup a gitter here:
https://gitter.im/lasp-lang/lasp
That's actually a good guideline. Treat sugar as seasoning, to be used sparingly.
I'm not sure that it is. 600k total I might believe someone got in the bay area for total comp, but for base salary? You'd have to be on the 1% of the 1% of devs to get that salary. It is by no means a common salary in even the US, much less the world
The data are here so you can have a look for yourself: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/11/08/parents-job...

From a quick glance, it seems like only cashiers and "Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers" are less likely.
The trick with Bitcoin is to do fuck all. Buy and forget. Come back in 10 yrs.
You're mad to turn down $600K, unless the job really sucked. Even if you project to make millions with your startup, multiply that by the risk of ~90% failure, you wouldn't do much better than $600K/year.

Still, very sorry about the situation, I'm sure you were hoping for the best.
Why Git is worse than Fossil
> If you don't have the cash, you don't get to spend it.

That's true for people, but it's not true for governments, especially the U.S. government. During the economic crises, the Fed created money out of thin air and gave it to large banks with the idea that they could lend it out and assist businesses. This was called quantative easing, which is the modern form of "printing money", but it's very much the same idea.

The risk of that is that doing so devalues the currency everyone else is holding and risks increasing inflation. However, that didn't happen during the economic crises.
I think the best possible investment one can ever make is politics. These people have probably got paid million or less dollars and they would generate the reruns of literally 10s of billions of dollars. Nearly guaranteed 10000X returns in just year or two is unheard of anywhere else. I wish politicians were available as ETFs.
I think SPOT is different in that DRY has become misunderstood, so the "Single Point of Truth" brings the proper point across a bit better.
How to choose when is the best time to trade
It's not "a" job though, it was a partner position.
How do you know the account balance total they you are validating your line items against is correct? Is that coming from another accounting system?
Tavisca solutions wishes you a very Happy Thanksgiving
> It's quite difficult to see anything innovative or even remotely enjoyable from this genre anymore.

You probably haven't seen Undertale then http://store.steampowered.com/app/391540/Undertale/
Just finished my whole30 and it is indeed eye opening what’s in seemingly normal food like you mention. While it was a difficult month I do think it was a worthwile endeavor. Good luck to you! P.S. check your spices, some of those even have added ingredients for shelf life, anti-clumping, color, etc
I mean government would need to subsidize food for poor people. Large parts of population today rely on cheap food (prepackaged meals or fast food) because they can't really afford higher quality more expensive food.

So government would need to subsidize healthy food similar to the way it is subsidizing green energy (electric cars for example). And probably tax fast food so that kind of business becomes unprofitable.
In Japan if you are from a priest family, you're pretty much destined to inherit the business (i.e. the temple, which actually generates a ton of revenue that's non taxable, because "religion", seriously...), since it's supposed to stay within the bloodline.
And that's actually not an issue. As you probably know, glucose is the fuel our bodies and brains run on, and while your body can break down proteins to glucose in a pinch, it's not actually healthy (despite what proponents of ketosis diets will tell you). It's especially hard on the kidneys.

As long as you stick to proper bread without the crazy added sugar, and preferably whole grain (actual whole grain, not just marketing "whole grain"), it's not an issue. Unless you try to subsist on literally only bread, of course.
KV-Direct: High-performance in-memory key-value store with programmable NIC