skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my understanding that most of these secure messaging system relay via servers speaking https - and their distinctive feature is that the clients are distributed as self-contained apps, that wrap the complexity, and label "signal-protocol over https rpc" as just "signal" (similar for WhatsApp etc).

Why is it hopeless to do the same for email? Take a sane protocol subset, add a convention protocol for encryption, and ship it as "secure email"?

It is a tautology that a "secure mail app" that allows "traditional email interop" cannot make strong privacy guarantees, just like when using WhatsApp you give up federation and networking-as-a-utility (you're completely beholden to a provider that you don't even have a proper contract with, let alone the opportunity to seamlessly move providers / self-host / federate while maintaining global addressing and data portability).

I think that's part of the disconnect in the discussion - wrapping a sane protocol selection in an opaque app along with a saas/paas silo that limits addressing, routing and federation is OK for some arbitrary subset of not-by-themselves secure protocols, but any suggestion that reusing elements of email is dismissed as "can't be done" (or "can't be done, because webmail", while "can't be done because messenger.com" seems absent).

We've already done meta-data wrapping for email, with one, perhaps flawed approach:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster_anonymous_remailer
Harmless? Every page which has anything Facebook-related on it will be fed your Facebook-related cookies on every visit. Any Facebook-related code on such pages will have access to anything Facebook-related stored in your profile (cookies, local data, etc). Since everyone and his dog felt the need to add 'social' buttons to their sites this includes a sizeable portion of the 'net. You might not use Facebook much but rest assured that Facebook uses you. You are part of their product after all...
I love the idea but if this gets popular I guarantee the content-farm/SEO assholes will figure out how to be on the first results page -- registering a boatload of domains is the obvious countermeasure, there are probably many others.
Seriously. S2 is just quadtrees over a cubemap, with a nice mapping from integers to cells.

So, instead of using a quadtree (because it's "complicated"), they chose to make their own two-level tree requiring O(N) linear scans at both levels, as opposed to O(1) with a simple trick.
How much more can you “gentrify” places like Fremont or Dublin though? They’re already plenty rich, they just went with a sprawly, car-dependent development pattern instead? That seems like a place to start.
It's not just self control. The amount of money companies spend to feed disinformation in journals, advertisement, and to dominate shelf space makes for less educated people to be easily exploited.
Ya know, I get what you're saying and I am somewhat sympathetic to this position. But I think you're being a bit harsh. It's easy to talk about "understand(ing) that this is an extremely important topic" when you already know. But how many high-school kids really know anything about Linear Algebra or understand much at all about how/where it's used? Heck, rewind time a bit and ask if you really understood that when you were first starting college. And if you did, realize that you are probably the exception.

From a university lecture in linear algebra, I expect that it carries me through as many important topics as possible while giving me the tools to form a good formal and intuitive understanding.

Sure and unless your goal is to do pure mathematics research, part of that is providing some motivation in terms of understanding applications. There's nothing wrong with a class on LA (or any other topic as far as that goes) spending some time motivating study of the topic by showing how it can be useful... even explaining how it might used to make millions or billions of dollars.
Looking at that one-pager linked at the bottom[0], it seems there's only 12 error messages in Spotify where this gets applied.

While I have certainly seen at least five of those, I'm not surprised that you've managed to trigger the one without it in two minutes. After all, an app like Spotify probably has significantly more than 12 error messages in it.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6f9wHapAofKRFdvU3BUbVZjckU...
And regarding DRM: I see DRM as a UI technique, not security. You can create products whose UI is intentionally crippled in such a way that it becomes very hard to make copies of content. But at the end of the day, none of these systems are truly "secure", just inconvenient.

You can do the same with capability-based systems, if you really want to.
What Fitbit discovered from 6B nights of sleep data
What a lovely ready; I enjoy learning about the intricate details of the JVM. Thank you for sharing!
So you are saying that when you eat the same amount of calories, meat is better at getting you fat? How does this debunk the problems with sugar in your view?
I think the whole point OP is trying to make is that at the moment bandwidth works sort of like gym memberships or even airline tickets - they count on not everyone showing up at once.

In the even everyone shows up at once, sort of like in your scenario, infrastructure will of course have to be built out, but prices will rise as a result.
5 things you need to know about the Spectre and Meltdown CPU security issue
It's your system really that unstable?

If so, are you sure it's the RAM?
You can make up all these outrageous examples which don't correlate to what I said in any way shape or form at all as much as you like, but just know you aren't convincing anyone or making a compelling argument.

Skin cancer and heart disease are major issues as is the elderly falling over, and if there were predatory organisations which were peddling products that abused human weakness to capitalize on addiction, or running around pushing old people over, I think we should look into handling those organizations. However salt and sunshine are absolutely vital to the proper functioning of the human body, whereas eating a bag of skittles and downing six bottles of coke is not. And corporations are out there peddling sugar because it sells, and that is predatory behaviour and the bill is footed by the Australian public for the profit seeking of a tiny minority. That is what this recommendation seeks to stop.
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> We need to feel we belong. We need to feel valued. We need to feel we’re good at something. We need to feel we have a secure future. And there is growing evidence that our culture isn’t meeting those psychological needs for many – perhaps most...

This (emphasized) is what I think is causing my increasing anxiety and depression. I look around at people, talking loudly, showing off, taking selfies, buying expensive crap they don't need from expensive shops, etc. I try to puzzle out why they're so happy, they all seem so superficial, and I can't understand why they don't feel miserable about the people less fortunate than them who live right next door, the people serving them, who are all struggling to just get by and by all measures increasingly failing. I really want to live in a more equal society that takes care of all citizens.
It's the same zoo out there, only with mass communication, transportation, comforts and gadgets.

You meet someone in a deserted street, you have the same three seconds to evaluate their threat potential that your ape ancestors had.
You're comparing apples to apples when this is an oranges and apples situation.

Regular campaign advertising (like the stuff done by Clinton in the last election) is at least partly constrained by things like the truth and the semblance of accountability. I.e. if I run an ad saying "vote for me I went to harvard" there would likely be a major scandal because I did not in fact go to harvard. The words came from me, and they were lies.

A 3rd party, dumping thousands of fake news stories on to facebook, disguised as real news and using a little ad spends to pump them up - is not constrained by the truth, and because they are not easily linked to the candidate there is no accountability.

If you're allowed to hide your identity, lie, and disguise your lies as valid information, yes of course you can be more with your ad dollars than if you have to be accountable for what you are saying.
I've found this too. My tiny little site sits at number one (for most people in English) for most combinations of 'why was Margaret Thatcher hated?'

It out ranks national news papers and all sorts of huge sites, as it should really the info in the post is pretty comprehensive and sourced.

Somehow Google worked that out for itself based on way more than the old page rank back link weighted algorithm.
Disagree. It's impertinent, both in the sense of its being off-topic for the technical achievement in The Fine Article, and that of its being ill-mannered.

I say that as someone who assiduously avoids using Uber's services, who finds what I know of their culture to be odious, and who has strongly criticized some of their other technical decisions, so please don't construe my comment as fanboy defensiveness.
I sort of lucked out when the whole war on fat and the wave pf processed food hit in the 1970's. I had these older relatives that were in good health and other than dirt and they didn't buy any of it. I decided that I would just try and eat like them.

What I've noticed is over the years more and more in stores 'food items' are things I absolutely will not buy.
Also, depending on the system, you could mint a copy of your key that can only access part of your locker.

If your friend is really good at fooing widgets, you don't want to do it yourself, and you don't want to continually bring all of your heavy widgets to them, then you can make a copy of your key that can only access the part of your locker holding your widgets and give that to them so they can come by and foo your widgets for you.

With this system, you don't have to trust your friend to not mess with the other contents of your locker. You don't have to trust them to not take the money or personal documents you have in the other part of your locker. Maybe you believe you fully trust this friend, but maybe you don't fully trust their key-handling. If you gave them a restricted key, and you think one of your personal documents is missing from your locker one day, then you can skip worrying about whether it was your friend that's responsible. If your friend loses their key one day (they misplaced it, or someone stole it from them), then you don't need to freak out and worry about your personal documents; it's only your widgets that are in danger. If someone knows that your friend is given a lot of unrestricted keys to people's lockers, they might be incentivized to try to steal/blackmail/threaten the friend for their keys so they can get to people's important documents; if it's known that the friend always requests restricted keys from people to foo their widgets, then an attacker who doesn't care about widgets isn't incentivized to try to attack the friend.
> What is your home address and phone number?

Neither of those are security systems. That's like asking for their password and claiming you've proven security through obscurity.

The idea behind dismissing obscurity is that if everything but private tokens were exposed, your system should still remain secure.
Moore pays for that. My internet hasn't gotten 10 times as fast, but networking equipment did. So much exponential growth and here you are discussing if we can really deliver 10 Mbit to the population?

ISPs want to pay so little industry is still spending R&D money on how to make that fucking copper cable go all the way to Shannon capacity. G.fast is now doing over 100 Mbps on 500m copper.
I was asking a completely friendly question out of genuine curiosity as to his opinion. your insinuation that I am not capable of logical thinking based on my honest question, as well as the cutesy symbolics is a little bit rude, and I hope you got a kick out of getting all the formatting to line up. A+ work
>Feeling like shit when your life is terrible is normal. Feeling like shit when your life is awesome is not.

Could it possibly be that our idea of an "awesome life" is mistaken?
yes: https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Npm+Registry
Maybe try appreciating a grid painting by Agnes Martin. If that makes sense to you as something beautiful (calm, orderly), go back to Rothko and see if it feels a bit sublime (clouded, heavy, dense). This is not about ideas.
I do full-time hotspotting on verizon, always max out over my limit, and have never experienced this.

What specific configuration did you change from 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 - i would like to know for future reference if it does happen.
Nothing's worse than Windows 10's "something happened" error message: https://i.stack.imgur.com/LRZtX.png
I have not read the full article, but usually you need a laser which can produce single photons and which can control their polarisation (Other sources produce quantum superpositions of having 1 photon, 2 photons, 4 photons, etc. It's a probability distribution containing all those numbers).
Sure, the reasoning for username+secure is that most mail servers are set up to forward that, so if I send a pgp encrypted mail to user+secure@example.com today, user@example.com will get it, and can read it using regular mail+pgp setup.

The server could then be augmented to drop unencrypted mail to "+secure" - and mail user agents could handle pgp keys and "+secure" addresses especially.

For example split mail delivered to user@ and user+secure@ in a "insecure/postcard/public" view and a "private/personal/letter-in-envelope" view.
Radio spectrum does not follow Moore’s Law. It is finite.
It is ironic that, right now, we are in the midst of an event that shows this to be a false dichotomy, and that projects and products can be cross-cutting concerns. I am, of course, referring to the multi-product project of dealing with Meltdown and Spectre.
They're fucking garbage, in person or otherwise. Ive seen far more of them than any person needs to.
> This is really frustrating, since Netflix is usually not served over the internet, but directly from the ISP's head end.

Is that neutral?
I quit Facebook around Christmas time. Felt weird at first, but overall it's been a position experience. The Chrome blocker plugin I use to enforce my quitting keeps a count of how many times I've attempted to visit it. I'm in the 40s now. If I spent 2 minutes per visit, then I've saved 80 so far!
1. Exactly. There are no usage fees associated with a laptop. You don't pay for recharging your battery over a certain number of times per month. They are marketed and sold in a technically optimal way. What country would permit $200 fees for charging your laptop too many times?

2. These corporations sell "burst" connections because they want to screw users out of their hard earned money. They could just as easily cap the peak bandwidth, throttle past a certain amount of usage, or shut down the connection if they were operating in good faith. They want to send $200 surprise bills to poor people.

3. People are watching YouTube/Netflix, etc not just browsing Facebook. It's not 2004. Many millions are also doing 24/7 home monitoring, software updates, nightly backups, etc. Bandwidth caps restrict US technical competitiveness and make life suck for citizens.

4. There is no need to keep charging more and more money. The costs of fiber optics, switching, routing, etc have all dropped dramatically even as our usage increases. We're being charged more than anyone in the world already. These corporations have also received hundreds of billions in government subsidies.

5. A 3 megabit connection is not "broadband" and that should trigger some other law. They should be forced to sell 10 megabit sustained (3 TB/mo) connections at a minimum perhaps. The minimum could go up every year based on average usage.

Any country with a functioning democratic government would ensure all citizens have access to low cost unlimited broadband. Look around the world, they mostly do.
Instead of indexing the geofences using R-tree or the complicated S2, we chose a simpler route based on the observation that Uber’s business model is city-centric; the business rules and the geofences used to define them are typically associated with a city. This allows us to organize the geofences into a two-level hierarchy where the first level is the city geofences (geofences defining city boundaries), and the second level is the geofences within each city.

What about Uber's business model impacted this choice of algorithm?

Edit: left only the unanswered question
I would prefer a war on processed foods if you absolutely need the the war metaphor. The sugar issue would resolve itself if people ate mainly real foods. For example: don't drink fruit juice but eat fruit.
> Residential ISPs are selling burst connections, which is an entirely sensible thing to do in a world where the top use case for a home internet connection is sucking down a 5MB Facebook page as quickly as possible then going idle. It's not like they're hiding the data cap in fine print:

Go idle? Since when?

Steam auto updates my games, Windows downloads multi-gigabyte updates in the background. My Android phone syncs files in the background to cloud storage, and on a nightly basis finds a good dozen or so apps to auto-update. For many people, Alexa now streams music in the background whenever they are home. Multiplayer online games nowdays have voice chat, increasingly richer and more populated worlds, and support video streaming of one's exploits.

Even that 5MB Facebook page is actually an endlessly scrolling multimedia fest, that starts streaming videos as they come into view.

Heck Hacker News is one of the few paginated sites left!
I've often enjoyed smalin's visualizations, which I find a little easier to follow visually than andy filebrown's. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
>But it turns out ACLs don't really enforce this: I can always set up a proxy server that has my credentials and provides some API to another user, hence delegating my authority with whatever granularity I wish.

Or what often happens in practice: users just share their login credentials to delegate access. But then this comes with the problem that it's hard to track who did what on an account, revoke access to specific people, or prevent "delegated" users from revoking access from others including the original owner by changing the password.
They changed their DNS to point to Google's servers, which have the static IPs 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4
This isn't about eigenvectors in general, it's about a single eigenvector that Google built. The title is accurate, their search product is giving you access to query the eigenvector
I've lost 60kg in the last 3 years, so I know a little about weight loss.

I found it REALLY hard in modern society. I could do it as I am well off, but it is very difficult to eat cheaply and healthily.

Many people have appetites which lead to them only wanting to eat a healthy about of food. If you are like that, great! I, like many other people, do not. I'm hungry all the time and almost any food it is easy to get contains a huge amount of unfilling but tasty calories.
How many times does it have to happen to warrant concern?

Trust, once broken, isn't quickly restored.
Well, don't forget who picks up the bill when someone lacks personal responsibility: everyone else. Meanwhile, some people profit off of it.
Handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad': OpenBSD's de Raadt
One of the most practical and high-use skills I learned in high-school was touch typing.
> It also appears that you're downvoting my comments, since all of my comments deep in threads responding to you are at 0, and most of my others in these threads are positive. If that's not the case, do let me know, but it makes me uninterested in continuing this discussion with you.

No, I actually do not have enough karma to downvote and even if I did I do not believe a participant in a discourse has the right to do that. It would be counterproductive for me to do so.
"can't we just educate people about things and use some self control"

I hope you understand that there are a lot of very intelligent people working at food companies who work on undermining people's self control and hooking children to their products. This is a losing battle for a lot of people.
Glad to hear it. I quit Facebook many months ago and I'm much happier as a result. I hope that you'll benefit from quitting as much as I have.
Not OP but it gives me hand cramps and I can never get the gestures to work right.

The charging is a total non-issue, however.
Wish there was a better proxy for the value of an artist than what their works sell for. For example, how many people did this guy influence, how did his work change art or how people understand the world? Neither was really discussed in the article
Note that it studies meat availability, not meat consumption.
Meltdown and Spectre POCs
I wish ISPs billed like a utility. Something like $10 connection fee + 10-15 cents per GB.

This will force bandwidth hogs to self-regulate. If you have the ability to purchase 4k/8k TVs, then you should be responsible for the associated streaming costs and not have others subsidize it.

Also, NN does nothing to foster competition - the real problem. All we have are a bunch of local monopolies/duopolies.
Wall Street Journal kicks off 2018 by throwing mud at Kaspersky
We picture pirates as speaking with an English West Country accent for a couple of reasons. Edward Teach, who became famous as Blackbeard, was from somewhere in the Bristol region so would presumably have spoken with this accent. Also the 1952 film "Blackbeard the Pirate" cast a Dorset-born actor in the lead role, who also spoke with a West Country accent, cementing the accent in popular culture.

The peg-leg is a old popular image of experienced sailors. Sailing has always been a highly risky occupation and it's easy to lose a leg to due gangrene from splinters, scurvy, cannonball impact or getting it caught in the rigging.

I can't explain the parrot though.
The site linked to is called "Conspiracy Times", which is presumably why the question got raised at all.
I feel like the more I learn about psychiatry, the less faith I have in psychiatrists. It is astounding what we don't know, and how wrong we've been in the past.

(B.S. in Biology and Psychology, studied neuroscience in school)
who the hell cares?