skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this forum, I think this is the most important comment.

I think there is enough information available for Facebook employees to be faced with a decision, after which they are morally culpable for the growing net-negative effect that Facebook has on society.

I'm not a Facebook engineer--and I'm probably not smart enough to be one--so I can't really say how I would act if faced with an ethical decision to provide for my family or take a stand. However, I think anyone who has been employed by Facebook is capable enough to be able to immediately find comparable employment.

Similarly, I think there were lots of well-meaning people involved in Big Tobacco, who didn't realize they were contributing to the deaths of millions of people. I imagine there was a similar inflection point for them, as well.

(Please note, I do not think Facebook is as damaging to the world as Big Tobacco. I also don't think that individual contributors are as culpable as leadership. I am not comparing the degree of moral evil, but am comparing the complicity of individual contributors.)
This idea is fantastic. I look forward to following the updates on Promise.
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If it was just this, I would be okay with it. It was also saying "and here is a list of all of Bob Smith's friends, and their info".

I have my Facebook profile set to 'friends', and perhaps its obvious now, but I guess I didn't realize an app installed by my great aunt now has all my information. I happily gave her access to see my profile, kids pictures, etc. But do I want every single thing she connects to to see any data I allow her to see?
I will be rooting for this startup to succeed!

You need to identify the least riskiest of cases, identify numbers, what the current scenario and the projected outcome would look like. It does not need to be a dramatic change. At this point, what you need to be seeking is a mindset change from just jailing folks.
Good idea. It works if you upload the image to Imgur first:

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Don't know about Snopes, but Politifact has a well documented bias.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/16/running-data-politifact-...
Never i have been able to find a pdf of Fifth Generation Computer Systems ’92 which is the report of the last FGCS conference that happened in 1992. https://books.google.com/books?id=hDeiTuxLU7YC

Here a summary of what was expected from FGCS:

What is required of the 5th generation computer - social needs and its impact (1982) https://imgur.com/a/HPYCL
I'm not debating that there are startups there, there are startups everywhere.

But I'm questioning whether there are many VC's outside of Silicon Valley that are willing to pump $10M+ to fund a startup for a few years when both product and revenue are years away.
Not true of all N26 countries.
As a company that will make money from people committing crime, what is your incentive to reduce crime or otherwise prevent repeat offenders?
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The main reason for the second amendment is deterring authoritarianism. It works, regardless of force proportion. Occupying Afghanistan was a pain that was ultimately not worthwhile for anyone who tried it.

Regarding self-defense, there is also a benefit in deterrence - look at relative crime rates in the most heavily armed per-capita states.
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PRISM was not the problem, it was a web portal for serving NSLs. The other stuff that Snowden leaked was.
> dark net, drug dealing

These are law enforcement things. The NSA should not be deployed against drug dealers.

> zero day exploit selling

This is squarely within the NSA's purview. Also North Korea [1].

More broadly, Bitcoin takes cash-like transactions and posts them in a unified computer-friendly database. Of course it will be mined for insights. Even collating U.S. dollar transactions involves querying multiple financial institutions, each who hold their data in various formats.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-14/north-kor...
That's like me going up to a Netflix engineer and saying "why do you get paid so much? You've got the video already, just send it to the device; shouldn't be much of a problem."
>"Good thing you didn't start off with a snide remark about the simplicity of my analysis"

There was no intention on my part of being the least bit derogatory. Your entire argument for why and entire country is to blame amounted to two pithy sentences.

I'm not sure why you would fail to see that how that might considered overly simplistic. Instead you have chosen to interpret it as a personal attack of which it was not.
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Ledger's synchronized post[0] is a nice read.

[0] https://www.ledger.fr/2018/03/20/firmware-1-4-deep-dive-secu...
It'll take me 30 seconds to use, but setting up the Raspberry Pi and formatting the SD card afterwards is a hassle. You can't beat the ESP8266 method, since you can just look at the code and be sure what it's running.
I think this is a fantastic concept. I'm hopeful that this is a step towards putting the "justice" back into "criminal justice system".
definitely not recently but I think MATLAB, Mathematica, S, Stata, and lots of other commercial scientific/numerical packages could qualify.

it may not be possible any more, though.
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Syntax highlighting usually is used to set apart the language's keywords from the rest of the program. They become less like words and more like standard symbols.
What is your sales pipeline like? Who is your initial target? I have _no_ experience in this area, but I think very small muni that dont have facilities, that have to contract out to counties or other towns could be a first good target. Esp places that know the burden that incarceration places on the rest of the people and services in those towns.

Could it also be applied to halfway house use cases? I assume you will require the user to carry a smartphone and it will have geofencing, in and out. I also assume you will be using face recognition to semi-randomly authenticate the user.

This is the first YC HN post I have ever opened, I think this is great idea, esp because most of these businesses are started by unethical leaders motivated purely by profit.
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> How exactly has Google violated this license?

If they are not including the attribution specifically defined in the MIT license, then they are violating it.
Facebook and Zuckerberg are often called upon, or even accused, especially in countries with limits to free speech (lèse-majesté & others). They generally disregard the posturing that the court order represent and negotiate when the situation is alarming -- but truth is, the vast majority of regulation is done by other local users.

The only real impact a government can have, cutting Facebook access, even in the direst circumstances, is rarely a smart option.
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What’s the point? Stellar is centralized.
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Universities typically have subscriptions to service(s) that do just this.
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You can see all the repositories here: https://github.com/pwc-code-generator.

PWC was developed with Javascript/NodeJS, and includes these technologies:

SilverB Template Engine:  SilverB is a template engine but made for code and text generation and to be used with PWC Code Generator
PWC Code Generator CLI: This is the main CLI Tool, responsible for filter the “Project File” data, sort by precedence according to the relationships, and build the “Smart Project Object”, that is passed to a generator (a generator is a separated software write in JS that uses the methods and tools of the Smart Project Object and the PWC Utils to facilitate the code generation).
Laravel 5.5 Generator: This is the generator used on the AppStart platform MVP. It generates a Laravel 5.5 project with ACL. Currently, it is the unique available generator. I hope the guys are inspired to create more and more generators :D You can see all the documentation here. Not yet complete, but I will make it better as soon as possible.
The code is not the better, and I will make a refactoring in the future, but you can already use it to make awesome things.

I hope PWC can be useful for you. Were many attempts and errors to make it. Here it helps a bit. Last week, I generated the complete backend of our new website with it. Practically, I worked only on the front, and with the time saved, I took the opportunity to learn Bootstrap 4. So, I think it can be useful for you.
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No downvote from me. I agree with your sentiment.

I suffered through learning "Brief" back in the 80s, and vim. The only feature I miss in modern editors is copying columns (usually from a bitmapping enum table). Not even drunken nostalgia is enough to make me want those control-this-that-or-the-other combos back. It's not worth the pain. It's impressive for me to see someone dance around the screen in vim, in the same way I watch somebody play a pipe organ with lots of ranks -- pulling this lever and stamping on that pedal and pushing this key and such while beautiful music pours out. Always impressive, but at what cost?

Besides, I like being able to see my code as it's executing, stop it, edit in place, back up, change execution points, etc. Maybe the visual editors have made me soft, but I can get far more done these days then back in the 80s anyway.
This reminds me of the situation with software. When writing a program today, I've got dozens of great tools that I didn't have 10 or 20 years ago, but the flip side is that I've got to learn and use all these new tools.

You could always limit yourself to the old ways, if weight/complexity were your only criterion, but the world moves on, and we're (apparently) not yet hitting the point where piling on more technology doesn't provide an overwhelming advantage.
No, an invasive species is one that is an alien to the area and that is likely to cause damage to the ecosystem it is now present in. [1] Human influence is the main cause, but species may get there by other means. [2] Transport vector is unimportant to the definition of invasive species or not.
One study considers a definition where species which are native but that are causing ecological damage could be considered an 'invasive species'. [3]

Also from [3]:

> Invading propagules begin as residents in a potential donor region (stage 0), some of which are taken into the transport vector (stage I), usually by humans. If these propagules survive transport and release to become introduced (stage II), they have the potential to establish (stage III) in a novel environment.

Note that 'stage I' notes 'usually by humans', not 'by humans'. Ie. a species which uses some natural phenomena as a transport vector can still be considered an invasive species. [1] says similar - "Human actions are the primary means of invasive species introductions." - implying that non-human methods are also possible for invasive species introductions.

It's nonsensical to say that as soon as something migrates using a natural phenomena that it becomes a 'native' to that area.

[1] https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/whatis.shtml
[2] https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/toolkit/vectors.shtml
[3] http://www.esf.edu/efb/parry/502_reading/colautti2004.pdf
This is an extremely politicized area of society—do you have opinions about existing policy, and where you would like policy to be changed? Do you see this business as part of the existing political movement against mass incarceration, or as an alternative to it? Do you plan to participate in the political system directly, for instance by lobbying congress?
That was the first thing that I thought as well. This is another program like private prisons.

I have a hard time seeing how you can align the incentives of a business like this with greater societal interests.
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One thing not mentioned in this article, is that if this brings enough value to sellers, this gives Amazon local access to countries/localities where they don't have warehouses.
Why can't Google News be searched by date? It used to have that feature but they took it away. I wonder why!
Kudos for having the courage to work in this area! Are you planning ahead on how to deal with recidivism? This seems like a highly politicized area and no doubt there will be lots of people who would love to point to your failure(s).

All it takes is one repeat offender hurting someone while on your program. Cue the pitchforks...
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Actually, you are the one who is concerned with what you think their world view should be. I am sure they are happy to not talk to someone who really enjoys death tools, that you claim are for recreation, but are designed primarily to kill things. You have a thousand other things you can do for fun or with your time, but you choose a weapon that again was designed to kill living creatures, and now you cling to these things like you have a fascist government that you should be worried about that you need protection from.
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Look, there is a reason there are active investigations of Google's and FB's effects on the news media in U.K., Australia, Korea. They are duopoly and their effects reverberate through the entire internet, stifling creation of new websites and new media sources. There's a reason that VC investment in news media on the internet is nonexistent.
Let me preface this with me declaring that what I know about the US penal system comes 90% from television.

How is this different from parole or a halfway house?
I'm intrigued and inspired by what you are trying to do!

Looking into the future, I have a worry that governments will be able to back Promise into a corner. When many participants are dependent on Promise for their freedom from jail, won't governments be in a position to dictate Promise's feature set? I fear that governments will demand ever more intrusive monitoring and draconian control over participants' lives, and Promise will be unable to say no, as the alternative would put them all back in jail.

In other words, the bargain of surveillance instead of jail time may start out being a big win, but it seems at risk of getting worse over time with pressure only in one direction (towards ever-increasing surveillance and control) and no countervailing pressure in the other direction. Does Promise have ways to generate that countervailing pressure? Does it have guiding principles as to what kinds of surveillance and control it considers ethical? Does it have bright lines that it will not cross? Have you thought about how Promise can gain or wield the political power it needs to stay true to its principles?

Thanks.
It is not an accusation, it is the fact of the matter.

He's a defector, he had help before and during his defection, and he is staying in Russia at the pleasure of the FSB (successor to the KGB), who, as we have seen has no problem terminating people for whom they have no use.

Here's just the first article that pops up with some of the details:
https://warisboring.com/the-defection-of-edward-snowden/

Here's about the third one, from an author who worked at NSA:
https://20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-kremlin-admits-snowde...

There are many more, if anyone cares to read them, but this audience remains far too enamored of the 'state surveillance is always evil' mentality (and I formerly had the same attitude, not that it cannot be very evil, but certainly not always so).

Snowdon and Putin's efforts to spin the 'hero/whistleblower' yarn, partly through outlest such as Sputnik, RU, Intercept, do not change the facts, and these outlets should be read with extreme skepticism.
The main difference is whether they think that you'll write maintainable code and extensible code. Will teammates be able to work with your code easily? Will others be able to maintain or extend the code when you're gone? Is it easy to debug? Does your code use the right abstractions when appropriate? Is your code efficient? The response probably indicates that they saw something in your code that they felt wasn't up to par.

In general, this is something that you'll improve at naturally when you work on teams or maintain legacy code (assuming a relatively good codebase). One thing that can be super-helpful is to review a good codebase and see how features are implemented and think about why it was done this way and how you would have done it (for python, take a look at the flask or django codebase and see how they use abstractions). And honestly keep interviewing.
Did we even see the same movie? We're talking about the social network, right? The movie lauded nearly universally, winning and nominated for all sorts of awards (including best picture!) by every organization in every category? The movie regularly voted as one of the best films of the last 18 years?

I don't recognize a single one of your bullet points as being about my experience of the movie. The whole conceit was that a brilliant technical expert's unexpected success pushes him into a world he is not emotionally or socially prepared to handle, and ultimately his arrogance and hubris leaves him alone and unhappy as he pushes away the people in his life one by one, ending SPOILER ALERT

beautifully with him quietly desperately refreshing his ex's facebook page alone, starting to recognize how much he regrets everything that he has lost in his pursuit for wealth and power...

Most of the movie isn't about college, or sex, or booze. If you had to could you have broken a site from that era in 2 hours? I'd be shocked if you couldn't. Lots of these sites would die when they get a little too much traffic. Some sites still do today. Security was an afterthought back then. Zuck had a girlfriend, and his friends do just fine. The lawyers are dealing with so much wealth and power in the hands of people who are so young and emotionally immature and they handle it exactly how I'd expect them to.

Zuck in the movie is driven by a lust for wealth and power, which is a universal theme in basically every story in human history.
Other big problems with WebPKI:

* DV certificate issuance is based on a leap of faith (TOFU) by the CA. It is vulnerable to BGP hijack, DNS cache poisoning, ... as amply illustrated by the "domain control" "proofs" in ACME.

* The CA ecosystem is dying with Let's Encrypt's free certs removing the raison d'etre for most of the other CAs. Actual verification of identity does not scale, and DV "domain control" "verification" does not pay.

Crypto:

* The use of SHA1 in DNSSEC is not subject to collision attacks, only 2nd pre-image resistance is required, and there's no hint of SHA1 (or even MD5!) 2nd pre-images any time soon. While moving to SHA256 makes sense, there's no real problem with SHA1 in DNSSEC, it is adequately secure.

* The domains using 512-bit keys are a tiny minority hosted by a couple of DNS hosting providers (one of them "free", so you get what you pay for).

* Most zones have 2048-bit KSKs, and 1024-bit ZSKs. This can be addressed as more domains deploy ECDSA or 1280-bit and 1536-bit RSA keys (which have an estimated work-factor of 89 and 96 bits respectively, and there is ). The root zone keys are 2048 bits for both KSK and ZSK, and 1 in 3 TLDs has 1280-bit ZSKs, more will do that or switch to EC.

* Logjam researchers estimated the cost for a single widely used DH key (embedded as a constant in software): "The researchers calculated the cost of creating logjam precomputation for one 1024-bit prime at hundreds of millions of USD". This is somewhat specific to DH rather than RSA, and leverages the fact that many users used the same fixed DH groups. ZSKs are not fixed and vary across providers.

* Many estimates of RSA factoring cost ignore memory costs, for a more realistic analysis, see https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5f56/b7e3d8423cffa724d8037e...

Finally: the talk is about improving on unauthenticated opportunistic TLS in SMTP. The right comparison is with downgrades to cleartext, not with the latest fashionable crypto in browsers. The browsers moving from 1024-bit RSA directly to 2048-bit RSA is a bit of power-of-two numerology and was overkill (better optics more than better engineering). They did it because signing and verification are still adequately fast, so they can get away with turning it up to 11. That does not mean that more modest key sizes are not effective. Since DNSSEC is used only to authentication, not key agreement, there's no risk from future key compromise once a key is retired, so keys don't need to remain secure for decades, just a few months (for a ZSK) is enough.

Generally, real-world attacks bypass the crypto and attack far weaker defenses. Why break the crypto when you can subpoena the private key material, install malware on the end-systems, break TOFU certificate issuance...

Smug attacks on DNSSEC ignore many deficiencies of the alternatives, and are I suggest a case of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I would say my experience has been the reverse. In Texas you can pretty much assume most folks support the troops and veterans. The only "discrimination" I've received as a vet was in SV. I don't know if you'd call it discrimination though, mainly just people disgusted with me (or horrified?) for fighting in "Bush's war".

I had a woman just flat out turn on her heels and walk away from me upon mention of my service (I forget how it was related to the conversation). We were having a professional conversation at a conference. I've gotten looks of disgust from students (I teach various programming classes) when I tie something back to a lesson I learned in the military. Whatever.

That stuff doesn't affect me. It's more a reflection on them than it is me.
It’s not much of a choice if we can’t easily change our minds later. It’s more like a long-term investment, and if we are to make a long-term investment, we’d rather invest in a direct relationship with our readers.
I’m not sure if I’d generalize my own experiences to the general public. Even though I used simple drag and drop interfaces to create programs before, I was also tinkering with HTML and JavaScript, so they weren’t a gateway to real coding. My time spent with actual programming languages greatly accelerated my learning.

I’d argue that programming languages are already human oriented, it’s not like we’re putting together programs with assembly or binary code like some people imagine. And syntax and conventions improve all the time to make it easier.

If you want to be able to simply speak a program’s requirements and watch it happen, there’s already a solution for that: hire a coder.
When will you introduce "slap drones"? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Laws
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That actually really sucks to hear, I was hoping that SDVs would adhere and never break the speed limit. 3 MPH at the forces we're talking about can actually make a difference in life or death.
It's already a thing for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_probation