skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of wasting my time with Humpty Dumpty:

OK, so first up I guess the problem is you've no idea what "escrow" is and so you ended up confused as to what key escrow could be. So let's fix that first.

Escrow is a service people or companies offer, the idea goes like this. Alice wants to do a deal with Bob, and Bob wants to make a deal with Alice, they're going to swap some of Alice's baseball cards for Bob's antique vase, but they don't trust each other. Fortunately they both trust Trent, a Third Party. Trent offers an Escrow service, both Alice and Bob agree with Trent that the baseball cards and the antique vase go to Trent, and then when he's got both things he'll send them to their new owners. If anything goes wrong, Trent gives back anything he received to the person who sent it and the deal is off.

In the tech industry the most likely set up you'll see is that investors are worried all the stuff they're spending a lot of money on at a startup is not material that a bunch of burly guys can pick up and put in a truck if the firm fails - instead it's in Git repos or Google Drives and if it falls apart they know it has residual value that could be realised but they're not technical people, they're money people. So an escrow firm says fine, pay us a bunch of money and make the startup sign this data escrow agreement, and then if they fail you activate this clause and we give you a bunch of USB drives full of source code and whatever else. The escrow firm has IT people who can do stuff like send over keys for access to a GitHub, who know the difference between an S3 bucket and a SD card, which the investors don't want to have to learn about.

In key escrow _your_ keys are held by a third party on your behalf. You can do end-to-end encryption if you want, but you're obliged to use this escrowed key. If the third party releases the key (e.g. because of a warrant, or an NSL, or because they're corrupt) then whoever gets it can now decrypt everything you've sent, or impersonate you seamlessly.

If your iPhone honors a secret Apple passphrase that's a _backdoor_. If instead Apple insists on keeping a copy of your passphrase in a safe at Apple HQ that Tim Cook promises not to open _that_ would be escrow.

Your objection that in DNSSEC "the roots can simply override that key with their own" also applies to any PKI, the whole _point_ of a PKI is that the trusted third party binds identity to keys, and if trust is misplaced they might falsely bind an identity to the wrong key. So the problem is - as I illustrated - that objections on the basis of DNSSEC being a PKI work just as well against the Web PKI. As a reason to prefer the Web PKI over DNSSEC they're ineffective.
I think we agree in principle, however the point I made originally was that it's not hurtful, false, and/or spurious claims about 'open source' that rms seeks remedy for, it's 'free software'.
Facebook confirms its “standards” don’t apply to politicians
It didn't hurt that they actually poached the key supply chain executives from Walmart.
It’s not only profit. They also cause a lot of administrative overhead. For example if doctors had to deal only with one insurer or at least one coding system they wouldn’t need four billing assistants as I have seen. In essence insurance companies do a lot of unnecessary stuff. Their profit is only a small part of that cost.
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I don't understand what that has to do my comment. I never mentioned anything about the exchanges. Health insurance policies generally get more expensive year over year for everyone, whether an employer is paying for it or you as an individual.
In no other country is your healthcare tied to your employment but the US. Germany has had a national healthcare system since around 1880 (after the country was unified, based on what Krupp did for their employees). Why is the US the outlier (also in cost per capita)?
Nobody does. The real translation is old people don’t want to change doctors.
True and false. Qualcomm could be seen as an example where money and monopoly helped clear up some bad blood. Nvidia doesn't have a strong enough monopoly, and the damage to Apple's reputation went beyond money.. so, sometimes no amount of money is going to resolve a conflict when your product has a mere 10-20% performance differential vs the nearest competitor. If Nvidia were to bring out some sort of super-chip that offered 10x performance per watt at half the price.. Apple might raise an eyebrow, but AMD has been keeping up and Apple has no reason to switch.
You seem to have mistaken me for a man who likes to repeat himself.
I'm not sure why I'd trust cloudflare (a company who's business it is to know all about traffic flows and usage patterns) more than a traditional back bone provider?
What is preventing you now?
What does that have to do with what tempsy wrote?
i hate seeing these things on HN...its another side effect of our manic PC culture
Amazon’s new Echo Loop puts Alexa in a discreet smart ring
Honestly I prefer it: those places also tend to have POS computers that reliably put the right things on my tab instead of relying on the bartender's vague memory of what the guy in the corner ordered. And I can be sure that they'll accept my credit card which a lot of my neighbourhood cash-only bars will not (which is pretty important to know before it's time to pay)
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It's like were back in 2000 with in car GPS systems
Highly tangential comment:

> every ad on Google is clearly marked

Personally, the few times I use a browser without an ad blocker lately I find myself confused about what is an ad until I go hunting for text to indicate it. I click links in YouTube for channels I don’t follow thinking I may have followed them at some point too, since they appear in my sub feed. This “clearly marked” point is not true in any but the most technical sense
You can pay execs $100mm a year and have that not be profit. This is why they lobby so hard.
Even with BDXL, which seems to be able to store up to 128GB per disc, you'd have to stack 100 of them to store the 12TB that an LTO-8 tape cartridge can store raw/natively. Tape cartridges also seem to be more physically durable than optical discs.

This doesn't mean that they seem simply superior, though. I imagine optical discs have way better seek times, for example, even if read/write speeds are better with tape.
Has there ever been an instance where an inventor with limited resources used a software patent to protect significant innovation?

Has anyone, anywhere, ever once faced a coding challenge, searched through software patents, and found a useful solution?

I'm laughing as I try to imagine either of these things happening.

A friend of mine recently earned good money serving as an expert witness against a patent claiming to cover the concept of transmitting a zero over a carrier wave. You see, the patent holder never actually produced a device taking advantage of this great idea, and then he "hurt his back and couldn't work anymore", so he sued his insurance company for the billions of potential dollars he could have earned if he ever did get around to transmitting a zero...
There's also an Ontario California. So Ontario, CA and Ontario Canada. Sigh naming things is hard.
An interesting thing is in the US, native-americans and white population has 2-3x the suicide rate as blacks, hispanics and asians. https://www.sprc.org/racial-ethnic-disparities
Hard to say specifically, but for example I'm planning out my first build for this winter, and wheel pulleys are a big one that varies widely, even for something as relatively standard as a 5M one that fits on an ABEC11 hub. For example:

$16ea + $5 shipping to Canada from China: https://www.ebay.com/itm/302678192585

Compare this to Metroboard, an established e-commerce storefront, who currently has their similar pulley marked down to $15 from a regular $30, but when I emailed to asked about shipping to Canada I was told it would be a $55 flat rate box: https://metro-board.com/e-skate-shop/pulley-insert-for-abec-...
“It's kinda weird that it's usually illegal to record a phone conversation without the other side's consent but it's legal to walk around in public wearing a microphone transmitting all the audio to Seattle or whatever”

—@mcclure111 on Twitter
I agree with you on beans and legumes! I'm currently trying to maintain a calorie deficit while hitting a protein target that seitan makes very convenient (though I also have been using some protein powders that help recently, and gave in and started buying that new Silk protein milk as a shortcut). Beans and Legumes are great, and we cook a lot of indian, thai, and mexican dishes with them, but the combination of calorie deficit and protein target make it a bit tough to do without some almost-pure-protein foods. Seitan is also delicious.
I think you made a typo. $9000 a month is a small company’s entire cost.
I vouched for these comments because, while perhaps nearer to one extreme, I believe this perspective deserves to be heard.

Also:

> And an orator said, Speak to us of Freedom.

And he answered:

At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,

Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.

Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,

But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?

In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.

And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?

If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.

You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.

And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.

And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
I'm a corp to corp subcontractor and aside from getting nearly half of my rate taken, I keep and pay for my own liability and e&o insurance.
Who is in charge of negotiating for this pool? Just as an example between 2017-2018 the average silver plan went up 32% and the average gold plan 20%, who the hell negotiated that?

At least with the employer provided insurance the employer is negotiating, and you know who that is and you know they have a self-interest in keeping costs down.
I wonder if this works a bit better where things stay the same. E.g. "I need to perform a minor tweaks to a feature in repository X in language Y and Z and release process Q.". It'd take considerable time to build a dataset of timings, and since the software itself evolves over time (developer tools, build process, language, etc.) any data recorded is almost immediately irrelevant. Fun!
It's a metaphor for a general way of thinking -- prioritizing the needs of your customers, ensuring they have the best experience you can provide them. Parking in this way may or may not have any impact on customer relationships, but if you are someone who does this regularly, you are likely someone who looks for other minor ways to improve the experience for your customers.
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I'd guess it's because the sugar comments all seem to be going "nah, it's sugar" and dismissing the rest of the points the article is considering.
Based on it, jquery is a language lol
Lots of comments promoting loose-leaf teas. My favorite suppliers are:

+ https://www.meimeitea.com/

+ https://yunnansourcing.com/

If you live in the DC Area, Victoria (who runs Meimei Fine Teas) hosts tea classes, and is happy to share stores of her annual tea sourcing trips to China. Really high quality products from a trustworthy source.

There's something really special about knowing trusting an individual (rather than a company) to deliver you a fantastic product and experience.
About 40+ miles ;)

There is a place not far from me that i've seriously considered applying to that is VERY close. If only for that reason ;)
There's no negotiating with a young child, you're constantly anticipating their meltdowns and mitigating them as best you can.

Itchy/tight/lose/wrong-color pants/shirt/dresses/socks/shoes, not wanting to eat breakfast, decided they wanted a different breakfast after it's served, deciding they wanted to get the milk out of the fridge after telling you to do it, not wanting to brush their teeth/hair, wanting to use a different bathroom, insisting they don't need to potty while doing the peepee dance, needing to pet the cat before anything else, wanting to eat at the counter or on the porch or at the table.

There's no negotiating with terrorists.
Warp excludes many sites from traffic routing (like video)
Yeah, but that home near your business could have been a paying customer. The article I just read would rather you buy a home far from your business. :)
> I agree, was in the US recently and so many foods are much sweeter than in other countries.

I wish there was an easy way to compare foodstuffs across countries. Too many of these discussions turn into anecdote battles with little hard data.

> I bought some organic almond butter, and it had sugar in it! Why?!

What brand? I know sugar is fairly common in peanut butter, but I don't know much about almond butter. I did a cursory search, and the three brands I checked (Justin's, Barney's, and 365 Organics) do not use any kind of sweetener.

That said, I can barely stand sweetened peanut butter now that I have switched to Smucker's Naturals (which is just ground peanuts and salt). I can only guess that the sugar is added to increase appeal.
The US system arose during WWII. Wages were frozen, so health coverage became a perk to attract workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
Costs will still go up. FBA may increase costs even more since the item would have to be shipped twice plus pay Amazon's vig.
how are you doing these days? less stressed?
> I hear this statement all the time...but what does it mean?

Something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_King...
Something seems a bit wrong with the graph "Publication rate by career length" -- should the y-axis be "Average number of published papers per year"? (I can't imagine that someone whose first paper was in the 1950s only published 1 additional paper in the next 30 years)
I apologize, I took your comment personally when I shouldn't have.
https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/ - should really be read first
Rat metabolism and human metabolism aren't 1:1 There's fundamental differences between those two species in liver function and other organs.

And that study conflicts with this study, which shows a high-carb diet does have an impact on rat obesity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4497311/
But keep in mind that not everyone who cares about parking complains. I can think of several Chicago places I really like, but tend to actively avoid because it's hard to get parking. There doesn't have to be a complaint or even an active finding of fault for silly-seeming stuff like this to drag your business.
I meant that transaction fees are unreliable, sometimes they can be extremely expensive (in 2017 they reached as high as $50 per transaction!). Currently the next block fee is $1.36[0], which is very expensive compared to alternative payment networks.

[0]: https://bitcoinfees.cash/
I'm a parent, and there's a difference between "We're late today because <toddler reason>" and we're always late.

I tend to agree the latter is probably at least somewhat on the parent.
Nixon put price controls on oil.

Later, the DoE started allocating (i.e. rationing) gas to gas stations.

Reagan abolished these by executive order as one of his first acts as President:

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/29/us/president-abolishes-la...

and the gas lines disappeared overnight and never returned.
Ah, ye goode olde bliss point!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
That might be doable in Ruby using the Sequel library, but if you are stuck in a Rails codebase using Activerecord, the amount of query complexity until that approach break down is not very big.
I literally linked the price sheet showing that it's wrong, did you not read my comment?

>Combined with China subsidizing shipping for export-based businesses, it was generally cheaper for a business in Shenzen to ship small/light products by post than for an American business to ship an equivalent product by USPS across the street.

Please back this up with examples.
I meant in a 5 whys type of way. Why must you live 40 miles from work?
I have found this is basically always the case.

In weight lifting you have this concept of "hard gainers," who are generally men who want to gain muscle mass / weight, but can't seem to, "no matter how much they eat." A common refrain from them is something like "I ate a whole pizza on my own, and still nothing!"

Well, the moment they start actually counting their calories, it's the same story you just told. Sure, they ate a whole pizza on Saturday, but also nothing much else that day, and they ended up short of their caloric needs, and then every other day that week was even less, minus the occasional splurge that also didn't bring their average up high enough.

This goes for people who "can't" lose weight too -- when they start counting calories they are surprised to find that they eat a shitload of calories they didn't know about, most of which are empty of nutrition.

One way to reframe the question of calories is to start considering calories per week, instead of per day. You start to get the picture either way--whether you're trying to gain or lose--when you're thousands off your goal by day 3 and realize what a big adjustment you'll have to make during the next 4 days to make your count right.
> Do you think that you have a right to an MIT education based solely on merit or intelligence?

I feel like you're taking the opposite of what my opinion on this issue is. I think the issue those AA lawsuit plaintiffs have is silly and entitled! (I should clarify the applicant was white in this case - sailing isn't a terribly diverse sport by my understanding).

I actually agree with you, but I am actually becoming convinced nobody has a right to an MIT/Harvard/etc education. If it wasn't clear, 2100 is shockingly low for a HYPSM admit, lower than even my mediocre SAT (also a 1500/1600).

I'd rather take the power back instead of whining about not getting into Harvard and hiring lawyers because you only got into Duke (another school I got rejected from!)
And there you go making the same mistakes that a lot of people are. You're looking at the article, going "ok, this part confirms my bias that it's <one thing I'm passionate about>" and then not learning from the article.
https://archive.org/details/PikeCommitteeReports/page/n19

>NSA's work necessarily brings it in possession of the private communications of Americans. This is so because in order for NSA to monitor international lines of communications for foreign intelligence, NSA must intercept all communications transmitted over such links.

...

>First, it suggests that NSA is able monitor virtually every international communication entering or leaving the United States. At present, some 24 million telegrams and 50 million telex (teletype) messages enter, leave, and transit the United States annually, and most of these are sent or received by private citizens. Millions of additional messages are transmitted over leased lines, including millions of computer data transmissions electronically entering and leaving the country each year. International telephone calls are yet another potential source of intelligence.
Pretty much. Interestingly it is a very similar approach to Perl's "taint mode". The intention is obviously that you can't blindly use/output values that are user-provided. Instead you must validate, and convert them to a "trusted type", at which point you can use them in your DOM tree, or wherever you wish.

The big difference is that if you forget a place here you'll get a type error - rather than the current situation where if you forget to validate/sanitize you get an XSS attack.
Hear, hear. That's one of the biggest reasons I've been knocking doors for Bernie.
Yeah, I find it quite difficult to navigate without sorting them in chronological order...
AFAIK, the US tight oil has nearly peaked (and they still aren't profitable !!), and I don't think that there's much additional production capacity left there, though higher prices will certainly help. (The depletion rate is just too great to sustain the production for long...)

I am indeed unsure (and a bit scared) about the potential from oil sands (and maybe shale oil = kerogen).
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663
When you put something out in the world for free, the expectation is that it is free. Trying to charge selectively to only certain companies is discrimination and violates the spirit of net neutrality.
Shotwell doesn't support the wireless transmission of images, the supporting WiFi/LTE/etc firmware stack (if applicable) does.

I'm not sure how it could be argued that the Shotwell codebase contains anything specifically related to supporting wireless data transfer.
True, and you left out a whole host of other issues.

While EU regulations harmonize a lot, it's still much, much messier than in the US.

* different tax regimes

* often quite different regulations

* contract requirements

* income levels which can affect pricing decisions / require regional pricing

* localized ad campaigns per country

* getting media attention in each country is hard

* ...
Can’t work if the patented solution has become common knowledge within the profession
You seem to be highlighting employer provided insurance costs increase (which they do), but historically they increase at a lower rate than individual plans (i.e. the alternative).
That's right.

Simply writing down your calories consumption - with no limitations whatsoever - helps to lose weight.
Commute distance, legality (biking from city to city on the interstate is a big no-no), inability to shower after a ride, weather (I'm looking at YOU, Scotland!), medical conditions, take your pick.
I think the commonly claimed rules about adding increment your unit of time or multiplying by x are kind of childish and a wasteful. Estimating time to complete is difficult because individual items have high variance. If you have 3 items that are likely to take 2 hours +/- 2 hours, estimate 10 hours for the lot. Variance of the total goes down by a factor of n^(-1/2).

Explain why you do this. Flag when variance is screwing you anyway.
I feel like this is the sandwich shop example though, which I think is perfectly valid.