skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, if you do certain things while saying the words, it will help make you care.

There are two things you need to do:

(1) say it intentionally. Pay attention to how you say it, and deliver it earnestly with your head up and be prepared to

(2) listen to the response. Give due consideration to the answer and don't dismiss it. This is a window into someone else's life: treasure it, regard it with curiosity, but not intrusively.

Most people will start actually caring about the other person as a result of doing this a few times.
China is not yet a rich country. Its Per Capita GDP (PPP) is about the same as Ecuador or Belize.

Very, very misleading. Ecuador and Belize could disappear from the map tomorrow and the world's economy would be unchanged. Similarly, Liechtenstein has one of the highest PPP ratings in the world... yet it has no political clout or economic leverage.
> In absolute terms, maybe, I'm not sure.

Check out Dunbar's Number (a.k.a. the monkeysphere).
This concerns me, although maybe more than it should.

My experience with YouTube has been that rightsholders will lie about what they own. Whether this is because they're malicious or lazy, I don't know. But I do know that I've had many YouTube videos incorrectly claimed by music rights agencies.

(To be clear, the videos in question are screencasts of me programming. The only audio is my voice.)

When this happens, I have to dispute the claim. In one case [1], the rightsholder confirmed ownership--even though the video is me programming and the only audio is my voice--and now I have no recourse.

I can't describe the feeling of anger and powerlessness this has given me. Even though it's just one video and the revenue is in the single digits. Some asshole has claimed my shit as their own, and when I asked for help, the 900-pound playground monitor said I was in the wrong and now refuses to talk to me.

So I'm concerned about Google exercising similar unchecked power over search results.

Now, I've never had anything like this happen with my website, and I don't know that it's fair to extrapolate my experience with YouTube to Google Search. But there it is: I don't trust Google to evaluate copyright infringement correctly.

[1] The video in question is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zHt3zlq_Po

This is what Google says about copyright for that video: http://jamesshore.com/images/lets-play-tdd/kickstarter-updat...
Maybe Singapore? English is among its official languages.
Oh boy. I forgot decentralized would have some API connotations — my thinking was more along the lines of crowd-funded, "power to the people" kind of thing. If we're paying for it, we dictate how it works. Sorry about that.
Wind and Hydro collect far more solar power than a solar panel as far a surface area is concerned and requires little in the way of rare materials. Also, we cover more than 1% of the earth with plants, but they don't tend to be all that efficient bump them into the 15+% range by say genetically engineering something to collect wavelengths that Chlorophyll skips over and the numbers get intense. We also farm the oceans but focus way to high on the food chain to get much in the way of efficiency.

PS: There are also plenty of raw materials to cover the earth in solar panels but that's hardly unnecessary. But as far as the raw numbers go, covering 10% of the worlds oceans with floating solar collectors is vary doable and has a lower impact. (At the cost of significant climate change.)
I was surprised by the read-only aspect of the API. How do doctors/medical providers/employers submit records and or update billing information? I guess I am under the impression that when I visit the doctors office that they transmit data to my insurance provider.

Nota Bene: I dislike the malicious sentiment that often pops up in threads like this. My question is driven by pure curiosity.
It's a security issue. You're allowed to break things (or at least deprecate dangerous features)!
Did you even read what he wrote? They DON'T aim for any such amount of people using it.
I was a rubymine customer for 1.0 and it's good but nothing like intellij is for java. Static typing just makes building good tools so much easier.
> exactly one logical conclusion to the everyone-does-it, distributed-everything world you describe: prohibit the very act of conveying digital information in encrypted form, and require the infrastructure providers to help with identifying and prosecuting those who break the law

There is another logical conclusion: accept that since information is now easily shared that those who made their living by controlling the act of copying will be out of business soon.

Just like the canonical example of horse breeders and buggy makers being put out of business by the automobile. Like when the guild system collapsed and you could decide to try to earn a living as a blacksmith or carpenter without having to pay and get permission from the local guild.

These transitions aren't pretty, jobs are lost, industries collapse, but historically it has always turned out to be a necessary growing pain while something better has emerged. I certainly have a "the internet is one of great things humanity has done" bias but I still don't believe that this is an unrealistic vision.

I actually find it much more likely that artists will find a way to be paid and will adapt to a free exchange of bits than that we will find some good way to protect speech and freedom while still policing copyright. In that case you will always have powerful copyright interests with financial interests aligned against the advancement of an open internet. Combine that with needing to run a large scale education campaign the likes of anti-smoking or anti-drunk driving (that, because of the reputation of the copyright holders and a generation who things music is free, is getting harder every day).

I see the sense in your version, and it's not crazy. I just don't think we can pull it off. What we can do, since it's been done many times before, is let artists adapt to new technology and find a new business model.

And as 3D printers get better and better this is certainly a problem that's going to keep expanding.
I always found it slightly jarring in London that people always asked if I was alright.. 'you alright'
I would reply with, why is something wrong, do I not look okay? Took me ages to realise this was just the equivalent of 'how are you' or 'hows it going' or whatever..
Still find it amusing that the British implication on meeting someone is that something is probably wrong, and at best it is 'alright'..
It's a security issue if people leak their secret key. At that point you have a huge problem anyways. Also breaking things assumes that afterwards you are left with an equally functioning system which I currently don't think I can guarantee.
Okay, but you're still talking from a Yegge-conservative standpoint; your language is helping you avoid risk. It's just that it does a very good job of it.
thanks :) we put a lot of thought into how best to use it. glad that comes through.
This is the best thing I have ever seen on hacker news.
Would have been nice if Mars Telecommunications Orbiter [1] had flown. In addition to a higher orbit more suitable for communications, it would have included an experimental high-bandwidth laser link to Earth. Alas, the project got cancelled for budgetary reasons.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Telecommunications_Orbiter
Hey Ming. Thank you! I hear you guys might be ready for some design work soon. If you are, you know where to find it :)
I'm not sure about this, because usually when you pass out your "expectations" would stop affecting you much and your normal heartbeat, breathing etc. would resume. I've accidentally passed out from squeezing my vagus nerve, it's not too hard to do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve but as soon as you're unconscious things generally go back to normal.
More mimicry: beetles mimic flies
Does this account for takedown notices received by youtube by itself? No.
It looks to be inspired by https://stripe.com/docs
This is merely things that I practice that I think may be useful to some. I did read the full article and not just this one all the others including Matt Cuts post on 2fa. The companies are to blame, yes, but the "victim" is also responsible to some extent. "Only the paranoid survive." (I think that's by Andy Grove).

Honan owned up to not backing up, for example. Would it have been an "epic hack" if he could restore up to date data because he had a time machine backup?
> ...saying "Entrepreneurs" and "innovators" are generally in support of less copyright legislation is disingenuous.

Where did that claim come from? What are you referring to?
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Yes, this is a sad regression. In case anyone from inside Google is reading this and looking for a good example, try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=scansnap+%22s1300i%22+%22s15...

The first 70 results are all from the same site!

It's a decent site, but most of the pages are barely relevant. I was searching multiple viewpoints that might explain why I would prefer one model of a scanner over another, and getting page after page from the same single source is much worse than the previous behaviour.
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it is :)
> There is more to an education than reading, math, and science. The US is particularly famous for frequently forgetting that other countries even exist. Most of the Anglo world (including, but not just US) is seen with some derision in Europe for being so proudly monoglot. A comment of "My god, that person was so dumb" is usually about their lack of worldliness, not their skill with calculus.

I won't deny the lack of language learning in the US, which is something that I find disturbing, particularly with the "flattening" of the world in recent years. However, I firmly believe that it has nothing to do with the education system. The real problem (if you can call it that) is that Anglophone countries don't need to learn any other languages. The reason why Europeans can speak foreign languages (most often English) is because they need to.

Moreover, if you live in an Anglophone country (particularly America, and I'd expect Australia is similar too, due to its linguistic isolation), there just aren't very many chances to practice a language even if you learn it. I know the public schools where I grew up required students to learn foreign languages (and they usually learned Spanish), but most of them forgot the language within a year of stopping classes, because they never got a chance to use it. This situation may very well change with the rapidly growing Hispanic population in the US.

OTOH, if you live in a non-Anglophone country, you're constantly bombarded with all kinds of media in English - on the web, in print, and on the silver screen. This effect is amplified in countries that speak languages with relatively small numbers of speakers. For example, the postage stamp-sized countries of northern Europe are more fluent in English than southern European countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, and a big reason for this is that their small size means that there is less domestic media to consume, so they turn to Angolophone content.

> There are squillions of articles out there bemoaning all aspects of the US school system's race to teach the test rather than provide an education.

Once again, I think this is largely a function of the quality of the school. Having graduated from a public high school in an affluent district after the turn of the millenium, I can say that contemporary US public schools do not solely teach to the test if the students are primarily wealthy suburbanites. We received plenty of stimulating education and in college we were thrown straight into the deep end of the pool, with lots of graduate-level material that we didn't understand for quite a while, a far cry from the reteaching of high school material that everyone says is happening. Then again, that's only my personal experience.
I did actually cover that in my last paragraph. There are certain effects that are known to be highly subjective and therefore it is not implausible that a real effect from placebos could be seen, even accounting for biases.
You're using some interesting numbers. Citation?
If you see the list of sites that Google has received notices for, http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

The torrent sites and file sharing sites are aplenty in there. Are you saying they are low quality? It kinda seems obvious that the site that has the best torrents/files will have the highest quality and hence receive the most takedown notices.
Who defines large-scale infringement? Is several hundred torrents in violation of copyright (only a few active at a time) on someone's personal machine large-scale infringement? Several thousands torrents? A blog dedicated to linking to a handful of files on file download services each week in a very specific content domain? Hundreds per week?

What about private torrent trackers? What about file download sites like megaupload? What about forums? You expect them to police other people's content?

Strict copyright enforcement advocates love to talk about the cost of illegal sharing. What worthwhile software, movies, music, or books, in your opinion, have failed due to illegal filesharing, or would fail if copyright enforcement were limited to people directly selling copied content without permission?
The price of polysilicon, the stuff that a large portion of commercially available solar panels use, is NOT increasing. In fact, just the opposite has happened. If you want to know why Solyndra really failed so dramatically, you need to understand what this chart means to the solar industry:

http://etfdailynews.com/2012/03/27/solar-energy-industry-bey...

Prices of polysilicon are forecasted to drop over the long term. That means any technology that wants to compete in solar cells had better be really, really cheap. First Solar can produce modules at around $.70/Watt. Many Si module manufacturers are producing at sub $.90/Watt. Given that Si modules that have been in place for decades and still function, any other materials are a risk for a 25+ year investment.

(I also graduated as an EE, but I also work in PV test and measurement, so I work with this stuff everyday, and my paycheck depends on it.)
I agree. First, I need to keep reminding myself that "app.net" is a 'new twitter' rather than a review site or app marketplace. It just won't stick in my head as much as I try.

And payment model for a new social network is a fantastic idea, but the audience is too narrow to be useful.
Insurance covers teeth whitening? I thought elective/cosmetic procedures were not covered.
Chalk one up for thinking positively.
In information security, people used to think that web-based vulnerabilities were "lame" or "easy."

To some extent, they may have been correct: if you look at the relative complexity of HTTP header fuzzing or a SQL injection attack compared to finding 0day in, say, the Linux kernel, it's generally not even a contest.

That said, exploits like this demonstrate the carelessness that can go into many applications and frameworks on the web. In my years of application security, I've seen some "interesting" vulnerabilities like this, but I've seen thousands of people with standard, well-known security problems all over their applications.

"Broken Authentication & Session Management" is an extremely common finding for my team to write up. People think that, oh, we don't need this cookie to be marked Secure or HTTPOnly. "If the browser's owned, we're screwed anyway."

The problem with this uninformed stance on application security is that exploits do not always need to stand on their own to introduce a significant level of risk. For example, should a cookie not be marked HTTPOnly, the browser itself does not need to be compromised. Simple cross-site scripting (another extremely common issue in webapps) can easily access these cookies and throw them at malicious receivers.

This is just one example, but like the article referenced in the original post, it seems to me that some people just don't take security seriously.

That said, the research referenced here is pretty cool -- for those of you that missed it, you can read the Black Hat 2011 paper on this issue here: http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Slaviero/BH_US_11_Slavier...
I'm not taking offense in a patriotic stance. I'm offended because it's plain incorrect. I don't know if we're arguing the same thing, but I'm saying looking at China from a western perspective is misleading, and leads you to formulate judgments that are based on slanted information. It's much like how the average citizen believes he's knowledgeable about the economy.

It's still commonplace for companies to provide housing. I'm not sure how I can prove this to you, other than asking you to go to China, or read it in Chinese.

"Foreigner laws in China are designed to protect us? Ya, by not letting our kids go to any but the most expensive international schools? By making us re-register with our local PSB whenever we go on a business trip? By limiting how we can spend our money..which we earned in China and paid (high) Chinese taxes on? By making us pay social security taxes and then telling us we will only see that money at all if we work here for 15 years?"

Their schools and our schools aren't the same. If you sent your kid to a regular Chinese school, do you expect the same treatment as Chinese kids get? Is it okay for their teachers to hit your kids if they misbehave? Perhaps you'd like the rest of the kids to pretend like your kid was Chinese, even though their culture isn't as multicultural as ours.

I don't know what your complaint with the PSB registration is about. It takes two minutes, and other countries do very similar things. They're keeping track of foreigners in their country. USA, Canada - we all do it, just through different ways. Only difference is, there's an order of magnitude in population difference. I remember, actually, when I went to school in the USA, I had 10x more paperwork to fill out than going to China (I'm Canadian).

USA and Canada also limit the amount of money you can spend before you're horribly taxed. This isn't unique to China. I've never paid Chinese social insurance, so I honestly can't say. All I know is, I'm paying social security in Canada, and by the time I use it, it's going to be (probably) gone.
I'm not sure what you mean by "optimized" data.

Edit: my very rudimentary understanding of information theory tells me that there's no "average" or "optimized" data, only varying amounts of entropy (AKA compressibility). My limited knowledge of radio and electrical transmission says that transmitted data is encoded to make effective use of the transmission medium (e.g. 8b/10b encoding, 8-to-14 modulation, TMDS).

So, if by "optimized" data you mean "high entropy" data, encryption should have no effect on that. Or, if by "optimized" you mean encoded for the transmission channel, you would run your encryption process before the channel encoding process.
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To build a smart spider, you can have a classifier that determines if you should crawl the outlinks of the page.

This classifier can be trained using logistic regression.

This is slightly tricky, but effective. I've been meaning to write in more depth about this topic (smart crawling).

[edit: I'm stepping out so I can't write more right now. You can email me if you have any questions about this.]
The assumption implicit in that is that starting a hedge fund is "safe/low risk" - which, having started a hedge fund, is just wrong. It is as risky as starting any business. In fact, in some ways it is much, much harder because to gain any size in the hedge business you have to have either come from a very well-known shop or have a very good, audited track record. Even given all of that, count on 2-3 years of managing a small amount of money that doesn't cover your costs. And pray you don't have a large drawdown and have to watch that fast fund-of-fund money disappear.

She really lost me with the stuff about raising $200m - I'm sorry, but that's very, very, very unlikely to happen with an unproven manager with no track record - unless her family name is so strong she could just ride on that. But even given that, I don't know anybody that is giving out $200m to a 25 year old who hasn't run money before. Maybe that happened 5 years ago - I don't think that is happening now.

Lastly - I think it is an interesting idea to audit shipping records to decide on a position (macro I'm assuming), but there was also no discussion of whether she had even tested this and if it even worked.

Like an earlier poster, I frankly found this post insulting.
My guess would be that telcos don't allow free voice apps on their network.

Since Android is an open platform, I'm sure there's a technical solution. I'm sure that you could make an app that records on the microphone and transmits the data over some kind of encrypted tunnel (likely SSH, SSL, or TLS), the person on the other end of the tunnel is running the same app, and when the two apps talk to each other they play the audio from the remote microphone on the local speaker. You probably just can't put it on the App Store, and I've heard tales of providers rejecting packets that use known VoIP protocol ports (which is why the app would be more reliable with an encryption layer, to jump directly to the end-game of the cat-and-mouse between VoIP protocols and 3G/4G providers' blocks).

I'd imagine any reasonably skilled developer could write the above app in an afternoon, so I'd imagine that tons of people have already done so. I'd also imagine that Google might block such apps from the official app store, so you might have to search on alternative app stores, install from the developer's personal website, or build the app yourself.

I'm not sure how intrusive Google would be about enforcing a ban on third-party VoIP. For example, the most draconian way to turn the screws on such apps would be scanning your phone periodically for blacklisted apps, and terminating your contract and bricking the phone without refund or recourse if a ToS-violating app is found. Since I haven't read any articles complaining of such practices, I assume that Android implementations don't go that far. But I have heard tales of blocking of traffic on known VoIP ports on 3G / 4G networks.

If you want such an app to connect to the telephone network, you'd just have one endpoint be your phone, and have the other endpoint be a server running standard VoIP over a wired Internet connection and just proxying that connection to the app over SSH.

I'd imagine any reasonably skilled developer who was familiar with VoIP could make the above extensions to the app in an afternoon, so I'd imagine that tons of people have already done so.

Like I said, such apps probably exist, but are also probably hacky enough that ordinary people can't be bothered with them (non-official app download plus set up a daemon on your personal server equals too technical for most people). So they're probably only used by a niche community.
Ah, ok :) , I hadn't understood your statement correctly.

I'm looking forward to self driving cars because of their convenience ! Imagine being able to sleep during road trips, using them as a taxicab for places where there's no parking (and ask it to park itself :) ), sending them to pick up somebody... the possibilities are endless !!
Couldn't agree with this more...
Yes, I know that you said that yours is 10 years, but please bear with me for the sake of my example.

Do you understand that the "term" in "term life insurance" is a very, VERY important detail? If you carry the term out to where there is an actuarial likelihood (or certainty!) of death, then yes, term life insurance does get radically more expensive. If you cover a) someone's working career or b) someone's expected career with a particular company, term life insurance remains quite inexpensive.