skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EFF has a good page on the principles underlying "reasonable expectation of privacy." See: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy.

The crux of the matter is "knowing exposure to third parties." So you have an expectation of privacy in sealed postal mail, but not say post cards or anything printed on the outside of envelopes. While a postal service as a matter of course can't read what's in peoples' sealed letter mail, e-mail is sent in plain text and can be seen by any intermediary SMTP server as well as system administrators of the sending and target mail servers. That's just the nature of the protocol.

Moreover, the fact that the U.S. Postal Service is an agency of the government puts it under heightened scrutiny as compared to e-mail providers who are private parties. The fact that people would be horrified if the U.S. Postal Service were tearing open envelopes and scanning mail to send targeted catalogs, etc, to people but accept Google, etc, doing the same thing as a matter of course really cuts at the knees of the argument that people have the same "expectation of privacy" in their e-mail as they do their letter mail.
The talk isn't released yet, but he spoke on similar topics at strange loop https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/taking-off-the-blindfold
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> yet, people are continually surprised and disappointed when a company takes a profitable course of action

I think this is a fairly recent phenomenon, that's gone hand in hand with the development of the Internet.

First, we had companies without business plans (or profits) that peaked in the 90s. That bubble burst, but the reputation of "something for nothing" has lingered.

Companies have since found new ways to monetize users (e.g. targeted advertising) in a way that's mostly transparent to the users. This has perpetuated the sense of "something for nothing" associated with online products and services.
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You could have at least /glanced/ at current hardware before saying this. The cheap SSDs on the market now can saturate four times 1GbE. There is definitely demand for SSDs, and they're getting to the point where it is not expensive to just have a pretty big SSD and no spinning disk at all. So to me it is surprising there is no inexpensive 10GbE option. People always like it when they don't have to see a loading bar, and even gigabit ethernet is slower than HDD to HDD.
It doesn't seem that it's happening or even can happen, because there really isn't much of a bitcoin economy. The speculation on the currency absolutely dwarfs any usage of it as a currency. Nobody on earth uses it for more than 1% of their purchases.

So anyone who wants to use it as a justification for some reactionary ron paul economics is really not observing what's going on. Is claiming you made money on gold as an investment really an argument for gold-backed currency?
I was echoing the words of the comment I was responding to. As I already explained to you, I am in favor of gender equality. Your high drama here comes across to me as concern trolling, especially given the other things you have posted.
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>It's a rarely studied era

More accurate: 100 years ago it was an intensely studied era, as the West struggled to understand what had allowed it to conquer the whole world. But it is an era that has gone out of fashion. It is not now widely studied.

But even now, the subject is not unknown. The person who did the best comparison of modern entrepreneurs and the old sea faring culture was Ted Goranson, in a small pamphlet called "Whale of a Tale." It is tragic that this pamphlet is now out of print. It used to be that you could find a copy on Amazon, but now it seems to be gone. It was only 25 pages, and did a brilliant job showing how the old laws and cultures of the seafaring nations became the basis for the modern understanding of entrepreneurs.

I understand that his "whale" story was incorporated into the book he eventually wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Virtual-Enterprise-Cases-Metrics...

I have not read the book so I can not vouch for it.

In his pamphlet, Goranson did a great job of arguing that whaling ships were the worlds first Virtual Agile Enterprises. Very insightful reading.
Which is one reason that I'm not buying stock. Of course even Groupon stock might when the company fails still yield some Aeron chairs and cubicle dividers. There is a something behind any (non-scam) stock. The same cannot be said about Bitcoin. If I had a bitcoin I would sell it as quickly as I could.
I hope you realize the irony in your last sentence.
> If everyone hoards, and never spends, then the economy stalls and then recedes.

Why are "savers" demonised as "hoarders"?

Why should they be blamed for the structural problems of an economy too reliant upon debt-fueled consumer spending?

What's wrong with people saving for their future and not spending beyond their means?
It seems to me, with a finite supply and limited usage, it has to either keep increasing forever or crash, right?

Finite supply and an uptake in usage as an actual currency (aka something different than what 90% of the players seem to be doing) would mean an increase in demand causing prices to continue to rise with adoption (which could spell some problems with adoption, but not necessarily insurmountable ones).

Meanwhile, if adoption as an actual currency never takes off, then eventually the whole thing's gotta fall over, right? So it's either continual price rises or a big crash? What are the other scenarios?

All of this talk about the nature of currencies when it's clear that 90% of the activity is treating it as a speculative asset seems silly to me. Either it transitions to a currency (which is more about usage than price), or it doesn't and eventually crashes.
Well, maybe this could work, but probably it would have to replicate the "coercive" component of the current system. In other words, by reviewing other people's papers you somehow improve the chances of having your own papers reviewed. And if somehow that system manages to also provide an incentive to do the job thoroughly, then that would be a huge improvement on top of what we have now.
> Somewhat off-topic: isn't BC just digital gold? Is there any reason to think of it any differently?

NO it isn't. Gold can be used for many different purposes other than just currency.
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"What Bitcoin introduces is a money supply with that question of trust removed, with enforcement by mathematical means"

Except that there is no formal definition of the security for Bitcoin, so there is no meaningful "enforcement." Formal definitions of security for digital cash systems cannot be applied to Bitcoin because of the lack of a central authority. The security of Bitcoin is extremely vague, based on hand-waving arguments about computational power that are extremely difficult to analyze.

Even if somehow we overlook that lack of rigor, "enforcement" is not accurate. There is a known, polynomial time, practical attack that allows Bitcoin money to be double-spent. That does not sound like "enforcement by mathematical means" to me, at least not if the "mathematics" you are referring to are cryptography, game theory, or related fields (and I am not sure what other mathematics would even be used to enforce rules).
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For those commenting on the poor quality of Angular's documentation (a complaint I share), check out John Lindquist's videos at http://egghead.io/ . They're not comprehensive, but John spends a great deal of time explaining the nuances of directives, especially isolate scopes and transclusion and his explanations are clear and intuitive. Prior to finding John's videos, I watched all of the "official" Angular videos which I found more often frustrating than illuminating, but John set me straight. Can't recommend enough.

And if you're struggling to ramp up on Angular, I would recommend sticking it out. The learning curve is steep (or is that gradual?--I never understood this analogy), but once it clicks, your productivity will go through the roof. Angular has redefined what I mean when I say "rapid prototyping."
There are a couple of good reasons, actually. For one, it improves the morale of the team. Twenty-eight million dollars give a false impression of security to team members. In terms of the market's perception, the perception of company's solidity improves. Don't mind that outside investment is actually a loan (which for me is a risk, and not an asset). The word investment brings in a lot of positive connotations with it. There is also the morale-crunching effect it has on the competition. Everyone else starts to scramble in order to raise money, instead of actually improving their offerings. Its a weird psychological effect mostly found on founders. Investment announcements from competitors make them suffer a lot, and a fair amount simply lose concentration and or quit.
You may have lost bitcoins, but you did so before you knew they'd be worth hundreds of dollars. I'd expect that in the future, people will be much more careful to backup (or print out) their private keys.

In any case, the ones you lost just increased the value of all the other bitcoins still in use. Since each unit is theoretically divisible into infinitely smaller units at some point in the future, people will just trade smaller amounts for larger values. That's a feature, not a bug!

A lot of people are claiming that deflation is a death sentence for a currency like this. Something they overlook is that new coins will continue to be created for many years still, and that all it takes is a new version of the protocol to 'fix' any fatal flaws in the current system. If the majority of users have a financial interest in defending the value of their coins, it seems logical to me that they are likely to act rationally to achieve that if a threat were to emerge.

But then, who knows.
Archery is an accessible hobby, It's just an urban legend that isn't accessible, you need only five meter to practise effective archery. Then you can contact an archery association near to you, we are everywhere.
Thank you for understanding that it's ordinary to be asked for clarification about something we've said.

1) I think the way in which the benchmarks game programs are most unlike a lot of other programs is that these are tiny tiny toy programs.

"Toy programs" as-in -- http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ-fSqbLfFoC&lpg=PP1...

And that's intentional.

2) Why do you say "...I/O. The shootout programs do none."?

regex-dna, k-nucleotide, and reverse-complement do read data in FASTA format before processing.

(fasta and reverse-complement also write data in FASTA format -- but redirected to /dev/null)

Not TBs of I/O but not none.
There are lots of places to learn Ruby. At this point, you could Google just about any question that you had.

How about something more ambitious? Anyone want to crowd fund a small satellite or lunar rover for the Google Lunar Prize?

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/
A few pieces here...

http://www.securityweek.com/south-korea-cyber-attacks-used-d...

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/s...
>The business world, on the other hand, is an open system.

Depending on the country. There is probably an interesting relationship between the openness of the business system (how easy is it to quit and get a different job) and how much people feel the need to fight to reform their current job.

I know that in Eastern Europe there is still a culture that feels that past a certain age it is difficult to find a new job, and so one must stick with one's current job, and mutiny if the leadership is very bad. (To some extent, that attitude is everywhere, but it is much stronger in some areas of the world. The English speaking nations seem to lead the way in assuming that quitting and hiring and firing should all be fairly free.)
I'm sure it is somewhere. Lots of software behind Facebook.
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And if you want to be really hardcore, you can make your own primitive bow too. Nothing like nailing a bulls-eye with a bow you crafted yourself from scratch. Here's a link to one of the first ones I made: http://dougk16.deviantart.com/art/Primitive-Bow-I-122617866?...

Also, I'd recommend hay bales instead of the material referenced in the post. You can stack a bunch of hay bales together to make a bigger target, which will allow you to get further away, and they're the easiest material on the arrows themselves that I've found. They also don't degrade and leave any chunks behind on the ground. I get mine at a local nursery.
"What is gold, silver or fiat currency backed by?"

Laws.
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Arxiv and marxiv are already working on this.

Arxiv even has a paid fellowship, but it is postdoc wages, not professional wages.
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> As established by arethuza, hot fusion has been accomplished for some time ...

Let's be clear about what we're talking about. A fusion generator by definition produces more power than it requires. Apart from stars and thermonuclear devices, this has not been achieved anywhere. Without clear terminology, we will go in circles.

Also, the NASA project documents specify and require a net power gain in the fusion reaction:

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2012_phaseII...

Quote: "an in-depth analysis of the rocket design and spacecraft integration as well as mission architectures enabled by the FDR need to be performed. Fulfilling these three elements form the major tasks to be completed in the proposed Phase II study. A subscale, laboratory liner compression test facility will be assembled with sufficient liner kinetic energy (~ 0.5 MJ) to reach fusion breakeven conditions."

> Nowhere in this thread was there a claim about power generation.

Except in the NASA documents that describe the project under discussion.
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Monsanto is irrelevant to you, with respect to these issues, unless you are a farmer.

What is relevant is the products you choose to buy. If you choosing products raised from Monsanto GM seed, then you are giving incentive to the farmer to buy more seed from Monsanto and its licensees. You are defining the market, the farmer has to fulfill your demands.

On my farm, we stopped growing GM soybeans completely because people in several Asian countries have specifically asked us to fulfill non-GM products, and it is our business to comply. Assuming you do not come from one of the aforementioned Asian countries, and have not made market requests for non-GM products, why not? What is holding you back from defining a non-GM market in your country of origin?

As farmers we have to provide exactly what you, the consumer, are asking for, or we quickly go out of business. If GM crops remain in rotation, it is because people are asking farmers to grow it. Ask for something else, and they will quickly disappear. But are you willing to do that?
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But now that gmail has ssl access, this is no longer true, right?
Well, statistics of pentests does show that, if tested, the vast majority of good quality, generally securely built applications have some vulnerabilities, and average applications have a huge multitude of vulnerabilities.

SQL injections are just one class of many. There are ways to vastly reduce SQL injection risks but that still leaves many other venues of attack.
Depends on what you're doing. If I were starting up something around the oil industry, pretty sure I'd want to be in Houston. (Easy access to Austin talent being a bonus, but that's a tangent)
I use the git CLI for most work; "git gui" for reviewing changes between writing them and committing them, especially for committing partial changes. Almost nothing else.
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I wouldn't pay $25 for this Kickstarter project.

Codeacademy and Udemy has Ruby classes to grasp enough knowledge and cost less than this.
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When optimizely started in lat 2009/2010, that was a popular naming scheme. In my YC batch (w2010), there were a lot of '-ly's (including optimizely).
Coercion comes from the employers (tenure/promotion requirements) not from the publishers.
This is Quirky, a very heavily funded site. I have no affiliation with them and they're doing some big updates. I thought it would be of interest to some.
Depends on your perspective. The vendor is covered by the credit card company, and gets paid, so doesn't need to know anything about the borrower.

The credit card company doesn't want the borrower to default, so they do a certain amount of checking before pre-approving the card to minimize that possibility across their customers (and charge a premium across the board to ensure they're covered even if some defaulters get through).

That's what I meant when I said "finance will be an expensive proposition for unknown borrowers"; they're not unknown (to the financer, i.e. the credit card company) if they have a credit card account.
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What really irks me is that this question [1], asking word-for-word the same question for a different year entry, that was posted two days later was closed as "too localized" and has -10 points, while this one has +452.

Stackoverflow has serious problems.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15429479/obfuscated-c-cod...
Wait until ASICS become widespread, and pools are once again needed.
Annual industrial demand makes up only 12% of the annual gold production-consumption. I provided a source for the stat above.
Serious question: why does this need a technical solution? Researchers comprise the editorial staff for these journals, conduct the peer reviews, and submit the papers, all for free (or nearly so). They (we) universally want the papers to be accessible by other researchers (because that means the paper might get cited) and are at worst indifferent to the papers being accessible to the public at large, and by that I mean some people care a lot about that issue, some people don't care very much, but I don't know anyone who is opposed to public access.

So there's an ongoing transition now by researchers/editorial boards/etc to move to a system with lower access costs (some of which involves taking back journal ownership, some doesn't). There's some logistical overhead and fixed costs, but those are falling. It seems like in 20 years (conservatively) all new research will be available to whomever wants it no matter what Elsevier or other companies do in the meantime (the papers may not be literally free, but affordable).

So, like I said initially, I can see how some software for logistics or communication would be helpful, but the main issues don't strike me as technical.
> I frequently see bash scripts writing HERE scheme files because for loops are too difficult in scheme.

Why? Loops in general are quite easy to do in Scheme, specially the "for-each" variety.

"The most brightest programmers", if bothered by the lack of a C-like for construct, would be able to fix that, for them and for others, in 5 minutes with a macro.

Scheme is easy and incredibly powerful. Its only issue is that knowledge in other languages does not necessarily translate directly to it. In other words, you have to take some time to learn, which is not a good thing nowadays with the instant gratification culture.
Can you outline what the use case this was designed for was?
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Gmail has SSL to Google's e-mail server. If you e.g. send a mail to someone using Outlook, it's sent in clear text. And at both ends it's scanned to deliver everyone involved targeted advertising.

"Reasonable expectation of privacy" doesn't have an implicit "only as against the government." If you're knowingly exposing the contents to Google and Microsoft to scan, you can't claim to have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the contents.
Still wondering how academia.edu got approved for an edu domain name. Screams scam to me.
You say that, but the article claims >$10m annual revenues. It sounds like they're having no problem capturing that value.
pretty sure it's anyone thats a yc alum
I'm a feminist. I'm not outraged. If I was outraged because destructive things exist, I would be a bundle of rage 24 hours a day and never get anything done. What enrages me is sensible people supporting sexism, and no one I respect supports this.

I also am not driven by blind principle, I focus on practicality. As a futurist, I don't see this catching on, let alone abuse of if becoming a big problem. Why would I put energy into solving a vaguely possible future violence when there is documented violence happening right now?

If this app were supporting and accelerating an existing tragedy of men being unable to control their reputations, this might be worth getting angry about.
They absolutely were not.

Look at a graph of UK inflation in the 19th century. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/inflation/tim...

The market value of a hunk of gold has done ok over the centuries, but it's value at any point in time as a currency goes all over that place. This makes it difficult to get capital -- who wants to lend money when you have no idea what money will be worth?
Individual miners will use other pools. Switching is very easy.
Man's laws are higher than nature's laws? Scarcity has natural authority on its side.
PR is irrelevant to "open". Either the product is or isn't. Academics should be smart enough is it isn't.
For the most part they don't though.
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You're being too harsh. You seem to be talking about Haskell, so saying "not everyone" is a weird way to put it. You really mean a tiny fraction of people use Haskell to be safe in advanced ways. Well, Haskell is ahead of its time. Of course not that many people use it.

Even Haskell is not a silver bullet against every kind of security problem. Didn't Snap have a directory traversal bug a while back?
>But what's actually happening is that Intel is building a fabric interconnect which can serve data at DRAM-bandwidth-or-higher speeds

Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. It was perfectly normal to purchase systems in the 90s that worked that way. A cabinet powered by a single power node, and you plugged in CPU nodes, memory nodes, I/O nodes, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_7000/10000_AXP
an organization dedicated, not to maximize profits for shareholders, but to keep power over scientific research in people’s hands

That's why we have governments.

No, I'm not being sarcastic. The public sector is there to serve the public good, and this is quite obviously a public good. I'm not anti-privatization either. Private exploitation under public laws and guidelines is a common strategy to solve these issues.

What has undermined public/private solutions is not public opinion or political ideology, but greed, lobbying and corruption. A foundation is nothing but a workaround, and foundations have a history of getting corrupted by the greed and delusions of grandure of its administrators.

It's time we address the real problem. The legacy of thousands of years of civilization is being stolen from us.