skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say the same thing about the suppressed NYT NSA story a few years back. Incentives are more complicated than short term profits of the firm. Being in the good graces of powerful government actors is certainly a strong incentive in terms of personal benefits and long term profits.

Given the above, and not making any judgment as to the veracity of the claim, there isn't enough evidence for mainstream media to publish. Compare with allegation of the Syrian government's use of Sarin for which there is equally little evidence but media outlets are quick to publish because it is inline with government interests.
I think his point is even more basic, but perhaps more depressing: Finding people who are decent and competent can be hard enough, so you have to cover that minimum bar before you can talk about "talent".

Given his industry and as he cites in the post, he probably faces the problem of lots of people who claim to be "writers" more than the average HN user finds people who claim to be "programmers".
None of your arguments tell me why this kind of relationship should be enforced by law, only why you might want to buy from a dealer and not a manufacturer directly.
Good example of why geometry education is flawed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprism
I read this whole post before realizing it was written by that prick, Tucker Max. I wish I could unread it.
New leaks: British intel’s direct-from-fiber taps “worse than the US”
25000 bees are a minute fraction of the worldwide total. One deer is a minute fraction of the worldwide total, I'd assert their impact is on the same order of magnitude. Can we all stop examining local news and panicking globally?

If you started finding lots of deer dead in the woods, I might be concerned; on the side of the road, not so much.

If you started finding bees dead in their hive (which does happen, but not in this case), I might be concerned; finding them dead by bee toxic trees that have been recently sprayed with insecticide, not so much.
Isn't a culture where rape and sexual assault happens a pretty steep price to pay for the allure and romantic nature of non-verbal communication?

Most of the time, nothing bad will happen if you depend on non-verbal cues, but in the minority of times your advances may unwanted, and the person feels uncomfortably verbally rebuffing them. In these instances, assault or even rape can and_does_happen.

Simply asking for consent is hardly difficult and the insurance it provides that your partner does in fact like your advances is very valuable.

>Also: in that scenario, trying to touch your date’s shoulder or leg, or approaching to kiss her, isn’t rape. It’s an opportunity for her to let you know whether you’ve interpreted her signals correctly.

How do you know it is not rape (or assault in this circumstance)? Non-verbal queues are not infallible; without asking, you must trust your judgment. While you probably judged correctly, that does not mean it is advisable behavior to proceed without asking.
Per my lengthy reply above, roughly as often. It's pretty great.
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This is so wrong on many levels, but briefly:

1) The legal definition of rape (at least in most states?) makes it such that one cannot "accidentally" do it.

Keywords: "[by means of] force", "duress", "physical resistance", "objected verbally".

A woman who was:
* Not forced
* Had no duress
* Not physically resisting
* Not verbally objecting
* Mentally capable of making decisions

...is considered to be consenting. In other words, and perhaps contrary to the way you believe it should be, THE LAW REQUIRES YOU TO EXPRESS YOUR DISCOMFORT OR ELSE THERE IS NO PLAUSIBLE WAY THE OTHER PERSON COULD KNOW. Sorry. :(

If a person has sex but later decides they weren't really that into their partner, wished that they didn't, wished that they had stopped it earlier -- it's not rape. Regret and the discomfort / dissonance that comes from it is a far cry from traumatic, forced rape.

2) You know long before you were "accidentally raping" someone whether or not they were consenting.
Well, if you want to know, my original objection was toward using Wikipedia as the arbiter of correct stance on a political issue. Wikipedia itself tries to keep politics out, and for good reason with the way online communities can groupthink. Clearly I should have expanded on that in the first comment.

I was not aware at that time that Wikipedia actually contradicted itself, but that was a very easy way to demonstrate my point in a followup post. But the particular flaws in that article were never my main point.
It's simply criminal to omit Walter Lewin from those kinds of lists.
> hopefully it's the last security-related one

Guaranteed not.

I don't mean for you in particular, security requires constant vigilance.
Wonder if it would have without this comment.
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The chapter linked appears to be called "Physical Escalation and Sex" and seems to be very late in the book.

Consent is assumed in the situation because of all the stuff leading up to it. Like the getting the number, the going out on dates, talking a lot, and finally ending up alone with them in their or your own residence.

Are you sure you've had sexual congress with a woman before? As many other posters are pointing out in this thread, most real women absolutely do not want to be asked for permission every step of the way.

Furthermore, the author includes quite a bit of text about respecting when consent is explicitly withdrawn, which is something I hope we can all agree is a good thing, without getting lost in, "but you should discuss it first". Most people don't, and that's the reality we live in.
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I'm wondering if this is a solution in search of a problem.

There isn't much point to casually browsing the site right now - I can see that someone else has achy feet, but I get no deeper insight; no comment explaining their situation nor comments from others that may have been similarly encumbered in the past.

Additionally, I only really share my health concerns with one person that isn't a doctor, and she lives with me.

The faces seem like a distraction when sharing anonymously. Many of them don't have an intuitive meaning, so I figure they're just for fun.

Also I couldn't figure out how to login or register on the site. I found out it's not actually required to share a health status, but since you listed it in the Show HN post, I looked around for it.

I do like the look and feel of the site - very straightforward and great colors, fonts, and design.
Q: What are Entry Guards?

A: Tor (like all current practical low-latency anonymity designs) fails when the attacker can see both ends of the communications channel. For example, suppose the attacker controls or watches the Tor relay you choose to enter the network, and also controls or watches the website you visit. In this case, the research community knows no practical low-latency design that can reliably stop the attacker from correlating volume and timing information on the two sides.

So, what should we do? Suppose the attacker controls, or can observe, C relays. Suppose there are N relays total. If you select new entry and exit relays each time you use the network, the attacker will be able to correlate all traffic you send with probability (c/n)2. But profiling is, for most users, as bad as being traced all the time: they want to do something often without an attacker noticing, and the attacker noticing once is as bad as the attacker noticing more often. Thus, choosing many random entries and exits gives the user no chance of escaping profiling by this kind of attacker.

The solution is "entry guards": each Tor client selects a few relays at random to use as entry points, and uses only those relays for her first hop. If those relays are not controlled or observed, the attacker can't win, ever, and the user is secure. If those relays are observed or controlled by the attacker, the attacker sees a larger fraction of the user's traffic — but still the user is no more profiled than before. Thus, the user has some chance (on the order of (n-c)/n) of avoiding profiling, whereas she had none before.

You can read more at An Analysis of the Degradation of Anonymous Protocols, Defending Anonymous Communication Against Passive Logging Attacks, and especially Locating Hidden Servers.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#EntryGuards
No, really. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get it launched.
In his notorious guide to ruling, Machiavelli advised Princes with bad news to deliver it all at once, noting that no matter how bad it is, people will adjust and move on if they feel that's the end of it. Good news, on the other hand, should be judiciously doled out, in small amounts, to maximize the value it brings the person delivering it.

Conversely, if a Prince has good news, and delivers it all at once but with no follow up, people will stop being grateful for what they've gotten, and will start demanding more, which can bankrupt any ruler who tries to comply. Likewise, if there's a steady drip of bad news, minds race ahead, anticipating worse to come and making advance preparations which undermine the stability of the Prince.

This basic psychology works the other way as well. If you have bad news about your adversary, and drop it all at once, they can take the hit and move on. But if you can supply a steady drip of negative stories it becomes impossible to get past the growing sense of distrust, especially when people start imagine the worst, and demand to see proof that their darkest fears are unfounded. This may mean having to prove a negative, which is the epitome of an impossible situation. Reaching this point only accelerates the downward spiral.

Of course, following this strategy means being able to place yourself beyond the reach of retaliatory efforts. It's what Sun Tzu would refer to as selecting the field of battle to play to your strengths while offsetting your weaknesses. If your chosen position also has the inverse effect on your opponent, neutralizing their strengths while amplifying their weaknesses, then it's a double win.

So far, Snowden's strategy has been textbook-perfect.
Besides Tracking You Online, The Government Is Tracking Where You Travel
IIRC, she was also gagged by the court during her wrongful termination lawsuit, citing national security. Convenient.
Back then, this wasn't called collision detection, but proper database design. I can not even begin to fathom how you can inadvertently introduce this by fixing a save bug.
Here, I'll do one better: If anyone is concerned about the nature/security of the site, here is the source code to NeoCities, ready for anyone to do a full security audit: https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web

Pull requests welcome!
I'll be interested in seeing how those senators feel about tax revenue lost if lots of people end up going out of state to buy expensive cars. It's not like it's that hard to find a border to go across in New York.
You're using chrome on windows right? The linked URL is their mobile site and the text container has been 3dtransformed forcing grayscale antialiasing which Chrome does poorly.

Check it out on Firefox or IE and you'll see what I mean.

It will look much better on a mobile device as well. If you drop "mobile." from the url you'll get their normal desktop site which also has much better type in Windows Chrome.
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Not much to see there. I'd suggest you write longer blog posts, maybe include some anecdotes of the problem you are solving with your new service. "Here's a service, there's no details, want to join the beta?" isn't very compelling.
Hmm, I can't seem to find a way to contact these judges. I'd love to mail them a letter expressing my concerns and to voice my opinions to them. At least to give their clerks a call and try to move towards positions I feel are more in line with American culture. Anyone here got a list of numbers or addresses?

Edit: Found contact info for:

The Honorable Thomas F. Hogan
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 354-3420

Chambers of Judge Reggie B. Walton's contact information:
Telephone Number: 202-354-3290
Fax Number: 202-354-3292
Address:
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

Give a call folks!
I do agree with your sentiments on Tucker Max, but I think the message is worthwhile no matter the messenger.

A lot of people need to have this idea hammered in over and over until it sticks. Ironically most of them probably don't read HN.
It's a neat idea; how do you propose to prevent the site from devolving into /r/AdviceAnimals? (Or do you?)
I've seen articles like this before, and whenever I read them I think about a time on vacation when I could quite possibly have drowned. I had traveled abroad with some friends and went into relatively shallow water. However, I hadn't swam at all in many years, and I was also out of shape.

We decided to have a swimming race. About halfway through I was completely exhausted, both from being out of shape and not being a very good swimmer in the first place. At that point I stopped to rest and realized that my feet couldn't hit the bottom. I recall my mouth being above and then below water, along with panic. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I got the idea to try and backfloat, which I was able to do. After resting a bit I was able to direct myself to shallow water again.

At the time I didn't think too much of it, but when I reflect upon it I think that I was drowning. My friends were indeed not far away, and I couldn't yell or thrash my hands around. It's scary to consider that I could have died while so close to them!
What gave it away? Was it tuckermax.me domain before you got to the website, after it loaded, the sidebar bio, or the huge banner at the top?
Also, almonds.
Allegedly.

Is there any other source who speaks this dialect of legalese and has concluded that that's what the bill would do? Have the bill's sponsors had a chance to explain the bill?
This is the kind of post I wish there was a downvote for on HN.
That's not how trademark works.
GCHQ taps fiber optic cables
WSJ is behind a paywall. :(
Is there a single major media outlet --- The New York Times, The Washington Post (which is already out in front of this story), The Wall Street Journal (a Murdoch paper), The Washington Times (a strongly partisan anti-Obama paper), Bloomberg News, heck, Le Monde --- a single one that appears to be taking this story seriously? Why not? Is your argument that every reputable major media outlet in the world is somehow cowed by the administration?
Noted! I'll add to it, thx
Now, instead of addressing my question, you're making up motives for me to have asked the question in the first place and assaulting those motives.
Exactly. I've had this debate/argument many times with HN'ers. For some reason, people around here are unnaturally attached to the idea of owning a particular car battery.

I've tried to see it from my interlocutors' point of view, but the point still isn't getting through to me, I'm afraid.
While I will admit Microsoft was making a bold move which Sony will most likely do as well next generation and that by doing nothing the XBOXONE would have still sold, this move was far too bold at once. Microsoft did not sell the future, they sold the idea that customers were criminals and they needed to have archaic monitoring processes to keep us criminals in line. Some of the new "features" were too different from what we know now and the community as a whole was not shown what benefits it would have for giving up the freedoms it had become accustomed.
How can I upload my files with CuteFTP?
D'oh! Of course I meant "enough".
$30 million in sales to bankruptcy in 6 months? That's crazy, I didn't realize that was even possible.
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Paging Mr. Best...to the red courtesy phone, Mr. Pete Best, red courtesy phone please.

Guy comes up with the idea to blog about the concept of working his way around the world. Neither is a novel concept. People have been travelling the world whilst working since times immemorial. People have also been blogging about their experiences lives since, well, times immemorial. See: Herodotus.

Also, he apparently didn't do any fancy legal footwork prior to creating his brand, image and web persona that would enable him to protect his work in the future. Sucks to be him.

Again, nothing novel about any of this. That he did well enough to convince some sketchball employment agency to use his concept in their promotional work is a measure of success and well, that's probably the pinnacle of his for this particular project. Maybe it's time that he invest his energies into something will a higher barrier to entry.
According to the Wikipedia page, his term expired in February of this year.
Honestly, the way your first post is worded is harsh enough to come across as 'trashing'.
No, because the majority of people in power (and a few of their minions) have immunity, both legal and practical. Innocent until proven guilty does not apply to them if they can't be prosecuted to begin with.

Yes I know this isn't a legal argument, but if someone receives immunity for actions that would otherwise be unacceptable they should not receive the benefit of the doubt when accused. The burden should be on them to prove they deserve our continued trust.
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"In my free time I try to keep my house clean enough so that the kids don't manage to vibrationally attune it to the elemental plane of trash."

"Oh, was that not what you wanted me to say?"
My favorite part is when he didn't say how or why
If you get over your toes in operating capital it can absolutely happen. Think about a low margin business where most of the money just flows right back in operating costs. You only need a few months of mistakes to be in serious trouble.
You're right - I'm making assumptions when imagining the situations described in my head and jumping to unfair conclusions about your point.

Holy crap, it might be that recognizing mistakes this clearly happens a lot and I just haven't seen it, but I must say this is the first time I've seen it happen so clearly like this on... Well, on the internet!

Kudos for this.
Bot of your citations are totally irrelevant to the issue of power imbalance in private settings.
"all the "context" the excusers are providing."

To call everyone participating in civil discourse in this thread as merely "the excusers" is an admission of dogmatism, regardless of your statement of "having already read of all the comments in this thread". The discussion does not end because you say it ends with your comment as the last word on the matter.

dogmatism - "the tendency to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of evidence or opinion of others"
Yes, and the lesson from Dirac was that wavelets are cool, but they have some serious problems which must be overcome before they can be used in a complete codec.

The consensus was that intra-frame prediction is very important, and it's relatively easy to do intra-frame prediction if you can predict the content of one discrete block based on blocks that appeared earlier in the stream. It's hard to do intra-frame prediction with wavelets, since they don't divide into blocks.
"Dogshit developers get paid 50k to start. Good ones are over 100k. You just have to have actual skills."

Because how much someone makes determines if they're dogshit or not.
The simpler version is "People who are trusting X without proof that they aren't lying, are being really naive."

In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor
As always things are less meaningful when redundant.
Proper database design does not mean the problem couldn't happen. Consider this scenario. The database has a unique constraint on the name but the code ignores the result and overwrites the directory anyways. It wouldn't cause this exact problem but it is similar.
It is? I've used the Tex Live distribution for years now and I don't believe I've ever wanted for a package that wasn't installed (or in the distribution if you're short on space). Installation is a breeze as well, just running a simple installer.
I don't think he was saying you were trashing his work, more that people were using that exploit to trash other people's sites on NeoCities.
The judges themselves aren't all members of any particular party. The article is attributing judges to which President appointed them to the bench, and since all Presidents in their lifetime have been Republicans or Democrats, therefore all judges have been appointed by either a Republican or a Democrat.
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A thoughtful explanation of a principled, reasonable decision. I give them two days before they're buried under an avalanche of brainless dorks ranting about "censorship."
Is Hacker News feature locked?
There are minor things that would make Hacker News better.

- Use AJAX to update the homepage and comments in real-time, while highlighting articles and comments that are new. This could be a toggle.

- Allow marking articles as read without clicking on them. (imitating :visited)

- Auto-notify when someone replies to your submission or comment.

- Perhaps a way to follow a user and receive updates to their submissions and comments.

- Allow collapsing comment trees.

I'm not suggesting to transform HN into a full-blown social site. These features could be implemented with minimal presentation. (an icon here and there)

I get the feeling HN is feature locked and they just defer improvements to 3rd party apps.
Sure he did, in subsequent tweets.
Your credibility has everything to do with the way you continually trivialize this story and attempt to discredit anyone who accuses the government of wrong-doing. But if I got them wrong, what are your motives for defending warrantless surveillance?
Indeed; one of my maxims is "Do not do something if you cannot do it well", and I still think it's a good one as long as you adjust that for things like Time to Market (a better thing too late is not really "better", or insert standard Patton quote; military history is useful to learn for striking this balance) and "adequate" especially for those things that must be done but would otherwise not get done at all.

But it's implicit in the essay, and I take the headline as not so "sensational" since it's advocating a particular primary focus that's different from a very common and irrelevant one (at least as the primary focus).

I've been told this is one of the things MIT looks for in undergraduate applications, "projects" as they put it, but basically evidence that this is someone who does stuff (which I was fortunate to be able to provide in my application). Which of course is one of the reasons MIT has such a reputation, a strong part of the Zeitgeist is doing things.

To reify that, I think Richard Feynman, Class of '39, first got interested in the Connection Machine when Danny Hillis was visiting Caltech and they ensconced themselves for a week or so discussing it. However, when he showed up to help the new company (there's an exposition of this that's commonly linked to on HN), things were in chaos, and the only thing they could think of right then was to send him to get office supplies. Which he was entirely happy to do, Nobel Prize winner or not.

Hmmm, come to think of it, I've had casual interactions with a couple of Nobelist biologists while studying there, one teaching a class, one was my undergraduate adviser for a term before I switched majors, and they gave off the standard "get things done" vibe, you wouldn't have any idea they'd gotten the prize without looking at their bios.