skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these are good points. You make a strong argument that there might be little need for a web interface.

A few other thoughts, though:

- You could still do spam filtering, of course. If it scores highly as spam and the user trusts the spam filtering, it could be deleted or moved into a likely spam folder. (I'm assuming plaintext email is encrypted automatically right away.)

- There are provably secure techniques to perform searches on encrypted data assuming an untrusted server, such as:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/se.pdf

- If the encryption is handled on the client side, Google would NOT be technically capable of decrypting your mail. They would not be able to comply with a court order demanding they decrypt your mail. This is what the original version of Hushmail did, before they added the flawed later version that was exploited by FedGov in, if I recally properly, precisely the way you describe.
Recycling metal is a good thing. For everything else it's usually bad for the environment, and sometimes neutral. Rarely positive.

Glass should just be tossed.

Burning everything else (i.e. paper and plastic) for energy (with a good filter) is probably the best option.
How does that not happen with their old system? You buy a disc, install it, remove the disc (doesn't need to go back in) and then give it to someone else?
Thanks Peter, I'll do that. I'm a big fan, I was mainly thinking appearances on my side, like "hey you integrated Gate One shortly after signing up for Wakari." For reference this prompted my inquiry:

"Customer shall not ... access the Service, in order to build any competitive Service or product, or copy any ideas, features, or functions of the Service."
Microsoft almost bought Nokia
Why You Need To Unplug Every 90 Minutes
I would have said reduction of garbage/landfill.
This is how the NSA plans to stop the next PRISM leak
That's an overstatement, for example Powell himself has expressed regret about those statements
DNS SEC doesn't seem any closer to solving this problem, unfortunately.

Do you know of any designs that require a quorum at each level prior to trust? BitCoin seems to be having success with this model, but I'm wondering if anyone's built something like that with the primary intent of creating a directory service.
It's not try it wouldn't do them any good. It just ensures that they can't use the cert to go back and look at old data streams and decrypt them. It doesn't prevent them from using a cert for man in the middle attacks, for example.
It is written in Scala with Akka framework, not pure Java. So it uses the same computational model as Erlang. Thanks to being Java-compatible it is easier to integrate with some other popular BigData tools, e.g. Hadoop or Hive (see Shark).
It sure helped their domestic politics and justified military spending
>>Hadoop is a pile of bad code, a stagnant codebase, crusty APIs and a thick surrounding layer of hype which obscures what it's really like to use.

This is where marketing and branding becomes the primary factor influencing adoption, and not technical merit. Hadoop gathered so much momentum and hype as part of the Big Data buzz in the past few years that it's only now beginning to percolate through to telecommunication carriers and other larger/slower-moving enterprises.*

* I work primarily with wireless carriers; can't say much about broadband, although I'd hazard a guess and say that the majority are only now allocating experimental budgets to see how Hadoop can help them manage their Big Data.
Try walking Bell Town to the International District station. It was longer north/south than east/west.

I worked there in '94 when it was more rundown than it was today. The smell (malt liquor, unwashed clothes, urine) was difficult to handle at first but I got used to it, my coworkers were also pretty cool (mostly filipino/a immigrants) so it wasn't so bad.
How many actually have sound cards sophisticated enough to feed the speakers into the ADC?
I think what Makerbot had, and others don't have, is a product as opposed to a hack. I love the RepRap, it's cooler than cool, but my Dad would never buy one. The Replicator 2 is a refinement over four years of iterative offerings which each informed on the next iteration. From the initial 'cupcake' (which I help beta test the build instructions on) to the Replicator to the Replicator II, each step along the way has explored materials vs handling vs control schemes vs build flow. I'm sure a few have shown up at Stratsys' customers where they give an engineer one to 'punch out' the basic concept they are working on before sending it to the expensive machine. They have also made good strides in reliability and repeatability.

In Q1 they had more revenue than all of 2012 according to some stories. So Stratasys, the current leader in 3D printers had a choice, buy them or kill them. It's pretty clear Makerbot wasn't going away.

Killing them would involve coming out with something to compete with them. That would cost, conservatively, in a company like Stratsys, about $50M and 24 months. Maybe 12 if they did the 'crack team in an off site location without interruptions and poaching.' Let's be optimistic and say there is a 50/50 chance of hitting a product that is competitive with the product that Makerbot will announce in 2015. How big will Makerbot be? 2x, 4x, or 10x their current size? If the competitive product fails what will it cost to acquire Makerbot? $1B? $2B? Will it even be possible?

Looking at it from a pure engineering play it makes little sense, after all Stratsys could use the RepRap stuff and make their own RepRap clone right? But that only validates the market which invariably favors the market leader, in this case Makerbot.

So if you think 3D printing is going to be 'the big thing' in manufacturing going forward you're kind of stuck. Stratasys had to buy Makebot or risk losing to them.

I got to live through a very similar situation at Sun. When it got big enough DEC had a problem, do they buy the upcoming workstation vendor which was using commodity Microprocessors or try to kill it? DEC chose poorly and paid for it with their own existence which let Sun move into that spot until it died. I remember reading a great article when Sun posted a $1B in annual revenue and an analyst wrote "What would DEC do with a billion dollars?" Talking about the lost revenue because DEC was avoiding open systems and commodity hardware like the plague.

Trying to guess the future is hard, very hard, but I don't doubt for a moment that Stratsys has always had the goal that if one of these hobbyist 3D printing companies threatened to break out they would buy them before they couldn't afford it. Makerbot triggered that particular outcome by building a successful product.
The point is that many of us who were relatively happy users of Steam were annoyed at the changes in the Xbone. However, Steam took a decade before I let it on my computer. I literally didn't realize I'd be buying into it when I bought a retail copy of Bioshock Ultimate.

Whereas Microsoft went to the biggest built-up launch event in all of gaming and told all the gamers waiting on the edge of their seat and gave the impression that they cared more about the set-top box market instead and the Xbone was going to lock you out of even disc games that you buy unless you give it a 24/7 phone-home kill switch. Oh and if the cloud thought that your IP address looked like it came from the wrong region you were DoA too.

To be out-consumer-friendlied by Sony of all companies, ouch that stings.

Disclosure: MS employee, not in Xbox, my own opinion only
I think its high ball. The servers were no doubt paid-for by that point.

The only real cost they could have is depreciation on the servers themselves and power to keep them on. I dont think its fair to call potential income they could get from re-renting them lost money, as its not like leaseweb stopped taking customer orders.

Also, I think this is actually going to be good for Kim. While everyone from the MU side denys it, the overwhelming use for MU was infringing content. By LW deleting this, I believe it benefits MU more than it hurts them. Prosecution has to prove guilt, not the other way around. If evidence gets deleted that goes to serve MU, not the USDOJ.
Or to loosely paraphrase Joel Spolsky, you can describe what most startups make today as "web sites where users enter something and then that's presented to the other users."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16501566

I find it really amazing that you are not well versed in some of the tactics employed in international espionage and "source neutralization"....

As someone who is purportedly a security expert, I believe it would behoove you to square up on physical/psychological/political warfare -- as cyberwar is simply an additional channel for the stated three.

TpTacek, you're brilliant,but sometimes you're also an...

I am beginning to think your paycheck is subsidized by those who would want you to use your credibility in their favor but at detriment to your own...
Let me get this straight... You would trust Google MORE if they let a third party company come in and have full access to EVERYTHING? Source code and data? And whose to say that company isn't associated with the NSA or the Chinese government?
If you have small kids in the house, it also saves you from the inevitability of these expensive discs getting scratched.
weev tried this technique once.
What the future sounded like
Lending games to friends seems to be a feature that Steam is at least experimenting with, based on the latest Steam beta update: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=595606

Could be related to a ruling by the European Court of Justice last year, by which "An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences" http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012...

This could also lead to permanent license transfers being possible (possibly enabled via Steam's existng community marketplace, where Steam takes a cut of the sale of virtual goods--and perhaps more advantageous for Steam, sellers on Steam's community market don't get cash; they get credit that can only be used on Steam).
For buses, the solution is simple: Make everyone get off at the end of each route. For crosstown buses in Manhattan, that would mean you get approximately 25 minutes on the bus before you are kicked off. Most homeless would probably prefer to sleep on the streets than move that frequently.
Mars Rover Captures Stunning Billion-Pixel Photo of Red Planet
Doesn't the government have the capability to force corporations to lie about matters of national security (of which the most benign form is a gag letter)? Or is that just FUD?
Weren't we talking about an almost empty bus with fare versus almost full bus without fare? Of course buses damage road much more than cars, just look at an asphalt bus stop - sometimes it looks like tracks in the mud (that's why they are sometimes made with concrete surface)
I think your absolutely correct here. From I have gleaned from various news articles, MAINWAY and MARINA were the systems that were used to store telephone and internet records respectively. Whereas PRISM was used as an analysis tool.
These are peanuts compared to what happend in the sworn testimony to congres. Members of the government knowingly perjured themselves http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/07/Director-... , and not much is being said about that.

To be fair, the data was / is being collected about networks, IPs and phone numbers not Americans. The fact that the IPs and phone numbers are strongly correlated with individual Americans may be a technicality.
> I'm still leaning toward the idea that if this is happening at all, it's happening at the ISP/Backbone level.

It's entirely possible that this is happening, especially if it's plausible that the government forcibly acquired Google's root certs.
Author of the post here. I don't have any metrics like those up my sleeve, but I would encourage you to check out the Pew survey i mentioned which (in reference to print and tv) finds that:

"Nearly one-third of the respondents (31%) have deserted a news outlet because it no longer provides the news and information they had grown accustomed to."

http://stateofthemedia.org/
Pretty sure that macbook pros are cheaper and faster that that already.
Never said global numbers. I meant specifically the emerging countries.
I don't think they have, much of the work on directory services died when people gave up. DNS was "too hard" to change and Microsoft wasn't going to let anything make into a standard that killed off the need for Active Directory. The LDAP guys, being formerly X.500 guys, went off solving a different problem and ended up somewhat stuck between AD and DNS. Sad really.

That said, your idea about poaching the Bitcoin quorum ideas is a good one. Essentially a data structure, equivalent to the block chain, where it only gets authenticated if enough people ack that its the most valid version of reality. Probably a publishable paper in exploring that question.
They might not be parsed, they could just be indexed and stored (think a time-aware google search for this data).
That's true for US and Japan. Maybe Europe nowadays.
Don't be too sure of that.. plenty of pros want upgradable systems... Most of the mac pro users I know tend to keep them 4-5 years or more, with an upgrade cycle every 12-24 months (faster cpu, more ram, ssd, etc) in the same box. The new form factor really limits that, and would probably be better served with a consumer grade CPU etc.. this is much closer to a mid-range desktop a lot of people have been asking for, except it's going to cost an arm and a leg.
Why get warrants/go through FISA court at all then?
> "Most people aren’t Richard Branson and most people have enough of a connection, however intermittent, to authenticate once a day."

Military Personnel nonwithstanding...

> "Who knows, maybe Microsoft will change the policy again and have people opt in to the online check so that they can share their libraries with their friends. Maybe they will have another tier where people opt in to these benefits. I hope so."

And that was the crux of the matter. WE WERE NOT GIVEN A CHOICE, I am all in favour of letting people choose which is more important to them but MS initially shafted a load of people with their "This is how it is going to be" without any options spiel.

[EDIT] I suppose I should put as a disclaimer that I have never owned any of the x-boxes nor plan to. I am merely commenting from the point of view of a consumer in general.
Doesn't Vine use Flash and/or HTML5 video? They do everywhere I've seen Vines.
Huh, I knew it was illegal in Vegas but I thought it was legal in Reno. TIL.
This would be cool. biggest hurdle would probably be employees taking company secrets with them, so maybe it would work better with only open source development
Doesn't help with MITM, only after the case.
I've got my nameservice hardset through openDNS and it's resolving to 198.55.195.121, which is allocated to NASDAQ OMX according to ARIN...

The 214.-.-.- is some British Virgin Islands allocation?
LinkedIn does have overseas offices.

http://www.buzzom.com/2011/11/linkedin-opens-a-technology-ce...
Sony and microsoft consoles at a loss not to profit from game sales, that's just silly.

They did sold consoles at a loss to be the number one console and then make money on the next one after they cornered the market and can extract real profits. Microsoft always did that with windows/office file format lock-in. Sony always did that with media formats lock-in. They would love to sell you at a loss for the chance to corner a market of betamax, minidisc, laserdisc, memorystick, blue-ray... oh wait, see the relation to PS3 there?
Scrapping equipment key to Afghan drawdown
Amazing what a bunch of angry basement dwellers on the internet can achieve.
Alaska actually has a huge homeless problem, they are like #5 or something ranked nationally. Life is very expensive there, and you can quickly fall through all the safety nets (especially but not just native American Indians/Alaskans). It makes sense that many would just give up; and its easy enough to get out by plane.

My mom (a Ketchikaner) told me this, but I can't find any references; my experiences are also about 20 years out of date now.
Saudi Arabia plans to ban WhatsApp
Having seen first hand the number of ex CIA/SS/NSA/MIL emps there are at FB, GOOG would have to prove that they did not have the same level of infestation....

Do they have a DC policy Office? FB does... What is the nature of the policy office GOOG has... Can it be verified that its not just a YESSIR system? Probably not...
knew it was illegal in Vegas but I thought it was legal in Reno.

I'm sure the Reno Sheriff's department hears that a lot...
But why would it be OK for someone to have a hand in 116,000+ deaths for democracy but not be OK to have a hand in 600,000+? There's no good answer to this question, which is why I don't see why Manning would want to be known as the instigator of it all.

"have a hand" is a little too ambiguous don't you think? There is a significant moral difference between "providing information" (what Manning did), and "invading a sovereign state using fairly indiscriminate bombing after a propaganda campaign about WMDs" (what the coalition forces did)
Measuring the iTunes video store | asymco
Good news, but remember there is nothing stopping a 'patch update' to turn it back on at a later time when the heat dissipates.
You mean the "clever" way he has a half grown beard so we instantly know both how he would look with a beard and without?

I just fear for him if he is caught, he will certainly be tortured by any side including USA.
Canonical redirect pitfalls with HTTP Strict Transport Security (2010)
When did they ever leak plaintext passwords before? If you're referring to the event a year ago, that was unsalted MD5 hashes (obviously not great, but let's not hyperbolize.)
But still, NSA would need to know the entire IP range of all public facing servers, their purpose in relation to the service (for example, which IP range handles Gmail vs Search).

Plus, if this were a store-it-and-forget-it situation, PRISM wouldn't be limited to the services it could support.

Things just aren't adding up, here.
Persons holding clearances are not allowed to confirm or deny any purported classified material, so I would expect any NSA disavowal to take some time if it occurs at all.
Maybe it's not PRISM that's doing deep packet inspection.
The Seattle transit system has been running out of money. They cut free rides to get a bit of change back. We're just not taxing enough to support it.
Definitely a possibility. If that is the case, what is PRISM's responsibility then?
Sure, but the administration already dealt with the book in the 'proper' way, which was to deny all allegations and discredit the author. I remember there being some jokes about it on late night television, but nothing major in terms of public relations fallout. I just don't see it as having been worth killing over, it was a minor though momentarily noteworthy event.

I definitely don't see it as corroborating evidence that presidents so routinely have their opponents and critics killed that Michael Hastings' car crash must most likely have been a bomb (or whatever), when the more reasonable explanation seems to serve perfectly well.
The Guardian wouldn't have had any documents to bungle the release of if Manning hadn't released them in the first place.
I don't know, what about the American Revolution? Was it morally wrong as well?

You certainly have a point wrt to how many people's interest is represented in the Arab Spring. It looked like the Egyptian revolution was mostly due to urban population, for instance. But, well, you can't expect everybody to agree with a revolution, you will always find plenty of people who want to keep the old regime because it is (or they think it is) more closely aligned with their interests, and other people who won't take sides. That's still "local revolutions". That's not a conflict originally triggered by the mistakes of a third party, in order to further its own selfish interests.
https://linkedin.com 301s to http://linkedin.com for me. Should I be suspicious or do browsers validate the certificate even during re-directs?
The web ending up being controlled by Google isn't 'saving' it from proprietary platforms at all.

If standards bodies are as feeble as you suggest aren't going to be a serious custodian for Dart anyway.

Ossified standards bodies or unilateral action are not the only options. Google could have engaged in cooperation with other interested parties throughout the development, so that it was a truly collaborative effort.

Whilst I agree there are technical problems that Dart is solving, they have chosen an approach designed to maximize their control over the web.
The right system is the one which gives the judge a discretion as to who pays costs, guided by court rules as well as economic sense and equitable principles.
I love the fact that AD, and this newer posixy clone FreeIPA essentially operate as independent but interdependent directory services: LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS, and they still need X.500 in the form of SSL CA trusts to finish gluing it all together.

You may see an email from me in the next few weeks asking for feedback on such a paper.
How hard would it be for the NSA to "partner" with the SSL accelerator manufacturers to add functionality that sends copies of all the ECDHE negotiated keys to the NSA so that they can decrypt most of the encrypted traffic that they captured off the backbones?
ahaha, the job posting is a good find. We'll know if you are right if tomorrow a different add asking for "Total badass, Expert guru knowledge of Bind 9"
Who is buying the 11,000 3d printers?
I guess I'm an accidental currency speculator, having most of my savings in RMB and the rest in CHF. It is definitely good for those of us who earn RMB, vacations are much cheaper. But imports haven't really fallen accordingly; I will believe it when Apple lowers their prices according to the exchange rate value (they are out of synch now, normally their prices are pretty close + 20% tax).
Dart, TypeScript, V8 & Chakra
This sounds like an interesting proposition. But why aren't you applying it to this post here?

The language you use in the post and the comments you have below come off as being very arrogant and rude:

> I need
> I want
> I might choose
> don't waste our time
> don't be stingy

You're posting to an audience who could/would give you very strong case studies and reccomendations for your new business venture. Some people here have thousands of visitors to their sites. Yet your post sounds more like a demand than a quid pro quo deal.

Maybe English is not your first language, or maybe you feel that HN is full of snark so you're trying to talk the local lingo. But if you apply the language you use here to someone's website to 'double' conversions it may not work out as well as you intend
Yea, it strikes me as ridiculously inefficient compared to forcing them via law.
The leaked passwords were hashed and unassociated with emails.
> "Yet the dead are the lucky ones. The more unfortunate may wind up in a torture chamber similar to one found by Coldstream Guards. It features such amenities as chains to hang prisoners from walls. Not that the inmates would want to walk on the floor: that features broken glass. And there is limb amputation, kneecapping with an electric drill, eye gouging, bone-breaking or ritual rape to smash the will. Where the offender is not himself available punishment will be visited on his relatives."

I hope this is not an attempt as moral outrage. When you and your allies rely on torture (not to mention the good old "chai boys" tradition of the Afghan police...), you lose the moral high ground.
That might work in a startup, not in an enterprise environment where your computer image is controlled regularly by IT and all software requires approval before use.