skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the opposite in fact, http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_poor_give_m...
Is going back for a Masters degree worth it?
Hello all,

I graduated with a BSc in comp sci around 7 years ago. I'm considering going back for a Masters degree. I'm mainly going back to upgrade my skills, but also to get new opportunities in terms of work terms, connections, etc. Is it worth it for me to go back since there are so many free online courses available and no shortage of jobs? I find the idea of going back to school exciting, but I'm wondering if it's a sound move. What sort of things should I consider?
What happened to agricultural commodity prices in the 1920s (causing rural poverty that spiraled into the Great Depression) is now happening to almost all human labor. Perhaps the cutting edge of technology will be spared-- that's what most HN posters have bet their careers on-- but even that's unlikely if the collapse spreads.

Poverty isn't self-correction or "market discipline". It's a cascading failure that corrupts the whole society, then as well as now.
India uses a system sort of like that as well, even in English. The first major multiple is thousands, like in the western system, but then it goes in multiples of 100 above that: a lakh is 100 thousands (written 1,00,000), and a crore is 100 lakh (10 million, written 1,00,00,000).
But there's no caricature of Rand in the quote.
tl;drLegal
> Give us our nerdependence back.

Sure, that's a good first step. But then how do we get our families on board?
Or the "laws of game theory" per say. :P

But yes, with ALL the values that we hold in America: capitalism, a sense of morality, etc. It is inevitably that we will only grow towards becoming more merged with the world around us. Simply because: their is more economic benefit for companies looking more at everything they do in an ever growing international sense. However, worker Joe does not study game theory and has zip way of learning about working with Chinese manufacturers.

I get the feeling that we are seeing the inevitable. The 'third worldliness' that persisted throughout much of the world is melding with the old 'American isolationist.'

However, we as capitalists now have a taste for the economic fruits of thinking internationally and we won't give it up. But, still it makes me wonder because The British Empire had international success and it only made Brits that much more wealthier (BUT they also had a strong sense of 'frontierism' e.g. colonialism) ... And I think that is the one thing we seriously lack today. If jobs go to China, then in Imperial days that would equate to colonies being formed in this 'new land of China' (e.g. Brits moving to the American/Australian Colonies for new opportunities, etc.)

That is NOT our situation today. If jobs move ANYWHERE, there are already cooperating entities there that do NOT need more people.

That is because cooperation for monetary reasons is much easier to do in today's age. Currency exchanges, the digital age, etc. make that much more efficient instead of old times where everything was purely about 'trade or be conquered.'
... Just some thoughts.
I think this is really one of the most important discussions we should be having as a society. What obligations ought we hold our government to as far as the rights of non-citizens? Right now the obligations of the government to non-citizens is likely very minimal (IANAL, But I'd love to hear a Constitutionalist's expert opinion on this front).

What limits ought we to establish on our government(s) with regard to the rights of citizens of other nations?
Catchy name but the putative right to privacy is not explicitly enumerated in the 4th Amendment, but is, "to be found in the 'penumbras' and 'emanations' of other constitutional protections." (Namely the 4th, 5th and 9th).

More detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut
The most important thing on that list is the Licence. No licence and most people can't use it.
I'd argue very few people make their own path. While anecdotal, looking at those around me, most 'paths' people go down are a result of external forces that have been internalized over time.

Hell, even look at myself, very few of my choices were a result of just my own thinking, convictions, and/or discipline, and those that I do consider my own can partially be explained by my genetic makeup. But I don't want to reduce this argument too far.

My point is that the path we go down is mostly followed 'by default' and not a result of our own individual actions and choices. And I find that those who've had the most fortuitous defaults tend to ascribe them to their 'selves' more than others do. I think this is incorrect, and even if it's not, the more ethical position is to assume it is incorrect.
Stasi vs NSA. If you print the data...
I question the "in Europe" bit.

Iceland is closer to the halfway line between mainland Europe and North America than it is to Europe. Geologically it is squarely in the middle, being built on the mid-Atlantic ridge. The nearest larger piece of land is Greenland, which is on the North America continental plate.

These facts matter. Iceland is used to being very far from everyone, and able to set its own rules. Because who is going to bother trying to invade?
Why not? The state is gambling, shouldn't it be allowed to win?
See also "Healthy looking hair", "Younger looking skin" etc. etc.
"Followers of Rand, in particular, believe that ..."

He was clearly talking about her followers. And you avoided his main point, that none of us are truly selfmade. We've all been very lucky if we are successful. That shakes the foundation of Rand's philosophy b
> Do you want to give the government free reign on all your data?

For some reason, I just don't feel passionately about this issue. I could be in the minority, but to me, our society has become very desensitized by sharing with Facebook leading the charge. This is a new reality and I don't think it's such a bad thing that warrants a protest, though I respect those who feel differently. Our government having the ability to track me has only led to benefits in my life including:

* Being able to retrieve a stolen car

* Not being blown up by terrorists

* Practice any religion I choose

* Fly safely between 5 states and 5 different countries

* Drive hundreds even thousands of miles safely

* Buy and sell what I please, without fear of jail

So yes, if it means I am kept safe and if it means society as a whole can operate more openly, then the government can do what they want with my call data, car location and speed records, buying history, surfing history, etc
Exactly.

Read my comment I left there couple days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976087
You rack up karma so you can downvote.

You can get 100s of karma and then get banned for one post that gets blasted for going against the hive mind. (happened to me 3 times).
This article is based on the assumption that we won't figure out a way to manage and/or refuel the sun, even in a billion years.

Given the incredible technological progress since the industrial revolution (cooking by fire to walking on the moon and nuclear power in under two centuries), I am highly skeptical of this assumption.

The only things that can stop us are regressions to the primitive, of which I know of only two forms: the first is belief in the supernatural and its primacy as the basis of abstract thought. The second is nihilistic hatred of man and progress masked as practical necessity and love of nature.

I stand for life, and for progress. I am proud, and you should be, too. Whatever challenges nature holds in store for us, we can figure it out!
Nintendo 64 Game Console Teardown
Is this conjecture helpful?
What they could do is send out a letter to all the people at the front of the citizenship line and ask if anyone is willing to trade places with him. If I were waiting at the front of the line I would gladly switch places with him. I'm sure they can find someone.
I find it funny that the author chose to publish this on medium. Had he not, would I have ended up reading it? Which is better, reaching a large audience with mild incitement which is tolerated by the censors, or being able to be as provocative as you wish, but remaining unread?
It surely cannot be good legislative practice to make laws solely for one person, even if it seems to be the right thing at the time. In general it is thought to be good practice that a law should address a particular form of behavior rather than a specific individual or group.

Although Congress has in the past passed laws for individuals, such as when Congress passed a law in 1963 making Winston Churchill an honorary American citizen ( http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/redux/church... ).

This use of legislation in the UK was also in effect from 1300-1800 and called a bill of attainder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
As far as I can tell without installing it, they don't even support the Socialist Millionaire's Protocol - a mutual authentication technique that OTR uses by default exactly because the developers discovered verifying keys out-of-band isn't practical and most people won't bother. Using Cryptocat in a way that's actually secure is harder than doing the same thing with OTR.
No, I think university fails in numerous areas and business is the strongest remaining one - in effect its ties to certificates that industry might value is what university has left. Few would be able to justify to themselves going there otherwise.

If you want a well rounded general education, you're - by and large - best off providing it for yourself if you don't need someone to stick a rubber stamp on it for you.
The founding fathers set up America as a distributed system. It's no accident that as the federal government has taken more power from the states that it has gone to shit.
I think posting a pictures on instagram/fb/twitter out weighs the risk of the government knowing I was at a protest. I already signed a petition telling them to stop violating the 4th anyway, its got my address and everything. Im not going to let them scare me into being quiet.
Exactly - OTR is capable of securing multi-user conversations (Cryptocat, if you ignore their implementation mistakes).
Both 1% CTR and $1 CPC are more than you would expect from average website. Across all my websites I have 0.38% CTR and $0.27 CPC.

The result is then ~ $200, not $2000.
The unemployment benefits available in the US aren't comparable.

The most significant difference is that in the US unemployment benefits are generally limited to a maximum of 26 weeks, while in Australia you can collect benefits for decades.

The "greater benefits" available in some states (e.g., Massachusetts) are only available to people who have been recently working in a high-income job. Your unemployment benefit in MA = 50% of the bi-weekly pay rate you had when you were working, up to a certain maximum. And, again, you can only draw unemployment for a maximum of 26 weeks.
The only winning move is not to play. And before you complain this is impossible, for the record, Stallman has been doing the same for years. He doesn't own a cellphone. Think about that for a moment; mull over the implications.

He's been saying for years that the allure of convenience is a mirage in terms of privacy. Is he doing something illegal? No, I think it's safe to say not. Most likely, neither are you.

So why do you continue to play?
Indeed, the times I've worked for someone else, I've never had to show my resume. I find it more important to highlight very specific milestones I have accomplished and by doing so, the employer has a good idea of what he can attain from me by hiring me.
Also a corporation can't put you in jail.
Those three seem to be features of software development rather than programming.

To me programming is writing a program.
>Let's give 92% of all of the income that the rich people make to the poor. How much will there be to go around? Not enough by a long shot. If we taxed the rich at 100% it wouldn't even cover the budget deficit for one year.

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the poor don't pay taxes, and that individuals and companies producing the goods they consume don't pay taxes.
The proper response would have been to dig deeper. Should she have made sure that she couldn't have children first before having sex? Should she have not had sex? How could she verify that that guy was the right guy?

Are you asserting that knowledge of birth control is somehow unavailable, as is knowledge that vaginal sex leads to pregnancy?
What a short-sided article. I actually think it's more often the other way around--that engineers keep pissing off product managers! ;-)

Part of the problem, in my opinion, is that engineering tends not to give feedback, as much as they give derision. And product management tends to be too timid to stand up for themselves.

In reality, we all piss off each other. We'd all be better served if egos were checked at the door, and we could have open, collaborative conversations about creating really great products.
NSA collaborators...
Ahem. Iceland is a very strategic location in the centre of the Atlantic sea, a good place for Arctic circle expeditions and a half-way stop to Europe. During WW2 it was used as an outpost for supply deliveries to the USSR.
Therefore invading Iceland would be a good call for any large force for strategic purposes.

I think you might also underestimate the influence both Europe and the US are able to place upon it. "Able to set its own rules" is probably a bit of an exaggeration that I would guess is derived from the awful journalism that has recently suggested that Iceland have done "great things" (jail bankers, bail out its own mortgage holders) when the journalism is infact mostly incorrect.

Iceland is really not _that_ different from Europe/US.
The news is that in a democratic society such as ours, the government shouldn't have to "not object" to people exercising their legally protected rights.

And, given the fact that many feel that the NSA, in particular, has been trampling those rights, their statement comes off as particularly egregious. In total, some may interpret this as the NSA claiming itself the arbiter of our rights: what it can do to us, and what we can do in response.
> Lack of evidence for side channels is not good enough. You deserve an encryption system that's carefully constructed to prevent all known forms of leakage.

While I agree that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence I have to take you up on that second statement. I'd say you deserve an encryption that's carefully constructed to provide appropriate protection against a threat model matching the use case.

A case in point would be MD5. MD5 is vulnerable to collisions, does that mean that we should use MD5 for passwords? Of course not but because of moore's law and scrypt, not because of collisions. Should we use MD5 for hashing content? For anything forensic, no. For situations where collisions aren't important, perhaps yes.

Many software crypto systems are susceptible to direct leakage through RAM, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't use them.
Before you try to “fix” or “improve” forms on the web…
RIAA Hits 25 Million Google Takedowns, Web Blocking Making Things Worse
I believe that was inherited from how the British pound sign is written: £100 rather than 100£ has long been the standard. But I don't know why, where, or when the British usage originated.
Thou shall not covet. Biotch. Highs and lows balance.

The Parable of the Bags of Gold

14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,[a] each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. 17 So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. 18 But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.’

21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

22 “The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’

23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’

26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Clojure core.async and Go: A Code Comparison
Bolivia President's Flight: What Really Happened
I disagree with two words. :)
I don't follow? I think you're thinking it means quitting jobs and working unsupported? It doesn't have to go that far. Try making things in your free time under fast-feedback constraints. Post half completed things to HN, tell the haters to fuckoff, and email your supporters to build up a coalition of the not willing to be datamined anymore.

We know they know more about us than we know they know. We need to truncate their abilities before they have mind penetrating radar.
Actually no. Is it a common practice?
Everyone in the NSA swears to uphold the Constitution, not objecting to lawful, peaceful protests should be a no brainer that goes without saying[0]. Hopefully they post this on an internal bulletin board for their employees as well. It would have been nice if they had made a statement to the effect that they will not collect any information on people participating in the protests.

[0] First Amendment excerpt: "... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances ..."
I think there's something wrong with you if you get all uppity and bent out of shape over a senior developer calling you out. I actually laugh when Theo De Raadt calls my device driver a flaming bag of of shit, and says my head must be so far up my ass I'm unable to understand the interfaces I'm coding to.

I rewrite it then submit it to somebody else to review before submission, then get a message saying thanks for doing it the proper way, thanks for using the proper channels, and hey you seem OK do you want to come to the invite only hackathon in Germany this year? If I cried about it instead, I'd still be a shitty programmer, and I wouldn't be drinking gigantic beers in Hamburg learning invaluable methods from Henning Brauer how to properly design a program from the ground up with security in mind so you don't have to dispose of everything half way through a major project, wasting everybody else's time because you didn't carefully design. If you think mailing list comments are bad, wait until a room full of developers has to delete six days worth of coding because you screwed up the design with a simple mistake. Wait until your boss finds out you wasted company resources and money for months and had to scrap a project. You will get worse than hurt feelings, you will be fired.

Almost all security/crypto projects are open source. There's no money involved, therefore no corporate sensitivity training or social skills needed. What's needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.
OTR can support XMPP. The client must implement OTR or allow for plugins, hence my original question. http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/OTR

Considering it is javascript based, I could extend it to support it if I truly wanted to.
Sorry if my comment is misplaced, but isn't collect the term also used for Prism-like programs ? I am not sure I would like to 'collect' most of my kids private life before there are able to give their consent, and understand what it means (and how it can backfire).
The author suggested Bitters for publishing a good web site. That may be a good option for us hackers. For our non-hacker family and friends, it seems to me that the best option is currently self-hosted WordPress. But WP is quite infamous for insecurity. Is there anything better?
Only one of those is even possibly linked to the government's ability to track you (the car). The others are completely nebulous, and are made safe simply by having police present or through routine investigative powers. They don't need to know your intimate details.

The last one you mentioned is actually the opposite. You can accidentally trip over a law you weren't aware of. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
The headline of TFA says "Millions Of Trillions"

The headline of TFA's TFA (the source article) says

"La DGSE collecte ainsi des milliards de milliards de données".

That translates to 'millions of millions' pieces of data, or on the order of 10^12 (trillions in short scale) pieces of data.
Are most people well informed about the failure rate of birth control? In my experience many are not.

The original quote about her having the child of the wrong guy may as well say she 'got raped by the wrong guy'. We are rarely masters of our own fate, although I can see why you as a very wealthy individual like to delude yourself into thinking that, it's more comforting.
This question has been discussed for millennia, and the answer appears in the Talmud, in Berachot 5: A prisoner cannot free himself from jail.
Not questioning the sentiment, but I'm freaked out by how that _exact_ phrase (TYFYS) seems to be so reflexive to American military presence, at least online. Where did it come from?
I love iceland. You guys rock.

Even if it's only for the effort.
Universal revenue of $10K allows individual to train for better jobs but a guaranteed low wage and physically demanding job make it harder to train or to get an education.
Better Off Divorced - 3 Years Later - Independence Day
"Hundreds" at the Restore the 4th protest next to the NSA facility in Utah
If PRISM Is Good Policy, Why Stop With Terrorism?
That's basically what I pay for AT&T, but to make the switch I'd have to break my contract.
I wasn't clear. I mean that eventually, we'll want our non-hacker family and friends to leave Facebook, Gmail, etc. and join us on the decentralized Internet.
Neat and useful. Like the bold move with we charge from day 1.
This blog post is a threat to medium.com and maybe they'll delete his account? Please.

That said, cjdns and pump.io were interesting to read about. I don't see any practical benefit to using them now, but they look like fun hobby projects.
Yo people, let them have their ads, don't submit printer-only versions!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-03/why-the-mcwr...