skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been there, and meds helped me get over the initial hump. Using an exercise heart rate monitor also helped. For me, the thought of heart failure was a trigger for panic attacks. The heart rate monitor allowed me to watch my heart rate rise as I ran harder and fall when I went back to walking. It had an anxiolytic effect. After a few sessions on the treadmill I no longer needed benzos to get through 30 minutes of activity.
This analogy just seems a bit confusing to me and threw me off the main point...

End users, readers = coffee consumers

Bloggers = baristas, either working in their own store or a Starbucks.

Mixing the two up doesn't make sense. Well, there are a couple of bloggers that are their only readers - hopefully less guys than the ones that brew their own coffee though ;).
What's the different between hybrids and breeds (as in dogs for example)?
Claims, yes. But he doesn't claim it. He puts it forward as a hypothesis.

All useful hypothesis are, by definition, extra-ordinary.
In your analogy:

* Writing a book = developing cryptocat.

* Knock it (writing the book) the fuck off = stop developing cryptocat.

* Real surgeons = cryptographers.

* Teach laymen how to perform major surgery in their kitchen = communicate securely.

If people "can expect secure communications", then, by your analogy, people "can expect to be taught how to perform major surgery in their kitchen". They cannot both be expected "to be taught how to perform major surgery in their kitchen" and not expect to have it "done by an amateur rejecting supervision".

Hence my amendment to the flawed analogy.
> I'm more interested in why it's vanished from the web.

Looks like it might just be corporate bitrot. It was hosted under user webspace at http://www2.research.att.com/~kfisher/hancock/ rather than somewhere more durable. When kfisher left AT&T in 2011, her account & webspace probably got wiped.

She's now a DARPA program manager: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Personnel/Dr__Kathleen_Fis...
Of course. It was the phys.org post which invoked Sagan's quote, and I was merely reusing it for rhetorical effect.
On the other hand, you've got some serious digging to do if you want to understand a clojure macro. Metaprogramming like that is seriously brain twisty

I wish this meme would stop. Your "if you know the language, you can just read it" applies just as much here as it does there.
Where you been?

3days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5969685

2days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978934
"A year ago, I nearly vanished from the public web because I had an intuitive feeling the centralized web was a backdoor to the government."

Yeah, I bet that's why he did that.

Another attention-whore riding the NSA-scandal wave.

Edit: Okay, this guy is a troll. Or insane. He uses the verb "deploying" like it's a.. i don't know, lifestyle or something. His node code is a really, really basic website with some routes, views and markdown code. And he wants 37$ for his ebook which will teach you how to do that on your own! Whoa.

Don't feed the trolls.
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Pre-emptive arrest warrant for Snowden in Ireland
The Australian Taxation Office bungles Mac tax software
that would be hilarious indeed.
"We encourage you to engage us in regular exchanges of ideas or thoughts....".

Surely, his father and his father's lawyer would consider that regular exchanges may be a little difficult at the moment.
This is highly unlikely origin story. The main problem is that genetic data strongly and consistently suggests we are further from pigs than chimpanzees are.

Genetic material often finds ways of crossing species boundaries: in lower organisms, horizontal gene transfer is commonplace. But, this is just not supported by any scientific evidence.
> What mechanism would then increase supply?

Robotics. In my lifetime, most basic productivity will be fully automated. Robotic factories will make self-driving tractors that cultivate fields of genetically engineered crops.

Labor is already obsolete. The majority of Americans of traditional working age (13+) already live on handouts. This trend will accelerate in the next 20 years. It is a huge question of how to handle the below average people who are both unnecessary and not well suited to the life of ibtellectual pursuits.

In Peter F. Hamilton's sci-fi novels, he posits that each person will receive an EMA, an energy-mass allocation to use or trade as they see fit. With the boundless resources of the universe brought to your doorstep, we need a better method of resource allocation than the minimum wage.
You mean like the uproar and lawsuits that occurred when it turned out the FBI was tracking the 9/11 hijackers for months before they attacked?
Wow, just wow
I wonder how many other countries this has been done for?
Thanks for the critique!

I launched v2 last night taking into consideration the feedback I got here.

I decided to aim for tech-savvy startups and web design shops instead. I'm catching more leads this way.

Next up, instead of the picture, I'm going to make an ember.js screencast explaining its convention over configuration design pattern and why this is going to be great for your business (see Ruby on Rails). I figured that will give keep the layout, and provide more value right off the bat, hopefully getting people to read on.

What do you think?
It's only illegal for him to say such a thing if he also has a few machine guns and other preparations ready to go. Such statements, even with the appended "jk lol," deserve question. But I don't see how authorities managed to do anything more than question or search him.
for P in password candidates do:
compute K = KDF(P, salt);
M_0 = decrypt(block #0 of cyphertext, K, IV);
if M_0 looks like plaintext:
store P for future analysis
fi
od

Encryption using a passphrase needs a good KDF just as much as login password hashing does.
Deleting everything on Facebook is NOT likely a good way to increase engagement on a separate platform. More likely, people will just forget about you! The problem is, with the Dunbar limit, these tools serve part of peoples memory.
There almost certainly MUST BE A TRANSITION to the new peer based tools.

Why doesn't Ven Portman / Ev Bogue mention PGP? I don't see his public key anywhere, why talk about emailing people what you are working on openly if you want to "evolve beyond reach"?
Hard to take seriously.
FYI, there's a typo: "it’s on yet available" -> "it’s NOT yet available"
If this is an Ad, what exactly is Apple trying to sell me?

I don't have a background in marketing, but I'm not sure how this is an effective ad? I feel like todays consumers have short attention spans, care about results over process, have an entire interent to get "facts" about products, and primarily value videos/photos/audio over over text.
> I just don't get it. I mean, my mind bends, but cannot fully wrap around the concept of willingly having kids out of wedlock.

I suspect one reason is, many atheists and agnostics associate weddings with religion.

Since they are quite happy to live without a religion, they would also get by without the need for religious ceremonies like weddings.
Dear California, Stop hitting yourself.
I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a basic, concise readme to include with my code as well as a cabin design I've been working on. At first glance, these are wildly differing things, so one license type E.G. creative commons had too many options.

Finally, I came up with one single readme file I can include in almost all my work (except where I have to combine other stuff under different licenses). It's basically a variant of the ISC license.

Feel free to use this for whatever...

Introduction...
Things your whatchamacallit does

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README

Important stuff about the project.
Requirements, preconditions, defaults etc...

___________________________________________________________________________
CONTACT

Twitter	:	@eksith

Website	:	http://eksith.com

Email	:	Eksith Rodrigo <reksith at gmail dot com>
___________________________________________________________________________
COPYING / LICENSE

The contents of this package are licensed under the following unless
otherwise noted.

Copyright (c) $YEAR, Eksith Rodrigo

Sources, libraries, binaries, diagrams and/or images and documentation
included with this package are hereby referred to as "materials".

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute these materials for
any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
above copyright notice and this permission notice be included in all copies
in an applicable and appropriate format.

THESE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THESE MATERIALS INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR
IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THESE MATERIALS.

END.
Is's hard to find a analogy that really fits well...

Bloggers typically benefit from their activity, wether they blog on a platform or have their own blog. In both cases, they have an audience.

As your main point is about fully controlling the tools you'd use for their work, maybe something like racing drivers building their own cars would work better...
Developer’s Happiness as a business value
Just fine in many states, now stop trolling and actually contribute.
I find his articles really hard to read, here are 5 simple reasons:-

> Wordpress exists. You don't need to be a maker to use something like this, anyone with the motivation can.

> It's faddish, the mention of nodeJS as a requirment has me rolling my eyes into my fucking brain.

> Actually, most important content is decentralized. If facebook died tomorrow, there would be some value lost, but it'd be hardly the end of the internet.

> "We're going distributed". Why? Because you woke up one morning and decided? Because you've gave it some thought?

> He doesn't seem interested in what we'll lose when we're decentralized. Does he understand the drawbacks?

There is some really good content on HN, loads of it, but this really isn't it and I'm not saying that because I disagree I think the internet should be a series of peer nodes like it was first designed to be.

However, I don't think we need a self appointed spokes persons to achieve this, it's already there, and if you want to discuss decentralizing major services like facebook, I'd like to see, on a tech site, someone with a technical solution that attempts to mitigate what we'd lose.
Gawd. I used to have a phone with attached fax that was one digit off a popular fish and chip shop number. I would get advertising faxes at the rate of about 1 roll of fax paper per week from an advertising company. I rung, faxed emailed and tried multiple times to correct them. In the end I got one of their faxes, faxed it back to them, then tapped the bit that came out the fax to the bit still going in. A vicious fax loop. It ran all weekend.
I got one grumpy as fax back on Monday about how I'd used up a massive roll of fax paper, and they had been unable to delete the queue for some reason, so it had used up the refills too. $$ Were demanded. The spam faxes stopped and I never heard from them again.
The weird part is that the envelope was printed twice. I could get accidentally putting the second letter into the same envelope, but this seems more like a system error than an individual mistake
Scrypt is a Key Derivation Function, as well as a password hash, so it has a few uses. If you want to take many parameters, and make a random key, it will work well. If you want to record a secret value (ie. password database), it works incredibly well. If you want to use it on a password for something like AES-CBC, then you probably don't need it, since AES-CBC is already secure.

Most encryption algorithms are already designed to take a users key, and apply them in a secure fashion. Unless you aren't using such an algorithm, you should trust the crypto primitives that have already been built for you. Of course, many people will have special use cases, but they should already know what they are.
Yeah - but there is a real distinction between theory and hypothesis, which that guy is probably acutely aware of. (Cmd-F on one page of his site shows the word hypothesis used 17 times).

Reading a bit more, it seems like he's got expertise in a corner of science that could be relevant to what the article calls 'morphological change':

"As the increasing apparent, magnificant, speed with which morphological change can occur continues to present itself for us to comprehend, the standard theory of random mutation followed by slow environmental selection, seems to stall. In my own opinion, female choice ... , but other mechanisms of mutation ... , now need to be considered anew. The role of hybridization in driving morphological change, as McCarthy has observed time and time again, particularly in his studies of avian species ... , may be the most powerful mechanism of all."

Okay, so if the "speed of change" problem is a pretty wide-open question without a lot of firm answers, and if this guy has staked out a claim in the problem space ... my reaction is basically "good on ya'!"

Go play god with interspecies breeding and come back in 5 years with an update. :)
Like 2 years back, i was trying to manage the montly ISP calculations for my parents, and i had to talk to the customer service to get the data. Talking on the phone, i got a customer-Nr and a PW and log in to the account. Just a sec. later i realiced there was something wrong.. the account i just got the credentials to wasnt from my parents. Mistakes happens all the time, and i guess not only at my ISP.
So his whereabouts are completely unknown?
It gets easier...i find when i am running it is stressful naturally because of the physical hardship on your body. However i find the big payoff is how you feel afterwards.
Goes to show that humans are always* the weakest link in information security.

*For anyone who doesn't like absolutes, consider it a rounded statement
> By the way, how the hell does bail get set at $500,000 for a single Facebook comment, no matter how insensitive or inciteful?

I think he might graduate high school soon and go off to college, so that represents a flight risk.

And as funny as that is, I'm willing to bet that the above really was the reason given.
Eh, babies happen. My friend and I both had unplanned babies in law school. She and her boyfriend are still together, but unmarried, while my now-wife and I got married (but not because we felt we had to--we were already planning on it). Still, it circles back to a point someone made in a sibling comment: stuff that's life-ruining for people with little means is much less of a big deal for wealthier people. All four of us have well-paying jobs and could take care of a baby by ourselves if our relationships didn't work out. Three of the four of us have parents who have the financial resources and the time flexibility (by virtue of being professionals instead of people who have to punch a clock) to help out in numerous different ways. The accidents are, between us, a joke about how difficult it is to use birth control because we haven't really had to face any consequences as a result (aside from the whole not sleeping because of night feedings thing).

Meanwhile, my wife's parents had to drop out of college when they got accidentally pregnant with her, because their parents didn't have the resources to support them.

I don't like it when people overemphasize the impact of "choices." Choices don't have the same meaning for all of us. Life is a different kind of easy when fucking up doesn't mean derailing all of your plans.
I am tearing up from laughter at these emails and their responses.
This is ridiculous, outrageous, insane.

Terrorism is less likely to happen to you than a great many extremely unlikely events, I can't find a citation right now but I suspect it's less than being struck by lightning, yet the risk justifies... this?

The odds of being struck down by a careless driver must be vastly higher, yet I don't see people who text as they drive being sent to jail for >= 10 years, or those with driving licenses who are suspected of being higher risk (older people, those on higher insurance risk bands, etc.) being monitored illegally (or 'legally' based on dubious laws) and/or shipped off to a coaling station [0] where their legal rights are effectively suspended and they are tortured [1] to get information about their alleged membership of a boy-racer organisation.

Oh, and if this law was in effect in my country (UK), I'd be serving several years in jail. The irrationality of this kind of bullshit hasn't prevented people from trying to ruin people's lives over it, however [2].

What I'd like to see is the humourless 'people' who report this kind of obvious bullshit prosecuted for wasting police time and perhaps even harassment (I can't think of anything more harassing than trying to send somebody to jail + near enough ruin their life over something that is obviously not serious), the prosecutors who actually take it seriously losing their jobs and the politicians who implement these laws being publicly grilled on them.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_bay#US_Control_of_Gu...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#T...

[2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19009344
Tiny Iceland was also the only European country to stand up to the big banks during the G.F.C.

http://au.businessinsider.com/olafur-ragnar-grmsson-iceland-...

Even the US bent over to the bankers of wall street.
A timeline of immigration reform
The 5 Secrets of Networking
Boost creativity and productivity by getting back to nature
A simple way to define a 'species' is any group of creatures that can produce viable, fertile offspring.

So dogs are breeds - they're part of the same species - because if you mate a great dane with a chihuahua, you'll get a fertile dog (I believe; if you plan to experiment, I recommend the chihuahua is male and great dane is female). If you're lucky, that dog will have desirable characteristics that may one day end up being the parent of a new breed.

But horses and donkeys are not breeds - they're different species - because if you mate them you get a mule which is not fertile (a hybrid, therefore).

In the end, this definition is a bit too simplistic because it's not necessarily always so clear-cut. Hence the article here :)
I definitely would. I'm not sure what the rest of these people are talking about. If some angst-ridden teenager is posting something like that on facebook, they probably need to speak with a psychologist/councilor. In today's America, you can't take that shit lightly.

However, this is like putting out a candle with a fire hose.
You mean mistakes sometimes get made ? Shock horror.

Now what is this doing on HN again ?
I've seen worse, heard worse, said worse, and am ashamed for you. Nothing anyone says on an online game should be taken seriously.
I was able to find some sources. The first is this article: http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/high-performance-....

> Easy-to-use computer systems, as we conventionally understand them, are not what Engelbart had in mind. You might be surprised to learn that he regards today’s one-size-fits-all GUI as a tragic outcome. That paradigm, he said in a talk at Accelerating Change 2004, has crippled our effort to augment human capability. High-performance tasks require high-performance user interfaces specially designed for those tasks. Instead of making every task lie on the Procrustean bed of the standard GUI, we should be inventing new, task-appropriate interfaces. No, they won’t work for everyone. Yes, they’ll require effort to learn. But in every domain there are some experts who will invest that effort in order to achieve greater mastery. We need to do more to empower those people.

The above cites Engelbart's 2004 talk "Large-Scale Collective IQ", so that is probably a good place to look as well.

There's also this page, which presents some interesting related comments by Alan Kay: http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog...

> Alan Kay: ... If you have ever seen anybody use NLS [Engelbart's 1968 hypertext system for which he invented the mouse and chord key set] it is really marvelous cause you're kindof flying along through the stuff several commands a second and there's a complete different sense of what it means to interact than you have today. I characterize what we have today as a wonderful bike with training wheels on that nobody knows they are on so nobody is trying to take them off. I just feel like we're way way behind where we could have been if it weren't for the way commercialization turned out.
Out of curiosity, since you mention Mail.app, do you have a link to any good guides on hardening OSX? Or is it pretty good out-of-the box?
In fact, there is quite a bit of evidence that the market for CEOs is quite the opposite -- that often CEO A sits on the board of CEOs who sit on A's board.

I won't go too far in to the other points, just to say that yes, there are quite a few people who would benefit greatly from getting to keep an extra 1500 dollars per year of the value they create.
If you define "worth it" monetarily, my opinion is that you'll be disappointed by the return on a Master's.

Most good companies want smart, talented people. At this poin, to be blunt, you either have these qualities or you don't. A Master's does not increase your talent or intelligence and I don't think you'll get the bump in salary from just having a master's that you wouldn't get from the 2-3 years of job hopping and raises you'd be doing instead during that time.

If you define "worth it" as getting to work on some really cool stuff, with potentially some very smart people, then yes, it will likely be worth it. You will have more knowledge after a Masters. You will likely be an expert on a very niche domain and also have learned a lot about proper research.
Schneier always writes about overreactions that happen after every major tragedy or high profile criminal act http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/this_weeks_ove...

If this kid was trolling Runescape now nobody would care
That's interesting. The heart rate monitor is a great idea, I'll have to try that. Thank you.
Thanks for the response, it helps to know others have been there.
Toddlers killed more Americans this year than Terrorists did. Time for a war on toddlers.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/toddlers-killed-...
Anyone notice the parallels between this and the transcendentalist movement?
I've implemented Go-style channels in Python, and it turned out pretty well. The 'select' statement is a bit verbose, but still pretty readable.

You can find the code here: http://github.com/stuglaser/pychan

And documentation here: https://chan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Seems to me more like he needed a councilor and a talking to from his parents, but maybe the police did find the means to follow through with these statements in his home. This is all outrage-inducing non-information.