skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a personal anecdote, but it happened last week seems relevant-ish:

My landlord is a hikikomori. He is around 50-60 years old, and refuses to leave his room in his house; he instead barks orders at his extremely elderly mother (we're talking older than dirt here; I wouldn't be surprised if she was older than 80).

She is a very kind old woman. I was shocked that he sent her to collect water money (we pay to our landlord instead of directly to the utility; they are quite wealthy and generous, so I doubt it is a scheme to extract extra cash from tenants) as I live on the third floor of a building with no elevator.

I found out about he was that way when I went over to their house to pay my water bill; I didn't want to make her walk up all those stairs again for the sake of around twenty dollars. My water heater was kinda-sorta broken from being quite old (probably as old as the building, so 1991).

She thought it was my air conditioner that was broken, and I corrected her. She stood at the open door his dark, shuttered room (this is around noon) and asked him if that was correct. He growled back in an annoyed tone "I TOLD YOU IT WAS THE WATER HEATER!"

Even though I told her it was fine, she apologized profusely, gave me some vegetables, and sent me on my way.

The whole experience was surreal...
I think the word "exercise" is used a bit loosely in this context and not all exercises are equal. What happened with me was that I tried strength training while going through a brief, stressful period, and it shot up my cortisol levels and/or caused adrenal fatigue in the worst kind of way : I could not sleep at all and was pacing around the house like a rat in a cage. I suppose I should have done running or cycling instead, which would have calmed me down.
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As I see it - until there's broad support for Certificate Pinning, your users browsers are going to trust all 700-ish CA Root certs that Chrome/Firefox/Safari/IE(/and others) ship with, so your choice of CA doesn't stop Mallory from creating a plausible SSL cert for your domain with her choice of compromised CAs, and have your users believe she's you no matter which CA you carefully chose.

Having said that - if you're being diligent, make sure you generate your own public/private keypair and only send the CSR to the CA to sign your public key.

I noticed recently that StartSSL, although they'll happily accept a CSR, also offer to generate your key pair and give you the private (and public) key. While I understand their desire to make acquiring an SSL cert as easy as possible even for non-technical people (especially since they'll give you a cert for free, so minimising support is clearly critical to their business), the idea of having my private key come from something other than a machine I trust that's completely under my control seems very wrong.
Amazon kindle price here is US$20.35 even though I'm using Amazon.com. Usual excuse for gouging us here is the cost of transport to our small market.
Never thought that applied to electrons too :(
> trustworthy

For all practical intents and purposes, they are all the same.

> technically competent

Likewise here.
It did, it was just easy to guess. So are about 3/4 of passwords. Gmail account with weak password means no problem going through your emails, right?
I don't know if what your threat model is here, but if you believe the NSA can suborn any CA trusted by your user's browser, then the question of which CA you use is moot. (Modulo something like certificate pinning, which helps if your advertising company that runs an enormous popular mail service also happens to also develop a popular browser.)

Assuming that an adversary can get one suborned CA to sign a certificate for your domain, the adversary can use that certificate to MITM first connections to your site without causing any sort of warning message within the browser. They can then both sniff and alter messages going in either direction, including e.g. stealing credentials, cookies, and what have you.
There are also people who accept The Offer because they feel they have no other option. And they are not so happy about their job, but they feel they cannot quit for various social reasons ("But everyone would love to have my job at MegaCorp", "If I quit, what if I fail?"). My gentle prodding to test their comfort zone sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
Honestly the more I read about predatory pricing, the more it seems like a complete fiction. One of those things that seems to make sense in theory, and maybe makes for a good political screed every now and then.

If low prices drove the competitors out, then high prices will surely see them flood back in.

Any firm that gains monopoly power and hikes the prices without inviting fresh competition probably worked out some sweetheart deal with the government--and even then, they're better off keeping margins fairly low, since a govt-approved monopoly is easier to justify when the firm is not obscenely profitable.

Ultimately I don't think a business born out of deep discounts is suited well to massive price hikes. It destroys the identity they've built with consumers and if they weren't in the game to be deep discounters over the long haul, then I'd say they'll die. They would be better off maintaining the discounts while improving their cost structure.
No, human flesh is said to taste somewhere between veal and chicken, with the consistency of pork.
With the current implementation of SSL, there really is no point in picking one CA over another for security purposes (unless you don't trust a CA with billing, etc. data). In the typical use case of a web browser, any trusted (root) CA can sign certificates for any Common Name/domain - so any government or private entity that can influence a commonly trusted CA can get a valid certificate for any site - irregardless of which CA you chose to trust.

Furthermore, if done properly, your CA will never handle any of your (private) key material, so the CA itself has no special privilege with respect to the communications you sign with the private key, so there is also no reason to pick one here.

The only cryptographic thing they can do right or wrong is to allow easy and hassle free revocation of your certificate in case of a key compromise..
The main factors I would consider in picking a CA are pricing, customer service, acceptance and whether they are recognized as 'extended validation'.
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>Starting your own SaaS/app/startup isn't that common for Japanese people, but it is starting to pick up more steam over the past few years. Sounds like his father would be happy to know what he can do with his computer skills if he expands out to becoming an entrepreneur.

The skillsets involved in running your own company and the skillsets involved in working for someone else... are very different animals. Especially for those without social skills (or who don't particularly enjoy social interaction) being an employee can be way easier.

I'm not even that introverted; compared to your average programmer/sysadmin, I might even be a little bit extroverted. But I find the level of dealmaking I have to do at my company exhausting, in a way that the technical work I have to do is not.
(If you mean the article being linked, that was written by couac, not antoncohen.)
Borders (in the US) used to send out coupons for 30-40% off a single item. That usually put their price very close to Amazon's, assuming Borders had the book you were looking for.
If I had the money I would probably stay at home all the time as well. I have no problem socializing and doing stuff. It's just that I prefer being home.
I would be careful before trying this. I don't know much about crypto, but you might be able to do some interesting statistical attacks if you are encrypting the same plaintext with multiple keys.
I'm sure it'd be possible. Would be a huge undertaking though.
none of us are trawling /new and upvoting anything, sadly. Great posts regularly don't get a single click the first time through the HN mill. To be on the front page an article needs to be 1) clickbait title, 2) good content, 3) lucky, 4) posted when the Americans are awake.

Oh well.
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Hikikomori is a Japanese phenomenon. It can't be an American phenomenon because it describes people living in Japan, influenced by Japanese society. Japan and America are night and day.

Also, people devoted to exercise are probably not recluses (which is what Hikikomori are), but they may be introverts. Reclusion != introversion.
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Dotfiles are meant to be personalized. I've built mine up over the years, I think everyone does. I don't think dotfiles lend themselves to being managed by a third party package manager. On the other hand, maybe a place just for hosting people's dotfiles would be useful? Github does a pretty good job, but it's not optimized for browsing dotfiles (ie you have to search for dotfiles, which isn't all that bad anyways).
REPLs are very good for interactive development, regardless of the language.
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That's a fascinating question! Do you know many vegans? I know a lot of them, and I'd say on the order of 75% of them went directly from omnivore to vegan.

They hadn't thought about the ethics of meat before, when they did, they chose to be vegan.

So it turns out (in my experience) telling rational people "do the thing that makes sense, even if it's a little extreme" is much more likely to result in the most extreme change of behavior. But we're deep into anecdotal/psychological theory land here, so I claim no authority beyond N=30 vegans.
it also deserves a whole load of other governments monitoring communications, some of which would be quite happy to take over if the us collapses
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Turning a mental illness into a sub-culture so society doesn't have to deal with it. Very nice.
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The strategy is to appease wall street and shareholders. Doesn't matter what their plan is or what they do, as long as they have a plan and do something.

While somewhat rare for publicly traded companies, Amazon has shown that companies can float while prioritizing long term strategies above everything else.
> Even the US bent over to the bankers of wall street.

This made me chuckle. Who do you think runs the America? :)
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Seconding emacs and pardedit.

The power of such a simple approach to editing is very hard to grasp (even more so believe) until you've actually tried it yourself.
What does everybody think about the outcome?

Was it a failure or a success?

And most of all: Where should we go from here?
> You need to read more books. Start with something about coal mine strikes, or the general history of the labor rights movement.
The reality is, nobody is going to shoot you and your friends in the head for marching around chanting about NSA surveillance.

Hmmm. That feels a little condescending. I could be wrong.

At any rate, I didn't say that they'd shoot, firehose or otherwise physically interface with you in any way. There are far more effective ways to cause pain in the modern age than to actually touch someone. For example, the IRS could harass the shit out of you for the next ten years. That'd be life changing. Or how about your boss and co-workers get phone calls asking about your "suspicious activities".

Yet again, here's the link from another thread on HN:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352432/free-justin-car...

How about them apples? They might not shoot you, but they can sure as hell ruin your life.

My point is that the regime we seem to be constructing --a system where we are all naked and exposed in front of our government at many levels-- is one where we become their property to do with as they wish. They gather data on you at every level and can then turn your own life against you.

The point is that our government should not have the power to do this. Period.
I think you completely missed parent's point, which has its fair share of sarcasm.
It seems incredibly broken from the outside to have parents "play the game" (not that it's a fun game in any way), but compare it to other countries where kids in a dead end will:

- kill themself or hurt themself repeatedly (the standard outcome)
- do drugs
- rampage at every occasion (british chavs ?)
- kill others (eventually their bullies when they are bullied)
- go to prison for a reason or another

If the parents knew what to do or could do it they would try. Sometimes the parents themself are so broken mentally from the weight of the situation that they are in. I think you are spot on about the parents not engaging enough with their chldren until they reach this points. The guilt about their failure as parents is also a factor in letting the kid go hikikomori instead of forcing him into anther way.
Ask HN: In light of the PRISM revelations how have you changed?
I would like to ask have you altered since the revelations on PRISM and the NSA?

Have you moved your eMail off Google? Have you deleted your Facebook? Have your political views changed? Have you decided to contribute to a decentralised cryptography project?

Have you just thought of doing something or have you done something different?
Can you explain what you mean?

I think what the grandparent means is that the fundamental imbalance of the present system (for example, some are born in to greater education and more supportive environments, with greater access to resources) is self-perpetuating. Ignoring the real impact of the system as a whole is morally questionable.

Coming from a luckier background and accruing wealth without making efforts to alter the system is essentially tantamount to supporting systematized inequity and is therefore morally questionable.

Likewise, being poor in a wealthy country but consuming vast quantities of resources, whining about how the 1% is the problem whilst personally producing serious negative effects on the shared environment is also morally questionable.

Many philosophies (eg. Buddhism) eventually get to the point, deducing from there, where it is realized that we are all inherently destructive creatures. Our mere existence is the destruction of others' rights and resources in our vast yet finite environment. Furthermore, each of us possesses limited time and our capacity for constituting positive change is merely to correctly take charge of our own actions (including thoughts, speech, etc.) in the present.

I'm not sure about the monotheistic religious traditions, but in a philosophical sense Buddha's response to this moral quandry was, IMHO, pretty well argued and pretty damn timeless! It's called The Noble Eightfold Path. If interested there's a good deal more on that from a famous American monk (born in New York) at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.ht... and from a Burmese monk at http://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh245-p.html
I disagree. NHK shows the psychological feelings as more akin to hallucinations, and there isn't really an exploration into the disease. It's more just a story of a happy (but unlikely) sudden recovery.
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Somehow I find it hard to believe that if it had been Zuckerberg or Larry Page or any other guy, this title would have been chosen.
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“True equality means all or none,”
“Christianity has had an unfair privilege for at least the last 150 years. We want to level the playing field by stripping them of privilege, and bringing them to equality with all other ideologies.”

That's silly, you don't want to include suicide-bomber's ideology. Not all ideologies are created equal.
If this were any male CEO doing all these acquisitions, would the author of this article have written about him going on a "shopping spree"? I kind of doubt it.

Edit: Criticism retracted - searching around in Google, it looks like this is a common phrase when referring to companies that make a lot of purchases in a short period. Apologies to the author for implying something negative.
You can't trust any. Centralized certificate authorities are a weakness. We need to get distributed trust system like a Bitcoin of CA.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C. S. Lewis
If the United States is becoming more repressive, where can one go? Other English speaking countries such as Australia, England, and Singapore have problems with freedom of expression.
Well, it's just a fiction so you can't expect it to be super realistic either, but it gives insights as to why the main character ended up this way. I don't think it replaces a proper study of the phenomenon but it's a good place to start with to become acquainted with the everyday life of these people.
It should be noted that certificate pinning is only effective if you can trust the origin of the certificate at the time it is pinned. Imho google is only pushing for something like this because of the Iran incident[0] where a hacker (possibly the Iranian government) coerced a Dutch CA into providing a compromised certificate for gmail. It won't do much for stopping the US government who is already in a position to coerce CAs before pinning is implemented.

0: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219731/Hackers_spied....
Yes, so the message should be: "add disclaimers, avoid promoting where rigorous security is required, educate yourself on best practices".

Not, "stop releasing hobby projects".

The reckless non-technical user who grabs any project that mentions a slight sheen of crypto-sparkles, and then trusts that software with their life or savings, is doomed anyway. The existence of one more hobby project with amateurish crypto isn't going to kill or bankrupt him twice over.
They interviewed someone called "Hide" on the subject of hiding at home. Seriously?
Because it would have appeared to be a problem with the test rig, not the flight hardware.
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You're arguing that the mass indexing of everyone's communication between two private parties that are not in public should be considered reasonable? This amendment was made partly as a reaction to large-scale fishing expeditions carried out by the crown, trying to root out dissent. That directly parallels the govt. carrying out a large-scale fishing expedition to root out terrorism.

Lawyers can try to wiggle through the subjective parts in the constitution's language, but the intent seems very clear, given the context. The founders did not want the government violating its citizens privacy except when there was a clear reason to, and then only in limited cases, or in trivial cases of privacy invasion that aren't worth considering. Any violation of that is a violation of the spirit of the amendment, if not strictly the letter of it. The language is very forceful on this, and it's clearly meant to be very inclusive on what is considered protected.

The founders didn't have anything in their world that paralleled telephone conversations or server records, except perhaps letters, which they would consider to be effects. They also didn't have anything to parallel our ability to pull out insights from masses of low-signal data.

When people talk on the phone, they have a reasonable expectation that that call is between them and the other person on the call, with AT&T acting as a dumb pipe between them, doing only as much as necessary to make that service work and count the time and rate for billing purposes. There is also the reasonable expectation that AT&T will do with that data what is necessary to bill you for it, but there is no reasonable expectation that they or the govt. will do deep analysis on it to figure out your social connections, who you like best, your travel patterns, who you might be planning something with, etc.
One should rather interpret this as "zillions", because "milliards de milliards" is generally used to mean a mind-boggling quantity like in "des milliards de milliards d'étoiles" (billions of billions stars).
On this topic, I recommend to watch a movie called Tokyo [1]. It's in fact 3 short films. One of them is about Hikikomori. Very well done indie series.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976060/
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How about DEFCONlike game:

Single player: http://gtanczyk.warsztat.io/Dupocracy/game/index.html?loopba...

Multi player:
http://gtanczyk.warsztat.io/Dupocracy/game/index.html

Source:
https://github.com/gtanczyk/Dupocracy
There are degrees of isolation. Paul Graham talked about suburbs being a place designed to raise children. He said that as you grow older a suburb starts to seem fake. Another reason suburbs seem fake is their demographics. A place designed to raise children will primarily have children in it. After a certain age it is no longer acceptable to talk to kids as equals. You bite your tongue and talk in a sing song voice or risk the ire of parental suspicion. In their eyes anyone who would want to talk to a child is a pedophile or other bogeyman.

You have friends who grow up with you. A few generations of teens live in your town at best. Should they not enjoy your company you are SOL. Adults are suspicious of your youth, energetic youngsters scare them. They are held to the same sort of rule about talking to children except to them you are a child. That in mind it should not be hard to imagine how you end up a social pariah in the Americas.

You know there is somebody else out there just like you. You will never meet them because they are inside just like you. The large pool of bored kids that hang out on IRC and talk about whatever it is other kids talk about has dried up. Twitter is not a replacement. Facebook is not a replacement. Those services are localist. They focus on the people you know in your town.

When you have nobody to talk to books become your conversation partners. Stacks of them in a sort of personal library. What F. T. Marinetti called "Public dormitories where you sleep side by side for ever with beings you hate or do not know.". You start to hate yourself for not reading them. You start to hate yourself for reading them. You desperately want to talk about what you are reading yet you know it is boring and nobody wants to listen.

The loneliness starts to break you. It eats away at your sanity. You start daydreaming of smashing the monitor that glows against your face in the night. Throwing the books from piles into the walls their pages slamming into drawers and dressers. Pages litter the floor as you step forward to the CRT television and knock it from the stand. Blood trails behind your step as the glass cuts your feet coagulating into a pool around you. Sitting in the fetal position against the wall of that destroyed room looking up at the face of your shocked mother.

"Son, I think you need to see a doctor." she says in an almost whisper.

"I know" you whisper back.
Indeed, the whole flashy/noisy outside world in Japan can become very alienating sometimes. Sometimes in weekends in Japan the only thing I want to do is to stay away from other people.
It sounds a bit as if you were worried your CA could hand out your key to the NSA. That's not how SSL works. CAs only certify the validity of your public key. Your private key never leaves your machine. If you are looking for a vendor that supports your cause, take a look at Namecheap: https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates