skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also an atheist. I was brought up in a Calvinist society (Afrikaner). For a long time I thought the same thing about porn. But I think it has much more to do with the strict upbringing that made everything around sex weird.

You state that "porn may be a valueless, happiness destroying exploitation of the way the human brain works". What are your reasons for saying this? Is it just your personal aversion? Or do you think it holds in general (in which case you'd at least have to provide some evidence).
Buckminster Fuller thought that if you built a large enough geodesic dome out of normal midcentury materials, you could get enough lift from sunlight-driven thermal expansion of air to float it. http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/cities.html
Decentralized SSL cert verification
I don't think that is going to be much of a problem for THIS audience :D
I was wondering... would using a different keyboard layout like Colemak or Dvorak defeat keyloggers? I mean, what does keyloggers capture, the interrupts of the keyboard or the keystrokes? Would it get the keys pressed on the keyboard even if those translate to different keys on the keyboard layout or they would capture the keys as if using Qwerty, so the passwords captured would be different?
I was reading the piece with a certain amount of sangfroid, until I reached this sentence:

Cindy thinks that the restrictions that policies place on sex-oriented companies like hers are tantamount to wanting to “pretend sex doesn’t exist.”

Actually, that's precisely what companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft aren't doing. Not wanting to be exposed to porn does not mean you think sex doesn't exist. It is an illogical and simplistic equivalence.

As for the charge that American government is "influenced by religion", why single out the USA? All world governments are influenced by religious principles of some kind. Codified law systems spring from religion. It's why the law makes a moral judgement about murder, or speeding (to use a less severe crime as an example).

"Religion", rightly understood, does not paint sex as "dirty." It places sex within the boundaries of a moral, social and legal code. The Puritans were actually some of the most lusty, sex affirming (within marriage) people of their time.
I think its very difficult, if not impossible to have "paranoid level" security for a machine that someone else has full physical access. The assumption here is that amazon also have paranoid level security and their employees are 100% honest and will do nothing to compromise your machine.
Getting started with visualization after getting started with visualization
Tor traffic is encrypted all the way through the network until the exit node. However, your point still stands: Use end-to-end encryption (SSL/TLS) to prevent someone at the exit from seeing your traffic.
This would be very useful; I've written some OpenCL code (called from Python, but I coded the Kernel and set up the buffers in C myself) and it's full of pitfalls; much harder than just "here's an array, here's a procedure. run it in parallel for me."

I beleive there are already ways to do this (IIRC, F#'s original demo showed off trivially parallelisible functions), but a simple interface (i.e. something that looks like a high level language with a REPL etc) is key. As someone who's generally excited about anything that makes you write Scheme, or anything that integrates with Python, I'll be keeping an eye on Harlan!
Tor absolutely does provide encryption, except for the last link (unless it's a hidden service) just like the parent poster said. More information is available here:

https://ssd.eff.org/tech/tor

https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en

EDIT: To be clear, I am saying that tor DOES provide end-to-end encryption, but only when you're using a tor hidden service -- which is also what the parent poster said.
That's true. From Wikipedia: "In 2007, Bang Bros generated a sales total of $1.9 million." That's very tiny given that BangBros is a pretty big player in that industry (2,898 Alexa rank for a paywalled site).
It's probably in reference to David Petraeus's resignation after his affair came to light.
Tennessee Lawyer Sues Apple For Allowing Him to Watch Porn
Show HN: RocketCloud - SSD Cloud Servers in the UK
https://rocketcloud.me

RocketCloud offers SSD-backed cloud servers in the UK.

We are a small team consisting of developers and system admins that decided (for various reasons) the current cloud server offerings weren't good enough. For example:

Many have far too many options and pricing structures since you have to choose two of these for every one of those and need this data bus for that storage stack and if you run out of this thing you have to pay for that other thing.
Privacy and security issues due to governmental laws and restrictions and allegations of backdoors into the infrastructure.
Few provide SSDs as an option but those that offer them do so at inflated prices.

Being in the EU we have very strong laws governing data privacy and security and no back doors into our infrastructure either.

We are also taking the dozens of options that others have and are trimming them down to only a few sensible ones.

Oh, and we only use SSDs in our servers giving you up to 250x I/O performance over normal enterprise disks and we don't charge a premium for them since they are a standard offering.

We don't quite have everything in place yet and will need beta testers soon so if you are interested in being part of the beta, or you just want to be kept informed of our progress then please enter your email on the site and we will keep you up to date.

You can also find us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/rocketcloudssd
Well sorry about that, the ad don't usually come at the startup, it's bug I will fix it in the next update.
Also I am working on better ads, which don't get in the way.
Yes and no better example than DES in which the NSA hardened DES against differential cryptanalysis and then reduced the key size from 128 bits to 54 bits so they could break it. Given the prior actions of the NSA is doesn't seem unbelievable that they would both harden and backdoor linux.
I'm sorry, stuff like this just annoys me: "Lisp is the ultimate example of programmers bending towards making things easiest for compilers."

No. It makes it easier for parsers. Like that macro you want to write. If you think the hardest part of a compiler is the parser, boy you're in for a shock.
Extensive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104430

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865742
Graphene Optical Switches One Hundred Times Faster Than Current Devices
It won't because by the non password text entered I will be able to derive the layout and have good aproximation of the layout used.
Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing the computer's PRNG
Has Patent, Will Sue
> All government are influenced by religious principles.

I don't think China or Russia are for example.

> Codified law systems spring from religion. It's why the law makes a moral judgement about murder, or speeding (to use a less severe crime as an example).

You don't need religion to make such moral judgements.
I wouldn't say stupid things like this. I work in Windows Phone and I have a lot of faith in our product (and judging by reactions to the 1020 and our customer sat ratings, it looks like I'm not alone). The Xbox One is exciting, and Windows 8+ has definitely opened a new chapter for the company.

If you have something stupid to say, keep it to yourself.
BodyMedia monitors your sleep, shows (approximately) when you're asleep and when you're awake, and shows your total sleep time. So does FitBit and others.
there is nothing like "Monitor Your Sex Life" its another health monitoring device.
Because you don't reflash firmware every time you enable/disable this technologies, it's obvious that there must be some code which checks configuration flags to activate this features.

Twist is that such code is executed on dedicated specialised processor in chipset/CPU with own firmware and it does much more:

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/TERESHKIN/BH...
His opinion is sexist and not homophobic. He's saying a male father provides specific things that only a male father can provide; likewise with the female mother. He would be opposed to two parents of the same sex, but for sexist reasons.

I'm not saying his judgement is correct, but nature is sometimes sexist (e.g., men naturally build muscles quicker than women due the difference in hormones).
Interesting. A friend of mine is planning on switching careers and is looking into these hack/code schools. I told him I couldn't give any opinion one way or the other because I don't know how much experience the students have before taking these classes, and I also didn't know what the success rate was for students after they finished these programs.

So anyway, can you elaborate on your programming experience before you took the course? And how much of your free time have you devoted to learning programming before, during, and after the program?
Why people still recommend chkrootkit? It is an old tool that havent't been updated in a long while and wont find any new linux rootkits/malware.
comrade1, you are hell-banned.
Codified law systems did not spring from religion. They showed up as a direct result of nations growing to large for a single ruler to deal with disputes. Looking at history the USSR was an atheist nation so there may have been influence in absolute terms it's far from supporting your thesis.

PS: If you actually look at history religions where codified well after laws became common.
Oh, is it about visas? I was going to snark it up and say they also recognize pizza as a vegetable. I approve of pro gamers getting visas to compete even if I'm not interested in watching.
It does seem to be a wide-spread perception that porn must be exploitative. I suspect (but have done no researched) that the big players are probably exploitative, at least according to the descriptions of ex-pornstars.

But then, there are lots of "indie" pornsites (such as Girls out West and their ilk; NSFW). There are some interesting interviews with the "indie" pornstar named "Furry Girl"; tldr is that she is there by choice.

This example is not to diminish what sounds like widespread exploitation in many other parts of the porn world. Rather it is to say that porn is not synonymous with exploitation.
Show HN: Asteroids Artificial Player in JavaScript
Looks like I'm moving to iceland.
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How is rkhunter?
Why? I prefer to live in a society where people can't march through the streets waving signs designed specifically to vilify a specific group. Can you tell me how this freedom makes your society better in any way?
Can someone give an example of a free market health care system in a developed nation? Or an undeveloped nation?

Would it be wrong to settle for a system that covers everyone and is 1/2 to 2/3 the price of the current US system, like other developed nations have figured out?
Also consider the holland based search engine www.startpage.com which has al kinds of certificates.
Does anyone else think there's just an upper-limit to how much porn can be consumed by the average person? I think it's just assumed that if porn were suddenly as acceptable as mainstream programming, it would suddenly become the most popular thing, ever. But would it? People can read books for hours. People can watch Game of Thrones/Breaking Bad/Mad Men/Downton Abbey/James Bond movies in a marathon fashion. Hell, people can run marathons in a marathon fashion. But watching porn, constantly? Besides porn/sex-addicts, how big of a market is there for porn watching in excess of 10min-1 hour a day?
Digital AntiRepression Workshop (Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project) [video]
> harm it does

And, to be more exact, what kind of harm you're talking about?

I could think of some very real and large issues that are usually linked with pornography (human abduction, treating [usually] females as sexual objects, etc), but after some thinking (not very deep, I must admit) I've concluded none of them are caused by pornography itself (in a same way knives aren't the cause of homicides, although many people died stabbed with a knife). But I may be missing something.
And everybody will wonder why you took it off for this time, when you usually wear it 24/7.

So, adapted solution: Don't wear it at all.
I think it's a favour. Coders shouldn't settle for a mediocre language and a dated platform just because they are ubiquitous.
I've written my fair share of esoteric prose but the text of this article reads as if spat out of a trendism algorithm app, barely trackable by the eyes of a brain attempting to discern some type of linguistic pattern - future anthropologists will likely assume a po-mo generator instead. I hope this was the intended effect. If not, I wish the author well on his recovery after he partakes in a Kerouacian backback to Tangier. Remember, don't fret the centipedes.
Iceland does Switzerland even better.
One reason it would be a poor decision for the NSA to recommend Intel backdoor the RNG: Intel would be in a position to sell/leak the backdoor secret to other governments.

The NSA would have no way of blocking it from being used to attack the US. And you can't roll out a hotfix for billions of CPUs worldwide.
> Porn is legal.

In some jurisdictions. In some it's in "gray" area (laws are uncertain or badly worded), and it some it's completely illegal.

Also laws usually make distinction between production, distribution and consumption of porn.
It is all about word choice. It would be just as true to say asylum seeking exiled whistle-blower. Both descriptions are totally accurate, neither description is neutral.
Fake enthusiasm… for the sensors?
like how the US Military has IP addresses that change the ranking of Reddit posts

Care to elaborate?
Are you sure? And in any case how would you know? Perfect forward secrecy is hard to implement with TLS:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html

"So how do you run forward secrecy with several servers and support session tickets? You need to generate session ticket keys randomly, distribute them to the servers without ever touching persistent storage and rotate them frequently. However, I'm not aware of any open source servers that support anything like that."
> the adult industry sees a vast amount of fraudulent transactions.

There are two sides to this. For actual porn sites, the "vast amount of fraudulent transactions" are actually friendly fraud. Husbands getting caught and denying they did anything, or claiming to not have approved a charge. While up-sales and cross sales are contributor to this, this actually leads to much less fraud then you'd anticipate. It's usually the 3-day free trial that gets people (and rather than contacting support, who'd promptly refund the money), they just claim their credit card was stolen.

The truth is, when you compare the majority of the porn industry with the majority of the gaming, movie, and music industries (all entertainment industries), porn companies treat their customers far better than the others.

Disclaimer: I worked in adult industry doing credit card processing for about 10 years.
I have a Basis B1 band that I've been using on and off since launch. The one thing it is really poor at is capturing heart rate information and other metrics during periods of heavy activity. If you are working out or performing an intense activity, the device frequently dismisses the activity as noise for one and stops capturing the data. e.g. when my heart's pounding after a heavy lift or a sprint and is ready to pop out, the Basis band either stops recording or shows my heart rate that's no where close to true. I've exchanged emails with them in the past about their algorithms dismissing such activity as noise but they've maintained that they cannot discuss the algorithms they use to calculate the metrics and it's not a device to be used for such purposes; it's more about giving you a rough estimate as you carry on your day to day life.

As far as sudden heart rate increases during the night, you could possibly co-relate it to your dreaming; I woke up sweaty once after having a nightmare and my skin temperature & heart rate #s were definitely skewed by a good margin as compared to a normal night of sleep.
EDITED: Thanks guys, it seems like I managed to paste over most of my post with the clipboard filled with the last one. Thanks for being so nice pointing it out. Sucks, the on topic one i destroyed was leaps above the banal content that replaced it. Let something here to avoid you guys being orphaned. Sorry for reducing the signal to noise ratio!
I only wish HN were set up differently so I could somehow transfer all my points to you for that comment.
From what I've read online, it should be possible to estimate the uptime of your machine with TCP timestamps.

I'm not sure why this would be a problem, maybe an attacker can see that you haven't rebooted to install a kernel update?
Actually a company based out of US jurisdiction and using TLS certs should be "safe" to use assuming they don't voluntarily share your info with any governments. It is expo exponentially harder to compel a country to compel a company to give up info.

Or you an use Off The Record Messaging which has perfect forward secrecy.
The parent said end-to-end encryption, which Tor does not do. Yes, information through a tor circuit is encrypted. No, it's not enough if you need end-to-end encyption, the participants must arrange independent of tor for that.
> Software cannot generate random numbers.

Can hardware? [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generato...
Helium is non-renewable and in limited supply.
Yes, they are encrypted, but it's not end-to-end. I should have made my post more clear. If you need end-to-end encyption, participants must explicitly arrange for it independent of Tor.
Considering you have no issue with the "exploitation of the way the human brain works," and doing it yourself, I find your comment weak and hypocritical.
Response from DuckDuckGo CEO from the article comments:

"Hi, this is Gabriel Weinberg, CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo. I do not believe we can be compelled to store or siphon off user data to the NSA or anyone else. All the existing US laws are about turning over existing business records and not about compelling you change your business practices. In our case such an order would further force us to lie to consumers, which would put us in trouble with the FTC and irreparably hurt our business.

We have not received any request like this, and do not expect to. We have spoken with many lawyers particularly skilled and experienced in this part of US and international law. If we were to receive such a request we believe as do these others it would be highly unconstitutional on many independent grounds, and there is plenty of legal precedent there. With CALEA in particular, search engines are exempt.

There are many additional legal and technical inaccuracies in this article and I will not address all of them in this comment. All our front-end servers are hosted on Amazon not Verizon, for example."
If you're running a web server then "maldet"[1] is a must, maybe in combination with ClamAV (clamscan).

It's insanely useful especially on "shared" web servers; much more so than chkrootkit or rkhunter.

[1] - http://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/
Adversarial Stylometry: Circumventing Authorship Recognition [pdf]
> why searching for some more complicated explanation?

But why generate all that text using a cardan grille?
My understanding is that if they're using Perfect Forward Security it doesn't matter, because unless you're modifying the traffic in flow (which is much harder to do secretly) then it doesn't matter if someone-else has the private key, they won't be able to decrypt the data in any case.
Who says that the backdoor hasn't been shipped since the first release and just sits there idle waiting for a nudge from the server?

A larger point that security is based on trust. Trust is based on assumptions, especially and exclusively when it's a closed source software. Assumptions that what the company says is true. Now we know that they can be forced to lie and any claims of the security just crumble as a house of cards.

Even if LastPass would've been an open-source, it made a little difference as the company could've been forced to distribute binaries made from altered sources. It wasn't easy to build trust before, but it's going to be nearly impossible to build it now. Though it's not to say there isn't plenty of people who are after pseudo-security and who are easily lulled by cross-my-heart promises squirting out of every second company now.
Hah. Back in 95 i was the guy people laughed at for claiming that one day games would be considered a pro sport and guys would be able to score girls by being good players.

Should have betted on that.
Why would a layman jury (all of whom are not doctors and are patients) every choose the side of the doctor ?

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have those juries staffed with medical practitioners only ? How is such a jury a "jury of peers", as guaranteed by the constitution ?
The solution is to have all your sex in the shower.
And pay a higher premium as punishment for failing to provide the data to your health insurance
Ah, interesting. I think I recall reading that attacks against crypto can be helped by uptime estimates.

Uptime can be used as a source of "randomness" in PRNGs, so knowing that bit of information could clearly be beneficial to an attacker.
1920x1200 is great on the rMBP. Personally I don't find it "straining".
Wayland and Weston 1.2.0 released
Very clever design decisions. The "high level" code should be written in a smallest and cleanest language possible, and then compiled, via C, into all that mess they called OpenCL.
You posted this same comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040733

But added a section on DDG to the bottom...
Or chaff the signal by taking it off every diceroll hours for diceroll minutes.
I agree that the exception traces are pretty awful. Having used Clojure for a couple of years now, all I can say is that you do get used to them. Despite the complexity of the libraries and the 'foreign-ness' of the concepts coming from an imperative background, Clojure is fundamentally a simple language/environment.

I've developed a sense for the types of mistakes that I usually make and I tend to scan the stacktrace for my own namespace, ignoring the clojure.* lines[1]. Once I see what line caused the problem, if it's not a typo then it just takes less than a minute to reason about what's going on and find a solution. The REPL helps a lot, because you can make changes on the spot or try out a modified code fragment.

As some others have said here: yes, it is difficult to make the adjustment from an imperative way of thinking but it's really, really worth it once you get there.

[1] You can probably even de-emphasise clojure.lang stacktrace lines in Eclipse using the Grep Console plugin but I'm not sure about this off the top of my head, because the Eclipse console might override stderr output.
There is no such thing as a 100% free market og 100% capitalism.

What people are complaining about is that US healthcare is subject to a free market logic. I.e. the hospitals are profit centers and the insurance agencies are profit centers.

The opposite is also bad (like in Denmark) with the hospitals being 100% state owned and the insurer being the state.

In my mind what we need is a combination where one part needs to take care of making a profit and the other needs to be frugal about how it spends it's money.

Have no idea how that would work, but somethings gotta give.
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