skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to imagine someone that doesn't want to "have to trust a 3rd party" typing their ssh credentials into your web page.
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This article is bullshit, and is probably based on another article which conflated Elon Musk's Hyperloop concept with an existing company's proposed evacuated tunnel system. They are not related, there is no affiliation between them other than perhaps they will have similar capabilities and both be technologically advanced high-concept train systems.
My understanding is that it's single-wheel-in-front trikes that are dangerous when cornering at speed. This vehicle has the single wheel in the back.
I'm not too sure if I interpret these right, but wouldn't this material be tailor-made for a weightless sail that can compress itself 20 times?

Wouldn't this be a revolution for boats, lifebuoys or seaplanes?

Also, wouldn't this allow human-size people to carry around weightless wings on their back that expand 20 times from 50cm to 10 meters in span, letting them fly like birds?

Edit: I know these ideas have no scientific basis. I'm just surprised that the only mentioned applications of this material are lithium batteries, waterproof clothing and the likes. Surely there would be a lot of things to create out of an essentially weightless solid.
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ماكينات الطباعة 
معدات طباعة ، مستلزمات طباعة
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
We have not received any request like this, and do not expect to.

I think this answers the important question in the article, which is whether DuckDuckGo have received any of these requests.

now have a say in whether such actions can be taken by the NSA and whether they are unconstitutional are not?

We all have a say to the extent that we cooperate or not with requests like that, I don't find their preparations laughable at all. What do you expect them to do in response to the possibility of FISA requests?
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Problem is, free market is not a panacea. You can't say well if thing X is free market then it would exist.

First free market is an illusion that probably never existed unless you count the really rudimentary communities. The laws that make a free market a non-free market aren't bad, like banning child labor or reducing work hours to 40, etc.

Second even in free market you can get monopolies, once all players consolidate or make deals. Then you lose any benefits of free market if paying to hush your competitors is lower than R&D.
You asked the question: "Only, what would a game company care about Linux adoption?" Regardless of the content of your parent's context, you were specifically asking about why a game company cares about Linux. I provide information, you say it's irrelevant unless they're developing solely for Linux. How silly.
There's two related arguments you (may) be making. One is philosophical, and to that I say: can you give an algorithm to compute a0, a1, ...? If you can't (and I suspect you can't), I'd be hesitant to say that such a sequence exists. But I don't think there's a useful argument to have here ;-).

But more concretely: no, the computable numbers aren't complete. Why would this make analysis messy? I didn't find the presentation and results in Computable Analysis (the book) all that different from what you find in an ordinary analysis course. Is there something it makes hard which I'm missing? (This might be impossible to answer without specific knowledge of Computable Analysis; remember that the definitions of, e.g. limits, are different.)
I see this comment in so many stories lately.

Certification authorities do not, in general, have the private keys corresponding to the public keys they sign. Some CAs will generate a key for you and claim not to keep the private half once you download it, but any security-conscious site will opt to upload a signing request for their own public key instead.

So, that rules out the possibility of passive spying on HTTPS traffic.

As for active spying, a CA could certainly produce a certificate for a MITM attack, but many modern browsers or browser extensions will rapidly detect that, so doing it on a large scale will fail and be detected. The same goes for most security exploits: a large scale systematic exploit will not pass silently.

MITM or exploits on a small, targeted scale have some chance of working, depending on the target, but if a government-scale entity targets you personally, you're pretty much screwed anyway. HTTPS still effectively protects against a large, systematic, undetected dragnet of traffic.
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I'm not sure what your business model is or whether you are already making money - $20K is not a lot of money, especially if you have employees working for you - I would say keep a tight hold on money.

As you mentioned you have a market ready product, spend as much as you can on customer validation and getting new customers - invariably would would find you might need the cash flow for the process and scaling up. Cost of sale is often underestimated, and sometimes you will find unexpected expenditure when you thought things are going well. If you are building an enterprise focussed product - you would have to allow at the least 3 months of lead time for getting a customer signed.
Heck you don't need political connection; even if there is no state there would be no free market. Corporations would simply fight over who owns most force and media. If you have ability to wield force and control the media you have made it.
> The only question would be the sheer number of pixels on the screen.

Which on Linux is a big, big question. My experience is that a 2x2 array of 2560x1440 displays is simply not reliable under Linux. The same worked fine with Windows. The total number of pixels is one factor that seems to trip up Xorg (or something); the above setup had a total resolution of 5120x2880, yet a 1x3 array totalling 4320x2560 worked fine. This was last year, on multiple machines with various graphics cards (but just one card in a given machine).

So I don't know why, but it seems that somewhere between 4320 and 5120 linear pixels, or between 11 and 15 total megapixels, Xorg or some other part of Linux (but probably Xorg) has problems. This Asus screen is 3840x2160 which means two of them together (16.5 MP) will likely not work (there's a chance if they're oriented vertically so the max linear resolution is 4320), and three in any configuration is very likely to fail.

Using many displays and getting very high resolution on Linux has been a bad situation for a long time now. Some hardware configurations just won't work (but are fine with Windows); others will hard-lock sometimes; still others will mostly be OK but once in two weeks freak out and spew artifacts everywhere. It's a real mess, and nobody seems to "own" fixing it.
What do you miss the most in Go? (not much)
The community here is overly negative on VCs (often with some justification) but this is exactly the kind of reason they exist - fast growth, real revenues, money can help get you to the next step.
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What makes you think that hosting a server in one of the world’s oldest democracies, the country among the first to have a written constitution and a strong bill of rights, the land of the free, would not be a breach of privacy?

Oh wait…
I stand corrected. Thanks for making that clearer.
> Food is plentiful and cheap

> most families only see each other for food

This happens in most European countries as well, it's by no means an American thing.
I don't get your point.

> No sane person will buy brain surgery if he has no problems even if it 1$ and he has no choice but to buy one at whatever cost if he has.

So what? Also, if there are multiple methods to treat his conditions, he may choose more expensive(or more cheap) method. Also, he may choose not to have brain surgery -- and sadly suffer or die. Socialism is hardly a solution here, if state will fail to provide necessary amount of surgeons to fulfill demand for them, then people will die too(not mentioning that there always be better methods and better qualified surgeons, so you won't be able to achieve the same level of healthcare anyway).
With all due respect: Not everyone else's phones are.
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I thought Reuters had an "angle" almost immediately, since I saw the words fugitive and spy next to Snowden's name in the summary at the top.
MegaUpload, LastPass and others are provably not able to access your information. Storing the encryption key yourself is the way to go.

But then the govt can capture you and make you give up the key. A whistleblower can threaten to have more incriminating evidence disseminated encrypted somewhere, and if he doesnt check in every 30 days it gets released ... but then the government can just torture him until it makes him give up the key he uses to check in every 30 days. It wouls take a really stubborn guy to persist and let the information be released. Since you dont have any information like that anyway, just assume that if you can access your own data the govt can compel you to do it for them.
I launched http://marrily.com early December 2011, and within a few days I had the first sign up. I didn't advertise at all but had a soft-launch on HackerNews. Since then Marrily got mentioned on a few magazines (Brides, and NYMag) and totally via organic sources (they found me and reached out). I did a bunch of give-aways and sponsored-posts too. Building partnership is important since it creates endorsements and synergies. Depends on the industry, but for wedding in particular, traditional prints still give very good results. Even 6 months after the printed article on NYMag, I still have vendors contacting me for partnerships and new customers signing up via that source.

My current pending failure is that I haven't made much progress since the launch but ended up getting a full time job for a while to rebuild my savings. I spent all my money working/not-working on Marrily and I was pretty broke when I started working again. I'm not giving up, but more or less spend some time to grow personally and professionally so when I resume, it will be another exciting stage of the journey.

BTW, Rob Walling's interview in babuskov's comment is really good, full of food for thoughts.
Funny thing about the "crowded theater" bit, because it was used to stifle free speech:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
How is it silly? When someone loads jQuery from Google, and their site depends on jQuery, do you expect the site to still work when you block Google's CDN?
> "DuckDuckGo can easily be compelled either under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), standard court orders, or by secret orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to provide tap-on-demand"

Can they actually do that? I mean it's one thing to just "hand over the data" you already have about the user, and maybe even compel the company to decrypt it (although I still think that's BS [1] and companies should fight against it), but can they actually force a company to spy for them, and change their service in such a way that makes it possible? Does FISA and the Patriot Acts actually imply that? Or does he mean it might be yet another one of their "interpretations" of the laws?

Either way, if that's possible, just start using StartPage.com. They're based in Norway.

[1] http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/09/calea-and-encryption.htm...
He explicitly states that in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040196
Monitor manufacturer's REALLY need to start uniformly implementing some sort of remote control, for input source at least. KVMs are pretty expensive, these monitors generally have several inputs for multiple PCs (or other sources). Why not just have a USB-based protocol for switching the active source? or infra-red?
Kudos to Abtinf for being a rare reader here able to identify the obviously misleading claims by a simple thought experiment. The material does not float because it is in fact about 1.2 times heavier than air and the rest is just hyped up nonsense. I am amazed at the number of fools here who are going to build blimps out of it.

Why isn't anyone discussing the one obviously useful application of this, the supercapacitors?
Well, the notions that many still hold dear.
The fact that there are few X86 chipmakers makes it more a problem. There are fewer arms for the NSA to twist.
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They also really hate it when people point out their privacy flaws. See http://www.alexanderhanff.com/duckduckgone
First - if I cannot afford a treatment not getting it is not a choice.

A choice is when I have insurance and refuse chemo because the side effects outweigh the benefits.

I am not talking about socialism. I am talking that we should treat the healthcare system the same way that we treat power plants and energy distribution utilities. A system of grants and loans that ensures long term supply of goods. So you pay your bills each month but the government takes care of you not being price gouged (except in California)

In the US (disclaimer - most I know for the healthcare is from the media, non US citizen) a good starting point will be forfeiting and subsidizing medical education so the graduates will be loan free. Also the government should not leave R&D to the private sector but create human health Manhattan project - this will have the benefits of everything that comes out of it entering public domain so no royalties patents and other shit to take care of.

A good healthcare system should be like interstate etc. It is there it is low margin but enables the society to move faster towards the future.
Great idea! Watching the watchers is a valuable public service. Cheers!
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Not really, "free markets" are real, they exist.

You find them in small villages all around the world, someone needs something that someone else has in abundance, they make a deal. I buy quality lentils, rice, milk, cows, ... this way, as I live in Europe. In the US you can't even buy natural milk, they have germs paranoia, and lots of big corps's interests.

Any person on the village could sell you anything, without any control, and that works, believe it or not.

A free market is as simple as a market that meets certain criteria, like existence of competition. Regulated markets use to destroy competition. In the US competition in healthcare is not so good in this regard, but don't tell any American, they believe they live in the best country in the world, specially those that had never lived abroad.

You could argue that perfect "free markets" do not exist, like a perfect "cube" or "rectangle" or "sphere" do not either. And that is true, because in the end atoms are just discrete approximations of a perfect shape, but cubes are very useful as a reference.
Juvenile. If this had any other name or was written by anyone else, no one would give a fuq.
Linkbait is killing content marketing.
MegaUpload, LastPass and others are provably not able to access your information

Where can I find the proof you're talking about?
We need to raise awareness.
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It looks like the microcode is also encrypted. But perhaps that encryption could be reverse engineered from silicon? The Silicon Zoo tutorial noted that Pentium I-era chips were "easily viewable" [1], probably with optical microscopes. So perhaps some parts of some newer Intel processors can be done at home. So, the "plan of attack" (ha!):

* decap an Intel CPU and scan it

* decode the microcode encryption

* figure out how the hardware RNG works with the microcode (it's AES? ok.)

* and then analyzing the system of microcode and hardware for robustness and security.

Yeah, this is hand-wavey and probably incredibly implausible. But it seems like an interesting and challenging project or three.

[1] http://siliconzoo.org/tutorial.html
Definitely paranoia. If you want to believe NSA is spying trough your Intel system, they could do it trough vPro and not some RNG calculations. One might assume that NSA can easily tap into the built in VNC server[1] of the CPU.

[1] Computers with particular Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors enjoy the benefit of a VNC-compatible Server embedded directly onto the chip, enabling permanent remote access and control. A RealVNC collaboration with Intel's ground-breaking hardware has produced VNC Viewer Plus, able to connect even if the computer is powered off, or has no functioning operating system. http://www.vnc.com/products/viewerplus/
The most commonly used version is slightly better these days http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/03/18/http-archive-jqu...

Note the difference in version Steve found vs my comment (due to query strings etc., which will of course destroy caching)
That is equivalent to abolishing rule of law.

And leads to an immediate race to the bottom of human sentiments and emotions.

Feel free to google for "Gesundes Volksempfinden" (~"healthy people's perception"). The central pillar that allowed German jurists in the Third Reich to distort the existing law at will.

The German civil code has been changed often, but fundamentally it's the same now as it was in 1900. Pretty fascinating how it's now seeing the fourth totally different political system.
I love how an article complaining about linkbait ruining content marketing contains linkbait itself.
Let's just say that everyone is entitled to have a different opinion about what is sillier, ignoring the context of a question or deeming irrelevant an answer that is out of that context. Cheers!
The beauty of the NSL system and the NSA acting outside the constitution is that no matter what anyone says there is no way to prove any statement made about receiving or not an NSL. In fact it wouldn't surprise me that if the NSA wanted the data they could compel someone lower in the company and the CEO might never know. How do you prove you are NSA-free if you are the CEO of an American based company? Really the only thing statement that people would believe today is actually showing your NSL publicly and telling the NSA to stuff it. If you haven't been targeted (or someone in your organization was) there is no way to prove it.
the main argument of this page is "nsa can hack everything cuz google got hacked by the chinese"

yeah thanks for the tip, that's so insightful.
Its going to stop when you get a spine.

People like Snowden didnt ruin their lifes so you can avoid clicking links. For fucks sake, the least you can do is grow a pair of balls and exercise your god damn given freedom to do as you wish, stand up.
The only adult I know who is scared of dogs is from Pakistan. You are an adult, scared of dogs, and from a country that borders Pakistan. Is this racism or is it an observation based on fact?
"the tactic of the US government has been to attack and demonize whistleblowers as a means of distracting attention from their own exposed wrongdoing and destroying the credibility of the messenger so that everyone tunes out the message. That attempt will undoubtedly be made here."

looking back at all the articles recently published on HN about it, this has undoubtedly happened here as well in a sense.

My feeling is that people are already starting to somehow forget about the revelations by replacing them in their mind with the engaging story of a whistleblower on the run.
Do we need a new PDF reader?
I'm not satisfied with PDF readers specially on my linux machine and for academic work. Recently Mendeley and Readcube came to life but they focus on things other than the reader itself (Plus Readcube doesn't support Linux).

Are you satisfied with current readers? What are your needs?
No it's a good TN display. The contrast ratio and overall quality of the MBA TN display is miles ahead of most cheap TN displays - many of which are a pitiful 200:1. You can easily tell the difference between it and a cheap e.g. Acer laptop. http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6063/48121.png
"speaking against class privilege, now...",
"anybody talking against mass immigration...will easily be classified as 'hate speaker' too" - please cite a single law of any European country classifying those as hate speech. Up until then I'll say you are spouting utter rubbish.
I think that a common misconception of the current discussions is that people still expect NSA to obey some kind of law.

Never been to the US, but I grew up in a country trying to recover from a dictatorship, so I never believe that secret services have any law to obey.
Except those aren't privacy flaws. He's wrong about DDG setting cookies by default, the easter egg issue, affiliate revenue, and US law. He got so much wrong that I can't take the post seriously.
The Retina MacBook is effectively 1440x900 though, how is that straining to look at?
> First - if I cannot afford a treatment not getting it is not a choice.

The same is true in your system, substituting "afford" for whatever verb is better suited for your proposed system.

> Also the government should not leave R&D

Government leaving R&D to private sector(which is major source of funding even now, at least in the USA) would be the great decision. It will stop crowding out resources from private R&D, thus making R&D more effective and more beneficial to economy.

Patents are the separate issue. There is the flaw in your logic. Patents are government granted. You view them as undesirable, but your solution is even more government. However, the logical solution would be abolishing patents.