skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pull request for a privacy policy
Yes, but to be Orwellian the self-censorship must be borne out of government intimidation. In this case the government hasn't intimidated anyone, we were just leaked information.

Unless you want to argue that Snowden intentionally leaked the PRISM slides so that society would be intimidated by the governments reach, thus giving way to society censoring itself without them having to publicly punish people that were guilty of thought crimes. But that's getting into Alex Jones territory.
Coming soon! (But not today.)
A fellow cmus user here, I can only second the awesomeness of it and encougrage everyone interested in client-side music playback to try it out.
HN is a great channel. You don't have to submit links onto the home page to have an impact. Answering a question with a helpful link to a blog post can be almost as impactful.

Journalists are hungry for content, and so are your fellow bloggers. Just find people you vibe with and develop a relationship. Don't slam them with "you should love me cuz I'm awesome". Hit'em with something you care about that may be entirely unrelated to what you're doing.

Network; introduce your friends to reporters, ask the people you know for connections in media. Take time, build a succinct, pretty splash page and have a clear call to action.

No silver bullets, only lots of lead.
some businesses, it makes the difference, like re-selling bandwidth or co-lo; the margin I get on that sort of thing is usually between 10-50% so if I negotiate badly from my supplier, yeah, I'm losing money on the deal (or charging above-market rates, which considering that I'm bad at negotiation, means I'm losing even more money because the space sits empty.) - usually you have to get commercial style leases on those resources, too... and so you have all the problems of commercial leases 'Oh,' the landlord says 'you are doing well... now that your lease is up, of course, the market rates have gone up!' even if there are empty units on either side of you.

So yeah, for co-lo? it makes all the difference in the world.

Other things, like VPSs? it's just a matter of profitability... the margins on VPSs are pretty good if you don't count labor, so it'd be a matter of just not raising my bandwidth quotas like I ought and maybe spending more money on hardware.

Sometimes, there are two substitute products, one where it's traditional to negotiate, and one where it isn't... for instance, if you buy pre-assembled servers? if you aren't getting 50% off list price, you are getting it in the shorts. But, if you are buying the parts used to build said servers? generally speaking, the lowest price on the internet is pretty close to the real lowest price.

This is the primary reason why I do my own assembly; assembling computers is way easier than negotiating Dell down to a reasonable price.

So yeah; this is starting to shape what businesses I want to get into. I mean, co-location only has margin if you own the building. (I'm working on that part, but I don't have an ETA.) - so yeah, if the 'owning the building' deal doesn't work out... well, I'm not going to dump existing customers, but I am not taking more at the moment.
I always thought Magnus was a better candidate than Bacon. But Lynn Thorndike said it wasn't; so that was pretty much the end of that.
You may be right that they have no worthwhile point of view and I don't think I know anyone who actually "buys into their crap".

But the idea of somehow avoiding ever encountering a certain point of view on the global internet is even more stupid.
Where beets are grown in MN and ND is actually some of the best land in the country. Sugar beet subsidies are an even bigger boondoggle than corn. As the beet welfare queens retire or die off their land is generally bought out by a larger concern and switched over to another cash crop like GMO free soybeans for the Japanese market.
My political ideals happen to align closely with the Founding Fathers, and I've been vocal enough about that to assume that if the feds care, they already know. So I just don't really care what they know about me anymore. If it comes to the point that it looks like they might start rounding up people like me, I'll flee the country, like a German Jew ideally would have in 1930s Germany. If it doesn't come to that point, it doesn't really matter what they know about me.
Weird. I find glib quite readable: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/
A longer excerpt from the same email list:

http://cryptome.org/2013/07/intel-bed-nsa.htm
Did they say which software was used? Was it EnCase? (Edit: Turns out it was cellbrite. They likely had EnCase for general forensics, at $3k, and cellbrite is another $8k, for phone-specific forensics).

I find it a little disturbing that the choice of software, and particularly the cost of it, can mean the difference between going to prison or not.

In this case, the undiscovered files included someone with a "black hand" holding a gun, text messages related to acquiring a gun, and some kind of marijuana product. None of those are relevant to the case, but do trigger prejudice or emotional responses, so it's probably good that they were left out.

In another case, those might be pictures of a murder victim or some other critical evidence (of either guilt or innocence). It seems pretty unfair that accused with a public defender doesn't generally have access to this.
Exactly. Which reinforces the opposite of the grandparent of this comment. As usually happens, the problem is that somebody is using guns to force other people to do things in a non-rational way.
> Food is plentiful and cheap, so Americans devour it incessantly.

This isn't really the case.

The problem is that the processed food we are creating is so abnormal, our bodies simply don't know how to respond to it. The overwhelming amount of health issues that we are experiencing as a nation is a direct result of this.

Your body has pre-configured "stop" signals based on volume and how full your stomach is. The processed foods are so dense in sugars and calories, your body responds improperly, and as a result, people "over eat".

If we revert to eating things that we can actually identify the contents of, you'll find that we will very quickly stop over eating.
no, he was fired for making the state attorney look bad.
http://www.hostedgraphite.com - exactly what it sounds like.

(For those who don't know what Graphite is, it's a popular open source tool for recording and graphing metrics, typically server and app performance stuff)
https://paste.sh/v03bdePB#O9LNWj3DJ2SKDKD2B8tdR0Oc
It depends entirely on where it's added.

If it is added where it will directly translate to demand (e.g. eliminating payroll tax) then you will get more spending, which will cause businesses to hire, take on loans to meet the new demand. At some point if you keep adding, you will surpass the ability of the market to absorb the demand and you will get inflation.

If it is added on top of already flush corporate balance sheets (e.g. eliminating corporate taxes), then you most likely won't see much difference in the current environment. They won't use it to hire more people because the demand isn't there.

Loans in and of themselves don't add net dollars to the private sector, as they create a liability for the exact amount of the loan (plus interest). For the domestic private sector to experience a net increase in financial assets, either the sovereign government (whoever's name is on the money) or the foreign sector must increase its deficit.
Hope you dont mind me butting in, but this does not feel like a question that will get many answers - which is a shame. Sadly you get mine.

Don't think of marketing as something you do to a product after it is finished. You are after the perfect product/market fit. Which means changing your product to be "something people want". But it also means it must have your stamp, your personality or ethos shining through. Otherwise all you are doing is pivoting soullessly till someone pays.

So if there is any advice here it's - build something people want and make sure it is easily discoverable by thos people.

So you seem to be building a "website about college and colleges". So lets guess its about the "hidden" parts of each college - best burger bars in walking distance, why the electrical engineering department is off campus those things.

It sounds like its a publishing issue not a technical issue - are you providing cool Medium-style blogging (not on Facebook) for Freshers on campuses nationwide, then getting the best to bubble up? If so almost all your marketing is defined in that paragraph

But I am wondering off course - please this sounds a bit more like reaching out for "help bit lost business plan - wise". For which is a common complaint and carries no shame.

So tell us more - if we pass back maybe a comment or two will inspire something
I wonder if right now we could replace the word "Iranian" with "US" and it would still be true?
I'm not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. It seems to me to be on par in terms of quality with the rest of the thread.

Sure, there's no hard evidence given with any assertion, but there aren't really in the immediate ancestors either. This just seems to be an unpopular view, but I think that it's better to offer a counterargument than to downvote in that case, especially since downvoting visually deemphasizes the comment, which surely leads to fewer people reading it. To me, that outcome doesn't seem justified for this comment.
There was a lot more follow-up later, see e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/5/422

The important commit here is:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

Excerpted:

Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it
is avaiable.

The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if
it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware
manufacturer to have not put in a back door. (For example, an
increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.)

It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US
Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise
--- especially since Bull Mountain is documented to use AES as a
whitener. Hence, the output of an evil, trojan-horse version of
RDRAND is statistically indistinguishable from an RDRAND implemented
to the specifications claimed by Intel. Short of using a tunnelling
electronic microscope to reverse engineer an Ivy Bridge chip and
disassembling and analyzing the CPU microcode, there's no way for us
to tell for sure.
> The whole idea of democracy is that there is no "top level" of authority.

Not true in any practical sense. If the government physically does something to me (like surveils me, arrests me, evicts me, etc.) I don't get to vote my way out of it. They are the top level of authority in any meaningful sense.
How about another name? Raka means ""Moon in the Sky" ('Aakasher Chand') in Bengali language." according to wiki. Ok, nice word but not easily accessible to Americans.
Maybe "Sheets" is an inventory thing. But it means nothing to me. How about EasyInventory.
I'd be interested in knowing what idea you had when registering textjs.com
From 2008-2011:

- Average price of raw sugar, world market: $492.8 per tonne

- Average price of HFCS-55, US market: $528.1 per tonne (HFCS-55 has equivalent sweetness to sucrose.)

Sugar vs. HFCS is a natural experiment. Americans are the experimental group, and the rest of the world is the control group. In non-OECD countries, HFCS has less than 1% market share. Why would you pay more money for an inferior product?

And remember -- the price of high-fructose corn syrup includes subsidies. In a free market, with no corn subsidies and no sugar tariffs, HFCS would be at an even greater price disadvantage.

Source: OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook, 2011-2020, p. 132. http://www.oecd.org/site/oecd-faoagriculturaloutlook/4818429...
A perhaps bad analogy: what if this were DNA evidence? Does the defense and prosecution both need to do their own analysis of a sample? Or does the data found by the prosecution automatically get shared to the defense?
We started http://wpoven.com , 2 weeks back , first signup was 3 days in.

We never did any launch page, pre launch advertising ( actually a mistake) etc. But we own some other sites where we placed our banners. A one to one chat helped us secure our first client.
Interesting :) I was about to ask what are the typical use cases for this, but then I noticed the quite prominent 'Use Cases' menu link.
A lot of governments intervene in their currency to target an exchange rate (eg: Swiss). I don't see a lot of people flocking to frontrun them. It's volatile and risky. Sure traders do it, but not 'people' as in 'the people'.

Governments also won't care about losing money when taking strategic action to protect their seignorage and inflation tax racket.

Maybe the boom/bust wouldn't matter too much. It depends on how people see bitcoin. Are they trying to save in it? Anyone trying to save in bitcoin is delusional given its infancy and volatility. A better description would be some people are trying to speculate in it. For similar reasons, people won't use it as a unit of account.

If people use it as a medium of exchange then volatility won't be of as much concern. If you need to make a trade in BTC then obtain the BTC and trade your item quickly. Given there would be spreads to pay on each trade in and out of BTC then it doesn't seem that likely a strategy unless people wrongly think of BTC as anonymous and are 'hehe, the man have no idea i'm ordering this off silkroad'.

What is interesting is that BTC is not a sovereign currency. So say BTC takes off in Russia and Putin decides to smash it: Does he need to think of the American's reaction if he does? Any country in the world - or any entity big enough (a corporation, a multi billionaire) could decide to cause mischief without it being considered an act of war - which say if China decided to sell 1 trillion of US treasuries might be construed as.
Thanks! Your experience is pretty common, actually. I email everyone who cancels and ask them for feedback, and the vast majority say they liked the show but didn't have time to watch any more. That's probably the main thing I'll try to figure out when I start looking at improving my churn rate.

(Although I have no idea where to begin. Any ideas?)
The analogy I would have is with one's relationship to body image.

If you are saying to others constantly, "am I pretty?" not only is their feedback never going to be satisfying, it's not accurate because you aren't sure what might actually be wrong with your appearance, and they, being caught in a mix of politeness and low interest, are most likely to say something vague and positive like "you're fine, you look great."

On the other hand, if "looking better" is an internally driven problem, you already have some conceptions of how to proceed and the feedback is just one of several yardsticks - the actions you take being the primary means of tracking progress. But you have to come up with your own strategy to quell your anxiety and find some internal drive. And that's where balance as a person comes in - it stops you from obsessing over the wrong things.

And there's a sort of progression of maturity in understanding how to deal with feedback, too: At first you are too naive to pay attention to feedback. Then you become hyper-aware of it like a teenager. Finally, you've developed your internal systems, so you can use it as a complementary mechanism.
I agree that the crush scenaro wouldn't work, but you didn't specifically mention one important reason.

Every time the value dropped, people who have the intention to actually hold onto the currency and prop it up would but up lots of it _and hold onto it_, and it would be cheap to do so at that point.

So the pool of liquid bitcoin the government could work with would keep shrinking drastically.

I believe it's the case that the vast majority of bitcoin are not "on the market," they're being held for the long run.
I don't know a ton about your industry, but why can't you spend $20 per customer? I can't imagine your clv is lower than that. Or are you saying you wish you only had to spend that much?
Hoping to launch http://protocases.com soon - it's a site that allows users to design iPhone cases for 3D printing with an editor, templates or uploading an image.
It's not just dancing though. I dance as well, and sometimes people tell me to stop, but I frankly don't care about those people. If you want to dance, dance. If you want to sing, sing. If you want to program, program. And frankly, I used to dance horribly in the beginning.
So this is logic that more or less rules out all hardware encryption, including HSMs, right?
In UIKit it is very easy to create situations where you have subviews with the same frame as their superview, and this can nest a few levels deep. I work on an app that has a very complex view hierarchy and I always find myself in the 3d view because what I need to inspect is rarely the front-most view in the hierarchy.
JavaScript is single threaded you will never get a good smooth UI. Maybe in the future there could be more support for a "UI-thread" and background tasks but for now that's how it is. Android UI framework is basically a copy of Java/Swing where you have single UI thread that does all the painting and event handling. As a developer you have two basic rules for making a smooth UI 1) don't block the UI thread -- create background task for IO, heave code, ect... 2) don't call UI framework from non-UI thread.
If you're referring to core.async specifically, keep in mind it's very new. Its readme[1] goes as far as to say, "This library is work-in-progress, experimental, broken etc. It should only be used by people working on it, ATM." With more maturity will surely come more examples and tutorials.

But if you mean Clojure(Script) in general, I kind of agree. There are some beginner friendly tutorials; lately Andrew Brehaut's intro to the Clojure web stack[2] has been smooth going for me, despite being a bit dated. But you have to look around. In particular, I've found the small-scale mechanics of the language easy to pick up via Clojure Koans[3], 4clojure[4], and ClojureDocs[5]. What's missing the most IMHO is approachable introductions to the big-picture concepts. Especially the less generically lispy, more Clojure-specific parts, concerned with concurrency and state. (I hear the book Clojure Programming by Emerick et al. is good for that... have yet to read.)

I kind of understand Clojure not being easy or quick to learn, because powerful tools take time to master. But even with that said, it could be better. When I get confident with Clojure I hope to be part of a new wave of Clojurists who write really beginner-friendly tutorials :) I think it won't be the "gurus" who write them, but regular joes/janes like you and me for whom the initial difficulty of this stuff is still a fresh memory.

[1] https://github.com/clojure/core.async

[2] http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction

[3] https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans

[4] http://4clojure.com/

[5] http://clojuredocs.org/
Will do, thanks! I actually have something major lined up for next week, to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the series. I'll let you know when it's up.
>violated public records law for retaining documents,

I doubt that. Most public records laws I have ever seen explicitly state that if you are a State employee and you have documents which you know to be germane to an ongoing criminal investigation that they must not be destroyed, and that knowingly destroying documents in such a case is an offense.
The NSA, working with IBM, also made DES more resistent to differential cryptanalysis, which was not widely understood at the time.
I bootstrapped a $10 million company and need serious help
Two years ago I started Social Print Studio as a little design company. We have been able to make a name for ourselves in the world of photo printing. We have many repeat customers, some large corporate clients, and growing six-figure monthly revenues. Things are going well and we have a strategy to compete directly with major players the field and really take the company to the next level. Problem is that we turn down massive opportunities everyday and executing our strategy has been a huge problem due to our lack of technical and managerial skills.

We are just a group of friends who got in over our heads. We have no network and are having trouble scaling. We are looking for a CTO or solid lead web engineer, someone with solid marketing experience, and maybe even a new CEO. We want to grow this thing huge, are ready to make bold moves, and we want to have the right experience on the team so we can do things right. Craigslist recruiting is not cutting it.

This is our cry for help. If you want to come work with us to build and grow the company 10-100x in the next couple years... Whether you are an engineer, designer, marketeer, or know someone who is... please get in touch. Now is the time, we have some amazing opportunities and really want to push amazing work.

please get in touch directly:
Ben@socialprintstudio.com
@benjaminlotan on twitter

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I started using OneTab after seeing the post on HN, and I gotta admit that it has been really useful. Thanks for making it!
Or display any compressed image, or even download compressed javascript that you aren't going to run. A number of exploits that malwaredomains.com finds are objects that are either normally or optionally compressed, and constructed in such a way to exploit an issue with the decompression software used.

If I'm both curious and suspicious (so in my most tin-hatish of moods) I fire up a virtualbox instance with a clean image, look at the site, and then delete that virtual machine image. That seems to also have an unintended prophylactic effect since virus investigators like to run viruses in VMs so malicious payloads don't fire if they detect they are running in a VM (at least according to the F-secure blog).

But either way, my point was that just visiting a site that wants to get you is a risk, whether or not you think you are protected.
If the analysis is going to be submitted as evidence or testimony, then yes I believe they must share the results.
But you were focusing on a single style. You can finish a single college course in less than 2 weeks, but the entire curricullum will take you at least a year.
so that is pasting the key within the url? so when you contact a page anyone sniffing the net knows the key? are you serious?
High-fructose corn syrup and ethanol, with increasing push back against farm subsidies due to tax payers and trade agreements, these are the loopholes used.

I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the single biggest change I have made is avoiding products with hfcs, going very well and lost 30 pounds.
Wow, that looks like a title you'd see on /r/nottheonion
How it should be done everywhere. So many things about your project impress me.
Adam Langley's Pond: Secure Async Messaging
I think you misunderstood. The implication was he "violated public records law for retaining documents" by destroying documents.

The relevant paragraph is,

Peek's letter contends that on May 24, Kruidbos wiped clean the information on a computer assigned to him, thereby violating public records law.
5 hours a day for a year does still boil down to 2k of those hours, 8 hours would bring you close to 3k.
If it was as fluid as up-voting posts on HN, maybe it could? If for even every minor decision you could vote directly or pass your vote to a representative (who could either vote for all collected votes or pass them forward to another representative), then maybe this kind of fluid, real-time changing network democracy could work?

I have no clues about potential issues or failure modes of this, but the concept is interesting and - I think - worth discussion.
>Is this really the point we've reached?

We've been here for a long, long time; the technology and laws have finally made it easy enough to do on a world-scale.
BYTE was special, but I also miss Creative Computing.