skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should do yourself a favor and follow this stuff very diligently, we are seeing the documented proof of the end of the illusion of American democracy and global freedom. We live now in a verified global police state under the NSA with no recourse against any of their abilities and a US executive branch that vehemently attacks anyone exposing their hegemony.

It is a sad state, that the world the conspiracy theorists have been crying wolf about for so long is now verified fact.
My prediction is that the kernel of the idea that will make GPG usable is to dispense with the idea of a single keypair, and instead build features that generate ephemeral keypairs on the fly. Make the system workable for users even if they don't understand what a keypair is. Some of what makes OTR effective can be implemented using PGP as the underlying cryptosystem.

When one suggests replacing OTR, one tends to get an earful about the importance of forward secrecy. I think forward secrecy is very important for systems in which there are extremely high-value keys that are "stationary targets". I think forward secrecy is less valuable in desktop applications, where the attacks that would cough up a persistent key would tend to be devastating to the whole cryptosystem anyways.

It's also worth saying that PGP isn't a particularly great cryptosystem. "Modern" PGP predates a lot of important stuff in crypto. But it's a very well studied cryptosystem.

There are strong cryptographers who are working on much, much better systems than PGP. The problem is that those systems will compete with amateur systems and the winner won't be chosen by security. At least with PGP, we know what we're getting.
> This seems like another argument for Basic Income.

Or another argument against minimum wage. Minimum wage gets increased as cost-of-living goes up (albeit with a large lag). That's good if you're the household bread-winner trying to live off a minimum wage job. It's bad if you're a kid looking for some spending money. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
global $urls;

Ok.
Part of the problem is that 'terrorist' is an ill defined word. Your stats are couched in rhetoric as a result. Everyone agrees on what a hammer is, or an AK-47, not so true on the term terrorist. Also, that term is used by many factions to describe various oppositional forces. Are those stats lumping together only the US Government's definition of terrorist, or is it a global standard somehow amalgamating all the various and disparate ideas of what a terrorist is? Looking at that link I see we are discussing terrorist as defined by "data from the Israeli foreign ministry." It's a very one-sided data argument.

Terrorist is a real term with a globally liquid definition. It makes it very difficult to discuss the topic with any sort of rational discourse.
I imagine you could do slightly better. Maybe from the edge of Siberia to the south of Spain, or Singapore to the north of Norway. Walking to London has a big obstacle in the way, the English Channel. I'm not sure how he intends to deal with that.

Edit: D'oh, you could probably do much better by ending at South Africa.
Dropping out is not the opposite of not graduating; you can continue trying to graduate for several years. The actual dropout rate is 7.4%: nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16
"Somehow I associate suits with either dishonest people who use them to try and project false integrity (salesmen, bankers, recruiters, etc.) or servants who are forced to wear them by their masters[1] (porters, security staff, heck in some city offices even the cleaners wore them)."

You associate it correctly in all cases. As somebody who's come to appreciate suits as a powerful tool, it's worth learning the game. Wear a suit to a car buying negotiation and save a few thousand dollars on your next car, or wear the "livery" of your company and find yourself promoted faster than if you don't. It's stupid, but most people are stupid.

(I've learned how to wear a suit without a tie, try and project a comfortable, casual, glamorous [bm]illionaire look, they almost never wear ties with their suits [1][2][3]

1 - http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/320x480/s_v/scowell_GL_15dec09_P...

2 - http://thenextweb.com/files/2010/11/branson2.jpg

3 - http://edition.cnn.com/video/business/2010/09/27/sesay.niger...
By "STEM fields" you mean "programming". Or do you know of many scientists, mathematicians, or engineers (real engineers, not programmers) who succeed without a formal education?
> and that margaret mead was basically a fraud? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Freeman

Did you even read your own linked articles?

Generally, Freeman's critique has not been accepted in the anthropological community. Several Samoan scholars who had been discontent with Mead's depiction of them as happy and sexually liberated thought that Freeman erred in the opposite direction [1]

Much like Mead's work, Freeman's account has been challenged as being ideologically driven to support his own theoretical viewpoint [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Freeman
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa

I don't claim that Margaret Mead was necessarily right. I'm not an anthropologist. But your own sources contradict what you're saying.
Given everything surrounding Snowden, I am in no position to doubt anything this man says.

He is the most honest speaking government employee I have ever seen.
Ditto. I learned that I didn't want to scrub toilets for the rest of my life!
Aren't you acting against the whole compost part then?

The point is to have bugs and so on decompose what's in the compost bin, as far as I know.
Getting a bank (i.e. money printing) license is probably the hardest thing to do in the developed world. The guys/families who got them must be the best adopted to the complexities of the modern society.
> They require too much of a lifestyle change which makes those programs seem inaccessible. Letting the sandwich shop down the road yell at teenagers for $4/hr is better than having teenagers go halfway across the state with Job Corps.

A lot of these kids need exactly that - a change of environment. I have a second cousin whose mother is always getting fired from minimum wage jobs, is constantly getting kicked out of apartments, and couldn't provide him with a stable home life. His dad is long gone.

Job Corps provided him with a place to stay, training, and a job. But the best part of it was that he had to move an hour and a half away, close enough to visit but far enough where he wouldn't be distracted by all the trouble in our crime-ridden and poverty stricken city. They also teach personal skills and things like money management.

If you don't get the kid out of the ghetto, you'll have trouble getting the ghetto out of the kid.
Website won't load for me. Here's Google's cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8A_6A_v...
It's my understanding he was a systems and/or network administrator. We've always got the keys to the systems.
The tutorial makes no mention of sub-keys. I thought using sub-keys was a generally accepted good practice? The use-case being that if the sub-key is compromised, you can invalidate it and issue a new one -- and others who trust the root don't need to update much.

Is that still the case? Was it ever? I don't know enough about PGP to know, unfortunately.
Obviously the existence of a handful of women leaders means sexism is dead, men and women are completely equal, and feminism has warped into an evil movement bent on making men social pariahs.
It never once asks what the truth is

At least one more time than what you point out, a more significant time really, did one of the participants raise the question of what the truth is too:

"But whether they’re actual stories or fictional stories is really... remains to be determined. But they, they are telling us stories."

But yeah, it was a piece about PR and how it's done.

Peter Sandman is clearly very good at it. I was somewhat surprised to see some hints that he was sympathetic to 'my' side -- he's the one that raised the question of whether the government was telling the truth above. But it also seems he's quite willing to work for whichever 'side' is paying him; I wonder if he ever would turn down a job because he thought he was doing evil, or if he just avoids thinking about which side is actually 'right', or promoting something harmful or helpful to humanity at large.
Yes, this is a great point, lack of investment opportunities is clearly what is holding back the middle class, not stagnant wages since the mid 70s in the face of dramatic cost of living increases.

The housing collapse was fun and all but it's 2013, we need to be finding new ways to increase financial risk for the failing consumer base.
Social Security numbers are old-fashioned and don't have check digits like ISBNs. They are issued in patterns, but what you are trying to land on is a Social Security number that you can reliably use.
Well, I guess a government agency, even if it's a spying agency, it's still a government agency. I think that hollywood has made a great job all these years, by making us believe that the NSA is somehow super-efficient and infallible. Works for scaring the crap out of your enemies!
Ha, yes - I learned that as well, among other things.
Very interesting thoughts. IMHO the basic income will have the opposite effect. A business may currently be able to find a loo cleaning employee for $X/h, but with a basic income that rate will go to say $5X/h.
> One of the things that falls out from that design is a hue and cry any time the suggestion of a bad influence of one person over another is possible.

Fear isn't the wish to be left alone by other people and it certainly isn't more prevalent in societies where what you describe as its cause (bad influence of one person over another) occurs less often (as you wrote).

Fear is caused by what we perceive as real and imminent threats. If we are told convincingly that certain threats are more "real" than they actually are (as with terrorism, which apparently justifies a trillion-dollar security theater), we will have this emotion more often, whether we are free or not.
It's becoming apparent that describing Snowden's role at the NSA as a "regular/vanilla" analyst, or system administrator (media/government narrative) is an imprecise understatement.

There was a NYT story a couple of days ago which claimed that he was a NSA-trained 'hacker', he self-described as a 'infrastructure analyst', and a long time ago as a 'wizard.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/us/resume-shows-snowden-ho...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Career

I know people who with just 'Analyst' as their titles have tech-PM'd MS Project implementations at large telco's, and others making stupid money in finance - it's also the title extraordinary spies are given in movies.
Is it standard procedure to land A320s in the Hudson? Prior to 2009, how likely do you think it would have been for someone to have programmed an autopilot with such a capability?

Do pilots typically glide unpowered 767s to landings at abandoned military airfields? (A result, incidentally, that could not be reproduced by other crews in simulators; are you sure it's the crews, and not inadequate programming? Still trust the computer?)

Are you willing to bet your life that the computer on a 737 that looked like this[1] could find its way to a safe landing?

As programmers, we should know better.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243_...
Here are a few things we know about the U.S. intelligence infrastructure:

* They couldn't find WMD in Iraq -- because they weren't there.

* They couldn't find bin Laden for 10 years.

* They thought Snowden was on a plane with Evo Morales -- and were wrong.

So, given these observations, I wouldn't be too surprised that one guy was able to get access. Like all big organizations, I'm sure the NSA & CIA have some amazing small groups capable to Bond-like performance.

But as a whole, they are probably a nightmare of incompetence. Therein lies the reason I'm not in favor of giving them Carte Blanche for domestic surveillance: they will fuck up on an epic scale with probability=1. It is only a matter of time until their infrastructure becomes a tool for some oppressive politician or bureaucrat. HUAAC 2.0.
I'm not thin and never will be. Even when I worked out 6 days a week for 2-3 hours a day, had a resting pulse of 46 and a body fat percentage under 10% I was still built like a square.

Ignore this claptrap. Find good rules that fit your body within the following guidelines:

1 - shoulder fit is important, nothing says you don't know how to dress yourself like bad shoulder fit. This works for T-shirts to tuxedos

2 - sleeve length is important

3 - find comfortable pants you look decent in, don't hide anything, just fit in them well. What you wear up top is far more important than what you wear on the bottom
In San Francisco, the most prominent sign at playgrounds is "Adults must be accompanied by children".
Why would it be a good thing for the Middle Class to participate in IPOs which are typically skewed against them? The IPO process is one in which you're usually buying into a company whose price has been bid up considerably (these are "Growth" stocks).

I think it's been proven that investors aren't adequately compensated for taking on "growth" risk. The risk premia attached to "growth" doesn't outperform passively owning the index over long periods of time.

Seems like all A16Z is trying to do is juice the IPO market for more liquidity (from dumb money middle class investors) so that they can have an easier time exiting when they're ready.
And likewise, how fuzzy a concept 'independent' is, when you start digging into it.

But, yes, everyone has an ideology, it is true. Even people on NPR. Even those with the most mainstream ideologies, where you don't even notice it's an ideology because it's just the status quo -- that's an ideology too.

If you think FAIR's analysis is biased by their ideology, that may be. (And to show that about someone requires, well, showing it, not just showing that they have an ideology, as everyone does)

But it seems a semantic stretch to claim they are not 'independent' because they are 'ideologically dependent on the progressive left' -- "ideologically dependent", what does that even mean?
Here in WA, Australia we have/had a local meshnet for quite a while and it ran for years. I can't remember the name of it (it was called WALocalNet or something) but it worked out quite well.
I think we're talking about different things. I meant my own organic waste bin, which gets emptied into the Green Bin: http://www.toronto.ca/greenbin/index.htm
I'm not sure Scott has the causation/correlation right on this, but the trend away from taking companies public is troubling. I don't think the regulation in this area is helping: Sarbanes Oxley is pretty draconian in its regulatory burden, and I view things like "sophisticated investor" requirements with deep distrust. I think they're an overly paternalistic solution to a non-existant problem, or one that should be non-existant if Social Security was maintained as the proper safety net retirement system it was intended to be. Enron wouldn't have been such a disaster if all of those people had a solid retirement from Social Security.

But I think there is something deeper and more structural than merely regulatory burden. Public companies suffer from the agency problem. When ownership is diffuse, that problem is more acute, and managers' interests more easily diverge from shareholders' interests. This is true regardless of the regulatory structure. That is to say, it's a fundamental economic problem rather than an artifact of whatever regulatory system is in place. One of the benefits of taking companies public later, if at all, is that ownership stays concentrated during a longer period and owners have much more concentrated influence on management.

There is another economic phenomenon in place, which is this: the economy is awash in capital and companies don't need public capital. When there are hedge funds with billions to throw around, and private equity companies who can engage in billion dollar transactions, why do companies need to turn to the public markets? If there is some profit to be made investing in the next Microsoft, and a private fund can swing the necessary size of investment, what purpose is there to resort to the public markets? Is it ever more efficient or more effective to supply a given amount of capital via the public markets instead of via some private investment Overregulation doesn't help this problem, but it's also ultimately an economic phenomenon. Concentration of wealth (there are a lot of new foreign oil/resources billionaires these days) means more private entities that can raise the kind of money that previously one could only raise in the public markets. Moreover, fewer opportunities for investment means that private funds can meet the underlying economy's need for capital, making public funding less relevant. Changing the regulatory structure isn't going to change that dynamic.
I love things like this. I generally work with JSON anyway when I'm doing one-off things like cron jobs, and I usually just keep my data in JSON flat files, so to have options like these really makes my life easier. Great job!
I'm all for differing viewpoints, but prospective watchers should know that Murray Rothbard considered Adam Smith an anti-capitalist proto-Marxist. He also had some very 'interesting' views on women's liberation, race, homosexuality, slavery, etc. etc.
I believe you missed pricing pressure.

If I'm selling apples, I'm selling them at whatever the market can bear. Beats me what that is. I label the price 1-for-a-dollar, and they sell out. So tomorrow I charge $2. And so on. There is no certain "price" -- price is something that's determined by the reaction of the buyers to the offers the sellers make.

That's the way it is with everything: food, rent, insurance, car repairs, drugs, services, and so forth. Everything is negotiable, and it's all dynamically determined. So if everybody in town now has an extra 10K -- or even if the poor people now have a lot more free cash, then my apple pricing experiment will yield a higher result. So I'll charge more. I'm not trying to screw over anybody, that's just the way pricing works.

The only thing you get with giving everybody a new floor for the amount of cash they have is a new floor for how much the cheapest items cost.

This is tricky to see at 5-10K, because our minds don't take into account the thousands of tiny transactions each person makes in a year and the very small amount of difference it would make with each one. So just pretend that it's 100K, or 500K. What would happen?

And that's just pricing pressure for purchasing. The same pressure would exist for employment, dramatically increasing unemployment.

It just doesn't do anything, except cause economic chaos, make all the dollar figures higher for everything, and increase unemployment. And punish those folks who don't want to participate in society. That's not a lot to be proud of.
Not really - a lot of composting is just so the compost stuff doesn't go in the trash. We empty the frozen bits out into our yard clippings container every couple of weeks, and then the waste management people pick that up alongside the garbage.
The real purpose of this order is probably because Executive Order 12472 (which established the National Communication System) has become quite out of date, particularly because that EO detailed telephone communications while this one details more general cyber-security issues.

The NCS was a department that was absorbed into the DHS and this EO effectively puts the NCS to an end.

See more:

http://www.dhs.gov/office-cybersecurity-and-communications

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Security_Divisio...

This EO is simply a formality, rather than some dangerous encroachment or commandeering of the internet's infrastructure.
Ask HN: why are there so many posts about American politics recently
I'm not American, and I feel that the recent flood of posts concerning American politics, especially all of this coverage of the NSA story, is not really relevant to the site. The submission guidelines say that "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." It also says: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." A few stories on the front page which I think are probably inappropriate are "Snowden Interview with Jacob Applebaum", “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book” , "Solicitation for US Propaganda Disruption Ideas", "Terrorists vs. Bathtubs", "White House gives Homeland Security control of communications in emergencies".

I only ask because I feel the quality of the front page was a lot better a few weeks ago before this whole NSA story broke. Does anyone else agree?

Thanks.
Just use the defaults
Oh sure, a lot of those kids definitely need the Job Corps. I wouldn't support discontinuing that program.

I'm just saying that the Job Corps isn't a great fit for all teenagers, and that all teenagers would benefit from working at any sort of job (and that a lower minimum wage for teenagers would facilitate this. I think that work for the sake of work is good for teenagers, but that minimum wage gets in the way of this).
Wouldn't this retard the composting?
Don't Ask Users to Bring the Beer
...and his project has already been banned from Facebook:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/100125012078853567494/posts/LS9V...
I imagine a huge number of people on Basic Income would just blow all the money on the first day of each month on drugs and frivolous consumer goods. That said, I do think society has an obligation to provide a basic guarantee of life's needs: education, food and income, and health care. There is only so much society or any individual can do for someone if they, given the tools and opportunity, choose to waste it.
Where are the young black kids in tech? Blacks of any age are sorely under-represented in tech. So are Latinos, although not quite as bad. It's a very white (and Asian/Indian) world we live in.

I'm so glad to see things like Black Girls Code. These kids need mentors that aren't sports stars, or music stars. Oddly enough, music is one industry I always remember running into a lot of black people in - Macs and ProTools used in music production.
"No, I don't know how...."

A lot of these same Americans are betting on football and in NCAA pools, play poker, drank when they were underage and likely have underage kids who drink now.

So if you want them to wake up, it must be driven home over, and over and over, and over again, that these are the kinds of activities that could result in a SWAT team breaking down their doors, and maybe them or their good friends getting shot.

I think the main obstacle will be an unwillingness to comprehend that things have really gotten this bad.
IMHO GDP, dollars, etc. have nothing to do with this problem. Currently there is a huge overproduction of food, clothes, shoes, etc. for the US citizen. All that huge ads industry is only there to force people to eat more, throw out their perfectly good clothes, shoes, cars, phones, etc. because of fashion. It's no problem really to meat the needs of additional people in case a basic income produces those.
Today aren't they just going to look up your license number in a database and compare info? Or is that not done, even for birth certificates?
(Maybe silly) question: if we're talking about the node implementation, why use this over mongodb?
Question for anyone with media/newsroom experience:

How does CNN get exclusive access to an amateur video like this? What process was in place such that this didn't end up on YouTube first?
Thanks for the clear explanation. It annoys me when people assume that any observation of aligned interests is an allegation of conspiracy.