skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poll: Do you encrypt your email?
I'd like to, but I don't know how.
I'd like to, but it's too much trouble.
I'd like to, but the people I email don't know how to (or won't) use encryption.
I'd like to, but I'm afraid I'll be targeted if I do.
I don't, because I have nothing to hide.
I don't, because the content of my email is just not that important.
I used to encrypt my email, but I don't anymore.
I occasionally encrypt some of my email.
I only encrypt work-related email.
I regularly encrypt most, but not all of my email.
I encrypt all of my email.
I don't use email.
Some similarities to the EFF's proposed 'Sovereign Keys' system:

https://www.eff.org/sovereign-keys
'Eluding' is a verb which means 'evading', so I don't know why it would be used here.

'Alluding' means 'making oblique reference to', which seems to convey the intended meaning.
When HN gets in the way
Are we really moving to a space where always listening devices are going to be common? If so they might be taking their first step at the wrongest possible time (Ongoing NSA paranoia).

Everyone is throwing the Xbox One under a bus for having a always listening device, I wonder how receptive those same people would be to this, especially if it gets added to the core functionality of Android.
> I failed to see a reason behind this movement

sysvinit -> systemd = IE5 -> Chrome.

Sure, you can browse the web with IE5; if all your favourite sites work with it and they aren't changing, then you wouldn't see any reason to change either.

Meanwhile, a fairly significant number of people would like to be able to use the features in CSS3 / HTML5 - and while 75% of those features can be emulated in IE5 (with several megabytes of javascript libraries and terrible performance), life is easier and better all round if the users upgrade their foundations once in a while.

> BSD comes up and say this is not portable

systemd doesn't care about the kernel per se, only which features it provides. If they want to provide a cgroups-like API (which they should, because it's a great idea in and of itself), then I expect systemd will be ported to it fairly quickly.
There's value in declaring hairball bankruptcy, though. The world changes. Complexity can grow non-linearly, and assumptions valid in one context can rapidly change.
That's irrelevant. It's evident that, based on the ridiculous ads that some sites employ (auto-playing videos, those absurd scroll-by ads, etc.) that a lot of companies are willing to drastically degrade their user experience to profit. Who's to say that companies won't take 10% of your CPU, or 20%? Let's universalize this practice. 1% CPU usage in each of 25 tabs begins to seriously degrade the experience and waste tremendous amounts of battery life.

In fact, I'd say that it's only financially tenable to hijack larger proportions of one's CPU. In order for access to 1% CPU usage of an entire site's user base to be economical compared to cloud computing options, this form of computation would either need to be ridiculously cheap or offer a massive user base with untold devices in the computing apparatus. It just doesn't make sense in most scenarios.
So when you said that ordinary people should have more money, because they will spend that money and create jobs, thus improving the lives of the lower class, you want it understood that it is in no way a trickle down effect. Am I getting that right?

Illuminati -> Bankers -> CEO's -> Multimillionaires -> ordinary folk -> Lowerclass -> Homeless

You want money to go to the ordinary folk right? They will create more jobs, because they spend the money, the create the cash flow and...

Ok that still sounds like the lower class are hosed.

My friend, you can call me incompetent all you want. I believe you have spent much time mulling over your ideas, like anyone who gives a damn about politics. However the conclusions you reached, that you feel are obvious, may be flawed in some rather significant ways. You may be making Logical jumps I am unwilling to make. It is not obvious how this strategy of pooling money into an arbitrary bracket of our respective cultures will improve the lives of anyone but that arbitrary bracket. You have failed to convince me.

Two options then, try again as I remain receptive to these ideas. Or not.
Importing CSS to Sass Vs Renaming CSS to SCSS
There is a new plugin for importing CSS to Sass(http://goo.gl/WLtGS), and this blog(http://goo.gl/f7dqq) explains the usage in details... Does this plugin worth installing/using or changing the extension from .css to .scss does the trick ?
But it does, potentially, prevent my laptop CPU from sleeping and uses battery time.
I do not like that they are creating a new API which is harder to use (see the example from Tim at Google) while the kernel policy also means that these to interfaces will have to be maintained forever (or almost forever). I cannot see how this will simplify the internal code.
The American cloud - America's artificial heartland
Unfortunately, Beatport are the worst for surcharges on WAVs.
Business Success Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From PSY Gangnam Style
I would love to - there's a lot to be learned from such experiences. Unfortunately, I would not feel comfortable doing so without approval from the founders - even remaining nameless.

Internally, we have been reluctant to admit that the product has failed (despite it being shut down and pulled from the app store). We have not discussed the product since we shut it down. We have not looked at what worked and what didn't work. We have not analyzed why it failed. Instead, we've chosen to blaze forward, focusing on our next launch.
1. Hask has Haskell types as objects, and functions between them as morphisms. "a" is a type, "b" is a type, and "a -> b" is an arrow between them.

2. Haskell cannot model (the entirety of) category theory. Everything in Haskell is in Hask, and the only way to get to an entirely different category (say Set) is on paper. This great talk gives some insight into the issue: https://vimeo.com/67174266
https://github.com/ben-eysenbach/do_good/blob/master/do_good...

jQuery is an unneeded dependency.

There are only 2 things done with jquery:
- a domready handler
- ajax request

Could be done with 2 smaller functions and not with an full-blown framework.
Yeah, the article is kind of sloppily organized and laid out. Here's the main message I got from the article:

In online advertising you want to measure your success through the rate of causal events, i.e. I advertised to someone and he converted (e.g. bought a product) because he saw the ad. Many advertisers use a correlative proxy for this by looking at how many products they are selling vs how much they are advertising (I advertised more and sold more, so my advertising is effective). The problem is there is a confounding factor that is unrelated to the effectiveness of an ad that causes people to both see more ads and buy more of your product, called the activity bias. The more actively people are surfing the internet at any given time, the more ads they will see, but also the more shopping they would have done anyway. In other words, a lot of the increase in sales are not being cause BY the ads, but for the same reason there are more ads being shown.

The solution is a control group of people who are never shown an ad. During higher-activity times both the control group and the in-group will be purchasing more products, but if an ad is truly effective the in-group should be purchasing even more than the control group. Without the control you can't measure effectiveness because you don't have a ground truth.
Unfortunately, a billion minus one is still a large number. Thus, the penalty for annoying individual users is pretty much nothing unless it turns into bad PR.
> In between those extremes you present, there are the huge number of people who at one point or other does something that might make them blackmail targets if some future administration needs something from them, their family, their friends or their employer, or that have carried out any kind of activism or political or religious activity that might brand them in the future.

Well, you say this as if actually doing any of these things would be necessary to end up on the hit-list of a future tyranny.

You yourself provide the clues that NSA surveillance is not necessary, however. Do you think everyone caught up in McCarthy's witchhunt was really a Communist? Stuff like storage of Internet data here would be a 'nice-to-have' for a future tyranny, but not at all a requirement.

The stuff that I do have to hide I don't let on the Internet unprotected, but it's because I don't trust the ISP or the web service that would hold the data, not because I'm worried about NSA.

Our modern deep-connected life is already a despot's wet dream, just ask Aaron Hernandez, who was caught completely without need for NSA involvement.

I do think you're 100% right with indefinite data storage being the concern. However if data storage of some form is implemented, it's probably way better (from a future dystopia POV) that they focus on retaining all-of-the-Internet for a short amount of time, rather than interesting-parts-of-the-Internet indefinitely.
Is a modern browser necessary for browsing HTML5 websites, or can you just write your own parsing / rendering / interaction engines in IE5-compatible javascript?
The problem with the "creepy guy" narrative is that the really bad men out there aren't the ones who bear the brunt of the nastiness.

The guy he described wasn't a traditional "creepy guy", but a macho alpha male. Different breed. The latter carries the sense of entitlement and swagger because, on its own terms, that approach works. Many women respond positively to it
(which does not make it right, because plenty of women don't). He's an arrogant jerk because he's gotten away with it for a long time.

The issue with that whole stigma is that there are some really bad men out there-- for whom that repulsion is justified-- but the guys who get the "creepy" treatment are the socially awkward men with average intentions. The fact that so many bad men get rewarded (at least in high school and college) makes the whole thing worse.
These are some very enlightening points.

One of the things that I love most about software is how it might end up being used completely different than originally intended. When Kevin Systrom and his team started building Instagram, I bet that they didn't intend to provide a makeshift online marketplace for the people of Kuwait.
To call this a "a very very long video about "why you shouldn't use TrueCrypt hidden volumes"" is not accurate and does not do justice to a very interesting talk.

First, Part 1 is only 1 hour and 17 minutes long (though perhaps it felt much longer to you).

Second, while the subject of TrueCrypt comes up a couple of times in the Q&A period, it's not the main subject of the talk. The talk is about privacy, anonymity, surveillance, and what can be done about them.

I highly recommend watching this video, especially for people who might not be up to date on all the latest privacy-enhancing technology or who might not be very aware of how much digital surveillance there is these days. Even if you do know about these things, it's still interesting to hear an intelligent, articulate presentation about them.
It's like what he's writing seems so obvious, and the essay puts this seemingly obvious information out there for everyone to know.
> We have not looked at what worked and what didn't work. We have not analyzed why it failed. Instead, we've chosen to blaze forward, focusing on our next launch.

Ahem...That sounds... ominous. Why not spend at least a lunch with a basic analysis? Use a fishbone. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_03.htm
This worked well for us at Close.io <http://close.io.>

We had a couple "soft launches" - one where we put up our first email-collecting landing page and invited some people we knew to use the service (Sept '12). Another where we turned on self-signup on our website and invited more people (Nov '12).

Then after a couple months we had some solid active users and a small number of customers, we were also able to get 2-3 good press articles in the same week, which we now consider our official launch (Jan '13).

I think it's good advice to just keep "launching" until somebody notices :)
> So, what parts of high school do you want to throw out?

Most of the traditional English courses, on the grounds that they're nearly always taught badly and have become jokes even in otherwise good schools.

Replace them with sections in the Adult Living course that teach how to do close reading on advertisements and contracts. The best, most practical part of a good English course is the close reading training, but it really needs to be applied to something practical, as opposed to languishing in a course most students and teachers don't take very seriously.

I don't care if eighteen-year-olds never read Hawthorne again if it means fewer of them get ripped off by unfair contracts or suckered by misleading ads.

Shop class should be folded into Adult Living in its entirety, and the 'make a birdhouse' stuff should be de-emphasized and replaced with 'fixing your toilet' and similar household maintenance tasks. Learning how to use a band saw is great, but other things are more important.

Beyond that, it would have to depend on what the individual school was doing and doing badly. There are general tropes but schools have a lot of local or at least state-wide autonomy, even public schools.
>hang on, sir/madam. who the hell are you to judge what is art and what is not?

I'm a European. We're not very populist in this here parts. We are judgemental, and we have standards.

They might be flexible, human created standards, that not everybody agrees with, but they are standards nonetheless. Society never knew any other kind of standards, anyway.

E.g we do get to judge that eating Nachos and watching BS TV serials for hours on end is "living like a pig".

>perhaps you would like to be in the censorship and regulation department that will decide whether or not something is art and whether or not something is of "value"?

No need. That's also what critics and cultures do.

You, for example, have adopted wholesale the idea of YOUR culture, that everything is just as good, and it's all a matter of personal taste.

Which is as much a value judgement as any other.
What is it with HN and the negativity in the comments, it's an interesting topic to have a civilized discussion, no to dismiss altogether.
Your email. Reimagined.
PG, I'm curious if you have any data among your startups that tests user recruitment methods. For instance, maybe you've seen that Reddit is great for gaining users in consumer startups but cold calling is great for B2B startups.

I think the biggest difficulty non-"famous" hackers face in user recruitment is it's hard to figure out where and how to successfully do it.
Hi, organizer of The Open Bundle here! Thanks for submitting our campaign to HN. We just reached our "public domain release" goal half an hour ago, hopefully this will lead to more indies aiming to earn money by opening their works.
Try doing that reliably with loads of workers and cgi scripts. Maybe possible at one point, but systemd does that reliably by default.
Haven't attended but really want to. One thing I wonder about the boot camps vs. teaching myself is: Even if I'm able to reach a level of proficiency equal to that of, say, a Dev Bootcamp grad, would I be able to find a job?

Graduates of these programs seem to be 'in' and can get hired much more easily. For a relative beginner learning to code, that's a great place to be and, I think, part of the value of a boot camp. My assumption is that a similarly skilled, self-taught newbie will have a harder time getting looked at by the same employers.

Maybe someone can comment on this as well.
You should find a company that values your talents. All of them.
No, the first sentence says that it’s an “introduction to Haskell monads derived from a categorical perspective.” Big difference.
Does the fact the his avatar is fluttershy kind of ruin his credibility to anyone else?
No, the only topic the article mentions is "security and power and technology".

How can a suggestion for a research topic be "fictitious"?
Ask HN: more automation or integration in Email
Like a number of other companies we are building a product around email handeling,
especially for people interacting with customers ...

question is : what would provide more value ?

- saving 20% effort by auto qualifying email (doing a better job tracking conversations)

- allowing for an email client to (better)integrate with ERP tools ... saving time in looking up data

what would you prefer and why ?
Could you tell me a little bit more about you guys? Like, what do you do? Why should I give you my phone number? Why not just get an email?
Robert Scoble: This will blow away your mobile email client
Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much.

I agree with you. If someone (male or female) were writing about an interaction with the genders reversed, you probably wouldn't hear anything about how good-looking the guy was or what he was wearing.

The (unconscious) sexism is not in finding her attractive (obviously) but in the fact that her attractiveness is treated as a relevant detail. How would it be different if she were unattractive? It wouldn't.
It's a wonderful idea but i have some concerns i would if someone could challenge them:

1. Some people are on limited bandwidth plans, this adds to the plan since i am downloading and uploading data, and if the data that has to be processed -coming from the server- is big then this is going to kill my bandwidth.

2. This could slow down a lot of mobile devices that are JS capable, or old/moderate hardware.

3. Memory leaks?

4. If a startup is based around this idea, and me as a published i'll use their JS code to run tasks, then i'm basically giving them a key to my site :).

Other than that, the idea it self is awesome, if it could be implemented through :

1. Asking user permission.
2. work on idle browser tabs only.
3. used for non-profit organizations to solve real problems, maybe to fight cancer or to analyze data coming from space.
While this is a nice video, it rests on a model that is not completely true to the point that the video which stands upon it is actually misleading. I refer you to the fine Bad Astronomy blog:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_m...

It is, of course, an interesting general perspective nonetheless.
Google Explains Why Its Cloud Service Is Different When It Comes To Lock-In
Do you know what I'd love to see? Somebody building gorgeous Linux laptops and desktops. As in Apple-gorgeous. With all the drivers working fine and dandy. With awesome specs, with half-yearly updates or even rolling updates. I thought Canonical might do it but they seem intent on partnering with hardware vendors. Why is this not doable? I think there is System 76 but they are not drool- and lust-worthy and I don't now why. It must be possible. Android shows that it can be done for a certain class of devices, why is it not possible in the laptop and desktop space? All you'd want is say 5% of the dwindling PC market to make an absolute bundle.

Oh yeah, the Microsoft reorg. Yay, go Ballmer, yay!
It appears there is more content to the right and you are simply scrolling the page (moving the view opposite to direction of mouse movement) and once you hit the edge it seems to invalidate the drag or something similar.

This is just from playing with it; I haven't had time to check the source yet.
It's interesting to see that TechCrunch and Gallup put completely different spin on the same results. Gallup's headline [1] emphasizes that the number who want immigration decreased is at a record low, while TechCrunch's emphasizes that the numbers who want immigration increased are still pretty low.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/163457/americans-pro-immigration-...
You realistically expect BSD to ever use a GPL licensed init system? I don't see the point of systemd being able to run under BSD. BSD wants to get rid of every GPL licensed software, including GCC. You really expect them to consider switching their init system.

Aside from this, standard has nothing to do with Linux only or not. E.g. Microsoft Office is a de facto standard, it only runs on Windows and a not exactly the same version is available on Mac OS. Not on Linux, not on BSD. The file format is a standard.
Let's look at the surface rt (also if it has a really low market share in the tablet worldwide market), it has destroyed the others wrt-tablet.
Look at microsoftnok... ehm, nokia. They are pratically a branch of microsoft and infact they have discouraged other competitors to join the windows phone ecosystem.

It means that, if microsoft starts to make its own hw also for the pcs market, there will be a big problem for other manufacturers to stay in the same market.

Apple may live in a world where it is they only manufacturer for the hw in which runs his sw because they have create the first recognized brand in the world and they are like the "cool people of tecnology", but microsoft can try it? Looking at the actual marketshare of wp8 and surface RT or PRo, i think nope.
> for some things you're going to have to read from disk.

I'm not sure I follow. For some things you're going to have to _write_ to disk... like captured video. (I wouldn't consider that to be the "real-time" part of the software, though.) And you might have to read from disk occasionally... maybe you have map information stored there... but that probably doesn't need to be real-time. Can you tell me an example where you would need to read from disk in real-time? (Which I think should anyway be impossible, regardless of whether or not heavy crypto is being used.)

> The Russians have a long and documented history of assistance to the Iranians and the Syrians.

Yeah, very true, I have noticed that, too.
I have been in this business a very long time (ahem, over 35yrs) and the one thing I have observed over the years is that it seems like there is a cyclical nature to they way tech companies go up and down. There was a time when everyone thought Apple would rule the world with the Mac, it was so much better than DOS, and then MS came roaring back with windows, then people thought Apple was down for the count and they came roaring back with the the Ipod and Iphone. Sure some companies drift into obscurity and go out of business while new ones come on the scene (eg. Google) but the really good ones figure out a way to become relevant again (e.g. IBM, Watson etc.). It will be interesting to see if MS is able to do the same. I hope so, we still need some big companies like that that are willing to invest huge sums of money on research, it cannot all be done with start ups.
This is the problem with monopolies. No incentive to provide good service.

IF you haven't already, start documenting your interactions with them. Take a note of each call, who you spoke with, and the specific numbers/things they said, if you feel that you are being defrauded.

Have you attempted escalating this beyond the low-level employees? Imagine what a bureaucracy it is in a corporation like Comcast. Now do you imagine that the low-level "grunts" have much latitude for discretion in their scripts, or much knowledge/visibility into the other arms (support, technicians, install, netops ,etc)?
Some of the smartest people I know watch MLP, so I would have to say no.