skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what are the political/social solutions? And particularly, what are those solutions that might be actionable by this audience?

Let's take a few things off the table first. Voting is out for obvious reasons. Same goes for holding up signs in an approved free speech area. The occupy protests were a bit more effective at least in raising awareness but didn't upset the system much. Violence is a no for me personally on ethical grounds and also because history has shown violent revolution to achieve nothing but swap one form of tyranny for another.

What has actually worked in the past? Some examples that come to mind are the fight for Indian independence, the US labor movement and the US civil rights movement. These were mostly non-violent movements that deeply disrupted the status quo and created somewhat lasting change. They offer lots of practical examples.

Basically, we need to organize and act in a way that makes it impossible for bully governments and corporations to transact business as usual. Until that happens, there is no leverage, no opening for change.

Here's an idea: let's start a tech workers union. Imagine what a large scale tech worker strike would do to the economy. Now imagine if we were to participate in a general strike with industrial workers.

It would be most advantageous to organize now, while we still have a privileged status within the system. Let's not rest on that status and accept it as the bribe it is.

Any takers?
Well, no.
Unless Google is shooting itself in the foot, then either the research is wrong or pages that attract +1's are hosted and linked to in more SEO friendly ways.

Google is really unlikely to be blatantly and obviously fixing its rankings. That is the golden goose. everything goes away when that is shown to be true in public.
Haha, so many down-votes. Still love Hackernews though.
Congestion [On Information Overload]
There have been studies about songs with vocals vs. songs without vs. white noise while working. I guess it is pretty obvious in hindsight, but vocals just distract you, so white noise works best, followed by something without like classical, and then finally other music.
Okay, Harry, let us know when you're done with that :-) I suspect most of the rest of us would prefer the perfect not be an enemy of the good.
"Try as I might, I simply can't get worked up about cellphones.

They make excellent toys for rich people, but are irrelevant to everyone who is not some sort of millionaire entrepreneur or high-paid executive.

Mobile communication is incredibly attractive and massively beneficial to society if they are adopted at scale. Unfortunately, cellphone manufacturers seem content to cultivate an image as an ultra-luxury brand, and hasn't attempted to lower the barrier to entry for mobile.

I have no problem with companies that only want to sell expensive things to very wealthy people, but we can't possible pretend that companies like these will matter in the grand scheme of things.

Wake me up when we can buy an cellphone for $120."

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CJR: What is happening to Guardian/Miranda "is a DEFCON 2 journalism event."
Which is why all of those points were addressed in the article! In fact, that's why the article didn't make the claim that Google is doing anything unusual in handling G+ links and shares - just that G+ is laid out in a way that makes it more relevant to existing SEO techniques.
SPIDER in MariaDB
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* User-friendly support for both OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption and signatures

* A very fast, scalable search engine

I'd like to know how they achieve both without having the keys, and without shipping code (JS, java applet) that has access to the keys.

Also, excuse my lack of trust, but why should I trust a SaaS created by a Google employee, as opposed to trusting a SaaS created by Google ? That makes no sense to me.

If you're worried about privacy, store your own emails. Period.
The cited scientific study was actually performed on nocturnal animals (rats), and the scientists found that long exposure to light caused the rats stress:

"...the brain of nocturnal rats generates a stress response to a long-day photoperiod, contributing to depression..."

Somebody must have extrapolated from this result that, since humans are diurnal, long periods of darkness would cause us stress and depression.

There is no direct mention of Vitamin K (or for that matter, any healthful benefits of the sun) in the cited study.
Your example is nothing to do with conspiracy theories, just to do with how people when losing an argument with grasp at any straws possible.

9/11, I already believe (as I previously stated) that none of the conspiracy theories are valid. That doesn't mean that small things can't help support the theories in valid ways. If I have a theory that Michael Jackson was murdered by Osama Bin Larden using a trained hedgehog, and I find out that Bin Larden did actually own a trained hedgehog, that backs up a small part of my theory. That doesn't mean my theory is true.
I do remember that article, and here's my debunking of that claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793803

The short version is that the site was affected by Google's Penguin webspam algorithm. It had nothing whatsoever to do with authorship.
After another read through, the core message of the article still speaks for itself.
I suggest finding another job; they're really not all like the one described. (But, I've been there!)

Even I, who works for a mega corp, have little or none of this. But, I work in a small group, and not in IT but in product development. (I can't claim that the other 39,980 employees feel similarly, though.)

With demand for developers so high, it makes sense to move around until you find a place that feels right.
Less than Meets the Eye
The directory structure seems rather arbitrary and the use of components on the server seems weird. Also why are you using a Makefile instead of the npm scripts and grunt? Also there is no explanation of why this is an example of the best practices in the industry
If you hold assets in US dollars, or generally speaking use commodities and have a currency bound to the dollar in any way, they're consuming your wealth to keep up with that arbitrary increase of cost on computation. That means, you can never outlast them or win a war of attrition. They have your bank account via deficit financing (or taxes optionally). The only reason we have such a massive military + intelligence system to begin with is they can use inflationary means for financing it all (aka steal your purchasing power).

There's only one successful way to fight this: change the culture and change the politics.

Technical approaches are fine for shielding you today. At the rate the police state is accelerating, it's very unlikely to shield you tomorrow, as they're going to outlaw the means of shielding. They will not allow an arms race, they'll use their legal powers to shut it down, and make you a criminal.
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Hacker Leaks Details of 15,000 Twitter Accounts
Silly question: If you can trust DNS, and require every client to connect to an SMTP server with TLS/SSL, and only permit SMTP server->SMTP server connections over SSL, how does that not fix the problem?

End to end encryption and MITM countermeasures should solve the issue, no? Then all the NSA knows is which mail server is talking to which mail server.

I admit, I could be very wrong. Please tell me why.
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That's not going to happen anytime soon. Batteries themselves are still too expensive, but what's even more expensive is the development time spent on battery management systems. The Tesla S has roughly 7000 individual battery cells, not unlike the single cell powering your phone. If a single cell over drains or over charges, it has the potential to cause a fire. That's easy to do with your phone, there's only one cell to monitor. But thousands of cells, bundled together in various packs of serial and parallel connections? There's a lot that can go wrong. That means these systems have to be bulletproof and I think we can all appreciate how expensive that is in terms of software and hardware development time, let alone testing.
I don't think it is. It seems pretty clear you misunderstood. As posted in another comment, this Tweet shows that The Guardian destroyed the hard drives at the government's behest: https://twitter.com/dansabbagh/status/369794535464767488
You would be fine with the Government throwing you in jail for what you said then.

By that argument the Weiße Rose in ww2 Germany had free speech but they still got beheaded for it.

the UNHC defination is "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Note the "without interference"!
The post is vague, but it sounds like you're trying to make an app that turns everyone in a large organization into good managers. I understand how you might try to organize the information, but how are you going to ensure that the inputs are high quality? Management is really hard because it is about making difficult trade-offs with uncertain information, all while dealing with human beings who are not deterministic information processors.

A lot of management issues are not problems of technology, they are problems where the best solution is still a suboptimal solution for many of the people involved. The reason every company goal doesn't have a specific task associated with it is because goals are inherently high level and static, but tasks need to be flexible. It's also not certain what tasks will make the goal successful on a given day.

Same goes for promotions. Real life is not an RPG - you don't collect experience points until you become a level 36 Business Analyst. Smart companies promote people when they've proven either a proficiency or aptitude for the next level job and the company has a need for it. It's very hard to set a timeline for either of those, especially when the next level involves hard-to-measure abilities.
'Will cost the same as a comparably specified Model S' - it's at the bottom (at least as I write this comment, it is).

Edit: 'Deliveries will begin in 2014 and priced comparable to a similarly equipped Model S.' is the exact quote.
It is efficient at generating the best outcome for the company in isolation, but that may not be an optimal outcome for society as a whole - externalities are typically not priced into the product.

For example, consider the 51,000 tonnes of redundant chargers that were estimated by the GSMA to have been distributed in 2008 prior to the common charger initiative[1]. One can argue that the costs of landfill, carbon impact (est 13-22 million tonnes/yr), pollution effects etc. should be priced into the product, but the reality is that they are not.

I have no view on the iPhone connector vs uUSB, but standardization has enormous benefits for consumers and society as a whole, and typically it takes an external agency to "encourage" it.

[1] GSMA analysis from UNEP, Gartner, European Commission Integrated Product Policy Pilot on Mobile Phones, University of Southern Queensland data.
While I am glad they included (paywall), any news article or blog entry that uses sources behind a paywall should rethink using those sources. When I read an article I like to look at the sources they use to determine if the information seems valid to me.
I think that's probably by design. They appear to be trying to make it more about the actual content then the author.
Very interesting post.
I have no desire to solve the problem. If I wanted to be an evil terrorist and blow shit up, which I don't, I'd quite happily do it without communicating with people.

As for good, it's not even that. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6244196

Also, bear in mind I had the unfortunate job of designing and running ISP mail systems for a number of years so I know the whole stack inside out.
Groklaw was widely popular a few years ago; this is the most attention they've got in years. Since they've basically never covered anything secret in their entire existence, and PJ has apparently done ethically questionable things in the past to keep attention on herself, pardon me if I'm a bit suspicious about this. (For example, she supposedly shadowbanned not just commenters who disagreed with her, but supporters who were becoming popular and effective enough to compete with her, along with anyone who mentioned this.)
Exactly this. Mailpile sounds like a good idea in principle until you start looking at the underlying tech. They explicitly say they will not be implementing a MTA. Since an eavesdropper knows who youre sending to and what the subjects are youre a bit vulnerable to a literal brute force attack: http://xkcd.com/538/
Probably has something to do with sexual politics. Why would you order a drone strike to kill a 16 year old (along with 9 other people) eating at a restaurant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
>is it irresponsible for the EFF/ACLU/etc to continue to operate with an online mailbox?

It's actually fairly dangerous, knowing what we know now.

There is a reason the powers that be are so rattled by these revelations: the tactical advantage they're currently enjoying is huge.
> Your example is nothing to do with conspiracy theories, just to do with how people when losing an argument with grasp at any straws possible.

What you must realise is that this user believes I am posting with ulterior motive, essentially he only trusts his interpretation of my text. This is symptomatic of conspiracy theories.

I agree with the rest of your post without reservation though.
Most of the initial discussion on this thread seemed to take from the blog post the idea that more Google +1s led to higher web ranking. I wanted to preemptively tackle that perception.
Bitmessage is not the solution. If you tell me your address (and related public key), it can just be modified on the wire to MITM the communication. There's no getting around that.
Software Design Philosophy
Addiction: to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively -- I'll add that once the addiction is created, any willpower is lost and very hard to regain.
Violence is using force, physical or manipulative emotional. Creating or encouraging that addiction is force and violence. Putting ingredients on purpose into food that trigger minor addiction is force. Manipulating emotion with advertising (especially to children/youth) is force. And to some degree restricting options of food choice can also be force.
This is a great point - the culture of a workplace has more to do with the culture of your team and the quality of your immediate management than it does with the organization. There are people in small startups who are miserable at work every day because of bad management, and people who work in large companies that are excited to go to work and make a difference.

We usually think small companies have better management, but that's survivor bias - the ones with bad management tend to fail, or not scale up. And the people who are in large organizations that like their job tend to write about it less, because they're able to think about other things.
Looking at the team it seems that except the founder , all the contributors are from the same company. I believe this is because this is a new site. It will be very difficult to maintain a truly democratic model for teamwork in Indian conditions , because many folks would try to hijack the good work done by others (not mere speculation). A benevolent dictator that vetoes what is done , accepted initially would be for best.
then the people need to keep voting new people into office until the politicians GET IT.
Expect Labs anticipates a day when the computer is always listening
Both of you are confidently offering absurdly simplistic explanations.
What stops you from encrypting the body of the message on you own computer and use USB stick to just copy over an encrypted file?
I would like to mention that the details of this project seem a little sparse. For a truly secure solution, this system will need to (1) define a secure standard and (2) allow domain owners to personally host this system which can connect to legacy mail servers as well as the "new" secure standard. This way, when persons communicate within the same email domain and between secure systems, the communication can be considered secure.

Just my 2 cents I guess.

A system like this can succeed, but I think it's too early to judge.
Kudos for this accurate and relevant Confucius quote, it is rare nowadays.

In fact, reading this guy's Analects, you'd find a mine of secular wisdom aphorism that sound obvious but are all the more urgent to remember by the times running.
Area 51 Cartoon
Well let's not get too out of hand here... :-)
Try watching this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-a4B4aNStQ#t=1h22m55s
I take it you're not a US citizen?
My server in Cairo is still online and functioning: https://wonderproxy.com/servers/
Hacking Your Event Video to Make the Most of It
It's too bad on a site that exists for upstarts and tech minded folk looking for a way to monetize their projects people complain that good interesting content costs money. /rant
Some of us nerds thought staying inside was more fun. Why waste all that time playing basketball when you could get ahead in the chemistry lab?
...and then you can depend on the kindness of strangers to fund that wonderful journalism.
In case anyone is wondering if this worked on IPv6, and the rate was constant (45 minutes to do 2^32) it would take about 2 octillion days to scan all of the IPv6 addresses.
A Young Couple Needs A Place To Blossom
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. What conspiracy theories? We are talking about the frigging news.

Do you know what a troll is? It's someone who asserts deliberately stupid/annoying arguments to get a rise out of everyone else, who are trying to have a sincere discussion.

In other words, someone who sounds exactly like you. I won't be wasting any more time here.
Maybe he does more than some of his peers but the qualities you describe hardly meet the bare minimum of what the public should expect from an editor. And, while exceedingly few, there are reporters who are head and shoulders above Rudsbridger and who report in service to the public at great harm to themselves and their family, Greenwald being an example at hand.

But no one asked Rudsbridger to sacrifice his family nor was he at risk to. As an editor he should have demanded a court order before destroying source material. He should not now pretend he is a courageous government-defying reporter when he has minimized risk to himself.
I've had the opposite experience. On three different phones I had with Mini-USB the port would always break. I'd have to warp the cord around or rest the phone on the connector to make contact and charge.

All my phones since have had Micro-USB and I haven't had any issues.

Though it really feels like Micro-USB is flimsier, it doesn't seem to be that way in practice.
"If the first two carriages in each train cost three times as much as the others but offered free Wi-Fi, and were furnished not with basic seats but with the sumptuousness of an Edwardian-era New Orleans brothel, you could afford to run more trains."

You don't have enough trains in your subway? That's strange. It's supposed to be rapid transit isn't it?
This isn't an article, it's a sales pitch. And it feels like one of those awful late-night infomercials, to boot:

"If your work life a mess? [Cut to scene of woman at a desk covered in a mess of loose papers, with spaghetti sauce in her messy hair, making a screwed up face and throwing her hands up in the air as if to say 'I give up!'] Try myRandomStartup.io!"
I usually don't mind that much when the wrong terminology and naming is used, but this specific case was a disservice for me. I was very confused to see the syntaxe he used, yet calling it JavaScript; I thought they used a modified JS syntaxe, possibly pre-compiling it to the C# equivalent.
I can't see any reason there would be a collision between the two, framelessgrid is very lightweight.
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That is one of the problems with C++. In "C" land you also might be put to restrictions - for example don't use malloc()/realloc()/free() but some other functions, or don't use the provided assert() but something else, or no Xxxprintf() functions, etc - e.g. most of them are around function calls, that could be caught at preprocessor, compiling, or even runtime level.

Now C++ comes with new/delete, dynamic_cast<>, throw/catch/etc, RAII, always export "C" interface (to avoid mangling) - While all of these are useful, due to the constraint where the language has to be used they can be forbidden. It's no longer functions that you are restricting from being called (as in "C"), you are forbidding to use parts of the language that are considered by many as vital, and it's basically a different language at this point.
Why is this even the title on HN? The title of the article is "The Default American Workplace is Fundamentally Flawed"...
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But the medium she uses to accept the tips doesn't impact NSLs or warrants. Web form or email are both subject to the same laws.
Chromebook Pixel woes - is anyone comfortably doing Android development on it?
It seems to me the mailpile people are quite aware of what they are building and do not oversell their product. They even talk of risk assessment right in the indiegogo webpage.

Regarding your points:
a-d) I assume that mailpile to mailpile communications will be PGP armed by default. It's enough for them to clear this unambiguously (for instance with a STAR next to "secure" addresses or a popup that says "you are sendind a message to a gmail account, be aware that...)

e) alright

f) there are other quite trivial ways to protect identities, such as a pen-name and a starbucks connection. Those are quite useless, however, if the message is not encrypted.
Hmm, I don't think that's entirely true - supposedly they were told "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more." and "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back." Those quotes suggest they didn't intent on destroying their computers with a copy of the data they were working on.
This is a topic I've been getting very interested in lately. The correlation between music and math/technology success is high. I used to think it was that "disciplined people who like to be inside do both".

Now I think there may be some causality. Learning music is an intro to binary math. (2 half notes in a whole note. Two quarter notes in a half note.)

I haven't seen a good empirical study to try and split this apart.
I am fully aware of it, besides "a restricted subset of C++" is still C++.
And then there is the option to push all this code into a gem . One line of code in the Gemfile and you are set. :)
Does this apply to Viet Nam, and Mission Accomplished?
"How do you get people with wildly differing willingness or ability to pay to fund some common good other than through redistributive taxation?"
For cases like this why would I want something other than redistributive taxation?

By the way, Joel Spolsky has a very good explanation of the mechanisms behind airplane fares, including why you might not want to go this way:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...