skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for those we can't or haven't been trained to see through it, cockiness does help sell. This article was posted here a few weeks ago. It widened my perspective considerably:

"... the main reason for the uneven management sex ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence." [1]

[1] http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/08/why_do_so_many_incompetent_m...

Also, IMO the elephant in the room of Soylent is that not all bodies, metabolic systems, are identical. We are a species in transition, not some kind of stable, predictable system. We experience a level of mutations between generations - which is how we stumbled onto larger frontal cortex and physical diversity. Yet, we perversely hallucinate that we are all identical and have identical needs.
On the Possibility of a Back Door in the NISTSP800-90 Dual Ec Prng [pdf]
Nobody uses them because they came out of the NSA with little precedent in the open literature, and independent analysis quickly uncovered this vulnerability.
Consider moonlighting for equity rather than salary... I need coders to develop different business plans and am willing to share equity in leu of monetary payment. If the business-plan you are assigned to is successful, or generates revenue, we both win. If it fails (most do), you gained some entrepreneurial wisdom and stepped outside of the box for a short period of time—and you still have your day job; no harm no foul. You will need to confirm there is no conflict of interest of course. You can email me at WillCode4Equity a_t FTL d_o_t COM
It is a Thinkpad Yoga as it says under the picture: "The ThinkPad Yoga is a bendy laptop that means business". And yes it has a stylus.
Can we combine multiple algorithms such that having any one of them be secure is safe? For example, instead of encrypting with just RSA, do one pass with RSA and then another pass with ECC. Instead of just using AES, do one pass with AES, another pass with Twofish, and a third pass with RC4. Does that actually help?
Can you help me grok the differences between

> The more rational argument in favor of whole foods isn't that there's something fundamentally, irreducibly complex about them.

And

> It's a belief in some sort of "life force" that imbues the animal and vegetable kingdom, along with the implication that we'll never be able to recreate it.

? Is it that in the first, we have the possibility of knowing, but dont have the power yet? "Irreducably" suggests to me the same thing as "we'll never be able to recreate it."
"It looks like BeeLine didn't improve your reading speed this time through."

Why not show me the stats? I'd like to know, even if it doesn't confirm what you want it to.
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Completely agree. I couldn't make sense of the gradient deal, but open up the inspector, set the body font size to 16px and the paragraph line height to 150% and it all becomes a lot clearer.
Well... don't most start-up launch pages that make it to the HN front page have the same "We have solved the problem" attitude? Isn't that how you sell yourself?
Can you point me to a food manufacturer that uses the scientific method to support their ridiculous claims? Or have you not seen the fine-print on the vast majority of food packaging along the lines of "these claims have not been evaluated by the FDA"?

Your point is?
Sounds like Google has decided to try to compete directly with Pokki (https://www.pokki.com).
Zuck's my little brother.

I did parsing for my compiler. You can see it in the 2004 version in asm. I learned it in a compiler course.

I'm kinda embarrassed -- I have a bug. You should be impressed it's the only bug. That doesn't happen by magic.

My saying is "Run toward bugs, not away... which means you should try to make bugs occur so you can fix them, not disappear so they lurk."

I have a saying, "If you are not sure why it happened, it's not fixed. This is not just good advice -- it's fact. No bug is fixed if you don't understand why it happened. Guarenteed it is not fixed."

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Don't be afraid. Flowers for Algernon is a touching story and a good warning, but it doesn't mean there should be any "no-no zones" in science. It's just you don't start with humans.
> Finding corner cases is the point of Jepsen :)

And with that it obviously did a great job. The probabilities of finding those corner cases is unfortunately completely misrepresented.

I'd worry though that this distortion of the probabilities might mean it also doesn't find other kinds of corner cases.
Look at what's happening in the UK, in Australia, in France, in Italy, in Spain... the Chinese model is winning hearts and minds of politicians everywhere, and how could it not? If you're into politics, you likely want to reach a Platonic ideal of harmonic society, where nobody is offended, nobody is threatened, and all laws are perfectly respected and enacted. You can't have that on a fully-open network. How can you keep your people from enduring child porn and Islamic propaganda, without censorship?

So most states are slowly moving towards implementing their own little firewalls. The only notable absence? The US. Despite occasional campaigns from religious nutters of various sizes and shapes and continuous pressures from commercial telcos, subsequent US administrations repeatedly affirmed that fundamental Net freedoms would not be curtailed.

This document states that such a position is not coming from idealism or even commercial convenience: it's a way to persuade the rest of the world to do business over networks and protocols that the NSA can tap at will. Should this capability be forcefully contained, there wouldn't be a political incentive to keep the Net flowing freely through US routers.

It's a perfectly reasonable and plausible position, and that's why it's so terrifying.
In that particular instance you weren't wrong[1], but that's the problem when stories like this come out, is that it makes it much harder to know what's a crazy conspiracy theory and what's real.

[1] Those claims made by Greg are completely untrue. I ran the professional services group for that company and will happily attest to whomever asks that at no time did we insert a backdoor (or anything that could even be construed as such) into IPSEC.
Probably these:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/11/22/forwardsecret.html
>I don't think Rob and is collaborators are making that claim at all.

Perhaps they have stopped, but they certainly were making that claim when they were asking for money. This is what they once said on the crowdfunding site (emphasis mine):

>Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition.

I was pretty upset at that claim. I think some of Tim Ferriss's statements are directed at those kinds of marketing claims specifically. Maybe they have backed off on that?
Maybe you should reflect on why some people who are not fans of Apple fanboy commentary are _also_ not fans of comments that exist for no purpose except complaining about Apple fanboy commentary, in vague complaints about how "those guys always say this, but look, now they say that!"

We are not fans of apple fanboy commentary, AND we don't care.
And I, for one, am actually glad to learn that governments do in fact still outrank corporations.

Re: net security. I just had to complain to our building manager that some other tenant in the building had appropriated our "assigned" IP address. They were surprised that that was possible, and I had to explain networking was designed with convenience over security.
Also, IMO the elephant in the room of Soylent is that not all bodies, metabolic systems, are identical. We are a species in transition, not some kind of stable, predictable system. We experience a level of mutations between generations - which is how we stumbled onto larger frontal cortex and physical diversity. Yet, we perversely hallucinate that we are all identical and have identical needs.

Let name this "the typical body fallacy"
I am lucky enough to have a "Safari books" subscription from my employer, so I have been able to look at some books - I know that one's supposed to be seminal, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Any other recommendations are welcome.

Because I've just started messing with javascript, I'm mostly focused on games programming. But more generally, it seems hard to find information about how to write well optimized javascript (especially in terms of memory usage). This could be my problem, though. I get confused by callbacks and knowing when I'm creating objects (especially functions) versus when I'm reusing them. Callbacks are just confusing the hell out of me - specifically inside of something like requestAnimationFrame... how do I prevent new functions from being created every time I use it?

I mean, w3schools is awful for anything but a very quick reference, and while the content on MDN seems to be accurate, it's not very exhaustive and doesn't seem to provide much explanation. Whenever I have a problem with matlab or perl I can go to some great websites or just google my problem to find solutions (and often great explanations) quickly.
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I think there is a fundamental difference advanced Cryptanalysis (which we always assumed they had due to hiring practices and history) and being able to break crypto by subverting infrastructure.

If the NSA said, "Our super smart brain trust figured out how to own your stuff with math five years ago ... ha ha!", I think we would be Totally Fine with that. Hats off to them for winning that game, but at least they played mostly fairly. (In theory.)

However, this is different. Winning the cryptanalyis game because they backdoored protocols, gained access to trusted entities' private keys, etc, just means that they are really good at the SPYING game, not at the cryptanalysis game, and somehow that just feels worse.
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That's a bit of a false dichotomy, the implication that one of either vitalism or Soylent must be true. Of course, I'd say you're committing a bit of a straw-man fallacy by claiming that the author stated that.
It may be widely believe in cryptography circles, but this release wipes away the plausible deniability that governments and American corporations have always depended on. Just last week, the German government was pooh-pooh'ing claims that Windows and TPM chips had backdoors inserted by the NSA.[1] These documents all but confirm it.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/german-government-refutes-windows-backd...
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As the Berlin Wall fell, the last thing the Stasi did was start shredding. That shredding only stopped when a mob physically seized control of the buildings it was taking place in.

The slower you take down a surveillance state, the more time they have to destroy the evidence of their wrong-doing. I don't know how you can prevent that. With any luck we can dismantle them, but we will have to cope with the possibility that after the dismantling is complete, the evidence that the dismantling was warranted will be long gone.
Browsers auto-update over SSL and hopefully use certificate pinning.
Pets live on synthetic diets with humans who baby them and fuss over them and protect them from the elements and predators and take them to the vet when they get sick or injured. Their cousins in the wild don't have those luxuries.
Having developed several server-side projects in Dart, the language/environment brings a hell of a lot to the table optimized for reducing complexity and improving productivity which:

- Provides a familiar language with clean semantics and low ceremony
- Provides the fastest dev iteration times (there's no compile step,
just edit + run in Dart VM/Dartium)
- Provides ~10x faster start-up times than JS with snapshots (Dart VM)
- Provides faster run-time performance, that's predictable and can take
advantage of real integers and SIMD instructions (VM Only)
- Provides a unified object model so all classes from all libraries are interoperable
- Providing a rich, well-defined, consistent API, real collections, removing JS WATs,
smoothing over browser quirks
- Provides a unified and composable IO model: Futures and Streams (repeating events)
- Provides a new powerful way to develop client apps with Web UI (Polymer/WebComponents)
offering unprecedented levels of encapsulation and reusability
- Provides optimal dev and deployment options, you never have to worry about choosing
the smallest libs as tree-shaking ensures only code used is compiled and minified
- Providing "full-stack" dev environment, e.g. same language on client and server

The one thing it's notably lacking is a large ecosystem which I'm hoping will improve after v1.0's release.
Why couldn't who prosecute? That's a function of the government; a prosecutor is not obliged to engage in a case (formally, get an indictment out of a grand jury) whenever they believe a crime to have been committed.

Undercover agents at all levels of law enforcement commit apparently criminal acts every day, with no fear of prosecution. There's no reason for this to be any different.
I'm a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. This is simply a hoax. The html source shown in the video clearly says "No test user was deleted". We've verified in our logs that the victim account was manually deactivated by visiting https://www.facebook.com/deactivate.php. Anyone can visit https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/ and verify that the query parameter used by this endpoint is selected_test_users not selected_users. We've also audited our code to verify that there's no variant of this exploit that works against that endpoint or any other that we've found. In fact, the most recent code change to this endpoint was in April and was routine maintenance that had no security implications.
Aside from the bookmarklet, I love it. Without an extension, though, I don't see myself using it. Hopefully we'll see one soon.
I don't get what his goal is. As best as I can tell, Ensure is the product he's trying to create, and it's been on the market for years.
If you Hate JavaScript it’s Due to Ignorance
Didn't you just make the previous commenters point, that regex implementations vary? Within those three there are variations too with the flags and how they implement word boundaries (either exclusion of word characters or inclusion of certain spacing chars)
Cool, I like the flat look. Why not more screenshots though explaining what it is and showcasing more features?
By default it only warns if the app is unsigned.
Sentiment analysis implies attitudes, which imply context. A robust sentiment analysis system must either be trained on a targeted corpus (in which entities/concepts and attitudes are well aligned) or include some way of establishing a more targeted context after having been trained on a general-purpose corpus.

That is to say, people generally aren't describing the physical material occupying a toilet in a corpus of movie reviews.
My guess:
-SSL protects only as far as the cloud; they sits after decryption and can get the clear text data

-They can hack into people's computers (using zero day) and read the data before it's ever encrypted

-SSL/TLS do not offer forward security, so the encrypted data can be stored and then cracked if/when the keys become available later

-Man-in the middle attacks that substitute fake keys to both sides and capture the data anyway. It hepls if they captured one or more certificate authorities.

-Brute-force attacks against poorly-configured keys (too short) for SSL and VPNs.
Nope. Newspapers working with leaked documents like this usually give governments a heads-up that they will be running such and such a story and they ask for input on what should or shouldn't get published. They then take that into consideration.
Bizarre to think we should be sympathizing with, enticing, or otherwise fellating PayPal in this situation.

While I understand how easy it is to sympathize with the merchant here, as none of us will ever be payment processors, the reality is that the sum of your suggestions or assertions, if explored just as a thought experiment, quickly lead to a world where nobody can do payment processing without imposing absurdly high fees. Of course we can all see how unfair it seems to have all this money promised by seemingly wide-eyed and clear-minded open source software supporters. But Paypal has millions of clients and has to act in a way that generalizes across all of them, and which requires the least amount of trust to be placed in those clients. The only argument that Mailpile has is "but we're not evil," which is true, but still insufficient.
You could accomplish something like this the same way with a "green bar"[1] style of background. That is, the background of every two (or three... I think two would be better but you could test it) lines having a light green (or blue, or since you mentioned eInk, grey) background and then two lines with a normal white background.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer#Paper_.28forms.29_... "The paper was usually perforated to tear into cut sheets if desired and was commonly printed with alternating white and light-green areas, allowing the reader to easily follow a line of text across the page. This was the iconic 'green bar' form that dominated the early computer age. " (emphasis mine)
The problem I have with that is that the things asked for affect myself and a significantly large number of ethical and/or law-abiding individuals and businesses. If revealing this info would help the enemy, and if many of us would benefit from knowing this information, doesn't that make many of us part of "the enemy"?
This is sweet. I think if you could extrapolate it one step further and let me sign in to your app, hook up social accounts, and let see a single unified timeline, you would be on to something huge.
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> They're making the claim that food can be entirely replaced by Soylent

I don't see where, in this quote, that claim is made. The claim is made that you wouldn't have to _worry_ about food. That is, for the meals where the only concern is sustenance (i.e. the only meals you actually worry about), Soylent offers a "worry-free" approach. There's meals that you eat for culture, enjoyment, or something other than sustenance, but these don't involve worry.
I'm not claiming that we should share completely without judgement. Just that the vast bulk of things people share are easy to judge as innocuous.

The Star Wars Kid video is not a good counter-example, because it was never intentionally posted online by its creator -- it was found (on a videotape) by other people and posted, and those people knew they were posting it to make fun of it.

> Or your kid is not really popular at high school, and some other kids dig up a naked baby pic of his. Nothing special, they just circulate it all around school and make fun of him, and he feels like slicing his wrists or something.

Firstly, we're not necessarily talking about naked baby pics. The original article is about never posting any photo of their kid online.

Secondly, the kind of bullying you describe presupposes several much bigger problems that are the responsibility of the parent, and it is the behavior of parents that we're discussing.

You're looking at this from the perspective of a bullied kid who just wishes it was easier to hide. But if your kid is so emotionally fragile that having other kids laugh at innocuous baby pictures is enough to make him suicidal, you did a shitty job as a parent.

Lots of parents do, in fact, raise emotionally damaged children who are vulnerable to bullying. But it's not their photo-posting habits that really matters.
He says "My thoughts are clearer, my body leaner", presumbably after eating soylent.

I wonder if it's possible to a/b test soylent versus a placebo. By definition, the placebo would have no actual food, so the person would starve. So, how can we test soylent, without the placebo effect?
Your fundamental mistake is that "someone" doesn't enact legislation.

They got the government they deserve, and they alone carry the blame.

Condescension doesn't help.
>What else can we do?

"sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXqs02lNQMM
one of my favorite recent quotes: "growing up is becoming the kind of hypocrite you can live with"
Probably not. Apparently they're running all these articles by the NSA, GCHQ, etc first. Which I think is beyond ridiculous at this point. This is probably the most damning article of them all so far, and we all deserve to know the precise scope of these organizations' cryptanalytic capabilities that regard the public as "adversaries."
Ah, yes, I wasn't trying to say they were exploiting that particular vulnerability. Just that we now have better evidence that that really was a (rather poor) attempt to subvert standards to make them easier to decrypt.

The NSA seems to be really divided between SIGINT and COMSEC. COMSEC wants to provide good, strong encryption, that can help secure US government and corporate communication. SIGINT wants to be able to read everyone's traffic.

For example, they changed the DES s-boxes in a way that made it more secure against differential cryptanalysis. They've released SELinux. There is a part of the NSA that does actually try to make encryption standards stronger.

But then there's the part that advocates for the Clipper chip, advocates for controls on exporting strong crypto, or strongarms NIST into standardizing Dual-EC DRBG. And that part does real damage, as everyone suffers from the weak export crypto (either people overseas have to work on strong crypto, or products are released with weak or no crypto because regulatory compliance is too complicated), or people stop trusting US software and hardware.

The NSA seems to be doing some real damage to technology companies in the US. I had thought that they had gotten better about it, after they gave up on the clipper chip and lifted most of the export controls, but it looks like I was wrong, they've just decided to take more covert routes to do the same thing, with the hope that none of the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who could find out about it would leak that information.
More about project: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/nsa...
I agree with your point: the Times and The Guardian should avoid getting shut down over "helping the enemy".

However, some folks will want to know what's compromised to avoid becoming part of the collateral damage. I do, for example. Some other folks would like to know this in order to do some Forensic Economics. Like the mid-50s Central American coups, I imagine insiders could profit off this sort of thing in a big way.

It would be nice to know if the NSA has pushed Microsoft products solely because of the ability to influence weird little design decisions that could become trapdoors. That way, we could relieve the Linux people's big question about why the "Year of the Linux Desktop" never arrived.