skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you also go around and say that anorexia can be treated by the "simple" life style change of just eating more?

What we are discovering now, is that it's NOT purely psychological. There are even discoveries that hints at depression being affected by the bacterial culture in the gut.

That doesn't mean that obese or depressed people don't have to do a job themselves to get better, but it pokes hole in the theory that fat people are fat because they just decided to be, and don't care.
Sure. For lets of people internet access ranks pretty high, though. And for land lords it's not necessary about getting tenants at all, but being able to charge a premium.
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http://dew.dangelov.com/dewdrops/DEW-5229a26a3d7111.76365678...

I've read a bit about hellbanning on HN, so thought that's what might be happening, but i think kbuck cleared it up.
The government slurping my data isn't changing any of my actions.

Since the revelations: No changes in actions. Some changes in thoughts.

Since before the revelations: No actions to encrypt anything. Some thoughts that I should. I bought a Yubikey.

I had some thinking that I should use disc encryption, and that I should start using VPNs and other encryption and privacy stuff more. After the revelations (most of which were not revealing anything to me) I am making more efforts to encrypt, but not because of any government snooping but because of all the other people who slurp and misuse my data.
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We can't do anything about what they're doing, our responsibility is for our own countries. Fundamental principle.
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> Google “unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people’s private email messages”

I don't understand the concept of "opening up" an email. Comparing digital things to physical objects is always going to cause problems because they're not.

> “all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing.”

Of course they must, in at least some sense. They've got to be processed by various programs to store them in the right place. We also expect them to be scanned and filtered for spam and viruses, which require them being processed.

> The lawsuit notes that the company even scans messages sent to any of the 425 million active Gmail users from non-Gmail users who never agreed to the company’s terms.

1) Of course it must, for the reasons above.

2) If you send anything to someone else, they can do pretty much whatever they want with it. You're sending an email to someone that has promised to let another company scan it.
Maybe this is a difference between the US and Sweden, but at least around here, there are plenty of things that are illegal even if clearly stated in the terms of use and there is no compulsion involved. For example, it's illegal to sell yourself into slavery, even if you and your buyer both agree to it. A better example might be that it is illegal to sell ones vote in national elections.

(do not infer that _I_ think that scanning emails to show ads _should_ be illegal)
Indeed. Where's Mr Sweary now, eh?
slightly hire risk of death due to terrorism

People are not very good at thinking probabilistically. How about:

"Are you willing to accept the deaths for four people in 2014 due to terrorism and the sexual abuse of 18 toddlers in exchange for online anonymity."
Personally I agree, I love KJV (mainly through choral music written with biblical texts), just wondered whether he was making a subjective point like you are, or whether it was a religious point.
Perhaps it would be possible to use the NSA backdoors to the public's advantage. Would it be possible to systematically scan the internet for vulnerable infrastructure and exploit the backdoor to gain access and then patch the device's firmware to close the backdoor?
I can only speak for the old Boxcryptor version which is actually a slightly feature limited, proprietary implementation of encfs. TrueCrypt uses a container, encfs instead encrypts on a per file basis. So a small change is more easily to sync, at least when the sync service doesn't use binary diffs.
I looked into using LaTeX in an online service once but my understanding was that LaTeX is difficult to serve as a service because there are several commands which allow arbitrary code execution. Is this whitelisting some of the syntax? How are they doing that?

(btw, if it turns out they aren't please don't comment here about it but instead report it to them at https://www.sharelatex.com/security )
I've actually read that document, but I guess I was confused because it was marked [dead] as soon as I submitted it, and it mentions nothing about automated spam prevention.

Makes sense though :) Thanks.
no, it's no different in the US
You do realize that these "face stuffers" are usually (as in statistically) among the poorest in our society? The ones with lots of money have time to cook proper meals, buy lots of veggies at Whole Foods or whatever, and pay for their gym memberships with personal trainers.

I realize that you're angry. My tip to you would be to go to some weight losers meetings and meet these greedy face-stuffing bastards. I bet that would learn a lot from that and gain a different perspective about what they're dealing with.

But, I guess you won't, because it's a bit more comfortable to just hack away at your keyboard writing smug comments on HN.
You're saying that just as technology has brought us very near to the tipping point for world-wide self-governance though.

I still think people are vastly underestimating the impact the first 3-billion-like Facebook post (or equivalent) will have on this world.
Personally I'd rather spend time with a weak, lazy person, than someone who gets angry about weakness. Lazy people can at least be good company.
You never know. (http://www.babynamespedia.com/start/m/ann) just saying! :)
It is a good editor.you can create you own resume through the sharelatex....
I'm also interested in distributing my app offline to my customers, but I didn't find a solution for that yet.
When I read your comment the first time, I read "Riches in Riches"

This is equally true. Without sales, there is no money. Without money, no life or growth. Your point about a 2 person shop getting $250k is equally true.

Of course, many startups would take $250k and immediately spend it on becoming a bigger shop.
Interesting. I've seen his fexpr work before on LTU but never really looked at it closely. I suppose the only way to go is to read the whole thesis?
This would seem like the perfect tactic if the software also has a quiet phone-home system built in that contacts the author if the file checksums don't match. I bet you could get interesting statistics on how many people would try this method after publishing such an article.
Sorry to say but I don't. Never actually even thought about it, but on a gut feeling I could say it's often a lot more than the daily recommendations. Maybe I should?
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> surrounded by a system that just wants them to buy shit to consume

> Life is not easy and eating shit is a legal way to cope

Smug or not smug, this is an epic cop-out. There might well be complex physiological factors that are difficult if not impossible to get out in front of, I get that, I really do (and I'm not exactly rail-thin myself, FWIW) - but "the system, man" is NOT one of them. You're an adult, you're endowed with fairly rare skills (by virtue alone of being on HN you're way ahead of the curve), man up and deal with it (which, by the way, you did, and kudos for that - obviously "the system" wasn't that much in your way, after all).
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Sounds like it was justified really, the NSA know since they've done similar things themselves that it's possible, so it's not a stretch to assume China is doing the same thing.
What is it 2004?! of course it's legal, same as "scanning" mail content to identify spam or enable full text search. This lawsuit is ridiculous, it's either a money making scam or a PR stunt or both.
What do you mean? What is there to CS besides node.js and Ruby?
Can't stress this enough, people just don't want to face idea that current food industry is disaster. You can't get slim eating diet bread. Easier is to trow rock at someone than going for hard choice, eliminating sugar. Sugar is anything that is carbs.
Agreed. I could point you at any of a number of highly memorable breaks I've taken pretty much out in the middle of nowhere.

But you've got to eat. And if the place is interesting to the level of offering food, the bonus of adding a charging station should be a reasonably good investment.

I think the point is that Tesla are likely to have their choice of charging locations as they build out their network, and even non-SuperCharger stations will offer some range extension for the cost of a 220AC outlet.
Obviously, one size fits all classrooms don't work - but this must not be used as an excuse to further existing inequalities. I hear a lot more horror stories about people being discouraged from sufficiently challenging material than being pushed into it - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1lrvit/what_memor... has a lot of examples, to pick one random internet thread from this week. One thing that we can fully agree on is that NCLB is horrible policy. Uniform education, with no catering to the genuine interests and capacities, is stupid; only a few alternatives, like not educating the majority of people, or basing education on statistical arguments about amorphous groups rather than individual merit, are stupider.

Our civilizations, for the most part, don't cultivate genius, unfortunately. And geniuses aren't radically less common in some groups, unless you mean groups like "people who suffered severe childhood malnutrition". Normal schools aren't really set up to deal with people with IQs more than a standard deviation, or perhaps two standard deviations, from the norm.

If you define genius to be an IQ of 160+, and model it as a Gaussian with a standard deviation of 15, most schools have no geniuses of any race. If you take a more-reasonable fat-tailed distribution, many schools still don't.

My personal, anecdotal bias: the best school I went to was quite small, and had several geniuses - including a black one. There weren't many black kids, but the ones who were there were exceptional; I wouldn't be surprised if they had the highest average IQ of any ethnic group at the school (and yes, there were plenty of Asian and Jewish students, from several countries).
Yes I appreciate that I'm disconnected. My issue is that .on() continues to work as if I'm connected for the client who is originating changes locally but that all other clients are blind. I think the app developer should be able to choose that .on() only triggers once firebase really calls back.

In addition, it should be possible to create a safety net using localStorage so that unsynced data can be saved and put back into play after a page refresh. So I think this problem is very fixable.
> Nobody's forcing anybody to use Gmail, after all.

I think there are a couple of audiences who are; ( 1 ) employees of companies ( or students of institutions ) that have migrated to Gmail / GApps and ( 2 ) senders of e-mails who are unaware that one or more recipients are Gmail users.

For protecting the latter group, it is possible to configure most MTAs to hold or decline delivering to Gmail or any other arbitrary domain. For example, postfix has the 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions' directive.
While it does seem likely that a disruption in education is immanent, the article doesn't ring true. I can't quite put my finger on it but it has something to do with assuming that the institutions of the elite (businesses, government, colleges) are driven by meritocratic impulse primarily.

This leaves out elements of human motivation like tribalism, pure status seeking, creative impulse, absurdism...there is a veritable smorgasbord of human attributes that defy quantification.
The downside for him is that now also the average user has enough tips in order to crack the official trial by him/herself without risking to download it from peer to peer or other unknown site :)
Maybe today is the right time to ask the question again.
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> "I don't understand the concept of "opening up" an email"

You can look at it same way as you look at "opening a file". Similarly, "read" and "acquire" can also be thought of in a digital way, rather than analog and it's perfectly comparable in this context in my opinion. It's also true, they do "open", "read" and "acquire" contents, even if done by automated, digital means (programs, algos). Now whether that is or should be unlawful, I don't know.
"But a college education is so, so much more than just taking classes and getting good grades. It is about developing as a person, finding yourself."

Yes, and, furthermore, its because of similar intangibles that companies like Goldman like to hire Ivy League graduates. The idea that Goldman hires Harvard MBAs because that's their best proxy for specific technical skills is, well, I guess it's kind of sweet in its naivete. The old boy network that the post mentions in passing isn't an accident, it's the point - a Harvard degree isn't a proxy for technical skills, its a proxy for a particular kind of person with a particular kind of outlook, and that's what gets people hired.
I guess this was proposed some time back, but not sure if its going anywhere
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367042
You're attitude seems to be to tell them to 'pull themselves together'.
Companies advertise because it works on humans. We're not machines and don't have unlimited amounts of willpower.
The first time it showed me 15% improvement and I got suspicious because I thought I had read the black text at about the same time.

Then I took it again with a different subject but I timed it.

It took me ~81 sec to read the colored, ~92 to read the black. It said I read 23% faster with BeeLine. What gives?
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I think the point he is trying to make is that if your goal is to maximise your profits then it is not always optimal to play the nash equilibrium strategy. That is true.

The optimal strategy beats everything but an equally good strategy, and ties against itself, but it doesnt necessarily maximise profits against other bad strategies.

If you are able to identify flaws in your opponents strategy then you can play non-game theory optimal to increase your profits against that perceived strategy. Doing so comes at the cost of you yourself no longer playing the best strategy though.

There exists strategies that gives higher yields vs certain unbalanced strategies than the game theory optimal strategy (or strategies - for all we know there are several optimal strategies in limit hold'em).

For instance - in limit poker if your opponent will never raise, call every street, but not call the river with anything less than a pair, regardless of what you do, then bluffing every river is a more winning strategy than the game theory optimal strategy. The game theory optimal strategy would include times when you do not bet the river, for balance, but knowledge of your opponent's flawed strategy would tell you that betting 100% of the time has a higher yield.
You need to scan to detect spam, so scanning itself can't be a legal problem.

I don't see the issue here. The ads are not even slightly surreptitious, and they don't seem to be linked to your non-email ad profile. (They don't follow you across the web.)

(Would it be a problem if they were? Is there a fundamental legal issue here, is it it more of a transparency/disclosure problem?)
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It's always possible to sandbox the processes. In that sense, it's not very different from the various http://try.$PROGRAMMINGLANGUAGE.org. For most of the sandboxing techniques, the performance can be however problematic.

What's peculiar about latex is that its compilation model is ridiculously inefficient. There's no separate compilation, so you have to re-run the whole compilation at the tiniest change. Also, there's a lot of I/O involved, and a several passes are needed. For example, to display the table of contents, it is necessary to append to a temporary file a list of commands (emitted by \section{} etc) which will be interpreted, in a following pass (it is necessary to manually re-run the compiler) by \tableofcontents.
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It's a stupid question. They want webmail services (nay all cloud services) to cease automatically processing data they store. It's nonsense, that is what these services are all about, they want them to become useless, basically destroying their whole functionality and the economy related to them.
Google appear to be confusing the law with the loyalty of their customers.
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And your attitude seems to be that because advertising exists free will doesn't.
Onions are very, very common in Indian cooking.
Exactly. Had the same problem, and also shared this smug view about when it was easy for me to lose weight, why not for others? Well, it turns out that I didn't have their bodies to struggle with, but I do know - and I'm quite a bit more humble.
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Try the Matasano crypto challenge: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
Anorexia is a serious psychiatric illness. When adjusted for other factors it's the psychiatric illness with the highest mortality rate.

I accept that obesity has a number of causes, some of them complex, some of them involving deep long term psychological distress.

But please do not conflate anorexia with obesity. Most obese people do not have the same strength or depth of broken thinking that people with anorexia do.

PS: Interesting language note: I always say "People with X", 'people with anorexia'. 'people with visual impairment', etc. Except in this post, where I say "obese people". I think this might point to some of my cognitive biases.
"The leaked documents" is as much detail as the article goes into. Given the history of reporting on this matter and the walking back done on all the original leaks, color me skeptical its as dramatic as it sounds and not what I said: the NSA engages in a bunch of spycraft since encryption is based on trust, trust is easy to compromise, but again: I'll bet AES encryption has no easily exploitable weaknesses, and SSL is completely secure provided you don't need to use the root chain of trust associations which all ultimately wind up at "the government".
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Now that's something I can live with everyday!!! :-)
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I have no idea what speed I read at but it's weird seeing this stated... I never imagined anyone but a 4 year old would do 1 and 2 and would have thought that 3 and 4 were basically just normal adult reading. I did read a lot when I was a kid
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> What's peculiar about latex is that its compilation model is ridiculously inefficient. There's no separate compilation, so you have to re-run the whole compilation at the tiniest change.

Is there a scope for LaTex to have "delta compilation"? This is particularly required if you make presentations using LaTex (Beamer). The whole recompilation process is pretty painful once the number of slides (which includes transitions) go past ~20. Currently, there are some "workarounds" for it, but it would be nice if such a feature exists.
That said, it's unlikely the NSA has truly novel algorithms. They recruit from the general public like everyone else. There principle advantage is that they're big (working for the NSA is appealing) and can classify in-house breakthroughs.
All the more reason for choosing Chinese own brand.
Since we're on the subject, here's my online LaTex editor:

http://arachnoid.com/latex/
Slight modification: exercise and eat _better_.

// icecreampain - got tired of being a 90+kg, 1.73m tall fatass. Started exercising, dropped 20kg fat then gained 16kg muscle.

Work hard erry day.
Probably the plaintiffs believe in good faith that they are pushing for positive social change against a nefarious practice (and they certainly seem misguided, at best, to me). But

-It's a class-action suit. It's not unlikely the driving force behind organizing the class was the plaintiff's law firm looking for a long shot bet at a cut of a big payout, a reputation-making case, etc. I have no idea if this is the case. The incentives around this kind of thing are varied and not necessarily at all high-minded though.

-It bugs me when people start to think of the Googles of the world as a public utility. Assuming that you could make the world a better place by regulating their behaviour into something socially desirable is short-sighted. We have gmail because Google can monetize it with ads. Treating firms like Google as public utilities subject to public interest based regulation is not that different from treating banks as public utilities that are too big to fail (granted that's a complicated issue on its own)

“People believe, for better or worse, that their email is private correspondence, not subject to the eyes of a $180 billion corporation and its whims,” said Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court.

-I automatically get suspicious when would-be social reformers throw in the market cap of a company like this, as if to say, come on, they can afford to share the wealth. In a system where there's rule of law, it should be that that the practice is either legal or it isn't, right?

-It could well be that California has statutes on the books that clearly make this sort of thing illegal. If that's the case, we should fully support the plaintiff's winning, followed by brisk lobbying of legislators to correct the ridiculousness. Selective enforcement of bad laws is a horrible practice that opens the door to all kinds of arbitrariness and manipulation by the state. See rule of law.
https://gist.github.com/derekpitt/1804940

and

https://twitter.com/TRENDnetExposed
Applying the same logic, would it be fine for me to sell someone a house, keep a key and then take pictures of their rooms every few days so I can advertise to them correctly?
You're right - I'm simplifying considerably. College is not for everyone, and there are many positive life-changing things one can do that don't involve going to university.

The thing is that even at universities like Harvard, Oxford, MIT, etc there's considerable debate over what the university itself should be doing. The Harvard Business School, for example, is culturally (and geographically) a world apart from the undergraduate programme.

Trying to distill what a university should become is hard, because there are so many stakeholders with vastly differing views.
Neat! Perhaps it's been updated then.
> "Are you willing to accept the deaths for four people in 2014 due to terrorism and the sexual abuse of 18 toddlers in exchange for online anonymity."

While a good start, this should also include some ‘reference mark’ to gauge how many 22 deaths in the whole of the US are – e.g. via deaths in car accidents, plane crashes or gunfights.
I love GNOME 3. I have heard a lot of people complain about it bitterly but after I switched to it and got used to it, I find that it makes for a smooth workflow. I can now forget about "minimise", "how many workspaces do I have" and a few other things that were in my head in earlier interfaces.

Overall, I think GNOME has done good work with GNOME 3. I have introduced it to my colleagues at work and whoever has tried it, is happy with it.

YMMV but like I already said, I love it and I am looking forward to this new release.