skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see a version that does selective highlighting. So it would highlight verbs and nouns, maybe bold famous names and dates, and gray out slightly transition words.
I think the case that there are too many implementations is overstated. Almost everyone can get away with knowing only PCRE these days. Most programmers I've know don't even know that they're using PCRE, they just know they're using "regexes"
Initially we implemented hiring and applying as the same action, assuming our users would implicitly know how they position each other. After a week of feedback, we now allow you to choose to select to hire or get hired by someone.

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Colored text is often associated with links in the context of HTML...what about striped backgrounds, as is commonly used for table rows?

http://alistapart.com/article/zebratables
I think you misread my first sentence there. I said isn't, not is. :) As in: "the right argument isn't that there's something irreducibly complex. Instead, it's..."

I'm going to go back and italicize for emphasis.
Uh... for the rest of the company?
So this is obviously a problem, right? We had MagicScroll [0] which got a ton of positive hits, and now this. I believe there have also been a few other attempts along the way as well. The crux of the issue is velocity+comprehension.

I don't like magicscroll because of the way the lines scroll down; I find it disconcerting. In the case of Beeline, I can't stand the color scheme.

The goals of both software are admirable and I'd love to see more work in this space, but I don't think either of them have it exactly right. If the designer is on here, consider using an interior design color picker website[1] to find a color scheme that works better than the current one.

In short, this is a problem and it would be valuable to somebody like Amazon if it were polished, IMHO.

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-re...
[1]http://colorschemedesigner.com/ as an example.
Nailed it. Here's hoping there's a silver lining to the damage that the us tech industry will take over this - harder resistance when gov comes calling with inappropriate requests. Increasing public Opposition and lobbying from tech giants. More companies willing to speak out despite the legal risk.
I learned to speed read years ago, and this breaks that for me. One of the keys with speed reading is that you don't read every single word. With this I was reading every word. It felt slower and tiring.

The test said that it did not improve my reading but didn't say why.
>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.

Somehow I doubt if you did that you could tell us. You might even have to lie to be able to comment on that letter at all.
The article you linked to in [1] doesn't explicitly say that generalized 1024-bit RSA is dead. They found a way to exploit a special case key (Mersenne number keys). Searching around the internet, I found a bunch of articles about supposed cracks, but they all involved additional sources of information. I'm not doubting that the NSA has found ways to crack all sorts of crypto, but is there really a known way to break 1024-bit RSA without other special qualifiers?
See also: HTC EVO or HTC One
What amazes and saddens me about this, though, is that I was one of the people who thought that we could draw a line -- the NSA was obviously going to keep its cryptanalysis techniques secret, they probably listened to everything, but the idea that they were actively sabotaging cryptosystems just seemed like to far-fetched a conspiracy theory. Half their mission is to protect US communications from foreigners, and backdoors are the most obvious way to not achieve that goal.

Yet here we have proof that the NSA is truly in the business of sabotaging cryptosystems that are in general use. Those systems protect US interests as much as foreign interests, and now they are not trustworthy. Now I am left wondering -- PGP, for example, deviates from theoretical constructions of non-malleable encryption; might that have been the NSA's doing? What about the problems in various versions of TLS? Now it is hard to say what is an honest mistake and what is a deliberate effort to undermine computer security.

We are now past the point of not blaming on malice what we can attribute to stupidity, because we have evidence that there is actual malice on a grand scale. It is a truly sad day for this world...
Ah, so if we can imagine it, it must be true.
It's not speculation. If I recall, the deal detailed exactly what MS had bought and what they hadn't. The Nokia name is licensed, but only for "dumbphones".
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I understand the Nokia going away but I really liked the Lumia name. I find it very fitting for a series of phones although obviously the numbers are just silly.
They may also escape from their cage each night and try to take over the world.
I don't agree with RMS on much, but this just goes to show that calling people "extremist" is a logical fallacy. There is only correct and incorrect, and the margin by which something deviates from a commonly accepted norm is irrelevant to judging that.
It confused me at first, the "isn't" is hard to catch. He's saying that there is not something irreducibly complex about food.
The magnets would loose their power over time which makes this "just" a large battery. Imagine all the energy put in making this machine, that is the "charge".
Now when they get rid of the "Windows" branding, they'll really be on to something.
>Assume he is playing the Nash equilibrium strategy.

You you can't do that assumption because you don't know what the strategy is. You can calculate Nash equilibrium only if you know the strategy your opponent is using. In full no limit hold em there is no single strategy winning strategy, so you don't know the strategy your opponents are using.
It's probably not a technology to be used by publishers. It seems like more of a reader-level technology. A browser or ebook reader/app feature.
Thanks, it's been a long day, I needed that.
Well, I'm not a parent, but I think I would choose the former. I think they're probably unable to understand the implications, particularly if it's a treatment that has to be done at birth, and I think my judgement is better than my young child's in any case. And it even helps my selfish side, because, as you point out, it makes it much easier to take care of him.
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I actually read everything on that page.
Maybe you could take what the person would normally eat — hamburgers, pasta, beans, whatever — and blend them until they create a soylent-like consistency. I can't imagine it would taste that much like soylent, but then again, how would they know?
I definitely agree. The change has definitely slowed the tide of people wanting to move away from the platform.

ASP.NET MVC has definitely been a big factor with this on the web development side.
Obama's approval rating among democrats, the people that voted for him, is 75-80% depending on the poll.

Obama might have lied about transparency and whatnot, but people don't seem to have elected him on that basis. They elected him for his views on healthcare, social welfare, abortion, etc.

Thought experiment: look at the tiny number of democrats complaining about the NSA issue, then think about what would happen if Obama instead had done a 180 on Social Security, abortion, etc. You think his approval rating among democrats would be 75-80% if he had signed legislation to dismantle Social Security?
As Snowden showed you need only one rogue admin most of the times to get what you want
I did. I try to read everything to completion instead of flitting around the web like a chicken with it's head cut off.
It does. Probably 'purple prose' as well.
How exactly is the NSA cheating and breaking internet crypto? Can someone clarify? Edit: Downvoted? Is it a bad question?
No, that's not NSA's doing. PGP predates the theoretical constructions you're referring to. Bellare/Namprempre was something like 5 years after the first "modern" PGP (IIRC the original PGP used a terribly broken cipher of Zimmerman's own design). Also, malleability is not a particularly lucrative capability for NSA to have, even if you want to assume that the integrity mechanisms in PGP are broken.
I clicked the link without reading the comments and had the same thought straight away. Couldn't make it past the fifth paragraph despite trying my best.
Very interesting tech, but personally I think I would struggle with the moral ramifications of working on a project that makes money by turning people into suckers
Sure, you can find some great bits of information there, but when it comes to something like a science subreddit, you have to be very strict in moderating comments that might mislead people (r/askscience does this very well). There is NO room for anecdotes or personal assumptions when it comes to discussing scientific articles. It really is all or nothing, if you allow any non scientific-based discussion, you get something like r/space which is (was?) one of the worst subreddits in my opinion.

Also, there is a huge political bias over on r/science. I see this as a huge problem with most of reddit actually, but people should forget about political bullshit when it comes to discussing scientific facts. Unfortunately, this is not the case and people begin to discuss the moralities/logistics of drug legalization rather than discuss the science presented in the article. I have gotten into many debates on that subreddit and have, attempted to, correct so much misinformation that I was just forced to unsubscribe a few months ago because of how rage-inducing it was. I'd stick to r/askscience.
I think average people tuned out everything aside from "Galaxy", which Samsung noticed and thus began Samsung Galaxy Everything.
Mass recruiters and hiring managers wouldn't hesitate, but individuals running business units may want to keep it discreet. I believe it is needed for some situations..Time will show. Thanks for your comments.
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What the heck did MS get out of this? A sales channel? They didn't get engineers (didn't most of them flee?). And they obviously didn't want the brand.
The year of the Linux Desktop for me was 2004... It doesn't arrive at the same point in time for everybody, but the NSA had very little to do with it arriving for me.

The NSA does not hold control over the purchasing decisions made in countless governments and companies all over the world, for that to be a legitimate worry you'd have to show that in America linux was used substantially less where it should have been used compared to other countries. I doubt you could make that case convincingly.
Matt Mackall, the former maintainer of /dev/random, actually stepped down over this issue, because Linus overrode Matt and applied Intel's patch that used their hardware random number generator directly:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.cryptography.r...

> It's worth noting that the maintainer of record (me) for the Linux RNG quit the project about two years ago precisely because Linus decided to include a patch from Intel to allow their unauditable RdRand to bypass the entropy pool over my strenuous objections.

> From a quick skim of current sources, much of that has recently been rolled back (/dev/random, notably) but kernel-internal entropy users like sequence numbers and address-space randomization appear to still be exposed to raw RdRand output.

Ted Ts'o later reverted this, separating out Intel's hardware random number generation into a separate function that could be used to seed the entropy pool but wouldn't be trusted directly as the main kernel source of random numbers:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
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My test presented the non-BeeReader passage before the BeeReader version, so there's definitely some randomization going on.

Perhaps the aggregate A/B numbers make a more compelling case for using BeeReader?

I wonder if the color combo choice has any affect on the speed/comprehension of the text.
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Sometimes I do not have the right shoes on to rev match so I can see this feature being useful. I would consider a car a manual if the user has to press a clutch in before changing gears.
You should consider porting that to the official miniprofiler standard (https://github.com/miniprofiler/ui). We want ports in other languages, and php would be welcome. You just have to make the backend, frontend is done and documented above.
Why use symmetric cryptography over public-key? I thought RSA was theoretically secure as long as factoring sufficiently large prime numbers is impossible.
Cheap stuff you can chug instead of eating a meal? Every meal? Just point me to it.
Yeah, it's not my finest sentence. I went back and italicized the "isn't," and maybe later I'll rethink the structure of that sentence entirely. It's a bit confusingly stated.
depending on who is sponsoring the ad, iphones have this sometimes. I know when sprint got the iphone, for instance, there were tons of 'apple iphone now on sprint' ads, which is exactly what you're talking about.

if a carrier runs an ad mentioning a phone, this is the end result.
Microbrewers compete on taste, or on producing varieties of beer that are not reduced-calorie pilsners.

I have not seen a solid explanation of how Soylent is distinct from Ensure. Rhinehart claims: "No MRP has been designed to be a sustainable source of nutrition", but this is not true. Ensure and medical liquid meal replacements can be used. He even admits as much (and contradicts himself) when he says further down "patients have lived for many years on synthetic diets in a medical setting"

Is he competing on cost? So far Soylent doesn't seem cheaper, and I don't see how his formula can compete on cost with a larger, more developed business with greater capital resources and infrastructure.

The taste of Soylent is described as "inoffensive", so I don't think he's competing on taste

So, unlike microbrewers, it's not clear how soylent goes up against products like Ensure. And I don't think the company has clearly laid out the advantages of Soylent vs. Ensure.
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Looks good, I make something similar but the server is in the cloud. www.domothings.com will open beta in September-October.
Gah. I even noticed that typo while writing it, then forgot about it after having edited another part of my comment. Yes, I meant DES, not DSA.
I had the exact same experience. I felt like I was flying through the paragraphs.
From the article:

> "Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read. The news organizations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the article because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of Americans and others."

NYT, the Guardian, etc do have access to these details, but chose not to publish them.
2 Suggestions:

1. It'd be very nice if you had a version that tweaks text colors and doesn't touch anything else, i.e. just like on the demo page. When I tested your bookmarklet and it tore up the page I thought something was broken. I only found out that it uses readability because I started digging when it 'broke', you never mention 'readability' in your copy.

2. People will want it enabled by default. You can't do that if you use readability.
> The smugness in every blog post. The assumption that you've mastered in a matter of months what you think others have failed at for years

Who tried to make permanent, complete meal replacement and failed?
There is nothing to interesting to say when you and I are in agreement about how the food industry sell food.
JavaScript still sucks, some of us came from actual functional languages.

The post (and title) seems mostly like link bait, but just in case the author is reading, some of us are perfectly capable of hating a language while appreciating its pragmatism at the same time, JavaScript is close to the only language I code and I very much hate it.
That sounds like Firefox OS.
That reads to me as more of a vision statement, not a claim they're currently making about their product. Maybe I'm being overly charitable.

As a vision statement, it seems fine. Google hasn't yet "organized the world's information", just a lot of it - occasionally we still need to resort to other means.
Viewing Soylent as a replacement for every single meal would be scary and potentially dangerous. However, I think it would be difficult to compare the nutritional value of a meal comprised of McDonalds and Coke to a meal of Soylent and to find the Soylent wanting or not superior in every way.

Personally I'm excited to get my month's supply of Soylent, because at the very least I know it won't kill me, and at the very best I'll have some more free time and extra pocket money to spend with good friends or a good book.
I see an iOS app, but nothing for BlackBerry 10 users. Please consider us as well. Thanks!
Even of emacs?
Alternative headline: Microsoft throw away bathwater, baby
Also Mac, Windows.
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." - Albert Einstein quotes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet...

Take it back? Never was ours.
Err, I guess was testing the Pixlr version in the Chrome Web Store, which I assumed would be the same thing as the “desktop” version. Is it possible that one would be Flash and the other would be something else?
Seriously, what is a serif? Sounds like designer voodoo speak for 'pay me more money'!
The most fascinating part of this article to me is this part, which proves that even a super-secure intelligence agency can still have very weak links that can be penetrated:

Only a small cadre of trusted contractors were allowed to join Bullrun. It does not appear that Mr. Snowden was among them, but he nonetheless managed to obtain dozens of classified documents referring to the program’s capabilities, methods and sources.

Who knows what other documents other internal hackers could have stolen?
I'm confused, are you saying this in support of Soylent? If so, it's right up there with this quote from the article:

> We do not yet know what the ideal diet for a human is, but our present understanding permits us to easily design a diet that is far superior to what most people are eating.

If your bar for quality and benefits is the existing food industry then you've already massively failed. The existing food industry, especially in America is completely fucked. Of course you can trivially manufacture a healthier diet than what most people eat, because most people eat a lot of industrially processed foods engineered to fool your senses and get you addicted so that they can sell you more over-priced rehashed versions of the same subsidized farm grains at an obscenely profitable markup.

That's not evidence that we are anywhere near having a clue how to manufacture an ideal diet from raw chemicals. The fact that he keeps painting this picture that diet is just a list of chemicals and pays no attention to how the body metabolize is dangerously reductive. Animal metabolism is nowhere near as simple as the simple and isolated chemistry and physics on which he bases his reasoning. When anyone raises these issues he sticks his fingers in his ears hand-waves it away with accusations that people want him to fail for pseudo-religious emotional reasons.

Well, I for one don't want him to fail, the goal is noble and could be widely beneficial. However it will never be achieved by someone who is so willfully ignorant about the complexity of the problem he is facing.
Which browsers in particular?
I tried it out for awhile, and it did seem to help me read faster, but I felt like my brain was been strained. If I started doing this all the time, I'm wondering if my brain would freak out reading regular black on white text.

I'm wondering if just adding reference points along the margin or between lines could accomplish the same thing without having to change the text color. Something similar to the tick marks along a graph axis.
patents.
... Patents.

For war.
Patents, supply chain.
I am feeling like there is a myriad of approaches:

* covert agents in companies
-- * stealing certs
-- * stealing plans
-- * planting code

* direct (yet coerced) cooperation by the corps (goog, fb, etc)

* RNG prediction based on planted flaws in various components

* direct backdoors placed in certain mfr chips (see my comment about being told cisco was required to provide backdoors as early as 1997)

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You're correct - that we knew that this was going to be revealed. We did not know if it was going to be "NSA's quantum computer the size of a datacenter cracks all encryption in real-time" or the above multi-vector attack.

What is important to see here though is that there is, effectively, absolutely NO escape from NSA eyes.

If you encrypt, they will get you. If you refuse them, they will shut you down. If you build a whole new service to thwart them - maybe they could even lean on PayPal to freeze your funds as well /tin-foil....
For now, we need to stop thinking and talking like this. This race is lost. The government is ready to record everything, but we are not ready to encrypt everything.

It's not enough to protect yourself, even if you could. You are not OK even if you manage to protect yourself, because your friends and family and loved ones and colleagues are mostly, if not all, compromised.

The long term goal should still be for everything to be encrypted. But the near-term goal should be to utterly dismantle the NSA. It should all be taken apart, brick from brick, and destroyed. The people who put it into place should be removed from power and prosecuted.
that wasn't really very helpful or education of your professor. What, I wonder was, their point? I can't explain why the earth's core is still so damn hot after cooling for several billion years, but I know it's not magic. I could name you many areas that I'm not an expert in, but I know for a fact none of them rely on magic, except possible quantum mechanics. The jury's still out on that being magic.
Not only is it a 12-month rate, but it's also only on balances of under £50,000. The extra interest is a bounded cost the bank is willing to pay for customer acquisition knowing the average value of a new customer in terms of fees and other revenue generated. A business that wants to earn some interest on millions of pounds without agreeing to switch revenue-generating services to that bank as well is not going to get the same offer.
RSA-1024 was assumed already to be breakable, but RSA-2048 and RSA-4096 will likely stay unbreakable for a long time.

It's really as many suspect - they are prepared for targeting the crypto implementations, through exploits or backdoors and if they can't they can target your computer.

Also, open-source is of course safer and some of us have been repeating for years that you can't trust binary blobs, security being just one reason out of many.