skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"what is different now is that crypto has gone from something that will impact a few investigations to a fact that law enforcement and intelligence agencies will have to live with"

That was exactly the issue during the crypto wars. The cat was out of the bag by the time NSA agents showed up in Rivest's office and started treating it like a crime scene. The DOJ brought up stories about common criminals using PGP to avoid prosecution when Zimmerman was testifying before Congress. The crypto wars were an effort to prevent cryptography from becoming commonplace, not just about a few high-level targets using it.

"there will be much money to be made trying to build NSA-proof services"

First of all, privacy is not a service, at least not if "privacy" means "NSA-proof." Hushmail and Lavabit have proved that point beyond any doubt.

I also doubt that privacy-enhancing technologies will be very profitable. There is a general lack of understanding of what things like PGP actually do, which makes it hard to sell such things. People want convenience more than privacy. Business users are willing to accept systems with back doors, for both their own internal needs (a dead employee's files should not be lost forever) and for compliance with various regulations (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley).

What you almost certainly will see are lots of scams and snake-oil security.
Fix your bugs and your server stability Firebase. Using AngularFire for 2 months and it's alpha quality.
Niggle is a pretty common word. I can't believe it could ever be misinterpreted as 'nigger'.
Yeah, after the hellish Tempest/Urza block they really cut back, Mercadian Masques was almost critically under-powered, and they've gotten so much better since that time at providing balance.
Get EU citizenship from the nearest EU member Bulgaria. Lots of Syrian refugees get EU IDs here. Good luck.
I've always toyed with the idea of tech companies gearing up militarily. Let's see Google Hellfire Missile Drones defend their datacenters against Facebook Autonomous Cockroach Bots with kilograms of incendiaries embedded in them.

Just watch out for Apple's that's-no-office-building spaceship. (It's easier to disguise a launching platform as an office building rather than build an (undetected) assembly platform in LEO.)
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Yeah, I agree 100% with his conclusion, but I would've been a bit less defensive about why people might have misunderstood him.
I used AngularFire to build my application BringTheSalsa (http://bringthesalsa.hswolff.com/). Not only was it a pleasure to use, it also works beautifully. ++ to AngularFire.
It seems to me that the only way to bring about real policy change in the US is to organize politically. If you can deliver votes in November, then you can get things done.

Part of the problem is that other than the EFF and ACLU, there isn't really a "privacy lobby" in the US. And neither of these organizations are effective in shaping election outcomes.

What is needed is something like the 2nd-ammendment lobby or the "Family Values" lobby--one that not only talks about policy, but one which also rewards allies and penalizes enemies at the ballot box. The way that the NRA and the Christian Coalition do it is through grass-roots organizing, and a massive donor base that they basically direct in a centralized manner, which puts them in an unassailable negotiating position on Capital Hill.
Then how about:

"It's not a review if you don't really know anything about the keyboards you're comparing it to."?
You can learn syntax and vocabulary quite easily by reading and writting in a language. Pronunciation is much harder to learn, often requiring relocating yourself.
Would be great if there's a screenshot or demo somewhere.
There's always time for coffee.
Tried it on:

http://forums.offtopic.com/printhread.php?t=5190971

And got redirected to the homepage instead.
I think the NYT reporter Nathaniel Rich hit on something when he commented that PG made an 'evil Soviet henchman' voice. I don't think he was intending to sound evil, but only to imitate a Russian accent. The 'evilness' comes from the NYT reporter's mind. And I think the failure of start-ups with foreigners with bad English language skills is also likely due to their recruitment efforts - you'd tend to hire only people who speak your native language if you can't speak English very well, thus your hiring pool is quite small.
I'm actually learning the 'workman' layout at the moment, on my MS 4000 ergonomic keyboard at home, while sticking with qwerty on 'normal' keyboards at work.

I like the idea of using a more efficient layout than qwerty, but still need to be able to sit down at any user's computer and help them and type quickly (sysadmin and support work...)

It seems to be going pretty well... Having a quite different shaped keyboard makes it feel quite different.

In some ways it's just like playing different instruments. I can quite happily switch between Clarinet, Recorder, Flute, Sax, etc, and that's considered reasonably normal amongst musicians. No reason computer keyboards should be any different.
Did you look at the keyboards linked at the bottom that the author suggests as good "modern" keyboards? They all look like either toys or else some kind of weird torture device for hands. I don't want a keyboard that looks like a modern art exhibit.

I've seen a bunch of these "reviews" and every single one of them seems to be complaining almost solely about the keyboard not being ergonomic. News flash, not everyone wants an ergonomic keyboard.

The only legitimate potential issue I've ever seen any of these reviews raise is that the keyboard might not be spill resistant which might be an issue for some.
Yea that or just some dude selling K2 out of his basement would have been fine by me
I wouldn't call them "fits", really.

40 years ago these calculators were looked upon with a bit of skepticism. Engineers that were used to seeing the log tables with their own eyes and hand-manipulating slide rules were being asked to trust the results coming out of these calculators.

And lives depended on it, really. If you were a civil engineer designing a bridge and you needed to be absolutely sure the numbers you were using were accurate to 7 places and totally correct, would you suddenly put all your faith in this small brown box with no way to examine the inner workings?

HP went through a lot to build that trust and it was rightly earned. HP's reputation for building solid accurate calculators kept that business going for decades to come.
You think we're going to see that?

I imagine it'll be fought, but quietly and sealed under various letters/orders/statements for the next 30 years.
This happens because English as Second Language teachers are often non-native speakers and speak with an accent themselves. They are able to teach grammar or vocabulary but they cannot teach pronunciation. Often non-native speakers are only exposed to a native speaking environment as grown-ups. By that time your brain is already stuck in its ways and it is frustratingly tough to learn new vowels and consonants.

As a non-native speaker myself I can often hear myself pronouncing English poorly yet I find it excruciatingly difficult to pronounce some vowels the way I intend to pronounce them, even though I have been living in a native-speaking environment for a long time. Similarly, my native English-speaking (American) wife finds it very difficult to pronounce some vowels and consonants of my own native language. It took her fairly long to learn how to pronounce my name correctly. (Ironically, now that we're married it is her name as well.)

All I am saying is that I would not attribute this to pride or laziness. Pronunciation is a genuinely difficult thing to learn as an adult.
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Why don't you just speak to them in English? That's the best way to learn a language - by practising it every day.
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Onyx are "apparently" releasing one shortly (this quarter).

https://onyx-boox.com/coming-soon-e-ink-news/e-ink-smartphon...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2420952,00.asp

EDIT: updated link
I figure that the NSA will simply subpoena the private SSL certs with a gag order. That gives the companies involved plausible deniability since XKeyScore (and XKeyScore whatever is next) can just record all the raw internet traffic. I don't see how large technology companies will be able to fight back. SSLv3 includes Perfect Forward Secrecy via ECC but it is not widely used.
Down at the bottom of the keyboard's site it says "104-Key and 87-Key Models Available".
Or just http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/42560...
This is exactly what Google+ accomplishes with circles.
After the visibility on HN the demo is crashing our browsers :)
Who is teaching computer science in high schools?
From what I've read, Cooler Master and Filco use the same OEM (Costar) so there's almost no difference in quality between the two.
Perhaps with the help of Facebook. It's right in the name.
Typo there.

The original domain had potential to be misread too though! :-)
It's a library not an application.

But that is a good idea, I'll implement something using Revel.
How long until VR headsets are the size of a eye lens? And do you really think most people want to wear a VR headset all day long?
that page crashes my chrome.
Your website is crashing because of while (true) { $('form').submit(); }. Throttle that beeyotch.
ValleyWag and the whole of Gawker Media are just fucking WORST. They have a long record of doing scummy things just to generate views. I've lost all respect for them when their editor published the Brett Favre dick picks story, which was told to him by Jenn Sterger in a private, friendly, off-the-record conversation, after she specifically asked him not to publish it. Unsurprisingly, that resulted in her career being completely destroyed after that.
Try Kal in the Browser
>> No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together

I do agree, can you help me understand what distinguishes independent music from regular music? It isn't hard to be added to Spotify, so why would you have any music Spotify doesn't? Or is it simply that the compensation model is different.
Watch out if you're a Mac user. The TEK has some serious detection problems with Macs. Same with Windows 8. Also, their customer support is beyond useless. Firmware problems still unfixed from original models.

The company has a long history of failed promises and it took them _forever_ to get that remapping tool out...basically only after Ergodox started stealing all of their customers.
quit being a little bitch and get a model M like a real programmer
And that's the reason I am packing my stuff and heading to London. At this very moment. I was just about to remove the legs from the table I am writing these lines on (well, I am writing them on a computer, but thats not the point). And surprise, surprise, I am moving from Central Europe. And yes, I can speak with a thick Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian (Andy Grove style) accent. If anyone had a job available for a fresh CS graduate, please let me know (email is in my profile)!
>People will walk around with headsets to cover their entire face, defeating the cameras.

You can already obscure all of your face except for your eyes with just a strip of cloth, which will have the exact same effect.
I think some of the folks here are casting aspersions on the folks arguing with PG - there are some reasonable arguments in there.

PG's stance (my interpretation) is - (1) Founders need to sell to be effective and (2) Having a strong accent makes it hard to communicate effectively and in turn, sell.

I get that (I have an accent myself).

People are objecting to the underlying assumption that this causation is something we deem acceptable. Here's a counter example. (1) Founders need to sell (2) Part of selling is to make the audience identify with you, so founders who look/act like their audience do better. This suddenly becomes a slippery slope, even if that's a perfectly logical argument.

tldr: (Correlation or causation) != acceptable.
why downvote this? the rational response to yet another psychologal 'priming' study is extreme scepticism.
Intuitively there is an argument that maintaining simplicity will improve word-of-mouth and conversion rates, but in reality it (unfortunately, perhaps) absolutely is the case that revenue can be massively increased by introducing all kinds of additional advertising, up/cross-sells, and ultimately, dark patterns.

I wonder how true that really is. We’ve recently been looking into advertising options for a new service, and to say that the experience we’ve had trying to arrange Facebook and Google ads has been terrible would be very kind to Facebook and Google. I reckon Facebook have lost half the money we’d have spent with them just through UI failures, up to and including literally not being able to place ads sometimes because their pages simply didn’t work. Google have to date lost 100% of the money we were considering giving to them because we couldn’t figure out what we were getting for our money within a reasonable period of time and whether it was likely to have a reasonable RoI compared to our other options.

As a small business, of course we have only so much financial budget to spend across all advertising channels, but we have even less time for busy founders to figure out where to spend it. A simple “Pay this, get that” kind of deal is much more attractive than these vague, auction-based on-line advertising systems where half the numbers they report seem wildly inconsistent from one page to the next. I’m not sure whether those schemes are intended to be a dark pattern or whether they just feel like it because of their inherently vague nature and frequently appalling UI, but they seem pretty close to the line to me.

Ironically, the unclear deal also makes us hesitant to use these services for our own advertising, for fear of effectively becoming unwelcome advertisers ourselves. I loathe spammers as much as anyone, and on top of that we operate in a relatively small and very social market, so not knowing whether we’re showing marketing material to people who are actually likely to be interested is a big turn-off for us. So I guess as well as being another possible example of a dark pattern, this is also an example of poor UI clearly decreasing revenues rather than increasing them.
Wait, what's the appeal of this over caffeine tablets?

I like the taste of coffee/tea so I prefer it as a "caffeine delivery system", but if I really hated all caffeinated beverages I'd just buy caffeine tablets, which last time I checked were ridiculously cheap (like $0.10 a tablet).

Often the tablets are so potent that splitting them makes sense, making them even cheaper.

I guess I don't see the appeal.
I wish the default review was one in which the reviewer has actually used the product in question. Anything else should have to declare itself as a 'hands-off' review, which helps to highlight its ridiculousness.
Simpson's paradox in d3 & why Berkeley isn't sexist
Given the 15.8% success rate of the cat detector on large data sets: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.6209.pdf&embedded=true,

My chief worry is overconfidence from hopelessly technologically ignorant bureaucrats combined with a slew of false negatives and false positives when applied to human faces on general surveillance feeds.

In contrast, driver's license, ID, and arrest photos are at least severely constrained input filters wherein a single individual is placed against relatively uncomplicated background pixels and the face is in roughly the same orientation.
Is it really? Would love to work in Berlin for a while.
Yes, but that's more like fork or malloc failing in the first place than letting you run and then randomly killing something when the system gets overcomitted
Browser vendors (which seem to coincide with many of these tech companies involved) can also use certificate pinning:

http://tack.io/

Or we can all start to use something like this (both projects are from Moxie Marlinspike):

http://convergence.io/
>Given X-Keyscore was a program primarily designed to intercept unencrypted internet traffic, you could be forgiven for interpreting Facebook’s post as a middle finger pointed in NSA’s direction. (Sources inside Facebook say it is a coincidence, and indeed the company had been in the process of enabling this across-the-board for years. But still. The timing.)

What journalistic integrity.
I'm Russian and was running an ed tech company for the last 2 years. Even thought I rate my English skills reasonably high and I've finished one of the top universities in London with the top grade, once we were at the stage when we need to sell our product, I was completely lost. While talking to native people I was kept noticing how bad my accent was and I think because I've been critical to myself, I felt over time even worse about my accent and ability to fluently communicate what I was doing.
It's definitely affected our sales numbers and ability to raise capital. Our company was losing credibility in front of the customers eyes, because of inability to keep up with the conversation pace. After hiring native sales and bizdev people our numbers have grown up. I would advice non-native speakers to keep improving there accent and ability to fluently communicate by getting English tutor or personal-dev trainer or by any other means that I would be happy to hear.
Well, we know they archive Facebook content so go figure
I agree that "equal opportunities" is a myth. People grow up with vast differences in the advantages they've been given.

However, deserving equal things doesn't mean you get equal things. See the fact that people have different amounts of money from each other, and have for thousands of years. We celebrate the ability of individuals to better their life situation as much as possible, and we don't shame rich people for spending money to give their kids a better education than the government can provide.

The US public school system is simply an attempt to give all children in the entire country access to some education. It would be great if it was a gleaming example of delivering quality on a large scale, up to the standard of, say, McDonald's, but alas it is not.

Quora answerers did a better job than me making the point about raising your kids: http://www.quora.com/Education/If-you-send-your-kid-to-priva...
Possibly because people like to try things out before going through the work of creating an account.
Look, it's the online click-generating, culture-destroying media firms' business model to generate politically correct controversies especially on the words of famous or successful people. ValleyWag is the latest monster to grow out of the repulsive Gawker empire. They will do what they have to do. The joke is on everyone else who even cares what is published there.
Also using Faye here, love it!
The obvious is underrated.
LumoBack, a device to monitor your posture
Most of the keyboards he links to don't achieve feature equality. As an example the first keyboard listed is the only backlit keyboard on the list. It has a bunch of extra "gaming" keys, has an identical list price of $150, and has a 70mb driver download. For the rest of the list the only thing they have in common with the CODE keyboard is mechanical switches. Sure Atwood didn't invent a new kind of keyboard, he just put one out with a certain set of features that he hadn't seen in an existing keyboard, which certainly wasn't contradicted by the linked article.
I think his issue with the alt key is valid. If you're using this keyboard with a Mac you will use that key as the Mac command key. Since it's the most frequent shortcut key used, it should be convenient to press. There's really no need for the space bar to be so large (it does not have to be as small as the japanese keyboards). The command and spacebar key placement on the MacBook seems to be perfectly fine.
The bit that is probably most striking to modern eyes is the data representation. With 320 instructions there's simply no room for the "obvious" code to translate to and from a display representation. So everything was stored in BCD and operated on one (decimal!) digit at a time using a 4-bit ALU.
Menu -> History -> Clear.
I've recently read The Pragmatic Programmer and its still quite relevant
Excellent "enterprise" presentation skills! (and this morning's best posted story, IMO)
Looks like they totally closed the forum. There aren't any posts indexed by Google.
The Alt key is one of the biggest critizisms (even though it's been the standard placement since the IBM-PC 101/104). Every other keyboard alternative shown has the exact same Alt key size and position.
Isn't the more important battle here between the government and the agencies that server as the 'backbone' of the internet (ISPs,etc?)
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The API was just a feature. The actual product was a multi-merchant market place w/ a shipping estimator that was a 1-1 implementation of EasyPost (YC S13).
It could certainly narrow the field. Combine a vector of "features" derived from the single image that with a bunch of other orthogonal "features" such as location and I could see it improving efficiency of manhunts significantly.

Just beware of Bonferroni's Principle:

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/352689/bonferronis-p...
er, I meant "presentment", rather than "presentation".
I know if I applied my chances of being hired would probably be <1%. But at the same time if they were desperate enough to hire my lot, well I'd know it's certainly more than a matter of being appealing or enthused with patriotism. And that scares me a lot more than anything I've been reading about. I don't want to be thinking about this stuff 24/7 for the rest of my life; who would compared to the vapid monetizing opportunities we see around here? But if we are at that point in time well perhaps that level of lifelong dedicated thinking is more than just a career option.
Anyone else feel free to comment, especially if you were a paper book lover but switched.
Watching TV shows in English (with English subtitles) is a great idea, but I'm not so sure about The Simpsons. I speak English fairly well and I still have some trouble understanding the Simpsons (Homer especially). There are other shows that are much easier to understand and better suited for beginners.

For example, I would consider Breaking Bad much more suitable for beginners in English (most characters speak very clear), but it might not be an appropriate show for kids.
The CM Pro isn't Costar, but the linked one in the post is.

They keys are a bit nicer on the Filco and there are also more mods and replacement parts available for it (yay, aluminum bodies). The Filco PCBs are a bit better: "the through-holes for the switch pins has pads only on the top surface for CM, while Filco has pads that are on the top surface and goes all the way inside the holes. The trace/pads are less prone to being ripped out, but of course this probably only affects desoldering."

On top of that, Diatec (Filco) has great customer support and has been known to send their customers replacement parts long out of warranty.
I am an immigrant and have lots of immigrant friends with various lengths of being at in the U.S. I can confirm that it takes 7 years to speak English well enough so people really want to socialize with you.
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> There has to be better mechanism than OOM.

Like not overcomitting memory in the first place
What I'm attempting to add to the conversation is another perspective to communication across accents. I think understanding other people's perspectives helps break down communication barriers. Both sides can try and reach across the gap.