skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some worse things:

Microsoft's OEM deals to throw out Netscape.

Bundling IE with their monopolistic OS to kill Netscape

Disallowing OEMs to sell computers with any OS but Windows (or demanding 3x the price for Windows licenses).

Killing DR-DOS by having Windows refuse to start if it detects DR-DOS.

Funding and encouraging SCO's baseless lawsuit to create FUD around Linux.

And various other scandals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
> I'm not from the US, so have never heard of Trader Joe's.

Probably most Americans haven't heard of Trader Joe's since most of its stores are in Southern California.

But it's a really cool grocery chain, and I say that as someone who generally hates shopping. Still one of the things we miss most about California since we moved to Australia.
For which databases? If there's an air gap, barring WiFi or other radio or laser transmissions, how would they respond to user requests? Isn't the majority of FB's data like, actually used by Internet users?
It's aimed at fighting fragmentation that HN lament so much about by providing the core Google service in apps rather than the OS, but now people complain that more and more of google code is in binary apps rather than the open source OS.
Wow. If his suggestion comes to pass, this may be the most powerful post Schneier ... or anyone ... has ever made. So, how can we make it happen?
Once you have enough karma, you can flag articles. It's my understanding flags are not equal weighted with votes.
I’ve noticed this issue a lot of times. Is Google deliberately inserting Unicode crap at the end of URL:s in order to prevent copy-and-paste from their search results? Or perhaps it’s to prevent scraping, and the loss of copy and paste functionality is just collateral damage.
Addendum: What I would ultimately like to see is a secondary, secure processor in cellphones; one with direct (muxed) access to the phone's screen and inputs. This processor runs its own OS, and is completely isolated from everything else except for a tiny communication channel with the main processor. When triggered by the main processor, it can take control of the screen and inputs to fulfill its functionality.

Now, to use it, you whip out your phone, launch the related app, and this causes the main processor to pass control to the secure processor where you are greeted by your password manager.

Better yet, the phone's browser could trigger it, and even tell the secure processor what website we wish to log into. Now the user just has to hit confirm/enter a pin, and the rest is handled automatically.

Not amazing enough yet? When plugged into your PC by USB/Bluetooth, if you've got the right software installed, even the PC's browser could trigger this.

Now you have all the benefits of a hardware based password manager, but you don't need a "second device."
From what I recall, Debian currently defaults to threaded unless you install mod_php, in which case it insists you change to prefork because PHP still isn't threadsafe.
I think the government response to this should be to delay the feed to reuters by 2 seconds or whatever penalty time they feel like tacking on.
> Honestly I could care less about

Couldn't care less. Couldn't.
To Morgan Stanley's CEO:
Cool story bro
Used to work until 2009 or so. Even NYT had shopping.com/ Mysimon /Pricegrabber style sections with borrowed content. The idea is that since NYT is trusted everything there ranks high, and it did. Now it does again since the pendulum has gone so far on the "big brands can do no wrong" side. It's all Google induced and Google cannot find the power to penalize big brands, other than a half-assed 2 week or so demotion.

Today, US Today has eHow powered sections for examples and they rank extremely high.
ha :)

This interview alone makes me think the probability of another financial crisis is close to 1.

"Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris
This story is interesting, but I was having a hard time following the backstory. He was in Jordan temporarily, but hasn't been in Syria in 3 years? If so where was he? Just trying to understand context.

There's a lot of stories of people being treated without rights in airports (even rich white European males get the treatment sometimes). It's honestly really scary.
Dolls have given us an unrealistic image of women.

For example, I found out Russian women do not contain smaller Russian women inside them.
Linux doesn't lie, any more than gravity lies, or geology lies, or atmosphere lies. Like those other natural things, Linux has no guile, no agenda beyond supporting the entirety of use-space.
Yeah. A way of defeating that is adding a constant-bitrate model, which is unlikely to be deployable at scale (network's slow enough as-is).

Is it conceivable that nodes could hold packets for a period of time long enough that traffic is "really" mixed with other traffic? Or does this just add the equivalent of a random delay which is easily defeated?
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KeepPass2 is actually built on Mono, the open source multi-platform .net clone. It just happens to work with M$ .net.

I have it running on OS X, Linux, Android and Windows, all at the same time, while singing changed across platforms with secure Web Dav based cloud storage. Took me 20 min to set up on all four devices.

As someone who had their passwords leaked by an attack against one of the largest commercial password safes just a few years ago (heard of pwnedlist or the LastPass beaches?) I have been happily using KeePass as amuch more secure FOSS alternative with equal (if not more) functionality ever since, without any hangups to speak of.
Well, if you consider the amount of coke consumed by executives in this industry, his statement could actually make sense.
What's wrong with Razer Electra Headphones?
We know that dingelidine has been working on mixmaster, a next generation email anonymity tool. If successfully we might had something immune to the nsa, at least theoretically.

But he is working on Tor, which can be attacked by global passive attackers, something that in past consider very unlikely to exist. We know today nsa is a global passive attacker.

And today, mixmaster still hasn't been working, and the size of email anonymity networks is so small, to be useless.

It all worked out very nicely for the nsa. And what, they just got lucky? No conspiracy?
Lindo SSDs are expensive, and the good SSDs are really, really expensive. Although the cheaper SSDs exist, they wear out more quickly, potentially slowing down as they wear, and have slower overall throughput. Not a good combination for use in multi-tenant server workloads.
Thanks for that. Not only is the article pretentious bullshit, it's also factually wrong. There are loads of companies directly supplying developers to Linux and all of them have a strong motive to push development in the companies' own directions.
There are Qt bindings for many languages, you don't really have to use C++.
When I've looked at gmail, I've found the threading unbearable. The whole concept of email threading is probably a personal preference in the first place, but gmail appears to just group email with the same subject together, which is totally brain dead and renders it unusable for me. Mail.app is just a nicer alternative, for me.
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I don't really disagree with you but you're operating on the assumption that the Japanese Gov't will continue playing "the game". Bear in mind there is absolutely nothing stopping them simply declaring that they have paid back all debts.

Hyperinflation happens in countries that were collapsing anyway. Under other circumstances, you could call it "quantitative easing" just like the USA has been doing, or who knows what they will call it, but mark my words, that debt will never be repaid, or if it is, it will be with "new money".

If you doubt me, answer this quesrtion - why is anyone still lending to the Japanese Gov't?

The answer is of course that it's not real debt. You can't have real debt to an entity that can print the currency the debt is based on. The risk is not that the Gov't cannot repay, the risk is that inflation will reduce the value of the payment, and the 1% interest tells you the assessment of that risk.
Same thing in the Netherlands. No surprise: all in the Bible Belt.

This is a map of the Dutch Bible Belt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt_%28Netherlands%29 , and this is a map of the epidemic: http://www.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ANP-23877900-56...

And just for clarity: these are areas with a low population density.
What's the problem exactly? Job growth has been stagnant for 5 years?

Productivity is the ratio of units of output per unit of input, where you can abstract input as being either capital or labor. Indeed, productivity continues to grow as a consequence of technological advances. When mankind started using oxes to plough fields, landworkers' productivity rose significantly. As we develop more tools to aid us in daily tasks, less labor - and sometimes even less capital - is required to perform those tasks.

During the relatively prosperous past decades, organizations have grown heavy, and were able to do so because of a continuously rising product demand. People started over-working and over-consuming. Then there was an external shock, media started talking about a financial crisis, people started being more considerate of their consumption in the face of job insecurity, and businesses that grew too heavy needed to get back into shape. This is a process that has significant feedback effects. The process of business getting back into shape means the cutting non-contributing jobs (think of excess layers of management), which by itself causes a growth in productivity. In this sense, employment growth and productivity growth can be negatively correlated, and it is not necessarily "technological advances" that drive productivity growth.

Telling us that technology is destroying our jobs is the same as telling us that China is stealing our jobs, though they may affect different industries (I don't see Chinese laborers replacing our butchers.) The thing is that the working population is very flexible, and despite offshoring certain jobs the average American still works over 50 hours a week. Population growth hasn't justified job growth in the US for the past 40 years, so perhaps a stagnant job growth is a good thing in that it draws things back to "normality".
Pathological Science (Langmuir, 1953)
NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry
Did the antivaccination craze reach the UK too?
No, Ruby has too many difficulties. LuaJIT is closest to C performance right now, there are innumerable discussions about why Ruby/Python are much harder/impossible to do this for.
> The medical industry would make more money

There is strong competition in medical industry. One company sells vaccine, some others sells medicine and hospital equipment.
On Bullshit is an essay written in 1986 by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt. Whilst bullshit is a swear word, it is immediately recognisable and gets the readers attention immediately.

However, I had to read Doc Searles essay twice myself. I think it appears disorganized because it starts discussing the Linux kernel but it is about advertising. The big idea is tat most on,one advertising is wasteful, and unnecessarily violates privacy for no real good reason. The second time I read the article, I suddenly realised why he juxtaposed the Linux kernel with advertising. The Trader Joes example makes it quite clear.
Vaccines do the precise opposite of what you just wrote...

Yes, but only for one specific disease.
Trader Joes has a very loyal customer base, sometimes described as fanatical. Based on their continuing expansion ( http://www.traderjoes.com/stores/index.asp ) they appear to be very successful. They are owned by Aldi Nord.

In my case it wasn't really that I was attracted to shopping at Trader Joes, so much as the bullshit at all the other grocery stores pushed me away. For example, a couple of them now have advertising videos (with loud audio) running right in your face as you stand in the checkout line. That sent my aggravation level through the roof. The very last time I was in one of those stores I literally abandoned my cart in the line and walked out because of it. I simply could not take it.

Trader Joes isn't perfect, but they don't come across as contemptuous the way the extreme bullshitters do. I think there is at least a lesson here about the "arms race" of marketing bullshit.

For decades, maybe centuries, stores have run sales. They are a level of bullshit, it adds to the cognitive load by making customers decide to buy now or wait for a possible sale in the future. But it's low-level enough that few people are annoyed by weekly sales.

It is only in the recent ~20 years that we've seen a major escalation of bullshit at grocery stores. Technology has enabled things like loyalty cards, targeted marketing, individualized flyers in the mail, purchase-specific coupons on check-out, blaring videos through-out the store, etc. This marketing bullshit may well be feeding itself. But the greater the bullshit, the more obvious to the customers just how much better opting out would be. At some point it becomes obvious to the majority of customers that "the only winning move is not to play."

At least I hope so because that end game means the real bullshitters get punished for it, rather than rewarded as hcarvalhoalves postulated.
> Dolls have given us an unrealistic image of women.

Women have given us an unrealistic image of dolls. :)

I confess -- the above is a recycled '60s joke, which went, "Reality is merely a crutch for those unable to face up to drugs."
True, but they don't always get it in the way they want it. The Android work took a long time to be incorporated into the kernel. Google is a pretty big player!
Personally, I think most CEO's outside of hard core tech and manufacturing industries could probably be replaced with plastic ducks.

They appear to be about as effective, and are clearly as competent. They're cheaper too.

Gorman is idiot.

Imagine the chief engineer of a massive bridge building project saying the exact same thing:

> "We're pretty sure that earthquake we had a while back isn't going to happen again, so relax. Also, the guys who didn't build the last one up to spec really shouldn't go to jail. I mean, it was just a case of poor judgement and excessive risk taking behaviour. They weren't actually incompetent, nor did they actually mismanage anything. The bridge just fell down. We're pretty sure that it won't happen again."

Fuck.
Great stuff! Makes it really easy to offer human readable messages instead of HTTP codes in your app.

If you're just looking for HTTP codes, here's the link to the JSON file: https://github.com/andreineculau/know-your-http-well/blob/ma...
> “Virtually no one, be they homeowners, financial institutions, rating agencies, regulators or investors, anticipated what is coming.” Nobody saw it coming

This is actually BS. SEVERAL people alerted to the housing bubble. There are currently a couple of Housing Bubbles going on around the world right now. They are being "responded to" with the same BS as in the US, that "this time it's different" or "prices never go down". Complete and utter BS

There were MANY warnings. The idea that a certain thing can/will always increase in value is so ridiculous yet so common.

How do you identify a housing bubble? Rent/Price ratio, variation in price per area (m2 or ft2) compared to inflation. Mortgage terms going up.
I think what irks everyone in written text is probably hard-wired in our brain, much like the feeling when rasping chalkboard with a fork or the fight-or-flight response... In my case I don't care that much about grammar even in my mother tongue(s) probably because I grew up mostly bilingual (my parents only speak Spanish, but since I was 4 years old a good deal of the TV I watched and all my school time was in Catalan) but not completely, meaning that I'm likely to make (relatively minor) grammar mistakes in both languages. This makes me overlook this kind of mistakes (grammar) because the patterns are not that hard-wired in my brain, whereas syntax is stronger. I'm not sure but probably reading a lot (which I used to do, now I read mostly in English) made syntax stick stronger than grammar (a good question would be why: grammar is patterns, syntax is elements...)

Don't worry, I didn't want to call the syntax nazi police on you, neither the grammar police :) I just found slightly funny you overlooked the (for me) clear error but pointed things I wasn't really paying attention to: it was a good reminder that I should be more careful with my grammar ;)

PS: Oh crap, just read your user info... So bad a joke :D:D:D
That construction is on a par with using "literally" to mean "figuratively" (surprisingly common), or "he doesn't know s * * t" when obviously the speaker means "he does know s * * t."
It started in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
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The problem is that jobs will be worth less and less compensation and the balance between work and capital is turning towards capital.

There will be new jobs, but fewer and fewer people qualify. Network effect and superstar economy mean that the distribution of workforce compensation will change dramatically. Majority of workers will be worth less. More of them will drop below the point where it's not worth to hire them.
This is a transcription of a 1953 talk by the Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir. It's a wonderful description of "Pathological Science", illustrating how scientists occasionally deceive themselves and others into believing otherwise irreproducible results.

The Six Symptoms of Pathological Science:

The maximum effect observed is produced by an agent of
barely detectable intensity. The magnitude of the effect
is largely independent of the intensity of the cause.

The effect is of a magnitude close to the limit of
detectability, or many measurements are necessary
because of low statistical significance of individual
results.

There are claims of great, even extraordinary, accuracy

Fantastic theories contrary to experience are suggested
(with enthusiasm)

Criticisms are met by ad hoc excuses thought up on the
spur of the moment (this may be contagious)

The ratio of supporters to critics rises to somewhere
near 50%, then falls gradually to zero.
We had our very own, home-grown craze!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
No, but it is entirely possible to build desktop-installable apps using the Firefox internals, with XUL as the primary interface technology. This was the idea behind XULRunner, a Firefox runtime package for you to build your apps with.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XULRunner

The XML-based XUL isn't terrible, either, considering the respectable set of widgets and the ability to control all the styles with CSS. The nasty part, in my experience, was trying to get through the messy FFI that was XPCOM.
Majority will lose, minority will win.
AgileBits, if you're not not ok, then blink twice.
It was meant to be taken as literal case. Just as example of how it will be used.
KeePass is utterly unusable for ordinary users. Especially on non-Windows platforms, where it takes voodoo to make it even run.
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Misconduct

That's where you and Gorman disagree. His point is that, yes, people screwed up; but no, they didn't do it deliberately. We don't throw people in jail for being bad at their jobs; we throw people in jail for deciding to do something wrong.
Either set up OpenVPN on one of your Servers, or use SSH Port Forwarding. Either method can afaik be considered pretty secure.
100% agree.

But like most things in life this is a two-way relationship. People who live off credit, buy homes they can't afford with +30 year mortgages, buy luxury cars with loans, etc., should also be penalised. The financial crisis was caused by a general misconduct by both financial institutions and consumers. Lets not forget that.
Does he mean the probability is lower or the impact is lower?

Because I'm okay with a bank failing, so long as it doesn't need a government bail-out to keep it from bringing down the entire economy.
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Snooping on "anything and everything" traversing the Internet without a warrant is perfectly constitutional according to SCOTUS, POTUS, most of Congress, and the 3 letter agencies doing the snooping.

Information traversing the Internet has been legally deemed to not be included in one's "person, house, paper or effects" and as such is not constitutionally protected by the fourth amendment.
I don't know, I kind of liked it. Is it poking fun at how these loosely-allied movements (Bayesian rationalism, transhumanism, etc.) are actually quite been-there, done-that, in an intellectual history sense? Here's what I noticed in the poem...

- Eliezer Yudkowsky as singularity-prophet / writer of sacred texts
- Claiming all sorts of famous people are allied with / inspired your movement, when in reality, they wouldn't have had any idea what you were on about (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_%28sociology%29)
- Intellectual bias as original sin
- Anticipating a new world order (millenarianist movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism)
- The celebration of the lone genius(es) vs a society that doesn't understand (which is from 19th century romanticism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism)
- And of course, more specifically, Nietzsche's Übermensch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch), a possibly embarrassing idea to be caught in historical dialogue with

The more I overthink this poem-parody, the more I enjoy it. Thanks for posting.
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Probably most Americans haven't heard of Trader Joe's since most of its stores are in Southern California.

You must have blinked! They started there, but have expanded rapidly across the US in recent years. They now have 400+ stores in 35 states: http://www.traderjoes.com/pdf/locations/all-llocations.pdf
Really? I use KeePassX on Linux and it literally could not be easier. I just enter my passphrase and my password file opens up, there's not much more to it.

EDIT: Apparently KeePass and KeePassX are different?
Yeah, sorry. I was tired. I was thinking Guangdong city, then Guangdong province, then made the jump to Nanning -> Nanning Province. I should have known better, and thanks for correcting me.
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I am not sure what you are talking about. When you push data down a wire you are definitely not close to c.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_delay
One problem is that we have trained people to do (and are still training people to do) jobs which are being replaced by computers and technologists who can do the same job more productively. This is beginning to have a significant impact upon all industries.

The economy is doing great, productivity is doing great, but there are increasing numbers of people with obsolete skills who can't find work and are struggling to survive this improving economy, through no fault of their own. A small number of people are taking all the benefits of the new economy - entrenching inequality.

The problem is with people, not with the economy.
“I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.” (Assuming being a Canadian company counts..)