skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint: It's far more likely i might be mugged for the easy cash scored by a phone that has a 500€ market price, than to have my desktop stolen. ;)

One more question:

How about sites which don't have clef implemented? Can i enter a URL into the clef app (or use some kind of JS scriptlet to generate a QR code on the fly) and have it generate me the password for that, so i can type it in manually? Maybe even store usernames for such sites?

Right now Clef has zero use for me, as i've never even seen a website that implemented it. But something like that would at least add some use.

(Also i'm sad that you didn't confirm or deny the footnotes.)
I feel like the OP here is making two arguments, one of which I agree with whole-heartedly, and one that I disagree with vehemently.

The first argument seems to reduce to the same basic idea entailed in expressions like "The first 90% is easy, it's the second 90% that gets you". Or "the devil is in the details". That I totally agree with. The seemingly trivial, small details absolutely add up and constitute a TON of working in getting a system into a truly "finished" and polished state.

But the second argument seems to amount to what I find to be a tired and inaccurate meme - "Open source software sucks because developers don't think like end users". OK, to be fair, some Open Source software does, indeed, suck at UI and usability, and maybe it is because most developers aren't good at UX. But by no stretch of the imagination does this apply to all (or maybe even "most") OSS, and also, it's hardly the case that proprietary software is necessarily better in this regard. Have you used, for example, Oracle's back-end / financials software? F%#@ that... Hideous (or at least it was last time I used it).

All of that said, this issue is near and dear to my heart, because this is something we think a lot about at Fogbeam. Luckily one of our founders is a designer and UI/UX specialist, so we have a leg up on some other open source projects. And while we don't have the clean UI and the awesome UX we want just yet, we aren't finished either. Our commitment is to absolutely nail User Experience, and be better than anybody else in our space, Open Source OR proprietary. Yes, we still have a lot of work to do, but that's the goal.
> Which is why almost every country outside of the US has a lower standard of care than we do.

Uh, where do you get that from? The JAMA study, one of the most comprehensive such studies done, concluded that the US health care outcomes are far worse than comparable nations, yet we pay significantly more for it.

The biggest reason we pay more is that provider costs are much higher than the GDP-adjusted average. $500,000,000,000 more. (And before you say it, that's factoring out defensive medicine and the results of tort reform.) A lot of that has to do with insurance companies inability to negotiate reasonable rates with the providers. And of all the insurers in the US, which is the only one that can and does negotiate reasonable rates? Medicare.
Interesting how they included the Federal Reserve in the chart. It's a private bank, as stated in the WaPo article.
"...but don't rule out malice."
NSA chief admits testing US cellphone tracking
References to prior controversies should not be interpreted as implying a moral equivalence with current controversies.
been following these guys for a while - wish we had this in the early days of our app when we did more on-the-ground sales to customers within our app.
I submitted the bug via the contact page.

I'll send the same via email.
Wouldn't you need at least 2 mirrors to correct the image?
Completely empirical:

My nephew started speaking early and quite well. He can name and knows lot of things, tens or hundreds of different animals, what he does, wants etc. Some other kids I've seen don't talk at all or they don't know any words.

It seems to me it's because my sister and his husband talk with him all the time, and explain when they're doing something together. I've been trying to do the same and talk normally with him and not talk down to him or some kid nonsense. He talks back and says if he doesn't understand.
Automated scanning is in no way inherent in allowing gmail to be free. Repeating this won't make it true.

Advertising is what supports Gmail. Advertising does not require automated scanning of email, as is clearly demonstrated by the existence of free advertising supported email providers who do not scan email.

The judge has already stated that users signing up for email do not understand that their email will be scanned, so no, you don't submit to it when signing up.

The reason for the email scanning is to make extra profit for Google, and to increase the detail of their user profiles - which are also used when targeting ads outside of gmail.

It is certainly false that users sending plaintext email have no expectation of privacy, both in law and in fact.

The consequences if this were true would be profoundly destructive, because it would permit network operators to set up transparent proxies and sell access to email for any purpose.

There are wiretapping laws for a reason. You can't just ignore this because you like Google. There is a reason why Google were the first to start scanning people email for advertising - because everyone else thought it was wrong.

It turns out that the law might well agree.
Both of the posts indirectly imply that complying with this specific pen register order would have been evil on the hitler/mlkjr scale, because they are both made in the context of this article. It would be pointless to say "One must not comply with evil laws, but this law isn't evil, so cool, nevermind what I was saying about evil."

A comment that implies this specific court order was evil, or even moderately wrong, needs to be accompanied by supporting rhetoric about _why_ it was wrong, some indictment of our system of due process. Without such supporting arguments the comments are just disposable invocations of Godwin.
Care to cite your sources, or do you plan on just making wild assertions and trying to call them facts?
This appears to only be value to businesses who aren't interested in self-funded policies.
Yeah I totally agree. There is tons of very high quality open source software. Some of the designs I have encountered while looking at the source code is breathtaking. I think more code monsters lurk in propriety code, its just in the commercial world they are good at paint jobs.
Yeah, I definitely would not be sending anything like that in the clear. Not knowingly, anyway! Funny thing though, I held off due to random shit that came up, not even anything to do with all the NSA/Snowden/Intelligence/Whatever stuff. And during those couple of weeks, is when all the FBI/Tor stuff broke, and that did serve to give me a little bit of pause. But I still probably would have made an order, except I got busy doing stuff and just never got around to it.

I'd be tempted to try one of the alternatives, but now I'm worried that one or more of them might be LE honeypots or something.

Damnit, what's a hacker to do, who just wants to try acid once before he dies? Sheesh. :-(
Let me first state up front: I think this policy was dumb and should have been done away with long ago.

However, I think that "breed distrust in the government" quip is completely asinine. The FAA's airline policies overall have resulted in an industry where you can buy a ticket across the country for just a few hundred dollars, while simultaneously being so safe that it has become literally impossible to measure the danger of flying on an airliner in the US, because incidents don't happen frequently enough for there to be enough data.

The electronic devices policy is/was a tiny little wart on an unbelievably successful regulatory environment. To act like this somehow destroys trust in government is insane. You're basically expecting perfection and rejecting a massive success as being terrible just because there's an extremely minor problem buried within.
You're right: our costs are off-the-charts. There's something about our culture and politics that's making that happen, even in a system with centralized price-setting like Medicare.

If you can't answer why Medicare seems to do worse than your favorite "single-payer-ish" models, you haven't explained how making the entire system into a single-payer system, a bureaucracy of unprecedented size, will improve things over a smaller bureaucracy that's failing at controlling costs.

Some drugs and new treatments start elsewhere. A disproportionate number start in the US. Fancy new (and often unnecessary) treatments are one of the things driving our costs up.
(now part of Pivotal Labs)

Ok, I'm now very confused. When I saw the title I thought "Pivotal Labs" for a second and then "oh no, the 'other' Pivotal that is not Pivotal Labs and which I have no idea what they're doing". I got confused and the past and realized (or thought at least) they were two different entities.

But now, you, as well as an investor quoted in the OP[0], say "Pivotal Labs". Are these two the same thing? Are these two different but related entities? A cursory look at each sites don't seem to mark them linked, though it does show that the OP is about Pivotal as in http://www.gopivotal.com/

Thanks for the clarification!

[0] Actually he's quoted like so: "Palihapitiya even noted that Xtreme had built a “Pivotal Labs for mobile.”", which in itself doesn't mean the buyer is Pivotal Labs, but, in the context, is confusing. It almost sounds like the post's author get the two confused as well. (unless, they're the same thing obviously)
Which one is the Mac version? Usability fail.
From Seinfeld, "The Pitch":

Russell: Well, why am I watching it?
George: Because it's on TV.
Russell: (pause) Not yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofOSlsNz5I8
Like hell they didn't.
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First off, thank you for your through reply

> > Clearly, if inspect that object and change the name member, Bob from accounting's name doesn't suddenly change to Gary.

> Yes it does.

Okay. either I wasn't clear in my analogy or I'm actually further away from understanding Smalltalk than I thought. Let me put it a different way: If I open the Bob object in the inspector and set the "deceased" member to "true", will Bob claw his way out of his casket?

A lot of my confusion about whether it's the object or the representation of the object comes from this level. I tried to learn Smalltalk a few years ago. We started off with some GUI work and the teacher was quite adamant that we understand that the button on the screen was the object and not just a visual representation of the object.

If I'm understand what you've written properly, then the Smalltalk language isn't nearly as important as the Smalltalk environment. For a comparison point, during my day job, I write a large amount of Python in Emacs. This code is for an application that runs in a REPL. Emacs gives the the ability to highlight code and run it. I can call the "help" function on an object to see its documentation or the "dir" function to view all its members and methods. I can load code at run time and patch new members onto classes or objects.

Of course, that's the classic Blub programmer paragraph. At the very least, Smalltalk sounds like a nice environment and I'm jealous of having multiple, independent object inspectors. I'm also sure that the Smalltalk documentation is better written than what I usually get from "help". Still, I suspect that I'm missing something. Especially if I'm still wrong about what it means to work directly on an object.
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Of course it was done by private contractors.

Oh yea - in India too.
That's what they want you to think, so they can snare you in their FBI ran honeypot...

All joking aside, I hope you're right, and that the next few SR alternative sites figure out how to get it right, and that Tor itself isn't fundamentally broken by the FBI.
Unless you're operating in a very litigious industry you're highly unlikely to be noticed by a patent troll.
I use such off-the-cuff estimates as red flags indicating developers who have likely never built anything scratch; the number of 10x devs who could do such projects "in a weekend" are small, and even then, they would still probably not make such claims with certainty.
Meh, you lot will never figure out my real world identity!
I don't know what percentage of overall print volume is covered by airport purchases, but I bet this spells bad news for the newsagents and bookshops at an airport. I wouldn't like to own one of them right now.
Roleplaying time! You've just been appointed to head the FBI-- congratulations, Director! Which of the following things do you want to send your agents after?

* An international marketplace doing millions of dollars of business in drugs, weapons, and fake IDs

* A few drug dealers in a public park in a city where you might not even have jurisdiction

If there are drug dealers in the parks, that's a shame-- but that's really not the type of issue that the FBI is supposed to handle. Take it up with your local police department.
> "Im reasonable sure they are saying he is heroic for standing up to warrantless surveillance, not refusing to hand over data pursuant to a legitimate and specific warrant that he objected to."

I cannot speak for anybody else, but feel free to consider me among those who consider the later to be heroic. He stuck his neck out for people that he doesn't know, but for whom he feels an obligation to protect. He gave up his business to do it.

Legalities never play a role in my considerations of heroism (except in cases where something being illegal actually serves to make it more heroic, due to the personal sacrifice that typically implies).
How was this possible they ask. Well, they sell them down at the hobby shop and.. ah never mind.
i think there are two different qualities to entertainment/art:
-one is the structural quality, which remains with every repetition.
-another is the novel quality, which is basically the (un)pleasant surprise of something new or unexpected, which obviously is heavily diminished by repetition. i believe aristotle's catharsis to be based on this quality.

i agree with you that entertainment/art that only possesses the latter quality is poor quality entertainment. it does not follow that entertainment/art with both qualities does not lose at least some of its value when the spectator is exposed to spoilers.
Possibly because many designers don't understand what "mobile-optimized" should mean. It often (at least for a content oriented site) doesn't have to be anything other than a resizing of some elements and content areas, easily done with a good layout design and media queries.
> [The] government’s clearly entitled to the information that they’re seeking, and just because you-all have set up a system that makes that difficult, that doesn’t in any way lessen the government’s right to receive that
information just as they could from any telephone company or any other e-mail source that could provide it easily

I find the sense of entitlement the FBI had quite disturbing. Perhaps it is technically true, but they clearly had an attitude not just that they were legally authorized to access such information, but that nobody should be allowed to stop them having it, and any personal cost involved or moral objection is not part of the equation. For me the two do not connect that way - I am entitled to buy a house but nobody is required to help me do it, and if I don't have the money, I'm screwed. It doesn't allow me to murder the guy down the street so that I can take his money to buy the house I want.

The question is, is the FBI allowed to recruit any civilian to do anything they think is necessary to get at some information they are authorised to acquire? Can they go to your grandmother and tell her to prostitute herself if that will help them? At what point does technical ability to accomplish something render you at the mercy of the state to do whatever they tell you? It is one thing to demand someone actively stop obstructing something. But to demand they actively assist goes a step further. The notion of conscientious objection has been accepted and even honoured and respected, even in times of war.

I don't know where this line is. But I know I'm very uncomfortable with the attitude that law enforcement showed in this case.
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Genuine question - what about legal client confidentiality?
The law assumes funds can only be used for comfort and running away.

Your defense, in the eyes of the law (makers?) Is fully garanteed by the State. You dont need money for top notch defense. Right?
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Whenever I see "... for $X in Cash" I really want to believe they rolled up with a cardboard box full of money.
That's like saying the bankers in the Cayman Islands don't know who they're a tax haven for. The only difference here is that Lavabit is under US jurisdiction.
> "Both of the posts indirectly imply that complying with this specific pen register order would have been evil on the hitler/mlkjr scale"

That is an implication you invented. The person who quoted MLK has in fact already very explicitly and painfully clearly stated that he thinks no such thing[1]. If you continue to think that he was implying that, then you are the one that's got an issue.

This "mock offense at historical allusions" shit has no place on HN. It is transparent as hell and does nothing but gum up the discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486091
IP whitelist... secure? O'RLY?
Pinker, in "The Blank Slate", cites research that shows that in the nature-vs-nurture debate it appears to be 50/50. Interestingly, of the nurture half, peer group has a much larger influence than parents.

Given that, I'm curious to know what kinds of friends you had growing up and whether they might account for some of your 'intrinsic motivation'.
I still believe the issue is more deeply rooted in passenger safety than in actual electrical interference. Take-off and landing are generally regarded as the most risk-prone activities for an aircraft. Having passengers at least slightly less disengaged likely benefits everyone. Not to mention it is arguably unpleasant to have 200 tablets flying about.
Haha! That's awesome. I had no idea that existed for windows. I wonder if it runs on Windows 8...

Also, as it turns out, same thing also exists for Linux. The snd-pcsp module provides that feature and is in the Kernel.
OK, just for the sake of argument, let's assume the FBI (with the help of the NSA friends, or otherwise) have "broken" Tor in some sense. Whether it's by controlling enough nodes to do traffic analysis, or a fundamental flaw in the software, or a backdoor or whatever.

Given that, if you were going to run a SR like site, are any of the other anonymizing networks of various sorts (Freenet, I2P, whatever) a valid alternative? And would any of those deals be better than Tor in any meaningful way?
Right now, sites need to explicitly integrate with us. We've thought a lot about creating something that manages passwords to bridge the gap. We've actually been working on this with some community members (Joe is here somewhere) and are hoping to roll something out in the next few weeks.
Sorry for not addressing the footnotes!

1. exactly, we generate a digital signature similar to SQRL

2. right. from a technical perspective, the barcode is simpler than a QR code; however, it's actually proven really important from a usability standpoint. by animating the interaction, we have more control of the user's mental model of what's going on and can provide a much more intuitive user experience.
That is what I don't get. If 4pt gives you 130 lines per page, you would only need to fit 20 chars per line to fit the entire thing on one page. With 2560 chars on 11 pages means 233 chars per page at 130 lines per page, we end up with roughly 2 chars per line.

We already know he was basically giving them the middle finger by printing it AND printing it very small. He would clearly need to do something extra odd to make it do this.
showdown is ok.

but multimarkdown would be better.

and local storage is ok.

but the cloud (e.g., dropbox) would be better.

and this space is starting to get crowded, so
you need to do something special to stand out.

but you've made a good start.

-bowerbird
You wouldn't have to throw it away, just label it with the identity that posts photos from it.
At least 7. It doesn't mention that Georgia and England (which is it's own country) as having red and white flags.
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Oh, I didn't mean "having a compiler" by "being able to compile source code into binaries". I meant having source code, having a compiler, and having a machine that will run the binaries you produce.
Here, a paper was written about it not too long ago: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf

The same goes for end users: http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf
Didn't know there was a limit - interesting :)
Where does that 6x speedup come from? Is it a different algorithm? How is the 1d process different from the 2d? It might be that the 2d lib is just better optimized.
s/inherrent/inherent/g
The server image was made July 23, his fake IDs were intercepted July 10.

I guess the investigation stemming from the IDs was probably where it started to come together.
Not attorneys. The law specifically protects them.
All he did was provide an example to debunk your notion that something should be obeyed simply because it's the law. I have no idea how you arrived at such an extreme conclusion that he's implying that both laws are equally evil.
When you buy service providers, it`s usually for the client book. Not for the work or the grunts.

Specially if you bought them in cash...
A major difference is that the TSA is largely protecting against a fictional threat, while the FAA's safety regulations are, overall, acting on proven dangers and are demonstrably successful.

Airline travel used to be pretty dangerous. Today, in the US, it's about as safe as any human endeavor has ever been. The danger is close enough to zero that the delta cannot be properly measured. Even in the past decade or so, airline travel has become much safer.

This particular policy was almost certainly not useful. But the overall regime of "better safe than sorry" has proven to be highly effective in this particular context.