skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what you guys think of my current strategy. I use passwordchart.com. It requires a generator phrase to create a "password chart", which is simply a mapping from each alphanumeric character to a different 1-3 character alphanumeric string. You then type in an easy to remember password, and it maps that to a far more secure password using the generated chart. I use the same chart (with a backup printed in my wallet), and apply the same methodology for every service I use to create my easy-to-remember password. I read the "how it works" page and it seems pretty secure to me. For all my password needs I only have to remember two things: the generator phrase and the method for making the easy to remember password. There is also little counter party risk (passwordchart.com doesn't know where the passwords are used, it would be hard to change the chart without me noticing, and I have a backup). I love not having to think hard when signing up for something new. In 5 seconds, I have an easy to fetch, secure, unique password for any service.
Hard to justify spending $120[1] to fix a $199 phone.

[1]http://www.ebay.ca/sch/sis.html?_nkw=LCD%20DISPLAY%20Touch%2...
When his politics became too expensive

You make it sound like he sold out, but what you mean is that under the extortionist threat of financial ruin and bankruptcy, he acceded to the government's demand.
Yes, for two reasons: news gathering and interesting programming stuff.

The programming sections (Python, Scala etc.) are basically Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff which I couldn't care less about.

And there's lots of subreddits which contain links that are of specific interest from different countries and specific interesting communities. This is useful for finding story ideas and to try and ensure that my filter bubble is less Western and less mainstream.

I comment a bit and submit a few things.
No, there just wasn't a less-worse one. Bloody PHP is an improvement on ColdFusion.
Apart from some minor UI glitches, this is great (#1: when I move the mouse off an outlying comment, the whole tree vanishes. I should probably hang around until I get back within the core circumference).

On the other hand, it's sufficiently offbeat that it may not find my adoption for web operators to adopt.

Suggestion #1: make it into a browser extension that works with Reddit, HN etc. Downside: you probably won't make money.

Suggestion #2: make it a little prettier - bigger, smoother UI, color-on-black color scheme, make it work on HN, and then do a Show HN post that will make everyone ooh and aah a lot.

Suggestion #3: make it work on legal citations, build a proof of concept using the Supreme Court database (http://scdb.wustl.edu/), send links to Dean Katz at the CLS department of U. Mich, and then make Westlaw and Nexis duke it out for the rights while you rake in the $.

Feel free to email me.
Meditation is all about controlling your concentration and attention. It certainly helps, heaps. Speaking from experience. Please try it. :)

(Although I also attacked the lack of attention span problem by doing totally seeminly dumb tasks such as reading a book backwards which makes no sense and really forces you to re-focus all the time. From a few minutes I was able to get up to 10, and later 15 minutes per time without huge mental wandering. Same goes for meditation, from minutes to tens of minutes with ease in a matter of weeks.)
I'd rather donate to a new open source alternative to Truecrypt with a focus on good UI/UX.
I would guess that the limit is so people don't cheat the system. Someone could "disappear" for three years, let their loved ones collect life insurance or in this case SS benefits, then come back and say it was all a mix up. That's the only reason I could think of. It makes me wonder if something happened in a past case that prompted them to create the three year limit.
>I think the fact that HN doesn't do this is good for HN as a site.

I think that this adds constant tension between the people who want to discuss mainstream news / moral panics / mainstream politics and those of us who don't. I... think that this inability to allow "those people" (And I recognize that to certain other folks, I am "those people") to sandbox themselves off means that hacker news needs way above par leadership to avoid turning into slashdot.

I mean, hacker news has that way above par leadership, at least for now, but... as far as the social dynamics go, reddit is much more sustainable.
I was prepared to think that before reading the article. However, after reading it, I understand:

Reversing the man's death status will hurt innocent people badly. In particular, it would force his abandoned wife and children to pay back the Social Security benefits they claimed after he disappeared.

The real problem is with the Social Security Administration rules. They should not force the woman and her children to give back the money. I suppose the ideal situation is that the man is dead as far as the SSA is concerned.

Honestly, I am totally unsympathetic with this man. He abandoned his family. He abandoned them and was dead to them. He should have just stayed dead. No driver's license? Tough shit, asshole.
http://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/
Looking at that, without reading the text, I thought immediately that it looked like Marc Newson's work rather than Jony Ive's.

Then I read the text:

> Apple's feted design chief teamed up with industrial designer Marc Newson

I would say that Marc did most of this, and Jony either just created the collaboration and put his name to it, or his touch was reasonably light.

The only part that really looks like Ive's stamp is the perforated aluminium. Every other curve, the buttons and balance of the design, scream Newson.
Do you really think they didn't consider this when making the device? Obviously, they gauged interest and determined that they'll make more money for charity by selling it.
I've unsubscribed from all of the default front page stuff and only read what I'm interested in.

I moved from slashdot to digg to reddit and now hacker news. If it were not for subreddits, reddit would have gone the way of digg and slashdot for me. Thankfully hacker news has not devolved into cat pictures and memes.
I think both HackerNews and Reddit are great for both the consumers of content, and the creators too. Without sites like these it would be a lot harder to get the word out about a new site or service. For example, i'm promoting my own creation, meta64.com, and I can do it here without being smacked down and censored.

For example, Youtube won't even let people post links. That is ridiculous. Why not just give people an option called "Hide comments from me that contain links". Why try to censor the entire world? While I'm ranting about Youtube censorship... when people disable commenting, shouldn't there be a defaco to known site people can go to and comment on each video. Somebody needs to create "youtube-uncensored.com", and have a parallel commenting system, and links to videos. Then disabling comments would not allow someone to shutdown all communications about the video.
I'm using the /all/new.json feed, which can pagenate an unlimited number of entries. (using a /<subreddit>/.json feed will only let you go back 1,000 entries total for that subreddit)
The reason I originally got on reddit is because I think its important to maintain a sense of what the herd is up to. I think it provides a reasonable perspective on what younger people currently care about, talk about, listen to, watch, etc.

Personally reddit has since become a convenient means for some quick entertainment and to learn about major news events. I don't watch TV, I've stopped going to news sites and HN tends to be a bit narrowly focused so reddit is a good supplement for keeping abreast of 'normal people news'.
This ^. Plus there's just something beautiful about the sun burning off the end of the day's smog.
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Seconding that this precisely the right strategy. Leaving the big, broadly popular subs on your front page is a recipe for confusion, sadness and rage.

(Also, apologies for pedantry, but it's "homing," not "honing.")
Jogging outdoors... the effect is quite profound. Difficult terrain is best because you are forced to be vigilant and you cannot let your mind wander. Make sure there is a clear start and finish.
a site without instructions by the makers of songrabbit
>> What do you do with those people when they aren't needed for the important periodic work, except to give them busy work that is somewhat related, to keep them skilled in that area?

Train them. Let them do their own projects. Anything is better than busywork.
The charity sector looks forward to a Bono-led recovery

RICH PARADISE, Bahamas, Monday (UNN) — The (RED) anti-AIDS marketing initiative has announced its first annual results.

The initiative, fronted by Bono, seeks to promote a "co-philanthropy" model, wherein companies can do good works by selling products they were going to sell anyway, but with a little red bit on to show how much they care. Really. They care.

"We've worked hard on the model," said Bobby Shriver, (RED) CEO. "It's been a brand launch designed to get people used to the idea of an entirely new fund raising model. Because (RED) is explicitly NOT a charity, we encourage our partners to go about their business including their marketing. Gap, Apple, Sprint and other sales people are meeting Americans and explaining that 5,500 Africans dying daily of AIDS is preventable."

"The publicity has been fantastically effective," said Bono from his Caribbean island. "Steven Spielberg smiling down from billboards in San Francisco, Christy Turlington striking a yoga pose in a New Yorker ad, me cruising Chicago's Michigan Avenue with Oprah Winfrey, eagerly snapping up Red products, Chris Rock appearing in Motorola TV spots saying 'Use Red, nobody's dead', and the Red room at the Grammy Awards. This is something to be really proud of."

Zombie Steve Jobs also voiced his support. "I don't see how else you can assuage your OVERWHELMING GUILT at your comfortable life and income without a Red U2 iPod on your belt. Imagine the SHAME if people saw you with a plain white or black one. The SHAME."

The stunning return to AIDS charities for 2006 was $18,000 on over $100 million in marketing and consumer spend. "The only way is up!" said Shriver. "Onward and upward!"

"Buy more stuff!" said Jobs.
These guys are complaining about disk space and bandwidth, not message security.

Even so, the current network can probably handle 100,000 messages a day, and the bottleneck there is some side channel timing attack mitigation code that causes the client to sleep while syncing with a peer. If you separate out the message syncing from the decryption process and eliminate the timing attack potential, the network can easily scale to a million messages a day or more.

At that point, the messages will need to be broken into 'streams' so that you can partition the traffic. The protocol supports this, but punts on the implementation details, so there's no easy way to implement multiple streams at this point in time.

But I would hardly describe that as full-on 'fail'. Everyone-shares-everything is a design feature to preserve anonymity. It's more difficult to tell who sent a message, who received it (if anyone), who was able to read it (if anyone), etc.

Reading more on this software, it seems like they try to solve the capacity/bandwidth problem by using a distributed hash table, but now the protocol requires a lot of handshaking with specific machines that has potential to remove some anonymity, and also potentially makes it easier to prevent a user from getting messages. Block enough traffic at the Great Firewall and you might not be able to get messages. [Take the above listed weaknesses with a grain of salt, I haven't done an in-depth look at the protocol.]

But in general it's probably premature to worry too much about scaling, since the bitmessage network can already handle several more orders of magnitude than the current traffic levels:

http://vps1.adammelton.com/
and I guess that in x years the encryption will be trivial to crack. then everyone can read everyone else's messages.

I would love to be corrected since I do like the idea.
As a long-term occupant of Manhattan, I (and others) believe that AirBnB ignores the feelings of those of us that want safety and security in our apartment buildings and that we certainly do not want strangers living there.

I'm only sorry that the AG didn't go after AirBnB earlier.
It's called marketing. Ive "designing" a limited edition Leica is like Murakami being involved with Louis Vuitton.

Lecia needs people to believe that their cameras are worth a lot of money and involve a much greater amount of design work and craftsmanship than a standard Canon.
I don't think he should have asked for the $3,500. He was the one who designed the system, why should the government have to pay him for him to comply with a lawful order, which he supposedly didn't oppose (metadata for one specific user), simply because he made it difficult to do in that system (requiring custom coding)?

This is, IIRC, the exact point that the judge made - just because you made something difficult/impossible in the system, doesn't mean you get to ignore a lawful request / court order. It's not the government's fault that he designed the system to make it hard to do something, requiring extra coding.
It's a good thing that months of work by a team of federal prosecutors is valued at less than $3500. Otherwise it might be considered wasteful!
The initiative is honorable, but I think this was a really bad choice of website to host the pledge. The copyright message on the footer is from last year, which may explain why many things seem broken or unfinished, as well as the errors other people here are reporting to be getting.

Perhaps the submission link should have been of the far more insightful website http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/ ?
4+ years on HN, 3 years on reddit, I think only from my frontpage only /r/science overlaps with the default subreddit set. Interestingly enough I have significantly more (comment) karma at reddit than on HN, I'm not sure what that is indicative of if anything.
I think they just wanted to make a bloody awesome camera, that also happens to generate money for charity.
Any diet that is based on an unsubstantiated claim that "humans have not evolved to digest X" where X is something that humans have been eating for thousands of years. Paleo comes to mind, but there are others. The claim made by these diets isn't structurally invalid, but often the claims are made without any investigation and are substantiated by anecdotal evidence that people feel better when eliminating X from their diet. That's fine, but that's not the same thing as being incompatible from an evolutionary standpoint.
Platform that turns drawings into apps, no coding required.
Yokel judges don't get to control the actions of the Social Security Administration. There is absolutely no hope that this ruling would have any effect on federal benefits.
I wonder what a similar poll about 4chan would say.
Issues with Firefox OS:

1. Browser only loads one tab at a time.

2. Inability to lock the screen orientation to either Portrait or Landscape.

Issues with ZTE Open:

1. Mediocre touchscreen sensitivity.

2. Short USB cable.
Thanks for the vitamin C shot of inspiration. I'm working on a project to dramatically diminish the need for animal-testing in science experiments[1], and the process has been humbling. I know little about science.

As you recommended in the article, I've been speaking with scientists from around the world (and anyone else who will listen) and learning as much as I can, as fast as I can.

Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki was right, "in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few".

[1]http://selfexperiments.com
As a TrueCrypt user, thank you!
Humans didn't evolve from monkeys, humans and monkeys share a common now extinct ancestor.

Or it was aliens.
Although it was nice to see, the Society of Women Engineers http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/ was in full advocacy swing at that point, with strong chapters at the major engineering universities, encouraging women to go into Engineering of any stripe. IBM itself at that time would also move and/or retrain employees who had either become "too expensive" (due to service) or whose jobs had been terminated (e.g. end of contract) or outsourced.
I can see a rather obvious hypothetical circumstance. Someone from your town finds out you're hiding Jews from the Nazi government, and instead of immediately reporting you he confronts you in an alleyway and demands you hand over your life savings within the hour or else he'd report you. You're armed with a loaded pistol. Ignoring other potential options (such as merely subduing him then moving yourself and the Jews to safety, or paying up and hoping he doesn't report you) is it strictly more or less harmful to kill him (assuming you can get away with it) than to let him go report you to the Nazis and have you and the Jews you're hiding be sent to extermination camps?

Could anything at all similar to that hypothetical circumstance happen (or have already happened in history) in real life? I don't think the answer is a definite "no".
"Law enforcement" does not refer to your friendly neighborhood patrol officers in this context. In the war on drugs, "law enforcement" refers to teams of soldiers who attack civilian homes following these kinds of anonymous tips.

My only point was that we should not immediately assume that reporting SR users to the police is a morally justifiable thing to do, and that the morals of killing someone to protect SR users are not unambiguous. I also said that more likely than not, if DPR tried to order such a hit it was because he was worried about his business, not his customers or the innocent bystanders who might be harmed by police raids.
Is it common sense though? After all, the limit's been put in for a reason.

A good solution could be to create a new legal identity for the person in question rather than trying to undo the death ruling. This could also be used to account for the Social Security benefits already paid out and such.

After all, this is not a matter of life and death. It's a question entirely of bureaucracy. So "common sense" isn't applicable: the real question is not "is this guy dead" (he isn't, obviously) but "how to rectify this fact with existing systems".
No. Lots of goods get cheaper through technology and economies of scale rather than through subsidies. Your ideology is causing you to miss the forest for the trees.
Quite interesting. It corrects well the statement "Natural selection is about survival of the very fittest individuals in a population." to: Though "survival of the fittest" is the catchphrase of natural selection, "survival of the fit enough" is more accurate.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq....

I think that's a very important clarification, because we may look around and see very diverse population with very diverse handicaps - from mental to physical, and question how it could be that "survival of the fittest" let all this happen.

Information is also organized really well - short paragraphs, easy to consume, with links to more details in some sections. Target audience is probably someone who wants a few questions answered, but not a creationist or a biology scientist.
Eben Moglen: Snowden and the Future
I've read all the previous articles as well. This single article is not going to change my impression. It's by piecing together all available information while maintaining grasp of the obvious to we get the whole picture. But somehow you think specific instances of this guys rhetoric, not his actions, carry more truth than the results.

"but he was just trying to get compensate" is completely ignorant argument because you've thrown away all context in making that argument. What is he getting compensated for exactly? Writing a script to CRUD data in his system? Wow, what a noble deed I can identify with! So how does this "revelation" FTFA contradict my assertion? It doesn't, in fact, it's more evidence for it.

So why am I downvoted? Probably because it's contrary to the popular narrative that this guy is some kind of freedom fighter when all evidence shows that this is not true. But nevermind evidence, his actions, etc., this guy wrote "I wouldn't do business with American IT firms" Spicy, salacious! I mean, he ran a business in America so he'd know not to trust himself. I guess we can give him internet points for telling us no to trust him in a roundabout way.
In my opinion, the urge to procrastinate is just our brain telling us that the kind and amount of effort we're demanding from it is not natural. People aren't meant to spend 40+ hours a week sitting behind a desk and concentrating on stuff they have little connection with. Marx wrote about that (the alienation of workers) 150 years ago.
Scoring better in IQ tests means understanding the problems better -- if you encounter similar problems, or problems which provoke the same areas of brain -- better IQ test score should correlate with better performance in the said problems. Whether this happens alot or not is another thing though. However, as the TFA implies, we can practice and better our brain, intelligence and mental skils, maybe that's exactly what happens when we "work hard". We become more intelligent, more skilled, our brains work more efficiently which, when added with the fact that we use that brain more by working hard, makes us more intelligent/mentally capable/whatever.

Of course high IQ/mental capability/intelligence means nothing if it isn't put to use, so step first is to start doing stuff which matters and learning from it.
>submission in this subreddit is restricted to approved submitters.

Feh.
I've been a member here for over 4 years, I doubt I'd wait so long to promote a product.
Congrats Ian, and a huge thanks for blogging your experience building AsterRank. You definitely helped some friends and me out with a space game we're working on!
The bands/musicians audience engagement is very interesting - we should probably make it more straightforward to share collaborative song links. While you can do it now, it's semi-tedious that you need to have the app installed first to understand what the link is about.
The problem is that the cost isn't just the time that it takes to write this one blog entry. You have to factor in the time it takes to write the blog entries which get very few views.
Building on Quicksand [pdf]
Why not save the auditing for things without crappy non-OSI licenses?
On the other hand, should the government be allowed to require businesses to do arbitrary free work for them to assist them in their investigations?
Yes... but he's actually, you know, alive
Typo on homepage:

"Contribute tracks to other people's songs. Open up your songs for other people's contributions. Clone/version/remix existing songs."
It might be better for him to really start over from scratch. If he's alive, then doesn't he also have to pay his debts and his child support again?
I would've also accepted the term 'mesh'.
I like how you simply ignore the economic arguments that you were offered, such as increased demand for energy or the behavior of market actors who are perfectly happy to buy bonds.