skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It worked really really well for Groupon. (Well for their key stockholders at least). But this is the key ...

As a potential investor, those factors make me shy away from these investments as it makes the stock more volatile to changes and puts the fate of the stock in a few large holders hands.

Good, you're being smart about it. Not everyone will be, there will be a number of people who say "Gee, Twitter is everywhere this is going to be a huge stock some day." and will jump in with both feet. Betting with their feelings rather than an analysis of the fundamentals. For someone to 'win big' you either need someone to 'lose big' or a lot of people to 'lose somewhat.' Once there is enough float for the market to balance out the real expectation of the company will emerge (positive or negative).

As a potential investor I think buying it at $10 is probably reasonable and re-selling when it gets back to $20.
Presumably this will soon be followed up by other ground-breaking journalism pieces such as "Army kills people", "Surgeons perform surgery", and "Garbage collectors stun world by collecting garbage".

Irrespective of what one thinks of it (and I do not think favourably of it), how is it surprising that an organisation that is established specifically to spy on people is in fact spying on people?
I think this was an exceptionally good article, because the writer has a far better understanding of Hofstadter's work than most journalists do of science topics (also better than most commenters in this thread, of Hofstadter's work).

In particular, how often do you see a journalist with this much insight?

> When you read Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, which describes in detail this architecture and the logic and mechanics of the programs that use it, you wonder whether maybe Hofstadter got famous for the wrong book.

FCCA is really brilliant.
Thanks for your open source contribution, it's been a big help.
Yes, "internal representation" has a specific meaning. If you had said "standard representation" or something then I would have agreed with you.
That's exactly it. It's like being invited to an expensive restaurant and getting a five course dinner for free including drinks and then complaining that the dinner wasn't good enough. It was a free dinner!
How long until the world at large tells the US to fk off?
I cringed at that.
Remember, LinkedIn has grown so much in part because so many people are willing to hand over their email passwords so LinkedIn can take a look at their contacts.

LinkedIn knows exactly how many people will hand over full control of their email if it means that they have a better chance of finding a better job.
>And if I am communicating with someone who installed this hack then I certainly didn't opt-in.

This is extremely important and getting lost in the noise.
It seems like if you can have the tools alter the embedded timestamp (even as a post-processing step), you can match the binaries pretty closely.

The last bit is the signature, which you can't duplicate, but you can also just take out, as it's not code. But, if you're paranoid about that, zero-out or remove the signature after verifying it.
Absolutely. We run 100% of the tests in the browser, and you can run them by going here: http://jlongster.github.io/nunjucks/files/tests/browser/

If you want to optimize in production, there is advanced support for precompiling your templates as well: http://jlongster.github.io/nunjucks/api.html#precompiling
There most certainly can be value attached to a domain outside of what the buyer/seller are negotiating.

The idea that a buyer or seller might ignore the value is irrelevant.
> Lastly, I haven't tried it, but I suspect replacing the Android Launcher would also let you do it. This is the method Facebook used for putting their talking heads in every app.

The talking heads overlay doesn't require replacing the Launcher. Installing just the FB Messenger app will get you that feature too.

AFAIK, it uses the "Draw over other apps" permission (android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) to achieve this. Here's a library that does the same: https://github.com/pingpongboss/StandOut/
If I wanted to compromise TrueCrypt via a secret compiler-injected vulnerability, I'd replace the key generation logic with something that used maybe 64 actually random bytes as the input to an unpublished high-quality PRNG (the NSA almost certainly has a few of those hanging around). I don't think you could detect that by your method.
Well lets take these one-by-one:

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1. Attorney-client privilege.

I'm guessing most law firms use third party email servers, anti-virus, anti-spam and archive/audit systems which this would also apply to. It would also apply if you're using Raportive, Xobni or the like (or integrated time-tracking, billing, crm, etc.).

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2. By default, LinkedIn changes the content of your emails.

Irrelevant. Unless you read your emails in plain text every modern email client changes how email is displayed.

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3. Intro breaks secure email.

Yes. Except iOS mail doesn't support crypto signatures anyway.

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4. LinkedIn got owned.

Yes. LinkedIn adds an extra point of vulnerability.

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5. LinkedIn is storing your email communications.

Well metatdata but yes.

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7. It’s probably a gross violation of your company’s security policy.

Yes. As is using Linkedin itself. Or Dropbox. Or Github. Or Evernote. Or Chrome. Or any enterprise software that uses the bottom up approach.

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8. If I were the NSA…

The NSA has access to your emails if they want them anyway. Email isn't a secure protocol against a well funded adversary.

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9. It’s not what they say, but what they don’t say

This looks like a semantic dispute, but it doesn't look any more vague than say Google's privacy policy. Companies in certain circumstances are legally required to provide access to information.

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10. Too many secrets

These all seem to be questions that can either be answered by testing or ones that LinkedIn would probably be happy to disclose, but unlikely to be major issues to mainstream users.

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So fundamentally it comes down to two points, granting Linkedin access to your email creates a new point of attack and Linkedin themselves might use your email in ways you find undesirable.

So it's essentially a trade-off for the benefits you get from the app versus those risks. For a personal account which you use for private emails, personal banking, etc. the evaluation is obviously going to be very much different from say a salesperson's work account which they use for managing communication with leads.

In the later case they may already be trusting LinkedIn with similar confidential information and already use multiple services (analytics, crm, etc.) that hook into their email so the additional relative risk might be smaller.

As people with technical expertise we shouldn't use scare-mongering to push our personal viewpoints upon those with less expertise, but rather help people understand the security/benefit trade-offs that they're making so they can decide for themselves whether to take those risks.

It's important to treat the wider non-technical community with respect and as adults capable of making their own judgements and not as kids who need to be scared into safety.
The Android app SayIt has a widget that does something similar to this. It learns purely from usage/recency and is generally very good at presenting you with the apps your most likely to launch. All of the analysis is performed on the device so no information is shared with 3rd party servers. It also sports very fast voice based app launching. No affiliation just use it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rn.sayit
Thanks for posting this - it's the most important political topic of this generation. If I was anywhere close I'd attend.

I started chatting with a guy at a local bar over lunch the other day. The topic turned to surveillance and Snowden. Turned out my conversational partner was an off-duty cop. He thought Snowden was a traitor, and that the surveillance was totally justified because, "It makes protecting the innocent easier." And I asked him: "well, wouldn't being able to enter any home or car without a warrant or even probable cause make protecting the innocent? Basically, wouldn't repealing the 4th amendment make it easier?"

He paused for a moment, looked me straight in the eye, and said, "Yes."

That's when I knew we are all in real danger. People grow up and join law enforcement, and it changes them, and they don't even see it.
OpenSSL's 'speed' utility doesn't seem to have RSA-3072 on the list, but I suppose I can downgrade to ECDSA-224 instead:

Doing 224 bit sign ecdsa's for 10s: 27648 224 bit ECDSA signs in 9.94s
Doing 224 bit verify ecdsa's for 10s: 5776 224 bit ECDSA verify in 10.00s
Same goes for the physical breaks on the car. If someone install custom breaks on their cars that is found to be unsafe, it is illegal. This doesn't however make installing custom breaks on your car illegal. On the opposite, the law explicitly allows you to do so, and enforces the car manufacturers to give you documentation so you can do it.

Why should federal regulators differential between someone installing custom physical breaks on your car, or someone installing custom software that controls the breaks. Whats the difference?
That still doesn't change the fact you have contributed absolutely nothing to this conversation. Your comments should would be marked as flame-bait, or not informative on old slashdot.
A similar comment deriding your hypothetical financial analyst would be called pompous if they listed credentials, claimed the analyst was uninformed, then declined to say anything more (assuming other commentators were similarly uninformed).

Saying "you're wrong" and leaving it at that isn't very helpful and most people will simply ignore the statement.
I've never heard of Mailbox before, but based on that description, I would never use it.
The Analogical Instinct and the One Cortical Algorithm
Why do you think that a binary distribution of LUKS deserves less suspicion than binary distributions of Truecrypt?

If everyone were using LUKS instead, one would hope that people would attempt to verify that trust in binary distributions LUKS was well-placed as well.
I had troubles with my regular Google account as well, but only on my Android phone. My first thought was to come on HN, but I did not see any news on it, so I thought it was me only - looks like I was wrong.
This of it this way:

Do you routinely monitor the calls, emails and communications of your closest friends and relatives?

At some point, those people are going to cut you out of their lives for being so disrespectful and immoral.
But we are not at war with everyone, and those countries involved (like Germany, France and Italy) are our partners, economical and military partners. I can accept doing SIGINT on non-friendly countries and organizations but is it correct to spy on your own people and partner countries?
Gushing a bit here, but it makes packaging things up soooo much nicer. It doesn't cover every use case of packaging, but it hits the sweet spot for quite a few things.
Intelligence from allies should come from cooperation, not espionage.
True, but Amazon could easily be profitable. It is a matter of choice in their case and has been that way since the beginning if my memory serves. Jeff Bezos chooses to run the company more like a non-profit than a C-corp. On the other hand, Groupon never had a sustainable business model.

Twitter seems like they could have a sustainable business model which is good, but I haven't seen much proof so far. When Facebook was not profitable for so many years, it was fairly obvious to me they had a path to profitability or sustainability (if they chose to act like Amazon). It is not obvious to me how Twitter will do this.
I can understand why "world leaders" would be frustrated by this, but much better them than us. This activity is at least plausibly within NSA's purview. Also, most of these leaders have less at risk to the NSA threat than do USA residents. It isn't as though NSA will sic the Drug Warriors, the IP Mafia, BATF, ICE, or EPA on leaders of other sovereign nations based on its observation of their communications. Whereas we're definitely in those crosshairs.

There are exceptions! If your nation could plausibly be on deck for the next military-industrial complex fundraising activity, you might want your leaders to secure their communications against NSA. Of course, if they're not doing anything wrong, they might want that fact to be observed, on the off chance it might make a difference.
I'm still not convinced about this visual style. It's incredibly hard to parse compared with their older one, and the linework icons are especially challenging. I'm forced to look at the icon and work out what it means rather than being able to intuit it at a glance.

Moreover this just looks exactly like all of it's peers; just another flat, generic app. The TapBot branding used to be incredibly strong, and it's just been stripped of everything that made it unique.
Comparing a heterogeneous group to homogeneous groups, in three charts. Broken out, America doesn't look so bad:

http://www.vdare.com/articles/pisa-scores-show-demography-is...
One thing I keep hearing is how great MS offerings are for businesses and enterprises. What offerings are these? How do they beat the open source systems?
A financial analyst may not be able to critique my code, but he can certainly tell if my program works or not and offer his opinion on how it should work. His take on it is not invalid just because he doesn't know how to program.

The same can be said for this- I can look at it as a developer and get a general idea of how Microsoft is doing. I may not know all the intricacies behind it, but that doesn't mean my input should be thrown into the trash.
One of the other subtle things they do with metadata is their fascination with IP addresses.

Intro will enable LinkedIn to have the IP address of all of your staff using it, and thus (from corp Wifi, home locations of staff, popular places your staff go) they will know which IP addresses relate to your staff members (or you individually if you are the only person on a given IP).

This means that even without logging onto LinkedIn, if you view a page on their site they can then create that "so and so viewed your profile", which is what they're selling to other users as the upgrade package to LinkedIn.

Worse than that, as a company you can pay to have LinkedIn data available when you process your log files, and from that you know which companies viewed your site. And that isn't based on vague ideas of which IPs belong to a company according to public registrar info, this is quality data as the people who visited from an IP told LinkedIn who they were.

Think of that when you're doing competitor analysis, or involved in any legal case and researching the web site of the other party.

And VPNs won't help you here, as you'd still be strongly identified on your device and leaking your IP address all the time.

There are so many reasons why this LinkedIn feature needs to die a very visible and public death, and very few about why it should survive. It's a neat hack for sure, but then so were most pop-up and pop-under adverts and the neatness of overcoming the "impossible" is no reason this should survive.
Hmm. That's a really good point, hadn't occurred to me. Good for us I guess, although I still don't think we can really lambaste them for doing something that's directly in their "charter". (As opposed to all the domestic surveillance, etc!)
Ah, but that's improving rapidly. Coinbase does BTC->USD in less than 24 hours and USD->BTC instantly (with level 3 verified accounts).
The charts seems a bit strange. What does England/Northern Ireland mean? Is it a combination of the two countries scores? Did they both score equally? Why leave out Scotland and Wales and not plot the UK?
Quite interesting thank you for sharing. The idea that constraints can guide creativity. It reminds me of pg's essay on distractions.

I've got something of a different view. I was never limited TV or game consumption. My parents had the mindset of 'you'll have to learn to self moderation at some point, better to do it when the stakes are small'. They wanted me to learn to recognize when something I enjoyed was having a negative impact. They would guide me subtly by asking me to think about time spent in various areas and what that meant. Now as an adult I've not struggled with moderation in any area. Never got pulled into MMO style games, diet isn't a challenge etc... My biggest worry is that I work too much and don't make enough time for fun.

I remember finding it odd when I'd visit a friends house and they were only allowed a certain number of sodas per day, and had regimented rules about computer time. Later on as adults, these friends almost universally struggled with various addictions real and digital (I've seen lives ruined by MMOs). To me it appeared that they weren't able to manage their own desires without outside inputs. Obviously it was a different experience for you.
Thank you flat design proponents. You've succeeded in killing creativity and differentiation.
You can't teach a financial analyst how to analyze code in a single comment, but you can certainly give them some rough pointers:

(using Python as an example)
def function(): This is a "unit" of code which performs an action.
raise Exception(): This means something bad happened.
...etc.

droneStrikes is asking for something along these lines. We're not expecting to become experts at financial analysis after reading a paragraph, but we'd at least like to leave more informed than when we arrived.
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I quit posting reviews because of the G+ requirement. Wish I could post them for apps I really love, but I don't want or need a G+ account tied to my primary Gmail.
And why is that a better way to examine the numbers than the one in the article, exactly?
Awesome update. For reasons that escape me now, I switched from Tweetbot to Twitterrific when iOS 7 came out. But Tweetbot is clearly a superior client in a bunch of ways. Most notably: streaming api support, and notifications. It's nice to be able to switch back to Tweetbot without leaving my flat blurry world.

My only complaint is the same one I had with Tweetbot 1 and 2: that stupid icon.
Wait for the next wave of design... I'll come back...
The Most Start-up 'Dense' Area in the U.S.
This is painful to read. Basically "We had legal disputes with him and now he's dead and I'm happy".
Great write up! Tons of useful features in the new release.
Don't you think that might have also made Field less eager to join them?
This feels like anti-consumer pricing to me. Obviously, the prices are all low, so I welcome the "first world problems" accusations, but they already charged separately for the iPad and iPhone versions for seemingly no reason, and it just doesn't feel good being required to pay again for what appears to be nothing more than an iOS 7 redesign (granted, a good-looking one) that the vast majority of apps will offer as a normal free update.
Different. Will take some time to get used. Othwise very nice update.
There's an implicit assumption that we used to be on top, although it's not supported by data (and I'd hazard that the data would not support it).

It's another form of nostalgia, really. People think the US was so great and wonderful in the past and now it's crap. It was crap all along, really. Happened to be some good crap, and still is in many ways, but crap just the same.

If the USA wants to return to the global domination it had in the 1950s, the answer is clearly another devastating world war that leaves the USA is the sole advanced nation untouched, since that's how we got to that position previously. Not by education or technology or resources or innovation (although there was plenty of that too), but by having all the competitors tear each other to pieces for years. Now the world is enjoying relative peace, and that means we're not so special anymore!
Are you basing that on the screenshots? It's a pretty impressively dynamic interface. My first impression is that they did some awesome stuff with UIKitDynamics, and none of it seems egregious.
Things they actually tested (or at least, a sample):
http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/Education%20and%20Skills_onli...

I was surprised by the quality. These seem like really good tests of general competence. This gives a lot of weight to the results.
I actually touched upon this in a blog post I wrote last month: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2013/09/rumours-of-pcs-demise-have... — and I said exactly this. A bad economy coupled with the fact people just don't need to upgrade as much any more are reasons PC sales have slowed. The PC will always be around, tablets and smartphones are great, but they're not comfortable for extended periods of time nor as capable. As I also point out, being a developer means I need a keyboard and multiple monitors to do my job and coding on a tablet is just never going to happen.
Shame to see the old design go, even though it had to. Tweetbot is one of the most well-designed iOS apps ever made, in my opinion.
A complementary tip for Ctr+R is to tag long reusable commands with a comment in the end, e.g.,

find . -name "*.png" -print0 | xargs -0 -P8 pngquant --ext .png --force 256 #optimizepng

(if you’re using zsh, you have to enable INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS option first; just run set -k)
It wasn't Tesla's fault, but it was still a hardware mishap.
Or provide a paid app ($20-30 even) that handled multiple accounts better. Anyone working in social media would quickly buy this rather than log out and in all the time.
It's really beautiful. Did Twitter ever offer to buy TweetBot? Still pretty upset tweetdeck was killed.
I missed it the first time through, although I'm not surprised as in the article his previous automobile engineering experience seems downplayed.

Equating his segway experience to all of transportation seems a stretch.

According to his linked in profile he was a development engineer at Ford for 6 years and hasn't worked in the car industry for 20 years. Certainly he does not seem to possess any executive experience in the car industry or related to car development.

As a TSLA investor, it makes more sense to me to have someone in that role who actually has experience getting cars to market (ie. someone like Bob Lutz).
$3 is hardly anti-consumer. It's literally me having a 1.5 hour nap in my apartment, or part of a cup of coffee. They're also in the position of having a very restricted number of API keys they can use, which is why I imagine this is being released and branded as a separate version.
Do it and I'll donate money to make it happen. I am being serious.
Rapid prototyping, static site generation and so much more
I don't think they'd need to. Plus doing that and avoiding it being gamed would be a hassle.
Is it just me or this article pretty naive? The headline's use of the word "exact" would imply integer arithmetic only, but the computations are done with floating point. So basically (s)he is trading one rounding error for another, which seems to be small-ish in some particular cases. What about discontinuities? And why forward derivatives only? I hope noone will use this for any application that actually relies on exact derivatives.
Nothing in that story does anything to suggest that joining law enforcement changed that person, or changes people in general.

You seem to just be assuming that before he joined law enforcement, he had an attitude more similar to yours.

(And then there's the problem of generalization from this anecdote on top of that.)