skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud this only because of Getty and AFP's willingness to prosecute others for the same and their unwillingness to share photos for personal/noncommercial use.

But this is a sad day. I've been a professional photographer for over 10 years, and it makes me sick how paranoid others in the industry are.

Why is it OK to quote what someone said for a news article, but not use their photo with proper attribution? Because they spent a couple hundred dollars on a camera? Why is a picture some sacrosanct object but what someone says worthless? You're pressing a button on a camera and then pressing some buttons on a computer later.

The balance of power is completely wrong, and photographers, musical artists, and other "creatives" only shoot themselves in the foot by slathering watermarks, issuing crazy copyright notices, and using DRM on their photos/creative works.

If proper attribution is given to the creator (same as quoting what someone says) then photographs should be shared. Encouraging the sharing of photos I've taken for clients has only increased my business. It's better for society.
Gezond ouder worden? Dan moet je vooral deze noten eten
The definition and use of the word fiat is interesting, in Latin it means "let it be done".

You could say that the creator of Bitcoin decreed that it had value (I'm not sure I would agree), but it's still different from government backed money because nobody is forced to use Bitcoin (to pay taxes for example).

It certainly seems that within the Bitcoin community the word fiat now means government backed money, I suspect if Bitcoin becomes more successful it may end up redefining the word.
We didn't do it.
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We didn't do it.
Its old news.
And Urbit, which is Moldbug's.
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Yes, you should be impressed.

Historically the overhead of SQL put a low ceiling on the potential performance of simple queries. Which is exactly why KV databases appeared in the first place, because a scalar value get in most RDBMS systems barely hit 1000 results per second, and that is being optimistic. That overhead was never optimized away because the classic use of the RDBMS was query conversations where each interaction was very expensive (e.g. large, complex queries), so optimizing it wasn't important.

But, thanks to competition, most database systems have gotten fantastically more performant. Even using the TDS interface, I can get close to Redis performance with SQL Server now, while it was beaten by one if not two orders of magnitude a few versions ago. And in this case MySQL added the ability to use a much simpler, lighter memcached API in from of MySQL, for obvious reason -- the underlying database system is fast enough that it is of value.

I should add that almost everyone who has commented thus far completely misunderstands what this is taking about. It is the Memcached API atop MySQL. Meaning you can talk to your database server through that API from any client programmed to talk to a memcached server. And that same data that you access via memcached (reading or writing) can be accessed in your normal SQL. Which is pretty cool.
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More pitiful, bullshit statistics out of BTC fairyland. PayPal currently processes 100 times as many transactions in a day as the Bitcoin network. 8 million [1], versus ~80,000 [2]. The difference is Bitcoin is averaging $17,000/transaction, at current market price, compared to PayPals ~$60.

PayPal processes about $500M a day [2]. Even if Bitcoin was pegged at $1000, that's be equialent to ~500,000 coins being traded for USD in a day.... which is 10 times the average daily trading volume of the largest exchange, BTC China [3] ... and most are those are probably from market makers, whereas PayPals volume overwhelmingly reflects real purchases (30% is eBay, for instance).

Whatever way you cut it, Bitcoin as an economy is still tiny. Like Gold perhaps [4], a large % of trade is pure investment.

[1] https://www.paypal-media.com/about

[2] http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/

[3] http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/btcnCNY.html

[4] http://www.gold.org/investment/why_and_how/why_invest/demand...
That their racism will cross many readers' moral event horizons does not make it (a) untrue or (b) irrelevant.
Solving a problem: Nope.
Doing something I'm already doing, better: Nope

Those are the two first things I think about, but maybe that's just me. I'm not a very social media type of person, also I'm living in Sweden, so I'm probably not part of your main audience here, but I don't see why I should spend my precious time on this, that's all I can say.

Oh, and good luck! :)
I wish more people worked on Darwin based OSes.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786128
"What would happen if NSA mistakenly targets a nuclear reactor, and a bug in the malicious software caused a meltdown."

What would happen if the NSA introduced a weakness in a cryptosystem that was used to secure major utilities in the USA? The NSA does not care about such external effects.
MIRI has quite the history of shape shifting and hiring inexperienced CEOs - the list of which you can't find unless you know the history, so here it is: Michael Vassar, Michael Anissimov, Luke Muehlhauser. None of them have anything close to management experience.

Peter Thiel is behind a good proportion of anything these individuals want to do which is interesting in and of itself to me.
That it is old news is a simple, verifiable fact. I don't care what NSA said in public.
You can say they don't come up with a hierarchy only by ignoring that they're just fine with the present one and use their racism as the explanation for why it's right and natural.
Yes, that seems pretty simple: if NSA hacking caused a nuclear disaster, that would be an act of war. And?
Go wag your finger somewhere else. This isn't Metafilter.

It's such a nice pun, too. Retarded means 'slowed down, delayed', as in 'tardiness' for example.
Cryptography achileus heel is the UI.

Think of PGP, adding a new key toyour browser, creating a certificate, adding an exception... Always unintuitive CLI.

In terms of UI, I still don't get why for firefox a clear text password other an unencrypted connexion is not worse than a self signed certificate (it should be identically considered dangerous).

The only crypto UI I can use is ssh.
Has there ever been an NSA thread where you didn't take the opportunity to tell us why whatever the NSA has been doing is completely normal and expected?
I saw this on paypal post. Looking forward to release the kraken on some projects.
Assuming that the present hierarchy of society is mainly due to inherent racial characteristics ... you can say "that's not technically racist", but only by twisting English out of shape.
It depends on the form of democracy.

The word "democracy" is used a lot. Usually people aren't mindful of what an arbitrary term like democracy represents in context. They have static perception. Unfortunately, due to the way a lot of these subjects are taught, most people seem to grow up believing that [governmental change in support of human freedom/justice] has reached its climax, that the end-all-be-all form of it has effectively been reached. People then fail to care about seeking even the simplest of changes to the system itself. They stay mentally contained to a philosophical box.

The US federal system as it now stands in loose terms, for instance, is a centralized, binary, non-preferential democratic republic. Paired with its form of taxation, this system has resulted in one of the most top-heavy, enriched, powerful, imprisoning, corporate oligarchical-like governments the world has known. Wars of luxury start happening with relative ease, just as they did under more totalitarianism and deluded republics. The feeding frenzy has never been better. As long as its "citizenry" is lulled into believing in an "enemy" and doesn't have to feel the weight of its violent force that affects others, this will continue. They'll keep throwing their own freedom and that of their neighbor down the drain in support of revenge, clinging to the hopes of another election. One of the only ways to conscientiously object peacefully is the withdrawal of funding, opting for social NGOs instead. Even that is a colossal task. A simple nonviolent action against the status quo of taxation may land a person caged.

Neomonarchism:

Neomonarchism as a reaction to a growing [corporate-war-prison-surveillance state (sprinkled with democracy)] doesn't make much logical sense. I doubt most neomonarchists want more freedom. Anyone who wants more freedom and liberation should tread in the other direction: away from these extremely centralized, top-heavy systems of today and yesteryear. To empower individuals more is to effectively disempower the ability of individuals and groups to rule over one another (who rule at the hand of a sword or by laws inherently backed by violence).
How did you get from the NYT inline widget to the PDF file? I didn't see any links from the NYT page to documentcloud itself -- the only reason I even knew it was documentcloud was because I had to whitelist it in RequestPolicy.
If i got a million dollar bill and take it out a wallet in my right pocket in put it in a wallet in my left pocket (and vice versa) every 4 minutes. Would i myself be bigger than paypal?
From the Australian experience it'll be a one-shot power.
Looks like a nice site, but not something I would use. Then again, I'm not the target audience. I would have said the same about Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat (I use those rarely, if ever).
Yes. For instance, I was not a believer in the NSA curve backdoors.

Unfortunately for whatever innuendo you're trying to evoke here, I'm on pretty firm ground when I say that NSA sponsoring computer hacking is normal and expected. I say that because you can find it on people's fucking resumes.
I do believe that the refraction rate is higer in glass than in the air? Am I wrong?

Also as you know radio wave is an electromagnetic wave, and therefor it travels at the speed of light.
The refraction is higher in glass then air ...
Machines can sync directly in most cases (especially on the LAN, and even over the Internet). If, for some reason, communication cannot be established directly between machines, a relay server is used, but the traffic is encrypted end-to-end between the devices, so the relay server cannot decrypt it or MITM it.

Take a look here[1] for the security spec

[1] https://www.aerofs.com/security/spec
People often try blogging by writing a couple of posts and stop there.
> we are creating a client-side, in-browser encryption system where a user can upload their already encrypted content to our storage system and be 100% confident that their data can never be decrypted by anyone but them.

This concept may sound clever at first but gives you as the user no additional confidence compared to encrypting data on the server side upon arrival. Either way, you're trusting the host.

The threat model for server-side encryption is essentially:

1) the host has an unethical employee who wants to read your content.

2) the host's servers are insecure and get compromised.

3) someone successfully MITMs your connection to the host (possibly due to the SSL problems being discussed here).

4) the government compels the host to provide your data (i.e. what happened with Lavabit).

The threat model for browser-based client-side encryption is the same! In any of these cases, the attacker (or the host, in case of #1 or #4) simply sends JavaScript encryption code to your browser with a backdoor in it.

Cryptocat originally worked the same way: all chats were encrypted on the client side, but with JS code sent from the server, in which a backdoor could be inserted at any time. After much criticism, this is why Cryptocat is now a browser add-on, with discrete releases made available from a central source (Chrome Store/Mozilla addons site), which can be audited.
I am sure we will be doing that too.
My disappointment is that it stopped at "racists." Because it brings up a more interesting question of why a geek sitting in front of a computer, out of a thousand topics and million cats, chose to investigate IQ differences between populations. And it went far beyond idle curiosity.

Here was his chance to actually shed some light "on the psyche of contemporary tech culture."

Same with the popularity of nootropics. I know of very few groups (body builders, athletes, and geeks may actually be the only ones) so interested in boosting performance. This is interesting. Shed the light on the psyche.

Does those two tie into the disappointment with the mainstream news and opinion outlets, contemporary scientific institutions, and governance? I'd venture a yes.

Isn't that interesting? Just to me?

Maybe I'll write that article one day then. His loss.
Life for the average person worldwide has improved substantially more in the liberal era (1700-now, roughly) than in any other span of time in recorded history. I have yet to hear any reactionary explain what suffering or harm people are suffering now that will be solved by their alternative systems. Instead, I just see blanket claims that we are obviously being duped, abused and robbed.
The salient policy question is really whether or not literally hundreds of billions of dollars should be spent trying to change certain things that probably can barely be changed by spending money. It's not so vicious and mean a thing as you seem to imagine. It's about efficiently dealing with reality.
All of the Internet until 2000 fit in 14TB
Crashes (that can be reliably reproduced) should be way easier to debug than memory leaks.

a) build a `debug` version of node (building node from source creates a node_g version which is a debug version)

b) build a `debug` version of all of the c++ addons in your node_modules folder (node-gyp build -d for each addon)

c) start gdb with the debug version of node: `gdb ./node_g`

d) in gdb, run your node script using `run <script.js>` -- add any other options

e) wait for it to crash, and then type `bt` - you'll see the location of the crash which should give you a good starting place.
I learned vim-style through vintage style. But then I started spending a lot more time in vim on the servers. I've added custom key bindings to sublime to add to the vim-ishness. (ie } or { to jump to blank lines)
Yeah, experts can talk about taxing bitcoin, and not talk about taxing high frequency trading.

I hate to sound like a rebel, but sometimes I just don't like how some people lurk around an issue they can be experts about while dismissing political ones. Ivory tower crap.
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Yeah I hear you pfisch you are definitely one of the more reasonable people I have come across in these arguments. But what I'm saying is this -- I'm certainly not an econ expert it's true but I've analyzed enough of the econ involved in Bitcoin to conclude that it's really not a viable currency and most involved are speculators or black market traders as you point out. And I firmly believe the exchange rates are totally artificial, since BTC are essentially not really transacted the way one would imagine a currency to be used. It makes more sense to say they are "traded". Speculator to speculator or consumer to business straight to 3rd party processor.

It solves a real problem, yes, but not so much so that every Bitcoin should quadruple in value every 6 months, this is a bit ridiculous. After all, one could implement a BTC alternative (Litecoin for example) and achieve the same needs.

So essentially yes I see Bitcoin as a cult of naive investors who think that because of its theoretical underpinnings it will save us all. The truth is, huge stores of it are owned by black market operations and early adopters who had an exponential advantage in the ease of getting these things. Its basically like a free money machine for anyone who had change left in their pocket after spending their first crop of BTC.

If the system were ever to go down via cashout or crash or whatever, these people have as good a shot at grabbing the exit cash as anyone else, plus they can trivially buy a ton of real-world goods now through stores that accept Bitcoin, who themselves essentially send 3rd party processors the bill since presumably the processors are the ones storing Bitcoins while paying out the current exchange rate (or maybe they put them on an exchange soon after). The processors are assuming the risk because they want a foothold in the emerging shadow Wall St landscape. These are people who are putting their blood/sweat/tears into building the infrastructure that is essentially just magnifying the wealth of the founders / online gambling institutions / black market ops.

If instead all the rational people were to abandon the cult & quietly cash out, all that baggage could be left behind. The online casinos could instead foot the bill, and we could begin again with a new more stable cryptocurrency that has more utility as an actual currency. Market volatility adds some lure into the intrigue of the system but it's really just a vehicle for wealth redistribution to those who are prepared to take advantage of a flawed system.

Btw telling me it's gaining traction as a cult is not really endearing me to the ecosystem. I'm just not a big cult-lover. :P
I'd say where everyone else failed was a concentration on porn, toys, and gimmicks. The leap here is the application of robotics, which really solved all of the problems that held the technology side of this back.

Now we're just up against society and challenging a traditionally "organic" space of someones life with artificial augmentations -- which some are excited for, but others are very defensive and scared, or just satisfied with their live-in partner that never spends the night away.

This is a transition period, and our approach is meant to provide the killer app for these devices as well as aggregate the demand for user to user haptic experiences. With this approach we are attempting to incentivise third parties to further innovate and provide new more exciting opportunities to connect over distance in the future knowing that they would immediately have an eager engaged community to appreciate their contributions.
I’m not sure what intrusions you’re referring to. Would you care to elaborate?
Two or three clicks away from the Urbit homepage you can get to any number of charming screeds about how the United States is communist and how scientific racists are being persecuted by the communist power structure, etc.

Kind of put a different light on the whole thing.
He seriously advocated DRM as an effective protection against the nanotechnology grey goo problem:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/10070-guidelines-for-na...

Geeks tried very patiently to explain mathematics to him in the comments.
Already submitted multiple times, interesting talk but, already some discussions about it.
To his credit, Luke is pretty much kicking arse now he's in the job. I've seen what not-so-great charity CEOs are like (I have many decades' experience in sub-competent charities of various varieties) and Luke's sheer energy is just what MIRI needed.
"...many Fusion Centers have gradually shifted to a broader mission of providing general criminal intelligence and all-crimes, all-hazards analysis support for constituent agencies."

Inevitable given that terrorism is effectively non-existent in the US. When you have a great big expensive hammer, you just have use it on something.
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It's rather disingenious to say that an SSL cert is $200, when in reality a domain-verified cert goes for about $20. Hardly anyone interested in Namecoin would be needing EV certs.
I'm a bit late to this discussion, but it's worth pointing out that JSON is a legal subset of yaml, so if you want to use a more well defined format, you can. Plus, you get comments for free then.
Next up should be titanium: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20110720/DEFSECT04/107200...
Don't people usually get to spend decades in prison for that? Shouldn't justice be the same for the NSA as it was for Kevin Mitnick?
Would the recycled aluminium Range Rover cost less?
Good call. I'm really curious if there really never was a slide 7...
This happens when web developers are not paid well
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Man I'd be shocked too if the repairman only drew an 'X' on the problem part instead of repairing the problem part.
>With a democracy, you can't optimize the society to the same degree of perfection as you can with philosopher kings, but you also get to avoid the worst crashes.

A great point; I like to think of Democracy as median filtering, it smooths extremes.
80,000 are only transactions that are recorded in the blockchain, it doesn't take into account transactions that go through Bitpay, Coinbase, gambling sites, the Reddit bitcoin bot, etc.
For an example of fully rampant Typical Mind Fallacy in Urbit, see the security document:

http://www.urbit.org/2013/08/22/Chapter-6-security.html

About two-thirds of the way down, you can actually see Yarvin transform into Moldbug and start pontificating on how humans communicating on a network should work, and never mind the observable evidence of how they actually have behaved whenever each of the conditions he describes have obtained.
>Instead, update the browser UX, which is the only thing leaving us hostages to the CA system.

This is only the case if you mean the browser UX as it relates to site owners and not site users. For users the only browser UX they should need to know about is the browser being able to tell them with confidence "this communication is [not] secure".

So why go through all this hackery to patch up the broken CA system vs just distributing the TLS keys through DNSSEC? That way you get a complete chain of trust all the way to the DNS root, validating both HTTP and the initial DNS response. Then you can really tell the user that the communication is tamper-proof without any gotchas about rogue CAs and certificate pinning.
Or as Americans like to call it, Titanum.
Getting medical/dental work done in a "3rd world country" is ironically so much cheaper and more accessible than it is here in the USA. The quality isn't as great, but you can't have everything in life.
Why is that? What should we use instead? DNSCurve?
The technology we're using is taken from remote presence machines used for things like remote surgeries. The machines are really just tracking a point in 3d space on both sides and matching it. For medical use, you can imagine the robot arm tracking the edge of a doctors scapel to the micron accuracy -- what we have here is a consumer grade robot for <200$ that tracks to milimeters.

It's a 3D force feedback mouse essentially, you can use it for manipulating and creating 3D models and feel their texture, edges, material, weight, etc.
> Read-Only

> Memcached

Well duh.
I don't think "ironic" is entirely the wrong word. It can mean a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result

In this case it's more accidental or incidental than deliberate....
On thy own heads be it. Here is the code, as written when I was 16. You'll need Tcl 8.5 to run it (8.3 is probably fine, but you'll have to change the line at the beginning), because all the cool kids implement interpreted languages in other interpreted languages. (Actually, wasn't Arc implemented that way originally?)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zqahavw2yoeca5p/stringsh.zip
Ha. No, we don't, but I guess we should.