skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my first thought. If all great thinkers recorded long pieces like this we'd build a great treasure trove of information.
OK; I see what you mean now. The article assumes the only possible states are "trusted" or "untrusted", and you disagree with that assumption.
Your reaction to this story was wondering if it can be used to demonstrate another member of HN being wrong in the past? Petty
Well... the odds on favorite for what Parliament will do is to make prostitution itself illegal. Harper and the Conservative Party are pretty conservative, and so is their base. Any reasonable regulation of the sex trade is pretty unlikely under their watch.

Once prostitution itself is illegal then the current legislation might pass muster on the section 7 question. Certainly, at the very least, the courts would need to address the question again.
Yubikey NEO (latest revision) is like the one you already have + a java card that comes with a PGPcard app (and supposedly, you can write your own apps)

They don't have a timer like the RSA key fobs, and need a USB or NFC connection - but are generally very reliable, and given their constraints.

The questiion, of course, is what reason you have to believe that yubico (and for that matter, gemalto, g10code and the rest) are not similarly in bed with the NSA.
What is most fascinating to me is the fact that posts like the parent will delve into the game theoretic motivations of psychopathy as if the psychopath were some wholly unique flavor of creature operating under behavioral algorithms never before seen, when the truth is that your neurotypical, salt of the Earth Johnny Lunchpail is doing the same thing, except on a different timescale, and with the utility functions ingrained into heuristics like 'empathy' and 'compassion' and the like.

Unless you believe that your motivational orientation is made of some magical pixie dust handed down by the Holy Ghost, you should keep in mind that your instincts, your sense of morality and right and wrong and all those gut feelings are engendered by a truly massive utility computation; your feelings of selflessness as you drop the coins in the bell ringer's jar, your protectiveness toward your children, your lesser protectiveness toward your more distant kinship relations, all of it is equivalently cold-blooded. It's just dispersed enough that you don't see it for what it is.

So when you stop talking to your friend because he's annoying, or you don't give money to that homeless guy because you've already gave enough money, and maybe he's a drunk; and you buy a nice present for your nephew but not your coworker's kid, and you think it's best that your grandmother died because she was suffering so terribly, you're a psycopath, too. There's just a lot of epiphenomenal stuff larded on top of it.
Hi everyone! I have been working on this side project for a couple months now and pushed to try to get a demo up for the close of Winamp today.

I'm hoping to get 100% milkdrop compatibility and make a site kind of like shadertoy or glslsandbox where people can hack together new presets.

Thanks, hope you enjoy
...which is why Theo Deraadt is now suddenly everyone's best friend, despite his personality. :) OpenSSH and its mother project, OpenBSD, are now all that is left of our civilization's freedom to think.

Thanks, Theo, for never selling us out; for being such an uncompromising bastard; for not being like the RSA. May Athena gird you for war against the Spartans.
Nice. A smidge better at 582:

5[54]|2[437]|00($|[369]|1[25])|^8[17]|^3[29]|9.7
Okay - any examples? To back up your assertion that they were closed merely because the OP was a beginner?
I dunno. Packing standards bodies with incompetents and then suggesting things to those incompetents that are apparently sensible but weaken security seems like a perfectly plausible way of subverting cryptographic standards to me. Also, it probably wouldn't be terribly hard to seed a culture of disdain for real cryptographers.
"djb, for the entertainment value if nothing else. =)"

Well, no one expects the IETF to get anything done, anyway....
Fantastic! If only I could write Excel macros in vb.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944628

> Jesus, what a tool you are.

How very civil and gracious.
Why is Kesha an optimal answer? (#2 k$) ;)
We're discussing gender, not sexuality(in the standard sense of sexual orientation). The term "transsexual" is somewhat misleading, yet I think it's the best term available for what I'm talking about.

You might not think it's right to describe my feelings about my gender as a treatable medical condition, but I'm one of the ones actually undergoing this treatment right now, and benefiting greatly from it. I think it's very descriptive and appropriate to refer to transsexualism as a treatable medical condition.

We're born, we suffer and sometimes die, we sometimes get medical interventions using drugs and surgery and this usually results in substantial, sustained improvements in our happiness and functioning. That's pretty much the definition of a medical condition.

Reductionism sure is useful when properly applied, as any engineer knows.

Transsexuality is a treatable medical condition. Someone's gender identity as woman, man, genderqueer, etc is, of course, not completely reducible to neurology or biology and has very significant social, historical, and subjective aspects.

Specifically, for myself: I'm a transsexual - i.e. I have a fairly rare neurological developmental condition that I'm undergoing treatment for.

But, much more importantly, I'm a woman - and that's something much harder to define, something indescribably precious and wonderful, yet taken for granted and commonly denigrated.
Recreational drugs under the microscope
I think your point makes sense for throwing out specific ideas to specific problems, but I don't think throwing out a general solution (lacking any concrete implementation) to a general problem is going to make someone who is capable of the implementation suddenly realize they overlooked a giant area.

This article can be boiled down to:
Project idea: better IDEs.

It's in the same vein as comments like:
Business idea: nuclear fusion.

They just aren't productive / valuable.

If say Henry Ford said:
Project idea: Use energy from chambered oil combustion with pistons to convert direction of force into a spinning axis to create an horseless vehicle. (I'm obviously not a car expert)
Then we would be talking about a valuable idea.

My viewpoint is simple: Ideas are not innately valuable, of all the ideas in the world, only a subset of them are valuable. Obviously you don't know what current ideas will be valuable in the future, but I have a heuristic: for an idea to be valuable, it must be a specific (implementation details included (batteries included)) idea.
And quite how would overzealous closing of simple questions help to "protect their position"? If anything, answering them is the easiest way to score more points.
P.S. I showed this to a friend and her response was: "Little does that guy know, you're totally an asshole." So there's that...
Careful, your bias is showing. Despite no photos of the banners, and the banners being described as having been 'unfurled' (suggesting cloth) you declare them to be laser-printed.

There is no irony to be had when you manufacture the story.
"..answering questions from people who take my data and have a question about it has added noticeably to my workload."

I know this is an imposition under current incentive structures but it seems to me on a macro level that this is exactly what we the public would want to see occurring, people actively reading other people's research and data and unrelated scientists asking questions of each other and reviewing each others findings.
it seems like the primary benefit is to have the team come together for the same goal
"What is Bitcoin Mining?" explained by the experts (2 MIN VIDEO)
Prepaid cards cost a shitload of money (15€ p.a. fee, plus 1-5€ per top-up). While this may be something for you if your credit report is too smashed for banks to give you a "real" one, I consider the prepaid cc's as last-resort.
No - it would be better to have those 100 people living down near where they work - in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Fremont, Santa Clara, Milpitas, etc. The GBus only solves a problem it creates currently.
After reading tptacek's comments in the latest thread about Telegram https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940665 I can only agree. He insisted Telegram team should abandon its custom solution without providing any actual proof that it's vulnerable. His advice was to rely only on "modern" algorithms (mostly the ones included in "NSA Suite B Cryptography"), but he provided zero evidence why these algorithms should be more secure than the ones already in use.
Glances: Cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool
There are people who just drop their homework assignment on SO, not even bothering to write a single word from themselves. They just expect users to serve them solution on a plate, doing their homework for them. And apparently they're sure it goes without saying. Now that's arrogance, no double quotes necessary
Can Bitcoin Pivot?
Lead engineer wanted for edtech startup, Kinvolved
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. The illustrations help develop your intuition, and the humor keeps the math content from feeling too dry. The content isn't watered down at all, just lubricated with jokes and historical asides.
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With proper formatting hopefully.
> some of the best results I've ever had for writing sales copy... come from repeating a simple tactic: 1) Find your typical customer's main objection. 2) Nuke it.

I'd love to apply this... but I don't see how/where. I mean, your main tactic has to be explaining what the product simply is, and what benefits it will bring you.

Overcoming potential objections seems far down on the list, not something you're going to put in your main ad copy or home-page copy.
Ship something . . . dammit.
Volunteering and spending time with the actual poor in the communities where we live. Make it known on the street that techies are people who are involved with the poor, so that it becomes more difficult to co-opt their struggles the way these "anarchist" types do.
I'm just using Firefox instead. Because the browser is just as good, and seems to genuinely push for http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
As somebody who has been in IT for almost two decades, I can't think of a safe way to get a file off our corporate LAN without leaving a trail leading to me.

I realize it's an argument from ignorance fallacy, and maybe there are such ways, but I'm not aware of them.
I bet you were using the Terminal Emulator II cartridge, which with the Speech Synthesizer attached could read you the text coming across, just like David does in the movie.
JavaScript solver: https://gist.github.com/amix/8063003 ;-)
The beauty of this backdoor, for all its faults, is that it was reasonable to believe that it wasn't a backdoor. And it was also reasonable to believe that it was. This backdoor is quite deniable, elegantly so.

So far I have disagreed with tptacek when it comes to what's backdoored and not. But I can understand his reasoning, and it's quite sensible.
I'm increasingly getting the impression that Google would just love extensions to disappear altogether. They probably just added them to get Firefox power users, now that Chrome is king and they're pushing it like crapware (large scale bundling), they probably don't care anymore.
Watch Man Utd vs West Ham Live Stream 21/12/2013
Except no one wants to even peer review or try to replicate this guy's experiments, because a) they're flawed and b) they're batshit insane.

The conclusions he draws are -way- out there. It's like newton comparing the dropping of two objects and their rate of fall, and saying the penny drops at the same rate as the bowling ball because the penny thinks faster. Complete disconnect between results and hypothesis.

He's saying "look, their behavior changes over time (even this is disputable)! Without the chicks talking to each other! IT MUST BE PSYCHIC." God of the gaps, and all that.
There's a bit of a difference between running afoul of the dictator and getting 10 years in jail on a show trial and joining the military and getting jail term for leaking actual secrets you took the oath not to disclose.
I guess I'm just feeling weary of grad-school tropes, but think about this statement with me:

"I hope that we will find an effective way of solving the problem of electronic waste, which is growing quickly."

If the "designer" really feels this way, then why did they do this project???

Speakers actually recycle very well. They're steel, paper, glue and copper.

This project doesn't take steps toward the problem of electronic waste. It doesn't matter that the speaker was made on their own workbench instead of in a factory. (except that "factories are bad.")

AND it appears to recklessly waste a slab of (toxic, difficult-to-recycle) acrylic for NO REASON. Wood would have been fine there.

I'll identify what is really going on here: Grad schools are filllled with people alienated from the products they consume. That's a serious phenomenon that we can do something about. This project is an attempt to understand the electromagnetic phenomenon and thereby reduce alienation.

But _please_, don't construe this as anything environmental, or a statement on the future. It's a personal project the designer needed to do to understand a natural phenomenon, not anything that's going to help the rest of us.

If you want to be taken seriously, practice what you preach. Don't mumble platitudes about toxic waste while parading your own contributions to it.

I'll only mention the fact that paper-processing is one of the more well-known toxic activities (although some steps have been to reduce it) out there... contrasted with organic stains and varnishes used in the wood of "bad" speaker design.

Plus, by building inferior versions of mass-produced items, you're sending the message that "homemade stuff is shitty." I mean, listen to that speaker! Is that really something you want playing at your house?

How are we supposed to take seriously someone's ideas about the future when their perception is so clearly compromised they somehow feel that this an acceptable substitute for anything I would actually use to listen to music in my home?

Or are you going to tell me that this is just a hint, a suggestion, of how things _could_ be? If that's the case, then you haven't done anything, and you're trying to trick me into imagining how it could be better. If the designer has any idea how to make a GOOD speaker that's environmentally friendly, then stop being a jerk and keeping it a secret. Fucking demo it, not some weak-sauce illustration of the principles of electromagnetism.

DIY doesn't have to mean shitty quality and we shouldn't let anyone control the future who tells us we have to accept shitty quality and toxic materials where they're not needed.

(yes, I am _this_ mad.)
> Jesus, what a tool you are. I absolutely believe you: I think you read this story and eagerly awaited its implications to some random person on HN.

Huh, I've seen your patience tested on HN before, which tends to elicit mostly restrained responses save for a bit of snark, but that's the first instance of actual name calling I've noticed. I'm genuinely curious how this comment annoyed you. The tone I'd expect is more of a "yeah, you got me" <kneeslap>. Instead it sounds like I'm accidentally trolling you.

For what it's worth, I did legitimately get excited to run to HN to play "told you so". After months of debate over this issue across numerous threads, I'm not going to lie, vindication is momentarily exciting.

> For what it's worth, my take on Dual EC (before learning more about it) was the same as noted NSA apologist Bruce Schneier.

Wait, tptacek is calling Bruce Schneier an NSA apologist?

Aside from being absurd, your claim that you shared the same opinion is also false. Your own comment here directly contradicts this, and you even dismiss Schneier's credentials upthread, yet appeal to his authority in your comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6424920

"I am aware that Schneier believes Dual_EC to be backdoored. I'm aware that Dual_EC comes from NSA. I would not use Dual_EC and would flag it if I saw it in an app I assessed. But I would still, right now, with the information I have, bet against it being an NSA backdoor. Not because I trust the NSA, but because it's a very dumb backdoor."

Edit: In reply to a now deleted comment by tptacek.
We already knew back in September that this was happening. All this story adds is details about the actual contract between RSA and NSA.
Er, really? Can you tell us how to do that?
>> I don't know why people swipe debit cards

My guess is there's a significant chunk of the population who, like me, simply don't own any credit cards. A quick search puts it around 25-30% of the US population. People do it for various reasons (don't qualify, don't believe in using them, etc.).

Debit cards are a convenient tool for these people.
These aren't the details that need to be 'leaked' anonymously - the whole point for the original suggestion to work as intended requires a public claim from aranking officer of that company; the actual info isn't important but the public testimony is.
Their employees can ride to work on Big Dogs? :)
And if you or one of your parents were one of the <who knows how many> lives he affected in a negative way... you'd still be allowed to make informed decisions and not be painted by a single circumstance because people are more complex than that.

>you'd have a more mature perspective of the world instead of making flippant criticisms from the comfort of your living room.

So instead of disagreeing with the merit of my opinion presented, you just throw insults at how I couldn't possibly know what I'm talking about. You have much to show me about maturity.
Minor quibble (and yes I'm as outraged by this as you are) - but "rouge" means "a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips", whereas "rogue" means "a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant, faulty, or unpredictable way", which is what you mean in this comment.
Your series of comments in this thread is way below the threshold for positive contributions to any HN discussion.
It's likely that this viewpoint depends on the language you tend to view – I haven't seen much evidence of this trend. SO is a large site now and has different subcultures within it.
RSA SecurID was already compromised in 2011, and RSA more or less tried to hush-hush it: digitaltrends.com/computing/rsa-securid-data-stolen-by-a-nation-state/
NSA also does commercial espionage to harm non-US bluechip companies, which are quite likely to use those dongles for internal data.
Maybe not overactive enough to warrant such tasteless tongue in cheek though.
> I have to retract my "for the most part". I was thinking of Nadon... but he was previous Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court.

Well even after the ninja edits, your comment still reeks of overclass condescension, using meaningless feel-words ("very good at their jobs", "measured, professional understanding"), essentially saying , "trust them, pleb, they know better than you".
> Jesus, what a tool you are.

This sounds like the start of a pretty angry prayer.
Well you know about humor (from your profile) and I know about domains and naming.

It's (part of) what I do.

And I make plenty of money doing it (both buying and selling) as well as consulting for people who you have heard of and who you trust and that pay me for my opinion.

So given that we are talking about +-$12 or so for wdwee.com while you may not feel you need it there really isn't much in going with the expert opinion on the subject.

I mean if I decided to do standup comedy and you told me to "drink 3 glasses of water and piss before going on stage" I'd probably take your word for it and not tell you "I really don't think I need to do that". And I'm guessing I'm probably better at domains than you are at comedy.

Agree that wdwee is hard to type. But so is a long domain name (chance of typos is greater with more letters, in general). Not saying you should use it instead of the ironic name but as an additional short acronym.
I operate out of Houston... so I only know the buildings that I have the investment info on. Without going to check... two projects spring to mind along [W] 118th (8th/Fredrick Douglas area). They are SUPPOSED to be upscale. Maybe upscale in NY is different than upscale in Houston??? Don't know.

At any rate... these are just two of several projects throughout Harlem. If you live in an area of Harlem that developers have not encroached on... buy more property around you and sit on it. You are right in the middle of what will be a golden opportunity. (But the prices may already be reflecting that. Wouldn't hurt to check though would be my advice.)
Most of what Deraadt says makes sense and I almost always agree with him but he can be an asshole. It has turned a lot of people off, from what I can see.
I have a recommendation, If you are good with Linux and setting up servers why don't you become a DevOps/Sysadmin.

You can find a job in that field, Here are some of the skills you will need.

1.-Linux know how to write scripts, bash. python,
2.-Learn to automate server setups with Chef,Puppet, Ansible
3.-Learn how to deploy software using Capistrano, Jenkins, Maven
4.-Learn how to help developers setup Dev Environments.

I am a sysadmin been doing this job for almost 12 years and I am not old but I not a spring chicken either, but I have job offers all the time. I have a great salary and I come home and learn more stuff everyday on my own. I get paid to do what I love.

It doesn't matter how old you are, if you are trying to compete with young developers that might be hard but I can tell you that developers hate setting up systems or debuging issues and that's where Devops engineers come in handy.

I have a few books i can send you if you are interested.

Cheers
If they do it anonymously nobody will believe the docs and say they are just elaborate hoaxes by tinfoil hatters...
> "In a deflationary economy, people always buy LESS of your stuff and you have no idea if that's happening"

> [citation needed]

> Where did I trip up?

The fact that you need a citation to realize that in a deflationary system if prices stay stagnant people will consume less by definition. You don't seem to realize that. Deflation means prices are falling. If prices don't fall and the dollar is worth more, people buy less of your stuff. This isn't rocket science. Please stop advocating things you don't even understand.
Redbeacon — Thank You
Seems like yet another example of Bootleggers and Baptists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
That assumes he actually wants to put one over on Putin. But there are other ways to have a good life, especially if one is a very capable entrepreneur.
> it's the short-sighted self-interested voters

Not really. The fact that people are individuals who always make decisions at the margins means you can fall into a sort of network effect hysteresis trap. If you have Party X who gives you 20% of what you want and is polling at 49%, Party Y gives you 22% of what you want and is polling at 49%, and Party Z gives you 80% of what you want and is polling at 2%, if you believe the polls are accurate, you have a much larger expected gain from voting for Party Y instead of Party Z.

This is true even if the voter preferences are universal -- if e.g. everyone would get 15%-30% of what they want from X and Y, and 70-90% of what they want from Z.
What's the point of the Google CTS Certification?
Making a computer "blank screen" if certain noise levels are reached