skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the OP about uploading private keys being bad, but you don't have to do that – everything works without doing that as long as you are comfortable in the command line. Whether or not uploading private keys should be an option is a good question (I think they probably should not be uploaded ever), but the site is still early beta so they should be given time to work this out without getting thrown under the bus quite yet.

I disagree that the existing public key repositories are what people should be using and that the twitter/github integration is pointless. In today's world, we often want to communicate with people we have never met in person. An old tweet or a gist that hasn't changes in a long time seems like a pretty safe way of verifying someone's identity. Apart from the NSA[^1], it's hard to imagine a situation where both keybase was compromised with a bad public key, and twitter/github was compromised by invisibly changing an old tweet (not possible to edit without a big hack) or a gist (not possible to edit without creating a change history within a big hack). So this makes a lot of sense to me as a way to easily verify identity.

[^1]: At this point I'm not sure I would trust any encrypted online communication if the NSA wanted to read it.
>Html is supposed to be a document and not an application.

That was TimBL's intention, but that ship sailed in 1995.
I think I can see the intent behind requiring comments be endorsed by ‘users with over 1000’ karma: this is a somewhat arbitrary way of saying ‘users who themselves are good contributors to the community’, but I think that specific way of measuring is naïve.

Using an incrementing value to represent karma means that you can slowly accrue and work your way towards achieving that state of being a good community contributor in principle, whilst in fact still behaving in all the negative ways you are hoping to minimise.

There are quite a few metrics that could be of relevance when looking at people who comment on HN. How often do they reply? Do they post the first comment, or only replies? Do they only reply to controversial subjects? Do they upvote often?

I'd propose that the solution be more subtle. As others have pointed out, you shouldn't implement a system that acts as a positive feedback loop for the most popular topics; that will simply filter out things that aren't in the zeitgeist (and god knows HN doesn't need any more of that).

My suggestion would instead be that all comments are visible immediately, but will be automatically hidden after a period of time, unless they become sufficiently popular. The length of time before they become hidden will depend on the another value, associated with the poster, which would be something akin to the ELO rating system; all users start with the same score, and then that score is modified based on how many people approve of / disapprove of their comments.

Obviously just using these things ignores context, so I'd encourage some more clever introspection of the other things I mentioned above to determine whether they're just posting on a controversial subject (maybe the first reply gets a bonus to the length of time it's visible, or controversial subjects — measured by the frequency of up vs downvotes — don't reduce your personal ELO rating as much).

Of course, these ideas could be equally terrible but I think thought should be given to testing them before committing, and using something more subtle than just slamming the door in the face of people who aren't able to get their comments into the eye line of the HN elite.
There already exists a mirror list at https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors.html.en. Of course this is hard to come by, when the whole torproject website is being censored.
"They see succesfull men and woman and assume the money must have been stolen instead of made."

Well, that's textbook Marxism, strong here in the US, I assume much stronger in France (after all the French Communist Party is still competitive to a fair degree, per Wikipedia was part of the "Plural Left" coalition that held the legislature from 1997–2002).

ADDED: and our path is particularly odd there: as has been joked for some time, there is no French word for entrepreneur.
Technology: The $1,000 genome
How to design an elliptic-curve signature system
I also did not understand it.

First of all, if it wasn't for the aquisition I wouldn't even be aware Whatsapp exists, as none of my friends uses it.

Second, a messaging application used to be a standard exercise to be done during network programming classes in my CS degree, so no big technical challenge to solve.
Perks of self-publishing is that I can decide the price of my book myself. I believe that more people will buy my book if it is cheaper and hopefully everyone will like the book and tell their friends that this book is both good and cheap. It's a win win.

I can price my book so that when someone buys it, after taxes and all that I can at least buy myself a coffee while working on the next project. I see it as a "Thank you for helping me, here's a coffee".

I understand that books from larger publishing houses are more expensive because there are more people that needs a coffee to some extent there's just too large of a margin or too many coffees that needs to be handed out.

Based on how many copies I've sold from self-publishing I've been able to get myself more than a coffee, but the individuals that bought the book didn't have to suffer too much economically as I don't price the book in the range of a new mobile phone.
Free as in sofa. (No cost, similar value)
Some ideas on firespotting are good candidates. But of late there are more completed products than ideas there.
It's more complicated than that. First off, local councils take the decision to buy these toys with Federal money, so there is irresponsibility on both sides, but they also do it on their own:

Nashua police purchased a BearCat with drug forfeiture money in 2003. (from your second link)
Procrastination?
Perhaps 50% of your users aren't, but services exist for which that is the case. It doesn't really change the point being made however: would you really have preferred the statement "...your pages have loaded quickly for 38.271% of your users"? That's why the "~" was included to indicate approximation.
'Good Chance' of Successfully Cloning 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth
I like this deconstruction of Searle's Chinese Room, by Scott Aaronson. He calls Searle's argument a "non-insight": http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec4.html
That does not solve the problem either, than you cannot cache the served page, as it will either have logo.webp or logo.jpg in it (well if it is dynamically generated per user this might not be an issue).

The correct answer is something like the video tag, with a choice, polyfills, or headers that are useful enough to do a small scale Vary on. None of which are very good solutions.
Yes exactly, too big is exactly what it is. And my point was that it could be small. In practice of course we'd never even agree on a definition of what the web is or what it should be, so even the idea of designing a compact standard for it is hopeless.
Bad models and the end of the world
Since you're so all knowing maybe you can also chastise Europeans for their dramatic increase in obesity rates, too.
The guys at Bunchball have comfy stools. Stand then sit for a while if you get tired. I imagine the sit/stand cadence is something like pomodoro with 20 minutes up five minutes siting.
Heh, you know how developing countries "solve" the bureaucracy problem? Through corruption! A few hundred [local_currency] here and there and you've got your business started in no time.

If things don't improve soon, France (and other countries) will have to resort to the same thing - and it's a bad thing since it's hard to come back from that, when everyone gets their share independently and no one follows the rules anymore.
AI / Natural language data to text
If you read my post again I am sure that you will understand that the predicament of my wife is irrelevant to my argument. Economically rationally the taxi driver will charge according to the perceived value of his service, which in terms of money means more to a rich person. Of course other factors weigh into this equation, especially competition and the fact that people aren't economically rational.
>> True, yet I still don't see any reason for me getting insulted.

Being a government shill is good enough reason for me.
The prevalence of this opinion undermines not only Microsofts email service, but also their cloud services.

If it's too widespread, it undermines others' online services. I'm already thinking I need to consider moving off Google Apps...
Cost of living isn't the only factor. Lifestyle quality is another, and not fully captured in the model you give because unlike money, people are non-homogenous. This may be more evident when the demand for a given field in a region is particularly small.

Consider [0] says that petroleum engineers are one of the highest paid STEM jobs, and [1] concurs. But a petroleum engineer in, say, North Dakota where there's an oil boom is likely going to have a higher salary than one in Hawaii even after adjusting for local wages. There are so few petroleum engineering jobs in Hawaii because it has no oil resources. If 0.1% of oil engineers are are willing to take a pay cut to move to Hawaii, then that small subpopulation may be enough to supply the Hawaii jobs market. (1 out of every 1000 jobs in ND is a petroleum engineer. We know that wasn't supplied by the indigenous population. While BLS doesn't have an entry for petroleum engineers in Hawaii, indicating that it's small.)

In a related vein, [1] points out the nuclear engineering is the highest paying job in Tennessee. This is probably influenced by Ridge National Labs and the three reactors in the state. The University of Tennessee offers a MS in nuclear engineering, so there's definitely a local production of people with those skills.

While Montana (no reactors, no nuclear research) doesn't have a BLS listing for nuclear engineers, which indicate that the demand for such is quite low. Low enough that secondary influences, like the desire to be near good fly fishing, or to move back to family in Montana, may be a bigger factor than cost-of-living.

Thus, regional salary variations, even when adjusted for CoL, may not give the estimate you're looking for.
I decided to build a career in academia after working as a technician for a college that afforded me the freedom to experiment with approaches to my work. Now I am an IT manager at a small state University. My boss allows me the latitude to approach projects with creative perspectives. This fall I also plan to begin teaching, and I am continuing my work towards a Master's degree. Lastly, I find the structure of academia to be such that my off time is clearly defined (at least in comparison to working for a company in private industry), and I am able to also pursue entrepreneurial ventures.
" And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"

"..and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors."

"For if they fell upon one kind of strictness, unless their care were equal to regulate all other things of like aptness to corrupt the mind, that single endeavour they knew would be but a fond labour: to shut and fortify one gate against corruption, and be necessitated to leave others round about wide open. If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing of dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our youth, but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say. And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? The windows also, and the balconies, must be thought on; there are shrewd books, with dangerous frontispieces, set to sale: who shall prohibit them, shall twenty licensers? The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebec reads, even to the balladry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler, for these are the countryman's Arcadias and his Monte Mayors."
NanoBSD would be easier to audit than anything Linux based. Once it's booted, you can physically disconnect the write pin of your storage device. If you can manage to dump the contents of it externally to the host, you can then compare checksums to see if anything has been compromised.
> Maybe there should be some kind of more normal procedure such as a court order rather than merely the "approval of Microsoft's lawyers", but either way they had justification.

IANAL but I suspect that if MS had gone to a court seeking an order against itself, or if MS had set up some other legal entity to sue MS on MS' own behalf, they'd have been thrown out of court for timewasting.
"Take the "right to bear arms" for example, which is clearly stated that it applies to citizen militias...."

Only to those with fundamental failures in English comprehension, which does not include the Supremes, who in Heller agreed 9-0 that it's an individual right.

And the Federal courts have been implacably hostile to "assault weapons"/civilian semi-auto assault rifles and the like (full auto has been covered elsewhere in this subtread; I'll just add there are about 200K legal ones out there, and two known crimes committed with them, one by a police officer). Not a single favorable opinion prior to Heller, and none that I can remember after it.

Try again.
I like them when I'm typing, but when I have to stop and think, it doesn't work that well.

Do you do the less non-typing part of coding while standing too? (Drawing stuff on paper, imagining scenarios where that solution won't work, etc...)
It needs to be stressed that they did not just check the Hotmail of the leaker, but also the Hotmail the one the leaker emailed.

So for my Hotmail account to be opened and read by Microsoft's personnel without a warrant, all I need to be is the willing or unwilling recipient of an email from a person whose activities Microsoft deem to be illegal/bad?

What happens if some well known internet pirate sends me an email with an attachment? Will an justified Microsoft go on a fishing trip in my inbox to find any juicy illegal activities?

One could say that this is what I get for using Hotmail, but no way in hell can Microsoft maintain that "we are the good guys in privacy" that they have in their campaign against Google.
Zero drop shoes (altra for my front feet specifically) and Vibram five fingers cured my shin splints. As soon as I switched I went from one mile = deadly pain to 3 miles feeling like an easy walk. Obviously I have some mechanical issue but if a funny looking pair of shoes works... Well great =)
No, they should've hired Cisco and IBM to build 'em a copy of the Great Firewall of China. US, EU should do the same and start building squads of execution drones.
Neither Google nor Microsoft has outright hurt me with their privacy policies in any way I can personally detect.

When it comes to this discussion, for me it's a matter of principles. The principles are being equally violated here, it doesn't matter if one does it more frequently than the other.
"Clean Up" = "Ideological Cleansing"
> SUSE is now in the hands of a huge IT company

Which one are you referring to?
They make small pedallers that sit on an a frame and you sit in a chair to pedal. If you ever have to do leg rehab you'll get to use one.
The author may have some points; I have not inspected the protocols or the source completely, but the arguments made in the post are misleading and inaccurate descriptions of keybase. Seems like there may be some subtle yet festering bias.

1. They are not "rolling their own" crypto. keybase seems to be an interesting wrapper around gpg that helps you establish links between accounts using "proofs of knowledge of secret keys." I haven't tried the service yet; but one can inspect the code:

npm install -g keybase-installer

keybase-installer

grep gpg ~/.npm/keybase/0.0.43/package/lib/*.js

2. "Keybase's pitch is that rather than use a web of trust..."

It is not mutually exclusive. Since you have it installed,
try

keybase -h

keybase track <id>

That seems to subsume web-of-trust

"limits on that identification are two-fold...<security of twitter>...and...<soundness of tweeting>"

So it is actually the same argument repeated. The first 3 Mission Impossible movies also demonstrate that when you meet someone in person, they might be Ethan Hunt instead of the person you think they are. For the paranoid, there are out-of-band mechanisms around this (that can also be used with keybase). Even without those, keybase is an out-of-the-box mechanism for linking identities that is weakly sound over the Internet.

3. "...doing this right"
One of the founders, Max Krohn, was at RealWorldCrypto this year. He is an MIT phd and he certainly knows quite a bit about applied crypto. He is also a systems person and comfortable making tradeoffs between usability and security.

If keybase allows 1m more people to easily create and use keys, even if their day-to-day workflow is not secure-against-state-adversaries, that would be progress.
"Ooops forgot murder!"

(or if you are more cynical, "lobbying regulation")
Is 10% really mean perl is Dead?
> Philosophers have always been misinterpreting AI research's goals, which is why nobody in AI has ever paid them any attention, and which is also why they'll never be relevant to anything. Even if they're right, they're not asking questions that anyone cares about.

That's totally unfair. Serious philosophers object to the misapplication of AI research to answer philosophical questions about the mind (not necessarily even by AI researchers), not AI in general. It's basically the the same complaint you have against Searle being invoked against AI. Don't sink to the level of the person you're replying to with mindless tribalism. Your definition of 'anyone' appears to be AI researchers.

Fwiw, although Searle made it onto the undergraduate phil mind courses, he isn't really taken that seriously by contemporary philosophers.
That's how law works nowadays. Make most things illegal, but don't prosecute so no one worries about having so many laws. But then when you want to place someone behind bars you can cherry pick any law you like.

"Show me a man, and I will show you what he is guilty off" - old communist saying.
As I read it, that proposes it's undesirable because there are few economic benefits for moving.

That would suggest that people are willing to move if there were stronger economic reasons, but the economic disparity across the US isn't high enough.

While the OP suggests that people aren't willing to move despite there being an economic disparity.

Thus, doesn't your link support the thesis the STEM shortage is a myth?
Rise of the Machine Reporters
I think this article glosses over one of the key factors of the corruption in the textbook industry. Professors who write textbooks receive 15-40% royalties off the cover price. Then when new editions come out to block out the used market, the price on average increases 12%.

Those same professors dictate which books students buy. Students are NOT the consumers of the textbook industry, professors are. At many large American universities a board of professors pick the books for the large Chemistry, Biology, Physics classes. If one of the board members has written or contributed to a book, you know that is the book that will be assigned to 1000+ students a semester. At near $200 a piece and assuming a 30% royalty that professor just made himself $60,000 at ONE university. Now imagine his book being used at 10+ universities.

No matter how great the open textbook world gets, professors who have the option to net $60K are not going to select those books which gain them nothing. Once again, students are not the consumer of the textbook industry.

One aside on new editions. I have a 2nd edition of a book, the 7th edition, and the 12th edition. The only thing that changes is the problems at the end of the chapters. The text on each page is near identical. The problem as a student is that I need the problems in the back to do homework, and in many cases exam questions are drawn straight from those problems.
I spent the last 4 years at university and digital textbooks are almost never prescribed because students like hard copies. Your argument that educational establishments don't stand to benefit much financially from traditional textbooks is probably true, but not really the issue.
So if I understand correctly this can be used to install a persistent hardware rootkit on the chipset that listens for a "secret" knock procedure with TCP (because it has access to the NIC) and then in response to the secret signal modify the host OS kernel through DMA-access to disable for example all access checks [1].

Imagine infecting a machine with this either before delivery (requires physical access, but should be doable for FBI/NSA/foreign-counterpart) or in a "rent a server" situation. Most providers will allow you to rent a full server with root-access for a month and then cancel the contract. I'm assuming those servers get re-used if they're not too old.

[1] Code to disable access checks through DMA has been around for a long time: http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/
I remember teaching staff being too busy to see students because they were working on books. I also remember buying their books, paying real money and having the burden to lug around. I would have preferred proper course notes from them, ones that I could have submitted change requests to where I found explanations lacking. I don't see that I am asking for something utopian, just collaboration instead of a poor business model.

In my day job I don't think I would last long if I wrote code on the company time and then charged a backhander for the instructions/user manual. Yes I could claim it was my IP but it wouldn't wash, would it?

As for textbook authors, there will always be a market for 'study guides' and such like that can give a student an advantage over their peers. These should compete on merit, i.e. being better than what that 'lousy lecturer wrote', but their purchase should not be a pre-requisite.
I wonder how stupid companies are that they use Microsoft's cloud service for email, document exchange, etc...
What is the ball they dropped?

Please show me the comparative risk analysis of sticking with XP after support ends versus rewriting an existing code base across fleets of machines that not only spit cash but are also hardwired into the electronic transfer systems.

I''ll stipulate that coming across as a brogrammer friendly workplace doesn't count.
It's hard for me to imagine any circumstances under which someone would be precluded from carrying a knife in their own home.
I'm amazed the steam tables had different values. The author had already paid a lot of money to use Company A's tables, I have no idea why they would then switch to Company B's tables.
Bitcoin Exchange Blames Data Center Provider for $100,000 Theft
So you work a few years and pay it off, then you can worry about other things. Money and debt management is also an important lesson to learn young.
People can just look at the cached version of this page on Google over SSL, I doubt they will ban Google...
The Crimean War Was a Boozy Fiasco