skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PGP being "too hard" doesn't mean that browser crypto "has its place".

While I've always enormously respected your opinion, you seem to have a very black/white perspective, aggressively attacking and/or belittling anything that isn't an infallible solution, even if it's a significant improvement for many or most scenarios.

You don't seem terribly pragmatic in many cases. I realized that long ago in a discussion on passwords and the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000833

So many password incidents since would have been a complete non-incident with such a solution (or anything similar), so I've always remembered your raw negativity because it wasn't a perfect solution: That because it didn't solve every possible issue, it's better to solve no issues.
There is no per I/O charge?
Only a fee per GB per month?
> I think "distribution" in this context is just a nice way of saying that poor people can't afford better food from elsewhere, they have to rely on what is cheap and can be bought from the local market.

That may very well be the case.

> If they're already buying bananas as a staple food, then I presume that the fix would be for the government to go to the local growers and either give the better banana plants for free, or at a discounted rate, or some other incentive. If that's what the growers grow, then that is what will eventually be available at the market.

I think that exactly is the distribution problem again: If the government has the means to do that, why is it not providing seeds/saplings etc. of vitamin A containing crops right now? Bananas are a really demanding crop, so the soil has to be of high quality.

Most probably the article just left this information out for the sake of readability, but given the current information my fear is that these GMO bananas are a solution for a problem complex that has not been researched deeply enough to have a firm understanding of the causes. Like a startup running with the mantra 'build it and they will come' :)
Is there an emoji for "Piracy"?

edit: Found elsewhere

>[...] another new character (#1F571) depicts the familiar skull and crossbones. It is labeled “skull and crossbones” too – no “Yes to Piracy” here.
Good point, and I didn't think of that.
I think we are pretty safe against MITM attacks (for dragnat survallance). As a quick test, I am sure that many people on this site have access to very public facing, SSL enabled, servers. Try verifing that the public key your server sends is the same one that you get visiting your site.

Even without concerns over government survallence, it is probably a good idea to check this occasionally.
Yes, there's lots of recent research showing the importance of managing n3/n6 ratios, typical western diets being up to 15:1 6/3 whereas ideal would be purpoted to be more closer to 1:1
Bread is a heavily processed food, and it's essentially sugar, and it's so easily broken down into glucose, this process is so easy, it first starts in your mouth as amalayse (sp?) begins digestion while you masticate. A common intro bio lesson is to chew a soda cracker until it begins to get sweet. Whole wheat breads are sugar with soluble and insoluble materials that aids in moving food material through the gut because we evolved eating a lot of crap that we couldn't digest. So to suggest that I've evolved in 7000 years to digest milk, but not evolved to no longer require fibre requires genetic proof, and I've not seen that study. Evolution doesn't work that way regardless, and certainly not over as little as 200 generations that were geographically locked genetically for all but the last few hundred years. That said, just because it's processed, doesn't immediately make it bad for us. Olive oil, yoghurt, etc... all have some observable health benefits. And products like cheeses and bacon are absolutely processed, and show little to no health benefit, but if you took them out of my diet, I may suffer depression, so I unscientifically say they cure depression (in me).
Is there one (or a few) book(s)/article(s) that shaped your view on this (most of all the wealth, identity, drama triad)? I'd be interested in reading them.
I am not a native speaker of English. In http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/comprise_comp... the difference is:

Make sure you name all the constituent parts when using comprise or compose. The word to use when other elements are may also be present is include.

The elements one, two, and three composed the set {1,2,3}.
The set {1,2,3} is comprised of three elements.
The set {1,2,3,4} includes the elements one, two and three.
Hopefully it will stop the nonsense of having custom fonts in websites for icons.
Which can be copied and turn out to be a "t" or something.
I find this view rather short-sighted.

To some extent I agree with you that there are benefits to mass surveillance, and that on the whole it is (probably) not currently being widely abused.

However, this is not predictive of the future.

By setting up such a pervasive surveillance machine, this massively enables abuses by future governments that may not be quite as benign towards its citizens.

Just consider how 'useful' this mass data mining of private communications would have been for the East German Stasi, or during McCarthyism in the USA, or many other examples of overly authoritarian governance.

The danger is that a system set up to protect state security, ostensibly with the best of intentions, can be subverted later on as a tool of governmental abuse.
Unicode contains a wide range of different scripts.

For example, some are phonographic (the letters represent phonemes, i.e. speech sounds), others are logographic (the letters represent words, or morphemes).

Both of these can be featural: The Korean Hangul script is phonographic, but the letter shapes are not arbitrary. Some of them are visualizations of mouth shape or tongue position when producing the sound. For example the velar consonant ㄱ (somewhere inbetween the English g and k, roughly) is the tongue position as seen from the side.

A logogram can also be featural, i.e. it can look like the thing it represents. This would be the case for a glyph that means "thermometer" and looks to viewers like a thermometer. It could also be arbitrary - some shape that you just agree on to mean thermometer. Perhaps sharing some graphical aspects with topically related logograms.

They're all just spots on a spectrum.

(Edit: I briefly touched on pictograms vs. ideograms a bit more down below.)
No.

Just because one part of an organisation does not have a particular property, it does not negate that property for all other parts. The USA and UK are, quite obviously, democracies. There are free and fair secret elections for government in which anyone can vote, and anyone can stand for election as a candidate. That makes them democracies, the behaviour of their secret intelligence services is irrelevant.

I worry about the thought processes that must occur for people to think this; or similar things, like conflating an instance of some law enforcement department abusing its power with a totalitarian police state... I understand hyperbole as a rhetorical device, but it isn't helpful when assumed as fact.
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Isn't your server just virtual? Your instance could be running on a physical host running a hundred others, all accessing disk at the same time. A lot of times these cloud providers don't really target super fast individual responses anyway, just decent responses across millions of requests.
For my anecdote I will state that I know quite a few people with screens larger than 50 inches. None with 4k since it is so cost prohibitive, but that can change when the cost of 4k screens comes down.
I don't agree. By "has its place" I don't mean "appropriate for all" - I mean a step up for general security of communications.

For mainstream users (who shouldn't even be exposed to the concept of keypairs, since it blows their minds), you can give them a binary client and trust that their desktop isn't compromised, or you can give them a TLS connection and manage your server security.
That is correct. The new General Purpose volume type is only charged based on the size of your volumes.
>'...the cost of daycare was more than her income.'

Covering the gap when coming off of assistance is a major problem.

The sharp cutoffs and various criteria for violations turn leaving assistance into a leap of faith.

A small raise becomes a big problem when the increase adds up to far less than the food benefit you'll lose all at once for exceeding the income limit. Likewise, you can't build a basic emergency fund when two thousand dollars in the bank will kill your SSI.
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This attitude is incredibly naive (the fact that you made an account 2 hours ago to express this opinion, means you probably agree and are just trolling). Governments change, but data is forever, what you say now or do in public may be politically neutral or acceptable at the moment, but might be worth a jail sentence in 20 years time. Your data will never disappear and you can be held accountable for something you said 15 years ago, even if your opinion has changed or if it was out of context.

For example, have you ever expressed a view about abortion, either for or against (or homosexuality, or religion, or politics? Right now any of the views you expressed may be socially and legally acceptable. It is conceivable that the legal views on this could change 10 years down the line and if you expressed a view that is out of favor with a government of the future you could potentially be in serious trouble.
Parents / mainstream users don't even understand the concept of keys. Keypairs are a technical detail that everyday (/non-apologist) users should not be exposed to.
I don't think emoji are logograms. Logograms represent actual words in a language, as opposed to emoji which don't have a conventional mapping to words (unless you consider the unicode character names such mappings, which is odd since most users don't have any idea what the character names are).
Good job citing speculation about a third-party's motives and justification for your speculation. A+ for specious citation.
Standard drive disposal procedure anyway.
> The biology of the human body and food is so complex, science is nowhere close to understanding it helpfully enough to design a diet

To me, this is an argument for eating real foods, and a reason to be skeptical of things like soylent. But I don't think you can get from there to saying it doesn't matter what you eat, or that anybody with a rationale behind their food choices is delusional.
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We want deepfreeze.io to integrate nicely with other "hot" cloud storage services. We started with Dropbox, but we want to offer the option to "freeze" files from Box, Google Drive, and others.

Future plans include search too.
And here I was living in eternal ignorance thinking bananas are fine as-is.

Sort of like how I like my meat not grown from soy-protein, or my water without aspartame (gates favorite sweetener.)

All of these Gates notes agenda pushing for Monsanto is reason number 1 why I buy mac and shop at whole foods.

Bill Gates IS literally Satan incarnate. How can you all be so blinded by this psusdo-science bullshit?
Wow, I thought this was a bad joke but I checked other sources and it's true. I guess it's another breakthrough the billions of dollars and Euros invested in manned space flight have given us.

How many cups of Espresso did the Mars Rover need?
Everyone should care about this; but as you said most people don't see the issue in practical terms. I think is our jobs as tech-savy people to put it in more practical terms for them, someway the average Joe can relate to, for example:

- NSA and GCHQ are probably watching your kids naked, a lot, because exploits from webcams are very common, and they cannot know before hand if someone is using Skype to plan tewowist attacks or a video for their teenage boyfriend.

- They are watching everything related to any company, so if an NSA employee happens to have stock in a rival company, well, that's insider trading sponsored by the state.

- Blackmailing is a piece of cake, because completely normal and legal activities such as watching porn are enough to defame you.

- They want security exploits to exist (and they pay for those), because that's how the intercept your communications, the problem is, those are the same exploits tewowist and black hat hackers use against you.

You get the idea.
> The bar is low enough that simply getting people to eat less processed foods is a win.

I suspect, with no research other than my own life (anecdote of one), that this is the fundamental benefit of any diet like paleo. Start with "food," avoid things in the ingredient list that are not "food" as much as possible.

For example, when buying peanut butter (arguments for or against legumes aside), prefer the one where the entire ingredient list is "peanuts."

Your ingredient list should be zero (produce and meat) or very short.
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Based on pricing across the world, banana appears to be the cheapest fruit in the world, by far. Are people starving due to low banana yield?
There is a difference in that Lavabit did have possession of the passwords and even plaintexts, however ephemerally.

As a legal matter, I don't believe there are any precedents for a vendor being forced to put a backdoor into a product they are distributing to others to be used in a place outside of the possession of the vendor.[1]

While still vulnerable to all sorts of technical problems as described in TFA, a website that treats the encryption/decryption code as a product they distribute to customers may be[2] subpoena-proof. Just because there are actions I can take to help the police gather evidence doesn't mean I can be compelled to do them. Turning over evidence in my possession is entirely different.

[1] I would love to hear one example of a vendor being legally compelled to backdoor a product. Things that definitely are not examples but people often say are examples include: Lavabit, Clipper, RSA's BSAFE, Hushmail, the NSA modifying hardware on their own, CALEA.

I would also, at this point, accept non-Internet analogues. Has a car dealer ever been required to install a GPS tag in a car they sell to a customer, for example?

[2] I would not recommend anyone volunteering to be the test case.
Yes, I'm sure this has happened many times, and will continue to happen, although probably not as much on HN as on jihadi extremist forums and so on...

But the knee-jerk responses of 'shill' or 'astroturfer' to dismiss anyone whose opinion differs from the local majority is sad, and seems to be getting more common on many sites I frequent.
>The weakness of JS Crypto is that you cannot authenticate the source of your crypto library so you cannot make sure it works properly

One of many, this isn't the only issue. Even if you authenticate the host what prevents tampering via MitM attacks?

> All your ranting against what I'm saying is also directly applicable to plain Diffie-Hellman

yes and no. Standard white paper Diffie-Hellman yes. But implementations can fix that. As you point out.

>That does not disqualify plain Diffie-Hellman from having some use

except

>and that does not disqualify JS crypto from having some use

Wrong. Because you keep dodging my main point. Anything that solves the problem of:

1) Is who your talking to the right person (authentication)?

2) Is your code arriving unchanged (authentication + encryption)?

The two main issues with JS crypto. Solves what ever problem your trying to solve with JS crypto. And any solution that allows you create secure JS client side crypto, fundamentally makes it obsolete. That's the problem I'm going on about.
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To be honest you cannot do that. Simply because they have patented so much.

A good example RE40989 Atomic Operations on Data Structures.

If you read the claims you'll notice they have basically patented the way of 'atomically' changing arbitrary sized data by simply acquiring a mutex (or atomically setting a 'do not touch' flag), making the changes and then removing the flag.

If you want to do parallel programming at all you will have some sort of locking mechanism to prevent multiple threads from writing the same data structure at the same time. And if you do, you are infringing the patent.

P.S. You can all thank me now. You know of this patent so it's 3x penalty for willful infringement ;)
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The ratio is not nearly as important as keeping PUFA intake as low as possible. Fish oil is just as bad an idea as canola oil. There is a pretty clear body of literature linking PUFA of both kinds to cancer.
Great service for storing rarely used files. I believe it is built in top of AWS Glacier.

However, since AWS Glacier charge for transfer of data, how this service prevent user abuse(such as transferring data in and out)?
Charlie Brooker, brilliant as ever:

David Cameron has responded to this crisis by declaring we need to celebrate "Britishness" with more enthusiasm. More enthusiasm? More? We've been celebrating Britishness with the strained determination of a man desperately trying to shit a cricket ball for the past five years.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/david-c...
Source : http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=9475
That's amusing, because I looked at the thermometer, and thought, oh that's good, I can use that. But a chilli pepper, do we really need a character for a chilli pepper? So to answer your question, unicode is trying to bridge the gap in communication that offers a language independent set of recognizable glyphs that can be used to communicate. And one mans chilli pepper is another mans thermometer.
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there's lots of vitamin k in (real) cheese, I hear you with bacon though :)
Good job blindly supporting Gates notes as if they are not paid for by MONSANTO.

Fuck these paid for profit "notes" on how to euthanize the population as quickly as possible.
The title did indeed keep it's promise. Rare that is.

Great real life hack, especially since beta list seems to have been more successful than open margin. He tricked himself it seems.
Scrapy spider that is doing exactly the same::

# It requires scrapy from github.
# Save it to tickets.py and execute
# "scrapy runspider tickets.py" from the command line

from urlparse import urljoin
import scrapy

class TicketSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'tickets'
start_urls = ['http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/search/sss?sort=date&query=firefly%20tickets']

def parse(self, response):
for listing in response.css('p.row'):
price_txt = listing.css('span.price').re('(\d+)')
if not price_txt:
continue
price = int(price_txt[0])
if 100 < price <= 250:
url = urljoin(response.url, listing.css('a::attr(href)').extract()[0])
print ' '.join(listing.css('::text').extract())
print url
print

There is no reason to prefer Scrapy for extracting information from a single webpage, but on the other hand it is not any harder than BS+pyquery+requests.
Maybe next time the Gates Foundation and its hundreds of resesrchers will consult you before wasting time on its billion-dollar "unresearched" programs.
Hey, thank you very much. I did as you said and now login is much much faster :D
> I was under the impression that hunger is primarily a distribution issue, not an issue of production.

What do you think the solution to distribution is? World-wide socialism, where all property is distributed based on need?
If you truly believe that "culture" is a fixed phenomenon, unable to transform itself, adapt and merge to new mixtures of people in society then I fear for our future.
If you don't mind me asking. Who pays for the bandwidth cost of running "giggr"? It doesn't look like you have any ads running. Or are you monetizing on it in some other way?
I don't even understand your question. How is a character of a normal language (and i consider chinese normal) different from the picture of crap?
And why would we put up a huge library of tiny pictures? If i want to look at cat pics, i don't open up the font browser.
And where is the HN-logo unicode point?
Can i register my own somewhere?

Unicode should be used to represent language and not anti-piracy symbols or poo or snowmen. Just my opinion, though. Obviously a great many people like shit in their fonts.
Me too, I eschew package managers and just put stuff in .emacs.d as I want it, and version it:

http://inversethought.com/hg/dotemacs/file/b1915cf8617c/pack...

Like you, I'm probably stuck in my ways too. I just don't trust any package manager but Debian's apt. I also don't like this trend of having one (or more!) package managers per programming language.
I'm afraid you're wrong. "Comprise" in a patent does not mean "all, no more and no less".

See, eg http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/202.html

The transition words or phrases commonly used are "comprising," "consisting of" and "consisting essentially of" and have very distinct meanings:

"Comprising" is open-ended language, meaning that the claim encompasses all the elements listed but does not exclude additional, unnamed elements. For example, if a claim recites elements "A" and "B", an individual that practices the invention using elements "A" and "B" is infringing, and using "A", "B", and a new element "C" is infringing, whereas if she only uses element "A" or "B", she is not infringing.

In contrast, the transitions "consisting of" and "consisting essentially of " have more limited scope. "Consisting of" means that the device (or method) has the recited elements (or steps) and no more. For example, if a claim recites " A" and "B" and the individual uses only "A", or "A" and "C" but not "B", or even "A", "B", and "C", the claim is not infringed.

The meaning of "consisting essentially of" is intermediate to comprising and consisting of. A claim using this transition includes additional elements only if they do not affect the basic and novel characteristics of the claim. " Consisting essentially of" is not often used.

Drafting a claim to use open-ended language will enable the patent to be as broad as possible. Narrowing the claims to be more specific is the kind of thing that a patent examiner might demand in order to approve the patent.

(And this is why you have to employ lawyers whenever patents are involved, as otherwise your opponents will rip you to pieces in court.)
Technically the entirety of the unicode range is supported by browsers right now -- they just don't exist in fonts at all. What Unicode does is say that "this codepoint" means "this". At that point, fonts start adding glyphs to mean "this" and authors start adding codepoints that refer to "this".

If you look at FontAwesome, it uses characters in the "unicode private use area" -- which are effectively undefined -- but putting those codepoints in your HTML document while having the appropriate font loaded will show the appropriate icon glyphs.
This page has links to the proposals to add characters:
http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2013/10/whats-new-in-unicode-...

Including this one with comments on the Wingdings addition.
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4239.pdf

a) Ireland recommends adding the following new characters to this table:
1F597 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED
1F598 RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS
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I only partially agree. I think that pure philosophy is essentially "empty ideas", but impure philosophy, philosophy as done in strict relation to specific and detailed domain knowledge, is very useful.

So, for instance, metaphysics would be "the philosophical portion of theoretical physics", useful for pointing physics in new directions but ultimately reliant on actual data to constrain its imagination.