skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users don't care about security or privacy. This has been demonstrated again and again, with Dropbox as a premier case in point.

By "care" I mean "change buying habits" or "plop down money." Talk is cheap. People will say they care about security or privacy but since they do not change their spending behavior these are just words. Where people spend money is the only thing that matters in terms of steering corporate behavior or product road maps.

What users care about is convenience, overall user experience (UX), and cost, in roughly that order.

Enterprises and governments do care a bit more about security, but they often don't understand it and make poor buying decisions in that space.

* Edit: A few tech-savvy or politically concerned users do care about security and privacy, but this is (1) a small category, and (2) generally a group that doesn't want to pay for things and thinks everything should be free. #2 is the most significant factor-- if you don't pay for things you don't exist.
It's worth keeping in mind that with things like these you get what you put in.

When the service first came up on the front page, I punched in some personal writings from my journal into it. Comparing my results from that to this HN assessment is like night and day. The HN assessment shows me as highly intellectual, imaginative, and adventurous, with a strong value for self-enhancement. The personal stuff showed me as being much more emotional, with a huge emotional range, because—surprise, surprise—I tend to write more about emotional parts of my life in my journal than on HN comments.

While this service might be useful to get a broad sense of people for marketing purposes, using it on an individual basis is like talking to a fortune teller—it could tell you nearly anything about yourself, and you'd be able to come up with an explanation to justify it.
Cheques are extremely common in the US. I'm forced to pay my car insurance by mail each month with a paper cheque, it's terrible.
Yep - that's where i got it too.
You literally have the word "greentext" in your user profile.

Go back to 4chan.
Is there a way to contact you? I'm facing some very relevant circumstances, unfortunately, and would like to ask your advice.
This is a good start, but the physics of sailing is much more complex than presented in your app. For instance, a sailboat is not powered by the wind pushing on the sail.

It works like this. The wind is split by the leading edge of the sail (the mast, headstay, or luff). It is split into two turbulent streams, one on each side of the sail. One stream has slightly less force on the sail so the sail begins to move in that direction. As the flow stabilizes over that side, the wind moves faster on that side than on the turbulent side. This creates lift like an airplane wing. So the wind is actually pulling the sail, not pushing it.

Lift on the sail causes the boat to heel (lean over). Some of the lifting force is counterbalanced by the keel underwater keeping the boat upright. The remainder of the force pushes the boat downwind. However, the flat keel underwater prevents the boat from sliding downwind, with the result that the boat is forced forward.

I recommend you read this book for your next version:

http://www.amazon.com/Sail-Power-Complete-Guide-Handling/dp/...
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Right, thanks, way beyond normal sane responses required I see from the article. Well, maybe there's not been anything invented yet that will solve this problem.
Keep in mind it's also not only people from the US responding.
Conscientiousness 23%

Ouch! How did it know?

Some are completely off, with plenty of 1% cop-outs but a few — spot on. What's the methodology? What does the need for practicality mean for example?
Lower frequencies offer longer range, which is nice compared to 2.4Ghz. Which means that 2.4Ghz is also going to have more attenuation, so you need a higher TX power draw to account for that. Basically, to get the same range, 2.4Ghz is going to need more power than 900Mhz would, but 2.4Ghz offers better transmission speed.
He cc-ed the FBI, and they followed up with a courtesy call. There is nothing in the article that suggests anything more than that.
In addition to intimacy increasing over time, it's also a very continuous change. So people aren't really thinking about how it's changing. They're just doing it.
Pre-ordering anything is basically moronic.
The room in the picture is one of the short-term rooms used almost exclusively for visitors and conference attendees. Long-term on-campus townhouses and condos have nice modern designs but not that kind of view :)
"You likely cannot go into it too much, but any more to that story?"

Nah, I already posted my experiences in multiple places. It's a long story.

https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2014/03/black-and-white-26...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954123
The good guys? Who are the good guys? The integrity of which government departments do you trust?
I have a credit card from capital one without embossing. The number and name is just written with ink, and the card surface is smooth. I've never had an issue using it.
Definitely digging the live-update on the scores. Haven't seen top stories switch places yet, but I'm guessing that happens also.

Good work.
I believe it is Chip and signature that will be required, not PIN.
Cold Boot is hard to implement, and can be mitigated by putting the 16kb of key memory on the L2/L3 cache or some other piece of memory that instantly clears on power off.

With FDE and memory encryption, how else can you get pass this?
sterile environment is best for fast system growth, until parasites come over and try to exploit it. only then you need protection against it.

united states in general enjoyed some time where people did little to defraud system and therefore number (and later exp date, later - cvv) was fine. You can't rely on people's integrity and morale now as a safe-guard for system. Same applies to paper checks by the way.

In case of turkey I bet that defrauding was problem from beginning, that's why it was first thing to solve too.

If anything, it just tells that doing tech business in usa will be more fictitious than it could be otherwise.
There's way too many reddit things already out there... I was trying to tap a market that doesn't have lots of enthusiastic software developers.

oh.... wait...
Are you going to release Coin?
Maybe that analogy is not perfect, perhaps one that is more property damage related would be more apt?

"It's like breaking into an upstairs apartment to turn off the water that is flooding your apartment below"

Are you allowed to do that? Probably not?
I realised you might make the same comment face-to-face which is specifically why I chose to try to appeal to your civility.

If you're not civil in person or are act differently towards groups of people that look or believe differently from you then good luck to you but you're not a very good human being.
Indeed I know a lot of cross-dressers who shop exclusively online ..

(They use a combination of "niche"-sites, which have appropriate sizing, and "normal"-sites.)

Plus of course men buying things for partners.
I'm not sure "Threat #4. It Protects You From the future" is quite accurate. It protects your form the near future where the time taken to break the encryption is long. However, Moore's law and the discovery of flaws in present encryption methods mean that eventually, even items for which the only key has beed destroyed will not be private.
Nothing is binding it to those protocols.

For example it's already supporting this:

http://developer.mbed.org/users/dudmuck/code/SX1232/
No.

But thanks for reminding me to update that link in my profile. You should try the greentexting userscript I wrote - I think you'd be surprised at how many HN users actually use > to prefix their quotes. It improves readability quite a bit.
Ask HN: How to prepare for an interview code test?
Background: I've been coding professionally for a few years (longer as a hobby) but I find myself struggling when doing live code tests as part of an interview process.

Due to not having a formal CS background, I'm often not familiar with common algorithms that a CS grad might find simple and obvious (binary search, bubble sort, etc). Since most libraries provide these basic things I've never had to implement them.

The other thing is I find myself freezing up when coding in front of an audience. I miss things that I would find obvious and easy by myself. The exact same problem done as an automated timed test (eg, Codility) I would do fine, but in front of a bunch of interviewers I choke.

Any tips both on how to prepare for basic algorithm questions (eg, a list of basic CS algorithms all engineers are expected to know) and how to deal with the pressure of live coding?

Thanks
Hey! This is really nice.
Maybe I missed it but there doesn't seem to be a way to have the ingredients be proportional to the number of people you want to prepare it for. Of course, some things are not linear, and there should be a way to specify it (like the $ in Excel or Calc).
Final - A credit card built for the remaining 12 days until Apple Pay is released and instantly transforms this space.
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You're right, it is absolutely senseles. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't take pride in your work.

Take a look at my Pythagorean cipher. It's idiotic and not practical, but it's just neat.

https://github.com/sp1d3rx/nonsense/blob/master/cipher.py
Generally, that's the way it's going but there are still many situations where a lightweight real-time kernel like uC/OS or ThreadX, etc. is preferable.
That sounds exactly like my justification for stealing! Businesses usually have insurance to cover losses from theft. (And if they don't, that's on them.) And who's paying for that insurance? Right: Their customers. So it's kind of like: Unless you steal from them, they're stealing from you!

Also, I don't like paying for stuff.
Not "required", just that after Oct 2015 the merchants will become liable for fraud (instead of the banks), if they are not equipped for Chip and PIN (apparently "pay at the pump gas stations" get an extended date of Oct 2017 instead).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#United_States
Created this in a break today. Would be happy about any comment!
I think that's just to get people who aren't used to setting up embedded systems toolchains an easy start a la Arduino.

I didn't see anything that restricts the mbed SDK to the use of the ARM toolchain.
> This is something I have been asking for since forever! People on here claimed it was "impossible" because of how credit cards work, I guess not...

Not only is it not impossible, Paypal did it for YEARS, I loved it, it was a great service. http://www.quora.com/Why-did-PayPal-discontinue-their-one-ti...
AdBlock for Chrome completely destroys the layout. If I disable it for the page, it looks fine.
Of course it doesn't mean having one source of income. But in practice it looks that way. Certainly that's been the problem at Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, etc. These companies came to rely on market domination instead of technology innovation, because their monopoly positions allowed them to.
Mr. Wheeler is also the person behind the loved and hated sweet-expressions, which provide a way of writing lisp using Python-style indentation [1].

1. http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/index.html
The US government is a bunch of hypocrites. They pretend to care about "cybersecurity", but:

1) don't allow you to actually secure yourself properly, because then you'd also be secure against them, and that seems to be a big NO-NO

2) with each new "cyber-threat" they seem to want to remove even more of our rights and liberties

So forgive me if the next time the US government yells CYBER PEARL HARBOR PEDOPHILES TERRORISTS - I'm not in a rush to believe them.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I suggest that whatever pissing contest may be taking place, that "Linux" is too broad a characterization. Whatever tempest has you upset, it's taking place in a much smaller teapot than "Linux".
Newbie to this scene , how would this compare to GreenSock animation ?
Based on the thesis "perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key” so that the good guys could get to it if necessary."

The bottom line is: Sadly, there's no way to tell who the "good guys" are.
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If __JCR_END___ was always a boolean, yes.
Indeed, perhaps your morals are different. I generally believe the whole CC industry is on extremely shaky moral grounds. More like sinking sand really. It only works because it can wreck poor and down-on-their-luck people.

This[1] is the type of situation where I believe the victims(yes, I'm using that word) deserve to have their debt removed.

1. http://www.npr.org/2014/09/15/347957729/when-consumer-debts-...
>Second, they are not eligible for benefits, of any kind.

That's not true at all. When California tried to cut off state benefits for illegals a federal judge force the state to reinstate them. Illegals send their (illegal) kids to school, even college, at taxpayer expense. They take advantage of community medical services, live in subsidized housing, and get assigned public defenders. That's just what they're entitled to under the law.

But if they have enough forged documentation to get a job they have enough to get food stamps and WIC too. Some of them do, though for political reasons the government isn't trying to figure out how many or how they could be stopped.
Sure, if they got used to it, but I don't think it would make a huge difference.

Most people in the world get by just fine with one screen and one desktop – anecdotally, everyone I know who is not in tech or design does...
> Moore's law

There are physical limitations on Moore's law. If you were to design a mathematically good/perfect n-bit cryptosystem that took 2^n tries to break, you can make some very strong guarantees. For example, even a perfectly efficient computer (1 electron flip per attempt) would (on average) take more energy than the sun will ever emit to break an ideal 256-bit cryptosystem.

> discovery of flaws in present encryption methods

This is the kicker. However, I'm hopeful. We have some really old cryptosystems that are still going 20-30 years later. As analytical techniques advance, I bet we'll find some even more rigorous constructions.
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Linux also means higher hardware costs and bigger size and worse peripheral selection. Those are critical parameters in this market.
I was about to say the exact opposite. Every other slide had text that was Just a Little Bit Crooked, and it is driving me __batty__. If the angle were larger, and it weren't used on every other slide, I might think it was cooler (and it IS neat that you can do that with transformations!). As it is, it's really distracting from the message.

edit 2: Now that I've read farther, it bothers me less. :-) If I were part of the live audience, I would likey not have noticed. Please don't let the text presentation distract you from the excellent message. :)
As it becomes bigger and more important, it will eventually become vulnerable: http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
The rhetoric that a 'Golden Key' will only be used by the 'good guys' is like thinking we can create a 'Golden Gun' that will only shoot the bad guys.

The two issues I see are:

1) The bad guys might still be able to get the key (as the article discusses)

2) We don't know who the 'good guys' are. It's very comforting to think that there's some mysterious superhero who will only fight for good but this ignores the large issue: no one can really agree on what "good" is.
This was also my first thought.

"Oh the guys at coin pivoted to this, awesome!"
Not only do they need to work with every single party in the ecosystem to succeed (they have no leverage), but have they heard of umm, Apple Pay and Visa's/MC/AMEX new TSP?
This Golden Key idea is one of those classic "I'm just an idea man, I don't have to figure out the nitty gritty details!" claims.

Everything is easy if you can leave figuring out the intractable problems to someone else. When you actually sit and think about this for a few minutes the problems quickly become apparent.

The closest real world system to this is DRM on games consoles (e.g. XBox 360). They use secret "Golden Keys" to protect authoring but still need to allow users access to that same information.

However the way DRM worked in that context was a combination of hardware (e.g. roll-back proof) and tieing the whole thing into a mandatory update system (i.e. no games without updates).

That DRM actually got cracked several times, but because updates were required they could just ignore it and move on. The problem with the Golden Key suggestion here is that once your data is compromise it is game over forever. There's no do-overs as there is with DRM systems.
YNAB is nice for targeting savings goals as well, not just to get out of debt. Longterm goals like buying a house or car? Set a category for it and every month allocate $xxx to it. Have an upcoming trip? Create a category for it (Wedding in GA) with subcategories like hotel, clothing (purchasing, renting, cleaning, altering, it's a catchall), fuel, gift, misc. Let's say (real example) I have a 4 hour drive, in my car that's 1 tank of gas for there and back, about $40, call it $50 to be safe. I allocate $5/month to the fuel category for this trip. Now when I take the trip in November I don't have to find $50, it's already been "spent" in my allocations. And at the end of the trip I can take my savings (if any) and push it into other categories (a general trip fund, an extra dinner out that month, whatever). Then you just hide the "Wedding in GA" category and the spending is still there and tracked for historical purposes, but you don't see it again.
EMV® is a trademark dating back to 1999, and it refers to all of the specifications administered by EMVCo. The original EMV Specification (for chip-based payment instruments) is now in v4.3, with backwards-compatible EMV Next Generation Specifications in development. (http://www.emvco.com/about_emv.aspx)

EMV and EMVco are the same thing. It's the standard also implemented by RFID cards such as Mastercard PayPass and apps like Google Wallet.
Isn't there a 'Secure Golden Key' at the base of DNSSEC? I guess the damage would be somewhat less if that key was exposed, but still.
An illegal number is a number which is ostensibly illegal to know or distribute under legislation like the DMCA. In this case, the OP is referencing the cryptographic key used for DVDs, which the MPAA licensed to DVD player manufacturers. Since knowledge of it enabled the bypassing of encryption (otherwise known as "decrypting the content with the key"), the MPAA attempted to invoke the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA to prevent people from publishing it.

Any "Secure Golden Key" would be a number which is the encryption backdoor key. Knowledge of that number would enable you to decrypt any content encrypted with that key, and if someone who were not a government actor were to discover that number, it would doubtless be decried as illegal to know, possess, or publish.
I will take a look. Thanks for the suggestion.

Upgrading is hard, yes, but I have some ideas. A lot depends on the level of the language, and I'm thinking of something fairly high-level.
I'd really rather not have my toaster running, e.g., bash, since a toaster will never get firmware upgrades.
Agreed. That was my first thought when law enforcement started getting press for screaming "think of the children". I'm surprised and disappointed that people have apparently forgotten recent history.

This is why I greatly respect historian as a profession.
You should be asking the GP, not me.
Had that same hypothesis, works great in Chrome for me; installed adblock, it explodes.
a bank reposessing a house and ousting a family is a much more immoral act than being unable to pay for one. moral considerations in interactions with a corporation is foolish
greensock is a JS library, you need to code animations, while Animatron is authoring tool, i.e. you create animations visually without coding.
As always, I enjoyed reading Zach's thoughts.

Spotted one tiny error:

http://zachholman.com/images/talks/break-nothing/anpp.jpg

annp should be anpp in this image.
They need a relationship with the issuing bank on top of Visa/MC. That is rather impossible. However, Visa/MC new TSP that was announced with Apple Pay really solves this problem. In essence, we all get this new feature for free just next year :)
To me, that's not the main point. The main problem with a universal backdoor "so that the good guys could get in" is that the good guys with all their good intentions have no business pawing through your private stuff. It's not about having a good reason, or having a mandate. It's about your rights to not be subjected to warrantless searches, which is exactly what a golden backdoor would enable.

In other words, even if some genius devised a backdoor that was perfectly secure (allowed access only to those who were explicitly granted that access), had it verified by an international group of geniuses 10x smarter than she is to be sure it's actually secure, and granted access to only the most trustworthy organizations, which would of course act in the most transparent way possible with a clear cut mandate and individual accountability, it's still a violation of your privacy, a violation of your rights, and in the US a violation of the constitution.
any way to access the article? it says free and then where is a login page
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Laura
California 6 hours ago

Why do I get the queasy feeling that the dad is exploiting the daughter?

Eric Harr
Marin County, Calif. 22 minutes ago

Hi Laura:

Thank you for taking the time to post your comment.

As a parent, if I read this article about someone else's daughter, I would have the same initial reaction that you did: "Is the dad exploiting the daughter?"

However, I am Vivienne's dad and I will tell you, from my heart of hearts, that we are simply doing everything we can to lift up Vivienne and help her realize her dream of giving anyone the chance to do what she did -- to make a stand and make a difference.

When I left my well-paying job to support Vivienne, truth be told, it was scary. I have a family to support. Over the past two years, we have made tremendous sacrifices to see this dream through, and we are fully, emotionally invested in it. I believe I made the right choice.

I know you don't know me, and I know these are just words on a computer screen. I hope we might meet one day, so that you can look into my eyes and see the sincerity in them. I will tell you that this experience has been the most rewarding journey of our lives.

Mark Twain once said: "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." The day Vivienne set up that first lemonade stand was the day I found out why.

Thank you for listening. I wish you all the best, Laura.

Eric Harr

From the comments on nytimes.
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There doesn't seem to be such a thing in github, at least there wasn't last time I had to deal with this. If they've updated it since then that'd be awesome, but I think this is a long-standing issue.
Or simply: nobody can be trusted not to abuse power. That's why we have transparency, checks and balances, etc.

I can believe that a lot of people have good intentions. But that doesn't mean their actions are always right.
You're entitled to your opinion. Perhaps you'll understand the other side when your small business pops, you've got no income, and you exhaust any savings you have.
If that's the case, those tenants wouldn't choose to rent in an "Airbnb-allowed" building in the first place.
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Sorry .. I should not have phrased it that way. I apologize.
I will try to be more constructive in my comments.