skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Moxie, it intrigues me that the first thing you mention in your post isn't technical or even about UX (which is what most people in this thread are focusing on). Instead, it's that you're starting to dislike reading emails from the kind of person who would "voluntarily use GPG".

I know you said there's no unifying theme to these emails, but can you elaborate? Maybe something about security-obssessed lay people using GPG to send the most trivial of emails? Or something else entirely?
This looks like an example of pretending there's no precedent and using that as an opportunity to invent an arbitrary strawman that supports your hobbyhorse (in this case extreme paranoia). Internet copyright laws (NET, DMCA, etc.) don't work anything like what you've proposed and there's no evidence that the FCC is trying to use net neutrality as a backdoor to reverse that precedent.
While you are the expert on what's available to you, your situation remains highly atypical.

For 2014, the FCC reported 88% of US households had at least 2 fixed-line 3Mbps+ providers – and 98% had 2+ wireless 3MBps+ providers.

You should get more options! But FCC regulations on ISPs in multi-provider markets won't help those arrive for you, and could hurt.

Those currently $200-a-month LTE/microwave options won't come down in cost faster with more federal restrictions on how the ISPs can charge or cross-subsidize.

(I added words about the FCC's "goalpost-moving" but don't know what you mean about me moving goalposts.)
I agree that it's great to be able to get a SBC for the price of lunch, and that just wasn't possible in the 1970s. But the AI Lab PDP-10s were extremely accessible. I walked right up to them several times, and I was never affiliated with the Lab. (I was an undergrad.) The Lab wasn't exactly open to the public, but they didn't actually keep anyone out either.

The PDP-10 itself was mostly discrete logic, so you could see the components and their interconnections just by looking at them. In addition, DEC published full schematics for most of their products. (I never saw the PDP-10 schematics, but it would be unusual if they weren't available.)

If that wasn't enough, Alan Kotok, the architect, came by TMRC every couple of weeks and was more than happy to expound on any part of the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club
Magic – Another “Magic” Story
Back in the late 60's at the Naval Data System Technician School, while trouble shooting a large Navy Computer in the lab, I discovered a indicator light that should not been on.

Now, this computer is used for testing debugging skills of students. If that light had been on before it would have been flagged every day as a problem.

I started tracing the wiring, and it went from ground on one side, through a number of unused pins and finally to a power pin. In other words it could not ever be OFF.

Now the prevailing wisdom was that the had burn out and been replaced. But I have my doubts.

Not as good a story as the Magic Switch, but it is what happened in my youth.
These rants are not very useful until one of the two geniuses (Green, Moxie) can come up with a comfortable solution to the core problem of key distribution.

And given that nowadays Green seems completely consumed by twitter while Moxie believes in fixing whatsapp, I wouldn't hold my breath.
I believe the issue is that scenegraphs tend to make spatial partitioning more difficult, which means culling objects that are out of view is more difficult.
Can you recommend a resource (book, blog article, website) for learning more about NoSQL database design and denormalization? The issue not being of course that I have trouble finding such resources, but that there are way too many..
While we don't disclose our full list of final diagnoses, I can give you some statistics from our 700+ cases resolved to date:

-- no single diagnosis is more than 2% of the total, except for one (Lyme disease at 2.3%)
-- 95% of these have come up as final diagnoses only once or twice in the history of the site

So it's fair to say that it's a VERY long-tail list. Also:

-- our current success rate is 70% (i.e., the patient told us that we brought them closer to a correct diagnosis or cure)
-- about 50% of our final diagnoses are medically confirmed by the patient's doctor

These statistics are based on our post-case surveys, which not all of our patients answer, but they should be directionally accurate.
I found the 'requirement' of set theory in the book is very 'common sense' and doesnt really use any advanced knowledge. It depends greatly on finite sets, which is easily and intuitively drawable.

The point of these instructional methods is to build an 'intuitive sense' or "system 1" knowledge of category theory. Having a lot of easy to grasp examples to help you start forming the theory in your head i find quite valuable.
I think the implication is that GPG is so pathologically complex, awkward, cumbersome, and broken that getting GPG-encrypted e-mail means it's from someone who's so paranoid/obsessive that they encrypt all e-mail, even to strangers (when possible?) even when the tool is so awful as to discourage the average individual.
> I'm aware there are no science based medical schools,, no science based clinical guidelines, no research into the efficacy of science based treatments, etc

Since you don't actually support your argument with any data, citations, or rational points, what would you say all these things are based on?

> For whatever flaws may exist with naturopathy, at least it's a real thing with legitimate practitioners.

Can you please define "it's a real thing" and "legitimate" and "practitioners" in that statement?

>Studied homeopathy to some extent. Which if you haven't done, you're probably not a very good doctor.

Tell me again how you are able to judge what makes a good doctor? By what authority, knowledge or reasoning?
> When building new products, we can start fresh with modern cryptography, a modern protocol, and a modern design philosophy.

Agreed 100%. I just don't have anything to offer in this space :(
I don't understand how this many people are supporting a new version. Anyone I've talked to who bought one was extremely disappointed with the product.

I had one to work on some prototypes about a year ago and it was nothing but frustration. Bad documentation, scattered, outdated already.. Getting code running on it was painful and most ideas were very limited by the watch abilities.

To top it off, the ios application to sync notifications was a complete joke. Bluetooth is pretty typically bad about staying connected, but the Pebble should win an award for how frustratingly often it would drop. To get it back, you must open the app or repair.

Beginning to end, a very poor experience. I get the design being pretty poor on the first version, but it seems like they didn't work very hard to fix that for v2.

Maybe I just happen to meet the only people who had these problems too, and every other person who bought one was very happy, but I'm honestly baffled.
I agree, it is national communications policy. But why not try getting a new statute passed that isn't based on telephones from the switch-operator era? It just seems to me that it's being pressed so hard because it's such a "fad" issue right now. Most people honestly don't even have a clue what the FCC or "net neutrality" is. Sure, the FCC is accountable to the President (ultimately), and to congressional oversight committees, but they don't have to worry about being thrown out of office for any decisions they make.
As of March 23, Google is shutting down X-rated blogs
Just registered, looking forward to seeing how this will be used. A free, legally admissible (still skeptical of that point) service like this is sure to tip the scales in favor of individual inventors and innovators at least somewhat - which is always a good thing (let's pretend the U.S. throw money at people to win "legal" system doesn't exist).
Oh, ok. Thanks for clarifying! For some reason, I assumed SBM == EBM, and Wikipedia didn't help.
I've always wondered if there was a way to transmit the public key in the SMTP envelope, to make it easier to share keys.
All game theory results depend entirely on your utility functions. If you set:

(value of Russian civilian lives) = 0

(value of the world after nuking Russia) > (value of the world where Russia takes over) * (probability of Russia taking over)

Then game theory would suggest first strike would be best solution.
I was thinking the opposite--most shell scripts seem to exist to show off arcane knowledge rather than document a task in the most straightforward way possible.
Reading this makes me think that I did this on my first ultra. The general wisdom is eat/drink before you are hungry/thirsty and do it slowly. I ended up feeling bloated for the last 15 or so miles.

Race day eating is really one of the hardest parts about ultrarunning.
Do you handle dietary restrictions?

Kosher, Halal, Vegan, Vegetarian, etc?
My vertigo kicked in hard and I almost rolfed.
Walmart Labs talks about wanting to bring in great engineers, and yet they make prospective engineers piss in a cup.

Glad they've got their priorities sorted out.
How junk science sent Claude Garrett to prison for life
I really wish we could retire the word "borrowed" to describe the nature of sovereign debt. It makes it sound like we're borrowing dollars from the Chinese to pay NASA. That's not how it works. (United States currency is one of the few things that isn't made in China these days.)
Show HN: AngularJS WebAudio playback module
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> Companies have been licensing the source to game engines for ages

Exactly. Literally the only difference now is that UE4 is much, much cheaper.
If you ready on, you'll see that his gripe isn't with the effort put into decrypting, but the subset of people who voluntarily use GPG.
Note that the article author is the author of TextSecure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextSecure It's not surprising that he prefers TextSecure over GPG in the context he explains:

"introducing private communication(...) for casual correspondence with strangers."

It's obvious that author prefers his chat for that. Still there are scenarios where the GPG wins over chat. But it's also true, most people would make serious errors if they'd try to use GPG.
The original Playstation had a similar switch on the lid mechanism. I think it was a safety feature to prevent the discs from spinning up, without the enclosure.

When I was about 8-9, I found the mechanism, and ended up dismantling the system. I then wedged a little Wolverine action-figure's foot into the space to keep his foot down on the switch and ran the system without the cover, because it looked pretty badass to have the discs spin out in the open.

[In retrospect: All of this was probably a horribly unsafe thing to do, considering what would happen if the disc cracked or broke while spinning.]
Thanks for this list!

For anyone else interested, .rs is the ccTLD for Serbia and many registrars will require a Serbian Citizen Number.
I want .sucks
"There is no relationship between fluid intake and hydration" is a very odd statement that doesn't appear to be ever followed up on and is on the surface utter nonsense. Is there a missing qualifier here ("fluid intake beyond 'drinking to thirst'"), or am I just missing something?
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Debian is a good answer, but I meant alternatives to GPG, hopefully using modern crypto. Maybe Talko or some of the other secure comm apps? Anything open?
"How good end-to-end encryption must look like today, Apple demonstrated with iMessage: millions of iPhone owners do not even know that they encrypt their short messages."

No. This is not good. Because who in his sane mind would trust a company like Apple not to sucumb to pressions from powerful governments, or his own people, to have backdoors and look at your data. Who in his sane mid would trust a company like Apple (or Gemalto or any other), to never hire spies, and to always ensure 100% secrecy of cryptographic or communication systems?

Basically, the problem is that you need to trust a lot of elements to ensure secure and private communication channels, starting from your hardware.

It would be possible that hardware is compromised (and it's a certainty in the case of smartphone, since no smartphone contains 100% open hardware, but always have a core of privative chips around the communication module (which is why Gemalto hack is not such a big deal anyway: GSM is wicked from the start)), but even with clean hardware, there would be no point in using cryptographic system if you use privative operating system (even if those privative operating systems are derived from free and open operating systems). iOS may contain some parts BSD software, that doesn't prevent Apple to include secret backdoors. And even while Android OS is free and open source, until its 18 _gigabytes_ of sources are audited, we cannot really trust them, much less in their Google or Samsung and other binary forms.

Basically, even http://www.blackphone.ch/ cannot really be trusted for this reason: it's not open and free software.

PGP is good, because it's a distributed public key system, into which some trust can be put, for the precise reason that people have to understand it to use it. Also because you would normally use it on open and free operating systems that you can trust, and hopefully, on open hardware that you can trust too (no privative firmware, chips preferably fab'ed in your own country, components assembled by yourself or somebody you trust not to be a CIA or MSI agent, etc).

Brazilian and German politicians may be unhappy about the USA spying their phones, and may initiate the building of their own phones and phone operating systems, but while those are not open software running on open hardware, only THEY can trust their phones. I would trust a brazilian phone just as much as a korean one or an USian one: ie. I would be 100% sure in both case that my communications are spied, by brazilians, koreans or USians spies.

So, how good end-to-end encryption must look? It must look like being implemented on open and free software running on open hardware, of which the USER can audit the sources (and therefore that must have a very controlled complexity), and of which the USER may modify and compile the programs at will.

Ie. all the contrary, from the user point of view, of what a smartphone or tablet is nowadays.
Installing Ubuntu on Chrome OS
This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much:

- Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math.

- Beta testing to select groups of beta users

- GUI rapid iteration with customers! (Big OMG here!)
The FCC's traditional role as broadcast obscenity-and-violence censor provides evidence that its powers will be used that way.

Part of the FCC's traditional regulation of phone networks also included ensuring wiretap-capability.

FCC appointees, loyalists to the two national parties, will have new discretionary powers over ISPs' businesses.

When the next scare about terror, or child-exploitation, or piracy, or violent/subversive/harassing/offensive media comes along, and DC needs to "do something", will ISPs thumb their noses at their new minders at the FCC, or "go along to get along" as "team players"?
Where do you get this notion? Its pretty far fetched to say the least.
"These circumstances have been happening since the creation of the United States."

No dude. Just...no.

Gerrymandering has existed for ages but only in recent years - with the advent of seriously high-powered data mining - has it had anything remotely close to the influence it now possesses. Citizens United (which did a major number on campaign finance) passed in 2010. Key sections of the Voting Rights Act were overturned last June, less than a year ago. As far as powerfully damaging structural changes go, these are all very recent events. Your position is like saying "computers have always existed" while ignoring the differences between an abacus and a Xenon chip.

And saying "seats turnover in the House ever year" is even more meaningless. Intelligent people look at the rate of turnover - which is at record lows and declining relentlessly and not because people are satisfied. Indeed, approval ratings for Congress are setting record lows as well. The reason these trends don't correct each other is because Congress has - in recent years - secured an unprecedented level of detachment from the will of the public. This, in turn has become a major factor in driving inequality to unprecedented levels.

On the off-chance that you're genuinely interested in the relations between regulatory capture, extreme concentrations of wealth, and the proliferation of rentier economies, I can strongly recommend "Why Nations Fail" by MIT's Daron Acemoglu. One of the essential point he makes is that Inclusive economies (i.e., the good kind) can often give way to Extractive economies (the bad kind) following periods of retrograde policy change not unlike the ones we're presently witnessing.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp...
Good points. This can be a good article for people in large companies who need to justify Open Source efforts.
Good point. IIRC, if you buy the ETFs directly from Vanguard, there is no transaction fee, making it even less expensive.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll update the post to be more clear about this. Our goal was to make this as simple and accessible as possible and in doing so we may have cut out too much. I'll try to make this more clear.

SigOpt [0] vs OSS: We are similar to hyperopt, spearmint, and MOE [1], which we developed at Yelp and also uses Gaussian Processes to do Bayesian Global Optimization. SigOpt extends and expands upon our work on MOE while wrapping everything in a simple API [2] and web interface. One thing we learned while promoting MOE was that many people have this problem, but few have the time or expertise to get these expert level open source tools running properly, so we built SigOpt to bring these powerful tools to anyone via a simple API.

[0]: https://sigopt.com

[1]: https://github.com/Yelp/MOE

[2]: https://sigopt.com/docs
If that did sleep and activity tracking, then I would be in. Also, I didn't see battery life, but that might be an issue also. All I want is to log my heartrate throughout the day via my phone along with good sleep tracking. I'm ok with wearing a heart rate band.
They're also giving me vertigo
To quote another commenter:

"Way to take a dump on people who make an effort."
That's only if you have intent. Accidental or incidental recording is not illegal in any of those states. Otherwise every person making a phone call in public could possibly be in violation.
More like "Cooperation calls new game theory proposal into question but is compatible with the more widely accepted game theory proposals."
Great points, thanks for the counsel!
Dropbox's interest is in getting things done, not pushing Python3.
How Netflix Uses Analytics for “House of Cards”
"Last-mile" broadband need-not be a 'national' issue except to the extent national politicians want to grandstand about it.

The options at every location are different... from city-to-city and even block-to-block. Some local broadband markets are competitive; others aren't. Creating options requires specific locally-adapted work – new wires, new antennas, new hardware. Three regulators signing-into-law new regulations adds no capacity, only new constraints on the people doing the real work.

One set of national service-shaping rules for all, because some localities have limited choices, is an overreach that doesn't match the problem.
Please do this! I'd love to be able to use encrypted communications as a matter of course, but just not enough of the folks I work with are able to get it set up. My world is filled with smart people, but only a small fraction are purely computer folks and to try and get a biologist to understand why it's interesting to have all emails encrypted is a losing task unless it's super easy.
But most people interpreted (value of the world after nuking Russia) to be quite low because Russia would automatically launch a retaliation, and the same vice versa from Russia's perspective. So with this utility game theory predicted the Mutually Assured Destruction standoff that so far has turned out correct.
Tl;dr:
Luthiers and violin makers brute forced fluid dynamic discoveries with knives and an inability to perfectly reproduce their wares.
Sure these are lots of logistic issues but in reality a consortium of financial institutions could push some of the big players in email to build in support S/MIME which seems similar enough to HTTPS (not that this is the gold standard but a good start).

But I do think there is be a big incentive to validate an email sender... Reasons are many and the climate should support it

1. Increased public awareness of privacy threat
2. Institutions build their business on trust
3. Fraud risks are huge, institutions have some skin in that game and some incentive to reduce that threat
What are you talking about? Even with rent control, you're still going to make money. You're just not going to make Scrooge McDuck levels of money.
Homeowner's insurance, or mortgage insurance? The former is cheap, the latter, not so much.
I have definitely noticed happier clients after offering a day rate. Not just for budget, but it can help some clients feel better about knowing "when".
Classic selection and confirmation bias.

I have a GitHub profile > I'm great > I only hire great people > I only hire people with a GitHub profile > Everyone I hire is great and has a GitHub profile > Everyone who is great has a GitHub profile.
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What do you think that looks like, though? Is it TextSecure on the desktop, with file attachments? Is it Pond? Is it just email, but with a different crypto layer?

I feel like a lot of the things GPG aims to do are fundamentally hard. It's not the technology that sucks, it's the problem. I completely agree that the answer will come from thinking about user interactions first, but I'm not sure that the solution will look much different than a better GPG client.
> Hydration and Thermoregulation

> Dogma: We must drink water in order to prevent heat illness during exercise in hot conditions.

> Science: There is no relationship between fluid intake and hydration, and the incidence of heat exhaustion or heatstroke. The only correlate to core temperature is running pace.

If I'm reading it correctly, there's no relationship between (fluid intake and hydration), and (the incidence of heat exhaustion or heat stroke).

It's a shame English isn't associative.
This reminds me of a double-blind study where professional violin players were asked to select a Strad out of six violins that they played while wearing dark goggles. Only three out of seventeen were able to do it.

When asked which violin was their favorite:

"[T]he only statistically obvious trend in the choices was that one of the Stradivarius violins was the least favorite, and one of the modern instruments was slightly favored."

So while there were some brilliant violins produced at the time – certainly an accomplishment based on the resources available – we can also make some pretty good ones today.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/1444828...
Don't you think it not getting more widespread recognition means this isn't affecting as much people as you think?