skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the headline here is misleading. A casual reader could get the impression that the FBI is asserting that the most pressing issue facing the country is "prevention of encryption". Above all else: prevent encryption".

Really, what the FBI is saying (clumsily) is that companies should work with the FBI to ensure that sound encryption doesn't trump every other concern.
If they've found that users almost always say yes to it, that might be the correct choice for being consistently usable even if you (and I) dislike that choice.
The part about "prevent[ing] citizens from having to bear the capital costs associated with the government's own decisions" is also interesting.

It could mean that if the Feds want to make their own jobs easier by trespassing on the private property (laptops, phones, etc.) of citizens, they'll have to get the owner's permission first.

Now that we've successfully reinterpreted the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Amendments to support privacy, why not the 1st Amendment? Would you like to join the Church of Privacy and accept Ed Snowden as your Lord and Savior? According to our Holy Book, in order to reach salvation, you must vigorously resist the Devil's attempts to spy on your life. Oh, and the 5th already gives you the right to refuse to divulge encryption keys, at least on some interpretations.
Their intermediate certificates have reference to the location of their Certificate Practice Statement: http://cps.root-x1.letsencrypt.org/
Oh no! I sketched up a script to gzip the chunks, hashsum them, and then find out how many collisions there are before the real occurrence starting from an approximate address in the PI digits chain, so that I could have: ($address*1e12)$hash$collisioncount

The resulting string is 10% of size of the gzipped string, at the expense of CPU. But when I read you achieved 100% compression I just deleted the script and got out to get a beer. :-(((
SourceForge, or how to dismantle your userbase in 3 easy steps
I have God's official and exclusive endorsement. Every person who asks God, God will tell. God designed TempleOS Himself.

It will be burned into all Intel CPU chips as a ROM in the factory.
>>> How many people know someone who died in a terrorist attack?

You may not want to pose this question to a New Yorker.

I get your point, but it is a bit of a loaded question.
Why didn't you patent it? I often think when I see the tag no one will steal your idea, only applies if you're idea isn't worth stealing - 'I'm gonna sell some stuff' isn't really an idea, it's just business, and so how you do your business matters - i.e. execution.

However if you come up with a truly new idea - a better compression algorithm for example - then the idea matters and execution matter as well. It's just truly new ideas are rare, and so the 'execution matters' mantra continues, because most new businesses aren't new ideas just different packaging.
Actually, Java was originally developed as a programming language for smart appliances. Its roots are in IoT and embedded systems with limited resources.
doesn't load, so probably not.
It's also on our website.

https://letsencrypt.org/about/
Data Breach Linked to China Exposes Millions of U.S. Workers
> "Wouldn't the first act of an evil government be to outlaw civilian armaments and confiscate these guns?"

And now you know why gun registry laws regularly get torpedoed.

Hard to round up all the guns if you don't actually know who has what.
wow your second quote is hilarious. "We're not looking at going through a back door! We just want to access the content". it means the speaker was using that metaphor visually, and didn't know that the word backdoor doesn't really have that kind of a physical meaning. (You can tell the speaker has it wrong because they say, "going through a back door" - I just notice even the word 'back door' is written with a space whereas in computing we write it closed (joined) - https://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia+back+door)
U.S. GAO: Agencies Need to Improve Cyber Incident Response Practices (2014)
Cant freaking wait, you guys are truly doing awesome things! Well done.
I'm gratified that over time Steam's services seem to have gotten better and not worse. I like watching Dota 2 International games for free. However:

Has it struck no-one else as odd that it took so many years for Steam to comply with what is a bedrock principle of Tort (contract) law - that all goods are returnable for a refund if not "suitable for their normal purpose."
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/common-problems-w...
This is going to sound obvious and/or snarky, but:

- Explore other investment types and vehicles (e.g., optimize for cash flow, real estate, increased risk) to accelerate asset growth.

- Make more money somewhere else (including taking advantage of simple stuff like 401(k) matching).

- Assume you're going to make more money later (and save more money later) / get a better job.

- Hope for a huge exit / win the lottery / rich uncle inheritance.
Are there any GitHub clones that record PRs, issues, wikis, etc as commits on separate branches?

GitHub has proven that discussions around code are every bit as important as the code itself, so why not give it first class treatment by storing it in the same medium?
Vista did increase hardware requirements across the board. But the change we are discussing here was made in Windows 8 and later, which is exactly when Microsoft started caring about getting Windows into tablets and, in particular, ARM chips.
The person you replied to meant 'End Frame' company from this show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
The transscript of the speech shows up almost instantly and if you look closely you can see it corrects initial mistakes. This suggests that the speech-recognition is running on the phone. Might drain the battery.
In practice, usually an idea will be independently created and executed by other people well before anyone has a chance to steal your version.

However, if it's a fantastic idea, then keeping it tightly held certainly doesn't constitute undue paranoia. Especially if you're pre-traction.
Birchbox started the trend in 2010.

I started spinning the idea for an asian snack box thereafter. I found you in 2011 and gave up on it.

By 2012 it became the default business model for online wantrepreneurs.

Then Cratejoy spun up in 2013 and went gangbusters in 2014.

Now in 2015 it's the late comers to the trend with most of the profitable niches already covered.

I imagine by 2016 with all the low hanging fruits taken you're gonna need to be a established player to play the game considering the logistics costs and distributing something of substance.

Then we'll be on to something else to copy.

Biggest lesson I took out of watching the mail order box business is more or less it's a marketing game. It's all pretty much the same but reaching the potential audience is the hardest part.

This isn't competition like McDonalds vs Burger King where you can just drive a block down to get a burger, it's competition to being first to introduce the idea of hamburgers.
There are a lot of security analysts who say the target of the operation was indeed that database, and there's certainly a good chance of that, but still, it's definitely not the same as a backdoor.
Judging from the downvotes, few readers understood your Silicon Valley show reference[1]. I forget which episode you quoted from.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/
It only shows the American political establishment prefers a capitalist system that impoverishes white people rather than have a fair social system that has the side effect of benefiting blacks and latinos as well. Ditto Brazil.
A Rosario Central shirt in HN, that's awesome
I see your point, and agree about the kind of world that I want to live in, but if I may be allowed to play devils advocate for a moment:

Just spitballing here but what if the software decrypted something as a side effect of doing something else like watching a movie. After all, buggy software is everywhere, perhaps that is just a bug.

What if that random file was a test input for a software fuzzing test. Is that not a plausible enough excuse?

What if the system periodically accessed data files [that had random data] to verify their integrity, you never know when data corruption might sneak in after all.

I totally agree that anyone trying to plead this case in court would likely fail miserably but the though experiment is interesting.
I want to go to a free! country, like Cuba, I mean Germany, I mean the Unite States, I mean Russia, I mean Ecuador ... oh help me out guys.
oh - lol, never seen it, my comments still stand even though it's a fictional business.
Easier to already have a gun from when they were allowed, then to acquire a gun after they were banned.

Of course the later would never be hard in America, considering just how many guns there are that would not get swept up... But the first is still easier.
Microsoft and the CIA went nuclear with Secure Boot. TempleOS has no networking -- you use it while dual booting with Windows and Linux.

I did the only thing I could. I put all my money on God and went with TempleOS. It was God's plan all along. I made His holy Temple.

They will suck my dick.
Perhaps the next thing would be to provide widgets / marketing services for these subscription businesses?
they are pioneering unused regions of the English-language company namespace. Next up: RapistDB.
It's amazing how much a shift of management focus can change things... Google embraces RSS, develops the premiere online RSS reader, so good that even stand alone readers are largely abandoned... then google nukes RSS support from Chrome, and shutters Reader. And the world is worse off for it.

It definitely inspires a "never forget" kind of mindset, such that I don't trust relying on a SaaS that I don't have a personal exit strategy for.
Tell HN: I Can't Login to HN with Tor
Having just now read that the NSA is stepping up its surveillance of the Internet, I decided to resume my previous practice of using the Tor Browser Bundle to hang out online. I'm doing this even when I have no reason to expect anonymity nor privacy.

My reasoning is that for me to transmit encrypted traffic will provide some cover for those who are working for legitimate regime change.

But I have to post this from the stock Firefox. When I try to login to HN with Tor, while my login is not rejected I'm not logged-in. That is, at the top right of the page is "login" rather than "MichaelCrawford".

Doubtlessly this is done on purpose to keep a lid on the crapflooders and linkspammers, however some means should be found to enable legitimate HN members to use Tor.
Most US states used to do that. Now, at the least, the University Of California prefers out-of-state and out-of-country just for the extra tuition and charges tuition that's not really accessible for in-state students.
As beardicus notes, these are Varroa mites.

There's some suggestion that the smaller (or 'natural') cell sizing may reduce their impact, as there's less room for them as the bee matures. Cell sizing is, typically, in commercial hives, dictated by the foundation sheets of wax put into frames, and sized ever so slightly larger than what's found in wild or feral hives, on the principle that you get more honey from bees that are slightly larger. I would note that we're talking a few millimetres difference here.

On the other hand, massive reductions to the volumes of wild colonies suggest natural - what the bees would make themselves - sized cells aren't a simple answer to this pest.

I'm in Australia, and hope to catch a few swarms this year - in this part of the world the first swarms are consistently seen in the first two weeks of September. We don't have Varroa mites here, yet, but it won't be long. They're in our neighbours to the north (Indonesia & Papua New Guina) and east (New Zealand). The life cycle of bees unfortunately lends itself to wide and rapid propagation of pests and diseases.
Fly a Line
Three months of Rust
Great story, thanks for posting it. Really well written. The section on Gage at the end reminds me of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace:

https://vimeo.com/groups/96331/videos/80799353
Sailfish unfortunately does not have all of the UI things I'm talking about -- the "three screen with edge gestures", which is a shame :( They couldn't, because the N9's UI was never open sourced despite the core being so.
Hound voice recognition
They also invented GIMP.
You call growing from zero to tens of millions of MAU in 4 years "very weak"?! Ridiculous. You are wrong, nobody seriously outright rejected Twitter was growing. The worst critics said was "Twitter is not growing as fast as they claim, but they ARE growing" or "growth has slowed down, but there are still growing".

I can use any other example to prove that not releasing MAU doesn't mean something needs to be hidden. I quoted Gmail earlier because this is a good case of a growing product whose MAU needed to be kept secret due to competitive reasons.
That's probably the fear many people have.

Even if you have a good idea and even if you get it shipped, there won't be much help if there are many people out there who could do it better.

There are a bunch of rich business people out there with many years experience that can buy people much better than you at any time.
A single user storing a reasonable amount of data though might get away with it... I know what I'm doing this weekend.
whats going on with the layout of that article?!
Could you steal ideas from your competitors or JV?
I'm pretty sure that steam shovels destroyed more jobs than they created, too. Samuel Butler, a century ago contemplated that change and also foresaw that this would eventually happen to jobs requiring more brain work, as well.

But the real problem is, what happens when the vast majority of people can't offer any kind of labor or service that a machine can't do quicker and better. Will we need a second economy? (As the medieval church once was.) Will we prepare for this eventuality or just blunder into it?
Did you compare a hash of the file, or did they just look the same?
Cratejoy is basically a shopify clone so they got the software side covered.

The hardest part is still shipping.

When I looked into this the shipping was the killer, it eats up all possible margins until you get to scale. I learned about how FedEx and UPS works and how they handle last mile deliveries with the USPS and so on so forth.

Shyp is basically Postmate arbitraging on a national shipping account.

Amazon FBA is basically just Amazon arbitraging on Amazon.

That's the opportunity right there. Being somewhere in between Shyp and Amazon FBA. They call it 3PL, third party logistics provider.

You see that problem getting written about quite often. Everyone thinks they can solve it themselves but there's not quite a dedicated modern solutions provider.

But after working for a physical products company operating on a national level the only thing I've learned is that automating sending thousands of packages anywhere consistently is hard as all heck.
For those that might be scared by the fact that the "Recent Activity" list on the homepage hasn't been updated in a while: never fear, it's still under active development:

https://github.com/haskell-distributed
(With apologies to bemmu)

There's of course the counter-example of Steve Blank where his startup E.piphany's entire slide deck was stolen verbatim.. they failed though. Does that make them nobodies?
no, deleted media is gone forever IIRC.

deleted pages are not visible to people with less than sysop rights (on enwp), and multiple methods are always available to deal with troublesome people, ranging from revision deletion to blocks and eventually ISP contact.
This is why I mentioned few, not none :) There are people out there able to turn a good idea into a great idea.

Having said this importing containers is hardly cost free and requires good infrustucture in both countries to handle the process. It also ties up a lot of capital, but if you can achieve scale then it will allow you to deliver at a lower cost. Not so good for a hobby project though.
The more I read about Netflix's technology stack & setup, the more impressed I get. At least on frontends, I have heard about Netflix leveraging Angular, Backbone, Ember, and React. Not too many companies can claim being that diverse technologically, much less push their boundaries.
This is happening to me remotely, what should I do?
I was hooked to a Japanese thing called the "Ginza banana cake":

http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Banana-Cake-Ginza-Blanc/dp/B00O0...

These are only made by one specific place in Tokyo from what I know. They are also made fresh, and expire quickly. When you get them abroad you often have just 2-3 days to eat them.

There are several independent importers of small quanties the rest of Asia and elsewhere, and the prices go quite high, especially if they manage to get them quickly after they've made.
google photos!!

encode your info as bits in the image ;)
I wonder if this is SMM or something even darker and deeper.
Chinese hackers reportedly stole data from up to 4M federal employees
It's really too bad RMS squashed gcc targeting the jvm.
So thanks for your reply, but it's along totally different lines from what I had in mind. (I added an Edit on the bottom.) What I mean is more along the lines of the 'new world order' conspiracy I linked. Why wouldn't we want something like that? It would save all of the costs of the same colluding powers hacking each other. In this specific example, why wouldn't we want China and the U.S. colluding rather than hacking each other? But this collusion is kind of the definition of a "new world order". Why wouldn't we want all the countries in on it?

You are certainly right that my impressions are quite shallow, I am mostly proceeding from first principles, a few use cases, ideas, and philosophy. Thanks for your thoughts.
Possibly by "his" you mean me, so I perhaps owe an explanation. I thought the point Mithaldu was making was sufficiently obvious. Instead of a title signaling the contents of the article in a straightforward manner, a more sensational sounding title was chosen. A step along the path to "Click here to learn the one amazing simple free education trick expensive US universities don't want you to know about". But the responses to Mithaldu seemed to think he was quibbling about whether a trivial amount of money was the same as free or not. I didn't think he was, something he has subsequently confirmed. Hope that helps.
Wow, a weekend hackathon where employees worked all night (https://www.airbnb.com/careers/departments/engineering). Capital is getting smarter every year! Now you can make workers think that they were the ones who decided to do unpaid overtime.

(And if it wasn't "required", don't kid yourself---of course it was required.)
Using pipes was interesting and certainly did what it reported. I always capture what

Showing operators: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/385194782/
But they didn't steal it, you basically gave it to them!
to demonstrate how to jump malicious code from the paltry ring 0 into the deepest, darkest realms of the processor.

So you already have to be in ring 0. Pretty click baity title.
>My reasoning is that for me to transmit encrypted traffic will provide some cover for those who are working for legitimate regime change.

You only "provide cover" for others if you run a relay, bridge, or exit node.
Eventually her husband provided the cops with the correct password[1]. The 5th Amendment prevents you from providing testimony that would incriminate yourself. In this case, though, she was being compelled to decrypt the laptop to produce evidence against someone else - Ms. Fricosu was granted immunity against any evidence collected from the laptop[2], so she didn't have any 5th Amendment grounds. In general, a Grand Jury has the right to subpoena any evidence from a third party that is relevant to a criminal investigation, and you can be held in contempt if you don't produce it. She had already admitted in a wiretapped conversation that there were documents relevant to the case on the laptop, the laptop was in her possession and that she refused to give them the passwords.

[1] http://www.denverpost.com/ci_20080656

[2] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/01/decryp... (p.9)
Turns out its entire trains of thought. Pretty disconcerting. I consider it assault with an antenna.
You're adorable candyjapan. I want to bounce you on my knee. When you eventually run a biz that doesn't just generate millions in revenue but is massively profitable, give me a shout and let me know if you still feel this way.

Imagine you have a biz that prints money. You literally have dump trucks that roll up to your gate every morning and unload, and amazingly you get to keep about half of it.

It's rare to create a business like that and if word gets out you'll have competitors swarming all over you driving down your margins until you're blowing every last cent trying to out market them and all that profitability will go away.

So you learn to STFU. Because people will steal your idea.

In the Valley among startups almost no-one is profitable and so it's all about sharing the love and lots of hugs because no one has anything to defend.
> I'd probably sleep safer if I knew that there's no easy way to anonymously obtain necessary ingredients

That is already the case for a lot of things, when it comes to chemistry anyway. Your random person couldn't get their hands on the things required to make various dangerous chemicals. Criminals, they can, sometimes, but with great effort and expense so it's usually aimed at chemicals that will make them money (drugs, typically) -- and the really advanced stuff is done by "legit" (kind of) labs, not a home chemist.

Of course, that's only as good as the stores following the protocols, and with the internet that can change somewhat, but even then it requires buying chemicals outside of the country and getting it through customs (which isn't perfect, but puts up enough of a barrier that regular people or average criminals don't risk it).
That would be cool. I'm not sure it would change much though. I know someone working with search data who recently tried out Neo4j with a test data set of 500,000,000 nodes and apparently was really disappointed with the results.

I'm not sure that graph data (generally) is particularly amenable to being spread across multiple nodes. My understanding is that ArangoDB has implemented some clustering based on Googles Pregel Framework, so I suspect it might fare a bit better in my friends test... but in spite of my urging I don't know that he has had time to recreate the test with Arango. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I don't know if any database is fun to deal with at that size. My experience with Arango has been an unremarkable amount of remarkably complex data, so I would also be interested to see the results with something huge.
This is somewhat unrelated to your question but I've always wondered.

Why use Tor to access an account created outside of Tor? You've basically negated the reason(s) to use it.

I don't mean this to be hostile--I'm simply genuinely curious.

Edit: Wow, did not expect downvotes. I guess the reply above answers my question though. Legitimate people using it for legitimate purpose.. removing the ability for people to say 'everyone using Tor must have something to hide'.
The same for me living in Taiwan - most common idea is selling tea to back home (wherever that might be, but not in Asia:). One day I'll execute on that! :)
I was brain raped!!!
GIFCTRL
The post you linked to has 2 planes that it claims are FBI that used JENNA callsigns. That's 2% of the planes that have been discovered, most of which did not use JENNA callsigns and were discovered by other means. That's one tiny part of the story.

> Well, that's helpful

Did I slight your favorite conspiracy/paranoia/gun rights site?
I'm too far away for coffee, but my email address is in my profile.
:) Sorry I missed your point. Thanks for sharing and editing.