skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely interesting,

- It is difficult to think of Zip Codes without googling for them

- I haven't seen number greater than 200k and I search all Palo Alto codes ... so I would expect some high numbers
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Why do you assume there has to be a law or legal pressure?

Lots of industries adopt practices like this to _avoid_ a situation where something will become a matter of law, because it has little or no impact on the sales of their products. If you're a color laser printer manufacturer, agreeing to do this is probably a lot better than maybe having the government regulate sales of your product or otherwise add red tape.
I was going to mention a similar scenario of cooking accounting books as a counter to my non-lawyerly argument.
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If you tried to use that as a defense, you would likely have the court grant you immunity from using the contents of your passphrase as evidence of having committed a crime and that it would only be treated as a random string.

However, that then puts you in the awkward situation where you're admitting that the passphrase is an actual criminal admission and you might end up being "randomly" selected for an investigation along those lines to find evidence to independently corroborate the criminal act.
It is a fallacious nerd narrative that LEOs want super powers to keep track of what kind of anime porn you watch. They don't care.

I don't care if they care, I care if they know. If you don't understand this, please don't claim to be a civil libertarian.
What additional things would make the difference?
With pleasepoach.me, it seems that choosing 11 candidates means paying $550 (but you get to look at 110 candidates). Am I wrong?
A more unobtrusive idea I've wanted to suggest to them would be to use amazon/otherStore affiliate links for their book pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1453606122
> because I just know they have a different agenda/priority in mind

It seems to be a core part of (european) music industry's fight for profit-oriented internet censorship: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-chil...
That assumes both that the increase in reading scores due to increasing family income is linear, and that annual family income and birth spacing are completely independent of each other.
Shortly after my brother was born a photo was taken of myself and my siblings. Many years later one of my sisters noted the ordering and we've since made a point, on the times we're all together, to group ourselves in the same ordering for a group shot.

I don't think we've ever done a recreation sort of picture as this site has (some of which are quite striking) but it's fun to look over pix from 10 or twenty years and see how we've changed.
Anyone who confiscates a machine and then proceeds to boot it without removing the harddisk and imaging it first are total idiots...
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Maybe this is just my inner angry nerd speaking, but I don't understand this at all. Why would I want to buy stuff via a public broadcast channel? Plus, you still have to setup your credit card, shipping, etc. So in the initial transaction, you're not buying so much as saying "I'd like to buy this, please send me instructions on how to do so." Wouldn't tweeting a link work better?

Aside from the fact (as others have pointed out) that this has been tried and failed, how is this genuinely useful and not the kind of thing that a social media guru would dream up, but normal people would never use?

Why not a platform to let people buy stuff by posting on their blog? When I post "BUY PRODUCT_NAME", their google alert can pick up the mention and then they can leave a comment on my blog telling me how to setup my billing and shipping info. Amazing!

EDIT: To boil all the above down, what problem is this solving?
I agree. I'm unhappy with the names -- I'm trying to avoid naming things the same as Redis.

A feed is in publish order (not a set). Edited items are brought to the top.

A sorted_feed lets you publish at whatever end/index you want. You can also move items to a different index. Sorted feeds give you reposition events as well.

If nothing else, I'll fix this with documentation for 1.0.
One aspect of ads you're ignoring is how they spread the cost of using a product: whereas charging a fee impacts all users equally, ads will generally impact users relative to their income / spending habits. It strikes me that for Wikipedia, that is more compatible with their objectives than a set per-user fee.

I'm haven't thought of many reasons to like ads over they years, but this is one.
maybe not Spanish: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/wikipedia-spa...
It's unlikely there will be a breakthrough that allows adversaries (in the cryptography sense) to crack properly implemented strong encryption. Faced with this dilemma, the only other options for the government are varying degrees of black-bag and rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Surveillance (legal or otherwise), asset forfeiture laws, jailing for contempt, lawsuits, deception -- all are just different forms of the rubber hose. It worked against Mitnick, and it would probably work against most of us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-bag_cryptanalysis
Is that irony not part of the humor?
Well a couple of years ago, my house burnt down. I was "lucky" with only a melted flatscreen monitor and further mostly just smoke damage (which insurance still reimbursed as total loss, yay), my flatmate, where the fire started, less so. His part of the apartment, the next day, pretty much was a blackened cube with bits of black debris on the floor, what used to be furniture, his computer, books and audio equipment[1].

In the rubble we found his camera, which was of course useless if not because of the heat[2], then because of the water damage from the fire-fighters.

Inside was a 2GB SD card and it still worked.

So yeah, if for some strange reason you can't keep your backups off-site, nor in a fire-proof safe, store them on a SD card in a camera :-)

[1] He also wasn't insured, making the story even sadder. Fortunately he just landed a pretty good job, also he met his current girlfriend while staying at his parents until he found a new home. So some good came of it, I suppose.
[2] Glass windows melted, can you imagine? Looks like icicles. I later asked a glassworker friend, she said that means it must at least have been 800 degrees Celsius.
Synthesize gigwalk and wikileaks into a 100% anonymous marketplace for buying and selling of information based on geo location.
In the US, it's entirely possible that an image on that site could get someone charged with possession of child pornography.
And furthermore, I know of no Constitutionally valid principle under which the government can enact legislation for the sole purpose of preventing you from "thinking bad thoughts" or something of that ilk. So, it must hinge on showing actual harm to children. Downloading bits from the Internet does not harm children. You could argue that paying for them does, but that's not simple possession.

I just don't get it. I'd like to think I have a pretty broad mind. I'm not a radical or overly idealistic Libertarian. I am capable of comprehending abstractions, extrapolations, generalisations, and juridical pragmatism in the public interest. Still, the rationality of this eludes me completely.
Keep in mind that the same organizations advocating the destruction of constitutional guarantees of liberty and freedom are the same organizations that conduct clandestine and often illegal investigations of people like Martin Luther King.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

This isn't a nerd fantasy, the reality is that the FBI is interested in things like which political candidate you support. These aren't investigations to catch criminals, these are investigations to subvert the rule of law and hamper the democratic process.

There wasn't a supreme court decision saying that passwords are testimony because the FBI believed it was testimony, the supreme court decision came about because the FBI believed that it was perfectly constitutional to demand citizens testify against themselves. The mandate of the FBI should not be "maintaining the existing social and political order."

From the Church Committee:
Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous -- and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations -- have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
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What an extremely negative review, it oozes negativity!

I was really worried after reading this that my Kindle Fire was going to suck. But when it arrived slowly but surely I started thinking that this article was over critical, lopsided, and just wrong. The Kindle Fire is a great product, I really like it. But don't take my word for it or Marco's, just look at the sales over the next few months to a year. If his article is anyone even remotely close to being true the product will fail miserably over the next year, I predict that won't happen, in fact I'm fairly certain it will do quite well.

I would have much preferred to here what you can do with this $199 one hand tablet than a page full of everything someone doesn't find perfect.
I hate to simply chime in with an "I agree," but that specific image achieved a verbal "Oh, Wow" from me.

Awesome.
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I am totally cool with the FBI lying, coercing and otherwise trying to convince criminals to give up the evidence against themselves, as long as they don't actually break out the wrench.

The idea that you can't be compelled to testify against yourself, present in many western legal systems, is a good one, and is designed to prevent both torture and false imprisonment due to torture-induced false confessions. But that doesn't mean it's not a good thing in those circumstances when a guilty person does incriminate themselves.
> Why would I want to buy stuff via a public broadcast channel?

Well, it would not be the perfect channel to buy sexual toys, for instance, but at least you can know a lot about the seller/buyer with a glimpse at their twitter profile
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> Android is good for a low power CPU like ARM since it doesn't require as much horsepower

What are you basing this on?
The feds were worried a long time ago but full disk encryption (or any encryption really) was not adopted by the public. The barrier to entry was too high. Only now is this odd relationship (encryption is ok but only when it isn't commonly used) going to have to play out in our legal system and culture, and it will be super interesting to see how we decide as a society what the limits of this technology are.

See:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels_pr.htm...
Right. In Sweden a guy was fined for collecting manga comics with drawn (!) pictures of creatures that resemble naked kids.
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Well, advertisements are not all equal. I understand the need of companies with valuable products for reaching their potential customers. But it can be done in a win-win way. To give you some more details on how I perceive adverts:

- Video/audio advertisements that start playing by themselves = I'll probably add you to my mental black list of people and companies I don't want to do business with (yes, I have one, 'voting by my dollars'. Actually, Groupon is on it, mostly because of annoying ads that were just everywhere I looked.).

- Pop-ups and anything that touches the area with content (all those floating or expanding windows), distracting me in an offensive way = I'll most likely remember you as a company not to do business with you as well. Also, I'll start hating the website soon for allowing this type of advertisements.

- Simple banners and ads of products that in my belief actually introduce some value - like development tools - I don't really mind them; I might click on then to see what's about with this new product, out of pure curiosity.

- AdWords - I don't mind them, they're not intrusive. I might even consider clicking at them if they happen to show something interesting.

Also, I can't even express how annoyed I am about the new batch of YouTube adverts - the ones that play before the movie I requested, often stealing half a minute of my time and making me lose interest in the video itself.

So yes, AdBlock is fine. It blocks most of the crap.
Also, we are very litigation happy over here. If I were a workplace, I'd be worried about a lawsuit over a 'hostile work environment' to be honest.
This is what i was told by apple engineers when asking straight out.
There is no efficient safety interlock system when modifying data.

Even if confident your test passed, what happens when you later realize it hadn't, and at what cost?
I was at the aerospace data facility, Colorado (ADF-C) on Buckley AFB on Sep 17th for an open day (rare for a secure environment like this) and played with a 3D walkthrough training app Lockheed had on display that was very game-like. It's built from recent arial reconnaissance photos and turned into a very realistic walkthrough for mission planning. Raytheon, the NSA and NRO are in the same facility.
So let's take bets. Was this hack attack made possible through:

1) A SQL injection

2) A default admin password
The solution, of course, is to actually kill and eat a young girl in Tuscon.
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Ryan, Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it.

First, you don't need a credit card at all.

Second, after authorizing your account you can buy, sell, donate or direct pay all you want. The initial setup is one step. After that it's frictionless commerce.

Third, you'll want to buy stuff for the same reason you want to buy stuff on any other e-commerce channel. Even more so when Brands will be offering special Twitter only deals.

Finally, it's genuinely useful for so many people. Just ask the food cart owner who is using our Direct Payments to collect payments. Or, the Etsy seller who can now sell their goods on Twitter. Just a few examples of current uses.

To illustrate just one problem it solves: Currently, brands list items in their storefronts. Then they go on Twitter and Tweet about it. Then a customer clicks on a link in the Tweet and is taken off Twitter to their storefront. Then the customer goes through 5 more clicks before a transaction occurs. Sell Simply eliminates all of that. The Tweet is the listing and the checkout and the transaction combined in one. One step frictionless commerce. That's a brand solution. There are others.

Normal people are using it, by the thousands. This will only grow.

This wasn't thought up by a SM guru, but by a hacker like yourself.
If the Wikipedia Foundation can cover their costs by donations from users, than I would resist ads forever.

>There are ways to do ads well.

Yes there are, And Wikipedia would have to pay gatekeepers to prevent it becoming a spammy "wack-a-mole" fest. Those gatekeepers become a very costly additional expense. One that you very quickly become dependent on,

Wikipedia has already grown into a great resource from donations. If they can maintain solvency, I don't see any compelling reason why they should change.
A sad initiative by a bunch of sad people hating for the sake of hating.
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There are only two bugs in the code:

1. Setting the permission on the wrong thing (directory instead of file)

2. Setting the permissions to 666 instead of 0666.

A design "bug" is only a bug if it was unintentional. The other two "bugs" are pedantry that you'd only expect out of a compiler that spits out tons of cascading "errors" resulting from a single actual error.
Or do a black bag job to get the key, then type it in after seizing the computer and say it was just a lucky guess.
200 years ago, every man could own a rifle and all rifles were assault rifles. Citizens were equal with their governments. They could ban together and form armies. Today, looking at the vast differences between arms that governments posses versus what their citizens may legally posses and you'll soon realize that the only technological equality we have remaining is strong encryption thus the governments attack that technology accusing everyone who uses it of being either a state sponsored terrorist or a child porn monster (why else would anyone use it... what do they have to hide). They themselves use encryption extensively, but they don't want me and you to do so.

The United States once classified some encryption algorithms as a munition and banned exports. We citizens can't buy tanks or air craft carriers or satellites, but we can legally use AES 256 encryption (at least for now) and we should. That's all we have left.
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The question is really about whether the content of the password itself can be entered into evidence, and in most cases, the answer is no, though it would, of course, depend on the scope of the search warrant (if that's the context in which it is being evaluated) and several other factors. But in practice, a password is understood to be something rather arbitrary, so it is not regarded as having strong evidentiary weight. Of all the things I can do, setting my password to "ikillednicolebrownsimpson" is least likely to implicate me, even with a great deal of related supporting evidence.

Secondly, they can get around this quite easily by telling you to just type it in without disclosing it to them. Your refusal to comply will be regarded the same way as a refusal to open a safe or something similar, and you can be held (indefinitely, in many jurisdictions) for contempt of court. The difference, of course, is that the police can open a safe if they have to.

The 5th amendment does not release you from an obligation to cooperate with police, though, as you rightly point out, you are not required to disclose evidence to them or to aid their investigation apart from complying with their request to look around. To what extent divulging a password or passphrase enters into this scope is a matter of ongoing court battles. They have gone both ways.
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Indeed; it was said best below by another commenter:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253811
> Does a computer magazine look ugly because of the adverts for Apple in it? Does a car magazine look ugly because of adverts for cars in it?

Yes. I read the magazine for the content, not for the ads. I don't mind an ad here and there, but the amount of advertising in magazines now is ridiculously high. Sometimes I'm not sure if just less than 50% of the magazine has some content in it.

> Personally, I find advertising useful, and pleasant. I'm certainly not alone.

I respect your opinion. While you're definitely not alone in your stance, I do also think that there are much more ad-haters than you believe. Might be a selection bias on my part, but I've never ever seen a person enjoying web ads.
Does prevelance of a group of people disliking cars and prefering to walk indicate that cars are largely bad?
Well goodness. If this same US government didn't insist they have the right to clone my hard disk without a warrant whenever I go through customs, maybe I wouldn't need full disk encryption.
Since every software company has this process, why does Apple stand out?

That's the question I think Gruber wants answered, and where this huge Bio of Jobs, probably our best opportunity to find out, has fallen short.

I would take a guess that if someone were to really publish the "secret sauce" you might find it less like a recipe - i.e., "do this and you will win" - and more like a history of a company that found smart, productive people, made them focus, and then got the fk out of the way.

I'm not sure a Biography would illuminate this. But I think Gruber's right in that Jobs probably wasn't a "tweaker" in the sense of someone actually making a tech decision. He probably tweaked people.
It is important to note, these were not intelligence satellites. This is more like the Chinese government doing what some of the hacker sub culture has done for a long time: rattle the lock and see how easy it is to open. Presumably security was not a big concern, because how many jerks would have the means to hack into these? And what could you accomplish other than vandalism? As it turns out, now we know. Live and learn.
I don't talk to my friends for evidence, I look at studies.

Google's ad revenue has nothing do with what the majority of anybody does. Google is doing ads well, better than they had been done before, and ads have gradually become more relevant and less seedy; I could see those two things countering the slide of clicks, at least in their case, but maybe in all cases. I don't have a problem with ads, and I would start clicking on them if the odds that it wouldn't be a waste of my time got better.

I do have a problem with bald-assed assertions instead of arguments, defended by insults that assume that you know anything about anyone else's circle of friends but your own.
I solved this problem by working from the library. It's a quiet place with free, fast Internet access.

Another key is keeping a regular schedule. I wake up at 8am and go to bed at around 11 or 12, unless I'm working extra hours to get something released.
How do you know that "no one objects"? Perhaps those that object simply don't listen to NPR.
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The system is redundant, and no single operator should be able to do what was done that day. The military bases went delta-5. Largest military port city, and China's looking to let the fire out of their dragon...

Dark days, eh?