skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Syria already does have a spying chokepoint in place. It's had it for years(at least since late 2010 when I was there). They have something similar to China's in that it also does filtering. Also, at some point when I was there around may~june 2011 when this was all starting up they seriously started messing with https stuff conducting MITM on facebook and what not.

Also, no, having the internet cut off absolutely does not hurt Assad. Syria is very sectarian in nature. In other words your loyal base absolutely does not correlate with what services you provide, only what religion/sect/tribe people are.

The rebellion didn't happen because people suddenly started hating Bashar el Assad, it happened because those same people have hated this regime for at least the past 40 years. In 1982, Hafez, the guy who established the regime put down an earlier rebellion that had gone on for something like 3 years by completely destroying entire sections of cities(and pretty much all of Hama) and killing, by conservative estimates, at least 10,000 people. This was during a time when the USSR still existed and where such things within its sphere of influence were par for the course, which is why no international response happened at the time.

The rebellion happened now because of a perceived weakness in the regime's freedom to act(no USSR anymore, much more US influence in the area, weak(er) dictator) and because of perceived international support for similar things happening in Arab nations. That's it. So if the internet in any way helps the FSA get international support by exposing atrocities committed against civilians by the government then you can bet it's in the government's best interest to shut it down.
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Emscripten is fantastic.
https://github.com/kripken/emscripten

LLVM -> JavaScript.
The possibilities are many, wish I had more time to play with this kind of stuff.

I believe it's how http://repl.it and similar sites work.

Tangentially, aside from porting games, http://luatut.com/crash_course.html is one of the better uses [of Emscripten] I've seen. Press Escape and a console drops down. Handy way to learn a language.
Apparently uses http://here.net maps, you can check out the Terms Of Use here: http://here.net/help
No shit, it's only been covered by two other front-page stories on HN
The Cost of Ubuntu
I think what you're trying to say to me has merit, but you keep overreaching in your choice of words to a point that makes it extremely difficult for me to respond positively. If you say that I

- sound like an idiot

- am blustering because I'm ashamed I'm in the wrong

- think open source is valueless

- am ignorant

These are only some of the excerpts but I keep noticing that you read what I say and then concoct some grand scheme in your head instead of taking the precise wording I used to closer heart. Disagree? Then please point me to the "extraneous flamebait" I injected into my very terse OP. Maybe it's extraneous flamebait to you that I don't preface my thoughts with "In my experience ..." ?

>I had written up a fairly thorough response

I appreciate hearing your thoughts - after all that's the reason I'm on here writing these replies. Though I do feel that you take the gist of what I'm saying, creating another standpoint adding some of your own summaries of what what you believe I'm talking about to that and then arguing against that.

Again. In my OP I told OP not to say he wants to work for free and not to say out right that he's willing to work 12/7 if he wants to maximize his chances of landing a job. Do you disagree with that? If you do, I would be happy to hear your thoughts.
KDE as 'Desktop Enviroment' is consuming less than 200MiB on my machine.

That includes
kwin, window manager

plasma-desktop, desktop and panel

krunner, application launcher

kded4, multiple daemons

A complete session of KDE includes Nepomuk and Akonadi which are libraries helping KDE's applications, not the 'Desktop Enviroment'.

Disclaimer: Im a KDE contributor.

Edit: formatting.
This is a lot more like a music video than an ad for McDonald's. It's more of a complementary art form, to expose you to the original in a different medium.
10 in 10, the way you've phrased it
There is a rather rude joke that if you want to avoid dying you should avoid hospitals because lots of people die there. What the joke doesn't zero in on is that people that die in hospitals do not always die of what they had when they got there.

Hospitals tend to be very tight lipped towards the people they admit when it comes to admitting mistakes for fear of liability, but in cases like this there ought to be a maximum of transparency so the people that are about to be hospitalized can make informed decisions about the additional risks over and beyond the thing they're going to the hospital for in the first place.
Won’t Someone Take iTunes Out Back And Shoot It?
except its not... :) I`m mean it suppose to be but its not
For me, it's also the predecessor to tower defense games.
The plague has never really left us. It's just being held at bay (barely) by anti-biotics and basic hygiene.

On a long term scale bacteria have won over every other kind of life, there is little reason to assume that this will change in the future. This holds whether you look at them by mass, by number or by just about any other metric.
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Testing your UI
after telecomix published probably dangerous and incriminating traffic data, I feel extremely uneasy about their competence and especially about routing any kind of information through them.
Flask Login and Google Oauth2
My bad, maybe they didn't specifically say No, but if you apply for a job and don't get a response, I'm pretty sure that is universally recognized as a No in the job seeking world, and I think it's clear from the article that he realized that, he just didn't care because he really wanted a job with them.

"However, I was too frustrated after being turned down everywhere else (for one reason or another) and realized that on paper, I didn’t look too great (Bachelors Degree in Science and a bunch of failed business ideas)."

Guy recognizes that he doesn't look good enough which is why he is getting No's or no responses, but he believes that he is good enough so he decides to get creative to prove it.

If you are trying hard and they aren't responding, I think you know it's because you aren't making the cut, Vidyard was sending subtle, but very well understood signals that anyone else might do, you try, no response, obviously no clicking with them, so you keep trying, because you still think you can prove something.

It sounds like people want to say either Amar is stupid or Vidyard are dicks, both had their own agenda and clearly sent each other messages about how they felt without necessarily directly saying it. How many "No's" does it take to get to a Yes in sales? Dude is a good salesman.
How do you suppose one should make sure the exit node you run won't be used for sharing of child porn? And how is he automatically an idiot for running a TOR exit node? All node operators run them knowing they could be used for illegal activities, and that it could bring them some legal trouble.
Might be worth posting a link to the original OpenDUNE project:

http://www.opendune.org
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There you go: http://goo.gl/ZowwQ

64 GNU/Linux distributions that use KDE. Rock and Roll!

I personally use ArchLinux x86_64 with KDE 4.9.3 => UberAwesome!
Easy to use REST API for OpenX ad server
IPhone iOS 6 Jailbreak Success, Finally
Yes, I do live in the UK. At least for now, I can't afford an unfurnished flat. And so far, I've had to move quite a bit.
I think this seems somewhat interesting - but it does defy this part of PEP8 a bit.

http://www.peps.io/8/#a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin...

tl;dr - You shouldn't comply to PEP8 blindly.
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Kendo UI Brings HTML5 and Accessibility
It's 2012 and my laptop has 8GB of RAM, which means that my booted-up idle machine with a modern graphical DE uses less than 5% of available RAM. I wouldn't call it sad.
You should have the freedom to transmit it and to face the penalties law imposes.

Free speech does endorse the freedom to commit a crime, but does not endorse the criminal activities themselves.
It comes about because the genre names describe the scene more than the music. There may be only relatively small (to an outsider) aesthetic differences between, say, progressive house and UKG, if you go to raves where each is played you will find the people playing and dancing to it are completely different, with almost no crossover. The racial makeup will be different, the age, social class, the drugs being used, the clothes worn.

That's why people differentiate dance music so carefully. When people talk about dubstep they aren't talking about a halfstep drumloop and a falling 808, they're talking about Third Base, Plastic People, Big Apple, Music House and Red Stripe. When people talk about berlin techno they're not just talking about 909s on the up and white noise filter bleeps, they're talking about Hardwax, Berghain and D&M.
because VLC is not owned by Rémi Denis-Courmont, and not everyone agrees on his move towards AppStore.
That's true as well. For example, Window of the World in Shenzhen is a theme park entirely dedicated to that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_the_World
IANAL but I think in the UK if they even suspect you of giving them a fake password (and yes, they do have tech guys who probably read HN as well), they'll go for you anyway. Whether they'd make it stick if the fake data is convincing enough is a different matter.
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Not really, when even low end laptops have 4GB RAM. There's nothing horrible about using the resources you're given.
He referred readers to the Wikipedia comparison page, so I went there and duly compared bash to zsh in all the comparison tables.

A couple of minor differences, otherwise exactly the same...
Netflix Comes To Ubuntu OS Via Unofficial App
Maybe try BlackInk http://www.bleank.com/BlackInk-a115.html
Apartments in the US usually come with heavy appliances such as refrigerators and ovens but not furniture. Furnished apartments are also much less common here.
We just rolled out our developer platform (beta). It is based on the same ideas that power Github Services. You can write small (but powerful) apps and push the code to us. We take care of hosting, authentication, rendering/saving forms etc and list your apps in the app directory where anyone can add them and use them.

So far we have written small apps like Campfire, Hipchat, Github Issues, Pivotal tracker etc to showcase the capabilities of the platform. The app directory is at https://supportbee.com/apps

The development process should be (hopefully) pretty straight forward. We have also bundled a nice web console to help you develop/test your apps quickly. I would love for you guys to give us feedback on the development experience

I would love to answer any questions or hear your feedback. Our apps repo is at https://github.com/supportbee/SupportBee-Apps. You can star it if you want to follow the development. Thanks!
Yes, the JIT/NGEN takes care of if it it can prove by dataflow analysis that the indexes are always within bounds.
I'm not sure what you mean by "they'll go for you anyway", but there is no way to know whether you gave them a real password/key. It might actually be the real one.
Password protection won't work against the "rubber-hose" method of obtaining it.

You assume governments are going to play nice. Even if they don't physically torture you directly for it, they will just put you in a 6x6 cell without windows for a couple years "pretrial" until you are ready to talk, or go insane.

This isn't some hollywood movie where you get to give a bad password and that distracts them for a minute and they let you go. They will definitely verify the data or go back to torturing or lock you up. How do you think a judge is going to respond to someone who tries to fool them?
Amazon helps Kindle app developers with Maps API
It is sort of mind boggling that revs are so low with 150 employees, and having been around as long as they have. They should definitely be able to make sizable coin through partnerships with retailers offering deals or discounts when their customers announce their presence in a retail location via a check-in. This seems like a lay-up for both four square and retailers. Why are they not doing more biz in this arena? Retailers pay to track customers in the on-line world, why can't foursquare grab money for tracking them in the offline world? Are their structural impediments?
Okay, recreate that in HTML5.
Is Amazon’s Cloud A-Game Enough to Fend Off Google?
See also "Chaffinch" - (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/Chaffinch.html) which I think I'd trust a bit more. I still wouldn't trust it to protect me against a well funded government regime that might send me to prison.
Python for the impatient
An improvement over Wankel engine
I'm not sure this is practical, but I very much respect that people are devoting cycles to these issues, which do deserve attention.

The UK law is problematic since it asks you to prove a negative, which is impossible. This tool doesn't really help, there; any data you have could be said to be 'encrypted' (one half of the symmetric pair that unlocks the desired data). If you're ever demanded to produce under that law, you are in a very bad place.

More practically speaking, I think there are other improvements in these areas that can be made, particularly in situations where you want data to self-destruct if you are placed under duress, or before you have a chance to be abused for too long (a rubber hose defense). Methods like Shamir's Method can allow you to securely divvy up a decryption key any way you like among many parties and design a system around the particular needs you have - whether that's deleting the access keys for a border crossing scenario or releasing the data in an insurance scenario.

But when it comes to the guy being locked in the room being asked to prove something unprovable, it's just a screwed scenario.
I'm guessing this is more like "the HMRC wants the password to this volume containing my company's second set of books, I'll give them the password to the mildly-embarrassing fake volume of fetish porn I've hidden in there".
it seems to have some bugs. I lost a unit in the first level (I know, I know) and tile graphics went bonkers
This is called deniable encryption, it allows you to convience someone that you have given all the data, or have nothing to hide.

There other software that does this: http://www.winstonsmith.info/julia/elettra/
No copyright issues; it's based off of OpenDUNE: http://www.opendune.org/
Why Apple may be losing its edge
How good is Ubuntu support out of the box on the X1? I love the look of it as a replacement for my MBP, but I've found compatibility information a bit scarce.

EDIT: Just found your other post! That's really cool that is has such good support.
2D is the BEST!
One thing they have done is bought up a significant portion of the available cellular spectrum licenses in the U.S.
Amazon is much more accustomed to operating a low-margin
business than Google or Microsoft.

I'd have thought Amazon's core business, shipping physical goods in exchange for cash, would be more profitable than Google's core business, providing search and e-mail funded by adverts.

I'm not an expert on ad-supported websites, but they aren't exactly notoriously profitable.
In that case, there's a pretty lengthy list of artists who need to be struck off.

Michelangelo. Shakespeare. Leonardo Da Vinci. David Lynch. William Wordsworth. Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

All of these people, and many more, made things that were essentially adverts - commissioned pieces designed to promote a particular institution.
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Just awesome. Dune II was a big part of my childhood. :)
Can you really have to wait a couple of years in jail for a trial (in the US)?
Mitnick actually got a Hollywood movie, if you recall :)

Though I don't think they covered the 4.5 years he spent in there without trial (I don't know for sure, haven't seen the film).
Be sure to read the documentation when installing zprezto on OSX. If you don't run the following, your PATH will be screwed up.

sudo chmod ugo-x /usr/libexec/path_helper
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Julian Assange: Two Years of CableGate
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Security hole in latest Java lets attacker remotely seize control, exploit..
I am just starting out and what to learn how to get the most out of my terminal. I have zsh installed what is the best site/book in learning how to unlock its full power?
Yes. In a previous version I was trying to bypass string caching to make x==y return false.
I'm curious about this too. Could someone please compare the screens?
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Me too, totally feels like the glitches are actually real, my nintendo dusty cartridges nightmares came back to life
I'd consider that reasonably servicable, but then I did once replace a hard disk in a G4 iBook.

56. 56 goddamn screws.
If we disable Java, what replaces it?
I believe the chopping of the octet is separate to the anonymization, unless they haven't updated their docs:

What does it mean to anonymize the logs?

We will change some of the bits in the IP address in the logs as well as change the cookie
information. We're still developing the precise technical methods and approach to this, but we
believe these changes will be a significant addition to protecting user privacy.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

Edit: I think I'm wrong about this.

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&#...

After Google announced its log retention policy update in 2008, C. Soghoian asked
Google for details about the log sanitization process. He then published the following
response from Google [34]:

After nine months, we will change some of the bits in the IP address in
the logs; after 18 months we remove the last eight bits in the IP address
and change the cookie information (emphasis our own). It is dicult to
guarantee complete anonymization, but we believe these changes will make
it very unlikely users could be identi ed."
> I can think of only four offhand (meaning, without using Google):
> Ellington and the inventively-named Django CMS for Django

http://mezzanine.jupo.org/ is quite popular, I think.

The answer to the main question lies somewhere else IMO. Those CMS from the PHP family got their fame because of the very low barrier of entry to deploying a PHP app (read: ftp). No mommy-blogger will have a clue how to install a Rails/Django CMS, so the target audience is different. Putting it short: PHP CMS are for users, Django/Rails CMS are for developers.
Ideally you'd be able to wrap up your weird fetish self porn along with your subversive documents. If they 'ask' for the password, you give them the password for your fetish porn and break down in tears telling them you're a pervert. Then they have a decision, are you telling the whole truth? They don't know if they don't know anything more. Unknonw unknowns.
Actually I don't disagree with your general sentiment - if I understand it correctly - that (a) cutting off the Internet is relatively minor compared to war's true atrocities and (b) the UNHRC is basically an impressive-looking name to a dysfunctional and morally bankrupt organization (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Cou...)

But my main point is that HN discussions are interesting when they're not on the judgmental side ("How bad is Syria compared to X?") but on the perceptive one ("What are the implications on the ground of cutting the net? How easy/hard is for Syrians to find other ways to connect?" etc)
The source-code is probably based off OpenDUNE but I'm pretty sure the art isn't. They'll be taken down for the art for sure ...
I had to dig up this article again:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/142550

On how we all told each other that blowing into the cartridge actually worked, but it didn't. I used to do it as well of course, I'm amazed by how that "technique" turned into some sort of urban legend.
Huh? Vertical resolution is needed so you see more code at once, not for design work. For badly designed code, horizontal resolution also becomes important ;)
Presumably you'd have to store the keys somewhere, given that only a savant would be able to memorise them. That somewhere will probably as easy to seize as the encrypted data.
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I'm a 15 year old 'kid` that has been pushing 30TB/day traffic thru a few Tor exits for months just fine, because I truly believe in freedom of speech.

You know, money isn't that hard to get. For me, a few weeks of coding got me a few thousands of euros. He was running an ISP apparently, and selling VPSs. I've been sysadmining a few boxes for a few VPS hosting companies and got enough money to run a few Tor exits pushing over 2Gbps for months.

(Also, I think that it's hilarious that me having my 15-year-old girlfriend pics is considered illegal, thanks to CP laws. )

I truly believe in this: http://datalove.me/
“Bad Code”, Dogmatism, etc.
I'm going to find it hilarious when the real world goes all Assassin's Creed and our legacy to the planet is a semi-immortal, hardworking, physically ultra-tough, perfectly moral servitor race of drugged religious fanatics.
I don't know, but with terrorism accusations I suspect you can in the US. Not sure about the UK or The Netherlands.
It's the poor governments I'd fear more.
Suspect has a stash of illegal pornography. He encrypts that. He then encrypts some embarrassing, but legal, pornography. When he's asked for the key he can hand over the fake key.

Before they ask for the keys they should have enough information to know how bad the files are, so you're right in that respect. "We know what kind of stuff you have, so decrypt it and we can punish you for what you actually have, or face five years for not decrypting". But don't forget that sometimes they have no idea what the file is, or if the person is involved in any offending behaviour, and they've found the encrypted file after some other investigation.

In that situation it'd be handy to give them a fake key for fake data.

(None of this is to suggest that this tool is any good for that purpose)
Interesting idea, but the actual implementation seems to be a very simple encryption scheme, for each byte, decrypted byte = plain text - key

Doesn't seem like a great encryption system, right?

View the source here: https://lucb1e.com/rp/php/secrypt/?source
Awesome. I'm not so excited about the tiny 320x200 viewport though. Why not zoom it to fit the browser window?

Strangely, they seem to have managed to disable the browser's built-in zooming.

So yeah, fun, but squinty.
The problem with making this game in flash is that during the intro when the graphics go all fucked up I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be part of it or if flashplayer itself was having a fit.
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Why we don't sign NDA's
True, your well-being is much more important than any data. However they may also lock you up for years when you truly lost your password, so this tool can aid in that.
I have found Inkscape to be quite an under-appreciated tool. It is much easier to learn than Illustrator for a beginner, quite light on systems resources and has great keyboard shortcuts.

Earlier when there was a logo to be designed I used to use GIMP. But I find Inkscape's text handling to be much superior (especially with manual kerning) and flexible. In fact, I do most of my website mockups with Inkscape these days.