skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely curious about this as well. I do recall seeing reference to wikileaks documents (in general) potentially endangering US allies / sources / informants / partners. However, I can't recall specifically whether or not the information was sourced from the documents Manning leaked.
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The link says they are "scouring the reports," not documenting incidents. I'm wondering if the Taliban would be able to scour thousands of documents in English fast enough to catch anyone before they left town? Unlikely.

I also remember we were warned they were coming before they actually came.
Possible future?

June 2014: Google Glass released to the public.

Dec 2014: First face recognition app released.

May 2015: App to detect "dateability" with strangers reaches #1 on the appstores.

Nov 2015: Trend among girls to apply make-up that makes Glass' face recognition fail.

Apr 2016: Updated algorithm and use of IR-spectrum now greatly improves face recognition capabilities.

Aug 2016: Three women killed by stalker equipped with Google Glass

Oct 2016: Prototype IR-lamp for mounting on Google Glass also works by blinding any onlooking cameras, making face recognition impossible again. It's now easy to film others while avoid being filmed yourself.

Feb 2017: New Glass version includes upgraded sensor, that can filter out selected spectrums. Weeks later, the major face recognition library updates with support, able to block out "blinding lights".

July 2017: Malware discovered on many Glasses, which can spread by WiFi and automatically blurs recorded faces. Security researchers find that it also is able to send back the actual face recognition data to secret servers in Iceland.

Nov 2017: New e-inkpaint makes it possible to create pulsating patterns that disturbs or even crashes Glasses that look at them. A celebrity vlogger is seen wearing it.
I don't understand what you are saying ? Is it that there is a security issue arising from the DNS hijacking ? If so what's the issue ?
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, on HN revolves around these expiring id's. if you want to up vote a comment, the ID must be attached to the command. Next page, new comment, everything. It's a real bitch (especially since I'm integrating with it from an iOS app)
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I don't think there is much evidence for this being part of a long term plan on his part to resist microsoft's influence.

If that was the primary concern where was the criticism when his employer, The Linux Foundation, announced with great fanfare that they had released a microsoft ca signed boot loader to support linux uefi secure boot with the default oem trust setups.

If there is anyone that has a chance at providing a FOSS UEFI signing alternative to Microsoft it's the Linux Foundation. But they're unwilling or unable to do it. Redhat is unwilling to and has proven they have trouble securing their signing keys. Canonical tried and failed to sell vendors on including a ubuntu key, and they weren't even looking to sign for other companies.

There will soon be plenty of people running linux on their computers with secure boot enabled and relying on Microsoft's CA for a chain of trust. It's a done deal and no one is out there stepping up to provide a viable FOSS PKI alternative.

The only thing being debated here is if many of them will be running rather slow and buggy video drivers.
Google used to have a product called "Google Notebook" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Notebook). They've since closed it down, but I used to be an extremely heavy user.
I'm sorry if I gave off the impression that all/most Wall St. bankers are dirtbags, as I can't confirm that for exactly the reason you state. However I didn't think it would be too controversial that there are some who have taken action for the greater good of their bank and not for the greater good of the whole market though (or at least that was what all the media seemed to be saying at points over the past few years).
Comparing calorie to calorie almost seems silly. The definition of a junk food is something that has a high concentration of calories, particularly relative to its overall nutritional content.
But these are not randomly selected questions. To illustrate, consider if someone posted a story asking whether Jews were genetically disposed to be greedy. This could be dressed up quite a bit, and it's not impossible that this would very rarely be asked by someone without any social awareness. But there's a smart prior which says that someone asking such a question has a strong agenda and that the "just asking questions" bit is a smoke screen.
Yes, look at all that data he had access to.

I have no sympathy for the officials who armed Manning and the rest of the military with the infosec equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Why did they have that info if it was so potentially dangerous? Privates in the military were given ALL of that data? Really?

Manning may be guilty, but the negligence goes all the way up.
Unfortunately, he wasn't. Thaddeus Stevens on the other hand was well aware of how debt-based and private monetary systems create inequality, something that seemingly should have been of interest to Marx.

Disclaimer: I'm no fan of Marx.
This repeated notion of a truly converged OS is really annoying and it is very disappointing to see Ubuntu continue to pursue it despite the loud complaints of most of their users.

Lets point out the obvious: the user interaction of a small handheld device is very different than that of a computer with a full size monitor and mouse. Thus any os's on those two devices have to have different UI features. That's it.

Of course the parts of the OS that are not UI can be converged. In that sense Linux is already a fully converged OS.

But you are never going to fully converge the UI of two devices that use vastly different UI methods.
I've really been pleased with PaperKarma.
https://www.paperkarma.com/

Especially as I move often, I really enjoy having the ability to stop promotional mail from the previous tenants.
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But where is the hacking? The judge just used her prorrogative to make (something great) happen.
I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but it strikes me as very similar to Conan O'Brien's "dismissal" statement, especially the "People of Groupon" greeting. It's effectiveness is in the plain, straightforward truthfulness and a dash of self-deprecating humor. Refreshing, but also a great PR move.

"People of Earth:

In the last few days, I've been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I've been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I've been absurdly lucky. That said, I've been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/conan-obrien-statem...
I don't think it's fair to call it LISP! S-Expressions are used for other protocols, like cryptography protocols, so it is very confusing to read about this term in a similar context.
I wish I could upvote this repeatedly. I'm happy to agree that Manning had some good intentions, but he went about implementing them in a wildly irresponsible way. Many of the people who supported his actions have been pointing to the content of the State Department cables as if they abounded with proof of nefariousness while only exposing their own willful ignorance, to the point of seeming upset that American diplomats engage in intelligence-gathering and are not always completely frank in their dealings with foreigners. Almost all of the 'revelations' in the cables were already matters of public knowledge to anyone sufficiently interested in the countries in question anyway. So much so that at one point I wondered if the whole thing were an exercise in Track II diplomacy.
I've only dabbled with the Shadow DOM, so maybe I'm missing something, but I just tried it in a webkit nightly and it did not seem accessible. The link in the article seems pretty convincing, though I can't conclusively judge from that that it's not enabled yet.

Also, the "also" in "also turned on" seems a little bit out of place considering the sibling comment to yours.
May I ask where do you do your DNS hosting ? Do you host it yourself ? Or do you use a third party ?
I'm curious, do you have a source for this? I have a google apps account for my domain, are they rejecting emails before they reach the 'spam' folder?
Why is it "terror" if done with airplanes and "war" if done by humans holding machine guns?
Yeah, "what belongs on HN" is basically "what HNers upvote".
The guidelines say otherwise.
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> I have no sympathy for the officials who armed Manning and the rest of the military with the infosec equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Why did they have that info if it was so potentially dangerous?

The reason was 9/11. Did they go overboard? Hell yeah they did, but that's how the military seems to operate (possibly the gov't too, who knows). It's always penduluming from one extreme to the next, they can never simply do the exact right thing.
>Subjects received visual data through their taste buds and were able to correctly process it (i.e., catch a ball).

If so, what about less intrusive input methods? I'm thinking of cameras, radars, sonars or entirely synthetic source of visual data with input through a pressure point grid on the user's skin [1]. This could easily have a lot of applications, from supplementing rear-view mirrors in cars with something you "see" all the time to network admins feeling which machines in their server park are being port scanned. The downside of this kind of dermal input would be the mechanical complexity of the "display" that applies pressure to your skin and the relatively low speed.

A relevant question is whether if I learned to "see" with pressure applied to one patch of my skin would I be able to quickly start "seeing" with a different one? Another question is whether this scales and will you be able to use multiple inputs at the same time once you've learned one.

[1] The closest thing to this that I know of is Northpaw, a haptic compass. It's 1D, though. See http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/.
Small (<10 people) companies that I've worked for will sometimes quote an hourly rate, however they quote different hourly rates for different types of work, or different roles. An individual may (or may not) be able to do the same thing. Bill $500 an hour for managing/consulting, $25 an hour for super simple HTML editing (making text bold), and various rates for everything in between.
Killing people with airplanes is not categorically known as "terror" rather than "war." Lots of people were killed with airplanes in World War I, but while it was terrifying, WWI is pretty universally known as a war. So I don't take your point.
(I work at Stripe.)

As an API author, I think your goal should be to make interacting with your API as simple and robust as possible. The downside with just recommending off-the-shelf HTTP clients is that there's always a ton of logic (whether request formatting, error handling, or turning responses into first-class objects) that the vast majority of consumers of your API want and will have to write on their own. If you look at the internals of our bindings, a lot of the logic is around understanding exceptions (https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby/blob/master/lib/stripe...) or interstanding semantics of our API (https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby/blob/master/lib/stripe...), which are tasks that would take a newcomer a lot of time to get get spun up on.

There will always be frameworks where your bindings don't work (e.g. our Ruby bindings aren't compatible with EventMachine) or paradigms that they violate (e.g. using error return values in PHP rather than throwing exceptions). That's actually ok -- just because you can't support everyone doesn't mean you should support no one. Instead, we put a lot of effort into making our bindings compatible with as broad of a range of environments as possible (e.g. https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python/blob/master/stripe/_...).

So my advice would be write bindings which convert the semantics of your API to the consumer's language, but which constrain the consumer's application as little as they can. Even if people end up having to use a lower-level abstraction to talk to your API, they can probably steal code or ideas from what you've written.
Customer Service could have been a bullet point on it's own. I happen to think of it as a part of everything, or rather: that everything is part of customer service, and certainly encompassed within "build a beautiful, elegant customer experience." Agreed: mishaps happen, and how a customer handles them is part of the core customer experience. Delighted customers become your extended marketing team by becoming passionate advocates of your service.
If I were a designer, i'd love the idea of working on many challenging projects.
Um, you can't read that sentence out of context.
The hodgepodge of languages that make up Modern English (
That study doesn't say anything as to whether high-fructose corn syrup is unhealthier than regular syrup. That study's only claim is that mice gain more weight if they eat high-fructose corn syrup compared to normal syrup. I think they could have probably counted the calories within each sample and saved everyone a lot of time.

And who's to say additional weight gain is bad for those mice? Mammals in a cold climate might appreciate the additional weight gain.
Am I the only one who really found that hard to read? Felt like the UI was all over the place. :-/
If sugar causes diabetes and people die of diabetes, doesn't that mean that the amount of sugar that is commonly consumed is toxic?

By the logic you've laid out, cigarettes aren't toxic. Smoking them can cause a variety of diseases that kill you.
lol, I went to this site expecting a keyboard full of semi-colons... so there you go I guess...
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Chances are he was good at selling things that didn't exist (some people are very talented at this) + he was lucky to find the right kind of person as an investor.
rumor has it I'll be keynoting :)
I use a sub-domain (e.g. @m.mydomain.com) for my catch-all and this hasn't happened to me. There are various easy ways for spammers to find out about domains, but sub-domains can remain relatively obscure.
The same could apply to convicted people. As Caffeinewriter says, privacy issues are huge.
The US has not yet been able to shed its history with slavery, so it strikes many American businesspeople as illogical that workers be left with any spare life at all if there's any way for their job to use it.

EDIT: Downvote all you like, but if you read the article, a large part of the problem is that French unions are standing up for themselves and, consequently, the workers.
The Point was nothing like Groupon! It was more of a goofy political/community action site. Social deals were a pivot as The Point failed.
So do posts like this one.
The US Army is a colossal murder machine, responsible for unimaginable suffering throughout the entire world. Are you trying to say he's a bad guy because he should have done some editing of it beforehand? Or that he would put his entire future at risk because of some personal troubles?

BTW, Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower, has given Manning his full support: http://www.bradleymanning.org/activism/sign-daniel-ellsbergs...

>Bradley Manning has worldwide support because the information he released to the public uncovered human rights abuses and corruption, and contributed to peace and democracy. Nobel Laureates like President Obama shouldn't send Nobel Peace Prize Nominees like Bradley Manning to prison for life! After more than 950 days of pre-trial imprisonment by the US military, and multiple instances of outrageous government conduct, it is time to drop the charges and free Bradley Manning!
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I don't see how the lack of semicolons disturbed you, I actually noticed it earlier today for the first time. If you're having trouble with that you won't be able to read Python very efficiently.
I was under the impression that the Debian team is much larger than Cannonical. This is why they have always said that they could not do what they do without Debian. The biggest problem with a rolling release is that you constantly have to reboot the server to apply kernel upgrades, which you have to do less with LTS (though the first 6 months after the release it feels like a weekly chore).
Microsoft already has that "in". They've been claiming for years that Linux violates "235" of their patents, though they have always been pretty mute about which. They also sued TomTom for using Linux's FAT32 implementation. They settled that one, and iirc there have been some patches to Linux's FAT32 support since then, so the issue is a bit ambiguous, but the FUD has been flowing for years.
"that is playing God with other's lives on the line."

That's the same pseudo-argument that keeps coming up again and again. Whose lives did he play with? Please don't answer with some hypothetical "aiding the enemy" crap.

Wasn't it the U.S. military that originally played with lives aka "collateral damage"?
I downvoted you. I'm not affiliated with dropbox. Your affiliation IS relevant when promoting services, because it means it's not an honest recommendation from a happy user, it's paid shilling.

If you don't understand the difference - or more importantly why one of them bothers people and the other doesn't, you need to stop doing marketing or promotion really quickly. You're going to tarnish the brand of the product you're trying to push.

Do you want people's only lasting impression of Tonido to be 'oh, that's that company that was astroturfing Hacker News'?
You cannot sell a computer with an OS license if you don't sell the computer alone (you're not buying the disk, but the license to use the software on it).

Sure you can. I bought a very nice MacBook Air in Paris a couple of months back - and you most definitely can't buy a MacBook Air without OS X.
That's a nice technique; thanks for sharing it. This kind of flexibility is one of the many benefits of running your own mail server (I'm always happy to see that at least some people here are still doing that).
I don't think it's an unfair reputation. Looks and feeling of a website is heavily influenced by its button (I've read a great article somewhere analyzing the internet big guys' buttons). Bootstrap's buttons are not easily customizable, thus people feel like they're running into bootstrap-like websites a lot.
There's a huge difference between banning sugar and regulating labeling. Even Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson supports food labeling (though purists might be opposed to that).
I never said that eating less was easy. I am not sure how you read that from what I wrote.

That's just it. It is easy. It's absolutely, effortlessly, ridiculously freaking easy. If you're lucky enough to have my metabolism. I can buy basic, average quality food, eat to satiety, binge during the holidays, occasionally eat an entire bag of candy, and barely move the needle on the scale. It's not fair! But it's reality, and my luck with regard to metabolism is compensated for by other things about myself that are less fortunate.

While the arguments from conservation of matter and energy are obviously true, they are not the best guide to find actual success in eating. Human bodies are fantastically complex systems of systems. Human metabolism is a chemical system with an insane number of components. Conscious decision is only a very small part of that system, with the vast majority being controlled by autonomous chemical and neurological processes.

Attacking obesity by focusing on portion control and willpower seems rather like trying to control a PC by carefully fluctuating the voltage coming into its power supply.

So when news outlets start reporting on some part of the problem other than portion control, don't take it personally; take it as looking at the big picture.
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"If you put yourself in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight, as I have been doing."

It sounds like you think establishing a caloric deficit is as simple as forcing yourself to eat less and exercise more. Research says it isn't. Some diets result in a lowered desire to eat. Some diets result in an increased metabolism.
That Seamless link didn't seem to work for me and as for those task services I wouldn't trust them for food. A service with guaranteed time delivery, service you can rely on is what would sell it for me.
Rocky Agarwal is far from credible. He made a name for himself by making it his personal goal to bash Groupon as much as possible. Probably because a number of his co-workers at TellMe left to join Groupon and he supposedly wasn't offered a job to join Groupon.

His so called reporting wreaks of jealousy as he watched his former co-worker's equity skyrocket with Groupon's growth while he was left out.
Were any actual revelations about the military in Manning's files? I remember the big Wikileaks surprise being that the Islamists and conspiracy theorists were right that most middle east/north African governments were outright US client states.

The US military's definition of a civilian not including people standing next to other people who carry weapons in public in Iraq shouldn't have been a revelation to anyone, it's not like they were making a secret of it.
Site appears to be up now.
Google's first webpage in 1998
Also http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stanford.edu/

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/
Andrew took Groupon further than 99.99% of all startups will ever go, then went out with a funny, accountable, and humble goodbye note.

If you honestly embrace startup risk and failure, you simply cannot bash this guy.
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I wish I had a hundred up votes to give! Sitting at my desk at $work, I'm struggling to keep back the tears. You guys are awesome! This is a startup that truly makes a difference. :)

One feature I'd love to see is the ability to setup a regular donation. Doing it via credit card is fine. You can give it to a random person as it makes no difference to me. The option to donate to the operating costs would also be great and then I could do both. The key feature is to make it regular and automatic. In my case, I get paid fortnightly so you could take $25 every two weeks and split it between patients and operating expenses. Will the upcoming Stripe integration allow this?
Have you read his letter to the French Minister Arnaud Montebourg? (at the bottom of this article http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-politique/france/actu/020257...)

WSJ talks about "blistering critiques of French work habits". I just think he's pretty objective about the situation.