skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

This should be a part of education. Maybe it is already in some parts of Europe that are more sensitive with privay breaches than US (France? Germany?).

Anyway, I live very far from my youngest brother, and have only few occasion to chat with him. Last time I felt the need to check his awareness of the matter (he is on Facebook and has the right age to share pics of drunk friends), and was happy to hear that he was under a pseudo and was using carefully the privacy features.
I've not tried it, but Aussie startup Zeromail sounds good, if slightly over your budget: http://zeromail.com/
> I'd hardly call logic programming new. At 40+ years old, it's one of the oldest paradigms in computer science!

Isn't logic programming one of the newest programming paradigms out there at about 40 years of age?

There are examples of Imperative, Functional, Object-Oriented and other Declarative programming languages that predate the first logic programming systems from the early 1970's.

When I had a logic programming course at the uni a few years ago, my prof started with an anecdote. He had been teaching the logic and contraint programming course since the years before the "AI winter" of the 1980's, and when he first started it truly was the newest paradigm out there and it was the sexy new entrant to the field. 30 years have passed but no major paradigms have emerged (arguable) so he still begins his course the same way, 30 years later. But with a grain of salt, of course...
The law is not American Idol - the rich and well connected don't win that contest so easily.
The article does not seem to follow the headline. Supplement manufacturers going on the offensive has nothing to do with the safety of vitamins.
15 years ago I founded LinuxFr: one of the most popular French website
The Financial Times has called this the data intelligence complex, by analogy with the military-industrial complex. It's a government--private sector alliance that's spending $80bn yearly on spying on citizens with questionable returns. Can you imagine "how many jobs would be destroyed" if this were to stop?
Xonotic 0.7 released - New maps, animation blending and much much more
It's more complicated than "freedom vs. loss of life" because any "protections" necessarily have costs and unexpected consequences. So what ends up happening is even more terrifying than a direct freedom vs. lives trade off would be in theory.

For example, if TSA being onerous convinces a significant number of people to drive for their medium distance trips instead of fly, more people will die because driving is more dangerous than flying.

Also, it's not exactly a 1-to-1 comparison, but for every 700,000 hours(ish) you force people to wait or delay their day in some fashion, you're causing an entire lifetime of inconvenience. It's better than taking an infant from its mother and shooting it, but it's still taking an entire lifetime of potential and destroying it through boredom and frustration.

I know I'm leaning pretty heavy on TSA examples here, but we've also seen they can't even reliably stop weapons from coming through security in predictable and repeatable ways. So, "we" decided that a trade off between security and freedom was prudent, we implemented that trade off, and then we found out we only received the downsides and none of the upsides.
No, you should have a balanced diet instead.
Company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data
Most cron daemons understand /10 to have a job run every ten minutes. And installing random binaries from the web is rarely a good idea – especially since this very version of grive is already in Debian (unstable/testing):

$ rmadison grive
grive | 0.2.0-1 | jessie | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
grive | 0.2.0-1 | sid | source, amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc

Edit: And git-annex apparently already has a googledriveannex, giving you all its nice features (e.g. local encryption).
Not today.
In order to access our Web site, your Web browser must accept cookies from NYTimes.com.

In that case, I have no interest in any of their articles.
Logging out is just an UI action. It doesn't, for example, delete the cookies put there by Google, so you're just as trackable.
The sad irony out of all this is that if you are served with an NSL, you now are legally obligated to have something to hide.

As Nicholas Merrill, writing anonymously in 2007 for the Washington Post [1] puts it:

"Living under the gag order has been stressful and surreal. Under the threat of criminal prosecution, I must hide all aspects of my involvement in the case -- including the mere fact that I received an NSL -- from my colleagues, my family and my friends. When I meet with my attorneys I cannot tell my girlfriend where I am going or where I have been. I hide any papers related to the case in a place where she will not look. When clients and friends ask me whether I am the one challenging the constitutionality of the NSL statute, I have no choice but to look them in the eye and lie."

So its not only that some law-abiding citizens have something to hide; the NSA is legally obligated tens of thousands every year [2] to have do it.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03...
[2] http://epic.org/privacy/nsl/
Im in the same boat only 33, and I started taking distance learning lessons for a degree.

Go get it .
How to find the Rootkit that was used in the Hetzner hack
In the meanwhile, it seems that the BKA (German Federal Criminal Police Office) has lifted their ban on speaking about the issue and Martin Hetzner, the founder of hetzner.de, has issued a statement on how to find the rootkit if it has been planted on a server:

- Use gdb to take a RAM-dump of the SSHD process

- Use strings and grep to find one of the following strings:

key=xxx

dhost=xxx

hbt=3600

sp=xxx

sk=xxx

dip=xxx

The following step-by-step instructions should work for Debian-based systems:

aptitude install gdb

gdb --pid=`ps ax|grep "\/usr\/sbin\/sshd"|cut -d" " -f1`

> gcore

> quit

strings core.XXXXX |grep "key="

If the server's clean, this grep should come up empty.

It seems that as of today it is still unclear how the infection/intrusion has been done in the first place.
DeOps: Decentralized Operations
He showed the military killing foreign civilians with callous disregard. This is/was happening supposedly to benefit the US public, and make the US safer. If someone was doing this in my name, Id sure want to know about it and want something to prevent jail time for the whistle blower. He broke some laws to expose massive violations and that's a mitigating circumstance. God knows (or a lawyer may) if mitigating circumstances are allowed to apply though.
I want society to be more open. People hide who they are because other people hide who they are. Being open in a society where everybody else only show their good side is detrimental to me. It gives a false image of reality.

I despise the government.
This. Only after reading your comment I considered that "freak" might be taken offensive. We grew up with "Computerfreaks" here in Germany.

I guess we Germans have a questionable talent of taking english words and making them our own e.g. "Handy" for cell phone. :)
First of all, the author sells a book about vitamins being bad, so he's probably not being objective about it.

I'm also biased in favor of taking daily supplements, because I take daily supplements and don't want to feel like a fool. That said, here's some analysis of his sources:

Most of the articles he (doesn't) link to are about harmful effects of beta-carotene and vitamin A, which coincidentally turn out to be mostly the same thing, just in a different form. Checking out the one article I found [1], they gave 30mg of beta-carotene (16K UI), and 25000 UI of retinyl palmitate, which converts to a total of 41000UI of vitamin-A, or 800% of the recommended daily dosage.

That dosage is insanely high. I have a very good "mega multi" vitamin, and it only contains 200% of vitamin-A, because it is well known that vitamin A and vitamin D are one of the few vitamins that are actually harmful at large doses, and you can get poisoned/die from overdoses. It's the reason why you don't want to eat polar bear livers. To OD on vitamin A is quite easy, with effects being seen starting at daily 21000 UI doses. So no multivitamin pills actually contain that high of an amount of vitamin A. I find it strange that he's not talking about specific brands, probably because none of them contain the high amounts that are used in the articles he talks about.

It doesn't surprise me that taking 41000 UI has adverse effects, since it's known that this is already well over OD limits, and is especially risky for smokers, who have a lower OD limit.

All in all, the reasons he puts forward why mega doses are bad, are not relevant to consumer vitamin pills because the doses are not in the same ballpark. I would also like to see the amount of lives saved because of the pills - much like airbags and car belts, there might be people who die from using them especially, but there might be many more people saved as well, turning it into a net profit.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15572756
Because they signed up for it and are paid to risk their lives. They then get another choice - they can refuse to go there. The civilians don't get that choice. There isn't much fair in the situation, but I sure dont think many people would argue that the civilians are in the position of strength.
This is prior art:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....

You're sending money to your mobile phone and it's stored there via the downloaded block chain.
Ok, what looked liked a passable article shows some new things:

"The likely explanation is that free radicals aren’t as evil as advertised. (In fact, people need them to kill bacteria and eliminate new cancer cells.) And when people take large doses of antioxidants in the form of supplemental vitamins, the balance between free radical production and destruction might tip too much in one direction, causing an unnatural state where the immune system is less able to kill harmful invaders. Researchers call this the antioxidant paradox.""

I wouldn't be worried at 150% vitamin dosages, worry if it's 1000% of the daily dosage (and some people take huge doses of Vitamin C with no major side effects. But if you do that with Vitamin A, yes, this could be very troublesome)
> The world post-privacy is going to be totally different from the one we currently live in.

Yeah check out NK for a sneak-preview. And they seem to be on schedule with the prison work camps as well.
Interesting story of how one patent was invalidated.
What should we post about then? Just keep repeating the same articles until anyone interested in the usual HN stuff disappears?
Somebody should tell Kurzweil about this.　"Kurzweil does not believe in half measures. He takes 180 to 210 vitamin and mineral supplements a day, so many that he doesn't have time to organize them all himself." http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzwei...
That, or they upvoted a witty article on HN.

It's not as hilarious as it could be, but amid mass hysteria, a joke or two never hurts.
I still don't see any contradiction between different moral norms and the claim statement that people deserve a government of the same standards and access to the same opportunities. Perhaps you interprets "standards" as "moral standards", which I didn't.

That said, I don't for a second believe that there's any reason for us to accept that all cultures are worth saving, or that some cultural norms should not be actively fought. However I see that as an entirely orthogonal issue to the first.
Is there a limit to hiding? Should we wear mask all the time, simply to avoid judgement? Why is it that we don't try to hide what is readily visible? Don't you think that it's because readily visible things are easier to accept and tolerate?

Privacy makes people think they're alone with their problems. If no one talk about theirs, I guess it's because they don't have any. Should we simply rely on stats to know we're not alone without knowing who is like us? Is anonymity the actual solution to privacy?
There's no such thing as "private data".
Agreed. I would consider almost any sort of alternative content refreshing at this point, even if it's something I don't actively follow. Sadly, I've been upvoting stuff I wouldn't normally upvote the last few days just for the sake of it being something different in hope that others would do so as well.
I absolutely do.
But then you can't jail everyone. That's where you stop living a lie and adapt laws to reality.
They did. Listen to when Bush signed the Patriot Act on TV. He straight out said "this new law will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including emails, the Internet, and cellphones":

http://youtu.be/NLYZn1MXS8s?t=6m57s

The sad part about it all, is that I can imagine what people thought back then when listening to that, especially since he said "by terrorists", which I bet in people's minds it made them forget about all the previous "surveillance on all communications" part of the comment.

Plus, they also must've thought that he "only" means that he will target the communications by some specific terrorists, not that he will spy on everyone to find those terrorists. Most people probably thought he was just referring to the "normal" type of wiretapping certain targets (with a warrant).

That's why Ron Wyden said 2 years ago in Congress that "if the public really knew the secret interpretation of the Patriot Act and FISA, they would be very angry about it", which is exactly what's happening now, because they misled the public about how far this program goes. I don't think most "normal" people actually thought the government is collecting all of their emails, chats, video-talks, and even phone call records.
haha, the last two paragraphs are the same from the post larry page wrote.
So since the government has no access after port 80, I wonder what services are used?

qotd 17/tcp?
gopher 70/tcp?
If you want to know why the wall st. bigshots are above the law, think about the nature of Capitalism, namely an economy based on the idea that those with capital buy land, facilities, and tools, and hire labor to build businesses.

Such an economy ends up essentially being owned by the financier, which ends up being the lenders and the institutional investors. Banks end up too big to fail because, particularly when they have investment arms. This is one reason why building an alternate financial system is so important ;-)
The NSA is Closed Source… We’re Open Source…
I think the resolution and real-time power of government satellites and the commercial satellites they have access to is debatable unless you've actually seen it. I recently had to look into this and was pretty surprised at the level of sophistication that's commercially available.

GeoEye is one example of a commercial company with the capability of producing high res close up "real time" satellite information.
http://www.geoeye.com/Industries/defense%26intelligence#defe...

These are low resolution (50cm res) sample photos that the public can gain access to, consider how close they can actually get for military application.
http://www.geoeye.com/gallery#!/album/defense-solutions/exmo...

Papers on GeoEye's latest capabilities:
http://www.digitalglobe.com/sites/default/files/DG-8SPECTRAL...
http://www.digitalglobe.com/sites/default/files/MyDigitalGlo...

The 50cm res is (afaik) a commercial limitation; "Because of federal regulations, the publicly-available images are slightly lower resolution -- approximately 50 cm)"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526183858.ht...

--

"And what kind of intelligence do you think they have?" With the massive amount of data gathering combined with information from satellites (that we know about) like these, who knows...
I agree entirely. Also, instead of giving proper references to papers, the author takes the scumbag approach of being vague "in 2004, a review of 14 randomized trials for the Cochrane Database found that the supplemental vitamins A, C, E and beta carotene, and a mineral, selenium, taken to prevent intestinal cancers, actually increased mortality."

That, alone, should qualify this article as tripe.
"It is an international embarrassment when governments around the world are working to deregulate the Internet, and Singapore, one of the wealthiest nations per capita, is going in the opposite direction," the activist told AFP.

I am not sure which governments he speaks about. America? China? Russia? Middle-Eastern countries with their blasphemy laws?
No, in fact, that's not at all what I said. I said every human should be accorded the same rights and opportunities, which my government shamefully betrays every day.

If anything, the worst crime of which history will accuse America is of taking excellent stated ideals and subverting them for the purpose of oppression - thus discrediting the original excellent ideals.
How our company complies with secret governmental requests
“Fourth Amendment Restoration Act,”

Congrats to Paul for titling a bill with the name of what it actually does, instead of these "Orphan and sick elderly relief act"s that end up doing 73 other things completely unrelated to orphans or the elderly.

Also congrats for such a small bill.

Both of these factors together lead me to believe that this is just grandstanding, and the bill has no chance of succeeding. But still, here's hoping other Congresspeople follow his lead and start making all bills like this: single issue, clear, readable legislation that the public can openly and clearly debate.
Why? Because making jokes about serious things is wrong? Of course not. They're the best jokes.
"First of all, the author sells a book about vitamins being bad, so he's probably not being objective about it."

That's a cynical glass-half empty perspective. The other way to look at it is that he might be an expert...

For example, assuming this is the same Paul Offit...you could claim that his book on the importance of vaccination makes him non objective, which would be a silly claim given that he's widely considered a leading expert in the field of vaccination.

Edit:

I'm going to get a little more personal because, for some reason, your opening line really bothered me.

You're dismissing someone's opinion, in a field for which he holds an M.D., where he spent 25 years of his life building a vaccine against a disease which kills 600 000 children a year . You've been barely alive for that period of time and you've studied computer science....the guy's an expert. Doesn't make him right...but there's no reason to disrespect him by assigning him false motives.
Questions for people with nothing to hide:

1. Have you ever had an abortion?

2. Have you ever cheated on your husband / wife?

3. Are you currently looking for a new job?

4. Have you ever being diagnosed with a mental illness?

5. Are you currently on anti-depressants?

6. Were you ever sexually abused as a child?

7. Have you ever fancied someone of the same sex?

8. Have you ever had sex with someone of the same sex?

9. Have you ever criticised your current employer or boss to anyone else?

10. Do you love all of your children equally?

11. Have you ever fantasized about...

12. Are you planning to get pregnant in the next two years?

13. Have you ever lied on a cv/resume?

14. Are you mean to your wife / husband on a regular or semi-regular basis?

15. Do you have trouble acquiring or maintaining an erection?

16. Are you one of those women who’ve never had an orgasm?

17. What prescription drugs are you currently taking?

18. Have you ever cut yourself?

19. Have you ever attempted suicide?

20. Have you contemplated suicide in the past 2 weeks?

21. Would you be happy with your answers to these questions being made public? Or being read by your employer, local 23 year old policeman, or nosey neighbour?

I could go on and on. None of the actions mentioned in these questions are illegal, but for many/most people, the answers would be intensely private.
Why are you afraid of cookies? The cookie monster, maybe. But cookies, no!

I use Firefox. In Firefox it's easy to "clear history when Firefox closes". That includes cookies.

So all you do to be as close to anonymous as possible is:
1) set FF to clear cookies on close (this is my default)
2) close FF
3) open FF, go to nytimes.com
4) when done reading, close FF

That's it. All my cookies get deleted before and after I use the web site. I fail to see any harm in allowing the Times to set as many cookies as they want to for the duration of my browsing session with them. I even allow third party cookies. I don't care, they're all gone as soon as I exit my browser. BTW to combat sleazier sites I also use the Better Privacy addon. That can easily be set to clear out Flash cookies every time the browser exits.

One other thing. Use NoScript. Don't whitelist NY Times. Then you will never be bothered in the slightest by their paywall; it relies on JS.
Global Entry/PreCheck/Clear are pretty benign. The only information Global Entry requires that the government won't already have from tax records, DMV records, border records, etc for most citizens are fingerprints. I don't see it as much different than a drivers license/passport requiring a picture (for most people that's going to be the only way the government gets a picture of them on file).
Wouldn't that just serve the terrorists?
I'll also add that democracy does not imply elections.

Actually, in Athenian democracy, decision makers were elected through sortition [1] (drawing of lots).
They considered elections to be the very mark of an oligarchic system, which is what (in my opinion) most so-called "modern democracies" have become. (As illustrated by the importance of parties and of a class of professional decision makers, namely politicians, who have incentives to increase their own power and limit the number of people who reach their status. Usually this is done by rigging the electoral system.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Suggestion for the submitter, since I saw you're also the author of the library. When you create something, submit it as a "show hn" instead of a normal submit and link directly to the project instead of reddit. It will likely get more comments and upvotes.

Though if it doesn't get overly noticed, don't get discouraged. It's not exactly the most optimal time to be submitting something, given what has been on the front page the past day or two.
DRAKON-Erlang: Visual Functional Programming [pdf]
I'm just adding to the body of facts here. There's an almost identical article by him in the Guardian linked below which contains a plug to his book. It feels a lot like a marketing campaign for his book which will be released next week.

Edit: what do any personal facts matter here? Could you please stay on-topic and not make this about me vs him, but more about the content of his article? On top of the logical fallacies[1][2] you're committing, I feel really creeped out that you're posting personal details about me.

[1]: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

[2]: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority
Eat food. Not too much.
He manipulated witnesses with lies calculated to cause anger, mistrust, and antipathy towards the defendant. His actions were unbecoming of an officer of the court.
How on earth are they going to enforce this.
The most notorious thing about this is that money could be 'sponsored' (read: discount).

Also, what's the Foreign Application Data? It talks about a "Feb 26, 2008	GB", does it mean it was previously filed at that date in Great Britain?
PRISM - Houston wir haben ein Problem
Don't you think that it's because readily visible things are easier to accept and tolerate?

No, I don't. I think it's because significant differences we can easily see have already been exterminated. Zero privacy does not bode well for the continued existence of differences.