skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am X. Can I help you?
Now let us assume that the country X is saying that American Government is not good. They are stealing all the data of their citizens(I doubt that they are stealing our data also. Since our country name is X, our data is the most precious one). And they are breaching to the privacy of the citizens. So I will call for a war with America. Since X is the "world police" no one will question. We will catch Obama, and will kill him without any trial. All these are doing it for you, my dear American citizens. Maybe at last there is a possibility of finding that there is no threaten to your privacy. Then also no problem. We will be there for a few years and after that we will create a new government of your own. How is it?
>>This is the argument that if you flip a coin enough times, heads MUST come up

No, it's the argument that given enough time, it is certain that something as unlikely as a direct meteorite strike on Earth will happen. Low probability x infinite timeframe = %100 occurrence
Show HN: Flat $0.12/hr m1.small EC2, insert bitcoins to launch, coupon code "hn"
I think Glenn Greenwald is a damn good writer, I used to read his articles a lot when he was writing for Salon, he really read a lot, has an extensive knowledge of this area and knows how to use all these excerpts and quote extensively to prove his point. Think of a kind of The Daily Show segments but for written articles. As I'm actually busy myself in my work I must say I'm not able to read all his writings since he started working for The Guardian, but I am both happy and worry that this is him that brought this proof to the public knowledge. I hope the US Gov will have the decency to admit it was fair game and not try to retaliate, but I must say based on past outcomes I'm not optimist about that. And this article insisting in calling him a blogger, I don't know their motivations maybe to separate him from real journalists but it makes me sick, typical from NYT though.
And more likely to disclose it perhaps?

There are a lot of breaches that you will never hear about because they go undetected or undisclosed.
That is exactly what happens when you fight the powerful. You don't go to jail for fighting. You go in for something else that is entirely disconnected. It could even be a rape case (Yes, I'm talking about Assange)
Seems like it's similar to Google's Knowledge Graph. Very nice. Well done Yandex.
Video - DNI James Clapper Lies to Senate About Mass Surveillance
Hacker News Coverage of the NSA Stories (IMG)
Like 95% of these sites, a quick Click on the "stop loading button" disables the registration wall to bypass registration.
They can intercept your meta data (when, who, how long) you communicated without getting access to content.
Yeah there are plenty alternatives now like Cozy Cloud or Owncloud.

https://www.cozycloud.cc&#x2F;

http://owncloud.org&#x2F;
Free China IP proxy (Hourly update)
Perhaps they care too much about their employees' privacy to disclose information about them?
Learning, interrupted
Odesk (and others) are depressing; freelancers here (north EU) cannot even live of the money generally paid on them. So the friends who are working on there usually try to avoid the hourly paid projects and do 3-4 at a time to boost to $75/day which, with the considered risks and utilization of freelancers is kind of the minimum. Even for jobs without any/much bidders (vague things I'm good at like a Haskell, Erlang and Prolog) the price point is pulled down to a point where it's not worth it.

For Java (which I have 15 years fulltime experience with including backend and frontend frameworks)/C# and iOS/Android the freelance sites are infested with $5/hour workers from the east who will not finish anything, write crazy unreadable code and most of them also do 3+ jobs at the same time, making sure you get the lowest grade. Exceptions are there, but I have done outsourcing for many years and the 'start you off with a senior to get you in and then replace with a junior who cannot do anything' is more normal and the reason we stopped doing it all together.

I am trying to use danielstudds advice here as well, but find it hard. All promises of 'premium freelance' sites never worked (while my gut says it still should by the way; site with rigorous intake with a minimum level of acceptance (if you have no talent at all then go fix that elsewhere first), having a panel of experts in different development areas who interview and assess you every 3 months and set your level(s) and price goals).

And i'm a social animal but I unfortunately hang out most with coders who 'already made it' (and don't care about work and have no connections anymore of that kind) or academic researchers (I would go for a position like that the rest of my life, but my credentials aren't good enough to say that I want to sit on a mountain working on formal methods and programming languages) or artists.

Good luck to fellow searchers.
Medium is a very thoughtful startup
Site seems to be inaccessible due to the HN effect. Text version from Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:swedish...
Weimar Germany was not prosperous or what I would call an advanced democracy. It had five good years, but the 5 years on either side were a mess. I wouldn't say that can't happen here, but it's not a good comparison at all. The US is remarkably stable in historical terms,even when you include the Civil War.
Thinking Asynchronously
This seems like a terrible idea. I love it.
And the "Newest" page is being dominated by people complaining about the front page being dominated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837672

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837837

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837884

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837916

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837957

Now, I admit that the last of these is mine, but at least with that I'm showing the movements of the stories over the past few hours, and as a side-effect showing off someone's tool for viewing the movement of stories on HN. At least that different. Several of the others are screenshots showing pretty much exactly the same thing.
I really like this site, thanks for posting it.
That's my point though! Rolling out the wrong systems, bad algorithms etc etc could happen with any language.

If there was a memory corruption, or a security error or something, I could see it being attributable (in part) to the language. The knight thing seems more of a human cock-up.
Would you feel uncomfortable if a fat, ugly woman with an annoying nasal voice opened conversation at the beginning of a 30-floor elevator ride by asking you out for coffee?

"Can I get a coffee with you mister? You're so handsome."

"Er, no, sorry, I'm busy."

45 seconds of lift going up in embarrassed silence

I'm sure anyone can handle it, but it's definitely uncomfortable.

Now imagine if this happened every day, because if it's socially acceptable and you are handsome and working in a tall building, it probably will.
I hate the counter-terrorism card being played so often to get free pass with no consequence at all, usually not involving terrorism in retrospective.

Counter-terrorism is the new terror.
Didn't lousy healthcare kill more people in the US in the last decade (certainly, possibly even in a year) than 9/11 ever did? Do people swear to god that this must never happen again?

We're getting very far off-topic, but don't you remember the huge political battle over Obamacare?
I want in island. Literally.
One Week With GNOME 3 Classic
And only available in certain countries. Why? I'd like to give it a shot without hunting down a Turkish proxy.
What country are you in? If US, I think it takes less than 7 years to go from H1B to green card. I can't think of other high-tech immigrant destination countries where after 7 years one still does not have permanent residency.
The NSA isn't stupid. They know that screening for absurdly low incident things is an exercise in futility. I draw the same conclusion as you because of this: they don't care.

...well, not about terrorists anyway. If you are interested in flagging people that make up a much larger portion of the population then such systems are very practical. A P(flag|pot head)=.99 and P(flag|sober)=.01 would make for a distressingly effective system for example.
People at r/conspiracy are like "I told you so" :). Also free software supporters are feeling same thing I hope.
Will the US prosecute Greenwald for the leak? No way. If they do that, it will be harder to say anything about free speech or freedom of the press in this country, and that is not the American way.

What is, unfortunately, the American way, is to try to find something else to charge him with (see Assange for example), not only to silence him but also to discredit him. Do not be surprised if allegations of pedophilia or other crimes are made.

Many decades ago my mother's uncle (http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/caughlan_inter...) began to build his private legal practice on defending people from Smith Act prosecutions due to involvement with the Communist Party USA (ironically he never really considered profit much of a motivator for him, and he left a high powered law firm to defend the Community Party), distributing Marxist literature, and the like. Did the government come after him? Yes. With the Smith Act? No. They didn't want to come right out and say "we don't want these people to have good legal representation." Instead they came with a variety of unrelated, and eventually sent him to prison for a year. Unusually he was reinstated to the bar on his release (which is somewhat unusual). (Listening to the interviews with him, I hadn't known he was kicked out of the ACLU for defending civil liberties of Communists.)

The goal wasn't to throw him in prison but to take away his voice. It didn't work with John. He went on to fight, fight, and fight some more, eventually winning significant victories for political freedom in this country. With someone like Greenwald, though I don't know. It does seem to have been fairly effective at discrediting Assange.

I harp a lot on "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime" and certainly we are not at the same level the Stalinist USSR was, but I can tell you that it is something that has roots in the US as well.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

Gnu Privacy Guard/PGP and S/MIME both provide encrypted, end-to-end email. Or you could share the same mail server (infrastructure), or set up a VPN with your own DNS, smtp etc.

GPG and S/MIME does leave headers open -- but some form of traffic analysis would be possible even with "direct" SMTP.

One way of defeating traffic analysis is to combine GnuPG/PGP with mix-master remailers (onion routing for email, similar in principle to TOR). As with TOR, many (exit) nodes are probably operated (directly or indirectly) by intelligence agencies.
I guess it's either live on http://yandex.com or will be soon.
It's quite strange that list doesn't include iMessages (and BBMs!)
I'm in currently in Sweden and I get a 502 bad gateway... so I can't comment on the site, but out of curiosity, if this is targeted at the Swedish entrepreneur, why call it 'Swedish' anything rather than Svensk/Sverige which would be the first phrase typed in by a Swedish person on Google (one would assume)?

I know some people speak English in Sweden (you can even hear people modelling their accents on a British or American variety), but not everyone. I know that English is a requirement of Swedish universities but if the American way of doing things taught me anything, its a lot of very capable people don't go to university. It just seems to me like an unnecessary barrier, you might be missing out on input from the next Ingvar Kamprad.
+1 . People post generic news to get Karma and shine with their 100K+ Karma!
I like the idea. Yeah the name is a little easy to forget.
As I said above, I don't live in the US, so I can't claim to have a reasonable grip on the important discussion themes (I am slightly more informed on the actual problems on the agendas, but those play little part in the election game), but my two cents on this issue is that, after Bush's term, anyone fielded by the Republicans would have been a sure-loser. It also didn't help that, in a country whose social inequity wounds are opening again, the Republican fielded an annoying dick like Romney.

On the other hand, I can't suspect people like Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin of being smart enough (or of not being blinded by their sheer arrogance) of being able to dodge a puppet role. In fact, if I were an evil overlord and had to choose a set of figureheads to deploy as autonomous, but ultimately manipulable characters for my puppetmaster role, I'd choose people like them.

It's scary that folks also seem to vote for people like them, though.
More likely: He, and everyone else involved in this, know that it doesn't matter if everyone knows the answer is a lie - the likelihood of any negative consequences is pretty much zero. First, the odds that anyone will be able to provide sufficient proof to cause any problems is minimal, secondly, if they are: State secrets privilege. Poof goes that problem.

The only real challenge would be a massive public uproar suitably close to an election that someone needs to be sacrificed, and how likely is that really? It's not a surprise that this is happening; the only surprise is that anything resembling proof has leaked. What are the odds that this will suddenly tip the balance and cause sufficient lasting outrage?
So what if it is assisted by China? What you imply is that You would rather be fed news and information from just one side of the coin?

I would rather receive my news from multiple sources (who'll have multiple agendas), plus the raw data, and draw my own conclusions.
I'm having trouble understanding how this is different than Google Search/Images/Maps/Places/News/Etc.
If you are trying to send a message, it is best that you are sure the recipients understand it. You cannot be too subtle or you will risk not being understood.
Well ... lets see how this affects you a typical HN:

1. If you want to start business in US
2. If you have dealings with US businesses
3. If you feel strongly about web freedom
4. If you want to use US based IaaS and SaaS

A lot of people on HN are from outside US - it is even more important for us because our data have even less protection than the ephimerial one US citizens have.

For HN companies to success they need open and free internet. So this is important.
Huge volumes of money, a perception of it being gambling and playing with numbers rather than productive work, the possibility of screwing over basically the whole of society when it goes wrong, privileged positions for the entrenched traders (people that outsmart the algo-traders get arrested, massive costs to get the millisecond co-lo advantage on HFT etc), total divorce of algo/HFT from the idea of actual investment in companies based on what they do...

There are some reasons that people are suspicious of the entire world of finance. HFT and algorithmic trading really exemplify all of the issues some people have with the money markets in the first place.
Offtopic, but.. I have a great interest in Swedish startups, due to situation in my family.

http://karma-engineering.com/lab is what I'm capable of.

It is all about working visa, of course.
The thing and the whole of the thing: on DRM in HTML
NSA spying scandal fallout: Expect big impact in Europe and elsewhere
Cautionary tale for using LastPass
there are shims - the MDN one works well, or you can download this library to shim the whole of ES5
https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim
(other libraries are availble)

Focusing on modern browsers and shimming the old ones is the way to go, IMHO
I also came across this convoluted architecture, when I tried to see if anyone had implemented/extended OTR to email:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.29....

Somewhat amusingly, one of the authors worked for AT&T. Maybe he knew something about why you'd want an off the record channel for email ? ;-)
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OK, but what about the question I asked? I get that you would never voluntarily go to work for the NSA, CIA, or similar, but my question is whether you think organizations like that should be allowed to exist at all, not whether you would choose to work there.

I'm pointing out a practical limitation on what they can say arising of how such agencies function, you're talking about how they should feel about it on a personal level. I have no interest in how they feel about it as individuals.
I understand it's the content, not "merely" metadata, that's being siphoned. That's what I got from the WaPo article.
The Columbus example looks that way, but I think the big new item is that you're able to add your own forms to search results (as a site, not as a user).

http://interactive-answers.webmaster.yandex.com
Technorati Blog Verification Still Suckingly Slow
I'm having trouble understanding the home page - the language is a little too marketing speak for me. What exactly does this do that my other search engine X doesn't (concisely)?
ALPINA - LIFE IS VERTICAL
I don't know if this works at all, but someone else have been toying with the idea of otr+smtp:

https://github.com/glamrock/otr-smtp-bbq
> How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist?

Chechen Pressure Cooker Bombers: 1
NSA: 0
Basically you can, as an owner of a website, define a "wizard" that will be shown on the search engine results page which users can interact with - not just a dumb link to your website.

And the visual nicety too.
Saudi Arabia blocks Viber
Looking back at the Petagon Papers I found this quote:

"[t]he security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, an ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know." - Judge Judge Murray Gurfein declining to issue such an injunction against the publishing of the Pentagon Papers.
I think the idea that websites can change their search result, make it interactive even, is quite good.

But I'm not really able to come up with many examples where this actually improves the user experience. Searching for something like VLC and being presented with a download button (and maybe a language/platform selection) right away, that's neat.

But booking a flight in a search result? Seems too important/expensive for such little screen real estate.
The traditional monster use-case for screen is making your login session independent of the terminal connection. So you can do your work from home, detach your screen session, go to work, re-attach from work, and continue where you left off. If your terminal connection dies, you can just re-attach from a new connection.

It also offers other convenient session management functions like multiplexing of multiple shells (maintaining a separate screen image and scrollback for each), cut-and-paste, etc., but the above is the big one I think.
> Bullshit, 'the Stasi"? Go talk to somebody who lived in East Germany.

I grew up as a kid in Romania, we didn't have the Stasi but we did have the Securitate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitate), which were as bad if not worse. I would like to confirm that from half a Globe away what I'm reading about the NSA gives me the chills.
Contrary to what this article states, this type of story domination has happened several times before; the most memorable one for me was the night that Steve Jobs died. For a period of time, every single link on the first three pages was about him.
Me too. And I got it from here: http://alias.sh/compact-colorized-git-log

Which is almost the same as mentioned in this post.
Because till now they could scare the public with terrorism or CP. Right now it seems the american public has awaken and is refusing to be scared by the vague external threats.
HN is a social news website about computer hacking and startup companies
I do the same for various other git commands, such as git checkout ('gc').

The only problem is that this breaks git tabcomp. Haave you (or anyone else) dealt with this?
Amnesty also cited Wikileaks as a catalyst for the Arab Spring.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-internat...
Why you should reinvent the wheel
Your site is down so I can't comment on that.

Sweden has reasonably liberal laws when it comes to working visas. You need to get a job offer with a salary that isn't below the market rate in Sweden. If you can get that then your chances are very good. If you're interested to learn more about the Sweden's startup community I suggest come by the next Startup Pub at The Royal Institute of Technology: https://www.facebook.com/groups/426048174127676
what if instead of linking to functions (islands) via forms, they end up implementing those functions, themselves? search engines will end up being more app platforms..
1. How did this hit the top posts?
2. The website is very marketing and confusing.
3. What is Yandex, that is what I want to know the first few seconds when I view their website. It looks as if I am buying a no-man island somewhere.
I thought that's exactly what Yandes Islands are about. Are they just forms? That'd be boring.
I really liked the approach of Kartoo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoo . Unfortunately, due its infrastructure and flash front end it was not sufficiently fast to beat Goolge: but it often could narrow ambiguous queries faster. For example it was better when searching for compiler errors as you could visually select the applicable context.
Stuff like this helps. I have looked at this for my lists app (http://itunes.com/apps/fastlists - mostly for checklists and repeated use lists rather than todo lists) and may look again but there are still scenarios where you have to do one of the following:

1) throw user data away.

2) ask the user a question about how to resolve the conflict

3) save both copies and leave the user to figure out which one they actually want.

As a developer I'm not yet comfortable with any of these approaches for casual user scenarios although option 2 or 3 is probably right in many more serious/professional set ups. I've gone with email as my transfer mechanism which also allows sending to other users and to be used as a backup although I do keep looking at sync systems and solutions.

I found this a good write up of the potential complications even for a simple list app like mine.

http://blog.helftone.com/clear-in-the-icloud&#x2F;
Here are two variations that I find useful day-to-day.

1. Graph showing commits on all branches, decorated with branch and tag names, short commit hashes, committer name and commit comment:

git log --graph --all --abbrev-commit --pretty=format:'%C(red)%d%x20%C(yellow)%h%x20%C(green)%an%x20%Creset%s'

2. List commits in HEAD that aren't in master:

git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%x20%C(green)%an%x20%Creset%s' master..HEAD
I think a lot of people (myself included) are craving something different in the search space. From Altavista right up until now, search hasn't really changed much over the years. Refined and improved for sure, but not changed.

It's like we're all stuck in the same paradigm - the same way of thinking.

I'm excited about Yandex and it looks promising, but the landing page needs a copywriter badly.
Appropriate? Maybe. Productive? Not really.
You need to get a job offer with a salary that isn't below the market rate in Sweden. - That is exactly the thing I'm looking for.)

As for my site, it is hosted on Linode, so now and again connections are timed out.)
Do you think Ron Paul would have succumbed to the same thing?
Be careful with that kind of assumption. I've never seen this before, and found it very useful.
how can you not be aware of Yandex?