skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is EFF an international organization? Do they fight for the rights of everybody or are they mostly US-centered? On their about page they mention going up against the US government and large corporations but I see nothing about any international effort. I suppose this could be because of how much of the internet live in the US, so I was wondering if anyone could shed any more light on this.
Anonymous releases NSA documents
Yes, the project page is very lacking in technical details :/
Cool! Added a link to the Create.js README: https://github.com/bergie/create/commit/24fb0c02d68f9deecf32...
It isn't just hard or inconvenient it is impossible (to do losslessly without human intervention). I take data loss very seriously and I also take privacy issues seriously so even if it was easy and convenient to implement a state of the art solution it still wouldn't be a no-brainer.
Ironically the unredacted release of the diplomatic cables was caused by the Guardian journalist David Leigh, when he published the password as a chapter heading for his book about Wikileaks.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/09/unredacted_us_...

http://www.amazon.com/WikiLeaks-Inside-Julian-Assanges-Secre...
I use a slight variation to this: https://github.com/magnetikonline/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitc... more formatting/color that anything.

As noted below, tig is well worth the install for getting around your logs/diffs on the command line.
The Swedish HN should also be mentioned: http://hackernytt.se
Poll: The importance of schooling in Software Engineering
So, I was just wondering what people thoughts were regarding the importance of university/schooling in general were in regards to SE jobs.

Votes.io: http://votes.io/q3hr
I agree that he probably doesn't want to. That Obama is somehow progressive was a fantasy people clung to because of the trauma of Bush, but Obama didn't even campaign on a progressive platform - at best he fit in the centre, but on many things he is right wing even by the standards of pre 9/11 US politics at least (by European standards he's still far right, as pretty much every US president, - many of his policies would be hard to defend even for most European conservative parties)

He just looked like a progressive choice against the backdrop of Bush and Cheney and McCain tied to the horror of possibly having Palin represent the lunatic fringe.

BUT, even if he did want to, if he tried to stand firm, everything else would grind to a halt. He'd burn all political capital he's got.
Hasn't this NSA stuff been pretty much public knowledge for years? Why are people acting like they've been had all of a sudden?
> I'm thinking mostly about Gmail.

I think YouTube too, saw a mention of it in one of the articles linked from HN. Which I guess makes sense from their point of view, there was this case about 3 months ago of two Russian spies caught in Germany who had "taken orders" by way of YouTube comments (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732453200457836...).

And then of course there's all the "jihadist" YT videos (Arabic Nasheeds and all that) with lots of comments that may hold "useful" data, like IP addresses of those commenting. Of course I've long time ago created a YT playlist with a couple of these nasheeds (even though I don't understand a word some of them do sound really nice), which I hope to counter-act in NSA's eyes by my loyal membership to /r/murica and limitless fanboyism for the works of Thomas Paine.
https://www.eff.org/issues/eff-europe
I was wondering what people thoughts were on the importance of university/schooling in general are on SE roles.
The Pain of Broken Subprocess Management on JDK
And then... they can't prevent attacks such as the Boston bombings. They gather data but where is the intelligence?
How about cars? Cars kill many-a-WTC every year. Where is the War on Careless Driving?
>> I'm smarter than all my peers at work.

No, you're just conceited than your other peers and this is your biggest problem. It's not the job, it's you. Wherever you go if you have this attitude you will always feel like crap and things will just fall apart again. You know, "technical debt, missed deadlines, unmet expectations..." and so on.

>> But here's the thing - I don't expect it to be better anywhere else.

How would know? You never tried it.

From what I see, you have an attitude problem and you have to fix that first. Joining a start-up won't make you feel alive if you can't change your attitude.
I did grow up in West Germany during the 80ies, and at that time I was told that we were on the right side of the wall, because our government does not kill people, does not torture people and does not spy on its own population. Sometimes I wonder who won the cold war.
What he is saying is, if you get a job offer with a salary above the market rate in Sweden then you almost automatically get a visa otherwise you won't have a chance.
Yes salary is the most important part of getting a work visa in Sweden.
Perhaps he is not a web oriented professional, or he does not give a shit about the rest of the world and ignores everything outside the anglobubble.
This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen come out of a search engine. The potential is awesome.
Raspberry Pi is not really Open hardware... but close enough.
Kinda reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOTpIVxji8
$2B build + $2B in hardware

Meanwhile entire families are on the streets and there is rampant unemployment. I thought the government was supposed to be for the people, not against them.
NY Senate Passes Bill Making the Harassment of a Police Officer a Crime
I would prefer not to write software for Android or Windows because I don't want to support Google or Microsoft if I can help it[1]. Google is too powerful and has too much data and I really don't trust them. Microsoft while reasonably well behaved recently (maybe because they have lacked the power not to be) have a long history of dubious practices and unfairly squashing competition.

Linux, Blackberry, Firefox OS, I would be happy developing for if they had worthwhile market share.

[1] Note that this isn't an absolute and if the market conditions dictated it I would swallow this preference and live work with them but while there is a choice I would prefer not to. If I had a mega-hit on iOS I may port it to cash in, while I put non-zero dollar value on avoiding Google/MS it isn't unlimited either.
there is a non NSA related story When Aaron Swartz killed himlself -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwmma/8377269212/sizes/o
And the death of Steve Jobs -> http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/20111005.html
Not yet but come back in 20 years...
Such a system would obviously be a huge privacy problem, as it would provide movement profiles of every car using a highway. So, not the best alternative spending compared to phone surveillance.
Exactly. IANAL but as far as I know there are no quotas or educational requirements. Just as long you get a fair salary (which has to be approved by a trade union) then you're good to go. Edit: why the down vote? I am honestly curious what I did wrong.
Anyway, Yandex is the Russian Google. Like Seznam in Czech Republic. And Naver in South Korea.
A first grader could dream up a better way to do this
While most thing are getting better with Android in general and the Play store specifically. The latest change to the Play store app not only sucks but it is beyond apprehension they ever released it like this.

The first page you used to see was a nice spotlight page. While more often than not it didn't displayed anything of interest to me I did buy some apps advertised on this page (It is still there but not as the landing page).

Enter the new recommended system. I think the only thing they do is to look at what you installed at one point in time on your device and randomly show apps that other people installed. This is completely useless and utterly lazy implementation of a recommendation system.

as an example: Out of curiosity I installed a launcher called Dodol. I played with it for 5 minutes, removed it from my device, removed it from the "My apps" section. I did this weeks ago and my recommendation page is still littered with Dolo themes, even after explicitly telling Google Play that I am not interested I still get the same recommendations.

I get recommendations for apps actually installed on my device because it is popular with people that are using application X, and application X is something I removed from my device and from the "My app" list!

A first grader could dream up a better way to do this. I'm really amazed that Google is willing to release something so unbelievable sup par.

In the end it is bad for the developers and Google, because I'm not discovering any new apps.

Just a small frustration :)
HMMMM.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=perl%2C+python%2C+ruby%2C+...
> Edit: I mean, even if it were useful, is is acceptable? Probably not.

Which would be a quite interesting level of emotional hypocrisy, given that we tolerate far greater damage to far larger number of individuals on a regular basis in the name of security.

Consider the number of civilian dead from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, for example.
I think you have a lot of choices, so it comes down to personal preferences.

Basically this tool will only work against a local set of Maildirs, so your job is to get the mail from the remote host onto your local system in Maildir form.

Off the top of my head that means one of:

* imapsync

* fetchmail

* offlineimap
Incase you're interested, I merged up a couple of scripts into a project, that helps me to automatically setup my development environment in Ubuntu.

Link: https://github.com/kirang89/charizard
This isn't even about new search terms. Consider:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=food#q=porn&cmpt=q

(Also, who the hell would need to google for RSS?)
How we explained our 2-day outage to our non-technical users
A few thoughts on the game theory involved here:

So in the past Google distinguished itself by optimizing for their users to spend as little time as possible on their website -- as opposed to all the big portals of the time trying to keep you within their sandbox.

This trait made them a lasting household name out of the many competitors of the time. Now they are increasingly trying to go the other way and keep you in their goggly sandbox as much as possible. Yandex is taking this new approach even farther.
Up and coming websites are compelled to create such wizards and whatever microformats the leading sources of search engine traffic ask of them - this is rewarded by totally standing out in the search results and doing an endrun around established players who would normally get clicked through to.

However.. its easy to extrapolate what will happen. The most useful and profitable of these integrations over time will emerge, as the search engines have all of the data to make that analysis. Then they get simply swapped out for their googly/yandaxy/bing offering.. the users are none the wiser, they have been accustomed to this interface and don't really care if its some website or google providing the wizard.
The portal approach wins, the web returns to the dark ages. A new nimble search engine emerges optimized towards sending their users on and away from their property as quickly as possible..

/Here endeth this though exercise. I hope I've made my point.
Should You Move Away From Heroku To Protect Your Users?
Heroku provides an SSL add-on for encrypting traffic between browsers and the Heroku network. However, SSL is terminated at the Heroku routing layer. Traffic is then passed unecrypted through the network to your application. That network is AWS.
I expected this thread to have been hijacked by complaints of a video of exclusively white men and "No man is an island" in massive letters.

Anyway, this looks pretty interesting but the main takeaway from this for me is how disadvantaged non-English media are, i.e. I found it very difficult to pay attention to the subtitles for very long, eventually losing interest completely. At least when they're in English I can tab over and passively listen while I get on with whatever I'm doing. I'm sure Yandex doesn't care as presumably all of their customers are Russian, but it raises the issue that these kinds of videos are indulgent at the best of times, and the information conveyed per time is very poor, the main reason I find conference talks hard going too.
Oh god, that sounds heavenly. I wish they would release some documentation or video of what's inside their data centers. Too bad that would be a national security issue :\
Android malware that exploits OS to prevent removal
Yes but the current implementation of DBSCAN in sklearn is not very scalable. I think some contributors want to fix this but I am not sure what the current status is.
What I want is filenames in the git log, just a list of which files were touched in each commit. My messages aren't distinct enough without them.
But at least they can say they are doing something. What they care about is saying that they care.

It's like the satirical 2008 SwiftKids for Truth ad allegedly in support of Guiliani's Presidential Campaign:

"It's time someone stood up and said 9/11... a lot"
I don't live in Germany or the USA :-) and having access to affordable stable power is quite an important thing in having a nice society to live in.

As your so keen on improving the lot of "labor" you are of course a union member and actively recruit and improve workers living conditions?

I got over 1000 of my members a better deal on their pensions and helped in gaining recognition for a bargaining unit in the UK.
Wow. I wonder how strong is his bow. I use long 32lb (more would require metallic frame instead of wooden) and I do not thing I could do this with my bow. Short bows mongolians used would probably allow this.
https://www.facebook.com/help/408583372511972&#x2F;
Yes, or at least the basename of the file that changed most. I think you can't include filenames using --pretty though, you'd have to write a new script.
The quote in the article was "The government seems to have a list of all the people that Verizon customers called and who called them; how long they spoke; and, perhaps -- depending on how precise the cell-phone-tower information in the metadata is, where they were on a given day."
I figured -- and I also figured why that was. They probably plan on storing a copy of most of it there... :/
I'm glad Zoho is getting some love on HN. The article makes a lot of great points.

Unfortunately I'm going to be a wet blanket: I've signed up on Zoho a bunch of times over the years but never stayed because of the Zoho design, or lack thereof. The text is too small, the fonts and icons are ugly or amateurish looking, and its not mobile friendly.

Look, I want you guys to win. I can't stand Salesforce. I'd rather use Zoho products than Google products, but please give some attention to your UX/UI.

Thanks for listening!
Kévin Ottens will give KDE Akademy 2013 Community Keynote talk
A little generalisation of her reasoning may lead to a conclusion that we should collect data on everyone since birth in case he becomes a criminal. It's scary.
It's absolutely lovely to see the project begin to achieve it's goals in this way.

I remember implementing Conway's game of life with individual pixels back in the 1980's (I was 8-9) fullscreen (768x576 iirc been a long time) in speccy basic, it was horribly slow so slow in fact that it encouraged me to drag myself off to the library for a book on assembly programming (the next version required I put in a delay to slow it down).

It's lovely to see the next generation going down the same path (and I envy them learning Python as a first language).
I'm part of something really different in the search space that's about to launch. If you want a sneak preview, my email is in my profile.

Edit: That's an open invitation
It would be highly ironic if they encrypt data there.
1. I never claimed to be a part of any revolution. I'm not.

2. This is a burner account and I'm logged in via tor.
Assuming these instances are launched in your account (frightening liability there, but I digress), how are you getting past Amazon's default 20 instance limit? I know they'll increase the limit, but it's case by case.
Federated Identity in Commerce – a new EU initiative
I prefer my own alias over that, less clutter:

glg='git log --pretty=format:'\''%Cred%h%Creset%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset'\'' --abbrev-commit --date=relative'
Ask an Al-Jazeera reporter what its like getting into the US. I don't read Al-Jazeera stuff very often, but I've never found anything that didn't seem to be good quality reporting. Yet their reporters are held for hours at the US border and questioned at greater length than actual terror suspects who've gone on to bomb stuff. It's bad.
I hope it has a severe effect on American businesses in Europe and elsewhere.

At the very least this is what I'm expecting from this scandal, if Americans aren't going to push their government enough to change.

Hopefully this will increase and accelerate Europe's adoption of open source, and getting them to prefer local companies over American ones for cloud services. Who knows, this may actually be good for Americans, too, because if nothing changes in US, at least they'd probably have more secure and private alternative services to choose from, in Europe. Although that part about NSA collecting data at the ISP level doesn't seem very encouraging.
No point buying one then.
SublimeText, iTerm, and Chrome Setup
It's not just about the internet. Most other western countries blindly copy most US laws - whether they be good or bad. There's a vested interest for us all to support the EFF.
How to Leak to the Press
But what is the point of your thought experiment? What I infer is that you don't support torture because it is not effective. You agree that it is bad, but that is not relevant to whether it should be used. What I infer is that you are an advocate of a crude form of utilitarianism. Some other morally bad activity that is actually effective in saving more lives than it destroys is something you can get behind.

This type of reasoning is used in all sorts of military actions, like drone strikes.

Armong the many problems with it: in practice it never works out that even a simple calculation of whatever action saves net lives should be pursued. Instead, policy makers operate with wildly different valuations of individual lives. Roughly, the ration of the value of one american life to one foreign national of a Muslim persuasion seems to be about 100:1. This leads to very steep slippery slopes and resulting atrocities.

That's just one problem with your views, which are thoughtless and crude.
"money, perks, freedom, respect"

Err... CEOs/CTOs/CFOs have that. You should add "reasonably minimal competitive" in front of each word when talking about web devs at an average company.
Because of a thing called the discount rate. For future or uncertain outcomes, one rationally discounts the amount they are willing to pay right now, with 100% certainty, against the future and/or uncertain outcome.

There's a possibility (IMO, a certainty) that torture isn't 100% effective, and there's some number greater than 100 of deaths that I'd need to avoid a year from now to torture 100 people today. (some of those 100 might die anyway before the terror event; we might thwart the terror event via some other means; the terror threat may itself disappear [death of those terrorists or other means])

It's just another case of "pay me $1MM today and I promise to pay you back exactly $1MM in 20 years"...
Came here to post the same thing. Leave it to a politician to protest something after its out in the open, after the public is already outraged.
Typically those sorts of things are required for compliance purposes.

Stockbrokers (broker-dealers) are required by the SEC to record all text-based electronic communications, keep 7 years worth of backup on write-once, read-many media (e.g. DVD), and upload copies to a third party (to prevent "sorry, sir, the dog ate all the emails where the traders were talking about rigging LIBOR"-style excuses).

I assume there's something similar for US-listed companies, thanks to Enron.
Airbus reveals iPhone-enabled 'smart bag' with RFID, GPS tracking
When The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly
It's doubtful that he will be prosecuted. What's much more likely is that his source will be the target of a hunt and subsequently prosecuted as have other leakers recently
> you have daily interactions with technology that is 10 years ahead of anything on the outside

Could you talk/link about what that means, exactly? In what ways, which areas? How do you compare these things? Thanks!
After a bit of Google-ing it seems as if only their profile/timeline will be memoralised and that any pages they've created will simply have no admin.
Great job, even more for a weekend project!
Will definitely try it tonight!
This is a very well known problem, but one that no politician on this planet seems to understand.

Of course, as others have pointed out, the problem is not the likelihood of getting a bad guy. The problem is that the means are unacceptable, no matter the goal.
Which can be considered to require them to deny it. "We can't talk about that" confirms it.
> It's like we're all stuck in the same paradigm - the same way of thinking.

I would like a search engine that brings back some of the serendipity to searching. A search engine that doesn't help you find a specific piece of information, but that helps you explore the domain by getting you to places where information is shared.

I remember when you could search for something, and the hits would be relevant and free of SEO. There'd be some results from .edu tlds, and some autodidact would have a nice page crammed full of information, and useful links.
"Literally watch ideas form" would be some amazing brain scan tech. Since the context was Google searches, we can discount the literalness.
Remote Shells with Inferno OS
You are conflating the chance of being singled out of by PRISM with the final outcome of the process involving its use, and the benefits vs. damage done.

He's not measuring, or even saying anything about, the latter.

The point he is making is that to get any benefits out of PRISM, no matter how you value those benefits, you'll need to do a massive amount of further investigation to be able to identify an actual terrorist (unless you were to take drastic action; e.g. imprisoning everyone that gets "reported" - but the high number of reports to bad guys also means that becomes "impossible")
oh the melodrama
I saw "Utah Datacenter" linking to a wikipedia domain and I thought Wikimedia had set up a new datacenter in Utah. Turns out I was wrong.
MBARI research shows where trash accumulates in the deep sea
Deep Sea Trash Revealed with ROVs: Debris Discovered 7000 Feet Below
Uh, the NSA's primary mission is to conduct data surveillance on foreign entities. The reason why PRISM exists is that much of this data flows through American companies' servers.
Using wp_cron to disable commenting on old posts
One of the little known, but incredibly useful functions of WordPress is wp_cron. It allows you to schedule tasks for execution at a later time, the tasks can also be repeatable. It’s not perfect and does have one serious problem, in that it is only executed while users are actually navigating the site. But on a popular site this won’t make a difference, but it’s still worth noting.
This is an incorrect question. Anti-terrorism is not the only thing the NSA is interested in.

Better question: How likely is the NSA PRISM program to provide intelligence useful to the NSA's mission?
Quickly is unscientific but very intuitive. It's determined by things like my energy levels, my finances, how well the launch is going, any new information I've received since launch - many factors. I can always go back and revisit the project later if I want.
I choose a middle approach - rather than making loads of new base commands, I just use the aliases, and only for the really common commands

> git co
> git st
> git ci