skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite as sunshine and rainbows as that. For one, I had to embed an interpreter runtime in the generated code to handle some dirty assembly tricks that programmers can do. Further, the Picture Processing Unit and Audio Processing Unit must be emulated. Even worse, there are some things that fool the disassembler that many games do. And finally, this project never even attempted to support mappers, which means that there are only about 8 or 9 notable games that this could even potentially support.

As is, it supports Super Mario Bros. 1 only.
That's an elegant response, I gotta say. But here's a post on your forums about the back button not working from _5 years_ ago: https://forums.zoho.com/topic/back-button

I chose Zoho for our team, and as we grow am fielding more and more complaints about these kinds of issues. What am I supposed to tell them?
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Steam competition? Good luck, you have a long hard road ahead
Personally, I don't get it. Just because something outrages you doesn't make it HN material. IMHO, the story is 90% politics. Sure, there may be some interesting HN bits, like the tech aspects of how the data was collected, but the morality and legality and the politics of the question are basically side issues that generally lead to intractable flame wars and whatnot and contribute to the redditization of HN.

Exhibit A, from yesterday:

"I hate to use this tone but, so be it. Maybe now you morons who continue to vote in the pieces of shit into our government who are bent on taking more and more power for themselves will wake up and figure it out? How much more proof do you need? Does this make you angry yet or is Obama still your diety? Oh, and Republicans don't get a pass either.

The point is that all of you morons voting like robots along party lines are destroying my country, from the inside, one fucking vote at a time."

This is the sort of tone that makes me want to leave this site for good. It's not that I'm not interested/concerned about this subject -- hell, hit me up for a beer and we can discuss politics all day long -- I just don't think that we need to discuss it here, in dozens of threads.
The leaking via gmail has an issue:

In many cases when creating a new gmail account, you have to provide a phone number for an automatic text verification code.
My guess is that you're less likely to read something if you judge it out of date by the post date. But I hate it.
...but I thought this technology is supposed to appear only hundreds of years from now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge
I'm surprised google didn't go public with all of this information. They have more legitimacy and support than the government at this point, and I think that if push came to shove, google would just refuse and call the NSA's bluff.
Think what McCarthy (the communist witch hunter, not the inventor of Lisp)

I like that this is a forum where you have to specify that.
"When you are done you must [...] turn off the Wi-Fi before turning off the computer and removing the battery. The dedicated computer should never be used on the network except when..."

This is silly on a "behind 7 proxies" level. Just go the library. If you're worried that investigators are going to swoop down CSI style to track you down because of your important secrets, maybe you should speak to a psychiatrist.
if Govt arm twisted these companies, then silicon valley is basically doomed, no more any sharing/communication/SAAS apps/ startup.
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We cannot. Ultimately, it boils down to the sheer audacity of the government and the fearful (and sometimes, falsely patriotic) apathy of our fellow citizens. We here on Hacker News are progessives who believe in liberty, freedom, choice, and equality for everyone.

Unfortunately, outside of our little bubble here online, the rest of the world is not the same. There are still millions of citizens, blissfully unaware, perhaps due to either ignorance or fear. Our job now is to educate these people and teach them that the government is an entity to be trusted no longer. No longer will elections entail cheering on corrupt candidates who break promises regardless of the political side they take. No longer will our citizens stand helpless as the entrenchment of totalitarianism continues perpetually. No longer will we be a slave to the whims and fancies of our government.

It's time the government worked for us. I think the bozos in command have all but forgotten that they are nothing but LOWLY SERVANTS, not saints who can deliver promises and change set upon a lie. We need to change that. Call your senator. Email your legislature. Tell them your utter dissatisfaction with this issue. Tell your relatives. If they say they don't care, follow them around everything they do and ask if they like that. If they don't, tell them this is what the government is secretly doing. If they still don't, repeat.

Tell your friends, your relatives, your brothers and sisters, to stand up to the oppressive government. Don't be hotheaded; now is not the time for mercurial emotion. Now is the time for reason. If your congresspeople cooperate, good. If they brush you off, say "fuck you" and hang up (I'm being blunt here), and vote for a third-party candidate the next time round.

We can make a difference. We will defeat the Empire, the evil, dark Empire founded by a father whose progeny has gone to the dark side.

Let's do this shit.
Just write with a thick generic pen using your non-dominant hand.
If you are on the Inteligence Committee and you leak stuff it is a very risky strategy as:

1) you will get thrown off the committee and someone more trusted by the agencies will replace you.

2) even after throwing you off the committee they may keep more secret information from the committee and justify it by the risk of the members leaking it as in this example.

You need to try to ensure leak is big enough to break the current system and INCREASE the oversight rather than further reduce it OR to have reached a point where you aren't actually doing any good on the committee in the first place.
In the end, isn't it more about where it's built than the product?

If the product is within reach of an unreasonable governing body, then it's in danger right?
Prettier with indentation: http://i.imgur.com/9olL8Ds.png

Source: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/dotfiles/blob/master/git/gitcon...
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So basically this is NOT for Web/Enterprise/CRUD/"Full-stack" developer positions.

Feel free to post freelancer/contractor positions as well.
There's something quite funny about putting these documents up on Google Docs.
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US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance
Use a letter stencil? One of those plastic stencils.
% colout -r x
usage: colout.py [-h] [-g] [-c] [-l SCALE] [-a] [-t] [-s]
REGEX [COLOR] [STYLE]
colout.py: error: unrecognized arguments: -r

:(
This is awesome. But I wonder what it must be like to be able to see, even with your eyes closed.

What I mean is, I imagine that it may be a bit overwhelming to a new user to suddenly be getting visual input. A simple solution would be adding a blink sensor to the glasses. When the wearer closes her eyes for longer than just a blink, shut off the video.

Seems like an intuitive UI, since the instinctive thing to do with too much visual input is the shut your eyes. Even if you're blind I imagine.
I know I'm being paranoid, but I feel uneasy using a privacy-aimed distribution for privacy. The whole obvious target thing.
>in the country where flag burning is constitutionally protected?

Which means precisely nothing. Laws are just an illusion of order that only exists if the enforcers make it so. Photographing cops is also protected, yet if you do it you might end up in the hospital with your camera broken, charged with assaulting a police officer.

People in the US mostly aren't afraid of their government. Maybe they never will be. But the US government does unspeakable things inside and outside the borders of the US. The majority aren't afraid because they aren't yet effected. Maybe the majority will never be effected or never know it.

One thing I would ask you; we know the government gets support from the press in the form of omissions. Is it completely impossible that someone inside the US has been "disappeared" without us knowing? How would we know if it wasn't reported? A lone family crying about a missing loved one can be ignored pretty easily if the media doesn't blow it up for all to see.
It's quite possible to be insincere without lying outright. If I'd meant to call you a liar then that is the word I would have used. I used the word disingenous because that is what I meant.

Please try not to be so hysterical.
I have voted for Udall multiple times now, I think he's a good guy and he's actually quite accessible. He also is part of the Udall political family/dynasty and knows how it's done. I trust him to do what's right upto the point that it costs him political capital needlessly. This story has almost been an open secret, it's kind of surprising that it didn't have legs until now. Now we will get to see if Udall stands up to the plate, I'm expecting an open congressional review
This probably isn't the exact screenshot you saw, but I took a similar one: https://twitter.com/alecbrooks/status/290255929079898112/pho....
I think that if this Senator had publicly and openly leaked the documents, he'd be very difficult to prosecute(no jury would convict him), and arresting a US senator would be so much of an overreach by the NSA that it couldn't survive.

It's just a pity nobody on the intelligence committee has the backbone ti stand up for their constituents.
>> "He said reports about Prism contained "numerous inaccuracies". While admitting the government collected communications from internet firms, he said the policy only targets "non-US persons"."

Wow. This might make some Americans feel better about what's going on but it's going to make people less and less likely to trust American companies. It seems like the reasoning here is "we can't violate the privacy or Americans but fortunately our laws don't apply in other countries so it's fine to violate the privacy of non-US citizens."
I hear the argument, but I'm just worried about this: what happens in the future if a future politician can change the definition of "terrorist" to include "hacker" or "dissident" or "activist"?
That should do it too, you can even make it yourself with a piece of cardboard and a sharp knife.
Government spying on my Facebook account is bothersome in regards to privacy limits of power but it is Facebook and anything I put there I should expect to be public at some point.

We need more public spying on the government....
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Oh, I had no idea it wasn't portable, sorry. I'm using iTerm2 on OSX, but maybe worth trying them without the colouring:

git log --graph --all --abbrev-commit --pretty=format:'%d%x20%h%x20%an%x20%s'
git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=format:'%h%x20%an%x20%s' master..HEAD
Nice hand-picked rebuttal. Can I play too?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=perl%2C+Java%2C+C%2B%2B%2C...

HMMMM indeed.
Or maybe, as I read in some newspaper, one of those to whom this story equals someone announcing that water is wet.

I'm guessing this is news now because it's been on the "regular people" news, because otherwise I fail to see what makes this one different from all the other ones from the latest years. But then again, I'm not a US citizen, so there's that too.
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Or, you could just use an emulator written by hand in javascript: http://fir.sh/projects/jsnes
Nope, just the politician's jobs.
It wouldn't be unprecedented for him to be held in contempt for refusing to reveal a source, but the article doesn't make clear that it is not illegal for a journalist to leak classified information as long as they're not the one who holds the clearance. It is very illegal for someone who holds a clearance to provide that information to a reporter, but if you happen to stumble across it without breaking the law, you can publish it.

Mark Klein, the AT&T engineer who found the NSA wiretaps in the AT&T colo was never prosecuted for this reason. He was just doing his job, sans clearance, and stumbled into the blueprints.
I would apologize to your team, and I would circulate this thread internally first. Second, I would review why we got this wrong. We went through a major redesign in CRM after that forum post, and the user experience got much better (our CRM sales jumped as a result). I acknowledge we still have work to do, and we will take your criticism to heart.
I'm curious if my friends, family, and co-workers that rolled their eyes at me or laughed at me when I explained why I deleted my facebook account years ago even remember the conversation, or what their response was, when they read the latest revelations about the government having access to their databases.
Oh, man! I know that folder! I don't have one, but 20. I've switched from bookmarks to actually writing it down on a piece of physical paper. And not just the url. I write down a small explanation for my future self. I haven't been bored in months :D
Why I think Tripid - a ride sharing service - will work here in the Philippines
NSA secretly monitoring user activity directly from major tech companies
HN is what reddit was 4-5 years ago. Full of technologists and also people who are outside the political mainstream (libertarian leaning). Also older.

Reddit is the body politic of the future. Lots of 19 year olds who assumed the NSA could see everything and don't have much in the way of privacy expectations.
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You are allowed to contest it and Google did contest it.

This is true since, at least, 2006.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3511
Write in foreign language you do not master well. All your errors are then "childish" and untraceable.
I get the same. Might be related to the fact that I use Ghostery to block absolutely everything. I was starting to feel too paranoid about that, but now I think it's totally justified.
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GMail? Dropbox (eventually)?
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Google: people won't 'collapse in terror' when someone uses Glass in a bathroom
Why would any foreign company or government do business with a US company any more. All your secret belong to US.
Of course. Just surprised that EU politicians don't take the chance to gain some popularity by screaming that they're angry at the US.
Sorry, but you cannot and should not fight. The asymmetry in power is too great. The last thing you want to do is find yourself labelled as a "troublemaker" or (worse) as an "enemy". The state has an almost unlimited capacity to ruin the lives of those whom it targets. The best, safest thing for us all is to keep quiet, stay out of politics, and learn to think carefully about what we say or do before we say or do it. If you start to act aggressively, then you run the risk of putting yourself (and the entire community) in danger. I repeat again (for emphasis): Challenging the agencies is a sure-fire way to get yourself and those around you into a whole world of trouble. Do not do it. Do not even think about doing it:- just keep your head down and keep quiet - for all our sakes.
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They're great on desktop browsers that support them: I get the same widget everywhere, instead of having to deal with stupidly different ones.
> Yes. Security is fiction, the government cannot make you secure. All the government is doing is to make empty promises and spend your money on security theater and surveillance programs that make you less secure [...]

I really can't remember the last time I had to worry about pirates, smallpox, or a nazi invasion. The government cannot make me 100% secure, but they can certainly make me more secure than I would be on my own.

Don't get me wrong, what the NSA is doing is over the line in my opinion, but rhetoric saying that the government is incapable of any sort of security for it's citizens is a bit much.
Unlawful detention is exactly what habeas petitions are for. If they arraign you, you can't file one. If they hold you without charges, that's when they come in handy.
>and having access to affordable stable power is quite an important thing in having a nice society to live in

Not nearly as important as avoiding having a bunch of lunatic extremists as two-party systems seem to devolve to.

I find the European governments of many parties all having a say in the government the best and closest to actual representation. I find the idea that the entirety of opinion in the whole US, all 350 million citizens, can be resolved to either Red or Blue absolutely idiotic.

Of course that doesn't happen, the parties both span the whole political spectrum, including complete overlap. I.e. the party name can be meaningless. It also means you can't be sure where a politician stands by his party alone. Contrast this with a european government where you stand with your party or you switch party. It's much easier to work out where someone stands.

>you are of course a union member

I certainly would be in a union but firms have been really good at keeping unionization out of IT entirely. But even better would be a government who recognized the power imbalance between corporations and labor and took steps to make things better on their own.
I don't think the public is going to forget. The media seems to have started an all out war against the government ever since the AP/Reporter DOJ scandal - just my opinion. I don't think the media is going to let anyone forget this anytime soon, but we'll see.
As for what happens next for lying to congress... I assume nothing. Maybe Congress will do a 180, they're pretty good at reversing their positions when not doing so means losing votes and their job. I'm skeptical anyone will actually be punished for this. It's in the media's hands. The public has no power at this point.
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Exactly. Note that despite the plethora of articles, there is virtually no new content. The issue is an important one, both the breaking story and the details, but layers of political discourse on top of them don't strike me as particularly useful or what I used to consider "HN-worthy," nor do any of them seem likely to produce positive change (i.e. either a coordinated response to a large problem or an alternative system).

So at this point I am also considering leaving HN for good.
Fingerprints are left all over the place all the time, and it is probably not much more difficult to acquire eye scans.

And for such a system, the user would have to re-use his passwords at many different places again…
In Russia you have to provide passport in order to buy a sim card.
Prescient.

Will these NSA spy revelations hurt US internet companies? If I am German or Russian or Brazilian... do I really want to go out of my way to feed the U.S. intelligence beast?
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UN report: The link between State surveillance and freedom of expression
Deleting your Facebook account isn't a solution to this problem. Gmail may contain even more personal information. Dropbox contains your files and is essentially giving them access to documents you would have stored offline 10 years ago. The problem is that none of these services are safe anymore and we need specific legislation detailing what the government can and can't do with the information we have stored on them.

The bigger problem for me is that as my data is being stored in the US by US companies and my countries laws don't apply - and the safeguards provided by the US constitution also don't apply. The NSA/FBI can do whatever they want with my data and have said as much[1]:

"He said reports about Prism contained "numerous inaccuracies". While admitting the government collected communications from internet firms, he said the policy only targets "non-US persons"."

I think we might start to see companies having data centres in multiple countries and allowing you to store your data in the one you choose or the one that follows your countries laws. Otherwise there will be an exodus of users from US internet companies.

[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22809541
I like it and I am also Swedish. I will be moving back to Sweden in a number of years (Stockholm). I look forward to the meet the startup community :)
There is some research on this http://www.pagetable.com/docs/libcpu/26C3-libcpu.pdf

It's a very interesting topic. It may be our best chance at preserving software.
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You mean input[type=url] right? My internal CSS parser broke for a moment whilst I read that.
Unless you get into speedrunning games where accuracy matters a lot and some emulators are "banned" because they are lacking in it. Banned in this case of course only meaning that you will not get recognition from most of the communities for performing speedruns on such emulators.
This is one of the best technical articles I've seen in a long long time congratulations. I won't go and pretend I understand what is really going on but the writing style is excellent, to the point and the general flow and formatting are a pleasure.

Props dude.
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I'm sorry, I don't have a clue what you're trying to say. You initially seemed to say that a two party system makes for a stronger government and avoid extremism. The US proves the exact opposite.

Now what's this about a beam in my own eye? And now you seem to be bashing how bad the US government is, yet we would be in agreement on this. Color me confused.
This is no surprise to us libertarians.
Going back even further, there used to be a time when "Internet Citizens" were primarily weird geeks. Us weird geeks used to tell people "eventually, this will be everywhere, connecting everything and everyone" and in exchange, we received ridicule by "ordinary" people. Those weird geeks and their technology - They would sure like if everybody was on their tech mumbo jumbo thing.

Fast forward ten years and an increasing number of people vomit their entire life online, constantly.

First it was the iMac era, then the iPhone era, now the iPad era. With every era, a new demographic is being pushed into this new data reality and our calls from the beginnings go unheard.

The thing is - we would really like to say "told you so", but it seems overly cynical by now. Especially considering that it's not just our wildest dreams, but also our worst nightmares coming true at an exponential pace.

And even more than that - we really like people getting onto "our thing", so calling for caution now has a whiff of asking for exclusivity after our nice little in-crowd thing was blown out of proportion.
The concurrency crunch
Not yet. But numerous news articles suggest that the US Government has a sealed indictment all ready to go as soon as they can kidnap him.
.io domains down?
http://scotch.io
http://codemonkey.io
http://geocod.io

Are all down for me.

$ host filepicker.io
Host filepicker.io not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
First: as such you probably already do feed them

Second: that kind of thinking could be a nice way to "motivate" the creation of alternative products out side of the us of a.

Third: but how realistic are such endeavors in today's world?
It's really unfortunate that libcpu didn't take off. Last I checked, they got nowhere with no contributors, and now their site 503s. It was an interesting project.
US declassifies details of phone-records program after uproar over snooping