skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahem

Litvinenko was assassinated by Putin for working for MI6, and the assassination was very carefully planned to end up in London to send a very pointed message. He was tasked with "getting nuclear materials out of Russia". Well, he managed that all right...

The more you know.

Seriously: this is well known, look for Telegraph coverage, radiation on the plane ("in his tea" cover - yeah, nice one), Litvinenko's business network connections and so on. Is Putin a nice guy? Nope, but poisoning is his personal signature, and MI6 aren't exactly angels either.

I'm sure I'll pick up more "down votes" from the HN crowd, but hey: I thought you were all wise to info-bubbles?

p.s.

MI5 is the internal Security division for the UK;
MI6 is the external Security division for the UK

Helps if you know the difference, and for that matter - it helps if know that the FSB is also the domestic Security division, so wouldn't be contacting MI6 anyhow.

Top marks all around for generally bullshitting there.
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Could you suggest any resource for understanding this theorem? I have a math degree, but I never came across any Galois theory.
Petition to impeach Judge Roger Vinson for authorizing NSA Verizon surveillance
> This would be a mighty juicy target to focus your decryption efforts on!

In practice, either the Linode data was properly encrypted and keys properly managed, or it wasn't, rendering the encryption worthless. There's very little middle ground.

If you can break properly encrypted data, you have way bigger opportunities than carding.
for those who are not sure what @jiggy2011 means by PEG, it is basically an acronym for [parsing expression grammar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar).
There is little explanation of the true mathematics behind Euler's identity; the article presents an idea and then proceeds by discussing the various segments, in little detail, of the identity. No respect is given to why Euler's e and its importance, its significance, or why it came about. No detail was given regarding why Euler decided to raise e to the x or why the imaginary number, i, appears in the equation.

In actuality, this article has not provided any useful information, and especially not helped anyone truly 'understand the most beautiful equation in Mathematics'. However, if someone is looking for, in my opinion, a real explanation, I feel as though Kalid Azad's explanation of Euler's identity (http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...) is fairly thorough and insightful.
US confirms Verizon phone records collection
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." -- Nuremberg Principle IV

Those that perform traitorous deeds to prevent traitorous deeds are traitors to their nation and themselves. -- Me
I agree that they don't fit in well with the standard American left-right spectrum, and agree that they are closer to libertarian than liberal. But yes, I think they are perceived to be in similar position as the ACLU: somewhere to the left of the left. While in theory both of these organizations might be embraced by conservatives as protecting constitutional rights, in practice both are "liberal causes".

An odd citation, but appropriate considering I'm arguing about perception rather than reality: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a liberal and libertarian organization which promotes the protection of personal rights on the internet, particularly privacy and free speech. Category: Liberal Organizations"

http://www.conservapedia.com/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
>In the context of deductive, rather than inductive, argument.

The very context that you should never use, in other words, which was exactly my point! If you're going to require all evidence deductively imply a conclusion (i.e. have an infinite likelihood ratio), then you're excluding all real-world evidence, and making the very fallacy I described (which I didn't realize was claimed for something else).

So it seems you essentially agree with using the "appeal to authority" fallacy in exactly the way I warned against. And that you generally endorse (the genuine fallacy of) rejecting evidence simply because it doesn't guarantee a conclusion.

Whatever it is, that's not good debate, I'm afraid.
I'm not targeting users who are capable of hosting their own blog, let alone caring about whether it's open source or free.
There are still people who are astounded by the simple possibility of putting their own content on the web.
They're very big, not just a niche. Also reliability / support is not necessarily always so much worse than some higher price solutions.
Drafting your first deck? Read this first.
Looks nice. Despite the naysayers, I like your service better most blogging platforms. One thing that kills me about medium.com is that I don't have analytics. Does your service offer something like number of page views, time on page, bounce rate, etc?
Project Euler and NAND2Tetris are two good places to start.
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Of course. But it's a good starting point.
Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions
Nope - looks like it's back online, at least for me. I think the response is just timing out, perhaps a heavy traffic issue.
Slides from my session at IBM Innovate 2013: DevOps 101
Apple's low fragmentation advantage - 93% IOS 6 penetration
You can say that about any industry that turns a profit. Those philanthropic $MEMBERS_OF_MONEY_MAKING_INDUSTRY just wanted to make $THING_INDUSTRY_DOES better for everyone? Sure they did. Sure they did.

Making money is not a character flaw. Otherwise, many prominent members of this board would be horrible people.
The way you phrased it makes it sound as though, if you are a Windows user that experienced fraudulent charges, then the _only_ possible explanation is malware.

Your explanation is certainly possible, but it doesn't contradict the Linode explanation. You might say that the former is much more likely than the latter, but that doesn't rule linode out.
Your login buttons design doesnt seem to fit... this includes the blue and the sharp corner.
Great tips thanks
It's all a giant scam. All this technology requires huge IT contracts for some of the biggest corporations in the country.

It's all kind of a hilariously sad cycle:

1. Energy/resources corps "encourage" the US into war or political involvement/coups to protect their assets (i.e. oil rights in Iran, Iraq, etc. War involves much spending which goes to big contractors)

2. Meddling in the region provokes resentment from locals against US, breeding terrorism (more intelligence spending)

3. Terrorists strike back at US

4. US freaks out about terrorism, ups defense/security/intelligence spending which is outsourced to big contractors.
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It just "moves it around" to the point where the cost is so spread out as to be effectively zero. What's the average cost of a volunteer-run peer to peer file sharing network?
We are having a normative discussion, not an informative one. We can differ on what should be the case; this is not a discussion about what is the case. Clearly the courts side with you on this matter - the physical location of the data is given preeminence in legal debate over privacy.

And my normative claim is that this position is totally, completely, batshit insane.
you can only add your analytics account right now but the stats part is something i'll add later.
"A credit card would give me the ability to instantaneously take on $10,000 in debt. I don't want this." is a responsible and admirable position for someone to take.
No, it simply means know what you're talking about. If you disagree with someone, argue and debate, don't resort to (GP, come on) shitty debate tactics of someone with their back against the wall --- it happens here, on reddit, in real life. If you're adamant about your position and the other person can't formulate a coherent or relevant response then you should be prepared to be accused of "being madbro." or have "Ad hominem" or "Straw man!!!" shouted at you as the other person uses that to "win" and exit the conversation.
This is from last year. It shows that he was lying the whole time. Hopefully there are serious consequences for that.
This is such a glaring weakness of the iPhone's current mute function. I can't believe we need a hacky hardware dongle to provide it.

But given that we're at that place, this is about as good a solution as I've seen for those times when you can't turn your phone off but absolutely do not want it to make noise.
That's what you get when you trademark a verb.
TIL you can append subreddits to get a multi-subreddit.
You'd have to screen those candidates so carefully

I doubt that's even possible. How do you detect if a candidate is actually homosexual if they've been lying to themselves, their family and friends for decades? They're only homosexual activity might be the odd shame-filled masterbation session every few months, or the rare hook up. All it takes is one of those hook up people to blackmail the candidate.
How can you "feel" information vulnerability? That's kind of a ridiculous concept. Everything you type into your computer could literally be broadcast onto a massive LED screen in a public square on the other side of the planet and you would never "feel" a thing.
He was asked about the interception of the email content, but most of the information we have suggests that the NSA is receiving information about email and phone metadata.

Also the questions focus on what the NSA is intercepting, not what they are being given /demanding under a NSL.

Also it's unclear what processing by computers may be done of such material. If you have a computer doing threat assessment of all emails, but the NSA employees only get the assessment results, not the text, they could arguably state what they are saying.

Wrong questions. Someone should clue congress into the right questions.
Nobody has a singular device. Nobody. Even if they only own one piece of hardware right now, they are surrounded by other hardware they have access to. Why should their stuff be locked to one physical object when it's digital?

This isn't something you can pretend is for a minority anymore. It's like making a POP3 client and saying "IMAP is for power users".
so in other words, it causes drama, which will generate more user activity.
I didn't see any contact info in your profile, but if you email me at [my hn username]@gmail I may be able to help.
You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet
Your source of identity theft is elsewhere. CVVs were not stored in the database, and we provided shred logs. Do some research before you blame anyone but yourself. - HTP
The public key is used by the webserver to encrypt credit card data. If it was stored in the key bastion, it wouldn't be available to the webserver.
Agree on that. There is some overhead in making food and taking care of the camp but there is also another peace of mind that (we'll see if) could be good for your creativity.

But in either way, I feel very good on the inside now. No stress. Just harmony. Still getting a lot of things done.
You do realize that if you have the private key then generating the public key is trivial? As in you can run a single command with OpenSSL that does it?
This is insightful. Lack of information, lack of willpower (eg. laziness, addiction) and bad decision-making (for reasons such as cognitive biases, poor reasoning under uncertainty etc) can be reasons why actions may not be consistent with the real wants. I agree with your larger point.

Given this, as a business, one has a choice of focusing only on what you can get people to do (eg. cigarettes, farmville, tabloid journalism, in fact any business that exploits the above reasons) as opposed to focusing on what they truly want - even though we want people to act in a certainway. The first kind are the businesses which are generally considered "evil".

Your idea of wants differentiated from actions seems to be quite fruitful. I used to tell people "don't ask your customers, instead, observe their actions". Clearly, something more is required to make a non-evil business. Thanks for teaching me something new. :)
I agree! In the video Ron says he created out of necessity and frustration.
Power vs Influence - Choose one.
There are two forms or dimensions of leadership. One is power, the other, influence. Often we confuse the two. After all, those who have power often have influence, and those who have influence have a certain kind of power. In fact, however, the two are quite different, even opposites.

We can see this by a simple thought-experiment.

Imagine you have total power, and then you decide to share it with nine others. You now have one-tenth of the power with which you began. Imagine, by contrast, that you have a certain measure of influence, and now you share it with nine others. How much do you have left? Not less. In fact, more. Initially there was only one of you; now there are ten. Your influence has spread.

Power operates by division, influence by multiplication. With power, the more we share, the less we have. With influence, the more we share, the more we have.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “The influence we have lives after us; the power is oft interred with our bones.”

People still contend for power. If only we would realize how narrow its limits are. It is one thing to force people to behave in a certain way; quite another to teach them to see the world differently so that, of their own accord, they act in a new way.

The use of power diminishes others; the exercise of influence enlarges them.

-Excerpts from http://www.chiefrabbi.org/2013/06/03/covenant-conversation-korach-power-vs-influence/
Looks nice and clean :)
I've one question though, What would you do if the bloggers stop paying after sometime ?
I got this to build on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal:

libtoolize
aclocal
autoheader
automake --add-missing
autoconf
./configure
make

No performance numbers 'cause I did it on a slow machine though.
I can see this being unbelievably awesome for the creatives here. People who use FCP or have large PSD/AI Files, now have a portable drive that's just as good as an internal drive.
Me: Blue and Red are different colors. There is a branch of physics called optics that deals with it.

You: But what about Brown - is it blue or red? I guess you can't answer, therefore colors don't exist and are instead social constructs.
Schneier wrote about this here:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_ther...
I am wondering what the most serious consequence will be, resign or more serious?
Their blog just turns private if the membership is cancelled.
In public policy circles, it is understood that the reason that controversies even exist is always because the issue involves trade offs between competing important values. (Those issues that do not involve difficult tradeoffs are sooner or later resolved, and then forgotten because the solution is acceptable as the status quo.)

IMHO people are trying to hard too get what they "like", too often looking for a simple magic bullet, when they should be in a conversation with their elected officials about what tradeoffs are reasonable in light of our values. We should elect people who ask us to be uncomfortable at times, but for well-thought out reasons.

Our politicians are acting highly rationally, in the context of the incentives the voters offer. "Voting the bums out" is not going to change anything, until the voters opt to build a better kind of electorate. The first step is diagnosing the actual problem, rather simply believing that the problem is always Team Them.
Can someone explain to me how Snapchat photos are considered ephemeral? Anyone can capture data at the endpoint and persist it. E.g. I can take a screenshot of a photo sent to me, and it will be in my iPhoto archive forever. I can share it from there to my entire contact list.

What am I missing? Please educate me.
See the Diaspora project for how great/easy P2P social networking is. Getting P2P working on bandwidth and port limited smartphone connections sounds like a nightmare.
Honest question - what is it with these Apple fanatics not wanting to write any software ever for Android, Windows, Linux or anything not Apple? Is it just spite?
Yes, ours was used fraudulently the week before the breach was announced.
> One trap that people fall into is equating what people say they want with what they actually want - at least as expressed by what they are willing to pay for

Another trap people fall into is equating what people are willing to pay for something, with the amount of value that's actually able to be captured in the market for that item.

The finance industry, say, is able to capture a lot of the value they create (some might say more than they create). Some other industries, less so.
Not 10 GB/s, but about 1 GB/s (10 Gb/s) thumb drive. Although still almost twice as fast as fastest SATA3 SSD.

Some currently available USB 3.0 thumb drives are also pretty fast - up to 150 MB/s writes and 230 MB/s reads. And you can expect them to get even faster as USB 3.0 hardware matures.
Yes. Does the NSA routinely intercept American citizens’ emails?

No.

Does the NSA intercept Americans’ cell phone conversations?

No.

It's worth noting that "intercept" has a very specific meaning here, which the Congressman asking the question nor the reporter may not have realized.

From http://theweek.com/article/index/245228/the-fbi-collects-all...

A few definitions: to "collect" means to gather and store; to "analyze" means that a computer or human actually does something with the records; to "intercept" means that a computer or human actually listens to or records calls.

So it is possible that the NSA routinely collects telephone and/or email metadata and that the NSA does not routinely "intercept" citizen's email or cell-phone conversation (depending upon the meaning of "routinely" used), and that an answer of "No" to the latter is not a lie.

This article by the same author has more information on the program's specifics (http://theweek.com/article/index/245285/how-the-nsa-uses-you...), as his sources have told him:

The NSA would insist that it does not actually "spy" on you until it gets a further order, if at all. In most all circumstances, the FBI, not the NSA, would actually listen to your conversations if a FISA order was acquired. So merely "collecting" the data is like receiving a box full of records but not opening it until and unless they had a good reason to do so.

That metaphor is not terribly comforting, but it does appear to be the government's justification for insisting that they don't actually, actively "spy" on you. It is true: If they only compile these transactional records and don't do anything with them, and they faithfully honor this distinction, then the scale of the actual surveillance is not necessarily harmful, although it feels heavy. That's a big if. It depends on whether you believe the NSA follows the rules.
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The relationship between developer and project manager! Is the manager "controlling" the developer, or assisting the developer?
Basically, the answer of the question defines the culture of the company.
There's a place called "Stonehenge" that seems to be popular for short-time stays in the valley, but otherwise the housing situation is pretty tough right now.
Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles
A Grumpy Assessment to the Most Beautiful Equation (2011)
`Do robot's dream of electric sheep` by Philip K. Dick
Do not relate to the movie adaptation (Blade runner) as it is completely different.
The ending of it is brilliant, and when I had finished it I felt sad and wanted to read it all again :D
Here's a more-robust way to bootstrap:

autoreconf -I
./configure
make
It is some of a problem. Especially because I must keep display strength to a minimum to save battery. But it works. I use the colorsheme morning (think its part of solarized) in Vim and let the sun hit the screen. And then when the screen gets to hot I move to the shade and use Jellybeans colorsheme.
... that we know of.

Just because the confidential subpoena that was leaked didn't specify the release of identifying information doesn't indicate the government doesn't already have that data to cross-reference.

Also, at least in the U.S., I believe landline numbers are public record, so if you're calling your wife on the ol' landline...
There will be no consequences because Congress is behind this program, it is legal, and whether or not this testimony was a "lie" depends upon very specific definitions of terms like "intercept".

Most of us might hate that the government has this power but that does not make it extra-legal.
Just because you are cheating on your wife doesn't mean that everyone else is too.
I suggest you go and re-read TFA. All your points showcase extreme naivety and prejudice.

Just two examples upon many:

>Translation: Some people never shut up after they have been proven wrong, <em>and the author values this assertiveness over whether their arguments are logically sound</em>. He concludes that the most assertive arguer is automatically <em>correct</em>. He calls for the total abandonment of logic and reason and to respect force and effect in their stead.

Very bad translation. He does not say, or even suggest, that he values the assertiveness. He ACCESSES the baloney detectors not as less assertive, but as less persuasive, and their argumentation of lower quality. He judges, in the VERY quote you mis-translate, the worth of their argument --not of their assertiveness: "their arguments seemed to possess an inner strength".

You choose to interpret that strength as they believing strongly in it, but his argument makes clear he says it's strong because it's less "feeble", more in "command of their resources", and "much more mature".

If anything, the baloney detectors are equally assertive ("rigid"), stubborn and utterly convinced for their reasoning superiority.

>Next he says that the correct identification of a logical error does not imply incorrectness of the argument. No comment is needed.

Actually comment very much needed. In real human conversation, as opposed to medieval formal argumentation, the correct identification of a logical error does not prove any incorrectness of the whole argument. It's not some axiomatic system or a formal proof, so that everything relies on a single, unified, core. Arguments in actual human conversation are multifaceted, nuanced and complicated. One --or even a bunch-- of logical errors in them do not suffice to invalidate them.
Considering that Google are amazingly good at giving you your data back, and allowing you to transition off to other services, his comment is about the most stupid and self-defeating thing he could possibly say.
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Even if the perf nosedives after (n - 1) threads, it would be nice to see on the graph.
A bill of impeachment has to be filed in the House of Representatives. The White House has nothing to do with this.
This petition is a waste of time. If you're upset, try to convince your Congressman.
We will try to push upstream those pieces that upstream would need. Some pieces, such as the autoconfiscated build system are likely not of interest to them, but of interest to us.
Can you explain this feature? I'm not familiar with fireworks but would like to understand what you mean.