skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'[Reuters] explained that this disclosure can be found on the "Machine Readable News" product page of its Website, under a drop-down menu for "suite components." ' - CNBC

(It's actually worse - it's six clicks from the home page to the document.)

' "...I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find [the plans]."

"That's the display department."

"With a torch."

"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of The Leopard'." ' - Douglas Adams
Couldn't someone collect the same data that University of Michigan does and beat all these guys?
I think email has been relegated to formal correspondence only. Don't kids just, uh, tweet at each other?

Soon email will become like the telephone. These days I don't call anybody unless I need an ambulance.
RBC seeks patent for THOR technology built to battle high frequency traders
At least you can't blame them for missing a PR opportunity: https://plus.google.com/+JeffJarvis/posts/5X7nHcjijsC
I'm a customer there, and from interactions I had with them they take data security and privacy very seriously.

Of course there is an economic interest in showing the disadvantages of hosting European data in the US. But what's wrong with that? That is simply true. For example: in some cases you break Dutch privacy laws when hosting data about individuals in the US (without taking special precautions).
The IP address from which you send your request to a search engines website may be regarded as a personally identifying information. In case that this information becomes publicly available the connection between your search terms and your IP address will be visible. In fact, this has happend in the past and there was a searchable database with the leaked information online where you could look up search terms.

I don't know what data Google and Bing are collecting, but here is one quote from the wikipedia entry on internet privacy concerning the AOL search engine:

A search engine takes all of its users and assigns each one a specific ID number. Those in control of the database often keep records of where on the Internet each member has traveled to. AOL’s system is one example. AOL has a database 21 million members deep, each with their own specific ID number. The way that AOLSearch is set up, however, allows for AOL to keep records of all the websites visited by any given member. Even though the true identity of the user isn’t known, a full profile of a member can be made just by using the information stored by AOLSearch. By keeping records of what people query through AOLSearch, the company is able to learn a great deal about them without knowing their names.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_privacy
Because nerd's will inevitably outcompete suits in a perfectly fair environment. So it makes sense to work towards one.
What if companies did this with earnings reports? Released it early to people willing to pay.
My Grandfather (and Jonathan's great uncle I believe), who was US Attorney, would seriously approve of the questions Jonathan raises.

The way to move this forward is to put these folks on the spot with HR 2014 and other amendments which would curtail the powers that have been given to the Intelligence agencies under the guise of the war on terror.
ncat - netcat for the 21st Century
I find Amazon's best at reminding that I've got third-party cookies enabled.

E.g., I research the Hitler teapot† on Amazon. Then, suddenly, I'm seeing teapot ads everywhere.

†http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/2013/06...
Mail between two Google Mail addresses does not hit the Internet in plaintext SMTP.
If you're going to use it for your business it might be a good idea.
I'm looking for similar system builders after being disappointed with ThinkPads lately. Can anyone recommend more machines or companies like this?
That Utah data center is literally the Internet's Area 51.
Russia has it's own internet surveillance system, likely even more invasive then PRISM. Would be really odd if he spoke against it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM
All of the code necessary to build a working Chrome Frame and an installer binary is present in the open source repository. The code for the MSI isn't there, but that's just a very thin wrapper around the Chrome Frame and Google Update exe installers.
I fail to see the problem. If you don't want to have any 'tiers' in third party analysis info, logically it follows that all reports should be published free of charge.

That would make no sense at all.
They may be lying. If there's a gag order, they may be required to lie. Or they may consider "review" not to necessarily be human review. Or the person writing that may simply not know. We don't know what's going on at google, and with no transparency, it's hard to have a lot of trust, particularly since there are many examples of government overreach in the past.

Sure, google and facebook and whatever should push back, but it's clear that if the government really wants to abuse its power, they won't stop it. Given the current witch-hunt on whistleblowers, it's clear that those in power do not appreciate being questioned. Trust is fine, but verification is better.
www.zareason.com comes to mind
Currently all those XP users can easily run Firefox or Chrome and are therefore not stuck to IE7, but I really wonder how long that will be possible. Will it be 1 or 2 years until Chrome won't run anymore on Windows XP?
(Firefox has problems with the linker of older visual studio compilers already and any software compiled with a newer microsoft compiler will need the msvcrt update, unless you use http://kobyk.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/dynamically-linking-wi... )

Those XP machines will never be upgraded and many won't be replaced until there are no spare parts anymore.

One really can't trust Google to keep anything around for more than 6 months
The universal law of innovation: build it, break it, improve it
Are unpaid internships illegal?
I don't know what was promised but to expect results so soon from a project with such a massive amount of data isn't just short sighted, it's hypocritical and silly. The very public that will eventually benefit from the project are the ones who drive the economic and political forces that influence the speed of both preclinical R&D and the regulatory approval process. I believe the process from academic research to market drug is in the range of 10-20 years and that's the time it would take ONE drug that is based off of the human genome project to reach the market.

Furthermore, in order to really be able to effectively work with this much and this kind of information, to effectively hack and play around with it, we need to develop physical models. We need to simulate and study the effects of changes in the genome in a quantified and automated way which requires an even greater level of technology in cloning/in vitro organ growth (the latter of which seems to be steadily progressing every year).

We haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the broad philosophical implications of genetic engineering as a civilization, yet alone be able to show drugs and therapies with years of use. The greatest years for the HGP are still to come.
His emphasis is that you as a web application developer shouldn't get distracted by writing HTML: use a framework which does the HTML for you, especially when it comes to producing forms and doing validation.

There's a form-building framework built into Django (called Forms), or you can use a different HTML/form-building framework such as Flask.

The take-home message is: building forms in templates is fraught with peril. Use a framework to save time and heartache.
Gabriel Manricks’ “Working With Data in Sails.js”
I work on corporate level custom webapps.
The main two areas where you have to be careful to design things correctly and to be able to convey your ideas to end users (in clear, unambiguous terms) are - in my experience, at least:

- Database design

- (Web) Interface design

Oddly enough, UML provides zero support for either. So it's always DBA stuff on one side and mockups/wireframing/prototype on the other.
Especially to discuss user-front things (i.e. how the application will look and how you will work with it) UML is completely useless.

These are our primary concerns, and UML does not help at all. Use cases are too abstract, and the rest is of little value for the users.

So despite my attempts at learning it, I was never able to get any real value out of it.
While I agree that it's old now, and not as trendy as other things, Facebook has become so widely used that being old isn't an issue. For me it's become a social tool, just like email has become a communications tool. It's not going away, nor do I need it to be replaced by something trendy.
If this is possible, they should really look into installing their fill up stations at red lights in cities where Tesla is popular. These charge stations would only be active when the light is red and when a rechargable car is connected. The connector should be universal so any electric car can be charged. All vehicles including Tesla's would purchase a subscription to these passive charging stations, if they want to never worry about filling up in their city.

This approach would allow a hybrid battery/capacitor approach, where the car keeps using the quick charge capacitor and only relies on the battery for longer distances and in places that don't offer the red light charge option.
Their "real" identity, or their "Christmas-card" identity?
NSA chief: We owe the American people stats on surveillance programs
Hashtags Wont Solve Facebook's Problems
SMTP can be encrypted between servers (though not end-to-end) using STARTTLS, which is getting pretty common. If the mail's being relayed with STARTTLS, you wouldn't be able to read it by tapping the wire. Instead, you'd need to get access to one of the relays, since each one decrypts the message before reencrypting it for the next hop (or you could manage to get yourself inserted as a relay).

Looking at a random email in my Gmail account from a different Gmail user, it looks like they do use SMTP, or at least they are adding headers as if it went by SMTP. But both ends of the SMTP are at the same IP address:

X-Received: from mr.google.com ([10.229.72.135])
by 10.229.72.135 with SMTP id m7mr3900891qcj.17.1370903118607 (num_hops = 1);
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
I'm about to ditch DigitalOcean because I keep experiencing long lags in the ssh terminals. Sometimes when doing things that stress the terminal, like tail-ing a busy log file or running a full-screen app like top or vim, it will hang for minutes.
He is saying he just learned that lesson. Free Google software isn't a reliable foundation for a business decision. Compare to Microsoft, who have a track record keeping their technologies alive and supported for many years.
It's secret because of OPSEC, the same reason that essentially everything else an intelligence agency does is secret.

Does the public go down and tell the Admirals how to staff a warship? Or what controls to use when deciding to launch weapons? Those are life and death decisions where the military essentially handles its own oversight with Congress and government civil servants involved at the higher levels to handle public interest in accountability and oversight. Yet I don't see the public up in arms about that.

Now, if the people say they don't like Prism and don't want it then the NSA should gut it; that's the right of the people to decide.

But I wish we wouldn't be so quick to jump to the idea that the public must personally audit and review all such government programs as a rule, because as far as I can tell from the seats I've sat in the public has never actually believed that in general at all, and are normally quite content to allow their Congressmen and our shared values as citizens (for those actually doing the work) to provide that oversight.
Here is a non-US-based alternative: https://startpage.com
I'm trying to figure out if this makes me (49yo) young-at-heart or just immature.
And what if you get laid off by a big company? Over and over again? And what if your pension becomes worthless? And what if your union fails?

There is no risk-free path through life, only guesses and degrees.
One wasn't "paying" with money. But Google wants to move all of IT in a certain direction (where cloud and web based technology is acceptable). Therefore Google provided the illusion that it's possible to mix ancient IE6-IT with modern Chrome web apps. Developers could feel save that it's okay to use modern technology and still be able to reach old shops. And old shops might have started to adopt modern web apps, also from google. Now they are forced to think again how to keep the old IE6-intranet running next to some Google Docs stuff they bought...

So Chrome Frame helped Google a bit to extend a certain market for them by a little bit.
Google still doesn't get paid, but they certainly didn't do Google Frame out of altruism.
Specifically, startups that democratize security.

What are the current YC security startups and the focus of each?
Why would anyone believe that DuckDuckGo isn't already penetrated?
Dream, discover and Explore Jobs - Discoverajob.com
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I'm a very curious person and since i moved to the States from Italy i found out that i love to get to know people and learn new things so, why not combine it together ?
Every city in the US and (most of) Canada becomes a group where people can join and request/offer some of their time to show their job to other members.
It's all free and travelling could be also part of it.
Let me know what you guys think and maybe give it a shot!

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David
Chrome integration possible?
A Local Services Hub to Rival Angie's List?
I've still yet to wrap my mind around the Chrome frame from an IT perspective. Even with thin clients, you could install FireFox or Chrome on your XP VM, and it'd result in less CPU overhead. I'll admit, IT is not my specialty nor is mega corporate politics, but I'd would venture to guess the cost of IE6-8 in IT overhead would negate any cost of deployment of Chrome or FireFox ESR.

Anyone care to enlighten me as to why?
The irony here is of course that those strong and virile Romans the fascists sought to emulate were themselves quite often homosexual, or at least not averse to homosexual sex every now and then.

Off the top of my head I can think of Julius Caesar (derided, that much is true, by his enemies, for enjoying taking the passive role every now and then - but not for having sex with males per se) and Augustus, but I'm sure there were others.
UML slices code oddly.

You can't fit a big system on a piece of paper. So, let's say you have a big graphics system. One of your base classes is Widget. It is almost certainly worthless to show every class that derives from Widget on one page, even if you could. What you are really interested in is how subsystem interact when in various states. For example, you might have a map window that uses a small collection of items derived from Widget, some strategy pattern type things (to project to Mercator or whatever), and so on. The only useful graphic is a sheet that shows how all of these components interact. But, maps are complex, so you are probably pulling in and using 100+ classes. Most of which are not relevant. So it takes a human, and a lot of thought, to figure out how to slice through the code to produce a useful UML diagram for the area of interest.

And then the diagrams are static. You have a bunch of other stacks of paper to try to show how things happen in time. Typically there are several scenerios - each scenerio is going to involve a different subset of classes.

Its combinatorial explosion. No one can do this. Its far more work than writing and debugging the code itself. The code IS the documentation, for better and worse (and yes, sometimes it's worse).

So, like most people, I do whiteboard sketches of high level design. If I am particularly pressed, I'll sit down with pen and paper, sketch 2-4 competing UML diagrams, then hand write in different transactions/events - showing how data flows, and so on.

But capturing an entire source tree? Impossible, unless you just want the spaghetti diagrams that are not displayable on any monitor, and that are completely useless at telling a story.
I think this is a bit misleading. We're drawing the conclusion from age based metrics that if a lot of young people use a service, relative to older adults, it must be "hip" or "new."

Consider Disney.com. Nothing new or hip about it. I'd bet >80% of the users are under 30.

I think this is a fairly incorrect assumption, and it feels like it's being used to justify an opinion about Facebook here by undermining how "cool" and "hip" it is.

Just come out and say what you want to say. Facebook sucks, and there's definitely nothing new about it anymore. I'll do you a favor and not try to trick you into agreeing with my opinion by making misleading correlations between it and objective data. If you disagree with me, awesome, you've found something of value in Facebook. That's great for you. I hate it. We're different! :)
If they were publicly traded companies that would be against the law.
Twitter API v1.1 Migration Caused Mass Errors in Free Social Tools
I think perhaps this generation has lost sight of what it means to be a hacker. It isn't about creating a new website. It's about taking a problem, and figuring out a solution, using any and every means.

Need to genetically engineer some grain to work better in drier climates? Learn just enough molecular biology to make it work. Economically-depressed nations don't distribute contraception effectively? Develop a cheaper alternative or find a way to incentivize its use. LGBTQ community being told they're sick, or they can't raise an effective family? Spearhead studies to show the actual effects of LGBTQ people's lives in society.

Hackers are not limited in the scope of the issues they tackle or the methods they use to solve them. That's why it's crazy that more hackers aren't hired to do public service or work in NGOs... they're the ultimate problem-solvers.
No IT manager would permit an unsupported browser plugin to remain deployed. Who's going to fix newly discovered exploits?
The idea of UML makes sense - why not have a common graphical language for the things programmers want to describe to each other all the time?

Sometimes I think the implementation is just wrong - because programmers are obviously voting with their fit.

A modern replacement for UML, anyone ;-) ?
Ive used facebook about 6 months after launch...and in the beginning it was an cool...but now its boring. Its like there was a party and all the cool people went home, and the only people still around are old people, families, and marketers...and the weird kid from high school
I am James Bamford, one of the journalists investigating the NSA. AMA.
Because look at the logo and the design, that duck is cool! And it says it's private! /s
Is anybody going to believe whatever stats the trot out? And, perhaps more to the point, are they going to show us any evidence of a situation where this indiscriminate collection of data resulted in stopping a plot, where getting the data with a (non-general, specific) warrant tied to a specific suspect wouldn't have had the same result? So far, everything I've seen where they've talked about a "success" for this program has been something where, from what I can tell, they could have achieved the same end without needing to hoover up all this data, the vast majority of which is irrelevant (assuming you believe that most people are not terrorists or whatever).
Stop Watching Us Gathers Over 100,000 signatures to fight NSA surveillance
looks like a super simple yet powerful product... I can see a bunch of uses for this in future projects.
XBox One backlash sheds light on the alarming state of broadband in the U.S.
"Seldom has an opinion of this Court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members", said Scalia when the court found it unconstitutional to execute the profoundly mentally disabled.

"If it were impossible for individual human beings (or groups of human beings) to act autonomously in effective pursuit of a common goal, the game of soccer would not exist", he said, when the court found it unconstitutional for the VMI to refuse admission to women.

"This ruling will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed [...] The nation will live to regret what the court has done today" he said when the court held that Guantanamo detainees have the right to appeal their captivity to federal courts.

"Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the Constitution?" he said, under obvious circumstances.

"Today's opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda" he said, in attempting to retain a law that criminalized same-sex relationships in Texas.
Why isn’t everyone racing to get Hadoop into Linux distros?
Thanks to your help, I found a huge, obvious problem that was keeping the accuracy low and remarkable stable no matter what size of training data I tried. Here's the update: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3012908/tracking/im-beating-the-ns...
I don't think it reflects much on any members in particular. It's a site centered around Silicon Valley, which is an inordinately youth-obsessed culture.
This is the best explanation I've read about how PRISM might work:
http://uncrunched.com/2013/06/11/connecting-the-prism-dots-m...
Sosolimited's 'Semantic Sabotage' Should Be the Future of Closed Captioning
Enter a new toolkit from the art and tech studio Sosolimited called Semantic Sabotage. It's a typographic visualizer for YouTube content with a fresh take on closed captioning. "The focus is on real-time typographic or graphic animations," Sosolimited's John Rothenberg told me in an e-mail exchange.
This reply is so HN.
I think this will be the final nail in the coffin for MySpace. They don't listen, they don't know what customers want, they don't care, and they won't budge.

I predict Facebook will see a similar demise. The nature of social networks is that they are transient. Are newsgroups dead? Forums? No. They've been going strong since the inception of the internet, because they cultivate a strong culture -- something every community needs to survive. Social networks don't do that. They're a pile of random, somewhat primitive thoughts that don't engage and have no net culture. Discussion is very pared-back and smalltalk-like at best.

In some ways, it seems that we're going back to the early 2000s. Proprietary IM protocols like Skype and iMessage are being adopted at a greater scale, and social networks are slowly fading out. We can return to an age where inter-personal communication becomes the main method of communication, and social networks will be but an ancient relic of a primordial past.

I know, I know -- this is a tangent, but it's relevant.