skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse commercial prospects with usefulness. Although Tizen, FirefoxOS, and Jolla all have OEM and carrier commitments for a roll-out (Ubuntu? Anyone know?) they have a tough task ahead to gain acceptance. But that doesn't reduce their usefulness as systems that might be more open in practice than Android.

It is likely that some of the new-generation open mobile OSs could enable you to build and install your phone's OS more conveniently than Android. That might enable you to do encrypted voice more readily. And that might push Google to provide more confidence-building for Android.
Also, try a map ;-) (semi serious)
Dear Mozilla, stop watching me
I didn't say I recommended he come back to the US any time soon.
Important Security Alert – All SolusVM Versions
I think the difference between good and great writers and directors (and such) is pretty big, but I doubt the difference within the great is all that large, and I bet there are plenty enough to keep the studio dollars busy.
Google builds new system to eradicate child porn images from the web
7 Links Every Sunday - Google Loon, Apple Moving Fast, Fragile vs. Robust...
You've discovered most of C then. Look over how macros work, then just Google stuff. C is a very basic language that almost anything can created from. pick a project and start building or join an open source project in C
However, the trade off is that whoever you want to communicate with has to have that same client (Skype or anything)...no big deal, you say? just have everyone use it?...well, once a service gets that much penetration, a company will own the popular implementation, and then you're back to square one.
You're getting the word "fact" in your sentance confused with the word "speculation". They are not the same thing.
you may study how data structures can be represented in C

for example from this book:

Ashok N. Kamthane Introduction to Data Structures in C"
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/c/978813171...
I only use bookmarks to save websites/webapps that I may need later but will forget on my own. Otherwise, the location bar is way more efficient.
Reflections of Trust, by Ken Thompson. Undetectable backdoors possible in OSS
I think what rossjudson means is that you're only accepting what's visibile on the screen at the time of clicking accept. So if you scrolled to the bottom, you would only be responsible for the text visible on the screen at the bottom of the page.

I think if the technical details with screen-size and tracking what was indeed visible at the time of acceptance are worked out, that this is a great idea and really would use market forces to naturally shorten TOSs. It has a very Libertarian Paternalism idea about it in that it's not limiting freedom but gives them a Nudge[1] in the more universally beneficial direction.

As a user who just wants to click accept and GTFO, this would initially be a burdon as all existing TOSs are aligned with this requirement. I don't want to accept 60 pages just to install WinRar (the trial of course, because I'm still not sold on it's benefits).

But as someone concerned with what I'm actually agreeing to, and someone who doesn't have the time to read the TOS for everything I come across, I'm fully behind that and would like to have some words with the lazier side of me about the importance of agreements.

As an aside, maybe there could be an article of the law that allows for a legally binding summary of terms which they could use to supplement the full terms. In that case, the user would be bound to the terms of the summary--in reference to the full terms--which were visible on the screen when they accepted. They would still be required to accept the full terms (likely with the same TL;RD scroll and accept).

I'm thinking that there's somewhat of a precedent to such summaries: ballots. When you vote on on a resolution at the ballot, you're reading a summary. But that summary has to be legally accurate to the content of the bill.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happi...
This kind of post is counter-productive. If someone is starting to use more free software, it's very discouraging when people start getting nitpicky about stuff like binary blobs. Yes, a distro without that stuff is technically more free (and safer from spying governments), but let people come one step at a time. By switching to a GNU/Linux distro, steveklabnik is much better off than he was.
we already know the government can, and will, grab cloud servers.

They will grab your private servers too, if they have probable cause to do so. I don't see this particular argument being very persuasive.
"ciao" and "chow" are homophones, not allophones. Allophones are different phonetic representations of the same phoneme found in complementary distribution. For example, [t] and [th] and [ɾ] and [ʔ] are allophones of /t/ (the first in 'cat', the second in 'tack', and the third and fourth in 'cutter' , depending on your regional variant. Also, the initial phoneme in Italian "ciao" is for all purposes identical to the one in English "chow" (the vowels are a bit different) - it is written as: /tʃ/
| "having a PhD" correlates strongly with "lacking
| the ability for independence of thought or action"
| is pretty ridiculous

| Those without the ability to act, plan, or
| motivate themselves independently do not make it

Does not translate to, or paraphrase as:

| PhD === intellectual
two articles that may be someway related:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/snowden-links-being...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/11/obamaxi_presidential...

(see my other comment for the original links)
The business case for serving web content isn't as strong as you might think from a back of the envelope calculation about cost/power vs. performance. It's true that you'll find that you can get more throughput per cost with ARM/Atom (mostly due to the lower power, but also because the machines are cheaper), but, when you actually do it you'll find that latency is significantly higher, if you compare ARM/Atom boxes with low load vs. fast x86 machines with high utilization [1]. An argument people often make is that ARM is going to catch x86. Sure, possibly, but why wouldn't you expect x86 to catch ARM? [2]

A lesson that people seem to have to keep re-learning, over and over again, is that latency matters a lot on the web. A few ms increase in latency has a measurable effect on your income, as people just close the webpage and click elsewhere. A significant increase in latency is disastrous.

[1] http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~vjreddi/UT/Publications/Entries.... This paper describes a way you can use low-power boxes to get better results for the same cost, but it doesn't involve simply swapping your core i5s with Atoms or ARMs, which is what a lot of people seem to want to do.

[2] One of the major lessons computer architects learned perhaps 10-15 years ago is that the instruction set just doesn't matter that much, compared to the microarchitecture, the manufacturing process, and the quality of the circuit design. Intel has a decisive advantage in manufacturing that's been growing for approximately two decades, ARM doesn't even try to compete in circuit design with full-custom design or fancy circuit techniques, so that leaves the microarchitecture. Although I'd disagree, you might make a case that ARM simply has better architects, and that ARM would produce a better design than Intel if they targeted the exact same space. But, I doubt you'd try to make the case that you'd expect ARM's design to be so superior that it will obviously overcome Intel's other advantages.

Another case you might make is that Intel simply won't target the same space, to avoid cannibalizing their own market, but, in addition to obviously moving towards that space with Atom, they have a history of ruthlessness that makes that seem unlikely.

Intel used to be a dominant player in the DRAM industry, but they killed off their DRAM business when they were a leader in the field, because they recognized that it would become a commodity industry. After becoming a market leader in SRAMs, one of the competitors invented flash; they realized the significance and focused on flash and microprocessors, while, again, killing off what was (then) a major cash cow. It's very hard to imagine Intel just sitting and slowly losing their dominance of the microprocessor industry, ending up with a position like IBM or Sun. They've never done that in the past, so why would you expect them to start now?
I like it. I'm more interested in the site then the extension though.

Things I'd like to see:
1. Highlight sites that have changed terms recently.
2. The discussion links should show how active the discussion pages are
Fact. NSA has been spying on all Americans without their knowledge for years.
> I'm more concerned about my usage of Gmail

An awesome free-software webmail client is something that is sorely missing. sup or notmuch serve my needs well for a console e-mail client with good search/labels/conversations/etc., but most people are understandably going to want webmail. Many of the other google apps (calendar) need decent free software replacements too.
The lecture slides are in Comic Sans, ugh.
The Transmeta Crusoe (VLIW with software translation) was nothing like the Pentium M which was a derivative of the P6. The Pentium M did add some cleverness in fusing some of its hardware translated micro-ops but that's not terribly related to what Transmeta were doing.

You may be misremembering the patent lawsuit Transmeta filed against Intel, long after the Pentium M had been released and Crusoe had failed commercially, basically as an alternative monetisation strategy. Intel did end up paying them to go away, but their IP was not "rolled into" Pentium M any more than Eolas's was into Internet Explorer.
For a big subset of stuff, the Django forms are perfectly fine once you grok what they do, but in recent years, I've usually supplemented them with CrispyForms [1] (used to django-uni-form) and FloppyForms [2] --either individually or in combo-- for extra form flexibility.

[1] https://github.com/maraujop/django-crispy-forms

[2] https://github.com/brutasse/django-floppyforms
You would want to try this because there are often large benefits from surveilling the totality of a person's communications. Those benefits to the surveillor might be professional, personal, financial, or political. And as liberal as the standards for spying apparently are, sometimes the limits are constraining... so hacks like these would effectively remove the limits.

Not sure I understand your second question. I wouldn't know how much such abusive targeting might happen; that's the concern about it happening in secret with only "trust us"/"scout's honor" review.

Why would it have to go on at a 'large scale'? Even a few incidents of this being used to gather dirt on political opponents, or collect financially-enriching inside information, would be too much, and very dangerous. The value of being able to do this sort of thing is so large, abusers could potentially shield themselves from, or corrupt, the entities which are supposed to detect misuse.
If I read the subcontext correctly, the band of minions will build software to serve contextual ads to the rest of humanity. Muhahahahahaha!
...and now that the real facts are not fitting your narrative, you're starting to contradict and deny those facts using every emotional response and every fallacy you can think of.
> There is no way, even in theory, of determining what was visible on screen.

There is - both in theory and in practice. Otherwise you'd get text drawn over other elements instead of scrollbars when you write too much text inside the edit box.
I just want to mention that Trac development has picked up steam over the last couple of years. If it has been a while since you've tried it, you might give it a fresh look sometime.
the golden age for DVDs only lasted about 10 years

Or better still: the golden age for mechanical reproduction only lasted about a 100 years.
What we need is a court ruling that people who click through these things have no intention to be bound by the contract, and therefore aren't.
Conductor (http://conductor-app.com) is my current favourite.
http://www.idc.ac.il/tecs is down?

Edit: But slides are available on http://www.nand2tetris.org/course.php

A video lecture based course would have been great, but this is splendid too!
It's striking how little they learned from the music industry. Substitute "CD" for "DVD" and lower the budgets a few orders of magnitude and this could've been about the 90's/00's music industry.

And the author doesn't seem to internalize what's become common knowledge in the music industry: the shiny savior disc (CD/DVD) was really masking the deeper disruptions in consumer behavior.
Ask HN: How secure/private is IRC?
I'm getting conflicting reports about the passwords. Were these plaintext passwords ONLY the autogenerated ones, or are there other passwords that have been compromised as well. Also, has anyone been able to get a list of everything that was displayed on the page?
Living to maximize unique intellectual residue
Yes, because they couldn't possibly have just made up a document saying a random, small number of people were "closely scrutinized". It's also a little odd that a document describing the allegedly tiny reach of still-classified programs is somehow unclassified. This doesn't sound like it was designed for the public at all.
The key word there is "closely".
The link is broken at the end!
Hi, I'm Joe Stump CEO/founder of Sprint.ly. Totally biased opinion here, but I'd like to add Sprint.ly to the list. We built Sprint.ly specifically to encourage/engage "the rest of the business". If you're looking for a super technical tool, we're not that, but if you need a tool to get business users engaged and on the same page we might be worth a look.
who enforces such laws?
Rep. Nadler now saying CNET story (NSA recording calls) is not true.
>If the "score" associated with the email indicates that there is a 51 percent chance or higher that it belongs to a person overseas, the analyst can start monitoring content right away and not do anything further.

As a non-US citizen, this hits me hard. Basically, the NSA can read all my emails without a single warrant, if I'm reading this correctly. Is my interpretation correct?
Making a mathematical book in mobi/epub is a difficult problem but I'm surprised the publishers weren't aware of the difficulties.

Simple statements can be expressed in pure Unicode (though the Kindle fonts have incomplete Unicode support for the relevant blocks). Anything more than that has to be an image, which is the bane of digital publishing, since it won't scale with the base font size. epub 3 might be able to cope with it but apart from iBooks I don't know anyone else using it.
The post could just as easily describe the U.S military, law enforcement, religions, or any other highly competitive company. It's eerie how well this applies so broadly.
PR Hacking at Hackerdojo
Technical points aside, MongoDB is licensed under the AGPL. Why would I use it when freer alternatives exist?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_West

From wiki: 15% increase in service per capita with a doubling of city size (so it's not a fast quadratic).

There's TED talks, google talks, articles, and NYTimes articles on the wiki.
http://tosdr.org/#facebook
I started out reading because I thought it might be interesting. I continued to read only to see what else they'd get wrong. Of the referenced things of which I have some knowledge and experience (Harley's and their owners, for example), they got it fundamentally wrong. I can only assume they were just as inaccurate with the things I don't know much about.

To back my assertion, let's take Harley as an example. HOGs (which really are members of Harley's paid Harley Owners Group club, not Hells Angels members) were scaring off the well-to-do customers? The outlaw biker image is what kept HD in business. You may be an orthodontist during the week, but you can play dress-up and be a bad ass biker on the weekend. I don't when the lawyers were scars to buy a HD, but it hasn't been in the last 35 years that I've been riding.

It seems like the author started out with a premise, and then either pulled facts to suit their point, distorted the facts, or just plain made shit up.
Without taking a stance on what will happen in this particular case -- bubbles burst very slow at first and awfully fast when people panic.
It's not just commercial use. Non-permissive open source licenses are also frequently incompatible with one another [1].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...
While I agree with your sentiment, doing that will likely be difficult.

However, the end-to-end encryption is what we need, so that we don't have to rely or expect service providers to change. Things like PGP for sending emails, OTR for IM, Jitsi for video conferencing. All these do end-to-end encryption and this is what we should be moving to. So if you are using Gmail, but you only send PGP emails, great. You are using Google's services while not giving them anything.
Automated 'coach' could help with social interactions
Hype Machine adds "PRISM" mode: A real-time feed of users' activity
For client projects I'm a big fan of Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.com/). It has a great balance of advanced features and ease of use for non-techies.

* Tickets can be created and updated via email

* Using the GitHub service hook, you can tag commit messages so that they appear as comments on a ticket as well as change the state of the ticket (For example: "Refactor widget behaviour [#123 state:resolved]")

* You can setup milestones (with or without a due date) and assign tickets to them

* Bulk editing of tickets

* Markdown in ticket description and comment fields

* You can easily create "buckets" of tickets based on search terms and filters

* Bugsnag and Airbrake can be configured to automatically create tickets for new exceptions in your app

* Probably some other great features that I've forgotten to mention
The wikipedia page for Transmeta says they sued Intel for patent infringement in 2006, then licensed their tech to AMD & Nvidia, before being bought by another failed company, and having their patent portfolio wind up with our favorite patent troll, Intellectual Ventures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta#Timeline
Earning a PhD certainly requires independent thought and action, but those are directed towards goals imposed by someone else, typically an adviser or one's committee, and the typical grad student rarely questions those goals.

This capacity for creative work in pursuit of others' ends is exactly why Rachel says PhDs are such valuable minions.

The book "Disciplined Minds" [1] makes this point in a radical way. I didn't agree with everything it said, but its point is that higher education selects for people willing to jump through arbitrary hoops for nebulous returns, and that that conformism is valuable to employers.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professiona...
FWIW, it is important that Candidate Obama had to say the things he did to be elected. I would rather live in a world in which the ideals we put forward are good, even when the system then corrupts them and people turn out hypocritical. It is far worse when we as a society lose our principles.
I've been sick in bed for the last couple days and yesterday read the first half of this book (_Elements_). It is I think the best, tightest description of how one gets from primitive gates to Adders to an ALU to memory. Extremely well written.
But most programmers probably have studied basic geometry.
PHP Library for easy integration with Clickatell SMS Gateway
That seems to be the truth. but almost impossible.
'The Native Americans gave their land away for beads.'

This is one myth sold to us in school. The tribe that sold the land for beads did not own that land. It was the territory of another competing tribe. I will sell you russia for $20, right now.
Zamfoo is a rather silly plugin for cPanel/WHM that allows a server admin to create accounts that can create reseller accounts. Effectively, it's taking the concept of a reseller account (a cPanel account that can create cPanel accounts) and iterating it, several times. For instance, it adds a new "master reseller" account type that can create resellers (which can create normal accounts), as well as "alpha resellers" which can create master resellers (which can create resellers which can create normal accounts).

If you're wondering what the practical purpose of this is... there isn't one, really. But apparently some WHM resellers (and iterated resellers, I suppose) are interested in this sort of thing for some reason, so it exists.

Personally, I just feel sorry for the end users at the far end of this software, behind as many as three or four levels of reselling. That's got to be a pretty damn awful customer experience.
The only way to protect yourself, is to force politics, to stop the sniffing now and to delete all the previously gathered data. There is no technical solution, only a political one.
But how many phone numbers do they have the capacity to closely scrutinize?
Yes. It's one of few things nobody has disputed.
This is fine for VMs and maybe low-load servers, but the problem for high-performance servers is ARM sucks memory-wise as they don't have the patents on the cache hierarchies that Intel has (and AMD can use), and thus have very limited cache systems.

AMD's future entry into the ARM market might change this, as they can use these patents.
Good old Rake with the # FIXME directive right in my source code.
>Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped

Well, DUH, of course he was. Even minor players in the civil rights movement were wiretapped. And tons of others besides. And those findings were used to: to blackmail, to plan police reactions, to spin, etc.

Also check:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-us-vs-john-lennon/
What about the data that is already out there ??
Is there any way to get that removed from their servers ?
300 people of interest seems reasonable to me...but that number must not include all the first-degree and second-degree contacts that each person-of-interest has...if you saw that Alice was talking to Bob and Carla and suspected Alice to be a terrorist, why wouldn't you also follow the rabbit holes of Bob's and Carla's records? And when do you know to stop?

In this way, unhindered surveillance is a lot like torture...sure, you may think it's perfectly justified when you just know that Alice is a bad person. But when the dragnet brings in many non-guilty people, it's not just about whether it's ethical to torture/warantlessly-spy on someone (guilty or innocent), it's also about whether you're actually accomplishing anything by bringing in all this irrelevant noise.

So that's why 300 closely-inspected people (plus their network, but to a limited degree) seems reasonable...the NSA has finite resources and finite analysts and can only conjure up finite investigations. Call me naive, but I think it's possible that a good chunk of NSA staffers believe their main role is to protect the nation from evil threats...(just like most military staff joined for the "good of country", initially) and if any of them are half-wise, they'd probably realize that wantonly spying for the hell of it doesn't get them promotions nor serves their country...the NSA is still a bureaucracy, after all.

Of course, that doesn't mean that the NSA won't evolve the technology to the point that thoroughly analyzing someone's network and extended network is trivial...and, that all the good-hearted idealists who work for them don't see the true nature of their work, due to the layer of technology and bureaucracy...but...we know of the current controversy because Snowden was able to walk out undetected with the files in a USB drive. So we're not there yet, so hence, it's possible this report is legit.