skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true. Greek, Roman and other works were often painted bright colors to give them the appearance of life, but have either faded with the years, or removed for political reasons. We still have beautiful and colorful egyptian sarcophagi, which gives an insight on what they may have looked like. On that note, the pyramids themselves were covered in limestone (if I remember correctly) and painted with bright and colorful markings. The reflective material would look as if each pyramid was a beam of light to the heavens during the day. Unfortunately, that's all been stolen, eroded or destroyed.
Encode your data-streams with NSA-profanity
Agreed. AWS, Lab126...
It sounds like you're trying to justify piracy. I'd recommend you just stay away from it.
Very true, and I think is great that Garry here is including a little historical perspective on this. Civil liberties are something that have to be fought for by every generation. It may be a battle that can never be won completely, but if you stop fighting it you always lose your freedoms one by one.

That said, this White House petition makes me nervous since we still don't know the extent of what Snowden leaked.
http://www.jottacloud.com/ - Norwegian company. I don't know whether or not they have servers in the US, but you could always ask.

Edit: Their FAQ (http://www.jottacloud.com/faq/) says data is stored in Norway. Which AFAIK is better than the US in terms of privacy.
The court is allowing NSA to get away with something different than what Hoover's FBI got away with.
I'm taking a look at your API now. It seems like a lot of searches around my area (Boston MA) are turning up blank. Is there any information available on the availability of restaurants on the API in different areas?
Netflix, the popular movie streaming site, deploys a hundred times per day, without the use of Chef or Puppet, without a quality assurance department and without release engineers.
Two things from the article that I want to comment on:

>>"In this room, this room right here, is the talent our nation needs to secure cyberspace," Alexander told the standing-room-only audience at DefCon, a grassroots gathering in Las Vegas expected to draw a record 16,000 attendees this year. "We need great talent. We don't pay as high as everybody else, but we're fun to be around."

There was an EFF talk at Defcon a long while back where they told us about how the RIAA was recruiting talented hackers to join their ranks. Their warning was that the RIAA wasn't just a bunch of goons. They were hiring among us and we should be more careful about covering our assets. Not completely related but possibly relevant.

>>Alexander's appearance is a milestone for DefCon, a hacker mecca with an often-uneasy relationship with the feds.

It's not quite as serious as they're describing. With the "Spot the Fed" game being the most obvious nod that there isn't a real uneasiness but rather the rebellious "us vs. them" feeling of hackers vs. government. All very friendly though. I'd imagine most people thought it was neat to be in the same room as the NSA Director.
The difference is that I'm reading history, you're reading libertarian talking points.

You think Germany is an Orwellian state--you have about as much credibility as Alex Jones.
Someone here on HN thought the tor stickers on Snowden's laptop was a reason to believe in tor's security:

"Snowden had Tor stickers on his laptop, that sort of lends credence to the fact that NSA doesn't have it down yet on how to id Tor users and it is still a good and reliable anonymity tool." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5880474
Now it is in English
Complete Obama response to PRISM.
Thanks for this, I found it helpful
Can someone please help me with Instagram Information? I would find it extremely helpful and grateful to anyone who spends the time to answer it. Thank you.
I guess this would be the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz0ejKersnM

and this would be the counterpoint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIz-RNUL1g
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5886505
Please consider this encouragement to do so, because MongoDB is an instant interest killer for Meteor right now. I just don't trust MongoDB at all.

If you post what needs done in detail, someone will surely pick it up. I'd certainly take a look and see if it was within my capabilities.
Smug attack accepted, I deserved that :) I tried to address some points related to your reply in my comment above.
There's always been this sort of philosophical disconnect in the programming world.

"We love Windows and Linux because they don't lock down their environments like Apple does!"

"We love Android because its ecosystem isn't locked down like iOS's!"

Yet, on the other hand:

"We hate products that are designed by committee!"

"We love Rails because it forces convention over configuration!"
Why doesn't DirecTV insure the equipment against fire? Thus covering the cost of people who've genuinely had a tragic fire, and still able to go after people who should pay?

From the headline I thought it was going to be an automated system still sending letters.

> Commenting on a complaint from a Mr.Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West gas said "We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr.Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that blew his house to pieces." (Bangkok Post)
Sony is a big multinational corporation. As is the case with, say, Microsoft, it is not helpful to appreciate its actions as coming from a single entity.
I've seen it.

It doesn't really matter, because I've also set up a randomizing encryption passcode generator that only works with a synthetic amino acid solution that corresponds to my genome that I carry in a vial around my neck. If under duress, all I have to do is break the vial, and the system will be impenetrable. I also have another sample of the synthesis in my home, but government people can only access it with a warrant -- which they probably won't have.
Bug tracking and eventually public code releases of Hacker News
The term Hipsters is pretty much a derogatory
term used by one class of people to put down another. (I'd guess jealousy is most of it)

Which is why i'm surprised the artist who should be better than that would have used it.

It seems originally it was called 'Street Stone' and release a year ago.

I guess that didn't have the hint of maliciousness the internet feeds off to go viral.

I wonder if it was the artist that tried another tack or the internet pushed him that way and it was more evolutionary.

It does seem he now uses 'Hipsters in Stone'

https://www.google.com.au/search?num=100&q="Project+Street+S...
Personally I do not like LUA, I do not force anyone to use JS. My opinion is that JavaScript is a powerful and handy, but again, this is only my opinion.
That depends on the language. Big Java codebases are very hard to develop without good IDE, because good IDE can make a lot of problems with some language go away. With Java, this is mostly about syntax checking and incremental builds, code generation, packaging and suggestion of classes, methods and data types.

Python doesn't really have problems similar to Java, so Java-style IDE doesn't seem necessary, while the language design makes some of the best features of Java-style IDEs hard to implement (but my last experience with similar IDEs was few years ago, so that might be fixed problem).

Now, the problems with python (concurrency and general slowness) are impossible to fix with IDE, so they might not be necessary. Still, IDEs are _integrated_ and thus allow you to set up development environment quickly and efficiently -- think about what if you moved to different computer, or even to different platform? Your shell scripts might not survive that, but IDE would. And being integrated has other advantages -- yes, any developer can (and should be able to) use git directly from command line. But editor that shows you which lines have changed since last commit, and who edited this part of file and when is useful. You can do that with git from terminal, but just seeing the former in editor, and getting the latter just by moving the mouse to the right spot can be helpful.

Of course, lot of the things IDEs do are about team cooperation, and won't really help single developer.
>Since its early days, Couchsurfing has had a gender imbalance, with more male members then females one. But it was not really an issue then, and more a reflection on the fact that men, unfortunately, have more freedom to travel then women.

That phrase strikes me as odd. I would think it's because it's safer for men to travel alone than for women, not for some direct limit on their freedoms.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=national%20security%...

This does better at discriminating against bus companies and such.

The steady decline until recently is interesting.
>also, how do you build a practical system when the flow rate is not constant (AND doubles the flow here, for example)?

You could probably make it constant. In this case, at the output of the AND gate, put a pressure regulator valve, that will allow the extra pressure to leak out of the system (or into a return pipe).

A similar problem would be duplicating the signal. The simplest solution I can see is a device that has two always pressurized inputs, and one control input. When the control is pressurized, it leverages a spring loaded switch to allow the two always on streams through.
http://www.wuala.com/ - Swiss company. 5GB free storage for client-side encrypted data. The product offers backup and sync options for arbitrary folders and is supported across OSX, Linux, Windows, and Mobile. Backed by a big company (Lacie) who make USB drives. I have just switched to them from DB and have loved the experience so far.
I also noticed a lot of similarity between these talking points [1] and various statements by politicians and pundits as well as newspaper articles over the past week. However it is hard to track them down.

Does anyone know how to do automated text comparison? It would be interesting to know who (politicians, reporters, etc) are simply parroting what the NSA tells them. Google kinda works for this but is pretty inefficient. Something like a plagiarism system would be perfect.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/713590-fisa-business... (click on text button in upper left for raw text).
2007 Obama's key point was that he would "provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists _without undermining our constitution, and our freedom._"

He believed that security was not just cause for violating our constitutional liberties. In 2013, apparently that's no longer the case.
1964 was two years after the Cuban missile crisis, when Che Guevara was nearly successful in instigating Nuclear War. Perhaps some paranoia was understandable.

But here we are, over 10 years after 9/11, and an enemy who simply does not pose any existential threat to the U.S. And yet no limits have been passed on Patriot act powers.
Let's tone down the criticism. the NSA can be hipsters too right?
Don't forget the 50% share that ThemeForest takes, and also the first of sales dates back to 2008.
textbroker.com Also, you can try elance.com it's a martplace for just about anyting.
I know it's not necessarily an accurate selling value of the application, but you could just charge $.99. That would probably head off a lot of the recompilers by making it not-so-worth-it. You never know, though. People will try anything.
Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
totaly agree on your view of nobel prize
Interesting to see "NSA Jobs" is 4th.
Satoshi Nakamoto owns MtGox?
Good life quotes
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I will perform the test on the speed of Lua-jit, but I wrote redis-v8 not for speed. The fact that the V8 was faster than Lua (regular) was a surprise for me.
Was the rate agreed upon on the front-end, in the invention assignment agreement or later? I haven't seen that term before, but if they had to pay for your time at a decent rate, I'd be okay with it. However, it sounds like the rate wasn't enough to make it worthwhile.
> It's this kind of writing that drives me crazy. IRS may be overreaching, or they may not be; who knows?

Yes, that's the point. Breathless speculation is obnoxious, but that's all we're left with when our government hides its activities from us.
> Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom

> Corel Draw Suite

What about Gimp and Inkscape?

> Sony Vegas Video

I think VirtualDub is open-source and exists on Linux. Good grief, it's been nearly a decade since I did serious video editing...but I'm sure Linux has something.

> Visual Studio

Eclipse, NetBeans, Emacs, KDevelop, ...there are plenty of Linux development suites

> don't get me started on how badly OpenOffice sucks

I've never had any problems; it does what it's supposed to do for me. What are you doing?

> Netflix and Amazon streaming

Linux has VLC, Totem, and Flash Just Works on Linux Mint.

> I can't use other software instead

Why not? Did you make the mistake of buying official Apple hardware? That's your bad, since generic MP3 players and Android phones do everything iJunk does, and are a lot cheaper.
I didn't think about it that way, I guess it's time to put away the pitchfork then.

Sidebar: It's not.
This seems like a form of "Tyranny of the Majority" [1]. Apparently there are several ways of dealing with such things including (ahem) a Bill of Rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
A few pixels here and there, and iOS 7 is beautiful
Not just the NSA, many companies can buy CA privledges from a CA. For instance trustwave used to sell this as a service so companies could watch their employees.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Mozilla-Asked-to-Revoke-Tr...
First off, I can't really fathom why anyone (businesses!) wouldn't keep good offline backups of their email of all things. But it's a fair point– data loss isn't the only threat and Google is not lacking in engineering talent or money. Still, wouldn't their threats scale with their services and number of users? I don't care for any of the features that come with a Google account (really, just mail) but if an attacker found an exploit in any of the services attached to an account things wouldn't be so swell. To some degree the only reason I asked this question in the first place is because admittedly I cannot provide any specific counterargument to what you just stated. I was hoping others might, but I certainly appreciate your weighing in either way. If you really think that Google is the best way to go for practical security (do you use them for Matasano/Cryptopals/...?) then I'll keep them on the top of my list, but it's still out of my price range without significant restructuring. Perhaps I was too hopeful about finding the tarsnap of email or something. Ahh, well.
Is there an ETA on the source code release?
Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan
You can use an IDE and still run and test your code from the command line, and this is often a good idea when it's unclear what the IDE is doing. The IDE still serves as a better editor.
This is really cool because if plug-n-play tor devices become cheap enough to be disposable, then I can see people just adding them to open wi-fi networks with bandwidth caps in order to increase the number of tor exit nodes, which is actually pretty low for such a vital service. Last time I checked there were like 800-1000 exit nodes in existence.
As Dave Wiskus would say, it isn't relevant and it doesn't match - a program needs to look like it belongs in the system it's designed under in order for it to be liked by a user many times.

I haven't used iTunes for many years, but one of the specific things I hated about it back then was that on Windows, is specifically didn't look like it belonged. It ignored your window dressing choices. Screw you if you need big icons for poor vision. Screw you if what Apple thought looked good (beige!) clashed with your setup. It was quite unsexy software. And it forced things on you. I know this file is a TV show, but it won't let me put it into 'TV shows', because it has the "wrong extension", so it goes into 'movies'.

iTunes was far from "sexy" and "just works", back in the day.

Edit: Another doesn't "just work" from back then: "I want to get this song off my ipod. I can read my ipa\od in the file browser and... oh, I can't. It's all gobbledigook. But it's a free song that I put there. Why can't I 'just do this'?"
The problem is the "slippery slope," "it always gets worse," "the government is hopelessly broken," ranting that has become pervasive on HN lately. In the middle of the last century, the Supreme Court allowed the federal government to put tens of thousands of japanese americans in internment camps, including U.S. citizens. In the early 2000's, the same court said that even non-citizens caught in Afghanistan fighting against the U.S. had certain due process and habeas rights as long as they were on U.S. soil.
Yep, here are some possible examples of unpainted and painted (found by Infrared and X-ray spectroscopy):

http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient...
Your ISP and the Government Best Friends Forever (2010)
My point is that this statement promises everything for everyone.

Which means that it does not say what the result will be when a tug of war between goals happens.
Rather than "open sourced" all I see is "a bit open specced". Yes, the "hacker guide" has details of what chips are on the board, and how they are connected:
http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/open-smartwatch-pro...
... and there's a separate page with a guide to putting it in DFU mode to upload a firmware.

Which is cool, but the chip names could have been found by the people who'd already done teardowns and the pinouts could be found by buzzing one out (possibly sacrificially by removing chips.)

The chip datasheets they link were all all already publically available, the Cypress touch sensor one is even a link to alldatasheet.com(!)

Probably the biggest letdown is the Bluetooth/FM chip made by Sony, arguably the most useful and most complex device aside from the MCU. That link is to Sony's marketing specs page with a block diagram and not much technical info that I can see. I can't find any information about the chip made available to the public by Sony.

Ironically enough there is a longer 6 page Sony datasheet leaked on datasheet sites, but even this doesn't have pinouts or begin to explain how the SPI interface to Bluetooth/FM functionality actually works.

I think it's good that a major company like Sony released even this small amount of information, although it's worth noting that reverse engineers have found more information on similar products acting entirely by themselves (take for instance the PS3 Move controller: http://eissq.com/ps3_move/ )

On the other hand I think it's very bad that most people will glance at this and see Sony "open sourcing" something when they appear to be open sourcing nearly nothing. The RTOS they used is probably proprietary property of a third party so they can't open source that, but they could release their application source code for the smartwatch - allowing people to see how they communicate with the Bluetooth/FM chip, for instance. That kind of source could be ported to an open source RTOS.

The optimist in me hopes that detailed technical information will be forthcoming over time, but the pessimist in me thinks this is the feel-good last gasp of an end-of-life product. :/
Nobody needed to speculate about what the IRS manual said; it was right there for them to read.
This is how I use it. It's always there, it's always encrypted, so nothing about my behavior will ever appear to change based on my IM traffic.
For the least common denominator of HN visitors a title like "programmable water" is more attractive than what you proposed.
Poser.
I am not going to call you names or tell you that you are wrong or other blah blah.

But think of one thing, you bought something and the owner of that gives you all these freedoms and trust.

Instead of taking responsibility yourself and only lending it once or giving away once, you not only breaking the trust given to you but also place the burden of trust onto other people by telling them that they must erase the item within 24 hours, basicly blaming them by proxy for your untrustworthy behaviour.
A pre-installed linux machine is one that will have no driver issues. So that same user can happily install linux themselves with no fuss.

Does Flash works ok in major browsers?

Curious argument, given that Apple is trying to kill flash.

What happens when he installs some new gizmo which doesn't have a Linux driver?

The same thing that happens when that new gizmo doesn't have an OSX driver.
So if I have a particular experience with them, I can't draw any inferences about future interactions from that?

Also, Sony itself clearly wishes to be perceived as a single entity, since they proudly display the Sony brand on all their products and marketing.

I can follow that people -- and corporations -- change over time, and sometimes problems like this are flukes, rather than part of the fundamental nature. So I'll stay away from them for a decade or two; if they don't make any other really sleazy moves in that time frame, I'll eventually give them another chance if they make something I want to buy.
Three things that frequently disappoint with T-shirts bought online:

* Thick neck ribbing. In theory this would reinforce the neck, but it looks awful, and is a sure sign of a badly designed T-shirt, in my book.

* "Wing" sleeves. T-shirt sleeves should follow the contour of your arm, not stand out at 45 degrees. It looks nerdy.

* Bad fits. Most T-shirts are just too loose. A "fitted" design that is less loose around the chest works better in my opinion.

Where do you think your shirts stand in terms of the above issues?
You are implying CNN isn't an instrument.
In response to your edit: I don't think many (if any) politicians are in it for the money. It's either the genuine belief that they can improve things or just a straight-up hunger for influence and power.

In light of your edit, I have no idea what point you're trying to get across. Being President is so stressful ... so what? Anyone who could become President is likely well past the "living comfortably" stage so there's obviously something else that drives them. Same goes for any of the Fortune 500 CEOs you refer to (none of them need the money).
Live Stream from Taksim Square [video]
Of course you could argue that those aren't necessarily separate missions.

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/14/opinion/oe-radack14
https://ssd.eff.org/wire/govt/wiretapping-protections

Before 1967, the Fourth Amendment didn't require police to get a warrant to tap conversations occurring over phone company lines. But that year, in two key decisions (including the Katz case), the Supreme Court made clear that eavesdropping — bugging private conversations or wiretapping phone lines — counted as a search that required a warrant.

Well I've thought about it. And I think it's fair to say the USG has never respected the 4th amendment less than it does today.
The U.S. is already far behind many European, and a few African countries on freedom of the press, economic freedom, and other rankings.

I call baloney on this. (Your use of "far" to modify "behind" goes beyond the facts.) Where are the rankings you are referring to? Can you link to those rankings, please?

And, yes, as a matter of fact I do speak and read Chinese, and have lived in east Asia for years after university study of the history and language and culture of China.
In our experience, same applies to also iPhones, but the offsets tend to be time zone granularity. And a lot of users, especially from Asia, seem to use a U.S. VPN or a proxy of some sort. Their devices still have +8 hours or so time zone and an asian carrier name.
and 4444 it is
You could. But mastering just one of those interfaces is already quite an overhead.