skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old solution is to drop three words in the document pizza which are clearly out of context. When customer says he has read the tos, great, let's give him 60 seconds to tell which words didn't belong to the banana document. It's easy to give those word if you did read it, if you didn't then you're not clearly smart enough to use our service and your monkey account application has been refused. Thank you.

Btw. IBM cloud computing agreement was so ridiculously long, that I can signup and setup everything up and running with Linode or UpCloud before I have even finished reading their agreement.
Remarks on Alan Perlis's Epigrams in Programming
I believe the purpose of service is to raise awareness of your legal rights and what rights you sacrifice when using the service.

In Common Law jurisdictions, "I read and agree with ToS" is prima facie (on its surface) binding on the user. You cannot get away from a contract by simply not reading it - many people would repudiate their contracts if this was the case. I do not believe there is such a law in Common Law about "tricking people" to sign contracts. Whether a term is lawful depends on the circumstances of the case - this is why law is complex and must be cases must be litigated in order to determine lawfulness.

Many contracts we sign are one-sided. This is due to the respected bargaining power of the parties. The courts and the legislature have to balance between interfering with the freedom of contract and the notion of fairness. Some terms must be one-sided by nature- eg: banks can unilaterally change the interest rate on your property.
This. Except I somehow doubt it should only apply to males.
The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization - Christopher Domas
Okay, crazy person. Perhaps look into getting some therapy for your anger issues.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/06/big_4_isps_will_all_...

ISP level
This is so absolutely wrong that I can't even....

When a firm challenges them, they change philosophies and strategies (and they win). Remember the GHz race that Intel eventually won? They won not because they had better manufacturing technology than AMD (which they did), but because they totally changed direction away from increasing the clock to improving the communications buses and optimizing instructions/cycle. Yes they're often anticompetitive, but this isn't something new in the semiconductor industry (Intel was the only one that had enough market share to go after).

As for incremental improvements, you're kidding right? Every jump in semiconductor manufacturing is a huge leap, both in performance and technological complexity and they've been first to mass market with (i think) every new process in the last decade.
Yes, I'm projecting my regrets; it's a useful mechanism for making predictions. I was like that, and I certainly have regrets about high school experiences that I missed out on because I was too busy being intelligent. But mostly, high school got a lot better once I realized that intellectual superiority was overrated and I made an effort to fit in socially. The things I value most from that time are the "shallow" experiences, that I also looked down upon for a number of years.
Regarding the movies that's very nice of you. Do you discuss the movie with anyone after watching it?
Hey Reed! Good to see you're still with Mozilla
very cool. thank you for all your work.

I also suggest that I can click into the brief description which will bring us to the exact term in question and highlight any other relevant terms. This may increase the chances of people reading the ToS and also increase participation. If I was reading a term on your site and I was referred to the actual term and realized that ToS;DR is incorrect, i would likely to correct it.
Better link:

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon2/4-2-1-ch...
It would be beneficial for the discussion if you could recall any specific examples of things you misinterpreted or missed as a teenage reader.
"Dual Income, No Kids" (I had to look it up)
The story of open-sourcing a Conference
Not a great place for raising a family: expensive, bad schools, disfunctional government, drugs on streets, and lots of crazies[1]. Pretty much everyone I have ever know who had kids in SF moved away within a few years.

The demographics always reminded me of China where you did not see as many girls because of the one child policy. In SF children of both sexes (10% of population) are just missing:

Persons under 18 (2010 Census)
US 23.7% [2]
SF 13.5% [3]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pse50YZsyck [NSFW: male nudity & mild violence]

[2] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

[3] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html
I wonder when we'll be able to buy it on DVD. I have a feeling I'm going to end up having to get one of my relatives to ship it to me from Russia.
Unless you're using tracking mechanisms such as the discussed in the post, the only information the sender has is that the destination SMTP server acknowledged the delivery.

After that, you know nothing. The mail could be deleted straight away and never delivered to a mailbox.

I think it's a valid point, specially when this is part of a campaign for privacy. Is it that important for Mozilla to collect that information?

EDIT: typo
Seems like microsoft have that expertises:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/micros...
witness: the annoyingly breathless tone of the entire article.
> 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.

How do you feel about other applications of ARM in the datacenter? I seem to hear a lot about it, now.
28k for food and random living expenses is a lot of money unless you are eating out for every meal; that's more that some people's entire paycheck (like grad students.) If you can't make room for savings in there, it definitely shows a lack of priorities.
What are those "real facts"? The Verizon Business court order alone is damaging enough.
What does "cannot" in the quote from Rep. Nadler mean?

“I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that,
as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the
content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific
warrant.”

I hesitate to draw any conclusions from that statement given the administration's secret lingo and willingness to make the "least untruthful" statements they can conveniently make.

Are we to assume that all the concerned agencies and courts have no secret interpretations of the laws to mean otherwise? That they are not technically capable? (I've implemented CALEA in a VoIP network, so I'm quite sure they can.) That there are actual technical barriers implemented within the agencies which prevent its personnel from doing so without specific legal oversight?

Or maybe it's just soothing noise with no specific or verifiable meaning.
Latency is important, yes, but for static content and other "simple" things, network latency and slow clients means you can often serve the content "fast enough" with very slow CPU's. It's not unusual to serve hundreds of connections or more per core with an x86 server. In that case, lowering the number of connections to run it of a slower core can be viable with quite slow CPUs, and it becomes a question of cost per client served.
The current problem with linux is apps and the desktop itself. Apps - where do I start? There are so many to choose from, yet most will never do the complete job. Most desktop environments have devolved into a sorry state in the name of 'organic UI' and mostly unusable graphics animations by the window managers.

Things are becoming much easier these days though since everything is moving to the cloud and steam has arrived.
> Yes anecdotal evidence is useless, but you consider not agreeing to sit through 30 mins of ads before you see something that you already paid €10 for is 'unreasonable' !?

Yes, I do. Ads are a cheap way to make something profitable that would otherwise not be. You should be thankful we even have theaters these days.

If you think it is unreasonable, why don't you find something better to do with your time and money? You could make a nice dinner for two with €10 and have a much better time than you would being angry at ads and those rich assholes in Hollywood. Nobody's forcing you to watch films.
Minimum Viable Marketing
A download appears to be available:

http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/blackhat-arsenal-2012-rele...
I will really love to see information about time complexity of DB operations
Uh huh. Facebook connects PEOPLE by giving them a place to share photos and links. Butchers, restaurants, and NASA are all about PEOPLE but that doesn't mean you're saying anything useful.
It's twice the typical grad student pay check. (Ignoring the tuition/healthcare coverage you normally get, anyway.)
$70 a day for “food and random living expenses” is far from not having much left, particularly after your $12K for “transport, cell phone, random monthly bills like student loans” which is pretty generous. Sure, you can definitely spend that much but it's not like you need to have every single meal at a nice restaurant, go to bars every night, etc.
* Environment*

In theory, cities are better. It's cheaper to build a road network for 10 million people than 1000 road networks for 10,000 people. You can ship stuff in with container ships, rather than trucks.

But this might cause people to be more wasteful. Everything is cheap and accessible, so they consume more stuff.
The census citation is pretty incredible indeed...
About schools, that's something you could never tell just looking at the city that seems very civilized, and this usually correlates with quality of schools. I hope there will be efforts to fix that in the future.
The constant inversion of evil is a clear reference.
We don't have to solve every problem simultaneously.
Those types of consequences should indeed be thought through, but your same argument applies to essentially everything else that even a local city government could possibly do.

E.g. police, what if someone gets the bright idea to use them to suppress lawful, peaceful protesters or hackers just trying to change the world, instead of just going after the unquestionably evil? The conclusion you might reach would be that the government should not have any police, or military, or taxes, or social welfare programs, etc.

Maybe someday we'll have an anarcho-utopian world where that not only works, but is ideal; but for now I'd prefer to avoid living in a stateless wasteland where the only real rule is that might makes right.

Does that mean this program to reduce child porn is worth the risk to civil liberties? I don't know, I haven't really looked at it. But if we consider only whether what we do could possibly harm anyone else ever then there won't be much we can do at all.
Well...

What he actually is quoted as saying is "...the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant."

Listen to, not capture. He says nothing about capturing the data.

There have been indications that they capture massive amounts of data, but they believe it's legal to do so, as long as they don't listen to it until they have a warrant.
Indeed; this is why provable security is so important:

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~luby/PAPERS/blind.ps

http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/316.pdf

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/papers/blind_sigs-proc.pdf
Sounds like London, UK where I currently reside with three children...

Expensive: check. Bad schools: check. Disfunctional government: check. Drugs on streets: check. Lots of crazies: check.

The thing I hate is that people wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

Going to move out to the countryside I think...

As for the nutter on BART, I got urinated on whilst on the tube in London .... twice. And no I was not on fire :)
Can you link to sources for such data? From what I remember the 80386s and Acorns had roughly the same MIPS rating, but I can't find datasheets comparing bus speeds.

Either way, yes I'm wrong, they started out as a non-mobile processor company.
Cheney Defends PRISM
Admittedly I'm sure there is some expense to running these lawsuits, but Boise Schiller (?) took on the suit with a cap on the cost to SCO: that is to say, right now, they're required to do all of this on their own dime.
I think that more 'consumer-oriented' or maybe 'convention over configuration' distros have this kind of thing covered. I recently installed Crunchbang Linux and it already has suggested, pre-installed apps for "terminal/file manager/editor/media player/web browser/task manager/screenshot" over on the right hand side of the desktop.

But yeah, the 'which app do I choose?' problem is very real.
I enjoyed reading this as I'm planning on visiting CA next summer with my wife and son. I wanted to look at Palo Alto etc and consider emigrating there. If he and the other commenters on this thread are right and the schools suck, there's not a lot of families and the cost of living is really that high, it probably won't be a good idea.
This should article should be taken with a piece of salt. Firstly this was a debate outside of Parliament. Secondly Claire Perry isn't really anyone of note, and certainly doesn't have the power to force this through on her own.

Also I don't think this was in the queen's speech.

There isn't even a draft bill yet. Also depending on the press, this could be silently dropped. The only people that really want this are the daily mail, and the rabbid anti porn lobby.
Sure. But the revelation from the CNet story was Nadler's apparent belief that no warrant was required for them to listen to calls.

It's also worth knowing that the USG flatly denies that they're using any authority that allows them to acquire information without calling it "collection" until an analyst accesses it. They used to, but officials now say they no longer rely on that authority; if they have the information, says the USG, they have it, full stop.
The nearby town of Taormina is awesome.
That's not a double standard at all. OSX having superior hardware support because it runs in a walled garden on hand picked hardware from Apple themselves is entirely by design and something Apple put a lot of energy, money and dedication into. OSX absolutely should benefit from this over other OSes, as it did not come for free.
I think this is normal everywhere in the US. I expect this has little to do with SF and more to do with the fact that many people all over the country, regardless of income level, are living far beyond their means and lack the discipline to make saving a priority; the US average personal savings rate has fallen to 2.5%. But what percentage buys cable tv, smartphones with data plans, auto loans for more car than they needed, etc?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/PSAVERT.txt
Strange, Glowing Night Clouds Continue to Spread
OCD is id, high standards are ego
Conventional encryption (strong or otherwise) does absolutely nothing to prevent wiretaps.

If the encryption algorithm that's used is well respected among cryptographers and has no known, practically exploitable weaknesses; if this algorithm has been implemented correctly in the encryption software; if the software is used properly by every party involved in the communcation; if these parties' systems have not been compromised; if the people or entitites interested in your communication are not (like the NSA is speculated to be) 20 to 30 years ahead of the public cryptography community -- all very big if's -- then you might buy yourself some time until the encryption is finally broken (something that might happen tomorrow, or next month, or next year, or 20 years from now, or never, who knows?).

In the meantime, your encrypted communication could be intercepted, recorded, and stored indefinitely -- and available for a practically limitless number of decryption attempts in the future.
If you look at the growth of the no-fly list, 300 sounds like an implausibly low number considering the likelihood of adding-to-the-list whoever is on the receiving end of each call.

No Fly List Statistics:

In mid-December 2001, two lists were created: the "No Fly List" of 594 people to be denied air transport, and the "Selectee" list of 365 people who were to be more carefully searched at airports.

By December 2002, the No Fly List held more than 1,000 names.

60 Minutes reported on 8 October 2006 that the news program had obtained a March 2006 copy of the list that contained 44,000 names.

TSA officials said that, as of November 2005, 30,000 people in 2005 had complained that their names were matched to a name on the list via the name matching software used by airlines.

In April 2007, the United States government "terrorist watch list" administered by the Terrorist Screening Center, which is managed principally by the FBI, contained 700,000 records.

A year later, the ACLU estimated the list to have grown to over 1,000,000 names and to be continually expanding.

However, according to Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, in October 2008 the No Fly list contained only 2,500 names, with an additional 16,000 "selectees", who "represent a less specific security threat and receive extra scrutiny, but are allowed to fly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List
Well, sometimes they do have a point. I posted some replies defending open allocation for example.
Absolutely anecdotal evidence but I have noticed that men prefer generally their porn visual while the women in written form. There is reason why the slashfic writers and consumers are mostly female.
This is something of a major problem to solve with one of two major outcomes that aren't mutually exclusive:

1. The blocking comes up with many false positives blocking many things that shouldn't be blocked (the John Graham-Cumming issue)

2. They don't catch everything, which is very likely, and the work required to get around blocking by teenagers is minimal.
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And then in 5 years, when the program rises from the dead only with a different name and a more closely-screened cadre of analysts, what then?

I hate to say it but what you're saying is like telling a 17-year-old that the only way to protect themself from STD/pregnancy is to never have sex. I mean, you're right, but you're also failing to cope with the reality of the situation. ;)
I wish somebody would ask whether computer-transcribed conversations are considered to have been "listened to".
Author here.

My purpose with this post is not to expose Mozilla, but to show how deep many of us are in this business. I admit I am guilty of similar practices myself.

I think we should use this privacy crisis to stop and rethink what are we gathering about our users, how are we doing it, can we really guarantee their privacy in our countries and on technological platforms we use.

If you really care about your users, think before gathering any of their data. It may end up somewhere you or they do not want.
What forces do you see bringing together SF as a melting pot? I've only spent a small amount of time there, and with a very small subset of people, but my experience has been that there is a large group of people from very similar backgrounds (20-something from Stanford/MIT/CMU in the tech industry).

I absolutely agree about the motivated, friendly people part. There's definitely a "pay it forward" culture in the tech community which you can feel in the atmosphere.
Well some people's priorities might involve having an active social life, dressing well, paying for entertainment, etc... all of which will be expensive.

It's not a "lack" of priorities, it's just a different set of them.
> I think it's quite obvious that the DVD market declined due to a combination of low perceived value, unreasonable inconvenience, and extremely fragile media.

Why would you say DVDs are fragile? Disk media replaced tapes, which were much more so.

Markets don't decline due to negative reasons. People are generally willing to put up with a subjectively poor experience if its absence would be worse. Instead they die when something else offers something better.

In this case, Netflix. It is not poor DVD quality that stopped people from buying them, it's Netflix and competitors. If DVDs sucked, they never would have replaced video tapes.
If they capture everyone's calls, they're not targeting anyone until someone listens to one.
Sarcastic. Not too long ago, npm install was done that way. And IIRC I had to install some Python package manager that way too (or was it PHP?).
They do, in the DoD.
Mayor Bloomberg Tells Stanford Graduates To Go To NYC For Tech
OK, I've finally been motivated to go read the law itself. You can find it at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1881a.

There are a lot of interesting things in there. For instance g.1.B allows wiretapping BEFORE they get the FISA rubber stamp. (But the warrant is still required to be sought. Whether this is done in practice is another question, but the warrant is still needed.)

However to me the single biggest red flag is g.4 which reads, A certification made under this subsection is not required to identify the specific facilities, places, premises, or property at which an acquisition authorized under subsection (a) will be directed or conducted.

Why is this interesting? Well compare with the 4th amendment, with the important bit highlighted by captitalization, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, AND PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE PLACE TO BE SEARCHED, and the person or things to be seized.

How can anyone pretend that this law is constitutional???
I would interpret this to mean "does not" rather than "is not technically capable of".
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Are you saying that the U.S. has more than ~300 people overseas actively working on terror plots at any given time?

You can't represent cost:threat ratio as dollars per person tracked. The major reason for why the program exists is to detect and break-up one-off major terrorist plots so even if the NSA was detecting all worldwide terror plans against the U.S. the number of people they were tracking would never be very high.

This is what all the people saying that the risk of dying from terrorism is so completely low have been reminding us, remember?
It's important to keep in mind that our national histories color what these words mean to us and what we think the implications are.

Another example of this is the massive paranoia in Germany about Streetview before it came out in that country. That one seems to have been unwarranted.
I don't know, maybe something happened around the 2008-2009 timeframe to cause the executive agency to start changing the policies regarding the usefulness of lists with millions of names on it... can't quite put my finger on what that change might have been though.
I disagree. The default gnome2 desktop (provided by Mate) is top notch. Outside of this there are a core of decent, consistent apps and an ancillary of total crap. This is the same with Windows and OS-X.

In fact most non-core Windows and OSX apps are absolutely criminal.

Sure the cloud and Steam are more convenient, but this form of convenience will be the fall of us all and convert us into consumption targets ready to be milked regularly.
Being one of the engineers actually using it on a daily basis, all I can say is: I don't know why you have the impression that that is the way you need to use the product in practice, but that certainly doesn't match our experience. We hardly use the workflow and reporting components and you really don't need to, to make good use of it. And we're quite happy with Greenhopper as well. It's far from perfect, but Greenhopper is useful to us, where all other project planner / issue tracker crossovers were found to be borderline useless for our use cases.