skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also posted this a week ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829063
Internet Trouble Brewing in Iran Before Presidential Election
No. It's a federal parliamentary republic (just like the USA), but allows citizen-initiated referendums to challenge all laws passed by the parliament, or even to change the constitution.
Would've been from david@ buro9.com which is a Google Apps domain.

I tend to permanently delete spam, phishing and related dodgy stuff once I've dealt with them in some way. It is just luck that I still had that one I stuck on pastebin as it took some searching to find one that I hadn't nuked.

I'm fairly sure that pastebin is one of the couple I forwarded to you (kept the original in case you wanted the headers), and I believe your email is just matt.cutts@

Edit: Just delving into my inbox, here's another from September 2012. http://pastebin.com/8N3XhLVN . I don't have too many as I am thorough in my deletions, tend to receive at a rate of one or two per week since late Summer last year.

I haven't kept track of Panda as I don't really bother with SEO/SEM beyond making content readable, but a quick search says those updates were March/April this year? Hence my point that these take-downs precede that, and given what appears to be false representation that I believe these people are using FUD to harm competitors.
Except in the cases where it drives people to suicide.
We've been looking into it. I'd really like to get that done, but it's a non-trivial undertaking, and Meteor's DB APIs are still in flux.

I'll see what we can do to accelerate this -- possibly by enticing the community to pick this up.
Plus if the U.S. is not very careful (e.g. by establishing bilateral warrant requirements for some of our allies) I suspect they'll see the E.U. and Asia-Pacific nations starting to develop and adopt federated protocols en masse to workaround the threat of things like FISA.
I haven't used a landline in years now, but when I was a kid it worked that way: one end hanging up wouldn't disconnect the circuit, and if the other end took the phone off-hook shortly afterwards it'd still be connected.

This would sometimes wind up being the deciding factor in the eternal battle of "which sibling gets to use the phone"
A pyrrhic victory if Google's interface is

Bool is_NSA_authorized(int fisa_id) const
{

return True; // Our hands are tied by FAA 702.
// We really don't want to be doing this.
// But we have no choice, its "legal".
// I hope the NSA has some procedures
// to make sure this isn't abused.
// Otherwise they could get anything
// they want from us.
}
Nobody has ever presented any evidence ever that NSA has Google's SSL/TLS keys. Not only that, but Google has (a) pinned their public keys so that the browser binary itself can reject bogus- but- signed certificates, and (b) pushed heavily to enable forward secrecy in TLS, which means that even if you compromise their key, you can't decrypt sessions without being an active man in the middle.
I think there is something to the idea of generational mixing on Facebook causing a loss of value. A friend today posted a picture of a cat with its tail in the air where the "view" looked like Jesus. His mother then promptly commented how not funny it was. Facebook with your parents on it is a different world than it used to be.
which guardian article is being discussed? because if you look at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n... they are absolutely correct in what they report. everything is qualified with "the documents say...", etc.
British papers tend to do that not as "scare quotes" but because they often quote someone else's description of an event in their headlines, or refer to it in the article.
The program cost comes directly from the slides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
It does, at least in the UK
Greenwald Stands By His NSA Reporting in Spite of Growing Questions
a method patent generally should not be "simple and straighforward" (but there are always things like "patent on a method to swing on a swing"). But molecule patents are not method patents.

Furthermore, what constitutes a "trivial chemical manufacturing step" is not really appropriate for a legal decision. Even if step 12 in the synthesis is obvious, is it trivial to decide to use a 500 L batch fed reactor with piping radius X, with a copper pipe, and chiller unit Z for step 12? But in the molecule patents, the steps to synthesis are not necessarily relevant. All that is claimed is the structure of the molecule.

"all the synthetic organic chemists I know are pursuing incredibly complex and difficult procedures"

Keep in mind that the pursuit of complex and difficult procedures (or, really, the molecules that lead to them) is the essential purpose of synthetic organic chemistry in academia, and industrial chemistry is a very, very different beast. Those easy reactions that you learned in your intro ochem class textbook (SNs, Es, Aryl substitutions, halogenations, nitrations, carbonyl chemistry...) it's really those reactions that dominate industrial chemistry - for several reasons - they don't require exotic conditions (extreme cold, extreme hot) - they aren't super exothermic - that's a huge problem when you scale to 500 L you don't want your reaction chamber to turn into a bomb - they have been around for decades so optimization techniques are well characterized - they have been around for decades so regulatory approval is simpler.

But all of this is moot, because the patenting of a molecule doesn't generally hing on the process.

Consider - if you had a Drexler-like nanomachine that could 3d-print a molecular structure on demand, such that chemistry would essentially become "kit-ified" in the same way that molecular biology is, should then chemical patents then be invalidated?

"Patent law is legal invention intended to maximize innovation and advancement, there is no underlying need for consistency in different realms. The biological and chemical realms have completely different monetization strategies, and it would make sense for the IP realms to be different, just as there are completely different standards for patents of composition, methods and systems."

That is generally supposed to be for congress to decide, not the courts.
I think Bob Lefsetz already wrote this article.
Maybe the Robotics Revolution Will Start in the Toy Aisle
Which travel company should Yahoo buy?
The only issue I've had is that the network seems to drop every so often. Using them right now as an OpenVPN end point/IRC client.
OpenVZ is basically identical to lxc, which is one of the underlying components of Docker.

Docker could be ported from lxc to openvz (and probably will be in the future as a plugin, as it has been requested).

That is to say, Docker is not a replacement for OpenVZ, or any other low-level container capability. It's simply a higher-level tool which is built on top.
I'd rather have tools that I understood. You know, when they break.
Btcscript – the script package from btcd
Wrong title. Facebook IS old. For a lot of us. Teens are still on there heavily, but the transition to mobile is bigger than ever. Teens are heavily on mobile, rarely on a browser.

FB is also full of maybe 200M+ fake accounts (if we're saying 1.1B total) - I created a few accounts for testing purposes, research, etc. and added well over 100 users per account = 99% fake.

What's strange is how FB is still the premier social network when the life cycle of these things is usually shorter... They have a big user base so that helps, but something is just around the corner. They'll still be around, but teens, kids, etc. will transition. Such as the state of the Internets
I think the single biggest thing technologists could do is try to turn the US into a direct democracy.

It's probably the only way out of the downward spiral we've found ourselves in.
Also this is all a sideshow if Google is in fact trying to conceal the existence of alien spacecraft recovered from Roswell.
IME:
email is worthless. canned letters / faxes go in the garbage. A polite phone call may accomplish something. Better yet if you donated or voted for that politician. Even better if you phone banked.

I called my representatives and told them they got $2700 plus several days phone banking from me last election cycle. If they don't get right on this, they're getting $0 next time; I'm not going to have to work too hard to figure out something fun to waste a saved $3k on.

Oh, and if the above bothers you, support public funding of elections. He who pays the bills calls the shots, and all those companies profiting off surveilling the world make a lot of donations.
Meet the cloud that will keep you warm at night
The Post that was Never Written
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>Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions.

Studies might suggest so, but irl programmings have been creating very cool stuff with music blazing from the speakers.

From Notch to JZW.
Playing into Dutch stereotypes of what Americans are like would indicate that the story is more likely fake, no?
That could have been their manual process before Prism as well...
As someone who works in (completely unrelated) support, the numerous emails may be a contributing factor to your problem. Most support is done using last contact as the priority. When you send a new email, you're resetting that counter and bumping yourself to the bottom of the queue.

This was a problem we had with a /particular/ support system (Kayako) and we've since resolved it (with ZenDesk) but if they're using something silly like Kayako, that might be the reason.

Also, if they have a phone number, use it.

Not justifying what they do, just trying to help you work them out.
The precise mechanism isn't important. The key question is: is there mass surveillance going on without warrants? And the answer appears to be yes. No one has disputed, for example, the Verizon leaks that started all this.
Have you tried Umlet http://www.umlet.com/ ?
The wording was indeed "collection directly from the servers". [1]

Robert O'Harrow et. al.'s followon article from the Washington post had more details [2]

Intelligence community sources said that this description, although inaccurate from a technical perspective, matches the experience of analysts at the NSA. From their workstations anywhere in the world, government employees cleared for PRISM access may “task” the system and receive results from an Internet company without further interaction with the company’s staff....

According to a more precise description contained in a classified NSA inspector general’s report, also obtained by The Post, PRISM allows “collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations,” rather than directly to company servers. The companies cannot see the queries that are sent from the NSA to the systems installed on their premises, according to sources familiar with the PRISM process.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-com...
>> "FB is also full of maybe 200M+ fake accounts"

Source?
Have you done the math on your marketplace idea? How much would a typical transaction be? What % of that would you charge as fees? How many jobs can you sell in a month and how?

No need to bust out Excel and do any complicated models, but it's surprising how few people even do the mental arithmetic to figure out the volume of business and prices they need to charge to make rent.

For example, most people starting out with SaaS go with freemium with a premium plan of... you guessed it right.. $10/month!!! But, even at a conversion rate of 2% (which is not trivial and assumes you're making something people actually want), you'd need 3,000 users to earn your $600 of current living expenses, ignoring things like business costs and tax.

Do the math.
Interesting, I did not know (b). That certainly makes me feel a lot better.
Google has directly contradicted what you are saying about rubber stamping requests. See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html and http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/asking-us-government-....

For example: "Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process."
"They" being someone that posted an image on bittorrent? Apple doesn't license OS X for VMWare anywhere except Apple hardware. You can't even run a 10.8 guest on a 10.7 host per their license, which is really annoying.
Is there any good, cheap service for user testing that you would recommend?
I've been working on an online game and I'd love to do a usability test.

I've only had a few people visit online and that traffic has slowed significantly. I've tried approaching people randomly at Starbucks and buying pizza and exchanging it for testing at local schools, but no one has been willing to try it, even with the free offer for coffee or pizza.
It's a pretty significant difference. Even with the rubber stamp, the US Govt is limited to what they've asked for and received.

With direct access, they could have pulled everything.

In the case of Verizon/AT&T - the Government has everything, and, in the event of a new law/govt/executive branch - they would be able to do anything with the data they had already collected.

I was very concerned that US Govt had access had direct access to Google/Facebook servers. I'm not particularly worried about their ability to do authorized requests for user information.

Hopefully Verizon/AT&T will now transition to the same place as google/facebook are - having those entire databases of all telephone data is ripe for abuse, regardless of what claims they might make about safeguards are in place.
That UML is used about as often these days as UML notation, given the availability of virtualization solutions like KVM. Its time has come and gone.
Sounds like a business opportunity for someone. Even based on this thread there seem to be a few shops that would pay for support for it.
I'm pretty sure you missed his joke.

"You can write an email to yourself."

AKA

They are going to read your personal email anyways...
Which "democracy" isn't a republic? I don't think any country actually has direct/pure democracy.

The state of California is closer than most I think. IIRC part of their budget troubles were because some issues require a referendum.
It's possible that conceiving in those circumstances could be copyright infringement, but that's just a civil tort. So the parents might get sued for lots of money, but there wouldn't be any claims against the child. I don't see how slavery enters into it.

I'd hope that a court would hold differently with human reproduction than Bowman v. Monsanto, but even if they don't it wouldn't be anything to do with the 13th Amendment.
It may well have been . And thats not their fault if their hands are legally tied. Especially since they appear to be trying to actually disclose what they have to hand over.

My comment wasn't meant as a dig at Google, they are forced to comply with what ever the law actually authorized. My point was we need to know how much they can actually be forced to hand over and what checks there are on that power being abused.
My suggestion: use 7-zip

Open Source, available on all the major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX). You can find also the MSI version that can be deployed via Active Directory GPO

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Oh, and you can create self-extracting file too (even though I don't know if you can unpack them on other platforms, never tried, but I should bet you can do it)
I've read that snail mail is a more effective approach, does your wife agree?
Official source: FB's SEC Form 10-Q (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125123...)

Double or triple that number for reality, plus add a year since that report. Also common sense when you have 10 accounts with 100 users each, all fake :)

Edit: It's closer to 12-18% of all accounts (incl. 5-6% duplicate accounts)
I'll try that option. I was just building it into the project as a separate module dependency out of habit from Java, but no real need to do that.

Ahh, I know of that project. Like it quite a bit. Was just confused over the ambiguity of the term "annotations." Thanks for the followup though.
Hmm. The more interesting point is that nearly half of the Hacker News community is under 24.
posted last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5839043
Another 3rd party service possibly in decline as Twitter opens their analytics
House, Senate Intel. Cmtes. Receive NSA Briefings http://www.c-span.org/Events/House-Senate-Intel-Cmtes-Receiv...

In which Keith Alexander claims to have stopped "dozens" of terrorist attacks, and that too much disclosure will "cause" attacks. Mike Rogers (R-Mich) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md) then go on to confess to the world that the US hires lowly high school dropouts, and gives them high security top secret clearance; but in the next breath claims that you shouldn't believe anything Snowden says because he is a high school dropout who can't hold a job. Then they go on to imply that Snowden is working with the Chinese. Claim that whistleblower laws would've protected Snowden (I bet Thomas Drake and Bill Binney might beg to differ). The two congressmen sound more like used car salesmen to me, and tell what sounds like more lies, half-truths, and cute word games. Rogers claims "at least 10 terror attacks averted"
He says that for gmail for example, it would be encrypted from Gmail to Gmail user, but not Gmail to some other users, through SMTP, because then the data leaving Google is not encrypted anymore.
I never thought about it that way...
You've got to pay to play.
Xombrero: secure open source browser
Is the formalism of UML actually useful?

I don't think I've ever done a collaborative software project without scribbling some boxes representing system components on a piece of paper. Sequence diagrams are also quite useful (instead of showing who has a reference to whom, you're showing flow of control).

But, once the understanding has been passed on, the documents get scrunched up and chucked in the bin. No-one worries about representing the minutae of inheritance on them. I certainly don't see the point of showing them to a customer.
Most people I know wouldn't add their parents or older relatives. Personally I've only added a few family members (mostly so I can use Facebook Messages with them), added them to a list, and only explicitly publish to that list. Most of my content is published to friends except family.
Because direct democracy has worked so unbelievably well in the past, yes?
Are they? The Guardian has selectively released three or four slides out of 41. You can split hairs and try to come up with some contrived reading of the article that could be argued as accurate, but I think in reality everyone understood the article to be claiming that the NSA had unfettered access to the severs of tech companies.
>I wonder how many more users Linux must gain untill people perceive it as something normal that they can just use.

If that happens, it will happen after the people no longer notice what OS they're using and don't even know that they are using Linux (E.g. android, chromebook, etc).
Forward secrecy proposal for those curious: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-balfanz-tls-channelid-00 .
Awesome service. Good to see how far it's come since 500
Congrats, this is a great win for DO.
It did at one time, and could still in some places. I can recall growing up in rural North Carolina in the late 70's and early 80's, when one party staying on the line, after the other hand hung up, would keep the connection open.
Yeah, esp. #2 bugs me SO much. I wish if in a multi-language project, JS would at least be "only 0.1 priority" or something for GitHub when guessing languages.

Even cooler would be if they showed the 2-4 top languages in a repo (depending on screen space), but again preferably with JS/CSS only counting at 10% or something..
He is implying with the evidence that werkzeug which he wrote is much bigger than bottle owing to complexities of wsgi/http, and bottle's smaller size means either the implementation is incomplete or the implementation is too clever or both.
Our CTO moved us (sleep.fm & SpeakerBlast) to DigitalOcean a few months ago.

We were using GoDaddy so this is definitely a step up!
Well, that's not nice.
An interesting article was just published with the headline "Greenwald gives away the game on his PRISM claim." He is continuing to walk back his original claims of direct access.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42126_Greenwald_give...
The Guardian isn't walking back anything. The submitted article just takes another Guardian article about a different aspect of the story (article title: "NSA scandal: Microsoft and Twitter join calls to disclose data requests") and proceeds to call it a walk-back, which it is not.
I still think this is karmic justice for Google usurping the name of the existing programming language called Go! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
That's one, but the basic mechanism --- deriving session keys from RSA-signed DH exchanges --- is old, and is simply a ciphersuite (Google deploys an ECC-version of it for performance).
Friday: press conference/rally about NSA in DC
Actually, a lot of Europeans think they aren't European and in fact anyone outside their own country is a savage.

Stereotypes have their uses, but let's be careful throwing them around at people.
Udacity Hires Former Zynga COO Vish Makhijani to Lead Operations
I was an intern for a congressman. My job was to answer and return constituent emails and calls. We took the feedback, searched for the proper prewritten form letter, printed it out and sent it back with a stamp of the congressman's signature. He never got a single bit of the feedback himself.
There is nothing inherently wrong with choosing to release reports that you own or have exclusive license to in any way you want, tiered or not. I pay for Showtime, and therefore I get to see new Homeland episodes before people downloading from free torrent sites get to. I have chosen to pay; they have chosen not to pay. Same thing here.

A significant chunk of the money Reuters pays for the reports, which they recoup through subscriptions, winds up going to pay for the production of the reports anyway. The only thing that surprises me about this is how much money they are likely leaving on the table. They should let people bid for early access.