skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you use a hybrid approach. The text transcription can be fed into programs that look for specific phrases, build up social networks, etc. And then anyone you decide you actually want to monitor you keep audio as well as the machine transcription.

The machine transcription remains incredibly valuable for broad surveillance even though it is highly imperfect.
Agreed, I don't know how you are going to cool that thing quietly or cheaply. I think the thermal load would be less on two cpu chips running at 2/3-rds the GHz. It might be cheaper to build as well.
Bitcoin isn't enough because it isn't anonymous. We'll have to wait for Zerocoin.
I think the important thing being discussed here is devaluing versus penalization. Downranking sites because other sites are serving content/users more effectively isn't a penalization it's a downrank. It's also no different than your desktop site being downranked because someone has built a better performing, better delivering site. Penalization is a completely different animal where your site is removed from SERP's. It really just comes down to creating a good user experience and they aren't going to value a mobile site doing a catch all redirect to a mobile homepage just like they wouldn't carry the same value for a desktop site that gets rebuilt and does a catch all redirect from the old site to the new.
I wonder how two of these (16 cores) compare against the new mac pro with the best CPU in software that benefits from many cores like 3D rendering and such or virtualization.
Id bet they are close while the AMD only costs a fraction of the Xeon. I know its not a fair comparision since the FX-9000 is not a workstation cpu, but still...
> As for why AMD is going for this route, rather than trying to beat Intel in per clock efficiency?

Well, because clock speeds are something they can improve now, and not in $n years time when their next major microarchitecture is ready. Intel had the exact same problem with the Pentium 4, and they were similarly stuck with minor tweaks and desperately increasing clock rates for years before Core was ready.
TLDR: Teaser for an upcoming, not-yet-written article in the SCMP. No new info here.
Coder turns to live in a Forest, Homeless by Choice
'But he told Post reporter Lana Lam: "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."'

Boy was that wannabe superman.
Rather, they are louder.
It's not like you're footing the bill for all foreign students single-handedly. There's this thing called society. You're part of it.

If you think your taxes are being "wasted" on foreign students, as if those freeloaders are being forced on institutions like MIT by the government, take it up with your representative or senator.

The academic world is bigger than the US. It might shock you but there are some very capable students outside those borders and MIT would very much like to have them doing research at MIT rather than somewhere else.
You can try this mobile HN app. You can set font size and change it to night mode (Dark theme) if you like.

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Depends how much you trust your VPS provider.
I don't think it would be illegal for the NSA to just hand over a bundle of cash to $randomRussianVPSProvider in exchange for access to their logs.

Hell, for all we know half of these companies could be the NSA.
Junior Azure dev's reflections on 8 months in corporate dev
http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
Cozy is free and open source, so you can host it at home on your NAS, your RasPi or an online server you rent. Cozy Cloud offers facilitators to host your cloud, if Cozy make bad things of your data, most of the users will leave and Cozy Cloud will probably close.
How most startups work
Grad school applications are generally treated with little attention to citizenship. Then PhD students work on research projects that largely are funded by government research grants. The US government really is paying to get some research done, and the universities are accomplishing this in the best way they can, by attracting the best talent they can, worldwide.
Software is inherently modular - the whole point is to combine and produce unique configurations that might produce business value. The USPTO likens this to an invention, but its really more the like creating a unique looking house - and obviously you can't patent the act of making a house.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Keep in mind we are relatively young project, in the future we will make possible to move easily your instance from one provider to another.
It does address the point.

You can't get Google's private key from any cert authority. That's the point. If you compromise a cert authority, you can create fake certs to execute a man in the middle attack, but you can't passively decode encrypted traffic.
I like the author's argument about insurance, but I hate HSAs. Things like HSAs are a regressive tax on people who don't have accountants and/or disposable income. It's also a regressive tax on small businesses and entrepreneurs due to the administrative overhead. Anything that complicates matters is a regressive "complexity tax."
We can run, or we can fight!
The problem with GNOME 3
Nice....but without a self-hosted option we can't even begin to consider using this, any plans for this in the future?
Pure CSS v0.2.0 released, available on CDN
Nifty - useful for quick testing tasks.

The concerns though are the sustainability - if instances are paid for and not free tier + bandwidth, it could not be around for long, particularly if it gets abused.

Also, privacy/security - there is no guarantee that instances are destroyed/erased after use and won't get assigned to someone else or logged into. Probably don't want to put private code/IPR on there just in case.

For quick commands (eg, testing a firewall setup from the outside or checking something from an external ip) then it's very cool indeed.
NSA doesn't follow the law shocked? :))
That's a tired point to make, especially since it's not relevant anymore. Ubuntu ditched the brown a while back, and the orange definitely makes it stand out compared to its competitors.
that's a yotta bytes
People throw out their privacy for the ability to share cat pictures. I'm not surprised they would move from a bad platform (M$) to a worse one (Apple) because of shiny graphics.
Google Chrome LOTR easter egg
Look at the source of the Google Chrome void page (where apps and recent pages). There's a Lord of the Rings reference tucked away in the HTML comments.
Which even Schneier has said is a conspiracy theory.
The problem is that clock doesn't really mean anything concrete in terms of real world performance. It's strictly a marketing thing.

For an example, what if a chip used a 10 GHz clock for distribution, and divided it down to 5 GHz everywhere it was actually used (not that I know of any reason to do such a thing besides marketing). Would it be marketable as a 10 GHz chip? The manufacturer would certainly be in hot water if enthusiasts ever found out...

Even without such contrived scenarios, CPUs get different amounts of stuff done per clock.

Something I keep seeing, even on Slashdot and Hacker News, is the idea that a CPU that has to clock higher for a given performance will use more power. It seems to me that if you've got double the clock, the likely explanation is that half the transistors are switching per clock, and power consumption should be orthogonal to clock/IPC ratio.

If anyone's got any contrary ideas on that, I'd love to hear them. All I can think of is that higher clocks would correlate with longer pipelines, but bulldozer's pipeline isn't even that long.
Revisiting what a JS Modular Application is
imho the assumption that this deal will cause the industry 180 degrees change is incorrect. It's an amazing company & an amazing deal but not a game changer deal.
PNaCl and open standards, and process for adding web-exposed features
I'm mildly biased (or more precisely, I was more close to the subject), since I was in research until 2 years ago, when my grant ran out. I did have a grant, but in my case it was basically my salary while I was researching and giving occasional teaching. The research group I was in was also given money "for me" to cover my travel expenses and such, but after all, the money for the grant is used in exchange for someone researching (be it as salary, equipment, workshops,) not just flushed down the toilet. But I'm sure you know, also ;)
Apple WWDC13 Session videos
Did Kim K, Lindsay Lohan, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj inspire Jony Ive’s iOS 7?
Before recommending Ubuntu (when the issue is, to an extent, one of privacy), let's remember this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richar...

The discussion around it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888851

Also, a better alternative to Skype would be Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/Main/Features
eBay Testing New 24-hour window shops Across New York City
IANAL, but I suspect there's a difference between uploading a video and saying "I didn't mean to" vs just copying massive quantities of data. For example offering a backup service.
NSA did not take Google's private keys.
I know the phone data isn't part of PRISM, but everything that has come out seems deeply connected by section 215 of the Patriot act. Which is supposedly what's "justifying" all this data gathering.
I never said it wasn't. I just said it turned a lot of heads around when it was bought for such a large amount of many. I've talked with many investors who will now start to re-think they investment strategy considering they automatically disqualified consumer oriented companies because they thought companies like these won't be able to make it from Israel.
One thing to consider: if you use an alternative to the major services...doesn't that make it easier to find you? You've effectively joined a much smaller haystack.

I guess how much of a risk this depends on where you see the vector of attack. If you think the NSA has one decade forward on decryption ability, then what does it matter if Facebook/etc hands over the data or if you've trusted another encryption scheme?

But consider this scenario: the NSA knows that one member of a group may be a person of interest, with the rest being innocent (for example, a leaker within an organization). What draws more attention: the person who is sending all of their traffic through GMail, etc...or the person who, for some reason, is using an obscure service at particular hours of the day? Even the use of Tor might be a flag.

And if your counter-argument is, "Well, so what? They won't be able to break the encryption on [so-and-so-independent service]?". Well, they don't have to. They just have to find someone who is exhibiting a reasonable amount of suspicious behavior and then observe them in other ways or get their associates/family members to flip...Investigations don't succeed or fail based on the unlocking of a key file...it's the work done around the secret that can reveal the secret.

edit: An analogy - You wish to have an affair without your spouse noticing. Since affairs in relationships are not an unheard of occurrence, your spouse isn't going to actively suspect you of it, but he wouldn't ignore signs of an affair either. Having the affair in your own home isn't practical, and you choose not to do it at the Ramada that's just blocks away from your home/workplace because, well, there's so many people there, and there's the possibility that a mutual acquaintance will see you and then tell on you.

So instead, you and your affairee agree to meet each other at a small bed and breakfast that is 1 hour away from your city and so small that no one you know probably even knows about it, and no one at the B&B will care who you are or know who your spouse is.

So are you safe? Well, only until your spouse finds it weird that on occasional days after work, you're driving in a direction that there doesn't seem to be any reason for you to go, and these occasions end up with you being gone for several hours. And in one such occasion, you were noticed carrying what seemed like a bag for a bottle of wine.

By going the obscure route, you've deflected one kind of exposure and opened yourself up to a whole new kind of suspicion.
Not really. In most cases your software is single threaded anyway, unless you implement some sort of parallelism yourself and when you do that it usually should make sense. But in the end its the OS thats shuffles the threads around on the cores. If you disable a core, the others can run faster reaching higher clock speeds which might or might not be benefical to your program depending on the work it does.
Thanks that makes it more interesting! Will read more.
Nice to see a Montreal startup getting good traction so quickly :) Go PasswordBox!
System z mainframes use z/Architecture processors, not POWER. POWER7 runs around 4 GHz.
Reminds me of this great video:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
My worry is that HN on PRISM is turning into the 24-hour news cycle on CNN. There's little new information lately, but upvotes are being given for contemporary relevance (arguably at the expense of quality of submission) and comments are turning into the same speculative circles of discussion.
> So let me get this straight... you know that at least two agencies (FBI & NSA) have total access to your Facebook data. We don't know what their exact method is or who they may pass the data along to, but we know they do this with no warrant.

No, I don't know this. Do you?
I have the PiMAME image ready to go at home, but after reading this I think I'll try out the Pi Store (http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects) on my existing Raspbian install first.
Upvoting it simply of out pure pleasure to see an interesting post on HN in the swarm of boring politics crap it's filled in recently.
The Code You Don't Write
Right, but the CA in that scenario has their own private key. If the private key for say Verisign was shared with the NSA, then the NSA would be able to MITM anybody using a cert that appeared to come from verisgn.
Indeed. We have a few zEnterprise systems in our corp data center (geeky enough looking that I want one in my basement), running with 5.5GHz chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z
Cambridge isn't exactly representative, either of americans' attitudes towards immigration nor of the immigrants themselves.
> especially a bipartisan block

Yup, that's a biggie. Let's do a little
simple arithmetic: Suppose Senator/Representative
A is really popular and won by 55-45
at the last election.

Now along comes
"a bipartisan block" of 10% of the voters all
uniformly well up on their hind legs and
totally torqued over issue X. So, now
at the next election politician A and
their opponent politician B get to
split the 90%. Assume that this
90% again splits 55-45 for politician
A (here we are using the assumption
that the block was bipartisan). So now we have

0.55 * 90 = 49.5

0.45 * 90 = 40.5

for politician A versus B.

Then, if politician A neglects the block,
politician B gets the 10% and the
election is a win 50.5-49.5 for politician
B.

This is simple arithmetic for
a simple scenario but illustrates
the main point: A politician who
fails to take seriously a 10%
bipartisan block is well on the way
to a new career.
3D N64 Logo With CSS
The hn code doesn't seem to work?
OK, the site is more relevant than the wikipedia entry.
In fact the Dutch owned New York once (then called New Amsterdam ;-) until they effectively traded it with the British for Suriname and some spare change.

And that whole Dutch East Indies and Indonesia thing still has some repercussions till this day.
Have passed on to CEO.
You could always sell your app, I had to do this a number of times, when I was working on apps for other companies. It just involved a few emails in the past.
That's the old National Council for Civil Liberties. :-)
“What Do I Want?” - The First Question In Product Development (And Life)
At this point in the cycle, most of what you're referring to isn't news. The front page has a lot of analysis of Prism etc, but relatively little news, at the moment.

This announcement may not be the most important topic on the front page, but the parent comment never implied that it was.
Pandora for SoundCloud
IBM Conducting Round of Layoffs
Yes, this is definitely better for the users as well as the developers.
Why Mailjet’s Email Delivery Service Is Not Concerned by #Prism
Kenya May Be Primed For Wide-Scale Bitcoin Adoption
Got any better ideas? I don't see any positive progress in the privacy department so pretty much whatever we're doing isn't working.

Might as well sit back and make it as difficult as possible for them to do their job.

Hell maybe the extra workers could stimulate the economy and help pay back the debt to China :)
cool hacking project and also portable! Very low-cost aswell.

I just hook my phone up to the TV with HDMI and play emulator games with a PS3 controller to have basically the same experience so its not for me, but a smartphone is obvioulsy in a different league when it comes to price :)
AMD used to do something like this back in the K5 era. Instead of advertising megahertz, the processors were sold based on a "performance rating" which attempted to match them up to equivalent Pentium chips based on a set of benchmarks.

So a K5 PR-200 was actually a 133MHz chip, but it could match or exceed a Pentium 200MHz in some well-selected benchmarks.
Well Greenwald has already screwed up what NSA jargon for "directly from the servers" means and about tripled-down on it, so for future news releases I'm definitely going to have to look at the source itself and not Greenwald's spin on it.

You simply can't build the system that does what Greenwald claims for $20 million. You can build a drop box + FISA API for that amount though, but that would mean Greenwald is incorrect (or lying, take your pick) and the companies + NSA were telling the truth about that aspect.
His Washington Post contact described him as "capable of melodrama."
Berlin rejects open source plan, looks to open standards instead
Only problem is, your close colleagues are on to the inflation of that statistic.

Potential solution: change disciplines after graduation?
I don't understand how this dilutes anything. Open source services are just as vulnerable to getting a national security letter as anything else.
If the federal government deploys its full weight against you, there's really not much you can do. Directed against one individual, then sure, an active MITM attack is feasible if you don't have cert pinning. I doubt it is cost effective though when compared to just filing a national security letter with the companies you're communicating with or putting malware on your box or installing a keylogger or just plain locking you in a room and beating you with a rubber hose until you tell them what they want to hear.
Well, that's the million dollar/euro question isn't it? It's a bit hard to verify with all the secrecy going on. And arguably without some level of secrecy you cannot have effective intelligence. It's a bit of a catch-22.
+1 but I'd recommend a lighter Linux distro. In my experience Crunchbang runs significantly better than Ubuntu on mine.
Your taxes also pay--though usually not completely--for the aimless four year party that constitutes many college students' experience in higher education. Given the ratio of undergraduates to science & engineering PhD students, I'd wager that the former consumes a much larger portion of your taxes than the latter, and for less return on the investment.

Not to mention the fact that many foreign PhD students have strong desires to live and work here...but Uncle Sam apparently thinks it's better to shove them out.
Morse Roulette - The safest way to communicate after PRISM
Did each app have its own developer account? I think the hard part was if you had three apps and wanted to move one to a different developer.
Then let MIT pay for that, not me, when there's no likelihood the student will be paying me back in the form of US taxes. The research leads to patents that MIT gets compensated for, not me. My taxes are likely being wasted here, working against the society I support. It doesn't matter if it's only a dime of mine since all waste is bad and adds up to a lot. No I'm not going to take it up with my representative, falling on deaf ears. I'm going to make my point here on HN instead, where it belongs.
This is a desktop CPU though. So with proper cooling it should be able to maintain that speed for some time.
Sure! Are there any reliable sources of immigration statistics?

The effects might take a while to be felt. Some green card categories have a backlog of more than a decade. Tourism might be easier to measure.
I see your point, but to be fair they also promise promotion.

Whether it's fair depends, I think, on specifics of the product one builds using Mega API, and what's the potential there at all. An alternative client? Backup system using Mega as storage? Collaborative software?
A div to hold all the templates, and in the darkness bind them.
If you are passionate about the right to bear arms, because you view it as a vital protection against a tyrannical government, I'm curious how you feel about surveillance/collection of all your phone calls, movements, and internet activity.

Why is there massive support in this country for the right to own & use guns, but not for the right to communicate privately and not be tracked and monitored?

Do the same people who view banning guns as a threat not view massive surveillance as a threat?
Jamendo App Contest 2013
Huh? The benefit of SSL has been "wiped out"? What are you talking about?
It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security
Tattletale: Send console logs to the server for long-term storage
> private Facebook messages

What makes you think this is a thing that exists, aside from the rest of this conversation?

She sent a bunch of data to Facebook, with instructions to give that data to someone else. Why does she or anyone have an expectation of privacy when you hand an unsealed (read: unencrypted) piece of paper to a courrier?

If something's important, you protect it by putting it in an envelope.
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