skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just counting signups. Not necessarily who the active/popular users are. There's a lot of spam,junk and stolen work on deviantart, the site just makes efforts to showcase the good stuff.

If you weighted it based on artist popularity you might get a different picture.
this is a joke... right?
And as far as browser is concerned, I would recommend go with Firefox vs Google or Safari. Mozilla is a non profit and I feel I can trust it the most.
>"Imagine ... The iPhone, when connected to the computer, can be accessed like any other filesystem. You move files in and out of a folder called iPhone/Music."

This is exactly how Android works. I plug my Galaxy into my computer and it appears just like any other USB drive. I drag mp3 files, or folders of mp3 files, into my Music folder, and I'm done. Same goes for mp4 videos I might want to watch, or PDF files I might want to read, etc.

Is that not the way iOS devices work?
In the case of DDG, that would be difficult. DDG uses SSL. If you make a mistake and type "duckduckgo.com" instead of "https://duckduckgo.com", it will automatically redirect you to the secure page. Unfortunately, that redirect gives a man-in-the-middle and opportunity to hijack your connection, even with SSL; however, that's tricky enough that its hard to imagine anyone pulling it off without ever being noticed.
Why bother infiltrating PCs when you can monitor the traffic?
Yeah, Microsoft really sucks at storytelling. All they had to say was something in the lines of...

"If you want to buy a disc, pay $59 for a game due to all non-digital crap the disc has to go through. And then do what you want with it. HOWEVER, if you download the game, it's like $29 (50% OFF!!!11), but then it's just yours, and yours alone, you can't sell or lend it - and we'd have to check every once in a while it's really you who's playing."

I wouldn't mind that at all since they'd be giving me a choice, and I'd gladly pay less, despite the 'lockdown'.

Dear Microsoft, all you have to do is ask your target audience what they think - you might be suprised.
Easiest comment in the world. Still true, though.
I just wanted to see what you would do, there's no persuading.
I agree the BMGF has done wonderful things. But what specifically are you saying they have offset, and how? I am not very aware of anything they do other than working on malaria and perhaps food/aid assistance. The PC industry has kids living in toxic waste dumps and farms are growing crops and animals with high levels of toxic substances, to say nothing of cancer killing off families in droves.
haha..I hope so..you need to use Firefox and not even Safari to be totally safe..even better Private Window browsing mode in Firefox.
I suspected as much as well. The family share feature of the new Xbox is pretty damn impressive and permissive. And they have to have you turn your damn xbox on and connect to the internet because they have to manage your access to those games. Otherwise I can just loan out the game to 10 people and they can play them forever offline without paying for them.
How is running a story that defines "direct access" as a "dropbox system" where "legally requested data could be copied from their own server out to an NSA-owned system" possibly not a walk-back, given Greenwald's original story?
up voted , your concerns are genuine.
Yep, seems that way to me. As usual us-east is the least reliable...
>Dear Microsoft, all you have to do is ask your target audience what they think - you might be suprised.

I mean yes, don't introduce the Kin, but at the same time, if Apple'd asked what consumers want, we'd be thinking the RAZR is cool instead of the DROID RAZR.
This guy is an awful writer. Even if I ignore that they don't know "its" from "it's", "then" from "than", this thing is hard to follow. Just an incoherent rant really, looks like it was written by a kid.
Thanks. I was up in running in no time following those directions. Oddly enough the first few tries running hello world came back with 502 errors:

> root@docker:/proc# docker run base /bin/echo hello world
Pulling repository base from https://index.docker.io/v1
2013/06/13 22:19:37 HTTP code: 502

After about 2 minutes it just started working. Was that a networking hiccup and on which side?
Thanks for following up. As for the firearms charges, I only read the allegations, I hadn’t found the bodyguard’s response. Your quote leads me to believe the bodyguard had at least some kind of license (if he didn’t have proof, it would be foolish to state so in court), whether that license covered the semi-automatic shotgun remains to be seen.
Any simple Ikea flat desk.

Hacked Ikea dual monitor stand (http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/03/monitor-stand-with-ribba-...)

Herman Miller Aeron chair
I second the observation that the results have improved considerably over the last year. There are still holes where I have to resort to using the !g option and use google (non-English searches would be the most prominent example) but I've set all my default search options to DDG and haven't regretted it!
if you can't stop some idiot lighting his underwear on fire, or two brothers with pressure cookers with the existing program (PRISM) and data how am I supposed to believe that the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks against the world trade centers would have been stopped with this surveillance network?

It's possible there is a difference though. The Sept. 11th attacks were coordinated among a number of people, which would have made it more vulnerable to surveillance of communication lines than a lone bomber.
DDG is has been my primary search engine for about a year now, and I do what I can to proselytize for it. Their results aren't always as comprehensive as the bigger engines, but I can usually find what I need.
No IT manager worth its salt should be relying on a free, unsupported, 'as-is' version of a hack in the first place.

And even less something that was always intended to be a quick workaround for users under very strict (or lazy) IT organizations that didn't upgrade to a decent browser in years.

Kudos to Google for creating and supporting it, until now. Time to take off the training wheels.
Clean and simple. Grea work.
This year's WWDC they broke down how to use the debugger and some advanced tips (2 sessions that you can watch online: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/). Btw, new Safari seems to have changed the UI again, this time for better the icons are bigger now :)
"Why would anyone believe DDG isn't already penetrated?" should be read as, "Why would anyone believe that DDG isn't already penetrated and that their own computers are not already penetrated?" Your trust chain has to start somewhere.
The PRISM/NSA blowout was the last straw to break this camel's back. I've been growing dissatisfied with the constant urge to check Facebook/Twitter/G+ all the time, I've also been irked by how my very personal information, posts, and communications were being used to make money for Facebook.

There were many things I've said to people through Facebook that I actually wouldn't like to have data-mined (no matter who's doing it, Facebook, AdAgencyX, or the NSA).

While my Google searches, email, and other "free" services are still used in a similar capacity - I'm also working to switch off of those.

Leaving Facebook has been the best thing I've done so far. I feel lighter and less heavy with the urge to check it ALL the time.
> Also, DDG's results compared to a year ago are night-and-day.

Still looks 2nd rate. I replicated one of my last searches (learning rails): rails find if element is in array

First hit on google is the stackexchange answer with .include? (which I was spacing-out on)

DDG yields the Array docs, which is correct but is a helluva lot of info when I'm looking for a concise answer.
the same IT managers that are "supporting" deprecated browsers and os that will never be updated anymore ? Who's going to fix newly discovered exploited ?
If the exit node is compromised you’re fcked for good.*

It's not that simple, otherwise there wouldn't be any value in using an Onion architecture. Assuming you're using HTTPS, which every decent search engine supports, they either also need to create a fake but acceptable certificate for the domain, or to also control entry nodes and match the entering requests with the exit ones.

The NSA might be able to do it, but it's not just a matter of controlling an exit node.
For whatever it's worth, the 3/5ths number originally came from negotiations over modifying the original government documents of the united states: the articles of confederation where the question was whether or not slaves would count for the purposes of taxation. When the constitutional convention came around and the same debate showed up again, except now instead of taxation the question was representation, the proponents flipped positions but the 3/5ths number ended up getting picked up once again. Plus a ban on slave importation was set for 20 years in the future, which is a portion of the compromise often ignored in retrospect. (Mostly because it turned out not to be as effective as people hoped.)

The main thrust of your argument is absolutely correct though, in that the northern folks generally argued that slaves were treated as property (and so should be taxed as such) and the southern folks generally argued that they should count as people. (And should be represented as such.)

No one seemed to get to the idea that if you were going to count someone for the purposes of representation, maybe you also had to let them vote. That would have also brought up interesting questions around the disenfranchisement of various other classes of people, namely women, some white men without property and freed slaves right from the start. Instead we had to wait a long time to start solving those problems.

Politics can be weird.
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This is really interesting. I guess some of my examples were relying on using a similar lexer as C -- which you probably couldn't in Ruby. I'll have to think some more about what a Ruby lexer would look like...

But again, it steepens the learning curve -- it's so different from other languages that it's actually kind of hard to immediately see all the implications of "well Ruby's lexer is different than C's lexer".
I like the option of selling my games and buying used games. If Microsoft makes my games less valuable to me by limiting my options then they should be cheaper. I've heard nothing alluding to this officially.
If ducks were the secret to being cool, Aflac would be cool by now ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflac
>Unfortunately, that redirect gives a man-in-the-middle and opportunity to hijack your connection, even with SSL

As long as the SSL cert isn't compromised, I don't see how this is possible.
"Or because their entire business differentiation from the beginning has been privacy."

The same is true of Hushmail. How did that work out?
I think I was confused because you meant "patentable", not "patented".

But is not isolation by PCR a synthetic modification? If I made a useful machine out of a single piece of wood using a six-axis subtractive tooling device, would you argue that the machine is unpatentable because "it was already there"?

PCR actually goes even further - conceptually it's subtractive procedure but it actually does so by creating copies within the specific boundaries. These boundaries don't exist in nature, the act of specifying the boundaries is creative, and without the prior research, non-obvious.
Looks like internal DNS resolution is failing, e.g: ec2-XX-XX-XX-XX.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
AAA games are still full price on Steam. There is no discount because you can't sell your used copy. What makes him think that games would somehow be cheaper on Xbox1 after you eliminate the used market? They won't be. The savings are not getting passed on to the consumers.
The point is that Facebook originally gained it's popularity because it was a "cool hangout". Like the author, I was in college when Facebook first came out. Being restricted to college kids, it wasn't about "being really useful to a ton of people". They developed their product in exactly the way you say they shouldn't.

Of course, that was a long time ago, so this article is obviously far too late. That all changed the day they allowed non-college-students in.
I can't take their privacy stuff quite seriously, considering they are partnered with Microsoft.
There are few, even in radical communities like slashdot, that think we as a global community would be better off if Bill Gates never existed. Sure, that is an extreme case, but it serves as an example that the ends certainly can justify the means in this situation.
Ahh, I didn't understand. I couldn't figure out where "the opposite is true" was supposed to apply.

How do you tell when a movement was produced by the oppressed, but where the strongest and most influential voice that the oppressing class hears is from a dissenting member of that class? Given how quickly Luther's views spread, it can't be that he was the only one who didn't like the actions of the Catholic church.

I still feel that you're walking into a trap. If a member of the oppressed class become notable and influential, then that person's work could be recast as a way to achieve personal power and thereby become part of an oppressing class. If so, then oppression is perpetual until we figure out how to make 7 billion people be equally notable and influential.

How does a dissenting element of the oppressing class ever leave that class?
The colloquial naming will probably settle something like this:

2001 console: Xbox, Original Xbox

2005 console: Xbox 360, 360

2013 console: Xbox1, X-bone

You will probably hear "Xbox" referring to the 2013 console in casual speech, but hopefully semi-formal and formal speech, e.g. articles, will distinguish.
So now the debate is about what "direct access" exactly means, instead of about the content of the leaks, about the massive surveillance.

Isn't this a misdirection?
I take it you mean Firefox over Chrome or Safari?

(I agree. The only thing I use Chrome for is Facebook)
That's supporting their own legacy products, not other companies'.
As the Kevin in question I would like to point out this article was written by someone who is very much not me.
He seems to be suggesting that Xbox One games will be cheaper because of the lack of used sales. I don't see what their economic incentive would be to lower the prices (at least to below prices for a similar PS4 game), usually if there is less competition in a market and demand stays constant the price goes up.

In the case of Steam , they have to be cheap because their competition is TPB which is the cheapest game store out there.
You're not the first one to wonder about that:
http://discourse.soylent.me/t/soylent-mentioned-on-the-skept...

I'd be interested as well.
I've done the same. Also switched to Firefox with full Adblock and tracking bugs blocking.

It's not much, but at least I'm no longer leaving a huge slimy trail behind me online.
"TOR is not that safe. If the exit node is compromised you’re f*cked for good."

Not if you are using TLS, which you should be using regardless of Tor.
You can see the stats here: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
While we do use 3rd parties to fulfill some of our organic results we always make those calls from our machines. We never pass along IP addresses. This means that while our other sources might see your queries, they are not tied with PII (personally identifiable information).
No one has ever had the ability to do it like we could now.
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You should see the kind of results you get when you type "penetrated" in duckduckgo.
Seems the speed it really declines with the size of the inserted documents. My production data is a hash with 14-15 keys and string/int values of maybe 10 characters each

When I loop and keep generating these documents:

to_insert = {}
10.times {|i| to_insert["key#{i}"] = rand(33333).to_s * rand(6) }

I get around 140/s. Without the insert() call, I reach 50.000+, so it doesn't seem to be the overhead.

With simple documents (3 keys, int values) I reach 350-400.

p.s. script @ https://gist.github.com/rb2k/5777997
If I were given the option: "1) Have the BMGF and an extensive e-waste problem, or 2) Have neither", I would choose 1) without any hesitation. Wouldn't you?

(Of course Bill Gates cannot possibly be held responsible for all e-waste, but suppose that we do for the purposes of this discussion.)
It's a fair question, I'm ashamed by the snarky answers.

If Google can't oppose the NSA in installing backdoors (by the way, this has to be demonstrated), DuckDuckGo can't oppose them neither.

Best luck to the team of DuckDuckGo, it's a nice project.
I think you're not quite understanding how it works. They retrieve the data from e.g. Bing behind the scenes and the 3rd parties have no way to connect a query to an individual user.

That said, maybe there'd be an issue if you enter personally identifiable information as a query. But who does that?
I don't think anybody would have heard of them today if they hadn't developed their product that way.
I know cynicism is not very productive, but I have never understood the point of petitions like this. Surely people know they are useless unless backed up by billions of dollars of funding?
I have no idea. I (as I said) was not trying to assert that DuckDuckGo is not compromised, I was asserting that the reason that people believe it to be secure is because they've differentiated on privacy since the beginning.

Mostly, I don't like seeing condescending, inaccurate statements.
I find that interesting, as police officers in Northern Ireland (part of the UK) do carry firearms. I have to admit I know little about either Irelands, perhaps the situation in the Republic of Ireland is a lot less volatile.
Apparently the article in question was written by a fellow named Tim Sampson.

http://www.dailydot.com/authors/tim-sampson/
But I get the impression that AAA titles get reduced prices quicker on Steam than their physical versions do. Is that not the case?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/
The slide says "PRISM\n Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: ..."

How is it an "extreme interpretation" to read that as something "direct" is likely to be happening involving "servers of these U.S. Service Providers"?

Why should we bend over backwards to convince ourselves that what they really meant (but didn't say) was that they had indirect access only through intermediate layers of privacy-preserving systems that we architect from whole cloth in our own imagination?
Maybe they haven't filled it up yet. A quick search suggests the whole internet is on the scale of exabytes, so a yottabyte could store a million internets.
How do you document a web application?
A copy of a game is "inherently" less valuable if it cannot be resold by a consumer (many gamers buy games at $60 only because they know they can resell them once they are done with them). Therefore demand at a given price level would go down under a system where games are locked to a user.
BTW: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2611/4168078969_35d7b90449_z.j...

(Reads: next time without Italy) ;)
Microsoft really did a terrible job at messaging on this. I'm even annoyed, and I don't play much, and everything I buy is digital download, not physical media, so the whole disc selling thing doesn't even affect me. Even so, it feels nasty. MS has basically said fuck you to gamers, without any justifiable reason.

Taking down Gamestop doesn't require anything but a better Gamestop replacement. This dev complains about how people dislike their new move, yet complain about Gamestop? Uh, this new move limits private sale by third parties. That's what's annoying.

The fact Xbox tosses ads in your face on every single home screen except settings is also extremely distasteful, and MS burned a lot of goodwill on that.

Comparing to Steam is nice, but MS's execution is yet to be seen. People I know with thousands of bucks into Steam don't love Steam. They are annoyed with the restrictions - but, it's just so easy (easier than pirating) that they tend not to care. Browsing and purchasing on the Xbox360 is such a PITA, so if the XB1 doesn't fix it, they have no hope of doing what Steam did.

The 24 hour thing is also retarded. It feels intrusive, and isn't necessary to prevent piracy. My guess is they'll probably "acquiesce" and move it to 3 days or a week - it was probably planned to spark outrage long before sales, so they can give in and ride the "see, MS isn't so bad" wave closer to launch.
They don't need the existing SSL cert. The "beauty" of SSL is that they can use a cert generated by any CA trusted by your browser - or even a second one from the same CA -, even if there's already a cert issued by one.
I'm surprised by the negativity - I wasn't aware that Chrome Frame existed, but after reading about it, I would classify it as a neat hack. It's basically a way of shimmying in an entirely different browser. That sort of thing is, to me, clearly a stop-gap solution. I wouldn't want to support such a thing in perpetuity either.
I wonder if all those tech giants could pursue libel charges (low standards to proof in the uk) against the Guardian. Uh oh.
Yeah, but they still understood the consumers- better, perhaps, than the consumers did. MS is arguably misunderstanding them, in this case.
So much for the "moral high ground", huh?
AAA games go from $60 to $30 to $7.50 over time on Steam; that hasn't happened as much for disc-based games. Maybe it will on Xbox One but I'm skeptical.
I salivated over a dummy head for years until I found this: http://3diosound.com/ All of these were recorded with the original model of it.
I'm sure they thought of that. That's how they licensed software for decades (the OEM version of Office was much cheaper than the retail box, but it could only be used on that computer).
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Isn't that more a matter of retailer choice? Valve may just be faster to react to their current demand.
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This is exactly about the content of the leaks. If the supposed leak is baloney then it is not misdirection to call it out. The debate over "direct access" is not a small detail. It is the difference between a major story and something that tells us nothing new. I think this was best explained here: https://medium.com/prism-truth/82a1791c94d3
Ah, I see. This is a known problem with the performance of the protobuf serialization library we're using in the Ruby driver (see https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/897). It bottlenecks the CPU and should be fixed in the next release.

In the meantime, you could try running a multithreaded/multiprocess script -- that would significantly increase throughput.

Sorry you ran into this -- it'll be fixed ASAP.
They'll make the same money, if not more, charging $40 for the game downloaded via xbla than they will for charging $60 at retail. Retail stores are incredibly expensive compared to web anything and so they take a huge cut.

MS' long-term plans probably involve cutting the publishing middleman out of their dev relationships.
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Which parts of the ruby driver docs seem inconsistent / wrong? If there's a documentation issue I'd love to fix this ASAP.
Possibly, yes ... but there may be something to it. Certainly, as a problem-solver, I get frustrated when I find a problem that I cannot solve. I tend to stay away from political (aka insoluble) problems for that very reason. My wife works in a more political field, often on problems where positions are held intransigently; where progress is measured incrementally; and where "solutions" may never be found. I would go insane in such a grinding; pointless environment. Insane enough to commit murder? In my case, probably not, but I don't think I would be too far off, and I can well imagine those who might be driven to such extremes.