skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first, I discounted this article because the title seemed a little extreme.

However, then I saw that the professor was Tim Wu.

I very much enjoyed Tim Wu's book "The Master Switch" which is all about power, the elite, and manipulating media and communications architectures.
NodeFly 101: Installation, Alerts and Sub-Users
Because a car isn't as valuable tool when it comes to protecting yourself from tyranny (in the NRA's opinion). The NRA's point is that the government should be incapable of immediately identifying which citizens would be capable of forcibly resisting it, for the protection of those citizens who can resist (so that they aren't singled out) and those who can't (so that the government doesn't just pick easy targets).
> There are strong reasons to believe that the modern stability that we enjoy is maintained by networks of mutual self-interest, soft social norms and overall cultural sophistication.

You mean, stability is mantained by structures like the state?
>I think the assumption here

That's my point. The assumption. The gaps we fill in for all the information we're missing. The fact that we have to assume means that questioning everything, from the slides authenticity to the leakers credibility is our duty as citizens.
Unfortunately no, when I used to do BREW dev, we had a few lines setup for many many handsets, everytime we needed to swap active lines between devices it meant calling up Verizon and giving them new IMEI.

Now I don't know exactly how this all works with LTE and the sim cards, since I no longer work on mobile apps I haven't really bothered keeping a close eye on it.
When people ask why I pirate pdf's, I point to instances like this.

I want full control over my hardware, my software and the like. The fact this happened gives in my opinion, more ammunition to the side claiming piracy is equal to actually owning your content, drm free.
A guy who could not even finish high school

A GED doesn't imply they couldn't finish. It demonstrates they didn't finish. Nothing more.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57476305-93/twitter-appeals...
I'm not familiar with this opinion. Do you have a source?
"System admin" is the professional who get the hightest level of access to your computers, so he can keep them working. Most times even the people with physical access to your datacenter (AKA, the people that can get any data you have) have that same title.

Another profession with a bit smaller but much alike level of access is called "janitor".
And yet we save movies to h.264 or WebM and save photographic images to JPEG.

Lossless formats do have their place but it's not as if lossy formats literally sustain bit rot; they lose information one time and that's it. Unless, of course, you convert lossy formats, but you should know not to do that.

If you do have to convert between lossy formats or absolutely need every bit of data (e.g. RAW photography) then that's one of the places you might find lossless archival storage useful. But most uses don't need it at all.
Talk about "one sided". When innocent people die from gunshot then it isn't "editorializing" to call it "murder". There is no reasonable definition of murder that does not include that incident. It's pretty clear where your loyalties lie, and you aren't going to convince reasonable people to doubt Snowden's account with this namby-pamby whinging about his choice of idiom. Neither will reasonable people believe you're prepared to be "sad" about "a terrible incident" that you wish had been kept secret.
What? I am a dev, I have very good MBP, 8GB ram, running latest chrome dev version, and it is sluggish, a bit less sluggish on Safari same machine,
Heh-or DO something more useful. People are so quick to talk.
Anonymous Hacker outs wanted Edmonton men for child exploitation
I had three questions. Why don't you take your shot at the latter two?
Mustrrd: just the day's "must read" news
Use tax, not sales tax. If you're going to list obscure laws you should list them correctly. ;)
FWIW, I used Waze for a few weeks but went back to using Google Navigation.

I found that the traffic data on Google Navigation was much more accurate and up to date than that provided by Waze, and that Google Nav's display is much easier on the eyes. Waze showed more information, but most of it was irrelevant noise or just plain wrong. All of the social stuff was also very distracting.

This was when I was commuting daily on one of the UKs busiest motorways.

Also, they send your login details in the clear. I remember taking a traffic dump of my Android phone to see how easy it would be to scrape information at the time... Not that difficult.
Fair enough.

But it still means that we're lacking so much information about this that referring to speculating on the sources credibility as a "smear campaign" is unfair to citizens who are asking legitimate questions. I don't know enough about this to even know what the numbers mean, but I'm ready to skewer people over it? We need to fill in these gaps before we start shaping public policy on the issue and examining a sources credibility is part of that process.
Sony Punks Microsoft in Hilarious Game Sharing Instructional Video
Wonderful, just more ammunition to use on my Restore the Fourth rally event page
It tends to be Microsoft dumping money into something to gain their top status, then once they try to make a profit on it they mess up. Their profit maximization formula doesn't seem to have a field for "will this lose customers?"
But do I take someone with a link called "You should follow me on Twitter" seriously?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/09/google-to-...
Didn't he also leak the verizon metadata story which was confirmed true by various senators?
If crypto is your thing, and you want to keep it practical, allow me to plug:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/

They're free, they involve writing actual code to break actual crypto constructions, and they seem to be pretty popular; our standings right now: level 0 (6687), level 1 (490), level 2 (156), level 3 (50), level 4 (36), level 5 (29), level 6 (37).
Even better is if you make the mark think they are complicit in the fraud. Then, they cover it up.
My point is that there's clearly a narrative. Every news station is saying "high school dropout" and "seeking refuge in a communist nation." Those exact words. This is what they always do. Talking points are distributed via the email lists for the democratic and republican parties. The "media" takes these talking points and runs with them. If you really pay attention to the news, it's eery how quickly they all start speaking in unison. Typically, it's one sided, but in this case, both right wing and left wing media are using the same talking points!
I have a job that requires clearance. I signed anyway, with the knowledge that this could, theoretically, cause me to lose my job.

I hesitated though too, thinking "in 5 years, will this have some serious repercusions?" Fuck it, I'm not one to trade standing up for my beliefs for comfort.
It works pretty well on chrome(linux mint 14)

What do you see?
Please add "I would trust it more than a human driver".

Edit: Under normal conditions, please. We know at this point that it's unreliable in snow and possibly bad rain.
For how little we know, you seem to "know" a whole lot about what is and isn't possible. Seemingly without any actual experience in large scale corporate or government systems.
In theory if someone knew they were subject to data being collected about them they could bring a law-suit against the companies involved for breaching data protection and privacy legislation.

The immunity that companies get from co-operating with the US government only covers them in the US, not in other countries.

But in practice the only time people know this information is being collected on them is when a company (i.e Twitter) refuses to comply with such an order.
Cited by a Justice, but Feeling Less Than Honored
When quoted, he sounds fairly intelligent and thoughtful. I think the only mistake he made is not going directly to Sweden, but HK was closer, and it's not like there is a "whistle blowing for dummies" book. If you want to assess him personally, go read his words.

Ultimately he provided documentation to support his assertions. If another whistle blower steps up, we can reassess.
I guess I did make this overblown using those terms. And yes, when is Patrick ever 'punishing'? Heh.

Then again, there's something to be said for being willing to be scrutinized by your heroes. Therein lies my admiration for Sean.
You can have a Linode account without any active VPSes on your account. If you want to spin up a Linode for a day, you get charged a prorated amount for the day(s) that it is active on your account. Pretty reasonable IMO.

Just note that you need to have an active Linode on your account in order for any DNS records hosted with Linode to be served.
I care exactly zero about who Edward Snowden is. As far as I'm concerned, he could be a dick who loves kicking puppies and taking candy from children. What I do care about is, you know, the NSA spying on my phone calls and emails.
If you look at it from Poland's point of view, of course that's true. What I'm saying is that they were US missiles targeting Russian ones, which was a re-escalation of the arms race that has the potential to kill us all, including the Polish. Poland's local concerns are valid based on the history between Poland and Russia, but small in the grand scheme of things.
IPhone Power Button class action
OK, these guys are ambulance chasing, but there are a bunch of folks screwed by the power button failure. It looks like the following post was deleted from the apple discussion board, and I thought there might be some folks interested here:

IPHONE4 AND IPHONE4S CLASS ACTION

My law firm filed a class action based upon the iphone4 and iphone4s power button failure. The case is filed in United States District Court, Central District of California, entitled Ross Missaghi vs. Apple, Inc., USDC Case No. 13-CV-2003-GAF (AJWx). Our current class representative owns an iphone4s that failed. The Court has indicated that we need to add an additional class representative who owns an iphone4 in which the power button failed.

If you own an iphone4 in which the power button failed after the warrant expired, and would like to be a class representative in our case, please call 310-961-9600, and ask for Douglas Perlman, or my secretary Jessica. You can also email at douglas@rastegarlawgroup.com, or Jessica at jb@rastegarlawgroup.com. We need to accomplish this this week (by June 14, 2013).
danso's comment didn't seem negative to me ("no no no" is just colloquial). This comment does, though.
http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth

http://www.reddit.com/r/rtforganizers
Yes, please!

I get tired of quotes from fiction. Aren't there enough non-fiction quotes in the world that are much more relevant?
While you're at it - can you also ask them to stop watching us (as in us outside the US)?
I would trust it more than a human driver under any conditions.
Show HN: Vidyard Space Academy - HQ for video marketing learning
True. I remember when Newswipe had a story on how news are made. It's not a pretty story. From their tales, most reporters don't report, but pay PR firms to pretty much write the article for them.

The articles are probably indistinguishable from real reports for most audiences, so reporters lap it up like milk. I mean why write, when you can pay someone else to write them for you?
Sysadmins generally have the highest levels of privilege on any given system. I've worked in and around sysadmins in some very large firms and when you're responsible for things like server installation, maintenance, and backups, it's very rare that you don't have access to all of the information on them.
What's his incentive for lying? I totally understand being a skeptical that a relatively low level contractor got access to everything, but I don't understand what would motivate someone to go public and incite the wrath of us intelligence if he didn't at least believe he was telling the truth.

If he's a Chinese mole, or in cahoots with enemies of the state, it doesn't seem like leaking some slides to the guardian and then filming a confession would be the way to go about it. Is the argument just that he's incompetent/confused, or am I missing something? Genuine question.
Same thing happens anytime Facebook changes their layout. After a month of using iOS 7, these people will forget what it used to look like.
Is there a datasheet?

Reliable body of experiments backing up its effectiveness, utility, and safety?

Do we get to look under the hood of the technology that runs it?

Without sufficient information, it's impossible to answer the question with confidence.
I too was shocked.. David Brooks took some weird slant on the guy not reflecting well before taking action, and betraying his family yadda yadda.

Basically a character assassination, rather than looking at the issue.

I think its pretty obvious the material was filtered pretty well..theres basically no hard facts there, bare minimum to support the claim. Which I think is responsible whistle-blowing.
Does he have really have a lack of education? He is reportedly a high school dropout, but that says nothing at all about his education. He could be one of the most educated people out there, for all we know.
>that you wish had been kept secret.

At what point did I say that? At what point did I defend anyone involved? It was a battle. People were shooting at each other. Of course there is a reasonable definition that doesn't include this incident. Ones in which there is not a battle going on, for example. There are at least 20 minutes of footage that are not available to us.

All I'm asking is that we get rid of the idiom and see the information. I don't need the words "Collateral Murder" to be outraged by this. I'm smarter than that.

Incidentally, at no point in this discussion did I ever resort to a personal attack on you or question your motivations or loyalties. At no point did I ever say anything about you personally and I'm offended that you have decided to tell me what I think. That's a shameful way to have an argument.
What I am saying is that the public associates a college degree (and awards, other prestige, etc.) with credibility. To a great extent, this is true in most industries - this is why it's reasonable for non-technical people, people who don't know better, to apply this sort of safeguard to all "experts" they see.

This is mistaken because a degree in system administration isn't going to give him any depth of knowledge that would let him interpret the leaked slides in a more informed way before he leaked them. Whether the public associates a degree with credibility is irrelevant if they're mistaken.

Your original assertion was it is OK and legitimate to question a high school dropout's ability to understand what he leaked.

It's not okay, nor is it legitimate, for the mere fact of holding a GED to call into question his ability to think critically.

Click "link" to reply.
In what way the publication of HTML specifications and their implementation puts an emphasis on centralising data ? It does facilitate the transmission of data but it could be to your personal server over HTTPS.
Congratulations! We've done it!

1. Government being attacked releases information about alleged enemy of the state.

2. The forth estate does its duty and publishes the information. In order to draw in eyes, the information is sensationalized.

3. Someone totally against the piece writes an article as a counterpoint, adding plenty of backlinks and precious relevance to an article nobody wants to see gain traction.

4. Social aggregates like HN pick up the story, giving relevance to the article that gives relevance to an article we all disagree with.

Ads are viewed, money is made, and an agenda is fulfilled.
Will you help me spread a hoax?
I know this is an unusual request, but let me explain.

Hoaxes are all over the internet, and people don't get educated to doubt information that they read. That's why I thought we should help improve that. But we can't just write articles about how gullible people are, because those people won't read these articles.

Instead, I wrote a simple hoax about a scientific discovery that the alignment of stars correlates with the behavior of financial markets:

http://pastebin.com/7F7szky8

If you help me spread it (by sharing it), we can track down the gullible people and email them an instruction of how to avoid this in the future.

I won't use the emails I gather for spam, of course - I will delete the database as soon as I send the explanatory email.

So, would you help me educate "the masses" in an unorthodox way? And do you think the piece needs editing (I'm happy to incorporate any suggestion)
> they should have put out the 39 minute version as is

As the previous commenter said, they did.

Wikileaks' stated journalistic method has always been to provide editorialized/pre-digested material along with complete unedited sources.
They aren't similarities. The fundamental goal is different.

Registering where you're going, warnings that the phone call is being recorded, those things are about FEAR. It's deliberately letting you know that the government is in the driver's seat and you shouldn't even get started with counter-revolutionary thoughts. The information gathering is secondary.

Tiananmen square has probably more than 1 video camera per square foot. That's not to get better footage, it's to send message.

There might be a day when the US is the same, and this might even be a critical moment on the way to that day, but right now the fact that the US is trying to hide it's intel capabilities as opposed to rubbing them in your face makes them categorically different.
If he thought he had an arrangement with China, he wasn't thinking clearly to begin with. A reasonable way for him to approach pretty much any government right now is that he submits to their custody and then has no idea what will happen next.
> are you just projecting what you think should be the case onto everyone else?

Projecting, mainly. Just like you. Pew did a phone survey that shows 56% of people believe it's okay to give up privacy to defeat terrorism. But even that doesn't really go to what people believe about their privacy right now.
But now, with billions of smartphones, which amounts to a crushing ratio of 2.x orders of magnitude over consoles, games for smart mobile devices are making a serious dent - enough so that Microsoft led with their "old people" passive media features for Xbox One.

Do you have any evidence for this "serious dent" that smartphone gaming is having on the industry?

I don't see how the smartphone game market overlaps with the same market that is purchasing an Xbox 360 or PS3. If anything, it overlaps the handheld market, but the Nintendo 3DS is still selling very well despite competing with smartphones for people's gaming dollars.

For the "gaming" market (ie. people who play more than the occasional round of Solitaire or Angry Birds), smartphones are still underwhelming. Even take the Madden and CoD crowd that many gaming enthusiasts disparage. Why would they care about lackluster smartphone games?

If anything the smartphone market aligns with those who bought a Wii for Wii Sports and then hardly used the thing much longer other than maybe as a Netflix device. But that was never a long-term market anyways.

Plus, the smartphone gaming market seems to have a pricing issue where everyone expects games to be either free or $1. Can you imagine a game on the Google Play store costing $30+ dollars as they do for a 3DS or Vita? Let along $60 for a PS4 or Xbone One title?
The Smart Kids Are Going To Keep Leaking Forever
Only 1 of those 3 tests (the very 1st one) also contains Java results. The other 2 are Windows tests that don't contain any Java results.

Hence I said that out of the 10 tests that contain both Go and Java results Go only beats Java (by a statistically insignificant 0.2%) in 1 test while Java beats Go in the other 9 tests.
It will be interesting to see the real effects though. How long will people remember about this? How much will it affect their actual choices? The US "brand" overcame so many scandals, I'm not sure this one will be different.
Here is a short page on common attributes of fascist regimes: http://en.atheismfacts.org/fascism.html
Not new, such has been the case for most of human history.

An honest man is most able to live in the US without being harassed or condemned, more so than at any other time in history.

I'm not saying we're done, or that it can't still be bad because it's better than it was, but it's worth remembering that this isn't a solved problem that we're just "too stupid/lazy/greedy/corrupt" to fix. I'd even go so far as to argue that it's human nature to build governments where this is true, and it will never not be true.

A critical part of our justice system is the discretion of those who enforce, legislate, and interpret our laws. You can't pretend like laws exist outside of human (read: flawed) implementation, and I feel that this is more severely perpetrated by those in STEM fields because they're used to the rigor that comes with such disciplines whereas the law is a fluid and changing beast.
I bet Congress would be completely up in arms if the government was secretly keeping track of gun purchases. It's interesting how much representatives care about some rights over others.
It's a double edged sword. The more people are educated about cryptography, the more they can resist the abusive surveillance.
TL;DR "You can't express your opinion on design unless you can do better". I'm curious how the author watches football or movie. Silently for sure.
How hard was it to fit the processor onto the motherboard? Thermal compound &c. That strikes me as the only really tricky bit.

(PS: that hardware looks as if it would work fine with Ubuntu)
On Atlas Shrugged
It's not that most people don't care. It's that most people don't have the ability or desire to figure out the reality jigsaw puzzle. Meaning, by putting together small bits and pieces together, it's easy to see the overall picture of what's going on.
I'm confused, very confused. There's talk about this acquisition being in the $1 Billion range.
Can anyone break down how this company can be worth that much money?

Revenue - no idea if or how much money they made?
IP - Patents on using location to perform traffic analytics?
Talent - 100+ employees?
Userbase - ~50 million users?
Technology - Isn't the app easily replicable?

It's really confusing for entrepreneurs to know if they are building something of value when we can't discern how these companies are being valued!
I have started to wonder if entrepreneurship is becoming just another form of credentialing for businesses, like going to a big name college.
Anybody know what project that is? I'm interested in running it internally on my network without an SSH client.