skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a (temporary) bug, not a feature:

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/3119
Did you really install it? Why? Just to take a jab at it? You should have used VLC if you are not on a Mac. The video stream is H264, not QuickTime video.
I'd guess there are plenty of 2nd amendment supporters, on cultural grounds, would have no problem with flag-burning. They may not like it and publicly disagree with it, but they wouldn't stop it.

What's your point?
The Telegraaf says former prime minister Ruud Lubbers has confirmed the bombs are being kept at the base in a National Geographic documentary.

Inside a National Geographic documentary doesn't seem like a particularly secure storage place. I would have thought, y'know, a vault or something.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that solitary confinement is a form of torture. See this highly discussed recent thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796790
Independent of the wholesale surveillance of the U.S intelligence
Though, keep in mind the potential conflict with /.well-known/ - <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785>.
Well, if this is some infrastructure that's designed to last they're going to be expecting to migrate to denser sorts of storage in the future. A storage system that stores exabytes today and can be scaled to store yottabytes in 2033 does seem like a hard but reasonable ambition.
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If you're an emacsen, M-x spook will do the trick
You're lucky that the NSA has no way to read everything you're planning on the internet, or else it would be all a waste of time.
Sounds like the smear campaign begins early this time... Where's the evidence?
That's what I do, I have a small (100 MB) small volume sync in my DB, works like a charm :)
You can self-host the js files wherever you like. It's not recommended that you do because Persona is still evolving. However the point is that the protocol is completely decentralized.

By the way, as a plug, I've implemented it on my site http://www.polifesto.com/
How do we compare the size of (potentially infinite) sets?
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System Analysis and/or Control System.
Not relevant to ECC, but if anyone here has spare time and any interest at all in crypto, please contribute to the linked site (http://crypto.stackexchange.com)! In case anyone doesn't know, StackExchange is a network of Q&A websites, of which StackOverflow was the first. Sites go through a proposal process and, if enough people commit, a private and then public beta. The Cryptography StackExchange site is currently in public beta. If it reaches a critical mass, then it will graduate and become fully-fledged member of the SE network.

As it is, the site is doing relatively well but daily activity is low (too few questions, too few visitors). But there are lots of knowledgeable people on it, and crypto is one of those areas everyone seems interested in, so the only real thing holding it back is a critical mass of good, active users. For many professions here on HN, it's useful to have a bit of crypto knowledge, so this post is a shameless plug. :)

You don't have to be an expert to contribute. In fact, one of the problem areas is a lack of good, well-researched, quality questions. Of course, any new expert is welcome too.
Hamdi was in Guantanamo for less than two months (Feb. 11 to April 5, 2002) while his legal status was sorted out. Considering he was caught in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban, I'd put that in the "a win for the republic" column.
Your example in its extremity is not technically correct. Directly inciting criminal violence is not protected in the US.
You can't know that.

Canada has it: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6870/125/

Sweden has it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5852497 http://peterfleischer.blogspot.se/2007/05/sweden-and-governm...
Guns are an important tool, but it's Improvised Explosive Devices that are causing the majority of the casualties, over 63% of them in Iraq and 66% in Afghanistan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device)

A lot of the guns in circulation in Iraq were liberated from the army and police, or acquired through corrupt channels, originally provided by the coalition forces themselves.

You credit a well armed populace as being the key here, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. They could've started with zero guns and simply acquired them as necessary.

Remember, a hostile government might shoot an unarmed individual in a conflict, but they will always shoot an armed one.
You could also very easily add one additional command to your deploy script to copy all the web content from the directory being pulled to to the web root, and not have to worry about any accidents.
I have to agree with amitagarwalx. You should revisit your statement of work. I've been doing some work at Ad Agencies and this happens all the time especially now with Brands wanting agencies to build sites, ecommerce, etc.

I remember one time we agreed to do a project for peanuts so we could use project as a case study. It was a creative fit for us. Shortly after the client wanted three additional features that were not agreed upon, I quickly had the conversation with them and told them this was outside of the scope and it was going to be additional and gave them the costs. They ended up going with only one (1) of the three features and agreed to pay the additional fee.

My point is if you're trying to build body of work agree to parameters you're comfortable with. If you feel like you're being taken advantage of then walk away. You can turn work away. It's best to be upfront, you want to build a good working relationship with everyone but not EVERYONE is going to be good client. It's important to manage their expectations.

If your client is unaware of front-end technologies then make him/her aware of the process. In fact have them prototype it first so you have fewer changes later on.
Stop putting shit like this in your repo. Developers should not have access to credentials that make their way onto production.
A legal defense fund has been set up for Edwars at

https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/d2j2/support-edward-s...
I would suppose it's possible for the populace to threaten to take up arms when the representative democracy isn't so representative anymore. An opposing viewpoint doesn't always fit so cleanly within a partisan view.
As an American student studying for a PhD in Germany, I would say that basically all of the reasons listed here could be applied to Germany as well (except maybe the 30% rule).
this is just not the way it works, legally

While true, there is this bit in the Declaration of Independence about inalienable human rights. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be a legal document anymore.
If I travel at a constant speed of 100 km/h (~62mph), it takes me one hour to travel 100km (~62 miles). This is not even math.

Do you want me to

a) convert between km/h and km/"simple h"

or

b) replace all tachometers, speed-limit signs and laws?

or

c) define "simple km" to fit?
Ask HN: Does this curation tool exist?
Hi HN!

I'm looking to create a one-page website which is just curated links organized by topic. Ideally, it'd be driven by a bookmarklet similar to the old del.icio.us one. I'd click the bookmarklet, title and categorize the link, and it'd be added to the page. I could re-order/remove categories and links from the page through the page itself.

Does this exist anywhere?
This would be great for hospitals to adopt lean thinking.
You should do both, though.
You know how users scream when Facebook changes anything about the behaviour? Imagine the screaming when they change lots of little behaviours, all at once.
The difference there is that the NSA building could actually handle that much data in the future while your laptop would require some physics bending in order to store/process that much information. There's a hard limit on the amount of computational power and information you can jam into an area.

That said the Wired article just cites a DoD report which say their goal was to have Global Information Grid handle yottabytes when Utah was up and running.
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Let me add a real #12 - restaurant food there is plentiful and fantastic. While I was courting my wife, she did a month in Delft. I was living in Stuttgart at the time and went there every weekend. We repeated only one restaurant in all that time and ate like kings.
I'm curious, what security risk does static content could pose by serving the .git ?
> Yet the "school shooting" incidence in the last 40 years can be counted on two hands.

Wow, you are either not informed, not human (got like 100 fingers per hand?) or using some very narrow definition of school shooting (like children below 6 in Michigan).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the...
The actual requirement is a video player that implements HTTP live streaming. Not sure why they don't just put the URL for that on the page. When the stream goes live I'm sure someone will post the URL here though.

VLC supports HTTP live streaming.
Ahh interesting, I wasn't aware of this use of the term. Thank you for the clarification!
Demo page here: http://seqrentry.net/#demo
I can say I've heard of all of the items but have I used them so I could say I know them? No. I would expect this to be the case for majority of HN readers, quite frankly.

And I'd consider myself rather paranoid even, at least among the social circles I'm part of.
You can forward email and phone calls from services that provide a bit more privacy. For example, such services should allow to block the address/number from which the forwarded email/call come from; such services should be either free or collect payments via Bitcoin, and in general collect the minimum data required in order to provide such a service.

(I am new here and am not sure whether I can refer you to a service that we have built. When I tried to submit "Show HN" I was not permitted to post.)
> You can self-host the js files wherever you like

Sure, but those files would still open the persona.org pop-up, AFAIK (until Persona has been implemented directly in the browser). So until then persona.org could theoretically gather data.
He lives in Hawaii....
A legal defense fund has been set up at https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/d2j2/support-edward-s...
Maybe others asked for it, I didn't. I don't use social media, I vote third-party and always have, I believe in open source, I rarely watch tv or see movies. I dont listen to the radio, I use P2P.
I was going to say almost exactly that, only instead of the ATF (who have very little in the way of tactical response capabilities), the DHS is the biggest threat on the whole.

Firstly, they are not bound by Posse Comitatus, but even moreso than that, they've been gearing up for awhile to have extremely tactical response capacity, including live-fire drills in and over major cities, purchase of armored urban vehicles, and massive ammunition purchases. At last count, DHS has approximately five bullets for every single American in the US borders. Only slightly scarier is that they've been purchasing 'hesitate no more' targets to train on designed to desensitize them to the killing of 'normal people', including pregnant women, children, etc. Also, the ammo they've been buying are illegal to use extra-nationally due to the Geneva convention.
> With that logic I could say my laptop is designed to store yottabytes of data, just because I think that maybe at some point in the future it could.

Except you'd probably be wrong. Your filesystem almost certainly can't handle that much space. ext4 maxes out at 1 Exabyte. NTFS might barely make it if you use GPT and oversized sectors and don't run into any unforeseen problems.
No. Not this. index.html has no business being in the root of your project.

Always, and I mean always put your web content into a directory separate from the root of your .git archive. This is the easiest way to avoid all of these problems.

Rails calls this directory "public", but it could be whatever you want, so long as what's mounted on your web server is not the root.
My computer just went from 3 GHz to ~2.6 Ghz... This may not fly... ;)
Uh, just one? The way I count it's 2.5 out of 4.

It's a Swiss company, owned by LaCie (French) which is again owned by Seagate (US). So I would say that's half a point.

Data is en-/decrypted locally. There's a reason they don't have a web interface, but require you to use the client.

It's indeed not open source. Would be nice if it was.

And it actually does work. There's room for improvement (isn't there always?), but in my experience it's working well.
Here's a Science Friday video of the same thing but without the music on top, so you can actually hear the frequencies.

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&i...
We are still building the MVP but do wonder how we should counter customer partner and potential investor worries about this issue.

SaaS still looks like the best way to deliver our software but I suppose now we will have to load the whole thing with even greater data encryption to help customers feel comfortable. Now just where do we put those encryption keys?
You could try Fastmail by Opera. See https://www.fastmail.fm/

"We support TLS/SSL with all of our protocols. TLS/SSL is designed to encrypt all traffic and prevents eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery on any communication between your computer and our servers."

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_security.html
We have lots of identity cards: birth certificate, voter registration card, draft card (seriously, why doesn't this one upset more people? The government literally claims that it can send you to die anytime it likes between the ages of 18-25).
As an American living an America, I have to disagree with you.

First of all, if you really didn't know the U.S. government and military had some creepy capabilities, you're not living on planet earth. Anyone with a brainstem and a basic interest in security and crypto can decipher this basic truth. Many even believe they can crack RSA and similar encryption schemes.

Second of all, I don't begrudge any country their right to choose their principles and their form of government - that includes the Iranians and the rest of the Islamic world. In the U.S., we have a much stronger defense backbone than most countries. That's because we're a bigger target than most countries. You may have heard the U.S. is a major world superpower. New Zealand isn't. Neither is Spain. For a "New Zealander living in Spain" to cast this judgment on us is, as I see it, unfair. Our elected officials, elected according to our chosen system of government, voted for these measures. What more can you ask of a democratic system?

These "whistleblowers" everyone sympathizes so much with -- they broke the laws of our country. They released classified information to the public. Why not just release the nuke launch codes on Twitter while you're at it? Free speech has limitations. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

As an American, I have no problem with the NSA using large-scale statistical methods to filter my private communications out as "not related to terrorism." After all, it's not like Carrie from Homeland is chillin' at the CIA reading my texts with my girlfriend. They have neither time nor inclination for that. On the other hand, I very much do mind New York City being used for another terrorist attack. If these measures can keep me and my loved ones safe, I applaud them.

If you don't like the way we do business in this country, fine. Stay in Spain and use your own social networks and search engines and mail platforms. The beauty of the world is there's something for everyone, from Sharia law to Scandinavia.

And if you don't like the way we treat combattants in our wars -- which included, by the way, the right to appeal to the Supreme Court, and many judicial and legislative battles over the rights of non-military combattants -- don't fight the U.S. military. It's a pretty simple equation. It seems to me, the people with the most to fear here also have the most to hide.

Let the flamefest begin.
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> F my life, right?

Better censor yourself or the NSA will think you're rude. If what you want to say is "fuck" man up and spell it out.
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For most individuals things like these don't matter afterall. It's a small minority which even cares, so I don't really even wonder anymore.

Just mind your own business and avoid problems, that works the best for an individual person. Sad but true.
"They" will just filter out that specific script.
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In your pictures, only the last picture (current situation) shows Palestinian controlled territories. In the other images, the areas were controlled by the UK, Israel, Jordan, or Egypt. Meanwhile, the four images do show how much Israel has shrunk.

There are more Arabs in historic Palestine (the State of Israel, Gaza, Judea & Samaria) than there are Jews or Christians [1]. The current State of Israel is a lot smaller than historic Palestine (read: pre-1948 Palestine).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Projected_Population_for_P...
Well excuse me for wanting my country to be held to a higher standard than Congo.
When it comes to damage-reduction, I think the most immediate step going forward that can be done on the side of the private sector is to stop collecting, as much as possible, extensive profiles on people, especially profiles that are, or easily can be, tied to their real identity. For those of us who aren't doing so ourselves, we can pressure companies not to do so, either those we work for, or those we interact with as customers. This can either mean not collecting profiles at all, collecting limited ones only as needed, and/or collecting them tied to pseudonyms rather than making use of real-names mandatory or default.

I realize it can be commercially valuable to have such profiles when it comes to things like targeting ads or financial instruments, but on the whole I think the damage such data can do, if it exists, outweighs that justification. To take a concrete example, the side of the internal Google+ "nymwars" who were against the real-name requirement were right.

Of course, we should also work to keep corporate and government data collection separate. But I fear that will be a longer-term struggle, in which case an avenue to pursue simultaneously is to minimize corporate data-collection.
I thought Apple was in favor of HTML5, is this no longer the case?
I'm getting tired of seeing comments like this everywhere, which serve little use. Yes, it's been going on for a long time. Yes, many people have been aware of such programs as small bits have been leaked over the years. Yes, many of us have been angry about it for a long time.

The difference this time is not specifically the new information but the fact that it hasn't successfully been buried in the news after a day or two so far and people are in fact getting more upset about it. This is a good thing. If people aren't talking about it, the chance of doing anything about it and expressing mass disapproval is significantly reduced.

Maybe nothing will happen this time either, but a lot of people are angry about it at the same time, and finally talking about it en masse, and I don't see that as anything but a great thing.
Is it down for anyone else?
Shouldn't they use a single unit and metric prefixes, instead of hours, minutes seconds?

For instance, meters are always meters. Whether millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, kilometers, et al.

SUT proposes:

- A day has 10 hours

- An hour has 100 minutes

- A minutes has 100 seconds

Instead, using using hour as the single unit.

1 day = 10 hours

1 hour = .1 day = 100 minutes = 100 centihours

1 minute = .01 hour = 1 centihour

1 second = .01 minute = .01 centihour = .0001 hour = 100 microhours
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And who told you there are "hundreds of thousands" of people who want to blow up Americans?

But actually, even (very generously) at 100,000 brand-new prisoners for the USG to deal with it would certainly cope just fine (an increase of 4% on the current prison population). And imagine all the money which would be saved from surveillance programs if all the terrorists were dealt with!
Milk bags?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bag

Costco near Toronto (and maybe Canada generally?) sells vast amounts of milk packaged this way.
> I hate to use the slippery slope argument

Slippery slope reasoning is completely incompatible with 4th amendment interpretation, because the 4th amendment is all about what is "reasonable" (or rather, what is "unreasonable.") It's about compromising the legitimate needs of the police with the legitimate privacy interests of the people. You can't make compromises when your retort to everything becomes: "but if we keep going in this direction..."
The nomenclature invites unnecessary confusion, as the terms are all already used ("How many simple seconds are in an actual second?").

Why not use metric prefixes on a day to come up with the names? This requires no new definitions, just a new application of existing terminology.

simple hour = deciday

simple minute = milliday

simple second = 10 microdays
Critical thinking is hard, indignance is easy.
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Note that Fastmail is hosted in Australia, which is a partner nation in ECHELON.
If that were his intention, he'd have to make sure to never say or write that during his campaign possibly. Yup. And I'd guess there are probably people working on deciphering true intention from merely campaign promises. Welcome to our new world. If not now, then someday... unless the good of humanity prevails in coming years and we change our course.
Given that you can license something MIT/BSD or GPL, I don't see how this is something you can't compare. It's something you should compare.

Also, I think developer freedom trumps code freedom in this day and age. GPL served its purpose when code was being threatened by corporate concerns, but now, because of people like Stallman, it's recognized that open-source can be good for business.
I believe it could store about 4000,000 times the current total data of Facebook.
These pictures are on the voyager spacecraft, meant to represent all of humanity
You're right that while the protocol is decentralized, the implementations aren't yet.

Btw, I don't want to sound negative about your article, we're both fans of Persona and I'm really pleased you're talking about it :-)
I think creative people are not those who get the "muse visit", as you say, but people who are stimulated by the million mundane steps involved in one work of creation. Those who enjoy each of a thousand brushes of sandpaper, who revel in refactoring, who can feel the static energy of mixing just the right color of paint, who bask in the glory of a perfectly selected word.
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I haven't written the bookmarklet and the site is going through a redesign to use an API but what you just mentioned is my bookmark manager that doesnt require you to be registered or logged in to explore it. It is called Mark my place and it is located at www.markmyplace.com. If you begin to use it I will take into account any changes you want for the redesign. The redesign is supposed to shift everything to the website's front page, and be completely driven by AJAX but if you look at it you can see the potential. It would be nice to have a user to develop for who wasn't just me. Thanks for your time.
>LaCie may release personal data if the law requires it [...] or to protect LaCie's rights and interests //

Isn't that one of those entirely vacuous sentences. Basically they have a disclaimer there that so long as it's in their interests to release it they can. So offer some money, "oh yes we're inclined to make money here's the data".
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The stream is HTTP Live streaming, which VLC and mplayer support. People on non Apple hardware can watch it just fine.
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