skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to google "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" [1].

Basically, people will fight, kill and die immediately for physiological needs, for food, water, sex, sleep and a few other things. For safety, the average human being is still quite prepared to use lethal violence. Safety includes security, employment, resources, morality, and health. Then less violence is used up the pyramid. And so on you go to love/belonging, esteem (where the respect comes in), and lastly self-actualization.

Of course this is only one theory. Other theories are based more on imitation (people will fight/use violence in a specific situation because they see others using violence in similar situations). That one is my personal favourite since it makes a whole lot more sense than the psychological theory. How would you store something as complex as Maslow's pyramid in genes ? There is no room for anything so complex. For that matter, employment exists maybe 5000 years, human race is at the very least 165000 years old. I have visited places where it doesn't seem to hold (villages in Africa, slums, where it seems people are more than content with just most physiological needs and some form of drug. Oh and they'll do a lot for different drugs, ie. for alcohol).

Of course the first part of Maslow's theory is true, by definition, people will fight, kill and die for physiological needs. Not having them, after all, means dying yourself. The other levels, including respect and "good" food, I don't think work like that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
Strange blip then.

In Finland:

* Your Tax Return is public http://taxjustice.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/paying-taxes-is-pub...

* Random people can find out your telephone number from your car number plate. I met a Finnish girl who got called on her mobile phones while driving... being asked out on a date by the guy driving behind her (not me LoL). They also can find your home address ( spooky )

* Driving fines are proportional to your income... earn more and your speeding fine is more
All the more reason to push for Obama's resignation.
NSA Backdoor as a Service a.k.a NSA BS
Wait, your local login credentials (password presumably hashed) are passed to an external server for storage? Why in the world would that improve the user's experience?
I wonder if the people of the Netherlands feel so threatened that they need this level of deterrence?

I'm not that far from the Netherlands and I must admit that I fail to see why these weapons being there makes us any safer.
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The problem with this approach is that due to the way cookies work you can still leak stuff like session identifiers if you forget to enlist certain subdomains and you are browsing other unprotected sites. The privacy in this case is as good as the weakest link.

I have multiple profiles under Google Chrome. One of them is for sensitive stuff where Panic Mode is installed and enabled always. I use it only for things that matter and it is not annoying me.

Here is an example: http://blog.websecurify.com/2013/03/how-to-improve-your-brow...
> We need a new conduit for effecting change.

In Europe this conduit is called the Pirate Party. If we are to win this fight, it's one of our best vehicles to do so.
There's equivalent experience and "equivalent experience". The latter is what HR departments actually consider valid.
Not that it gives Sweden any real excuse here, but I believe most countries do SIGINT at least on a level comparable to that enabled by the FRA law already. That we did already have a law disabling the government to do so legally was mostly percieved as an inconvenience that had to be "fixed".
The real issue here should not be the miltary SIGINT that is performed today, but what will happen years from now when these possibilities might be used for gradually varying purposes.
I'm in NL; not worried at all.
> It's worth noting that Facebook's European datacenter is in Sweden so a large part of Facebook traffic passes Swedish borders

It's also worth noting that Google said in 2007 that if the FRA snoop law is passed, they will locate their servers outside Sweden. They placed them in Finland instead.

Peter Fleischer from Google said "By introducing these new measures, the Swedish government is following the examples set by governments ranging from China and Saudi Arabia to the US government’s widely criticised eavesdropping programme. Do Swedish citizens really want their country to have the most aggressive government surveillance laws in Europe?"
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.se/2007/05/sweden-and-governm...
http://internetworld.idg.se/2.1006/1.109576

Facebook knew they would be listened to, but put their datacenter in Sweden anyway.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/31/facebook_swedish_dat...
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Would you be worried if you were facing World War II Germany? The whole point of a deterrence is to provide you with piece of mind.
Sweden and government surveillance (2007)
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What do you mean, World War III starting or what? I'd think we're rather on the same side as most surrounding countries.
Well, it's probably illegal for the US to sell its products in the EU. Certainly it's game over for the cloud industry.
4Chan is https. So there is a fair amount of meaningless encrypted spam out there already.
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An excellent point, but you're not going far enough.

Machine intelligence keeps getting better, so it won't be long before we have entirely autonomous drones that just need general instructions to do their job. At that point..

The democratization of weaponry is what caused the end of feudal society, concentrating it might will cause its rebirth.

For a fictional take on this, see Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez.
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False dichotomy. The problem is not Democracy vs every other non-democratic system, it's in the implementation details of the current versions. We just need to refactor Democracy Version 1.0. Far from a rewrite.

And where do we begin? Upholding campaign promises, that's where. They must be watertight like contracts where the voters can sue.
Safe Gmail
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Ask HN: Why did the press reporting about apple, when noone knows what´s coming?
It´s a retorical question, but the articles are really anoying and is some sort of spam in every social channel. And it´s hard to keep following the tech press because every tech publication on the web is jumping onto the bandwagon. just to be clear: i love apple, some sort of. but this worthless reports are worthless.
mixmax, this source is about China.
I can actually remember what it was like during the Cold War and I can assure you that one thing that deterrence does not do is provide peace of mind for anyone.
Diabetes drugs linked to pancreatic cancer
More precisely, "less IT for that one task, while the number of IT tasks grows ever larger".
As a non american; Thank you for caring!
I highly doubt anyone is trying to earn an MBA because they can't wait to get into retail ops and work in a warehouse.
I didn't realize that Annie Lööf was on the discontent side. How did she vote in the end? Was it not Fredrick that cried in the end, in the speakers chair?
One of the obvious benefits to promoting floor workers which is not covered in the article is that the former floor workers know the work realities. One of the biggest sins of hiring MBA's for management is that they don't know the floor realities and therefore they get an analytical view of the business which is simplified in the wrong ways.

One solution might be to hire MBA's as floor workers for a minimum of a year before promoting them to management. However, with student loans being what they are, that is not feasible today.
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> This is hardly a meaningful claim. Insurance companies in the US won't write flood insurance policies, either.

Insurance companies in the EU do, you need to pay for it though.

>As a counter-point, hydroelectric power plants are also not insured for worst-case scenarios. And when hydroelectric

>dams fail, the results can be orders of magnitude worse than Nuclear meltdown.

Interesting, so do you think Three Gorges Dam is a good idea?
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Interesting. And thank you very much for taking your time to explain.

I'm a layman here, but that seems a bit awkward to me.

Let' say the Congress votes into the law and the President signs a bill suspending civil rights, let's say for blacks. The same purely hypothetical law would require to put them in the concentration camps.

Will the Supreme Court just sit on its hands wait and watch? Or am I missing something in the picture?

Once again, thanks for your time.
Atlantis has already been identified. It's most probably Thera, on Santorini.
The outsourcing of U.S. intelligence raises risks
Allegedly leaked iOS7 screenshot shows new design
And if anybody can make it significantly less lines while still being readable, let's see a pull request.
Flat Design and Fonts (Typography in Flat Design Era)
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Isn't the obvious answer that China would be less willing to extradite people to the US? Not as unwilling as, say, Iran, but still.
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El té verde es una de las bebidas más consumidas en el mundo y se ha usado desde hace miles de años como medicina natural en China, pues es uno de los tés con más propiedades beneficiosas para la salud.
You have to consider he is not about to badmouth the government that he is about to seek asylum from. He didn't go somewhere that he thought was better, he is just in survival mode now.

But I agree, things seem fishy.
You could send your former floorworkers to get an MBA, instead.
I agree with this, but would also point out that the problems I am addressing though can't be solved by a better user interface. In addition to the issues you describe you also have the question of key infrastructure. Key servers are not adequate as they are, and so IMO you need to have ways of verifying the key is legit, which are not included in the PGP model.

That key infrastructure is something which needs to be thought out and made resistant to a single party tampering with things.
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/137/

Fuck. That. Shit.
Manning made some statements after months of torture? Not sure how much stock I'd put in such confessions.
Initial trust is always free. Candidates all compete for this initial implicitly transacted form of confidence. Then the electing public play the wait & see game. If the incumbent reneges on the promise, trust is understood to be broken, they vote someone else or soon enough become cynical of the entire system.

This system is bullshit. Promises made without accountability is the problem.

I think campaign promises should be made, but they should be made clearly with details of outcomes, timelines and plan Bs. Candidates can then compete on those detailed manifestos.
Why not code it in Clojure or Lisp?
This seriously sounds like Kafka's The trial :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial)
Unfortunately, there's no one PP. I wish I could vote for the Swedish PP on the EP elections.
From the article: A spokesperson of the Royal Dutch Airforce says they are surprised about the words of Lubbers[1]. 'We never disclose any information on this. As former prime minister, he knows that'. According to the spokesperson whether or not there are nuclear weapons is a state secret.

[1] Lubbers was prime minister from 1982-1994, confirmed that there are in fact nuclear bombs in Volkel, and said that he never thought that "those silly things" were still there.
Today's WWDC, so i hope apple will announce iOS in flat style. This post perfect illustrate importance of typography in flat design.
It could be argued that the French Revolution effectively ended its cycle in 1870 with the Third Republic, after two more upheavals (1830, 1848), two emperors and a few less powerful kings. The country ended up a lot better than it was at the beginning, and grew tremendously on almost all counts.

Also, it was one of the most interesting periods for arts and litterature ever to occur. Great example indeed
If we all keep waiting there isn't going to be another day to fight.
>It's one of the reasons we decided to go hosted cloud first and only later multi-tenant.

So by 'hosted cloud' you mean 'every user gets their own VM?' I mean, you could mean that you use on-demand dedicated servers, but most people mean virtual instances when they say "cloud" (I hate that word "cloud" - it's so vague)

(personally, i still think of multiple VMs on one physical box as multi-tenant. But managing a VPS per user? thousands of times easier than managing a user-account per user and just having a bunch of users on the same box. In my opinion, more secure, too.)

How are you managing images? I mean, that's the thing you've gotta watch for, a backdoor in the install image.

One thing I've noticed about my customers is that they almost all prefer to use my image than to do a net-install. (I give my xen users a paravirtualized boot loader, so they can load the distro install kernel and go from there.) the interesting thing is that my dedicated customers are far more likely to do their own install (I provide only... a very rudamentary PXE menu.)

Or, maybe that's just my perception because I only notice what OS they are running when they ask for help... whereas on the dedicated servers, I've recently had to move a bunch of them, which required me to look at consoles. So I guess there could be a bunch of arch users or something like that who just don't ask for help.

It does seem like having your own physical hardware would make... a big difference, security-wise.
Feudal society? I think at that point you won't be looking at something that resembles fiefdoms so much as global hegemonies....

I am not sure it will get that far though. More likely it will expand until the economic stress from an oversized national security budget and rising energy prices will force it to collapse with global consequences. For the record, no, I do not think those consequences will be pleasant for anyone :-P
Although everyone is hoping for Apple to finally catch up – or at least for an modern / flat / current design – I really believe Apple is going to pitch its changes as a leap forward, not catching up.

I’m not expecting any Tile or Android-flat like design, i am however expecting something that will “again” differentiate them from the rest. Can’t wait!
Like the built-in AI in DOTA2, you mean?
Sounds cool! I've been looking for a trustable Dropbox alternative so I don't have to manually encrypt the contents all the time. I'll download and try it out real q-

> Make sure Java [...] is installed.

:C
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wow. missed this bit. seems relevant, even if a smear..

<quote>[...] on the day the president [of the USoA] is meeting the Chinese leader,” Baer said, “telling us, listen, quit complaining about espionage and getting on the internet and our hacking. You are doing the same thing.”</quote>
"Your Tax Return is public"

That has always been pretty odd to me. Our laws seem to have a decent focus on privacy, but in this case there was a compromise between transparency (perhaps our political history can explain why income is public information).

* Random people can find out your telephone number from your car number plate. I met a Finnish girl who got called on her mobile phones while driving... being asked out on a date by the guy driving behind her (not me LoL). They also can find your home address

Yes, but you can prevent that from happening by notifying Trafi.

* Driving fines are proportional to your income... earn more and your speeding fine is more

Not sure why you mention this. Proportional fines make sense if the point of fines is deterrence.
Welcome to democracy (or rather the facade)! Does the US president actually have that much individual power anyway? I wish it was more like the film Dave, inasmuch as that the president on his first day questions all the wrongs, and suggests to put them all right!

People love a figurehead to moan and blame, but it's not ever as simple as that. I'm not making excuses for Obama, but he's also up against the establishment.

The weird thing is, I'd read about Prism a few weeks back, and like others have just been under the assumption that my electronic data isn't secure. That's not to say I'm happy about it. If the NSA wasn't doing it, then someone else would be. I know that's a pretty crappy line, but it's the normal diatribe for the advocation of defence policies.

I'm totally disillusioned with British politics, so have the same sinking feeling, along with others to the point of apathy - which is really quite sad. I think the expression is 'don't let the bastards grind you down', I feel ground down. Our current government is a sad mishmash of nearly theres, and we haven't even got a viable opposition at the moment. Good times. That along with media lies, and the average Joe paying the price for corporate crimes - is all pretty shitty.

The worst thing about all of this, is that you end up questioning whether this is legitimate or not, is the US just bigging up their capabilities - is this all just disinfo?

Either way, the hot pot of data that a silo like Facebook has, is just gagging to get into the hands of the wrong doers, and that's probably a tough force to be reckoned with.
Silly bombs. Not like the Russians invade our Dutch (European) air space every other month or so... Oh, wait they do! Russian nuclear bombers (TU-95) do in fact invade our airspace on a regular basis. I can hear the F-16 Quick Reaction Force scramble every now and then.

http://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2013/03/21/46204057/f_...
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Prediksi Skor Mali VS Rwanda Kualifikasi Piala Dunia 10 Juni 2013
Prediksi Skor Mali VS Rwanda Kualifikasi Piala Dunia 10 Juni 2013 – Untuk bisa mengikuti putaran final Piala Dunia memang tidaklah mudah, negara-negara calon peserta harus melalu sejumlah pertandingan kualifikasi terlebih dahulu untuk dapat memastikan satu tempat di putaran final. Minggu ini, babak kualifikasi Piala Dunia akan kembali bergulir, dan kami akan mencoba untuk meberikan prediksi dari salah satu pertandingan tersebut. Kali ini, kami akan memprediksikan pertandingan seru antara Mali kontra Rwanda. Pertandingan tersebut akan digelar di markas Mali pada hari Minggu 10 Juni 2013, atau lebih tepartnya pada pukul 01:00 dini hari WIB.
Doesn't Sweden (or was that Norway?) publicly release the tax data of every citizen? Seems like a different approach to privacy/openness.
I think this is part of NATO weapons sharing. Italy and Germany (and possibly other NATO states) store them as well.
Well if that don't seal the deal!
Tax data is public in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
Also works on Firefox mobile nightly quiet smoothly (but with some zoom issues on round changing).
I'd say it's neither.
Much of the power of the 1984 picture is the totalitarian state where everyone is afraid all the time, and that is not the image we have now.

But much of the picture in Brave New World is that there is no real need for hard repression as people simply don't rebel and are happy with their comfy lives.

The reality here would seems kind of in between (people mostly don't care _and_ the state is more scary).
Not very useful. Only secures your data when it's transferring over the network. Most of the website I use and have my private data over, are already forced https.

The problem of your Service Provider giving private data access to the government, still remains.
Anatomy of a zero knowledge web application
HR departments are infamously bad at hiring developers. In this case having a degree will help you get a job at a corp but that doesn't make you a good candidate (of course you might be as well, they're just not going to be able to tell the difference by your degree).
I would have been startled if they didn't keep any. Also Dutch/NL here.
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Ask HN: What's the best N/USA-free computing setup?
Starting from the operating system up, what software and online services can I use to regain some semblance of privacy?

My Privacy Plan by Ben Matthews looks like a good start: http://benrmatthews.com/2013/06/my-privacy-plan/

What are your recommendations? Bonus marks if it's relatively simple and fast to implement.
what I meant was that if the hardware put together expecting to push that many pixels with good performance, it's more likely it won't skip a beat pushing to something bigger?
Posting this link on Facebook forces me to answer a captcha, what I have never seen before at this point.
Then trying to follow the link, the FB-redirect produces an Internal Server Error, so the link to the Tumblr page isn't working. Haha, 500 Code on an simple link, while other links are working.

There must be the NSA behind it! :-D
I absolutely agree with you about drone strikes being even more dangerous. The analogy I saw was the mindset that causes people to be enraged about US citizens being killed/spied upon while being rather indifferent to the same thing happening to people in other countries.
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> What I'm about to say is absolutely nuts, but it could be that this is something the NSA leaked intentionally

I had a similar thought this morning, not necessarily about the NSA leaking this on purpose, but about how they could turn this into their own advantage. You can already see that Obama has gone on record saying that "we cannot fight against terror without giving away some of our freedoms" (or something very similar to this, I'm too lazy to search for the exact quote), a statement which he couldn't have made before this scandal.

What's really more disconcerting are all those comments (reasonably highly voted) coming from what seem to be genuine American citizens saying something very similar to what Obama is saying: "We can't fight terrorism if we don't let the Government go through our stuff".

A little bit OT, I'm surprised nobody has yet made a parallel between present-days United States and the end times of the Roman Republic. You just have to replace today's "terrorists" with the "Barbarians/Germans" of that time and Julius Caesar with today's over-reaching Government. The bad news is that for all of Brutus's and Cicero's efforts Caesar was followed by future emperor Augustus and the end of the Roman Republic.
With broad enough laws & proprietorial discretion; coupled with sufficient levels of surveillance and record-keeping, we are all effectively at the mercy of the whims of the agencies. The only missing piece is the capability for mass incarceration .... oh... wait a sec. ..
I really like the presentation of the problems. I hope this is developed much further. It could, however, benefit a lot by having separate quizzes at different levels, and moving the edge-cases and browser-specific questions into their own quizzes. I also question the value of questions that are intentionally meant to trick you.

Some of these questions, by their nature of being browser-specific, are time sensitive since no versions are specified. And I'd have to double-check all of these answers because I found at least one which is wrong:

window.onresize = function(){window.location.reload()}

Definitely reloads the page in Chrome 27 (and the current Canary, 29).
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They made a deal with the Russians to fly-by once every 6 weeks to make sure we can justify spending 7.6 billion euros on the JSF program ;-)
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