skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good points. The ability for publishers to discount games on steam where they otherwise couldn't in physical retail markets is that they have just one place to set that price and distribute it.

MS by eliminating the used game market forces consumers to buy these older games in digital form where publishers can offer these sales. I don't know if that will make them any cheaper than if someone simply bought a used game from ebay. It certainly won't affect the price of new games.

What bothers me is the notion that these digital purchases could go away at the end of the XBox1 generation. Consoles notoriously aren't backwards compatible friendly. I'm fine with buying PC games digitally on steam as I know they'll work as long as whatever Windows version I have is still around. And I would wager Windows 7 will be supported much longer than the XBox1 will be the current generation.
I'd say only 100,000 that's it? I'm rather disappointed.
There are 316,037,000 in your country, that means 315,937,000 who don't give a fuck ?
Note to self: Never even set foot on USA soil.
There are a lot of copyright and IP blogs out there. I'd wait to hear some legal opinions from them. Still sounds like a fun project!
Is there anything in the roadmap for geospatial index support?

Our major usecase for mongo is returning entries in ordered distance from a location and / or within some radius of a location.

Support for such queries would be seriously useful.
iOS 7:  A Eulogy for Skeuomorphism
Immutable Server
*its own right
I think the real problem isn't the "mashing", but rather the buzzword bingo a lot of "trendy" places seem to be trying to play.
I trust Google than Facebook.
To tip or not to tip... or should it be banned?
I use browserstack a fair bit already (and have used saucelabs in he past). These remote testing services are really great and cover 80% of my testing needs. However what they don't do is let you get a true feel for what it's like for an end user to interact with the site due to the latency. This becomes more apparent with interactive web apps.
Tech Burnout Suggestions
The discussion from the original posting on Moxie Marlinspike's blog is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5869394

Daniel Solove's "Why privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide" is a good complement to this piece. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105485
`Committing officer`? wtf is this? Subpoena these guys. They have immunity, so why not make them talk?

If necessary, a company executive, known as a “committing officer,” is given
documents that guarantee immunity from civil actions resulting from the
transfer of data. The companies are provided with regular updates, which may
include the broad parameters of how that information is used.
provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it *publicly* releases a fix

emphasis mine.
Papers, houses, persons, and effects does not include communications or other people's papers about you. We need a new Wiretap Act for this era.
2.5% of the entire US population. Jesus christ...
Took me a second to understand what the two blue dropdowns were for.

To me the "desired [for] testing OS" would refer to the guest OS running IE. "Select host OS" would have made a lot more sense to me.

Or just list the 9 options as links on the page and let me click them like any normal web content.
I remember watching an episode of the defunct show Seaquest DSV as a kid, and this was partially there. It was an automated checkpoint that recorded the 'speeding,' but the ticket/payment/etc all happened automatically with a notification to the user.
Yeah, just reminiscing.
not really

what does msft think they're doing with them?
I really have to agree with this. As a 30 something male, I feel like Aple has made something my 12 year old daughter will love but that leaves me very much out in the cold.

I was hoping that some UX issues would be addressed in 7 but alas, it's fonts and colours that seem most important to I've and co.

I'm literally shopping round for an Android after using only iPhones since 2007.

Experia Z seems like the front runner at the moment.
Inventing stories is what's wrong with that.
Skateboarding and Open Source Software
i'd say at least PHP has a problem with bad tutorials. Moreso than most other topics i've looked up.
That's because 1 USD plus VAT pretty much 3 equals 1 EUR. USA has sales tax which is not added to the price, it only shows up on the receipt.
No. Titan is not fast enough to brute force AES128. All of the computers in the world put together are not fast enough.

If you assume:
Every person on the planet owns 10 computers.
There are 7 billion people on the planet.
Each of these computers can test 1 billion key combinations per second.
On average, you can crack the key after testing 50% of the possibilities.
Then the earth's population can crack one encryption key in 77,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!

If you want to decode AES, you either need the key or find a weakness in the algo.

http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded-internet-design/43724...
How much of a role did the requirement for complete secrecy play in this scenario? Secrecy mean the recipients of such orders were isolated, thinking they were by themselves in this. Such a person will be much less likely to disobey orders.

Now that the dam has sprung a leak, and the full extent is becoming evident, people will begin to realise that they are not alone, and it is safe to talk. There is safety in numbers. One gets the feeling that the whole scheme is unravelling, and this is the trickle before the dam bursts.

I'm looking forward to it.
We are more than half way in the road to serfdom and tyranny.

This is a good time to re-read Book 8 of the Republic (Socrates by way of Plato). The current political situation of the world is being decribed as if they were teleported 2000+ years, then went back to write what they saw.
I'd think you could un-rar them manually.
Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threats to national security
With the history of the gov/NSA being effective crypto gods - my money is they are ahead of decrypting SSL and HTTPS and even of it is not real-time, they store streams from target end points regularly for slower offline decrypt.
Did you actually read the patents? For the most part, they are molecule patent, not a method patent[1]. And you can't patent information, so your argument that "they are informationally identical" means very little, legally. A DNA molecule is not an RNA molecule, so they would have to be covered under different claims in a molecule patent.

However, it is the use context which determines novelness of the molecule, which is why the myriad DNA is novel - in the absence of any of the research, how would you have picked that segment of DNA to amplify by PCR in order to test for an enhanced risk for breast cancer? So, that particular class of double stranded DNA molecule has a non-obvious use as a diagnostic tool. It doesn't matter how you made it, or that how to make it is 'obvious'. Let's say you make a wooden machine that does something impressive that no one has thought of before. Does it matter, that just by looking at it, the process to make it (say with a six-axis cutting tool) is obvious? Of course not.

Your argument that the "process" is not novel is irrelevant, because molecule patents don't care about the process. Just as plant patents don't care about the process (which for a long time was always the same, plant husbandry, crossing, and grafting). So you shouldn't conflate the requirements for a method patent with the requirements for a molecule patent. The Myriad lawyers weren't idiots - there was a reason why they filed these patents as a molecule patent.

That said, I happen to think the claims are overbroad, and that a molecule patent should probably adhere to some more careful standards as to what molecules, exactly, are and are not claimed, but the court case didn't address that at all.

Finally, I don't agree that genes should be patented, but only in the context that I don't believe in patents at all. But, if we have a patent system with the laws as they are now, I think the myriad patents are valid. Moreover, I think that the supreme court is overstepping its bounds in its declaration because what it is doing (determining patentable classes) is the function of Congress. However, I don't think what the supreme court is doing is wrong (beyond my general moral objection to patents) because if their faulty understanding of the underlying science were to be correct, then what they did would NOT be determining patentable classes outside of the already-established rubric.

[1] there is a method in there, which amounts to "take a patient sequence and compare it to Craig Venter (reference sequence)". IIRC, because this method of diagnosis is clearly obvious, this is not at issue in this case, as it has been rejected and unchallenged.
FYI I;'ve no idea to whom you are referring when you say "we"
From reading the suit, it appears that what they're arguing is that the total fees collected by Warner/Chappell would, if Warner/Chappell had no right to collect it based on copyright, become damages the class-action plainttiffs would then recover back from Warner/Chappell. There may also be provisions in the California Unfair Competition act which would allow the court to order repayment.
Recently a friend was writing a screenplay for a nuclear terrorism thriller. To help him out, I did a lot of research on nuclear weapons manufacture. Lots of googling, reading particular research papers and so on.

I joked that he'd better appreciate the lists I was willing to put myself on for him, but maybe it wasn't that much of a joke.
> I imagine github could incorporate some of these tools too.

GitHub allows you to ignore whitespace in diffs by appending _?w=1_ to the URL [1]. They should make this more obvious with a button in the diff interface.

[1] https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets
"It doesn't happen because the existing robotics solutions effectively require dedicated personnel which management isn't too keen on."

Spot-on. As it stands now, each robot has to be custom-built for its intended purpose. My dream is to have the robotic equivalent of a PC - a general-purpose, consumer-grade, mass-producible robot, that can be easily configured to perform any tasks.
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What was tptacek wrong about?
The type of freedom of expression that Pussy Riot practiced in the Cathedral wouldn't be acceptable in any country, and likely not the US either. Had they performed it on the street outside, they would have escaped prosecution. Doing it inside the church would be unacceptable in any country, due to the protection any reasonable society offers to property belonging to an organization (like a church).

In Canada they would have been charged and convicted of multiple crimes, and likely spent nearly as long in jail. The only reason the west supported this group is because it happened in Russia...
Php-ist: Istanbul PHP Conferance
There is no publicly known attack, it is possible that there are undisclosed vulnerabilities in AES-128 that the NSA is aware of today. Is there any precedent for a weakness like that where an agency like the NSA was already aware of a weakness before it became public?
Don't forget their internal 'zine, Cryptolog. There was a story here(1) about how it was recently declassified. Heavily redacted, but still very cool.

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/cryptologs.shtml

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407036
Going down the Apple hardware route it looks like a Mac Mini is the cheapest option. Unless the Mac OS X licence doesn't prohibit running it on Apple TV somehow.
Pretty lame of DuckDuckGo to use this controversy to gain some cheap exposure.

Besides, there are zero guarantees that they are immune to the kind of accusation currently aimed at Google and co.
"The Government" is a huge employer with a massive installation base of Windows systems, many of which contain sensitive information wanted by well motivated attackers. They would be keenly interested in new threats to those systems, the same way that any large corporation with a similar installation base and threat model would.

Ask yourself, if you receive information via MAPP, you have some information which could be turned into an exploit, but it will not be useful towards a goal of hacking other peoples computers for long because, by definition, it is going to be patched soon. "Make hay while the sun shines" perhaps? The same window of opportunity is open to governments and corporations around the world (many Chinese companies are MAPP subscribes, the one leak of a MAPP exploit happened perhaps because of a Chinese company).
Yes, minor details in a much bigger picture.
On the subversive list years before it was cool. Dude, you are the real hipster.
> You're simply never going to replicate that inside your browser.

Why not?
What ever happened to Einstein 1 and 2?
I think the GP meant https://startpage.com/ rather than "the startpage of your browser".
You don't have to replicate the list. Why would you want to? If you've visited a site before and it has a search box on it that matches some heuristic, it gets added to your search engine list. Odds are, far more than 99% of the time, you're going to be searching a site you've already visited before. I agree it is very handy.
Ask HN: options for international health insurance?
I'm currently US based, but the wife and I are looking at trying to be more flexible in our location -- splitting time between Germany and the States.

Being a German national and having kept her personal insurance, she's already fine for moving around. For myself, born/raised in California, it is more interesting. I currently have insurance through my employer, but am wanting to look into a long term personal health insurance policy that can handle an international lifestyle.

We checked with my wife's German insurer, but they have a requirement of local residency which makes sense.

Are there any recommendations for options? In short, I am looking for a personal insurance policy that isn't insanely expensive and works as readily in the states as it does in europe.
It is just linking to the DuckDuckGo support page. You are talking as though they made a blog post saying "PRISM!! Use DuckDuckGo instead of Google" and posted it on HN.
I Can’t Code and You Can’t Sell Crap.
"AT&T, Verizon

Before they agreed to install the system on their networks, some of the five major Internet companies -- AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Communications Inc (VZ)., Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), Level 3 Communications Inc (LVLT). and CenturyLink Inc (CTL). -- asked for guarantees that they wouldn’t be held liable under U.S. wiretap laws. Those companies that asked received a letter signed by the U.S. attorney general indicating such exposure didn’t meet the legal definition of a wiretap and granting them immunity from civil lawsuits, the person said."

This will make the ACLU's law suit 1000% more interesting as a legal battle.

Verizon doesn't just sit around and think to themselves "hey, if we're going to work with the NSA we should do some CYA". They have entire legions of smart lawyers who mulled this whole NSA business over (substantially I hope) and came to the conclusion that "this is most certainly a violation of the law and we need complete documented assurance from the government that our actions can never be prosecuted in court".

And they got it. But will it hold up?
It looks like all four of the citations on wikipedia ultimately lead to:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080831101327/http://www.radaron...
Wow, this scandal just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Good to see some light finally being shined into what had been darkness. A free and open society, based on classical liberal / Enlightenment ideals of individual freedom, is NOT compatible with secret governments, secret laws, secret courts, mass surveillance of the public and all of the things the US government is doing. Now we know, and now - if the people have any spine or backbone left - we can force some change.
Ask HN: NSA and their Internet connection
While I'm infuriated by the breach of privacy, the hacker in me can't help but being intrigued. 'Collecting' and storing these quantities of data requires a massive operation, and I'm left with a lot of questions.

One of them is this: how do they capture all this data and transfer it to Utah? The fastest internet connection in the world (Tokyo, I believe) is 2 Gbps, which doesn't seem nearly enough for transfering the data. And that's Tokyo, not rural Utah! Do they have dedicated fiberglass cables? Originating from where?
They've got it all, but they promise not to look. Unless there's a chance you are a terrorist, and it's hard to know without looking.
If you read Soljenitsin, you realize the importance of metadata instantly: "why did you call X, where did you meet Y...."
Jesus Christ this guy is a cocky fucker. I'll never buy a xbox piece of shit again. DRM my ass. I'm against piracy but don't force me into something like DRM. With Sony you can still download games as digital and physical media.

Fuck you MS
About My Switch From Mac To Windows
This is holy shit of everything on this planet!
I don't understand how the executive branch can guaranty immunity from civil action in the judicial branch.
Do you care that your PS4 is backward compatible with an abacus?

I find it handy that different iterations of abacuses tend to be cross-compatible. There may occasionally be minor architectural variations, but it usually isn't too difficult to port your abacus drivers.
I doubt he wants money, he wants appreciation for the hard work he does. For years he was the only realistic way to get videos to play on debian.

Instead he gets insults ("your packages harm users"), when actually his packages help users. And now, finally years later, debian got some multimedia programs into debian, and they want him to go away.

Not really the right way to treat someone who made your distribution useful for a whole class of people for years.
If they're not supposed to gain a marketing advantage at the time the problem they're trying to solve is in the spotlight, when exactly is the right time?
> does not include communications or other people's papers about you.

One could say that the type information I have is ill-relevant: it is still covered by the 4th amendment (it is my papers, houses, persons, effects). So, it doesn't make logical sense that information I hold about other people is in some way not covered under the 4th amendment.
'Tax havens' hit back at G8 pressure
I recommend to you Culture series of Iain M Banks.
If you accidentally pay too little tax, you will still get fined (at least in the US).
Actually reading the comments further might give you a more somber impression of what "working on it" is in this case. That said, I'll stay optimistic since my work doesn't depend on it and I'm happy to have another super cheap Arch instance.
I'm not sure exactly what the parent comment is referring to, but here's one instance.

tptacek:
"Someone on Twitter (sorry) said that Google and Facebook "looked like angels" compared to Verizon. That sounds about right to me, too."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876734
Info about "main Core" has been around a lot longer than that article.

Main Core theory is the source for such speculation that they are after people and keep a list of who to stop from spreading truth.
Wow. That just screams "scam."

It's like someone just mechanically threw together a bunch of random concepts and terms they gathered through a quick google, without much effort make it seem plausible. They don't even seem to have tried to be subtle about it... ><
We are going to talk about 'cutting edge' PHP technologies and willing to see you around.
edit: typo fixed
A couple of cases come to mind where the NSA is seemed to demonstrate superior awareness of cryptanalytic attacks. But note that in neither case did the NSA recommend the use of a cipher that was weaker than the number of bits on the label.

1. Differential Cryptanalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.2...

A general technique, but the DES standard turned out to have been developed to be resistant to it before it was known about in public circles.

2. Impossible differential cryptanalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_differential_crypta...

This general technique was invented and quickly broke 31 out of 32 rounds of Skipjack.

Schneier wrote in 1998 "I can't imagine that the NSA would field an algorithm with 32 rounds when they could break 31, so I believe that the NSA did not know about this attack. And the cryptanalysts are still working on improving their attack, so it is possible that they will get to 32 rounds."

But no one yet has.
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Show HN: Atari 400 still works
Thanks to an simple RCA to F-plug adapter.
Strong words coming from someone meta-commenting on a hacker news story instead of "getting shit done."
Actual transparency, not just words? That could be free access to their internal architecture (not exactly likely), or more plausible, external, independent auditors.

However, I think you're focusing on the wrong party here - I think it's a lot more reasonable to request this of the government than of companies. There's no reason not to require the government to publish the general structure of what they're doing in great detail, and to let others make up their own mind if it's overstepping its bounds.

In short: I want an independent parties to have free access and be allowed to verify what's going on.
My issue is the OP fails to realize design is about tradeoffs, and points out where the new design sucks and where the old design is better, but shows his hand by not considering why the new design may be better. ("arguably looking better", what does this mean? Why does it look better? Perhaps there is a functional purpose to it that he/she is overlooking?)

The new message UI is obviously trying to fade out the older messages since, if you assume the latest message is the most important content by a large margin, older messages are a distraction. I am not going to say this is a wise design, but the blindness the OP has to this dynamic shows they are firmly in the "Apple are idiots" camp, without an attempt to see what is actually in front of them: tradeoffs.

As far as the white on white issue, it's obviously a bug or to-do. Mark this post, I will eat my hat if iOS 7 ships and there are cases where you end up being unable to read text upon user-defined backgrounds like the home screen or lock screen due to some obvious issue like light text on light background.
I'm looking to find people to help me. Please read my post.
I'm guessing he's a Digital Ocean employee :)
The button colour is grey. It doesn't change colour with a state change/hover. The button has a right arrow on it, not a down arrow. Which indicates to me that I'll be leaving the page. It's not obvious it will do a drop down.

Agree that it didn't help that it was a deep link.

(What I neglected to say, was that my first attempt failed also, in my 'reading' web browser. That eschews background images. But that's another issue. So I'd already repasted the link into a different browser before having further issues.)

I get the page now, I just had an issue when I first encountered it.

I actually think the second of my points was the more important - how do you trust the authenticity of the site?
>Main Core contains personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security

Millions of US citizens believed to be threats to national security? Paranoid much, US government? I don't see much of a reason tot trust that government; it seems they don't trust you, anyway.