skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among other flaws, the titular phrase comes with hidden assumptions:

"I have nothing to hide", assuming":

- everyone accessing my information, now and forever in the future, is honest

- those monitoring me and agree with me about what's good and bad and their definition never changes in a way that hurts me

- my information can never be stolen by crooks, advertisers, etc

and so forth
Not bad, not exactly what I had in mind but surely useful for the more 'dense' sites. Close...half a cigar.
I'm not from English speaking country and I have never heard this phrase at all before or have not met it frequently enough to remember it (I'm not gamer, maybe that's why). I can make connection to rape but equally I can make any other connection, e.g. removing tooth for kid.
Five myths about privacy
"There is no suggestion that he has any intention to try to travel to the UK."

Says it all really. Don't waste your time reading this hypey article.
I've become very used to doing this. The other handy fact is that if you start typing out a URL you can see the expansion, then hit tab to start the search, rather than having to remember the bang syntax for DDG.

I'll switch between methods though.
My experience as well, but at least I wrote a unique email.
I imagine that Snowden is well aware of the UK's 'poodle' relationship.
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Will the talk be in English or Turkish.

I'm planning to visit Istanbul soon, hope the timing works for me.
"I could write some more about my experience with Meteor if other people are curious to try it but never had the chance."

Can you please give some more details about your experience with meteor? What makes it stand out among other frameworks? What are the pros and cons?
Oh no, the people with ideas are the more dangerous. People with guns might kill a few people, but people with ideas can influence a lot more people.
stop wasting time and come to the Gezi Park
we need you.
There are plenty of conservatives that are worried about both, why does this have to be such a partisan thing for you? Why are not people from both sides of the aisle trying to stop the destruction of the constitution rather than just blaming the other side for whatever?
I'm not sure if this is a clever or pathetic attempt to try and manipulate the courts in HK, but that's pretty clearly what it is. They are a former English colony, whose courts are based on English law and who presumably hold the opinions of England in very high regard.
I'm using Latex for exactly that, but it sucks so much I considered building a product/business to solve the problem.
There is a spider that does something like this. It picks a bubble and uses it to survive underwater. The bubble exchanges some oxygen from the water, so it last more time (but not indefinitely).

Link: Underwater Spider Spins Itself an Aqualung: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/spiders.html

Previous discussion (about the spider): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2643142 (93 points, 734 days ago, 9 comments)
Oh for fuck's sake the 360 was a PowerPC arch, and the new Xbox is x86. This is so dumb.

You know how PS3 used to support old games? It had the old Emotion Engine (PS2 cpu) built directly into their system--it was a turducken of processing.

"wah wah wah i cant run my games from a different processor architecture wah wah wah" this is dumb anyone thinking this is dumb

EDIT: Less insulting.
It's nice looking, but I question its usefulness as a replacement for an online resume. Recruiters have notoriously short attention spans and I doubt many would actually click through to the details on the highlights. That said, as sort of personal home page ala about.me, I think it has potential.
Somewhat off topic, I'm trying to find a source for the supposed Lenin quotation ("A Lie told often enough becomes the truth") as I wanted to see the context. Anyone know what the source might be?

There are a slew of repeats of the quotation online, yet none of them appears to include a cite. I've tried searching various archives of Lenins works, and wider archives like marxists.org that might have included references to it by other authors but have come up empty.

It could very well be hard to find because the common wording of it is paraphrased, though.. But it would be rather hilariously ironic if it is misattributed, and so providing its own proof...
How about a cast iron definition of "terrorist" before we get that far?
The Register puts Soylent to the test
Awesome stuff, the fluidness of those animations versus something made with jQuery is astonishing. I wonder what kind of compatibility would this have with older browsers?
Relief from web icon hell (webfonts)
With the domain java.no, this headline sounded like a plea to stop all Java development ;)
More like this: Animate.css
http://daneden.me/animate/
It's very interesting to see Microsoft offering a managed Node.js service optimized for mobile backends, with support for iOS, Android and other platforms.
The lawsuit is seeking to divest Warner of the hundreds of millions of dollars they've been paid for something they didn't have the rights to.

There are all kinds of entities that have a claim to own a copyright. Some of them are true, some if them are false. If you aggressively enforce a copyright that ultimately turns out to not be yours to enforce, there should be stiff penalties over and above the fees you collected.

When the reconstituted SCO was suing everyone over Linux licenses over bogus copyright claims, they were unfortunately let off pretty easily.
cl in Spanish (clave), French (clef), Italian (, Catalan (clau), etc is a trivial pronunciation if is pronounced not like an English word. And the English pronunciation (kel) is even easier

Firebird is complicated.

By the way, oracle in Catalan or French is oracle
The reasoning of "it's a rape joke because rapists say it" is flawed. Rapists could say plenty of other things (e.g. "shut up") which, if repeated, aren't considered to be rape jokes; and there are situations where "just let it happen, it’ll be over soon" could be said in a non-rape situation, e.g. smothering someone (or even something less serious, like getting a tattoo).

I'm not going to make a comment about whether or not I consider this to be a rape joke, but I wanted to comment on what I consider to be an incorrect leap in logic.
Yeah, Kickstarter does their best to make it hard to find failed projects - they're all noindexed.
Google Fonts is down. Again.
Well, they could give data 'personhood' such that it's an individual in the eyes of the law and covered by the US constitution. No more changes required, except that the NSA would grind to a halt on all of these programs.
How many assets from games 10 years old are worth using? Hell, how many game studios from 10 years ago are still around?

This isn't a big deal to limit the copyright on.
Most "normal" people I know are really upset about this. I think it's an easy thing for people to grasp, "what?! America has been reading my emails and giving it to the UK government?! Bastards!"
It would seem to be relatively obvious to me, that would I be interested in partaking in a bit of terrorism, I would be relatively sure that using Skype, Facebook or Gmail would be a stupid idea. I think I would have deeply suspected that that was a stupid idea before PRISM, and now even more so since Snowdengate.

The idea that this technology is being used for anything other than mass control is bullshit. I don't want to sound like a member of the tinfoil-hat-brigade, but sadly, I just don't see terrorists using any of the resources offered by the PRISM mentioned US corporations. I do see a very dangerous threat to democracy.
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There could another level to this.

1. Spread the word that mass surveillance is already standard practice in one country

2. Wait for public outrage to ensue

3. Stack on more and more revelations (dilute) while mixing in some that are less invasive and make more sense (distract), and outline the huge scale. At this point, the public

a) is starting to get tired reading about all the new revelations (because that's how the public works),
b) starts associating at least some form of legitimacy with those programs that make sense to them, which in turn rubs off on the more invasive programs, and
c) slowly starts accepting the whole thing due to its massive scale, because what can a single person do to stop something so big?

4. Now, with the public worn down and somewhat in check, launch the same thing in other countries where such a thing would never have been possible before. Start small, don't get too close to the most outrageous stuff - but start building the cornerstone programs.

5. In case some of the really bad programs do get outlawed as an effect of the scandal in the originating country, that won't hurt the long-term goal at all, because the road has now been paved and they can always re-introduce the old, as well as realign and expand the new "legitimized" programs that were only possible because the old ones came out of the shadows.

I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist but I have to admit, the public relations aspect of this is impressive.
iOS7-inspired background?
Oh look, another Google bashing thread.

HEY GUYZ, how about posting Facebook alternatives? Didn't you hear, NSA is all over them too? Oh, what's that? Hating Facebook doesn't get your circlejerking karma like hating Google? That's a crying shame. Really.
Microsoft Releases Free Office For iPhone App
Implementing pipes in Javascript using pseudo operator overloading
Hey that was a lot less lame than expected!
> 500K pales in comparison with all the tens (or even hundred) of millions in this _one_ FISC order

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/veri....

> Again, for FAA 702 collection no individualized FISC required.

That's not a FAA 702 order though. In fact it's in a different category to all the 70* orders, which fall under the "electronic survellance and/or physical searches" category in the https://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/2012rept.pdf annual report. The Verizon order would be a FAA 501 order, though people only ever seem to refer to it as a 50 USC § 1861 order. They're the "Applications for Access to Certain Business Records (Including the Production of Tangible Things)" on the annual report. These orders seem to be intended for things like the Verizon metadata, which it seems (IANAL) are considered to be unprotected by the probable-cause requirement even for USPERS. So I presume a 501 order couldn't be used to grab users' full private data from Google. In any case Google has denied that it has ever complied with http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/google-uses-secure-... (or even been served http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2013/06/what.html ) any order nearly as broad as the Verizon one, and Facebook and MS have more or less followed suit.
Well, there's a story behind this one.

I once wrote to David Milliband (when he was foreign secretary) on the urging of Amnesty International about the upcoming international vote on the banning of cluster bombs.

I wrote it on a 1920s typewriter, sealed it with wax etc, as befitting a letter to one of the holders of the four highest offices, and never got a reply (although they did succeed in banning the use of cluster munitions - good!)

Later, when my partner was working for an MP, I mentioned the letter to her - and she laughed at me and said it would have been "one of those letters," because of the presentation - and that that's why I wouldn't have got a reply etc. ( I also made the mistake of writing directly to Milliband himself, and not to my MP asking him to pass it on, which is another reason I may not have got a reply.)

I fear this story makes me out to be all three of hipster, lefty and (worst of all) impressed-by-authority, so I predict all the downvotes in this forum, but it explains my earlier comment, so it's probably worth it for completeness.
Probably none yet, unfortunately. Seeks is usable because it relies on Google or any other engine in the background, when no results are available among peers.

Yacy is more advanced, uses a DHT, but does not really work for daily use, the accuracy being too low.

Unhosted is distributed architecture on top of the Web really. I've mentioned it because it may be useful and/or an inspiration to whoever interested in these matters.
IOS 7 Design resources
They won't because the foundation doesn't want to make RPi's They want to get into teaching a huge number of people about hacking on electronics. They needed the pi because there was nothing suitable to do that on for around £20.

The founders has said it would be a long time, if ever before considering making a Raspberry Tau.

If competitors spring up and make ever more powerful units they might not have to. They don't want to get into competing with arduino for example, that's not what they are for.
They no longer use it - too many people were dying in the training, and modern submarines go much deeper anyway.

If you want to have a go, you can go to Nemo33 in Belgium still.
Ah, so the main utility of them is helping to make ordering guarantees in a language that would normally be more about mapping data points to their images under a function?

That makes a great deal of sense, actually.
I have access to the kinds of modeling you're talking about through my part time CFO, but have nothing I would be able to do with that information at this stage.

For me, all that matters is burn rate and cash in the bank. The rest won't be relevant to me until I've got revenue as well as expenses.

For slightly larger startups, they will hire someone like you to assist in these tasks, but since you already do that as a day job I doubt that is what you have in mind.
Of course they are. Hopefully next time the police and the FBI will do their job properly: after killing 20 or 30 terrorists the rest will get to know their place.
My first thought was "I bet this is another abuse of TLDs, what are the chances this is actually Norwegian". Pleasantly surprised.
on most (lets say not most bu some of them) application we need to set our environment something but tr_TR. We can use our applications in Turkish but env (actually LC_CTYPE i think?) should be something other than tr_TR, afaik
Freedom is to not have to care about surveillance.
Amazing. Chomsky is a legend. Who are you exactly? Ignoring his entire career to simply dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist. Ignorance and apathy like yours is why the US has fallen into the hole it's in now.
No, but then I also find it unlikely that they're actually giving away their Top Secret program by getting such data from Facebook through a secret order (whether it covers one person or many) and then handing it over for immigration desk staff to wave around.
Uganda to tax mobile money transfers
I'm getting really sick of console DRM being compared to Steam DRM like they are equals. they aren't, not even close, because steam has sales 2x a year where even brand new games can be had for up to 75% off
Yes, Obama is rounding up our guns to put them into FEMA camps so that the Illumanati can give them polio vaccines to cause our firearms to have the autism.
Keep in mind that detained may be for a long time, indefinitely in solitary confinement and without charges, in one of the many prisons the US government has been building in recent years: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-unit...
Could they do this selectively, and only MITM people on watchlists?
Most presentations will be in Turkish. But we are talking with some speakers from abroad to attend our event. These "?"s on schedule are actually reserved for them. So, If they attend, I think 2 of our presentations will be in English (and most probably will be translated simultaneously into Turkish)
Oracle didn't buy Sun for a database engine, they bought them for Java and Solaris.
I still find it surprising that some people - who use a computer often - don't know keyboard shortcuts, e.g. for copy/paste. So forget the average person having programming skills.
Let me tell you how useful an automatic weapon is against a swarm of drones: not useful at all. Those drones are very similar to the laptops and tablets we use everyday and can be mass produced in millions on the Pentagon/Occupation/etc. 1+ trillion budgets. PRISM and company will just supply the targets - leaders, current and potential, of an opposition.
The JavaZone people do great trailers.

Lady Java - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3qkQROb_k

The Streaming - http://jz11.java.no/trailer_video.html

Java 4-Ever - http://jz10.java.no/java-4-ever-trailer.html
Ask HN: If you know Clojure and Scala, is Java still worth learning?
I know how to leverage JVM libraries through interop on both languages and have shipped production systems in Clojure. I'm still considering whether to learn Java as a lot of companies still seem to be looking for skills in both Java + one of the functional languages.
Well I guess that explains stuff like this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/at-facebook-zero-day...
You should get a PR job at Microsoft. I'm sure this line of argument would help convince people.
Ask HN: Is a CEO needed to raise money?
Do you think a CEO is important in doing a first raise?

My company is looking to do a moderate size raise, $300-500k immediately and $2-3M "eventually". My expectation is that it would be some combination of angel investment, VC investment, and strategic investment.

We're a chemical manufacturing startup, and don't have funding with which to pay a CEO an actual salary. We can demonstrate credibility and experience selling to our target customers without one, and have access to potential investors, but we haven't done a raise before.

One big worry is that the right CEO to help a company pre-funding do a first moderate sized raise is not the same CEO to take a company from a first raise to a second one or revenue. I'd also expect a VC firm to want to have a role in selecting the CEO, which seems like a recipe for trouble.
At being slower than Maria? Or being completely interchangeable with her? Family dinners must be awkward :)

On the other hand, both Maria and My are going to be celebrities at any computer science department/startup incubator.
3 Rules of Twitter Business; Lesson Learned: Influence + Distribution = Money
Title: "why it is a rape joke"

Reason given: "because it is a rape joke and rapists say it"

Well that was disappointing.
Please sign my petition to prosecute James R. Clapper Jr., director of national intelligence, for perjury in his denial of spying on Americans. http://wh.gov/l3gRA
What are you talking about?

Hello admins, this would be a good time to click that hell-ban button next to samstave ;)
"The proposed Communications Data Bill does not want access to the content of our communications but does want to ensure that enough data is available in the aftermath of an attack to help investigators establish 'who, where and when' were involved in planning or supporting it."

So there's a limitation in the bill which says that the proposed data can only be collected following an attack? Not that I've seen.
House Rep's Budget Projections Show 106 Trillion 30-yr Deficit
The comparison to Steam entirely breaks down when you consider that Steam is opt-in, whereas the Xbone's DRM is not even opt-out, but entirely mandatory.

The main reason I don't complain so much about steam is the existence of GoG and direct DRM-free sales (Humble store), which I always prefer if they carry the game I'm interested in.
This has been on HN a bunch of times already. News is supposed to be new, correct?
I'm pretty much aware of semantic model of distributed version control. Problem is git introduces new concepts (useless outside of git) which are widely used with and without cause.

Check out various short descriptions of push command:

* git — "Update remote refs along with associated objects"

* mercurial — "push changes to the specified destination"

* bzr — "Update a mirror of this branch"

* veracity — "Push committed changes to another repository instance"

* fossil — "Push changes in the local repository over into a remote repository"

As you may want to see, all of them except first one, are easily readable even by person used some VCS before. But not git — to understand what push command does, you have to have gitglossary opened in front of you.

> All DVCS systems involve creating and editing a series of changes to a directory tree

git is not — it stores only snapshots and changes are calculated every time you want to see them.

> the revision history is a document that you're trying to edit.

It is revision history, not "a document". To be precise, in DVCS it is directed (except darcs) acyclic graph, aka DAG of source code revisions.

> Those concepts map directly to the HTML wire format, so in practice, you'll end up learning that

One and only VCS (of 7 I have used) I've ended up learning guts was Git.

> They're easier to use for beginners, but they're more fragile and their internal formats are more obscure.

Which way are they fragile exactly? Could you please back this statement up with some examples?

And why one should care about VCS internals unless he's VCS (plugin) developer?
What's been happening in the LibreOffice world?
So basically it's got known privacy problems, requires trust of Google and you're winging it.

Lets also add that Chrome!=Chromium. Chrome is based on Chromium. Not all of it is open and it is not compiled in the public eye.

No thanks.
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That just says you can't publish exploits derived from the ones they've told you about until they've published the original ones themselves. It doesn't say you can't use, abuse and defend against them yourself. You're effectively buying zero days.
A hole at one end. Put an empty, open bottle in a bowl of water facing downwards - where does the air go? Nowhere.
I have couchsurfed a bit. I became a little bit disillusioned after I noticed that the first thing that 90% of of its members write about themselves is how openminded and easygoing and creative they are. Those three keywords were literally everywhere. As a rule of thumb, if you have to explicitly remind people how cool you are, you are probably not that cool - just be cool and I can conclude for myself that you are amazing. Same applies to those qualities, thank you.

If you specifically look for profiles where none of that is mentioned, and people actually describe who they are and you can conclude for yourself how openminded, creative and easygoing they are, it works a lot better in my opinion.
Why disc ?
The problem is downloading 50 gb a game is pretty impossible for most..
Really? Never heard of widespread starvation before the american colonies revolt or before the US civil war.
Why aren't more college students on LinkedIn?
> she laughed at me and said it would have been "one of those letters," because of the presentation

But did she mention why they think that way? On the face of it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
It was somebody's ex-wife who was named Gre.
This story was news to me, and I haven't seen it in a couple of years here.

The only part here not news is Steve Jobs/Apple acting like jackasses--the particulars of the story are interesting.
Former home secretaries urge Clegg to drop snooper's charter opposition
And here I was thinking these airport towers run COBOL.
Do you need yet another individual to become a "traitor" to the US government on this specific assertion before you decide its good enough to "know"?
THe ad freeness is a great pull though..