skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a rough/quick manual translation:

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Private Facebook-correspondance between John Christian Elden and a client charged with terror offenses was monitored by American security services (NSA), the lawyer claims.

Elden was discussing scheduling of the case with the Norwegian-Chilean client (20), who was charged with publishing a video where he threatened Norwegian officials and the royal family. Elden says that he has documentation that it was American authorities that were snooping on his Facebook-profile, TV2 writes.

- That we as Norwegians are under surveillance by American authorities, I am not particularly happy about. It is uncomfortable to know that someone continuously reads what you write at communicate with other persons via what one believes is a closed channel, says the lawyer.

The messages of the person in question got deleted on an ongoing basis, and in the chat-log they are now marked as "identified as offensive or marked as spam". Four days after the conversation, the well known lawyers visa was withdrawn.

Elden says his client wished to show up in court, but that he no longer is able to contact him after the Facebook-profile was deleted.

Facebook is one of the websites mentioned in The Guardian and Washington Posts revelations of NSAs surveillance of foreign citizens in the PRISM project. Ministor of Justice Grete Faremo has sent a request to the US, where the justice department requests a clarification about whether or not Norwegian citizens have been under surveillance.

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The main thing to note is that the bit about the deleted Facebook profile was unclear in the machine translation. It appears quite clear in the original article that the reason his communication with his client ceased was that the client used Facebook as his only communications-channel with his lawyer, and so the deleted Facebook profile means Elden is unable to communicate with his client.

It is not made clear whether he suspects or claims that American authorities caused the profile to get deleted too, or if the client got spooked by the deleted messages.
There are some extensions that generate a lot of extra traffic. They were developed around the time that Phorm[1] was being introduced in the UK.

I agree with you and TemPorAL (apologies for incorrect capitalisation!) that these are probably a waste of time for the user - they don't work.

NSA and GCHQ are very good at math - I'm constantly surprised that people don't appear to get this. Maybe it's because secret government agencies don't publish much?

Just for fun here's one extension: (http://trackmenot.org/) (https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/)

People can probably come up with ways to improve it. But still, these are probably pointless measures.
I like this writer. His news messages are good and he puts good thought into them.
I believe that you believe this, but I do not believe that you know everything, and I suspect underhandedness somewhere from somebody.
I call bullshit. Phone metadata is saved since forever yes, but stored at ISPs, not at government organisations. There are strict regulations regarding the privacy of voice data over the phone (VoIP does not count as such though), and I don't think the secret service and military secret service (AIVD and MIVD) can do anything they like. They have more permissions, such as demanding passwords for encrypted files as long as it's not for your own conviction (while normally you have the right to remain silent), but it probably doesn't go that far. Keyword searches are probably not true.

It is however worth mentioning that we have this CIOT system which is a publicly known and automated system that actually provides automated access to name and address details of any given Dutch IP address. The system is updated with ISPs' data every morning and can be queried at will. ISPs, even the most privacy-aware one (XS4ALL) do not give statistics of how often their part of the database was queried (I asked them), but it has been made public that the database had a total of 2.6 million queries over 2010 and 2.9 in 2009. That's one in six citizens' data queried for no apparent reason.

Tech details: The CIOT system is a centralized search dispatcher, that queries systems provided by individual ISPs. A government official can enter an IP there and within seconds all ISPs have been queried and one probably returns a match.
America: Choosing Security Over Liberty Since 1798
Lol, why isn't that fixed for javascript? That's beyond screwy.
CloudFlare's take on the PRISM revelations
Working at Microsoft
If you're having problems loading the page, i've put up a mirror here:

http://hay.github.io/googleeyes/
Those are only little WTFs. The fact that object-equality is being tested for, for example, is not a WTF on its own; it's a valid concern in any non-functional language (answering the important question, "will editing X affect Y?").

The fact that everything has a string representation which gives everything a natural lexicographical ordering (which is inconsistent with the value-ordering of numbers) is also not a WTF, especially because `array.sort(function (x, y) { return x - y; })` does precisely what you want extensibly. Maybe the fact that there is no `<>` operator to represent `x >= y && x <= y` (which would basically test if x.toString() == y.toString() for the general ordering) might be a WTF, if you're expecting == to be consistent with <=. But the general idea of "we're not going to try to be smart, we'll just use strings" is actually very Unix-y. The alternative is to throw errors whenever you try to sort arrays which have incompatible types -- but JS doesn't have a strong notion of types.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if JS were different in many ways -- especially if it were more functional, because so much of the core language is built around functional concepts. There are also now type systems which are being developed which allow for the 'duck typing' style that JS uses for everything; it would have been nice if Eich had been able to magically foresee it back when it was LiveScript.

But for a language which was a little haphazardly thrown together at first and then was haphazardly canonized by two competing companies during the Browser Wars, it's actually done remarkably well.
I fail to understand why tiny tranquil european countries without serious dangers of terrorism or organized crime even do this. They have nothing to reveal by intrecepting communications, why spend money and public credit on this?
I can't believe this is factually accurate. Providing a hard copy of private facebook messages seems like a rather dumb thing to do as this would confirm that US agencies are checking up on foreign nationals intentions. Even if they checking up, implicating themselves with such a daft move seems implausible.

I call bullshit!
And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing - they do their own thing. And with the next Touchwiz, they will revolutionize Touchwiz UX. That's a fact /s

But seriously, the amount of snark (and hypocrisy imo) in your comment was too much to take.
What was this meeting agenda? PRISM?
> Move the company out of the US.

> Read: we are afraid to lead here...

Both the non-profit and for-profit arms of Mozilla are funded almost entirely by Google. It's a pretty safe bet that they'll follow Google's overall lead in dealing with the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation - "funded almost exclusively by Google Inc."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation - "Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum – in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company’s total revenue. [The deal was extended multiple times and currently expires in November 2014.]"
Finally. Websites in the tech sphere are usually mobile friendly (because they live on the edge of modernity or because they are bare bones and content-centric), but "common" websites often offer a poor mobile experience. Google penalising this is good news for the consumer.

However one point that is not addressed in the article: what about websites that make you go through a first page/pop-up which proposes you to download their app every time[1]? That is an annoying behaviour that I'd like to see penalised as well.

And as usual there is a relevant XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/869/

[1] here, in France, most newspapers websites do this. Main result is that I do not read news on my phone any more - not a big loss actually.
Which is funny after seeing Apple bash fragmentation at the WWDC. Apple has their own version of fragmentation, newer OS versions don't work on older devices.
Word isn´t the problem... Converting from Word to something else is some pain for users. Converting from Excel (especially Excel Macros) to something else is in the Millions of $ for developers/re-engineering of those Macros...
There is a definite benefit (or some would argue side effect) to protectionism. Compared to other countries, with respect to technology, they have successfully built their own indigenous search engines, social networks, e-commerce, manufacturing etc. While most of the rest of the world is dependent on the US.

Bunnie Huang had a very good post on this http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040

Protectionism is a side effect of Nationalism.
And as Nicholas Negroponte put it - "Nationalism is the biggest disease on the planet, Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing."
Hmm - doesn't seem to work for me in Chrome OR Firefox. Am I missing something?
To make it even clearer you could add an always: "... that always redirect...". How it is now it's still pretty cryptic :)
I just want to start by holding my own data. (While you my be right that big providers allow to wipe your mails, they can make copies). I just don't want for a third party to relay my data in the first place.

While your points are right there are solutions, and in the long run it's worth it
> Move the company out of the US.

But that's not enough. If they really want to be free from the US's reach they'd have to:

- not do business with any companies under US jurisdiction (oops - Google and Microsoft)

- not employ and US citizens or permanent residents

- warn employees that they could get arrested if they visit the US

- ...

And given that Firefox is a very visible browser with significant market share, the US government would probably be very motivated to squash outright defiance.
Not even America is so high-risk if you ask me.
Countries have all kinds of crazy plans in place in case crazy things happen.

e.g. The UK had plans involving "shooting guards at American nuclear weapon stores in England if they proved uncooperative"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/in-the-eve...
I'm seeing nothing except the background and the logo & links in the top left on both Chrome (27.0.1453.110 m) and Firefox (21.0) on Win8 64bit.

Console:

GLOW.Attribute.constructor: Unreachable attribute? Please activate GL.drawArrays or split into multiple shaders. Indexed elements cannot reach attribute data beyond 65535. GLOW.js:67

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveUniform: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveAttrib: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1
Are you serious? Dutch jihadists are fighting in Syria, the Detroit underwear bomber boarded his plane at Amsterdam Schiphol and organized crime is a serious problem in the Netherlands (see
http://www.nokturnis.net/nokwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Organiz... )
Who are you talking about? Elden or his client? The article implies Facebook was Elden's only way of reaching his client, so the "idiot" appears to have been the client. If the client is not very technical it is not unreasonable to assume the client felt Facebook was easier for him to use to communicate covertly with Elden and didn't want to give out a phone number or other details.
How to Turn Online Contacts into Valuable Business Contacts
If you get paid to code then invest in your tools.

I use a 50" 4k monitor and a 42" 1080p monitor.

The time it saves easily covers the cost.
iOS 7 GUI PSD
Wow? Fired? That's pretty harsh!

This seems like it would be obvious. Did we really need an article for this? After the gov yanks your network access and security clearance, you aren't much help. Bigger news would be that Booz Allen gets fired.

ETA: Though I doubt the gov would fire Booz Allen. That's probably too much expertise to replace and leaks can happen anywhere. I assume they would work together to find ways to tighten up.
Not working for me either running Chrome 27.0.1453.110 m
Good news. Something I also find frustrating is when this happens, so I click back and it takes me to the place chucking the 302 causing the redirect again. So, have to click back twice and hope it's quick enough to get me to where I was.
Working for me in Firefox (latest version) on Mac, though I don't much see the point of it...
TBH, all those pose nothing really unexpected. It all makes sense. I was a real JS hater, too - just because I didn't understand the language and I would have laughed at those examples - until I watched "Crockford on JavaScript." It's an interesting, entertaining, educating, (quite longish) series you should treat yourself to. And just as drostie said, given the way the language was born, it's really an amazing thing. And yes, it does have ugly parts.
You are probably right, but Mozilla should go down putting up a fight. And this is a fight worth losing.
You're implying he had a choice. The article implies that Facebook was his only means of contacting the client, and that situation was presumably his clients choice.
If only they also down ranked site with total POS mobile sites. Extremely low res graphics, minimal information, massive text. I'm not blind. I'm not half brain dead. I'm just on a phone - your standard site is fine. Have a look at https://touch.trademe.co.nz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstad_Network
And a homegrown Islamist network assassinated a well-known dutch film director after he made a movie criticizing the treatment of women in Islam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)
Wow, you can't even see trends without logging in now? Not to mention there is still no API.
NSA and GCHQ are very good at math and very good at surveillance.

Not engaging in an arms race with well funded, very smart, government agencies is probably a good idea.

If they think you're a criminal (doesn't apply to Mozilla) they will coerce foreign governments to cooperate - see for example the illegal attacks on Mega or the domain seizures for gambling or torrent sites.

But we know, from ECHELON, that they're happy to spy on anyone, and use weird loopholes in the law to do so.

Mozilla would need to find a country that had great Internet infrastructure; good strong laws and privacy culture[1]; lack of links to US; comfortable living for staff; etc etc.

That's not easy.

[1] The US has a strong culture of privacy, which is what makes PRISM so surprising for their citizens. (Not for many other people who were saying it's happening, and have been doing so for a while.)
iPhone 5S. Really?
sort() is a bit weird, I have to agree, but the '==' thing is a common problem to a lot of languages, not exactly a js-specific WTF.

Off the top of my mind:

In Python, '==' on arrays compares elements.

In Java, '==' on arrays compares the objects themselves. You have to use equals() to compare the elements.

In C(++) arrays, '==' compares the objects. But for std::vector, it compares the elements.

One could argue it's a language choice more than a screwup.
Unfortunately no, I'm just pushing to make something usable and stable.

Then I plan to release it in the wild along with the documentation, as free open source of course
> "Third, we’d rather not engage in an arms-race with US government agencies."
> Read: we are afraid to lead here, because backlash from the government (and the public?) could be too damaging for Mozilla.

I read "This is a race we'll probably not win and even if we do, we'd have a lot of power tied up there. But we can win by just changing the rules, so let's do that."
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Is ReiserFS a network file system?
I'm not really convinced that this is very useful. I've been in the application monitoring space for a few years now and I'm not sure that watching graphs is something Ops people should be doing.

There should be rules which notify them if something is anomalous, by email, SMS, or logging a problem on an incident management tool. e.g. "Java request foo.bar() on Managed Server 1 is throwing exceptions for 50% of invocations (20 requests, 10 exceptions) in the last 10 minutes. This affects the following services: Customer Login page on foo.bar." possibly even attaching some of the exception messages to the email, if sampled through instrumentation or correlating it back to the log files, automatically.

This type of monitoring is actually useful because Ops understand what is broken, what it effects and gives them enough detail to either fix it or pass the problem to someone else; and they're not wasting their time looking at graphs waiting for a problem to appear.
To be clear, they're punishing faulty redirects where visitors are clicking on a search result and get forwarded to a completely irrelevant mobile page. Personally, I hope mobile pages in general die a horrible death, but that's probably decades away.
I really dislike websites that present me with an 'optimised' mobile website on my Galaxy phone. I'd much rather pinch and zoom than have less content than the real website.

Also, websites that do this on my iPad Retina and make me choose the 'Request desktop site' option REALLY annoy me. The screen's huge! There's no need for it.
You make a good point, and I had forgotten about the legal requirements for some providers to make and keep copies.
One needs an Google account to see that. Can't you just tell in the title what excellent thing is trending?
IOS 7 - Silencing the critics
Please. Don't. Make. Mobile. Versions. Of. Your. Website!!11!1!!!

Ask yourself, are you going to put in the same amount of design and content work into the mobile site as the main site? Really? Aren't you just changing the links to buttons, and reusing the content? Be honest.

The one exception is if you are implementing a proper full stack html 5 application. With truly valuable features over the standard website (but then why haven't you done that for the main site too?). Even then, always have a path back to the main site, and keep an eye out for how often that link gets used.
"good strong laws and privacy culture[1]"

"[1] The US has a strong culture of privacy, which is what makes PRISM so surprising for their citizens. (Not for many other people who were saying it's happening, and have been doing so for a while.)"

When will the public accept that "good strong laws and privacy culture" is not in the least a characteristic of the US, and hasn't been for the last 30 years?

The US is probably not a democracy anymore, and hasn't been for over 20 years, since Governments are elected by corporate interests (via campaign funding)
> "The more a society monitors, controls and observes its citizens, the less free it is," she said.

Okay, it's not Merkel herself who said that. But she sits still while people do, right?

I remember seeing some random youtube video of Merkel giving a speech during an election campaign, talking (nay, bragging) about video surveillance of inner cities (something she basically gives the CDU credit for, which "fought" for that), saying roughly: "some people say that's only useful to catch parking violations, but if you don't deal with parking violations, you don't have to be surprised if it gets worse."

To have Merkel be indignated on my behalf is a DISGUSTING idea. She's opportunistic and spineless, she stands for exactly nothing (other than "Security and Prosperity" of course; just like Kohl she wouldn't recognize what makes life great for decent people even after she squashed it). She, Obama, and all the other people who had their chances, in some cases decades of them, should consider just kindly shutting the fuck up, and sticking to their own, hopefully doomed, bandwagons.
Indeed it was, the resistance movement tried bombed the office keeping the census data in Amsterdam in 1943 since it was so effective for the Nazis. It kept the data of over 70.000 Jews in the Amsterdam. The resistance was active in forging identity cards and having the population registry destroyed meant that there would be nothing to compare the identity cards to. Unfortunately, the bombing only resulted in the destruction of 15% of the data. Many of the resistance fighters involved were executed shortly after.
Reminds me of Reggie Watts says something about Google Owl and from the details he's describing I can only imagine the comparison to Google's involvement to PRISM. One of the best Reggie Watts performance IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGetsXib_zA @ 35:00
Why advertising awards are now for losers.
What? So you can have attacks on your country without requiring the world to go into lockdown, without having to invade several countries and without having to molest every traveler?
Marco's first bullet point is:

"Most [developers] can’t afford to drop support for iOS 6 yet. (Many apps still need to support iOS 5. Some unlucky souls even need to support 4.3.) So they need to design for backwards compatibility, which will be extremely limiting in iOS 7."
Except that's a critique of the publication rather than pertaining to the content of the article itself, which I don't think is a fair reason to flag a posted article. Posted articles should be evaluated on their own merits.

To address monstrix point though, I don't agree that each publication should be expected to take one side. It really depends on the type of publication and their chosen structure; some publish for the "left" or the "right", while others are willing to publish articles from authors with differing political views. The New Yorker (which I happen to subscribe to) is the latter type of publication - they publish a variety of authors who argue their own viewpoints, generally a great selection of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

One additional thought: I think it's a good thinking tool to read well-written opposing views to get inside the mind of one's rhetorical opponent in order to understand an issue from multiple viewpoints when forming opinions and arguments.
Errr, if was paid $120,000/year and worked full time with the NSA, then BAH would have been charging at least $480,000/year.
Pedantic correction: App Nap is the feature being discussed here to give less CPU time to apps which don't need it.

Power Nap is the marketing name of the previously-released (in 10.8) feature whereby a Mac in sleep mode still does things like check email, update calendars, perform automatic photo downloads, etc.
Interviewing a Geek?
This appears to cover automated (Location header) redirects, but it is not mentioned whether it covers the far more numerous sites that use overlays to advertise a mobile app and incorrectly redirect to the mobile home page when the overlay is dismissed. Which is the same effect as the Location header redirect, but far more annoying (as you actually got to see the content you wanted for a brief moment behind the overlay).