skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have sources handy, but I think I remember reading about several such cases from the 60's or so. They didn't really make use of the discoveries back then.
Translation: we uncovered one of many scams in the history of a platform for collecting money that does zero verification of anything and that exists for a couple years. Which even come forward to back a project that goes against all their rules, but generated revenue.

I assume you expect a medal?
For a moment, I thought they were talking about the Japanese internment camps from WWII.
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His main point has to do with finding new sites about specific topics. A different use case not met by Chrome's implementation.
What about Yacy? (http://yacy.net). I am not sure if the queries inside a peer network can be decrypted as easily as http requests (I am not a networking specialist though, it is just an opinion).
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i will attend this event.
Just to put this level of paranoia in some perspective, Stalin's purges hit a massive 1% of the population. 8 million is 2.5%.

This is so paranoid that it is hard to comprehend. If you think that 2.5% of the population is out to get you, then you should probably be very carefully considering the possibility that the problem is actually you.
Things like PRISM makes me completely want to back out of the Google ecosystem.

Part of that would be replacing Gmail. That can be done, but what good (free) options exists for a webmail solution?

I'd also love this instant to cut gtalk (or "hangouts" which it is called now. hopeless), but Google just declared hate on XMPP, so setting up your own node will land you on your own tiny island.

The trend is clear though: Google is stuffing the exit-holes while the US government is requiring more and more of Google's data.

If you haven't started moving out yet, you better get started. And for the love of God, ditch Chrome. Support someone who supports the open web and respects your privacy.
True, but isn't it still one big program/project? What I mean was to break it up into many smaller programs and (possibly) projects (think unix process vs. classes =)
How did Kickstarter curate it?
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1g9gum/with_all_...
They could be using idle phones as microphones, for example. They certainly have that capability, through researched and purchased 0-day vulnerabilities in iOS and Android.
If I'm not mistaken, accidental fraud just penalizes for the value of the fraud, and may wind up being limited to restitution for those who had WB come for collections AND come forward about it. Willful fraud come with treble damages. But I am not a lawyer.
Until this happens, one could use something like this :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2PCWYAZQc
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The revision came with 10.7 (non server).

kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2005793

Prior to that you could only virtualized 10.6 server.
> The deck identified specific providers as on board or coming on board. Their denials looked similar.

If they were innocent, we'd expect their denials to look similar. So why are so many people taking their denials looking similar as indicating guilt?
Is really sad that this comment is not grayed out.
That's not completely true. I was on a jury once, about two years ago, and during the voir dire I admitted to having been arrested before, but pointed out that the charges were later dropped. Now, if you get arrested, but they drop the charges when you go to court, that implies that somebody in the system - possibly a cop - made a mistake. But the prosecutor didn't bounce me, and I wound up jury foreman.

That was actually a really interesting experience. I've been meaning to write it up, but haven't taken the time to do it yet. I wish I'd done it sooner when the details were more fresh in my mind, but I think I still should at some point.
The "fastest" single pipe in the world right now is actually 100Gbps, so you're a little behind the times.

In terms of "how do they do that", its probably just store and forward pre-parsed data...
"go to the secret library of everything and retrieve."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records
I am not saying its a lie, I'm just saying its a weakly referenced article for wikipedia and/or a wikipedia article that makes it to HN. Please add the other links to the wikipedia page.
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I posted it above but just to re-iterate if iOS 7 ships where background images render the status bar, text, etc, unreadable due to an obvious "white on white" or "black on black" issue, or at least if this isn't somehow addressed otherwise, then I will (figurtively :)) eat my hat.

I'd argue most of my beef with the armchair commentators is they are making what appear to be deep criticisms of iOS 7 without having actually used it, and without taking into account the fact that it's beta 1. They are shipping a new "letterpress" text treatment in UIKit, my guess is that they will apply this treatment to text if it is sitting on top of a similar-colored background, but probably have not worked out the details yet. I could see it being a reasonable technical and design challenge since you may need to apply a treatment to only part of a glyph. I'd ask the poster what their "duh, so obvious" solution is to their "duh, so obvious" observation. (Note: "leave the status bar alone" is not a valid answer here, since the design goal is to have the content in iOS 7 take up the entire screen. If you have a problem with that decision, argue that point, but realize it has nothing to do with status bars anymore. Even if Apple left this pretty glaring flaw in their design, they may have decided to do so because having content take up the entire screen is worth this cost, and the onus is on the critic to explain why it is not worth it, not that they are too stupid to have noticed this edge case.)

Basically if you see something and it's something that 99% of developers would identify as a potential edge case, you can be sure Apple considered it too and at least made an explicit design decision to deal with it or punt for later betas. If they made an explicit design decision, which is assumed, then you should try to understand that decision and then critique that decision and its tradeoffs beyond Comic-Book-Guy-esque "this is so obvious they are so dumb how could they miss my clever edge case I've discovered." Let's say Apple really do see that white on white is an issue, and actually decided to leave it that way and ignore the case altogether. Why would they do this? At least address this question if you are going to critique the design. The OP assumes it was an oversight, not a design decision or technical debt, which is kind of insulting to Apple designers and engineers.

I would prefer if before starting a complaint about text legibility, colors, contrast, and so on, if people would include a disclaimer of if they have actually based their opinions upon viewing the design on an actual device.
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Yes. And their lawyers know that. This is a permission to kick any client they wish, but it looks like it is boilerplate protection from abuse stuff.
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Playing devil's advocate, keep in mind that domestic computer security is part of the NSA's charter. Remember the rainbow books?

It would be completely legitimate for MSFT to warn NSA about vulnerabilities in the most common desktop operating systems in the USA if the warning were intended to aid in preventing a larger attack.

It's a write-only bugtraq. :-)
I wager that most reading this in the US have $1000 sitting their bank account or in savings right now, and of the ones that don't most could somehow borrow or scrape together $1000 in less than 4-6 weeks if they really had to. So as such getting hold of $1000 is 'easy' for most people.
The fact that Spotlight does arithmetic seems like it's regularly overlooked.
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Title is unclear -- I thought this meant that it was now out of copyright, not that someone has field suit.
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DDG when searching for reference: yeah; bang syntax is great.

Google for everything else.
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Even more than 2.5% if you exclude children and people over 65.
>of 1.5mbps.

Wow. There's this whole rest of the world that would kill to get that speeds. I'm confused as to why MS would try to alienate basically everyone not in NA, EU with that kind of a minimum requirement. People in Asia and Africa can pay up that kind of money for the console, but there aren't infrastructure to get you that kind of internet speeds in a budget.
If you use bash, you can also use $(( 3 + 2 )). More often than not, if it gets cumbersome to fit it into Spotlight, I'm going to fire up a Python console.
A similar study was performed with religion. When someone attacked a persons religion, they felt like it was an attack on them.
Here's what's insane:

Copyright Protect: is free and lasts 100+ years.

Patent Protection: cost $5,000-$10,000 and lasts 20 years.

Personally I think Copyright should last only 50 years. I'm open to a conversation about why that's fair or unfair. Please feel free to convince me to increase or decrease that number. I think 50 years is fair enough.
You think they're issuing individual FISA orders to track down whether foreign students are planning to work part-time while studying in the US?

http://www.dailydot.com/news/us-immigration-german-au-pair-f...
After the last few days of headlines on HN, I am starting to feel a bit (a lot) like a conspiracy theory wingnut. Am I going mad? Is it just me?
Clapper just made up a new definition of "collect" to excuse his brazen lie. I don't understand why Clapper still has a job.

But there's nothing in this article that indicates that either Senator Feinstein or Senator Nelson was using the word in anything but the ordinary sense.

After the FBI or NSA get a court order, they can look at the content of emails and listen in on phone calls going forward, and they can also get past communications that are still stored on the server--or the target's own computer, if they have access.

Local police also get warrants to look at past emails and they sure don't use a database of everyone's emails.
...and then you realized it says 8,000,000 not 120,000 people.
Does it say that? It reads 'Select Desired Testing OS', which is an odd phrase. It could read 'Select desired testing (host) OS'. But may aswell just read 'Select host OS', as you suggest. Seems to be a classic case of Microsoft changing terminology, and just confusing everyone further down the line in the process.

You could spell out what a host OS is on a descriptive help text next to the form control.

Also noticed that there's no VMWare option under Linux - why would that be?

Plus the blue font isn't really dark enough to read.

Great to see some md5s though!

Another niggle, which I totally missed the first time is that if you select the wrong option navigate away from the page. And then use the back button - you are back to square one. Which is a good reason why this type of download page just doesn't really work.
Non cursive hand seems like an incredibly slow way to write, impractical for classes etc. is this because everyone is bringing a laptop to class and just doesn't write much at all? I'm from the UK and as far as I know they still move kids into cursive as soon as possible. From personal experience at school I recall the quality of my writing was dramatically improved once I moved to a computer so I can understood a move in that direction. I'm just surprised cursive isn't still used because for note taking situations it is still incredibly useful.
Starting it out with the best intentions and failing to deliver due to naivety or unforeseen circumstances isn't in any way fraud. In fact I'd argue that that should be a perfectly acceptable and expected end for a significant percentage of kickstarter projects.
What transpired in Turkey can easily happen in US. There are many dissatisfied people on either side of the political spectrum. Now more than ever, with higher unemployment and extensive communication channels, the risks are even higher.
But there are ways to keep the population at check:

1 - Utilize the fear of external entities (Iraq, terrorism, etc.) to channel away anxiety from domestic issues.

2 - pre-occupy the public, reality shows, sports, etc.

3 - Focus the problem on individuals to provide the election as a escape valve (Bush, Obama, etc.)

4 - Quickly stop or discredit any movement before it catches on like wild fire.

5 - Identify potential instigators and defuse them early if needed (shutdown bank account, credit card, ATM) terminate their phones and Internet-which is why you need this list.
, etc-which is why you need this list.

Edit:fixed formatting
Not trusting the government was a founding principle.
Why is cutting edge in quotation marks? Are they not actually cutting edge?
In a democracy you should expect a lot of signatures to have an effect.
It's more or less like that in France. Automatic speed checks leading to mail in your box with the fine to pay.
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Battleground regions aren't as big of a deal when a 1% change in the popular vote of a state no longer results in a 100% change in the electoral vote.
Why would you exclude senior citizens? AKA one of the most politically active demographics in the country.
Understood, wasn't saying you were - was just providing additional data point...
True, but if I saw a bag of 7 oz. Kobe jerky in the store for 7$, I would a) question the legitimacy of it and b) buy it anyway just to see what jerky with that much fat actually tastes like. Just because something sounds like a bad idea doesn't mean it isn't worth trying just to see what happens.
6 - (but really #1) Eliminate financial freedom of the populous.

What do you think 2008 was about?
Various factors, some of which have been touched upon below:

1. There is almost 0 chance that you've tasted beef from a wagyu cow from the city of Kobe. Aside from import/export costs, the cost in Japan (having actually eaten Kobe beef from Kobe) is far closer to about $400-600 per steak (2kg perhaps?)

2. Americans have been importing wagyu cattle and crossbreeding them with cows here to create American "Kobe beef" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagyu#United_States
Also, since we talk about chrome, there are very handful and underused search engine shortcuts built in : simply type the first letters of the search engine in address bar and press <tab>.

I've switched to duckduckgo about a month ago, and indeed I'm regularly making search on google because duckduckgo just can't provide the results I want as well (especially when it comes to non english search). But it's way less a pain that it seems : I just type "g<tab>", and I'm using google. And I still have the high privacy advantage of duckduckgo for most of my searches where the duck is enough.

The bonus of that is that I now frequently use "gi<tab>" to search on github or "y<tab>" to search on youtube.
This guy is verbose...

He should have made the switch during apple2->g3... Everything he's complaining now happened then. Cpu changes because of cost. Dreadful performance. Photoshop not optimized anymore. Etc

Also, I'd eat my hat if the performance change in photo preview rendering came from faster gpu. It's 99% IO
Did I say that I had the professional upgrade! If I tried to do that, it would moan that there wasn't a copy of Windows on the other machine that I was trying to install it on. Even though when reading the license - I am entitled to move it. I guess there's always the hotline...

The other point that I raised was that I suspect I'd loose my media centre upgrade - well I assume I would, which frightens me a little, as it was the main reason for grabbing Win 8 in the first place. But I digress.
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Trust me - you'll like it.
The URLs look like HTTPS to me?

curl -O "https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VMWare_Fusi...
Suppose people are outraged by your comment (or the like) and decide to pursue various ways to stoke a civil war in the US.

What outcome do you expect from this?
So how does that work, your mate turns his PC on, and it kicks you out as you are fighting a boss? I assume not, but it does make you wonder.

This basically means that Microsoft will know exactly what you are playing, which machine you are playing it on, and when you are playing it. That combined with the connects camera is quite frightening.
quotation marks indicates that they are really 'cutting edge' since we are not going to talk about something like 'developing wordpress plugins' :) <flame/>
Disclosure: I work at MSFT, though not on this.

> It reads 'Select Desired Testing OS', which is an odd phrase.

Right. I read that with the implied [for]. Even still, it's odd.

My workflow is: I already have a host OS. I desire to download a VM image running an OS on which to test my site in IE.

> Seems to be a classic case of Microsoft changing terminology, and just confusing everyone further down the line in the process.

I can't imagine there's any malintent here. Just some website editing by folks who are not immersed in the cross-platform virtualization terminology.

> You could spell out what a host OS is on a descriptive help text next to the form control.

Anyone doing virtualization ought to know what 'host' and 'guest' mean. Just use the standard terms, overexplaining it just confuses it. But that's just my own bias.

> Also noticed that there's no VMWare option under Linux - why would that be?

Probably they just didn't get around to testing that case specifically. The VMware images for other host OSes might work just fine.

> Great to see some md5s though!

Death to MD5! :-) SHA-2-256 FTW. Better yet, GPG and/or Authenticode sigs.

> Another niggle, which I totally missed the first time is that if you select the wrong option navigate away from the page. And then use the back button - you are back to square one. Which is a good reason why this type of download page just doesn't really work.

Flippin' gratuitous Javascript. :-)
VMWare ESXi (and Fusion too, I expect) runs legitimate installations, with no hacks required, as long as it's on Apple hardware. You need the InstallESD.img file from the OS installer.
One could claim that if an artist makes a song when they're 25, they're still entitled to some cut of any profits made on its sale when they're 75. I think that's fair, and the life + x years rule allows an artist to enjoy the full benefits of their work, and eventually handing it over to the public after they're gone.
You know what surprisingly I am not that outraged by it. Why? Because I was expecting far worse. Installing backdoor for the govt and purposefully leaving an exploit open.. etc. So the govt get a head start with the vulnerabilities that Microsoft knows? Okay.. I am guessing there are far more undisclosed ones in the black market that they can buy off.
=== Bullshit Detected ===

"If you want games cheaper than 59.99, you have to limit used games somehow."

Author thinks publishers will lower game prices to $39.99 since used games won't cut into their profits. Author clearly doesn't work at Microsoft nor in the game industry. Nor has a clear idea of how Capitalism or running a company works.

Facts: A Game that launches on all 3 platforms: Xbox 360 (disc based, allows used games), PS3 (disc based, allows used games), and Steam (digital DRM based, no used games) all launch at the SAME price. Despite Steam's DRM the PC version is NOT discounted. Publishers are not going to surrender extra income out of the "goodness of their hearts".
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We could create a search machine decision plugin for Firefox that forwards tricky queries to Google. Maybe a simple rule like

.*[\d|\.|\"|\,|\(].*|.{42,}

is already sufficient.
Couldnt just have been the risk of not selling hardware, selling games at retails must have been just as important? Store shelves, lots of exposure, impulse buyers, etc.
More than possible? What does that even mean?

Speculation. Complete speculation. Not worth any rational thinker's time.
>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

as i said, people outside just don't get it - the perceived political and religious offensiveness of the action strongly weights in as the largest aggravating factor in their opinion about the action and punishment for it. The freedom of expression is protected in the US. The actual crimes committed - the trespassing and/or disorderly conduct, 2 misdemeanors, without priors ... - IANAL of course - seems less than 2nd non-felonious DUI, i.e. fine, community service (like picking up trash in parks and on roadsides) on weekends for few months, a month in jail if judge is in bad mood :)
Not the first , not the last. since Kickstarter takes a cut ... the only potential victim is the backer.
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South Africa and many countries in Latin America can afford to pay $400 for the console. But they certainly can't count on a >1.5mb/s reliable internet connection.

So yeah, MS screwed the pooch on this one and that will now all be Sony territory.
Respectfully†, you were not adding another data point, you added another anecdote.

† I am not trying to be a dick I really do mean respectfully. At a time like this I think it is important to not get carried away with wild speculation. Privacy has not gotten this much attention in a long time. I think we should strive to make the best use of this opportunity as possible.
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It is a simple app. I see it as a pad where you can scribble. You can use it as your personal diary or as your morning pages or just as a notebook. You can scribble down your dreams, your crazy ideas, a plan for the day, or just anything that's in your head. It is just a personal space where you can brain dump.
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It is a non-issue because tptacek is inventing semantic distinctions (apparently irrelevant to whomever created the NSA document) to attack the credibility of multiple whistleblowers who allege widespread surveillance and abuse.

http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/prism-...

Especially given the fact that the leaked documents specifically encourage analysts to use a range of tools (i.e. "You should use both"), he has no technical grounds for suggesting that such a minor semantic debate (between NSA and Google) discredits the claims of multiple people with first-hand experience of the NSA who are coming forward with claims of its abuse of power.
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