skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! IMO they should keep track of songs played in the shuffle mode over the sessions and try to uniform it instead of providing randomness.
If you want results, riot in the streets.

Talk is cheap. What sort of riot do you plan on participating in? The sort where you surround a government building, or the kind where you just trash whatever comes to hand?
What's comfortable about working until 9 or 10 pm every night? Would you be saying that if you had kids?
Boston Tea Party?
I'd understand if you wanted to do additional actions that can help.

But signing this petition takes 30 seconds and is useful. I urge you to consider it.
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You are, of course, talking about US patriotism, which is quite exceptional. As the only country to enshrine actual Enlightenment ideals in its original, still-upheld Constitution, and with a population entirely made of immigrants from different countries and ethnicities (with apologies to Native Americans), US patriotism is one of the very few versions that can actually generate anti-nationalistic or universalistic views with a certain regularity.

In more conventional settings, standard patriotism is intrinsically nationalistic and often based on race, which makes things easier for operative agencies (so to speak). Here in Europe, "patriotism" could hardly ever be invoked as basis for subversive acts or whistleblowing in a security setting.
Of course he's not being objective about it! He's being sensationalist.

If you go and look for studies on vitamins increasing mortality, you will find them. If you look for studies on vitamins increasing longevity, you will find them.

Seems the author is choosing to present only the former, though!
women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children women and children why won't someone think of the women and children women and children WOMEN AND CHILDREN women and children why aren't you crying yet

(referred to this thread -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846391)

(i'll keep posting this in other threads to bypass censorship, enjoy)
I totally agree that first attempts may be "doing it wrong", and peer review is needed to strengthen the security through the cleansing fire of criticism. Theoretically, a collaboration of many developers where some, many, or all use pseudonyms, could be workable. (For instance, it looks like the I2P git repo is itself located (hidden?) on the I2P network.)

My thought was indeed to establish verifiable pseudonymity through the usual public key cryptography tools.
> wouldn't a TRNG require infinite memory, ... etc.? One number generated may be 2 but the next number may be negative infinity.

I may be misunderstanding you, but true randomness doesn't mean 'a distribution that's non-zero over the whole integers' - those are orthogonal concepts. You can have a TRNG that gives you a random choice from just {0,1} - the size of the distribution isn't what makes it a TRNG, that just determines how much entropy you need.

(And a uniform distribution over the integers is impossibly no matter how good your RNG is, as it's mathematically undefinable).
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According to the article, he's in Hong Kong not China. They are two different places. and Hong Kong is actually a good place for him in such a situation.
I'm pretty sure copyright doesn't work.
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Topographic map of Graph Drawing papers
I am hoping for Apple TV apps + SDK, remaking game consoles accidentally like they worked over handheld gaming. If you think about WiiU + Microsoft's XBone announcement they might be trying to focus where Apple TV is going. The best way to do it would be the ability to Air Install apps/games from your phone/tablet onto Apple TV. Yes there is AirPlay for gaming now but being able to get it on the device helps with lag.
Inspiring. I was compelled to donate to the EFF after reading that, and I encourage others, too, as well.
And a few years later they made Napoleon an emperor and he went on a spree of military conquest across the whole of Europe. Great example.
That is a good argument. However, the NSA isn't breaking the law until the supreme court strikes down the FISA amendments, right?

I don't understand exactly what happens when a law is found unconstitutional. I can't imagine an analyst at the NSA would be retroactively charged with a crime, would they?
And "to riot"?
That brought Democracy. Which is closer to what people wanted at that time : A country ruled by the people.

Let's not forget that it brought us something even more beautiful : The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Ma...
That's a different program, and the US Supreme Court has already ruled on the legality of collecting the "metadata" that it's gathering, without a warrant. It's far less controversial than the PRISM program, which is what is being discussed here.
Valid point that anonymity is a binary property, but, if you wanted to talk about levels you could perhaps measure the level of difficulty of finding your identity, or the likelihood of accurately doing so.
I think he's more so hanging out, enjoying the amenities. Dinner/gym/etc.

I don't have kids, I'd probably do the same thing if it were so convenient.
It simply does not need to scale very well to scare the few people which understand crypto and plausible deniability.
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>What exactly is "global humanism"? And if the humans in this system you're proposing don't value not trashing other people's homes, then how exactly does it solve this problem of environmental damage?

"Global humanism" would be the global acceptance of a framework of values meant to better the human conditon for all of humanity. And you're completely right: humanity doesn't agree on values so if global humanism somehow manifests, it will be as a pretext for a global imperial order.
I love all the doublespeak around this issue but "warrant-based" is a new one. I'm pretty sure that does NOT mean a warrant specifically naming each person whose information was collected. Or does it?

You need a lawyer to translate anything our leaders (biz, gov or other) say. It's all form with very little substance. If you thought you heard something definitive you almost certainly misunderstood.
All the computers in the world wouldn't be able to brute force AES with a strong key in less than 10 quadrillion years [1]. They would be better off spending millions in four-leaf clovers and faceroll the password.

That said if they knew a way to crack AES or RSA it would be a different story (a nightmare).

[1] http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-t...
I predict they'll have a lot fewer hiring options.
Since starting Lahana[1] I've become much more aware of the information we leak and the information that can be intercepted. In terms of counteracting the average Internet user, provided that Amazon isn't in the prism list (and I'm referring to Amazon outside of country) A private Lahana node may be sufficient, but I'm not making promises and would welcome ideas both to the contrary and ways of making Lahana better while still accessible.

Lahana was designed to be accessible by lowest common denominator non-technical people on closed hardware. At the moment as an experiment I'm building supporting infrastructure for Lahana, starting with StaTorsNet[2], an Anonymous/Pseudonymous twitter implementation based on Statusnet. Again, I welcome comments positive and negative especially if they can be used to improve the deployment or convince me to pull the service based on risks.

I've been looking at Mumble for calls, but am interested in alternatives with working mobile clients. If anyone wants to get together and turn this into a proper project, please get in touch from my profile page. I'm game if you are.

[1] - http://lahana.dreamcats.org/

[2] - http://r5c2ch4h5rogigqi.onion/
"case-sensitive filesystem"

What is the business use case for a user to treat documents "Annual Report.docx" and "Annual report.docx" as absolutely different and unrelated?
The NSA Data Center - Not My Department (29C3 Keynote by Jacob Appelbaum)
First you say this:

Do you have any backups for that? I mean, any historical proof that rioting will make change?

Then you say this:

Want to make change? Educate people. nothing else.

Your teachers must have omitted teaching you about the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War protests. And those are only two examples where protesting and rioting actually made a huge difference.
You could link your library to a passthrough libc that logs calls, if it is dynamically linked. There are various library hijacking solutions to make it easier. ptrace, that strace uses is necessarily slow (ktrace in eg NetBSD is much faster, the kernel does the tracing not userspace).
Looking at telephone records is not a search under teh 4th amendment. See Smith v. Maryland. It's the Supreme Court that makes these determinations, and quoting the constitution without regard to how the SC has interpreted only shows that you haven't read article III properly.
First thing I thought was that this was the reason why I abandoned YUI grids. That and the subdividing boxes thing.

I've gotten great mileage with unsemantic[0], and purely by an accidental google, I stumbled across semantic[1]. The latter is particularly interesting to me, but our firm has been burned by CSS preprocessors in the past and making a case for LESS is going to require a sell.

[0]: http://unsemantic.com/
[1]: http://semantic.gs/
I had, but I abandoned it for reasons I cannot recall right now. Maybe because I like to go bare metal every time possible. But maybe I should give it a try...
Interesting, and thanks for the reply. I did see in the Wikipedia article that there is a divid on its usage in British practice.

The downvotes on my original comment is interesting. I'm certain that a writer would like talk of his craft after his demise, just like programmers would like to see comments about if he used ternary operators, why/why not.
Return type polymorphism in Scala + Jasmin
As another example, the U.S. is actually on its second government, not its first.

After the American Revolution we setup a government under the "Articles of Confederation". To put it bluntly, this new government sucked and was useless.

A convention was held to suggest improvements for the Articles; they decided instead to do it over again and propose a government that could actually stand the test of time.

The framers of this new Constitution then had to convince the rest of the country to adopt this different form of government. In the process of this debate and feedback it was decided to further specify Amendments that became known as the Bill of Rights to satisfy some reluctant states.

All of this happened peacefully.

The United States of America peacefully transitioned to its second form of government on March 4, 1789.

It hasn't been all peaceful, all the time, after ratification, but it should be in my opinion. We've managed to achieve so much as a nation with non-violent resistance and protest, there's no reason not to do that here to push for transparency.
The starry-eyed tone leads me to believe the author is a bit naive--ergo, in his early twenties. Other than that there's nothing interesting here.
I'm not organizing anything, I'm just passing on the word. Tell your friends.

https://twitter.com/OccupyWallStNYC/status/34385798030074675...
That's not true. An app cannot run code not part of the original app package. This was a huge problem for projects like the Commodore 64 emulator.
I may have well been one of those people, but I recently had a terrible experience crossing the border into Canada. I was on a bus, and everyone was waived through but me. They asked the purpose of my visit, which was to see an old friend. I told them truthfully when they asked, that I'd met her on the internet years and years ago, as a teenager. I also had met her in real life before. I was pulled aside for over 30 minutes and grilled about embarrassing, irrelevant things. The border patrol then asked for me to unlock my phone to look at my email. I was shocked and asked if that was necessary and/or legal. He looked at me with this cold look and said, "This is the border. We can ask you to do anything."

I didn't have anything to hide but I just felt so violated sitting there on a bench while he looked through my phone. It was pretty traumatic for me and I've gotten flashbacks to the event a few times - it will make me take precautions and think twice before traveling with my laptop and phone if the border patrol can just ask for the password - which, I don't think they can, but they could also stop me from entering Canada probably if I denied.

It's not as obvious when it's going on behind the scenes, but it's so different for me now that I went through this event. I just can't get over how violated I felt, and honestly - I ask any of the people Tweeting for that to happen to them, for some cold-eyed patrol officer to grab your phone, force you to unlock it, and just go through your mail, Facebook, snapchat, embarrassing photos, etc. Just because it happens behind the scenes doesn't make it better.
Ahh, the honeymoon period. Look for a post in 11 months (+/- monetary incentives) called "Moving on..."
Learn and understand crypto, develop and follow procedure to embrace secure end-to-end communications with your peers.
> I think it was a good thing that he revealed his identity so as to speak with authority and be representative of the current events.

I disagree. We have the technology to allow people to speak with authority and be representative with the protection of anonymacy (or pseudonimity). I find his courage admirable, but I still think it is a bit of a waste.
Yes, Big Brother is watching you. But for a good reason
Just to clarify: that wasn't me in the reddit comment.
We must do whatever we can to help Ed Snowden and others who can no longer turn a blind eye to the immoral and unethical machinations of government business as usual. I encourage everyone to do their best in persuading others not to work for the government, and companies that as Jake Applebaum put it, are oppressors of the people. If the government devolves into full tyranny, its politicians and employees will turn against the people, in the name of "following orders" and "for the good of the country."

What's needed are successful, principled people like those reading HN to get involved, and start mounting campaigns to ultimately defeat people in Congress that egregiously curtail our freedoms and liberties. They must be idealistic, rational, vocal, and be prepared to mount a vigorous fight and debate to stop these violations. The politicians are easy to identify, as they advocate perpetual increases in national security at any cost, for the sake of "keeping us safe." The hacker community would back you. I would.

Elon Musk has said many times that the people respond best to precedents and superlatives. It's up to us to effect change and talk about it as much as possible, with friends, in our blogs, and our websites. People are receptive to successful people, because they've shown that they can achieve and better themselves.

We need a philosophical and cultural revolution in awareness, purpose, and identity. How can it be done?

We must use our power as citizens and right these wrongs.
They were uneducated people who went through a system that only valued rich and well connected people. What did you expect?

Take lessons from the past, and APPLY them to your context.

I'm not saying that rioting and killing Obama is the solution. I'm saying that using the government's tools (petitioning) against them is ridiculous. You have to show people you're angry, you have to show your entire country you're angry and you want things to change, laws to change, the system to change. You have to take a real stand.

EDIT : As I mentioned in some other comment. The revolution brought us Democracy, which later spread across all Europe, and brought us the beautiful Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which is used everywhere in the world as standards (not always respected though). I believe the revolution was the most beautiful part of France history. Napoleon was our anger which was still resonating years after the Monarchy. We're calm people now.
If you want to include deaths from nuclear weapons, nuclear is way negative, in that nuclear weapons largely kept the cold war cold. A hot ww3 would have been in the millions.
Could you not just send them a link to the specs? (and a dictionary)
In the short term, maybe. But in the long term, it was a catalyst that forced reforms (and further upheavals) across the whole continent; it was a large stick to carry at each negotiating table for freedoms, human rights and so on.

In the same way, the Russian Revolution eventually generated Stalinism and brought suffering to the Soviet block, but it was a tremendous inspiration (and often brought material help) to workers' rights movements in many other countries, de facto creating the "social Europe" we currently enjoy (or used to).

EDIT: it's also funny to see these comments on American websites. Hello, your country was built by an armed revolution that was as nationalistic in practice as it was universalistic in inspiration. As certain modern philosophers from the Five Boroughs used to say, "you gotta fight for your right to party" :)
>I hope we see a modern, case-sensitive filesystem, for once, without resource or data forks of any kind.

How is a "case-sensitive" filesystem more ...modern?

Case-sensitivity has fewer edge cases (I'll give you that, especially concerning Unicode), but it's really just us bending over to the way the computer sees files instead of the way people think about them.

The files "accounts.xls" and "Accounts.xls" are not conceptually different.

>without resource or data forks of any kind.

Again, this is giving away tons of potential and actual benefits, features and uses, only to make it simpler for the developer of the filesystem and to enable better compatibility to cross-filesystems transfers.

I'd rather see a standard way of handling resource/data-forks that is also implemented by Windows and Linux at least.
* 5% chance they have a new connector to rip people off with overpriced patented attachments (low likelihood only because they recently came out with one already)
* 65% ipad mini gets a "retina" display and finally has the resolution of it's high priced competitor the Nexus 7"
* 70% new ipad comes out with the new connector to force people to upgrade, manufacturers to pay ridiculous licensing costs and to spark replacement purchases.
* 70% apple roles out a competitor for Google Music before the iPeeps realize that things are much cheaper and higher quality in the other store
* 95% they copy a few more features from Android and talk about how it's the first device to do it.
* 75% they try to incorporate features from the announced xbox one
A key thing to point out, all a root CA does is verify your public key. The NSA can't get Google's private key from Equifax and they can't even impersonate Google if the end user is using Chrome even if Equifax signed a cert for them. The reason is because Chrome basically checks to see if the cert matches up with a known good copy.

Also, if your platform supports it, Gmail has perfect forward secrecy meaning that even if the NSA records all HTTPS traffic to gmail and later demands Google's private key they can't decrypt any of that captured traffic.

Tor on the other hand is a problem. It has several fundamental flaws as you pointed out like by controlling some gateway nodes and a few others you can start breaking any sort of secrecy that you would get from Tor. Really the only good thing about Tor is that it's well known. I really wish Tor would just die and people would move over to something better like I2P where it's an anonymous network, not just a kludged together anonymous proxy with hidden services slapped on as an afterthought.
Here are my predictions based on what I've read and some guesswork, and being very bored.

iOS. The visual refresh for iOS will make it feel modern and present a new design language for developers, ribbon, leather and wood textures are eradicated, however no fundamental changes such as widgets. There will be some relenting in the iron-fisted control of default apps, but only a couple of apps will be allowed (Browser and Mail).

OSX. OSX gets similar but smaller visual update, and yet more iOS features which are not welcomed by power users (more posts about switching from Mac to Linux will ensue[1]).

Finder. iCloud will be integrated directly into Finder somehow, such that if signed into iCloud the default start place in Finder will be iCloud documents/images which can be viewed on the Mac, along with their associated sandboxed applications. If you do not have the app installed required to open the document you will be shown a link to purchase the app in the App Store. They will also finally relent to power user demands and allow tabs in the Finder via preferences.

The menu bar will be inverted to pure black with white text/icons and no drop shadow. Although the 'z-index' will still be present it will feel flat aesthetically which will fit more with the new design language.

There will be yet more annoying animation with window open/closing, modals etc, and of course no way to turn it off. Core 2 Duo and lower will no longer be supported.

Some sort of Mac Pro similar to the G4 Cube with modular add-ons will be announced and will be ridiculously expensive.

Finally Apple TV possible update to include an app store and have new hardware (possibly $149). It will be compatible with the last generation, but miss out on a key feature like 'Siri TV'.

[1] I use both Linux and Mac.
To be read alongside the Wall Street Journal's Thank you for data-mining - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732429910457852...
Just an FYI -- I don’t have kids either.

I was pointing that out because it seemed like a massive contradiction to say that working at Yahoo is comfortable, but then to say in the following sentence that home life is non-existent. I often ponder the long term stuff in the tech realm as a current full time grad student, and this particular section was striking to me.
I hope we are not going to get once again so ecstatic about free food and gym. I know that this looked truly revolutionary during Google's hiring binge.
Collected but not "seized", and then not searched at all without a warrant? Those records?

On a side note it's fascinating how the government has taken the 'digital piracy' logic of "I didn't steal it, the guy I copied it from still has their copy!" and re-arranged that to apply to digital data on a person. I'm not sure whether to cringe or be impressed...
not_satoshi and waterphone: You both appear to be hellbanned.
And yet nobody seems to be interested in Dart.
This page is just a black screen for me on Chrome, Linux.
> 5. Review web services I use and switch if necessary
> Suddenly this appears: a catch-all "change everything I do on the internet". Stop using Facebook, Skype, Gmail, etc. Probably not going to happen. I'll come back to this in a second.

You say that, but having switched to DuckDuckGo[1] for the past few weeks I'm slowly but surely losing my reliance on Google for personal stuff. Sure, it's not as good as Google in terms of finding relevant results or having the rest of the ecosystem, but it's no worse than using the web a few years ago, which to me is good enough (and I make some pretty esoteric searches).

I'm looking further into moving away from the traditional Internet to something a bit more self-hosted and it looks possible.