skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aeromodelling Franchise - What a wonderful hobby to earn some extra money
Teach Aeromodelling to our younger generation. This wonderful hobby can be very satisfying and good for extra income
What kind of joke is this? You are telling us to use a US-based search engine in a propietary browser made by a US-based company that we already know has given direct access to the NSA? What the fuck.
Congrats, that's amazing!
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or the command line utility bc
Well, many don't just consider - but simply can't take them. Because of the price, controlled by those who acquired the patent. When life saving medicine becomes a business for the sake of money - that's already bad.
wow, surprised that this doesn't happen more often...to be honest...
The constitution used to be about restricting what the government could do. Now it's about restricting what the people can do.
Hm, should be easy enough to have some browser plugin that lets you select a text/data field and recipient list field and encrypt it with the appropriate key; and to do something similar for recognition and decryption of fields.

If I implement this, will I become famous?
Open-sourcing it would be a good idea, as other developers could potentially fix it for you.
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WhatsApp Still Killing It By Messaging Volume Despite Free Rivals Crowding In
Thanks for quantifying it, that will be useful.
All of which is pointless, since you have already installed their binaries.
What threat are you referring to here? Takeovers through the browser via HTML injected by the exit node?
Disclaimer - I don't believe in patents generally. I would rather this whole problem go away. But since we have patents:

cDNA is magical because it's created deliberately by the action of human hands to a specific, useful purpose. It's irrelevant that it's made in vanishingly small quantities by accident[1] by RTs on retrovirii in the human body.

The same holds true for PCR products, sanger reads, etc. Barring a specific recategorization of nucleic acid products by congress, all of these SHOULD be patentable by the same standards that molecule patents in general should be patented.

[1]if you remember your molecular biology - the way that in vivo RTs are primed on the viral RNA template is by having a recognition site that hijacks an endogenous tRNA for use as a primer. As you can imagine, it's highly unlikely that any given gene (e.g. BRCA2) just happens to have a tRNA binding domane upstream of it - you can imagine the problems a virus would have if it just willy-nilly RT'd the heck out of the entire transcriptome. Although it probably happens stochastically at a very, very, very low rate.
Why not use Startpage then? It uses Google's results, but without the spying.
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Agreed. I didn't say ZaReason built good hardware, I just suggested a "similar system builder". But they're not my cup of tea either.

It must be hard to do what System76/ZaReason do. They probably don't do much design, and merely buy existing designs, leaving little space for incremental improvement and cooperation with manufacturers. I hope they progressively get closer, and ultimately get close enough to influence the design.
Hey, PPC Managers: Stop Being So Lazy
> I have a problem with the idea of conversations on HN reifying speculation that Google or Facebook are defrauding their customers

To be fair, no one actually said Google and Facebook are defrauding advertisers
Just like Google and Microsoft "take your privacy very seriously"? Not based in the US has become an undeniable feature.
Make DuckDuckGo your default Firefox search engine
Choose One: Secrecy and Democracy Are Incompatible
Project link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kobered/kobe-red-100-jap...
"make duckduckgo your default Firefox search engine"

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-f...
I've been using DDG as default search engine in Firefox, with Google on fallback under the keyword "g". You can make a bookmark with a URL like

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s

and add arbitrary keywords to the bookmark, like "yt", "g", or "so". Then you can simply enter that keyword followed by the search term in the address bar.

DDG definitely doesn't have the same quality results as Google, but it's close enough in most circumstances for me that the times I have to search twice aren't a huge factor.
I agree that whether or not the NSA can pull records from these companies without the companies meaningfully reviewing each request is a very important detail.

"But the Prism program renders that consent unnecessary, as it allows the agency to directly and unilaterally seize the communications off the companies' servers" is a strong statement. I agree that it is probably not compatible with the details Google has divulged about its "SFTP and manually by human only" process. But that is only one of the many companies.

I understand the "slides or GTFO" attitude that I'm seeing in these claims that the original story is inaccurate, but I think it's a bit arrogant and premature. A journalist who has seen the entire slide deck continues to tell us that the nature of what the whole presentation reveals is more invasive than a digital lockbox with workflow management software where humans meaningfully verify, evaluate, and approve requests. He could have misinterpreted the slides, but I doubt he would stick to the report so steadfastly once all these objections arose if he were not pretty confident he understood the claims in the Prism presentation.

We shouldn't accept that the NSA can grab a user profile without explicit, individual legal approval from the company as fact yet--there's a lot more we will hopefully learn. And how true this is could vary from company to company. But it's silly to ignore that a credible voice who has seen the presentation is telling us something.
This hinges on the same re-definition of "collect" that Clapper tried to make, equating "go into the world and gather" with "go to the secret library of everything and retrieve."

The essential implication is that we're constructing a mirror of the world (or at least, as much of it as can be reduced to information). Unnervingly, we're operating as though law and language which developed in the original world will map directly to this new realm, even though it's obviously and radically different.

We really need to start talking about the Mirror World as such. Security and surveillance is just one (hugely problematic) aspect of what could easily be the 21st century's defining development. I suspect we're not going to reach a suitable détente on police and military surveillance until we've developed a commonly accepted sense of what the Mirror World entails for a constellation of considerations, from energy, economy and ecology to culture and education.

This really is the tip of a very big iceberg.
I don't know, but it appears the message brigade is out in force now. Our initial shock is gone, and we are eager for more narrative. Now is the opportunity to cast doubt, to reframe, to discredit.
But a woman can choose to not have the child.

It is only fair to give the man the same right.
Well what to you know, mere minutes before I saw this submission on HN I received an email from Kickstarter saying that funding for the project has been suspended. I feel like an idiot for backing the project, but I guess it comes to show that even careful curation on Kickstarter's part isn't always foolproof.

Does anyone know if other crowdsourcing sites with less stringent requirements (e.g., Indiegogo) have problems with scam like this?
If Bill Binney said that, and if he is right, I'd assume the most likely explanation is that NSA can push over some low-security SSL connections of the type jerf describes above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5877362 , but has to rely on "direct access" to get around most or all high-quality (but still widely-used) SSL encryption. (Or, again, that it also has the capacity to break high-grade HTTPS connections, but it's holding that back for really important occasions.)
How Netflix Deploys Code
The yottabyte stuff is basically BS. HN user Jabbles found a possible source for that, which just says '''The target GIG supports capacities exceeding exabytes (10^18 bytes) and possibly yottabytes (10^24 bytes) of data.'''[0]

Exabytes are eminently reasonable; yottabytes are not.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854587
HN Request to any browser devs: Master Tabs
Any browser devs out there, I would like to ruqest a feature: Master Tabs.

I may or may not be an out of the norm user; I typically always have 25+ tabs open at all times in my browser.

These can range from many HN, Reddit, Email, Forum, News etc tabs that I am reading - If an article or thread is really long - I won't read it all in one sitting. Instead - I leave it up for even days on end, until I am ready to close it.

Sometimes I leave tabs open for days at a time just so I clikc on it ~once a day to remind myself about that item|news|article|thread|thought...

I would like to have Master Tabs within my browser to group them together (natively - not through colored tabs or some other thing - but if there is something amazing that will do this - please let me know) and have savable sessions.

Actually - think of it as Multiple Desktops - specific to my browser, but the 'desktop' can be a definable category.

I'd like to be able to slide a whole browser window any direction to open that category space, bookmark/tag them and then keep them together.

I'd like to be able to have a "searching for work" type of session. A "news", "tech" whatever session and I can group these and file them and save them accordingly.

Bonus points if you can make it via a hosted portal in which I have an encrypted connection whereby any .gov and .mil IPs are explicitly blocked/dropped :)
Kobe jerky doesn't make any sense to me anyway. You don't really want a lot of fat in your jerky. It will go rancid.
There are quite a few! And the list is growing... :)

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
More concretely, they don't have to rely on decrypting https. An approved NSA or FISA order to DDG will give the government an en clair "wiretap" on your DDG searches for up to a year. They may not be able to get the searches you did before the wiretap began, but that's all.
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Did google do the math without hitting send? This works for me

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5*5
He said "I prefer the search engine's results over SO's search..."

DDG's bang notation uses SO's search rather than the search engine's results.

Note that DDG's bang notation is also redundant with Chrome and most other browsers that let you set your own search engine keywords. Chrome's is especially nice, just type the first few letters of the site's URL and hit Tab and you're in a site specific search. It works automatically for any site implementing OpenSearch (or you can add it yourself by right-clicking the search box), and you don't have to memorize any keywords, so that's two advantages over DDG right there.
People say lots of things, all the time. Nothing gets attention like a leaked set of Top Secret files.
And no offence to beef-jerky lovers, but good beef is wasted when turned into jerky...
Rationale for a Large Text Compression Benchmark - Text Compression is AI
Mobile Comparison - Galaxy S4 and Sony Xperia Z
I do this with multiple browser windows.
I know hunches don't count for anything on HN, and we still don't have enough information, and may never. But I think this is right, they're storing all major forms of communication. If so, it's incredibly dangerous.
>That’s not really true, of course – the United States doesn’t sentence people who sing anti-Obama songs to labor camps – but it is unlikely to convince many U.S. critics of NSA or drone programs.

They weren't sentenced about singing anti-Putin song. They done that for ages, as tons of other bands did and do. They were sentenced for doing it in a cathedral, disrupting the religious service, calling the religious leader a "bitch" and swearing, things that are considered a publishable offence against religion to do in a church (akin to a hate crime in the US).

Now, even if one says that this was just a pretext (which can be argued about, the offence was real though and a lot of European countries have laws against it), the US has been doing similar things with similar pretexts for ages.

John Sinclair comes to mind, closely watched for his political affiliations and send to prison for 10 years for offering 2 joints to narcotics agents that set him up, but generally this is the story of lots and lots of activists, black leaders, rockers etc.

Also the use of the term "labor camps" is misinformative without context, evoking gulag or concentration camps, whereas "labor camps" (prisons where prisoners work) are just the most common type of prison in Russia.
Dump the guy and make him feel that he deserves to be dumped. Wear the shit boot and make sure to leave a footprint on his ass for entertaining story to tell others.

There are plenty of young and talented photographers around with an excellent equipment.
I'd personally pick the one with Canon 1D* body and L-class lenses. RAW files and full copyright ownership is mandatory and no negotiable. Make sure to pay flat, all inclusive decent fee for everything. Pay 25% upfront + 25% upon wedding end, 50% upon inspection of finals. Make sure he carries external lights and knows how to use them.
Hi,
How can I send my resume for this position?

thanks,
Using DuckDuckGo in Chrome is like asking for privacy while walking around naked in Times Square. Chrome has 100% unrestricted access to anything your user can access on your PC, no matter what search engine you choose.
It likely happens a lot but goes undetected, or doesn't make the news. Modest success would be less likely to get people investigating than overshooting the goal.
So is there some point in this process where the cops might get involved?
You keep making these statements but they don't agree with your own links.

"The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, ___according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian___." (Em mine)

This is text from the message of yours which you are linking to here. It agrees with the quote bstrand provided.
To add a little bit of anecdata, I recently move from Linode to DigitalOcean.

On Linode I was getting jammed on I/O; on DigitalOcean I am jammed on CPU.

I'd be happy to give up half my RAM to get twice the cores, actually. I run a modest Wordpress network (http://ozblogistan.com.au). Once MySQL is humming, most of the CPU time is spent on various copies of PHP running the increasingly bloated Wordpress codebase.

(Yes, I've used opcode caching. I've never had good experiences with any of the major ones).
Better on Firefox Aurora give it a try
And how common would that use case be when we are talking about virtual machines used in web development?
Oddly enough they are hiring folks to prevent this right now: http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs/trust

Not affiliated in any way just thought it was interesting.
It's terrible advice, just like that "Don't do cryptography" from some time ago. It just seems like people are trying to be too clever. I admit I learned something, but the tone of the article could be better.
It's funny how his view is that M$ is somehow on the long tail of video games and that it's the consumers that are being misled.

Sony bought Gaikai, you dumb fucks. They are going to offer a subscription for unlimited video games streaming WHILE selling tradeable games because you lot were too busy in your fiefdoms jacking off. You dipshits couldn't even understand a fucking pincer business idea like that; all you know is embracing, extending and executing small dumb companies and have no fucking clue how to actually compete.
People want to feel "empowered" cheaply. Like signing a petition or sitting (i.e. demonstrating). It never worked but doing the same thing all over again and expecting the different result is a habit of the crowds.

Now go ahead - downvote my post - feel the power :)
A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
this isn't 'everything' - the article 'only' mentions phone calls and emails. that's the easy stuff NSA can access from ISPs like AT&T, Verizon, etc.

that's important because it doesn't contradict respected people at Google, or require magic crypto cracking.

i'm repeating myself here, so sorry, but there are two separate issues:

1 - nsa is getting a lot of data from the people routing traffic. likely all metadata. and perhaps some (significant) subset of unencrypted traffic.

2 - despite the misleading prism slide, they don't seem to be getting complete, direct access to the web companies' data.

the uproar about the slides put the initial emphasis on the web companies and has confused discussion since.

but the consistent story that seems to be emerging is that it's the ISPs, who have much more of a tradition of collaborating with NSA, who are providing a lot more data than people expected. and that data is being stored without legal approval, relying on the idea that "no-one looks at it" without a warrant.

at least, that's the most consistent view i can find.

what worries me most at the moment is how much hardware would be needed to store and process all that data, and whether that is feasible.
You shouldn't remove it, you should change it to http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ .

It's cute how debian thinks you should remove it completely (it sounds like they are insulted actually).

There are plenty of packages in deb-multimedia that are not in debian, like mythtv, avidemux, xbmc, cinelerra.

And some are simply better in deb-multimedia like mplayer which is compiled with many more formats then are available in the stock debian version.

Christian Marillat should get a huge amount of credit for keeping this running, even with all the flak he gets from debian sometimes.
The price doesn't concern me too much.

With Steam I am in control of the hardware. I can build a new, faster, better PC at any time and still play my games.

When Xbox Two comes out and they discontinue production of Xbox One what happens to my games? What happens when the servers are shut down? Are they stuck in the cloud or a computer recycling center someplace? When my Xbox One stops working (I'm sure it will) can I buy a used one on eBay, plug it in and continue to play my games?

At least with my PC I can build a new one if it breaks. With my NES I don't need to rely on a server some where in a data center still operating. Also, I still have more faith in my NES lasting and working longer than any console put out in recent years, including the Xbox One (or any Playstation model) even though it's over 20 years old now.
Yes: http://i.imgur.com/kfOzmUD.png
Google wasn't passively spied on via a beam splitter or whatever you call it.

They were doing the spying and actively sending the data out.
It's not common. This is the inspiration: http://strlen.com/java-style-classes-in-c
I don't see where the lines are blurred. If you're referring to what you expressed here[1], I'm not convinced. The story is very clear about the source of the information at the beginning of the article, and it then follows the common convention of not appending the repetitive "according to the source material" to the end of each sentence.

I suppose you could say that some of the statements are speculative in that they say "if the claims in the Prism presentation are true, then...", but I think that's speculative in a very narrow way. It makes sense to draw out possible consequences of the program as expressed in the source material that are rooted in fact and not in speculation.

The article is definitely not speculative in the dangerous sense; it does not say things like "direct access probably means root access to production servers" or "since this program costs only $20 million it's likely to keep growing".

It does make claims we have not yet seen evidence for, but there's no indication they're speculative...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845649
It's like putting ginger ale in top shelf Scotch. A waste!
You're right, that part is incorrectly phrased, but it's also not really the point. Change "listening in on" to "collecting metadata about" if you like. It's still the same problem.
Apache defaults to using prefork on Linux.

Prefork is pretty much Apache-speak for "please munch all my memory and then lock up if more than a handful of people turn up at once".

Nginx or Lighttpd + PHP-FPM behave almost as badly if you choose dynamic mode and don't pick the right values.
That makes two of us. While lots of people say "well Google won't miss you", I think we still have the duty to do what's right.

The USA was founded as the most free, exemplary democracy in history and what we saw in this scandal is precisely the opposite of what this Nation earned so Google could exist. Then Google betrayed us all and was in bed with the government in the most sinister way possible since 2009.

Honestly? I'd rather give someone else a chance. Then if DuckDuckGo spies on us in the future, I'll switch again.
Even if you have their binaries they'd have to communicate home to transgress your privacy.
Here's a full list of what data is sent back to google: http://lifehacker.com/5763452/what-data-does-chrome-send-to-...

Do the autocomplete results still go to google? If so, then enabling DDG on chrome is indeed fruitless.
Why is this being upvoted? I will say it is a well written tutorial but the content is basically completely stripped from html5rocks. There is an overabundance of sites with this topic and a simple google will reveal that.

I happen to know this because I was starting to use web workers about 6 hours ago. And yes, html5rocks does include the blob trick.
Obviously Kickstarter have access to more information than anyone outside the company so it's probably the case that this is fraud (comparing IP addresses and Amazon account details on backers etc) however looking through the comments on the Kickstarter there does appear to be some genuine comments.

For example there are two comments from before the project blew up from "B.B." and "tomicakes" both claiming to have tried the Jerky at one of the taste sessions these guys held, the "B.B" user registered in April 2013 and has created and backed other projects, "tomicakes" also backed another project and commented on it quite a few times.

If this is a case of fraud they went all out on it... the accounts using to shill pre-date the kickstarter. With this in mind it looks like it's possible that the problem was not the jerky did not exist but maybe they weren't using actual Kobe Beef? Maybe the fraud was the product itself, not the existence of the product?
Yes, this is one of the main problems I see with the NSA.
cDNAs do not "exist in nature" the way you think they do. Viral RTs typically hijack a tRNA for use as a primer, and there is a specific tRNA footprint site that is necessary to initiate RT specifically at the position of interest to the virus. these footprint sites typically don't exist near the gene you care about.
OK, but tomorrow when I've forgotten that I've done this and I do a quick search, if the very first thing that comes up isn't what I want, I bet I switch right back.
I'd rather not have to hit send, and that only works when google search is enabled unfortunately :(
Thanks for pointing that out, more info about why the name was changed is on the Debian list server: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-main...
Everyone was ok with google's tracking for ads and commercial purposes, even though it felt kinda weird, we had a feelign it wasn't evil somehow.

Now I can't even look at Google anymore, they're like a spouse that cheated on you. You knew the spouse may have been watching you, but at least they weren't fucking with someone else while you trusted them.