skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Edit: Also, it's not very hard to generate a different key with signature 79DEBE35, and put it on the key servers. gpg's displaying of such short abbreviations for keys is one the worst parts of its UI.

Yup: http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-new...
Cheetah tracking study reveals incredible acceleration
Basic income would make sustained immigration untenable. Our society depends on diversity and vibrancy; we can't put a price tag on human beings.
Would it be possible to easily grab the data from a running dedicated server without interrupting service to the user?
Hello Lucas, after doing a quick web search for CenturyLink it is easy to believe that adding PaaS makes sense to expand their business. Good luck!

I just logged in to my old AppFog account and will give it a try.
Mission Control? Redone in 10.9. Apologies if their engineers work too slowly for your pace.

Google Maps? Google didn't want to license their data without Apple giving them location data. Apple can't force Google to let them use Google's data. The next best thing was Google Maps on the App Store, which his what happened.

Bad cell reception? Sort of a silly example, given they provided video examples on their site of every other major cell phone sold at the time exhibiting that behavior. However, they gave out free bumpers and extended the return period if it was an issue worthy of return. Also, they redesigned the phone _on the very next release_, the Verizon iPhone 4. This was unheard of at the time, and to this time, core hardware usually doesn't change on the *S releases, much less before then.

You can continue to enumerate the many examples you know like this (sic), if you'd like.
* That's a pretty big assumption now isn't it.
I'm not convinced iOS 5-6 was skeuomorphic to begin with. Aside from a few effects - camera shutter and page flips comes to mind - the core workflow is pretty abstract.

in many of the comparison screenshots of ios 6vs7 it looks like they just switched from textured background to a solid background, and left the workflow the same. Not an eschewing of skeuomorphism but a change in visual style.

I have a feeling that in a few decades we'll be looking back on the 2010s like we do the 80s and 70s, and "flat design" would be one of the trends that mark this decade.
> Experts are not much closer to solving the problem [of user-friendly cryptography] today than they were two decades ago.

I disagree. Recently there have been breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption. From Wikipedia [1]:

"...any circuit can be homomorphically evaluated, effectively allowing the construction of programs which may be run on encryptions of their inputs to produce an encryption of their output. Since such a program never decrypts its input, it can be run by an untrusted party without revealing its inputs and internal state."

While currently known constructions with the right mathematical properties are kind of slow, I'm sure that a lot of people are now interested and in the future we'll eventually be able to do it at practical speeds (especially with the help of future computers that are faster, and/or have more cores, and/or have dedicated coprocessors hard-wired for homomorphic encryption computations, like recent x86 chips have hardware accelerated AES [2]).

If this happens, websites will be able to implement features, like search, that rely on manipulation of user data, without having access to that data themselves.

> [Certain] features depend on Facebook’s servers having access to a person’s private data

Today this is true, at least for people who aren't on the cutting edge of research in this field. But it might not be true tomorrow, if homomorphic encryption ever becomes practical (both in terms of fast algorithms, and in terms of frameworks/libraries which make it easy for developers to use).

Off-topic remark: Homomorphic encryption will also impact the economics of cloud computing, since you'll be able to use CPU cycles provided by others without the security concerns of disclosing the unencrypted confidential data you want them to manipulate.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_ho...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set
The light reflected off your eyes from the capslock key is readable from high-res cameras. It's better to have leads hooked up to one of your toes and to toggle a 24V source so you can interpret the pulses in morse code.

Edit: obviously the 24V must come from a battery which is charged only at specific intervals -- otherwise they can interpret your messages by watching mains voltage variation.
http://archive.is/hPGfu
> Probably not. The next step that government would take would be to raid your friend Bob's apartment, arrest him, and take his hard disk. His OTR key (and, if using Pidgin, account credentials in plaintext if stored) is plainly available on the disk. You now have the private key.

The DEFINING FEATURE of OTR is that of forward secrecy; key compromise does not permit retroactive decryption.

Otherwise, we could just use TLS. (Technically, we could now, just enforcing the EDH modes.)
I don't see tower/location info on my (VZW) cell bill... so maybe not all call metadata that the leaked Verizon Business warrant sucked up.
I did not say there is no possible way that anyone could understand what is going on.

Nor did I attribute such a view to you. I said you assumed there's no possible way anyone could understand what's going on and not share your view. Omitting that last clause completely changes the meaning of the sentence.

Let me word it another way: I think you assume that anyone who does understand what's going on would, as a matter of course, share your opinion. I think a person could be just as well-informed as you are but hold an opinion that differs from yours. I hope that's clearer than my previous statement.
Two 27" Thunderbolt displays (2560x1440) hooked to a Mac Mini (which is essentially a top of the line MBP for half the cost) and a MBA off to the right.
As I understand shirts.io, they're also focused on small orders. Otherwise an API would be overkill, no?
Cool site, fun to see how these big sites all started out.
Every now and then I start thinking that Poulsen is starting to get the hang of honest journalism and some amount of professionalism, and then something like this comes along that makes it obvious he's still the same pathological attention whore whose primary hacking talents amounted to getting caught a lot.
More precisely, they forked WebKit:

http://www.chromium.org/blink
This whole news story has taught me a lesson about the downside of tracking users. I now understand why some people opt out of, say, behavioral targeted ads: it has nothing to do with annoying ads, and everything to do with data eventually getting into the wrong hands. The only way to prevent the misuse of data is to not collect it in the first place.
Yeah this is the general idea we went with. We did our best to synchronize around it, but unfortunately we can never have total control, which necessarily introduces race conditions.

I would imagine this is what leads to the 0.4% crash rate I mentioned at the top of the article :-(
What's with the posted image? Is that just for illustration, or is there steganography going on too?

I couldn't find anything running a couple of programs on it, but then again I don't have the contents of the attached message.
Well, Ruby is OO too, even moreso than Java because there are no primitives in Ruby. Even the "integers" in Ruby are not ints but objects with lots of methods. But Ruby has a lot of powerful, functional, expressive, declarative, and meta language features that Java lacks. Java is like an OOP straightjacket, that's why it gets so much hate.
If not that, then what? If anything?
Thanks for reading the article so thoroughly.
Not safe at all. Timing analysis can detect correlations between data arriving at the interviewers computer with data sent by the suspect's computer.

Encryption is good at keeping the contents secret, but not the source of traffic.
Style Precedence in CSS: Specificity, Inheritance, and the Cascade
A thought: When prodcuts go "white label", it's often because the company (or supplier) behind them wants the benefit of the sales without the hit to the brand.

So my guess is that they struck a deal with either a particularly eager Safeway/Walmart/Costco/etc. store manager(s) to move increased volume at slightly lower margins or as another commenter suggested, a deal with one of the associated distributors.

The key seems to be the lack of details, which means someone doesn't want us to know where the goods are coming from. This is why I'm guessing an eager manager, etc. who would get heat from "corporate" or "national" for undercutting other stores, or something like that.

Anyway, once again, competition happens, consumers benefit. Good for them/us! :)
Yeah! Some of the big blogs 1st posts were very.... poorly written. Yet they made it.
Do we upvote Other to vote for Groovy, or Ruby? The only functional difference between the Groovy implementation and Ruby's many implementation is the alternate syntax, so really Groovy's implementation could be considered a dialect of Ruby.
I would be very interested in a a tutorial or guide for getting something like this set up on OS X.
Those leads are gonna generate magnetic distortions. You should only do this with your feet next to a giant 18" subwoofer while blasting dubstep in order to mask any electromagnetic fluctuations.

Bonus: Anyone surveilling you via audio bugs will need new ears.
> The note heads aren't the correct oval shape

Just like the camera and other elements in the design https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5883125 the shape of the notes is a pastiche of an (I think) roughly mid-'60s commercial-art style.
Prince of Persia Code Review (6502 Apple II version)
Best of both, custom built private clouds across two datacenters via colocation.

I'd recommend building your own servers and colocating them. You can get a ~50 ECU, 32GB ECC RAM, SSD, etc for about 1k. You can colo by the RU in most major cities, which typically runs around $99 per month.

If you want any help, send me a line and I can walk you through it all. I not only this for my own company (~60 RUs of blades/traditional), but I also consult fairly often doing infrastructure for companies wanting to cut costs over things like AWS by 10x to 100x (yes, 100x happens sadly for them prior).
> What he's arguing is that we should pay people not to work the same way we pay farmers not to grow corn

Actually, no.

Basic income isn't pay not to work, its pay independent of work (or anything else). It is very different from paying people not to work, in that there is always a positive reward for earning money through work (whether wage labor or capital.)

Its essentially making everyone a stock-holder in the commons, and issuing periodic dividends.
This makes some pretty big personalities seem very vulnerable, I like it. For example, it has Michael Arrington's first blog post on TechCrunch. cool stuff
at 10MWt/cm2 how long the exposure is before the material melts/evaporates?
If it were me, literally, I go olde skool. Nothing electronic what so ever.
On PRISM, a response from Private Internet Access
Every time I'm out in SFBA, people I meet up with will not shut up about Instacart.
And this is why, despite a noticeable decline, HN is still my go to for meaningful discussion. Bravo, you two.
A new dryer is $25?
Sez you. Someone that's in ill-health for lack of affordable medical attention or unable to exploit their academic potential due to financial insecurity is facing considerable restrictions on their freedom. Equally, it can be argued that a Verizon customer whose call metadata ends up in an NSA database is not actually impacted by that data collection unless s/he had a burning urge to start calling 1-800-ALQAEDA.

All that call data could be misused for oppressive purposes. But you haven't offered any evidence that it is, other than your apparent conviction that all government ultimately ends up as tyrannical and oppressive, a conviction which I absolutely do not share.
Chrome is atrocious. It uses your IP to determine language, even if your OS is another. You can't completely undo it after install; the default search engine is still the country/language you downloaded Chrome from.

Even funnier is when you get Chrome working in the right language, then do a Google search, the results come up in whatever language Google thinks based of IP, then Chrome offers to translate it.

It's so idiotic.

The Play Store is even worse. Some idiot at Google decided that apps with country restrictions should just 404 when you try to access them. So I downloaded an app for my bank. Go travelling. Get security alert update. Try to update? Nope, app not found. Even though it's running on my phone, I can't get to it via Play. Go to the Play website via a proxy and install it? Sure, that works.

I bet if the responsible people were forced to travel or be expats for a bit, this would get coherent quickly.
This makes a gentlemanly issue-centered discussion essentially impossible.

Exactly! Just look at your argument:

the low level employee didn't think he was breaking the rules with his queries, and his direct manager stopped the activity when she found out

You are trying to frame the harassment of hundreds of groups, and this over years, as the acts of some rogue low level employee. And something that was fixed as soon as the supervisor noticed it.

If someone is trying to spin a story here it is you my friend - independent of how "meta" and "inspiring" you feel your arguments are. I'll leave the rest as it is. It seems pointless to argue the case when you consider everything This makes a gentlemanly issue-centered discussion essentially impossible.

Exactly! Just look at your argument:

the low level employee didn't think he was breaking the rules with his queries, and his direct manager stopped the activity when she found out

You are trying to frame the harassment of hundreds of groups, and this over years, as the acts of some rogue low level employee. And something that was fixed as soon as the supervisor noticed it.

If someone is trying to spin a story here it is you my friend - independent of how "meta" and "inspiring" you feel your arguments are.

I'll leave the rest as it is because implying a "bad faith" argument can be claimed for any irresponsible actions of a public official - except for, maybe Nixon. For any other high level action there is always a chain of minions involved whom you can ultimately frame as "gone rogue". Ideally, as you did in the case, trying to make it a failue of the "system" therefore even avoiding any personal responsibility what so ever.
It's a picture of the NSA headquarters at Ft. Meade. That may be all there is to it.
I think shirts.io has the responsibility here. They'd be reproducing an image unlawfully, for profit.
obviously!

It's times like these, I'm grateful for limited terms of office, and a politically divided country.
That's what makes it exciting. You don't know what you're going to get!
Yup. It's about making sure that the data layer and the view layer are in sync. That's where it gets hard. Other than that, it's just $.ajax. ebryn's project is the wrapper so you can plug into that stuff.

What you're losing is responsiveness in the UI. You're going to have to dictate when the call is made, and some may even be blocking. For stuff like submitting a form, or navigating to a new page, that's not a big deal, right? The user has to press a submit button, or the url changes, so then you handle the event. But once you're requirements are real-time, and data-intensive, (DIRTy) then handling all these events is really going to be a nightmare and that's where ember-data is great.

Lots of folks knock ember-data, but it's pretty great if you're using it for real-time data intensive applications, which is really what this is made for.
Anyways, they'll eventually get Glass down to where it's unnoticeable

I doubt it. The awareness and general resistance to glass has so-far spread faster than glass itself. If a glass that looked exactly like ordinary glasses came out, there would be both a general complaint and general suspicion of anyone wearing ordinary glasses.

It's doubtful that they could make glass invisible without even more complaints and if glass wasn't invisible, it would be noticed because what people expands based on the focus of their attention.
It's common to walk around naked in locker rooms at gyms and what-not. I make it a point to remove my sunglasses before entering just so others can see my eyes, otherwise you'll come off as creepy. I've never seen anyone try to snap a photo with their phone either (never a good idea near people in-shape).

Now with glass-like tech, it's more subtle. You'll not only have to remove them, carrying an "always-on" camera in your hand might not resonate well either; you'll have to encase them away from light entirely.

Essentially, I think people would want some sort of indication that it's truly disabled in scenarios where they would be uncomfortable with it around. A whole new world of etiquette is about to open.

The last major change we had was with cell phones. That continues to evolve, decades after availability. I wonder what paths glass-tech etiquette will take?
I agree with this:

I freaked out in the beginning because I thought the crummy icons were representative of Apple screwing up the entire new design direction for iOS. But now that I’ve seen the rest of iOS, I’m not that worried.

After a couple days with the beta, it's pretty obvious that Apple didn't, like, FIRE their UI designers or anything. There are a few strange choices, but most of the new OS feels like an improvement when you use it.
Compare http://compare.cutpricedhotels.com/Place/Bellevue.htm
to http://www.hotelscombined.com/Place/Bellevue.htm

I feel like this guy is skimming another OTA...
We do. We use it in the browser, for communicating between client and server. Service providers use it internally, for storing messages on disk.

The problem is not one of operations; the problem is one of law. Google (and others) have been forced under federal law to provide the plaintext to the government, or have their individual persons face jail time.

This is not a technological problem, and there are no technological solutions.
App engine had a pricing restructure a few years back that destroyed it as a business model for a lot of users. The worst was on Python where the language was missing scheduling features needed to make its use affordable... particularly nasty when Guido was working at google at the time.
> This is not the threat model that we're faced with now. Let's say you and Bob communicate using accounts you've made on random XMPP servers using Tor, and all the messages are encrypted with OTR. Both servers are in the US, and the NSA's metadata database shows E83Gxw@jabber.org sending lots of ciphertext to PAnd9B@jabber.org.

Tor won't help at all if all of the long-distance network traffic in the country is being mirrored (as it has been in the USA for most of a decade).

Corollary: The NSA knows exactly who runs The Silk Road. Stopping drug trafficking is obviously not as high a priority to them as not letting potentially kinetic adversaries know that Tor provides no anonymity to someone who can (and does) monitor _all_ network traffic.
In other words, something similar to Mailvelope.
http://www.mailvelope.com/
Is everything completely automated or the API is just for placing the order?

Would be cool if the API server is connected to the printing machine controller, packaging machine controller, and some FedEx physical logistics system. When an order is placed, everything is automated, from printing to packaging to shipping. That would save a lot, and more importantly, it's gonna be so cool :)
I haven't tried it (EDIT: it = cassandra), but what's wrong with Logstash + ElasticSearch? You get a lot out of the box with Logstash, and you could always push the community to build a Cassandra output plugin (or build it yourself) if you have serious reasons for Cassandra vs. ElasticSearch. Though Kibana is a great interface for log searching and is designed to interface with ES.
Thanks. I kind of assumed that those protections extended to non-citizens, but it's nice to have actual case law.
The main point for me is to have a government I don't need to protect myself from. And more generally, a society where I don't need to disguise my every action. Points about the impracticality of strong encryption are secondary. Here are some of them anyway:

* The vast majority of internet users don't have the domain knowledge needed to use strong encryption effectively. A classic example with e-mail is using a prominent phrase from the plain text of the message body in the (unencrypted) subject field.

* Any cryptography scheme is vulnerable to social engineering, attacks on the trust networks used to exchange keys, etc. Avoiding these requires a nontrivial and ongoing amount of effort even for expert users.

* Encryption complicates archival and search of content even for its author.

* Any service that would help users with the above would be legally obligated to provide information to authorities anyway.
It was the signing key on Wired's broadcast.
The message posted on Wired is encrypted with that key.

EDIT: While what I said was technically true, in that it is encrypted with the 79DEBE35 key, that's not Wired's key, it's the recipient's key.
I am not betting on any side of his actual position, even though I would like it to be someone who does it for his principles. In any case, though, what you say is how this thing will play out. Covert operations control a dissenting minority. Control of a majority requires publicity of the operations so that the majority is then self-controlled.
There's a pretty big profit to be made by buying wholesale/in bulk. My second job is running a restaurant and wholesale prices on items can be ridiculously cheap. Think 12 avocados for $5 right now, one case of 50+ for $10-15... and these are even better quality and fresher than the $1-3 you might pay per avocado at the local supermarket. Another example: the Oreos that I like to get on instacart that are often way cheaper than Safeway and are pretty close to the wholesale prices I pay for the restaurant.

All it takes is a sellers permit. (In some cases, like Costco Business Center, just a membership, not even the permit.)
See also: The Grugq's PORTAL of Pi project: https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi and its cousin for OpenWRT-based personal routers: https://github.com/grugq/portal