skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for writing a cogent, and much appreciated, calm reply with logic and reason. I can't dispute part of my reply was assertion as well, but (and I'm not making up excuses) I felt pithy remarks for either case weren't helpful.
An interesting development, the Dutch minister of security refuses to expand on the details of the AIVD and NSA relationship, stating that it has to be discussed on an European level first.

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/06/11/aivd-heeft-ook-toegang-t...
Its always been possible, in the past (and now - i believe) you just need to enter dfu mode first, then restore it.
As far as other public social sites go, they capture far more data about you than the status update, etc.
Honest question. Where should you stick your db related logic if you don't want to replicate it in every app that touches the database. Do you write some sort of middleware that sits between the apps and the database and never let any apps talk directly to the database?
FYI: Move back to Android, install ParanoidAndroid.
This will not help if you are going to install the Google Apps suite.
Ask HN: What are European alternatives to PRISM affected US corporations?
I'm heavily invested in PRISM affected US corporations (as are the vast majority of us).

My email is provided by Gmail. I use Google search. I use PayPal. I have Yahoo and Microsoft live accounts. I use Skype daily for work. I use Dropbox for cloud files sync. I host small websites on Winhost.com, larger ones on Rackspace and AWS. I'm enlisted in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

What are the realistic options for European or self-hosted replacements? Any quick wins? Any with migration options?

Self hosted

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Gmail / Ymail / Hotmail: Own mail server.

Dropbox: Self hosted Owncloud, Bittorrent Sync, ?

Facebook: Diaspora, ?

Twitter: ?

Hosting: 1&1?

Skype: any group chat / voice clients? P2P?

European hosted

=================

Email:

Dropbox: Cloudme.com, ?

Facebook: ?

Twitter: ?

Hosting: ?

Skype: ?

Suggestions welcome!
Ask HN: Should there be a Hippocratic oath for Programmers?
In the light of Prism, would it be useful for programmers to be able to publically swear an ethical oath? For instance, that they would blow the whistle on, or refuse to create, anything that they have reason to think will be used for a massive infringement on individual liberty.
When I read the slides, the $20M USD price sounds like what the US Gov was SELLING PRISM access for. Likely to contractors and governments I suppose. Only speculation, but yeah.
It's more a question of whether or not he can actually make a difference. Good lawyers don't take bad cases. Bad lawyers take cases that are unwinnable and make money from the gullible.
Keep in mind - homebrew is not self-publishing. Publishing still makes Sony money since they are being licensed to run on the hardware. The indie devs were sent dev-kits like any other big name shop to do their work on (this is explicitly stated when Octodad was mentioned). Homebrew is allowing anyone to write applications on the platform, and understandably (though this is not what I would like to see) they are locking that down still because of the shadow community. If they make it too easy to pirate games, then anyone will do it - not just those able to root the hardware (no matter how easy it may be).

My guess is that the dev-kits are just being made easier to obtain - either via price point or whatever other restrictions are in place.
I think I see what you're getting at here - people donate their time and skill to a certain project and in exchange get the same kind of perks you can get from a Kickstarter campaign. Instead of crowdfunding it becomes crowdbuilding. Open source development for the masses.

I like this idea. I could get behind this sort of project.
Where's a reference for it now being client-server? I can't find anything with a quick search.
YES I want this! the stock iOS 7 icons seriously look unfinished and unpolished.
The automatic adjust option would be a crap default though. Just the process of Apache checking whether a page is static or dynamic means accepting the connection to begin with - by which point it would be too late to forward the connection to a sorry page if content is dynamic. It would also mean that connections end up stacking at a far greater rate as Apache is required to open each and every request just to identify teh requested file. The whole process would just break servers that are already under heavy load and serves no purpose what-so-ever on servers that aren't stressed. And since this whole argument is about how software should ship sane defaults, Apache is definitely doing the right thing by not including such nonsense by default.

Believe me when I say that I'd welcome such a routine if it was practical as it would save me weeks of my life from load testing and fine tuning. But it just wouldn't work in practice.
I at least, have read/seen much more about Rand Paul and the polices he promotes than I had about Obama as he took office for the first time.

Reading his statements regarding his commitment to the Republican party & its goals as well as the right-wing "Libertarian" principles he habitually talks about and then comparing that to the analysis of the actual text of his proposals; it's obvious that he is simply using these "Libertarian" talking points as blunt weapons against the Democrats.

Many of Rand Paul's proposals don't actually do or change anything at all, instead they are designed only to make the news cycle and then to disappear. Many lack many of the details actual legislation is required to have or because they are designed such that a voting majority is impossible to develop. It's clear that they were never intended to go further than a news cycle... and they don't.

Besides often being couched in language Democrats are unlikely to ever accept, they're also consistent with the proposals from other Hard-Right Republican's who don't associate themselves with the right-libertarian political movement at all. So it's not like he's making non-partisan basic pro-freedom proposals, which the Democrats (being the anti-freedom party) reject. He's only making proposals about issues which can be expressed in the hyper-partisan language and which support the hyper-partisan strategy that is currently dominating D.C. politics. Moreover, he's studiously avoided good-faith, non-partisan, basic policy reform proposals which could get through the legislation process.

Assuming that Rand Paul continues to be successful with this gambit, the obvious influence it will have on other elected officials is that this sort of deceptive and manipulative strategy is politically effective and that they should be doing it too.
We're going from "companies launching social networks so they can get your data to do better advertising" to "governments launching social web services so they can get your data do better 'threat monitoring'"
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The NSA spies on all major email providers.
Hey man, there's a jack-booted thug right behind you!!
Repost from 4 days ago and the docs aren't even classified.
What's wrong with Lua when the task at hand is writing small scripts mostly putting together a few Redis primitives?
Slightly off-topic, but how do people here think Yandex search stacks up against Google? I mostly use DuckDuckGo at this point, but I like to have several alternatives and Google is not going to be one of them anymore.
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Like most interior designers, painters or DIY enthusiasts, she uses a blue tape and gave advice on how to avoid bleeding.
IPv4: DeMystified
"WAH! My site is under heavy load! I am working very hard to bring it back soon!"

thats a progress to the prior cookie and redirect hell.
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3 misdemeanors gets you a felony so highly likely you've committed a felony and don't even know it.
along with 20 Million you could have put combined worth of these companies is over 200 billion dollars, 0.0001%
IBM did quite the opposite of Apple. Remember that they invented the FFT? They patented and released it into the public domain. They wanted you to use more computers and FFT's required computers. Quite far from the ambient retrotacular patent land grabs like Apple just now patenting NFC POS payments with a phone that have been out for many years.
They're probably showing the real analytics for some Google site--possibly a site that is used mostly internally by Googlers. Don't Googlers use G+ internally a fair amount? If so, pre-login breakdown doesn't seem so outlandish.
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> But SOME aspects of the old days, e.g pertaining to LESS fucking SURVEILLANCE, were. That's enough to be angry about and want to reverse course on that particular front.

> Did somebody argue here that slavery was good? No, people just argue that modern surveillance (and legal-code-overload) is bad.

Which is true but a little myopic. Until the Warren court decided that wiretapping required a warrant, law enforcement could surveil your communications at any time for any reason. For the individual the legal situation is much better now, in spite of the obvious erosions of protection and regressions, than they were "back in the day."
> ... which really aren't related

On the contrary, the GM industry is based upon industrial farming. They are the same environmentally irresponsible, energy-consuming, short-minded, hugely profitable beast.
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I'm not so convinced Nacchio is an innocent victim. And I also find it rich that a former telecom CEO guilty of numerous financial crimes is being held up as an example of targeted political persecution using frivolous laws. Insider trading is not the type of crime you commit unknowingly. Has anyone even refuted his guilt convincingly? That is a serious crime and also one with a clear paper trail. If he did it, there would have been no need to frame him for defying the NSA; the SEC would have got him soon enough anyway.
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This isn't true. Once you have tens of thousands of records, a poorly written algorithm or data structure is going to lead to O(n^2) behavior. That hurts. Even small sites can hit this amount of database records with ease.
It was a joke. Also, iOS 7 doesn’t have a flat UI; it’s full of gradients, layers, and translucency.
The Wikipedia page has a list of interesting projects based on FUSE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace#Example...
Liberate your health data
I think it's a deliberate ploy to seem cheap. They are expanding at a frenetic pace, so seems to be working!
Sell it to your country?
This seems to be an advertising ploy for a slide design service. However, I looked at their website and their stuff is amazing
AI version 3.0 is released
It's actually a Yakov Smirnoff joke, but either way it doesn't really advance the conversation very much.
Exactly that. The "middleware" as you put it can manifest itself as one of several things (vastly simplified explanations):

1. Sits in front of your data store and exposes your application's API via HTTP for example. Typical SOA/public API type architecture.

2. Sits inside your web application as a component which you talk to via your internal API. In a Ruby/Python/PHP/Java/C# setting, you would typically have a class with methods on it which correspond to API calls.

3. Ships with your application (if a desktop one for example) and serves an internal API. As above but the component ships with the desktop application.

We do 1 and 2 in our product using the same shared components (domain models).

In actual fact, it's completely hiding behind NHibernate so we don't actually ever consider the database as part of the problem that needs solving. It's purely where we put our stuff when we don't want it in memory.
Rather than "stealing shamlessly" we could call many of Apple's actions and assertions "hypocritical." Do they have nice products with a massive amount of advertising to shill them. No doubt. But the (recently fading) Cult of Jobs' bombastic claims were stultifying to anyone that was familiar with the industry and technology of the time.
More like he betrayed the privacy of the NSA...
I think these days it's pretty easy to buy lossless audio - if you just look a little bit further than iTunes & Co. you'll find Qobuz, Boomkat, HDTracks, Bandcamp and similar stores.

I pretty much find everything I need, including rather obscure music.
I don't want to be "that guy", but this exact article was posted here earlier this week, from the same author but a different website:

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130609225334-16...

I wouldn't usually bother (plenty of people might have missed the original posting) but what's with that awful typeface on the techonomy.com website? It's a serious impediment to readability, so I think the linkedin.com version is better for that reason alone.
I'm sure the FSB and SVR are only looking at the metadata.
So is this post just an excuse to make snarky comments or is there a point you're trying to make?
This is a visual representation of their tool for marketing purposes. God forbid google product places their own services in adverts for their own services...
NSA/PRISM has nothing to do with Bitcoin. I predicted this a month ago in an HN thread. It has to do with DHS freezing dwolla and speculation that similar things will happen elsewhere. Some of us (that bought in years ago) are profit harvesting. That's all. It takes a while to get a lot of cash out of mtgox.
As for labels, I meant that both OperaMail and Gmail have system of tags. However Gmail tags are treated as IMAP folders not using OperaMail tags. I realise that creating new tags in OperaMail may get out of sync with Gmail, but the the other way round - having labels from Gmail imported as labels to OperaMail should be possible to do.
Viewable through archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130607102023/http://www.lingsca...
How is the NSA going to stop doing something they've never admitted to doing?
Because they are patented property?
With how connected we are and how empowered developers and programmers are today. I see many reasons that point to yes.
I'm intrigue, how does it deal with V8 settings? js-flags command? or a different config file?

In particular, I'm thinking of V8_MAX_SEMISPACE_SIZE setting. If you cannot change this, then redis-V8 can only store max 1.4GB of data.
Technically, the FISA law being used by the NSA to capture phone records doesn't generate evidence that is easily used in court. If you're not a legitimate foreign target, you can suppress evidence that originates from FISA, and the NSA is obligated to destroy evidence it inadvertently collects on citizens.
The actual Franklin quote is "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Your version is paraphrased. The "essential" and "a little temporary" I believe are part of this debate. I'm deeply opposed to this blanket surveillance by the way.
Possibly. I could also built my own HTPC to work with Steam like a games console. I've never really thought about it until now.
Thanks for posting this. The most obvious point (to me) is that it would be very hard to install a 1984-style regime in a nation where almost every educated person has read 1984.

Anything that even has the slightest overtone of old-school totalitarianism gets mocked and derided by the media and the educated classes. No-one intelligent takes the "war on terror" seriously, for example.

In a democracy, whoever influences public opinion is basically in charge. We live in a weird society where most media outlets are controlled by big business, and yet most people who work in media are very progressive (you might not believe me, but it's true: Fox News/the Daily Mail/etc do not have some secret source of right wing humanities graduates, and so most of their reporters are typical young, metropolitan, educated liberals). That makes the media a weird Rorschach test where from one perspective it's under the thumb of big business and from another it's under the thumb of the "liberal elite".

The best model I could come up with to understand Western society is that there are basically two power structures that rarely openly compete but continually grind against each other like tectonic plates. One power structure consists of large corporations, finance, the military, and so on. The other consists of the media, academia, many government agencies (most government workers are again, progressive) and various international organisations. Silicon Valley, like Hollywood, is considered a left-wing outpost in right-wing capitalism, which is why Marc Andreesen was condemned for coming out as Republican, and why tech employees can be fired if they offend the enforcers of "social justice".

The best evidence I can give of this is one paper that studied the policies of right-wing and left-wing governments. They found that right-wing policies favoured the top 2% of society. Left-wing policies tend to favour the top 5%.

This post http://www.macroresilience.com/2013/04/08/radical-centrism-u... explains the paper and how our current system basically gives us the worst of both worlds: "Where the government was the sole operator, such as prisons and healthcare, “pragmatic” privatisation leaves us with a mix of heavily regulated oligopolies and risk-free private contracting relationships. On the other hand, where the private sector was allowed to operate without much oversight the “pragmatic” reform involves the subordination of free enterprise to a “sensible” regulatory regime and public-private partnerships to direct capital to social causes."

I have no idea how this will end, but I'm not optimistic about the future of democracy. Too many people squabbling over deckchairs while the Titanic keeps sailing towards the icebergs (whether or not Sesame Street retains its government funding is irrelevant, when both military and social security spending keeps going up and up).

The successful governments of the twenty-first century will probably be a mix of corporate nationalists, like China and Russia, (basically Fascism with some self-control) and pragmatic city-states like Singapore.
> BTW does anyone know if there is something similar to FUSE, but for block-devices?

https://github.com/acozzette/BUSE

The disclaimer says it's experimental, though.
How is at a "lie"? A "lie" would be "This is what your site's traffic will look like". I'll assume OP is just being facetious about using the PRISM news peg...but the word "lie" does still mean something different than "for demo purposes"

Edit: however, Google really should do something about the live data pie chart, perhaps, use this for inspiration: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/images/0003VL-9150.jpeg
I don't think most of these apply to JavaScript nowadays.
It is not a lie it is a pie in the sky.
"target(s)" should be replaced with "your fellow American citizens and potential foreign persons of interests" because we're all guilty until proven innocent.
Actually it doesn't really matter because your argument pretty much encompasses all startups. Also I'm not really going to post names, because I didn't take the jobs.

Regardless, I live near Edinburgh. Startups here are almost always looking for good enough for the right price, which is how I imagine almost all well managed starups act, outwith a very small bubble.
the cube also didn't have a fan, it just used a chimney effect. And no I never heard of an overheat problem, I still have my cube--13 years, and it still runs fine (slow these days though...)
Direct link to OP's website http://emiland.me/
Moscamed announced that they had achieved a 96% reduction of the adult mosquito population in the target area.

That sounds like all mosquitoes to me.
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Viva hyperbole!
I'm always interested in people who think like this. If the NSA --- or for that matter any other part of the USG --- was "disappearing" people, what does it matter what FISA says, or how much metadata they're collecting? Clearly no law we have has any impact on them at all.
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Keep in mind that genetically modified wheat is different from regular wheat for the DNA that was added to GM kind. When non-GM and GM wheat combine the results can differ. They can go from a fully functional cross breed wheat or more often (based on documentaries at least) a non-functional wheat plant (leaves growing from where the seed should be, etc), kinda like you breed horse and a donkey and get a mule (it can't reproduce or bear fruit).

If it is cross bread with GM wheat it's probably patented by law. If it is non functional it is a direct loss to the farmer. It's really a lose-lose situation.

NOTE: there is a chance that GM/non-GM hybrid won't contain any patented genes or be hampered in any way. However in large number of wheat plants you'll notice larger degree of mutants.
A quick search found estimates for the FSB's budget in 2005 was over 60 billion rubles, which would have been about $2 billion USD back then.

http://www.agentura.ru/english/experts/safranchuk/

That seems like a very healthy budget to me.
You could just put it on your desk so that the ports are facing towards you.
I am not an expert by any stretches of the imagination, but I have some experience of Haskell at least. Currently writing a web app with Yesod (go check it out!). Outside of the trivial pure functions, pretty much all real work is done inside or one monad or another. At which point there is no change in syntax or level at all.

If you just want a temporary log consider using Haskell's debug features:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/D...

"For example, this returns the value of f x but first outputs the message.

trace ("calling f with x = " ++ show x) (f x)"

A good analogy is moving from procedural to object oriented code. It seems like a massive transition to organise code into separate objects which are instantiated rather than just using function pointers or gotos where you need to. But objects allow you to talk about frameworks and different architectures, separation of responsibilities and in general manipulate your code at a much higher level. Its worth pushing through to understand objects even if initially they are harder than naive procedural code. Similarly its worth taking the investment to understand monads rather than try to avoid them. In the longer run, they provide a higher level structure to the code.
Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance
first thoughts: yeah sounds cool i'd like to try

second thoughts: ho noes yet another "i'm not launched give me your email" stuff :(
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Snowden was not in the acknowledgements.
Automatic dynamic tuning isn't an obvious choice[1], and isn't what I was suggesting, and I doubt it was what the parent great-grandparent was suggesting. I simply meant scaling parameters based on the hardware available and whatever else can be determined easily at configuration time.

[1] Not going to come out and say it couldn't work, but I am skeptical for a good many reasons, some of which you've touched on.
Eh, Washington Post has a few of these guys too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-leaks-n...
Only until patio11 convince them to increase the monthly price 10-fold.
I know you're probably looking for a legal solution, but private torrent sites like what.cd offer a very large selection of .flac files. If only the music industry would do the same.