skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So reading the info ... basically it can't at all.

An encrypted email message cannot be decrypted without the passphrase, and in the normal course of operations, we do not store passphrases. However, we may be required to store a passphrase for an account identified in a court order enforceable in British Columbia, Canada.

Really - how hard can be for online services to get it - all encryption and decription should be done ON the client side with open source client that can be scrutinized. Unless this is done no assumption of security can be made.
Yes it should :-) I had to do quite a bit of research to find out who maintains that page and could update it. But found them in the end and that papercut is reported. I'll check it again tomorrow to see if it has been fixed :-)
You first have to start with the fact that every smartphone has copied the iPhone†

From there, it's impossible to see how Apple could possibly change anything without someone somewhere claiming that they've ripped off something from somewhere else. But the people they're allegedly ripping off have in turn ripped off Apple, rendering the entire debate pointless.

†Not that it's a bad thing, once the iPhone came out, everyone else had to copy it. The first iPhone was the starting point for how all smartphones from that point on shoud be.
What? Google are dictating your technology solution here and penalising you if you don't do exactly what they want.

This is bad news for consumers and web masters alike and they're dressing it up as if it's the developers fault when a separate site is a perfectly reasonable solution.

That some sites are still struggling to deliver a good mobile solution is irrelevant and a red herring.

It's not Google's job to dictate our solutions. Do you not remember their rubbish hashbang solution?
Assignment within the brackets, that kinda surprised me

> a = []
> a[a[typeof a]='huh', void a] = 'puh'

> console.log(a)
[object: "huh", undefined: "puh"]

huh... you can do this too

> a = []
> a[a[a[typeof a]='huh'] = 'puh'] = 'woh'
> console.log(a)
[object: "huh", huh: "puh", puh: "woh"]
The best things in Persona's favour:

1) A lot of people are working on it (hopefully eyeballs translate to fewer flaws)

2) You can host your own

3) Eventually when browsers are in on the game, it can be decentralised

The best response Mozilla could give is to highlight the above and ask for more help from those able to give it to make those things come true sooner.

We all know where we are today, so let's just get to where we want to be tomorrow.

And finally add a link to Github: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid
Slowly, they will try to justify its conviction and torture. From what I read, he is ready for that.

I wish companies like Google and Microsoft asked for his amnesty. Would that even help?
This is what you believe, this is what people who benefit from you believing that are telling you but it's nonsense. There may be poor fundamentalists who would gladly kill for religion but they have no ability to act on it. Only the rich and powerful have that capability and they're also better educated.

If you truly believe there are a group of people for whom religion is enough to make them want to kill, then the solution would be education and financial investment. Middle class people make poor martyrs. The idea that the only thing that can be done is murder them is sickening.
After some quite heavy searching, I finally found the original source. Google is really not very good in finding articles written 4 years ago, and it is even more difficulty if you don't remember the language it was written in :).

For an English blog writing about the report (original in German, and linked in the blog post): http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2008/06/04/data-retentio...

I have no idea however from which article I myself originally read/heard it from, and what additional conclusion it might have added to the report. My best guess is that it was from a key note somewhere, likely Falkvinge or Schneier.
Procedures differed somewhat and a Stasi officer wouldn't have had the operational freedom depicted in the movie (that is, his colleagues very likely would have caught him).

The story is one of those unrealistic "protagonist acts against all odds and succeeds" that make up a good movie, but the backdrop (Stasi's - sometimes not very - subtle omnipresence and the fear this evokes in society) is painfully realistic.
No. The heat is on the government. And shit is about to hit the fan. I haven't been this content in 10 years.

"What really makes me nervous is the possibility of innocent US citizens being misconstrued as enemies of the state for posting anything online that isn't 100% supportive of the government"

Take every opportunity to point out that you love the USA. Hippies literally wrapped themselves in our flag. We are the patriots. The current people in government are blip in our history. Hopefully they're tried for their crimes and serve in the prisons they built.
more information on the CIOT

http://ripe58.ripe.net/content/presentations/ciot.pdf

it says 250k queries per month... kinda hard to get warrants for all of them i guess
I'll definitely have a look at doing that - the initial specs were designed around the metric volumes we use the tools for, but I realise that might not be practical for smaller workloads :)
What is and how do I provide a digital signature? How would the average person know that?
He wanted the whole thing released.
Diden't work in my Chrome. Running latest version. Did only see the background, logo and links in the top left corner. Shortly after the PC become super slow for about 10-15 seconds, then the browser closed the tab.

Chrome version 27.0.1453.110 m on Windows 7 64 bit with 8 gb ram and a Nvidia GetForce 8600 GTS 3d card.
> Not everyone is deathly afraid of dark humour. Stand-up comedy in particular is full of it, yet people still seem to think of it as 'fun'.

Oh I love dark humour, but there are some things we shouldn't trivialise and concentration camps are one of those things (if you had to sit through the same stories I had about your grandparents time in such camps, then I'm sure you'd agree).
> Are you suggesting that the TSA agent interviewing this woman called up some TSA hotline who called up someone at Facebook who just gave it to them, sans warrant, all within the span of a couple hours?

Pretty much, only "filled in a form on a web page" not "called up someone", "made a request to the api" not "called up someone at Facebook" and "the software ran" not "just gave it to them". Get with the times.

> Words fail me for an adjective to describe how unlikely that sounds.

You have not been paying attention.
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The thing is that at a given scale (and it comes early, actually), pushes do not scale.

I still use pushes for clear-cut things that require paging, but having graphes of a lot of things and just noticing changes or anomaly on the overall patterns will help spot a lot of issues, including things you haven't yet planned paging for :-)
The Dead Past - Isaac Asimov
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I am very critical of Google's algorithm and people's SEO, because of the huge influence that has had on the WWW.

This is social engineering that I like. I hate people serving up weird broken content because they've detected a browser window size.

But it's not even that. Google have discovered some sites return a useful hit, but when the mobile user clicks that link they are re-directed to a non-useful page. That makes Google results less useful for those users. Google is thus only asking you to make those hits as useful as they appear to be. That's perfectly acceptable. It's not different to down-grading people who stuff a bunch of keywords at the end of the page - those are not useful to anyone and thus Google doesn't give them high rating.

If any Googler's (or DDGers or etc) are reading I'd love it if search engines gave me an option to search for "Valid HTML and valid CSS only".
Noooooooooooooooo? OMG!
As the largest single-party socialist state, which choice do you really have? To protect your citizens and markets is one of the primary missions in a socialist state to avoid economical exploitation from imperial forces.

Compare the RF (fromer USSR) and the PRC.
The comma operator in Javascript is a major WTF. The entire post basically comes down to a, b evaluates to b, [] coerces to string, and arrays are objects.

The only thing to really look bad is chrome, which is surprisingly easy to kill.
Or, in the UK, our police will happily accompany US officers to your door step and let them render you.

I'm sure the "K" in UK is a place holder for an "S". And that "S" is for "special relationship".

Oh, any actual American people aware of the UK / US "special relationship"? It a hilarious self delusion on our part.
Batsd [1] is a stripped down version of (StatsD + Graphite) that works well in my opinion. You won't have the full graphite functions etc, but it's easier to get started.

[1] https://github.com/noahhl/batsd
DRM-free PS4 is a PR play, says EDGE
I would love to see more coverage of Tmura and how they are creating a perpetual ecosystem of pay it forward charity.
The majority of people have a basic need to work in some form or another, regardless of compensation.
> and at Google we want them to experience the full richness of the web.

Except when the smartphone is a Windows Phone, in which case Google is happy to deliver a CSS stripped website to you.

Check a side-by-side iPhone | Windows Phone comparison: http://imgur.com/a/lquYZ#0
Nope, 2040 is much closer to the truth.
Just an intresting observation and question: why is this linking to techcrunch and not directly to https://optin.stopwatching.us/ ?
Do you doubt that people mostly want the gossip? I was about to say that people don't really know the difference between "good information" about current events, and gossip. After thinking about how to word that, though, it occurred to me that maybe there really isn't a difference.
Don't worry about the metadata
Yeah, awesome to have technology that extracts (pumps) heat out of the sleeping bag, that sounds really intuitive.

I thought the point of sleeping bags was to trap the heat for as long as possible, insulating you from the cold exterior climate?
... and the someone in the country is more valuable than the someone outside the country, because xenophobia.
"The Internet Is My Playground" by Ricky Gervais
The mighty sheepskin effect
These things look like huge ads to me, they remind me of the clothing in "Idiocracy". That impression is increased by the fact that they're currently not all that useful: 8 hours sleep for 11 hours standby means you still need to charge normally, so you might as well just stick to that. Of course, this is going to become better and better, but right now it strikes me as a marketing gag more than anything else.
How a visually impaired student uses the iPad in school
The RoboRoach: Control A Living Insect From Your Smartphone
It is not a case of a quick buck it is to give me some income which will fund my proper start-up http://www.dashoot.com

Difference between a UK startup and a US startup.

A Uk startup tries to start small build revenue with business model sell at a high price.

A US startup builds small demo gets funding, hires staff build's it bigger sell's at a high price or then develops business model.

Google adwords is not user friendly and it is badly designed you shouldn't have to read a huge manual or read up on it. It should ask you how to configure it, not configure it yourself with its hidden menus. Plus when you put money into you account in adwords it doesn't acknowledges that the money is deposited until a few hours later so at first you think it didn't work. Which goes back to the bad design.

With 90 percent of the search market within the UK you have to use google. If google can't market your site properly on its display ad network with 50 quid there is no point giving it a couple of grand. You might as well piss the money up the wall.

I actual care about travelling for I went travelling around the world in 2008 to 2009 after finishing my computer science degree.
Wow, I was not aware of that. Thanks for the correction!
"still struggling to deliver a good mobile solution"

I think that would be irrelevant. But I don't agree that's what happens. They produce an alternative version of the site and additional code, that makes it worse than what they had to begin with. It makes the site a worse place to end up on from search, so it's ranking got nerfed. As much as I sometimes disagree with changes to google algorithms and their position, I think this change is both technically and socially correct. Everyone who didn't spend time and money making their website worse - wins.
Sure, everyone can see they’re wearing glasses. However, outside of our little tech circle, most people don’t know that those glasses contain a camera, mic, and location tracker. And even if a Glass-wearer gets called out, they can deny that they were recording or taking pictures (unlike if you point a camera watch at someone).
MIT: How Technology is Destroying Jobs
Once you realize that there are no associative arrays in JavaScript these things become less of a WTF.
To be honest, you shouldn't read fiction, read Weizenbaum, Joseph instead.
Seeing the same unreachable attribute message in Firefox 23.0a2 (current Aurora) on Windows 7.
Eagle Eye, current state of affairs...
>I call bullshit. Phone metadata is saved since forever yes, but stored at ISPs, not at government organisations. There are strict regulations regarding the privacy of voice data over the phone (VoIP does not count as such though), and I don't think the secret service and military secret service (AIVD and MIVD) can do anything they like. They have more permissions, such as demanding passwords for encrypted files as long as it's not for your own conviction (while normally you have the right to remain silent), but it probably doesn't go that far. Keyword searches are probably not true.

Yes, because secret services have been known to strictly follow the law, and not do anything without telling you first.
Exactly, this makes the sleeping bag less comfortable. It doesn't actually pump the heat though, it flows from hot to cold on it's own. It's actually like a turbine that turns the flow into electricity.
Correct. But the International Tribunal isn't exactly 'a crazy thing*. Would it be 'crazy' to uphold (Coalition) troops to the same standard as 'the bad guys'?
> Uhh... the whole idea with the present generation of smartphone (software) comes from the iPhone.

Oh come on. It's an evolution of what was there before; Palm OS was already very clearly moving in that direction. There is very little that is conceptually new in the first iPhone.

The execution was superb, and everyone certainly got shaken awake by the fact that that level of quality was even possible... but the core ideas were already there.
Precisely. There is nothing wrong with reusing your content, so then why would you need a new interface for it?

When you do truly need a new interface to something it's because the nature of the something is different. True mobile apps don't use and apply content the same as a web site any more then a video game is a movie.
At least you are in agreement that all of those devices are buggy! I for some reason just can't stand the rough edges, and am still waiting for a smartphone that I want - and I've been waiting for a long time.

Having said that I do use a Blackberry (but not really out of choice,) and it also drives me nuts!

I'd have thought that the number one priority for most of these UI developers would be to make something that was intuitive and very usable. Getting the phone part of the phone nice would be a good start.

Adding contacts, viewing call logs, checking balance, turning on and off answerphones etc.

Being able to read the display in sunlight. Being able to use it as a clock, and it be readable. Not having the thing beep at 4am to tell you that it's running out of battery etc.

There's loads of directions these UIs could go in. And they could be completely different to one another, but share some underlying principles. Like intuitive computer game interfaces, that you pretty much pick up immediately.

What I have been most impressed with is watching babies/toddlers play with iPhones. Which suggests the interface is pretty good. Though there have been cases of kids racking up huge account costs. But how about an easy way to child lock the damn thing, or make this harder.

And how about a phone that doesn't crack when you drop it. I watched someone destroy his Galaxy S the other morning, and he wasn't that pleased about it.

Hope I've suitably ranted for you.
There are other cross-platform solutions, and insomuch as GLOW is advancing the state of the art in cross-platform-foot-shooting, it mostly treads a path already well bloodied by the limping of oh so many plugins and browser DOM/Styling quirks.

Isn't it fortunate that we're finally seeing proper 3D graphics being brought to "the only viable cross-platform solution"? How exciting will it be when it spreads to more OS / browser / graphics card combinations and approaches ubiquity!
QBasic on MS-DOS some time during the 80s followed by C in 92-93 right after downloading the SLS Linux distribution off a BBS. :)
I was surprised when I opened the CNN app on Monday, not a single story was about this issue, yet the BBC app had 3 in the top stories. Reminds me of the articles going around comparing media in Turkey to that outside of it during the protests...
Vision unfulfilled: Microsoft Haiku
We have elections in September, and this is an issue where they can't do anything, don't suffer in any way, but have a chance for free friendly press.

Meanwhile, the same conservative party added biometric photos and fingerprints to official documents (mandantory on some, optional on others); happily sends over flight and banking data to the US (they were in favor of the SWIFT agreement); established their own flavor of communication data ("metadata") retention policies ignoring both arguments and protects; collect traffic data "for street charge purposes only"; now want to use both for tracking down increasingly minor offenses (despite originally arguing that this wouldn't ever happen, and opponents to those laws are paranoid when assuming so much).

So yes, it's great that they oppose PRISM (if only to keep the topic in the media). But it's probably just out of jealousy because their own implementation is so much weaker.
Regardless of his fate or the consequences of his revelations, he scarified his life for us. My respect for him is boundless.

It's also a reminder of the vital and essential difference between fighting for liberty and Ayn Rand-ish "libertarianism", which is probably what many in government believe in.
Quantum Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects from Reality
Worked for me in Chrome 27.0.1453.110, Ubuntu 13.04
It is likely that there are some data that would be very sensitive at a global level. Maybe something like, direct access to Chinese, Russian, and European highly classified documentation. We could infer that it exists to some extent, but revealing it from the horse's mouth would probably have very bad consequences.
> And why was his precise salary released?

He claimed to be earning $200,000 in his statements to The Guardian — his intention, presumably, to emphasise the extent of the sacrifice he has made in releasing these documents.

A side-effect of that revelation is that Booz Allen Hamilton have been reported on in a decidedly unfavourable light, as the greedy contractors in cahoots with the US government to bleed the taxpayer dry.

Booz Allen Hamilton obviously want to counter that notion, so have produced a much lower, slightly more reasonable, figure for his salary.

As always, the truth probably lies somewhere in between. The figure Snowden gave is probably rounded up for simplicity, and the figure BAH provided is probably excluding parts of his compensation package.
Might be a stupid question but, I'm thinking of going, will the the talks be in English?
Chinese national sentenced to 12 years in US for piracy
You're trying to answer the wrong questions instead of asking the right ones. The absence of answers to good questions says a lot more than half-assed answers to the wrong questions.

I don't profess to know what happened on 9/11. But if you ask the right questions, what we've been fed as the official theory comes out as an almost laughable story.

You might ask yourself why we as a society started a witch-hunt for those that try to find the truth behind it all. We blindly "supported" two or three wars and all the measures that were taken under the guise of security.
We were OK with people being kidnapped, tortured, and held prisoner for a decade without any evidence. And nobody even knows why.

If you really put your teeth in these so called conspiracy theories, then one day you'll realize that the term becomes null and void, because it assumes that someone, or a group of people, actually knows what is up.
Nobody does, we're just conditioned into taking anything our TV says at face value, so we assume "they" know. And why? For exactly the same reason you've mentioned, because we cannot accept that fact that something bad can go unnoticed and grow to something that big. So we get 2 nuanced stories from 4 TV-channels. Just enough to create the illusion that they're covering all the bases, while at the same time making us believe that we're forming our own and informed opinion by analysing all versions of the story.

But at this stage it is no longer a matter of people conspiring. The system has reached a state where it is normalcy. So, in places where it matters, only people that are already in the same mindset bubble up. Not because they are malicious or because someone has talked them into it, but because they're just a prime specimen of the environment they grew up in. It's a side-effect of a society that holds power and profit as its most important goal.

The reason a lot of people can not understand this is because they did not grow up in that same environment. So there is a disconnect between what we as a person believe we are capable of and what we're actually doing.
Indeed. A friend of mine was sent home after customs searched her luggage, read her diary and noticed she was planning on working in the US under the table, in a bar.
Introducing Boolasync - a library for async boolean logic
That's not a statistic showing that the data retention changed people's communication behaviour, it's a statistic that they report they changed it, or they predict themselves changing it. Whether these self-observations and predictions bear out in practice and after the topic has left the mainstream media is another matter.

Five years down the road, I doubt individual communication amounts have stagnated. Of course, we did get rid of mass data retention -- for the time being! --, so that's not much of an argument. :)
> it can be decentralised

Technically, yes. Realistically, highly unlikely.

What's going to happen, at best, is that email service providers like Google and Microsoft will begin to support Persona. Either as a replacement for OpenID, or in addition to it. A negligible minority of the human population, such as regular HN readers like you and I, might opt to implement Persona on our own servers, but everyone else will remain hostages of their respective email service providers.
Hmm. http://imgur.com/WySrZtZ
I was tempted to read another opinion into it - but cturner's clarification puts us in a less tired place to tread - thanks.
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I think it would be rather good fun to write Tom Clancy style sprawling techno-thriller where it was the USA who were the bad guys.

[NB This is not because I have anything against the USA, just that I've got rather bored over the years with Russia/China being the enemy of choice for authors].
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More Large-Scale Invisibility Cloaks, This Time From China and Beyond
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