skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, it proves nothing.

That would be for others to judge.

He won't get the data.

He doesn't want the data. He wants to make a point about the importance of privacy. He wants to appear as if he is standing up for his constituents in the face of overreaching NSA surveillance since obviously Obama is not.
I'm Guilty of it, at the time I would have trusted G.W. Bush with those powers. Now Obama not so much. and certainly not the next Republican President.

You maybe able to trust the guy now but will you trust the next guy? That is the lesson that I have learned.
Ask HN: Review my startup, thotmob.com
Our start-up (thotmob.com) is in live beta; we're not sure how to take it to the next level. We have plans for revenue models and lot's of features and apps, but need to get it off the ground before further development investment. I would appreciate your thoughts and advice.

It's called "thotmob" and is an question / opinion platform, similar but also different to Poutsch (http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/30/poutsch/).

The idea is to organize media, opinions and comments around core premises.

"thotmob is a platform to share, discover, and change beliefs and opinions."

the.team at thotmob dot com
All of the detailed views in Google Maps are actually aerial photography rather than satellite images. Much easier to get that kind of detail from 1500ft.
Doesn't truecrypt use PBKDF2 or similar? In which case (assuming a good password) it would still be uncrackable in any practical sense.

Besides , in such an example the government would have to be suspecting bob already on some other grounds. In the case of a despotic regime they probably already have him in prison.
We primarily looked at Backbone, Angular, and Ember.

It was hard to choose but Ember has a great community and is reasonably straight forward so it got our vote.
No. As I understand it, the "deniable" in "deniable encryption" is that after the first handshake, there's no cryptographic proof that the messages sent originated from you. This is flimsy legal evidence, because there are more messages that originated from your Pidgin instance that are actually yours compared to those that are somehow fake, and nonexistent evidence when presented to someone who's already torturing you.
There are only two that specialize in web design that I know of, dribbble.com and behance.com

99designs is also good, but it's more generalist marketplace vs the two I mentioned
I hope Edward Snowden is well wherever he goes, even if the UK, but according to "news" reports, he was making a lot of money, so he is probably in a beach somewhere. In any case, hopefully bring the NSA problem to the public eye will encourage the world to be more private and to demand privacy from their govs.
> I'm genuinely trying to understand as to why he didn't trust a single person from his country?

This is untrue. Snowden contacted The Washington Post first, according to their account, but when they did not move as quickly as he would like, he approached The Guardian.

However, the accounts from the Washington Post and The Guardian conflict with one another, so it's possible he worked with both in tandem while trying not to tip his hand to either.
The ruby ecosystem is more valuable than the ruby VM or any of the other stuff. Go libraries are not nearly as comprehensive as ruby gems.

Ultimately library availability affects productivity as much as language features do.
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Great. It is the only company that has not participated in PRISM.
I don't see where we disagree[1], but perhaps your argument is lost in the attempt to parody my post?

[1] Minus the "trillions" bit... see posts below. Perhaps "over a trillion" would have been a better phrase.
Forgive me for only considering parametric polymorphism as the real thing :)

Ad-hoc polymorphism = overloading functions or methods within a class

Subtype polymorphism = overloading methods from the superclass.

Java is fine for working with objects, but it's just a terrible language for working with primitive datatypes. Part of the reason it's not really used for performance-critical code.
In the 60's, many protestors were directly threatened by being drafted to go to Vietnam... so their motivations were much more vivid and literally life-threatening. What's going on today is arguably more threatening to our financial system and world ecology, but as you said, we're in general pretty comfortable and not as motivated as back then.

If our government threatened to limit sales of alcohol (as in Turkey), among other extremely conservative laws, that would probably create a big reaction and protesting.
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Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised – thankfully
They added an option to use the old (same one chrome uses) inspector

http://i.imgur.com/cgiAjhD.png
A hackathon at 30,000 feet
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Can you clarify what you mean by this? As I type this comment, I have about that density of air in my lungs, and it doesn't particularly trouble me.
The American Pirate Party needs to take a clue from the Tea Party and the way the American elections are structured, and act primarily as a force inside the Democratic party, electing "pirate-friendly" Democrats and taking over the party from the inside.
Huh, interesting! I never knew that. So then I'll need to ask my father about what he was told again. Maybe something got misinterpreted along the way.
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$80 subscription for Office 365 is too expensive for someone on a student's budget.
Hello, creator of the Web site here. You can click through the contact page to find out more about me, but I've been fighting government invasion of privacy for several years now. I was the top story on HN for about 3 days last year when I posted a video of me beating TSA nude bdy scanners. I want nothing more than to send the NSA and FISA court a million requests for info! :)
Exactly. This is no different from espionage of the past, except it takes place electronically now. If electronic espionage is wrong, where is the outrage against spies and informants?
GPS is also a source of time.
I don't completely follow this line of reasoning. Something like "a minor enhancement like this would have been selected for by now, so it not being selected means it has a drawback?"

I'm no evolutionary biologist, but it seems like the increased intelligence (or more accurately, cognitive performance) may not have had all that practical a benefit until just recently in our history anyway.

I accept that the verdict is still out on tDCS, but am clamoring to reach that verdict.
Ask HN: have you chose HTML5 over native app?
Dear fellow HNs -

I am looking for real world examples of developers choosing HTML5 over native app (or vice-verse). I would appreciate you sharing with me some of your experience with this choice.

It would be helpful to know:

1. What kind of an app? (Ie. game, service, standalone or extension to Web site, or existent product - anything about what is it and why do you built it.)

2. What did you choose and who have made that decision? (Any insight into decision making process would be great to know.)

3. Are you happy that you have made this decision or not?

4. What you wish you would knew before you've started?

5. Do you do anything of the following:
a) monetization
b) analytics
c) collect leads
d) performance-sensitive ops
e) rich and interactive interfaces

This also might be a good place to showoff your app, if you have it built already. :)

Thanks!
Why is this Congressman pushing the blame on Obama solely?

He's a republican, and Obama set himself up for this by defending the NSA.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. His political work is always quite academic, baring an incredible amount facts backed up by references. I think public records are the one source he cites most.

Can you point out as single mistruth in his works?

Can you point out where he has not been academic where he should have been?

He might very well produce the most academic political writings ever.

Seriously...
Actually, it's working as intended. The Founders specifically wanted to avoid the impact of niche factions on the process. While, they didn't set out to create a 2-party system, per se, the alternative is actually much worse, because you end up in situations where a niche faction can wield disproportionately large amounts of power through the use of political coalitions and kingmaking.

This still happens, sure, but it's isolated to the parties themselves, where they are incentivized to appeal to a larger base, which minimizes factional influence from the get-go.
I'm torn. On one hand, this is delicious irony. On the other hand, the Republicans have used any pretence to tell us that the President is a terrorist, Muslim, non-American, bad guy of any sort. There is no way to satisfy this request without it becoming another hyperbolic, red-faced accusation-fest.

I heard a Republican say "there have been so many scandals directed at the President, and he's managed to dodge all of them. He can't be innocent of all of them!" It shocked me because it was an argument for "guilty until proven innocent." My response was "there have been so many accusations, all baseless, that you have to start wondering about the truthfulness of those making the accusations. Isn't it time we just started ignoring all of these so-called scandals?"

I'm at that point now. I can't take the NSA thing seriously because I've heard the boy cry "wolf!" too many times.
I've been trying out both for the last couple of days. So far I would say that DuckDuckGo seems to have slightly better results but ixquick has the added bonus of not being american.
Looking at Plexon's GUI this doesn't seem to be something done in a hackathon and requires active participation of neuroscientists as domain experts and as end users to develop. And they usually don't have time (or willingness) for that.

Regarding fMRI, I take your posting as something to talk about with the neuro people.

My main takeaway from your posting is that better GUIs and visualizations are needed. That's what I found (workflow, UI) before and your posting is another affirmative data point here. Thanks for the links.

Any hints how to talk to biologists / neuroscientists? I still need to know more about their incentives (what they have to accomplish or help them doing so) and constraints (what they can't do or is unimportant) and culture. As usual, publications and funding, but what is seen as high status and what is frowned upon?
Congrats! What's your background? I noticed "designed by experts"
Exactly... to "quash" literally means to set aside. You're asking them to undo something they've done, which is typical for a subpoena that was incorrectly issued.
ArangoDB - MongoDB-like with graphs, index formats, schemaless schemata, ...
1 Bitcoin today and 1 Bitcoin in six months is not the same at all because you lose all the value you could have add from this Bitcoin during the six months so you have to discount it. That's called present value of money and that's one of the way companies manage their investments.

Theoretically, you have to use the real rate of return of your money and discount it on the time period. Of course, estimating the real rate of return is an art in itself. Considering value of bitcoin has been shown to be highly volatile, doing any semi-long term investment with it is basically gambling.
haha don't worry, they have a file on you ;)
Pretty sure that China is not keen on owing North Korea any more favours.
This simply isn't true. Obama ran on being Bush's third and fourth terms and that's what we got. The two of them have been a radical departure from previous administrations. Two presidencies does not make an immutable law of nature.

Recent political events have demonstrated just how autonomous the President is, there is no reason to think there is some sort of hidden power at play here.

If anything we need a stronger and more professional bureaucracy that's less eager to help the President break the law.
I'm not sure you saw the last part of my post :) I mentioned the same thing about brute-forcing and focused on the mathematical weaknesses aspect of it. I have written some ECDSA code myself from scratch so I am familiar at least with the very basics of it.
Although I'll only be mailing requests with US addresses, you can certainly take the form from the site and mail your own. I encourage it!
Huh, well that's a nail in the coffin of that company.
Now to motivate the big money guys to help out a bit. Surely some of them are displeased with PRISM and all that?
There are copywriters on elance.com and they have an escrow service.
> Not in all cases, but criminal acts are capable of cancelling each other out. Self defense is the archetypical example.

Of course the law states an exception for such cases, and usually includes(at least as far as nordic countries are concerned, which of course has no relation to the law in US, but it's something I am more familiar with) a statement which requires/encourages "least required force" too. So you can't just beat someone up in the name of "self defense".

The public opinion itself, as far as it seems to be, is that whatever is good as long as it's in the interest of US, be it morally justified or not. For example violating the privacy of foreign internet users is all good and somehow justified because "it keeps US citizens safe". Yeah right.
Key escrow services?
The problem with this approach is that copyright laws are strictly Federal issues. It's one of the few powers that is explicitly granted to the Federal government. Where one could make an argument that states ought to regulate things like education or health care, you simply cannot make that argument for copyright. If we wanted states to be able to make laws regarding copyright we would need a Constitutional amendment.
> Then repeal the fucking Patriot act.

Uh... if I could, I would?

I know it is partisan garbage. It is partisan garbage from people I hate, targeting people I hate. I hope they both mortally injure each other. When my enemies fight, you will have to excuse me for finding the silver lining. I have no faith in the GOP, and do not expect them to attempt to repeal the Patriot Act. Expecting that is not being realistic.
The US government sees giving government secrets to foreign governments (espionage) in a different light than merely disclosing classified info to the public.
Politics is not about reasonable arguments. It is about building momentum for a cause.

Both, the harassment of political opponents by the IRS as well as the NSA spy policies were run under President Obama's leadership.

He is as personally responsible for these things - just as much as is President Bush was for the Iraq war. Both are extremely resistant to admit any wrong doings except for some half hearted apologies without any consequences.

I am all for bashing partisanship when it is based on making mountains out of molehills (in my view the Benghazi story was one of these). But the IRS and NRA cases demonstrate that the United States under the presidency of Obama is using intimidation tactics and intensive surveillance mechanisms that are up-to-par with paranoid third world dictatorships.

His line of If he [President Obama] has nothing to hide he has nothing to be afraid of. is exactly hitting home on the hypocrisy of the Obama administration that once campaigned on transparency and accountability.
The temperature at a depth of 30m is certainly not 80°F.
It's typically in the top 3 public US colleges and top 20 overall. The average SAT score coming in is 1900 with over 25% of their freshman class arriving with 4.0 GPAs out of high school. So they have a pretty good program by typical measures.

Their advantage then over similar schools is the sheer size and funding. A school like Dartmouth probably has 'smarter' students enrolling on average, but Michigan's engineering college has more students (8,000+) than the entirety of Dartmouth (6,100). So take those 8,000 engineering students and add another 32,000 in the non-engineering tracks (many of whom are in sciences, medicine, mathematics, physics, etc.) and you're bound to produce some interesting research.

So a ton of smart students, but then there's the money... U of M has the 8th largest endowment ($8 billion) in the US and the 2nd largest research budget at over $1.2 billion per year. They spent $190mm on engineering research last year and over $550mm in the medical school on health / biotech R&D.

One could ask why they don't produce more than they do.
>Please don't tell me it's evil.

I am a little confused by your comment - has the word "enormous" come to mean "evil"? If so, maybe this new came about from people referring to the "enormity of a crime". It seems to have followed a similar etymological evolution to the word "gross" as in "gross depravity". But both words just mean "big".
The secrecy of the information FOIA is supposed to help alleviate (it doesn't really because it's a catch-22) bothers me a lot.

If the government is amassing information on individuals to prove guilt of some crime, by withholding that information from counsel, it's very possible that evidence that proves the individual is completely innocent may be destroyed inadvertently since the individual has no idea what they might be someday accused of.
Ask HN: Recommendation of open source web project management tool
I'm currently looking for an open-source web project management tool that is good looking ( 2013 ).

I'm searching something more similar with tree.io than with a To Do list.

This will be used by a team of volunteers supporting a team of trainers for education purposes.

I really appreciate some recommendations of software with usable UI, the kind easy to understand be easy to be used by non-technical people and in the same time appealing.

List of what I already tried:

Tree.io (almost complete - lack the per project permissions/team members)

Clockingit ( too focues on customer/time spent than on project management and tasks )

Track and RedMine ( flexible, old UI, unappealing and focused on technical users )

Getontracks ( lack the ability to assign tasks to various users )
I absolutely agree with you, but I was addressing the potentially misleading title of the article, not the current dragnet observation (which is why I quoted the title of the article). Many people that may not be experienced in cryptography may think that these techniques would protect them from law enforcement, or that their encryption would actually be "NSA proof."

Your description of secure communication (Tor, anonymous XMPP, etc.) is totally accurate and a great explanation for those who may not be quite as familiar with security and OPSEC.

Unfortunately, with great enough amounts of metadata and computing power, this could theoretically be correlated as well. DNS requests or Tor connections correlated with encrypted messages timed between two individuals seems like it would be too hard to make meaningful, but it's not impossible. There's precedence for this when the FBI suspected Jeremy Hammond of being a certain identity on IRC, and correlated his sign-ons with connections to Tor.

You're absolutely, 100% correct, though, that this data (even correlated), must be part of some sort of targeted surveillance. I wasn't trying to counter the dragnet argument as much as provide clarity on what these security measures would or would not do.

Thanks for providing even more clarity in the areas I didn't address :)
Happy to go into more details about the choices between Backbone, Angular, and Ember. It ultimately boiled down to the community and readability (I personally thought Angular templates were a bit harder to read).

Regarding Backbone, I had used it before and I felt that I had to write a lot of boilerplate as the application grew, which is exactly what something like Ember was designed to prevent.
Straight from the article:

>Then they showed the Apple software we'd all have to use to send them each album. It required us to put the audio CD into a Mac CD-Rom drive, type in all of the album info, song titles and bio, then click [encode] for it to rip, and [upload] when done.

>I raised my hand and asked if it was required that we use their software. They said yes.

>I asked again, saying we had over 100,000 albums, already ripped as lossless WAV files, with all of the info carefully entered by the artist themselves, ready to send to their servers with their exact specifications. They said sorry - you need to use this software - there is no other way.

>Ugh. That means we have to pull each one of those CDs off of the shelf again, stick it in a Mac, then cut-and-paste every song title into that Mac software. But so be it. If that's what Apple needs, OK.
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Many of the comments here are complaining about the partisanship of this request. I think such complaints are shortsighted.

Yes, it's annoying that the representative is trying to make the administration look bad and further his own party. But political embarrassment and partisan show victories are exactly what motivates politicians to do things. These partisan actions are the kind of actions the Obama administration will notice.

Or he could remain neutral and abstract and introduce a hastily written bill that purports to solve the problem, like Rand Paul. And nothing will happen.

The partisan political system responds to partisan political incentives. To see many interesting examples, try studying the period leading up to the American Civil War.
Has this been written in such a way that the Blink team will be able to adopt it?
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Do you honestly not see a difference between public debt owned by foreign countries (the US sells debt on a market and China/Chinese happen to buy it, the Treasury does not seek out China) and handing over government/military secrets to another government?
> The only goal that matters right now is the end of FPTP and the two party system.

Alas, there is so much money, power, and political infrastructure in maintaining the status quo. Changing this structure will not be popular and will quickly be relegated to "wacko" status, and minimized in the mainstream press..... which has a vested interest in maintaining the current system.
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