skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Godwin's Law, rather than a criticism of childish comparisons to Hitler ("What do you mean I can't go to the dance with Timmy? You're literally Hitler!") has mutated into an entire philosophy about the irrelevance of history.

Under this philosophy no comparisons can be made to history because invariably one of the two situations is more extreme than the other (inviting cheap intellectually bankrupt "Do you REALLY think that Foo is as bad as Bar?!?" comments that exclude the possibility that a metaphor may not be implying exact equivalence, merely parallels. Think about it, if I call a friend "Benedict Arnold" for abandoning me at a bar, am I actually accusing him of treason? No, of course not.) or circumstances were different ("Yeah, but those were Bolivians. WE are Alabamans. These are not comparable.")

Godwin's Law, despite its good intentions, has become a monster.
Well, the first thing I could think of was this gem: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/01/can-you-carpool-with-a...

Not the most perfect example, but it goes to show what happens when someone unfamiliar with the law makes "logical" (to them) assumptions about loopholes that exist. That blog is a treasure trove of gems like the above.
San Francisco’s Gender, Sexual Preference, Income, Ethnicity, Marital Status
All platforms are like hookers - they are generally offering some in-demand service, you might get a nasty bug, you get what you paid for (or not paid for) and they are not obligated to please you.

So use platform for what it's good for, but do not rely your business on it.

Gleb
I have a hard time accepting any such argument could be "dead accurate". To make such a comparison would most likely require exaggerating specific similarities while downplaying significant differences. In the end, it's either a bad comparison or blatantly dishonest manipulation, and people will respond as they see fit.

In the end, manipulation will just polarize, as the targets of manipulation accept the party line or reject it, which then adds distrust to all information coming from that source.

And here we come to politics...
> if people don't vote Fidesz that Jobbik will win - and we all know what fascists they are!

Sure, they are born evil people. They would sacrifice their own children just to kill others - anyone who differs in skin color.

Am I right?

There were multiple cases of Jobbik supporters rallying in Roma populated cities, for various reasons. Nobody got hurt. Nobody will. How fascist are them then exactly?
General Alexander: NSA to implement two-man rule for sysadmins
General Alexander mentions that NSA is now in process of implementing a two-man rule for NSA system administrators.
At 1:08:10, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/220343

A system administrator is one that actually helps operate/run,
set the conditions, the auditing and stuff on a system or portion
of the network.

When one of those persons misuses their authorities this is a
huge problem.

So, working with the director of National Intelligence, what
we are doing is working to come up with a two-person rule and
oversight for those and ensure that we have a way of blocking
people from taking information out of our system.

This is work in progress. We're working with the FBI on the
investigation. We don't have all the facts yet. We've got to get
those. And as we're getting those facts, we are working through
our system.

Director Clapper has asked us to do that, and providing that
feedback to the rest of our community.

Initially I thought it meant something like pair programming. But it seems more like some kind of linux plugins to enable two-factor auth, where sysadmins will need another sysadmin to approve every `sudo`? How else can they implement this?
Tell you what, when you point to at least 4 countries that are significantly different than the US that do not have defined constitutions, I'll concede to your argument.

Do you really think that something magical happened in 1775 for the history of humanity, or do you think perhaps it was just another example of the (rather established) idea of republicanism?

Food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
it's back up now
I'm sorry. I really can't imagine receiving mail from you and not replying to it, but I get a _lot_ of mail and am not always great at replying. So, I'm sure you're right. Suffice it to say that I'll be on the lookout for anything else you send.
He's also said repeatedly he wants the focus to be on his disclosures and the wrongdoing; NOT on him, how his girlfriend looks, etc. Using the same boring picture over-and-over is probably what he wants and appreciates.
However, I imagine that the courts might be sympathetic to a large company recording + mining all phone calls made with company phones, since they already went that route with e-mail.
Hopefully they will spend some of that money on hiring Android developers. Paper looks cool, love to run it on my Nexus 7.
Discrete Optimization course begins today
Fair enough, tomorrow then, rough day today, apologies for being less than gracious.
1. To stop dissent.

More likely:

2. To award huge government contracts to the collectors and grow the institution at the same time.
In practice, you probably use 3rd party apps, which might bias your opinion of the OS as a whole. Possibly.
Don't Try To Know Everyone
"They basically have to make a custom app for every platform/browser, when a single responsive website would have done the trick" ... well their are 2 things there: packaging add-ons for multiple platforms is not difficult. You create some kind of packaging wrapper code around a common codebase. It's building a codebase which works on many javascript and DOM engines that takes time and effort. So building a "responsive website" (that works on most browsers) is not much "easier" than packaging custom app for each browser.
B e l i e v e me, I know the feeling.

(You definitely sent me some mail; you're not crazy.)
This.
The point is that a "standard" should not be ruled by licenses and patents!
There was no advertising on the internet when I started using it. Then the entire internet changed to accomodate people who wanted ads.

Entitlement? Yes it's entitlement. If you're going to configure your server so that it will send me data when I ask for it, then I will ask for it if I want it. I am under no obligation to additionally request extra data you might hope I'd take, even if that's the default behavior of an unmodified web browser.
Huawei 'considering' Nokia acquisition: report
> Are you trying to say you have not met any person, ever, who does not have the money or ability to find good, wholesome foods?

That isn't what they said.

> However, creating a less expensive, highly nutritious, complete food product that is shelf stable and easily transported would save 10's, maybe 100's, of millions of lives.

It already exists. The World Food Programme already has it. Soylent isn't doing anything new. Open Source Soylent isn't doing anything new.

Here's a list of the different feeds the WFP uses (http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...)

(https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/how-wfp-fights-malnutrition)

(https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products)

(http://www.irinnews.org/report/83124/malawi-cheaper-recipe-f...)

Notice that Soylent needs to be mixed with water. Clean water isn't easily available in many areas, so I'm not sure if Soylent are aware of that.
Well given that youtube can store such vast amounts of video the suggestion that the NSA is storing lots of voice doesn't seem like a massive stretch.
Increase website speed by lazy-loading images
Upvote for Protopage, I'm using that as well....
I'd argue that we don't have any good ways of dealing with abuse/misuse, and that's precisely the problem with such a system.

And let's not forget the "verified false positives" are counted in lives ruined/ended. Could we do it? Yeah, no one's denying that. But if we throw out ethics in the name of technological progress, we could do a lot of great things.

There's not really a deterministic line, beyond which a person is "certainly" a threat. At the end of the day, a person has to decide what is and isn't a threat, all the computer can do is help that decision along. A person pulls the trigger, and as we all know, people can really suck sometimes.
Very cool, love the fusion of music creation and touch gestures!
I was really hoping that someone would come up with a Go language "all-in-one" executable, including resources, etc, that could be started and bound to a port and would "just work" after Sameer Ajmani's video at GoogleIO about advances Go concurrency patterns, he implemented the collector side of a feed reader, and open sourced the code under a liberal licence. That together with a resource bundler such as https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata to avoid even having to take care of the HTML/CSS assets seems like a potential big win for these middle-of-the-road complexity web apps.
I think what this points out clearly, and Schneier has been preaching this for years, is that we need to encrypt everything going forward.
I've tried a lot of them, I liked newsblur but the limits, no river of news and the dashboard that comes up everytime frustrated me. So now I just use netvibes, if they add youtube embed capability, it will be awesome.
On a side note... Has anyone ever noticed Vim-like shortcuts on the facebook news feed? (hjkl item jumping)
Most people genuinely would like to stay in bed for 8 hours a night, even if a safe, effective, NO_SLEEP_PILL was released that allowed your body to safely get by on just an hours sleep per night.

Sometimes people would chose to sleep less - crunching work, or partying, or whatever. But mostly I really think people like that time.
For sure. But there's (potentially) a difference between being employed by the government in a role that requires lying and being forced as an ordinary citizen to lie. That said, I don't actually know about anything that prevents the latter.
From what we have seen so far in the Arab spring the "progressive elements" are getting squeezed out by the reactionarys - Just like the Iranian Revolution.

This is what the secular protestors are worried about in Turkey.

Brazil is slightly different always wondered if the hardline clearance of the favellas for the world cup/Olympics would come back to bite them on the ass.
Empathize with your customers
Chatology
> No citizen should be victim of unknown charges and/or evidence that impacts their free movement through society.

Why should I need to be a citizen to not have my human rights violated? If it is in the UN Declaration of Human Rights[1] then chances are your country signed it, agreed that would be the minimum standard, that these rights were inalienable and most importantly, that they applied to everyone.

You have to admit it seems a bit silly (at least from my side of the pond) that when it comes to human rights the US seems to ignore the UNDoHR and when it comes to it's international drug policy it enforces the UN Single Drug Convention all over the world with aggression to the point that no country in the world besides Peru can even make cannabis legal in their own nation state without violating international law (which WILL be enforced).

[1] http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
I still have to do a double-take when LinkedIn asks me to "login" with my email address and password. I'm already logged in; they mean my email provider's password.

I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/92244...
There was a poll at http://www.replacereader.com/

Site is down now but it's still in Google's cache....
I am shocked shocked that the generation of 68 sold out to the man :-)
1) We definitely don't want to force you to recommend an app you've just started using. Feel free to experiment a bit more. You can also download songs from Discover (the cloud in the toolbar) to see how the different instruments sound.

2) We have drums and bass in two different packs, the Rock pack and the Jazz pack. The drum kits come with pre-set loops as well as individual samples for making your own beats.

3) Right now we have basic echo and reverb effects (in the mixer) and we're working on adding more!

Thanks for trying it out
> At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment

Wait, what? Have you read the crowd funding page for Rhinehart's project?

(http://www.soylent.me/)

It's terrible. It claims it's safe, and puts you in optimum health, and etc etc.

> Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.

I agree. I think these are terrible ideas.
Looks really cool. Too bad SoundBrush is already the name of Roland's app for their 'GS' MIDI extension. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_GS

(Not that most people would notice.)
Because the author is trying to effect change and that is much easier with a little publicity.
NSA also plans to deploy company cars for NSA personnel with two steering wheels. Both drivers will need to agree upon the direction before car will obey.

And none of the drivers will not be allowed out of the car unless someone from outside will open the door.
I think the issue was with it actually asking for the password itself. If it were an OAuth screen he probably wouldn't have blinked. Would I have shaken my head and even MAYBE deleted my account if I were having a bad day? Maybe.

Would I write a blog post about it even if I did? No.
4 mics and a computer to produce 3-D model of room
I'd like to point out that I'm as skeptical of Soylent as anyone else, but I'll start from the top.

Your synical tone, mocking comments, and blatant insults - based entirely on personal opinion - classify this as trolling.

Saying that everyone has access to food/tools/knowledge... i dont think I really need to touch this, Im sure even you realise your error in making this comment.

As for storage/transport vs local growing - go grow a sustainable crop during a drought. Grow one in contaminated or depleted soil. Grow one during a war. If you can manage any/all of these things then Soylent is the least of your problems because you've just solved the global food crisis and you're an international hero so you don't need to be bothering me anymore.

Overindulgance & Slimfast .... slimfast only demonstrates the validity of portioned drinks as a weight-controller so I'm not sure where you're going here.

There is no race to win - find a competetive career and get back to me on this one. Also, just because you choose how to spend you time doesn't mean there is no 'inefficient' or 'wasted' time. Go stare at the wall repeating "gummybears" in your head for the next hour and then tell me all about the value you found in it.

Lastly, whats 'abnormal' is saying "I don't get how anyone sees a positive outcome for [40% of people too damn fat for their own good]".

Writing off 40% of the population simply because they suffer with food and weight problems. THATS abnormal.
Slick UI and cool concept. One comment on the website: the "share & discover" section is jumbled on Chrome
I apologize for the error and have edited the post.
It's also not adversarial; the government has substantial advantages at FISC that Google doesn't have. Which supports the notion that FISC wasn't conceived of as a regular Article III court, but rather as a different kind of check; more of a review board than a court.

Obama said yesterday,

"On this telephone program, you've got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program," the president continued. "And you've got Congress overseeing the program, not just the intelligence committee and not just the judiciary committee, but all of Congress had available to it before the last reauthorization exactly how this program works."

This is slippery and brings to light a problem with FISC. Its judges are independent, but the process is not. The FISA process (necessarily!) begins with the premise that NSA has a Constitutionally unchecked authority to conduct foreign surveillance.

I think this would be fine, were it not for the fact that NSA seems to be transitioning from a role that was principally involved in nation-state intelligence to a role that is inextricably bound up with law enforcement. You can see the problem when Mueller starts talking about what it would take for FBI people to dig deeper into NSA work product. The FBI shouldn't have access to NSA product to begin with.
Reminds me a bit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_%28board_game%29 / http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4643/fire-and-ice - look at the board.
Indeed. You only have to see the massive trade deal the EU and US are putting through to see how much Europe cares. Could have been some gentle leverage there, but no.
Soylent.me is selling a month supply of soylent for $270 (International). That requires a wage of $9 per day, which is well above the $1 per day poverty limit. On an annual basis, that comes down to $3,240 per day, more than the per capita GDP of some of the countries outside the US to which you are likely referring [1].

What about at scale? A 14 oz. tin of Ensure powder costs $9 at Walmart [2]. It provides 7 servings, which comes out to $1.29 per meal or $3.30 per day. Cheaper, but still not quite there - It would need to sell for < 1/3 retail price to feed those living in poverty[3].

I'm sure it's possible to supply Ensure/Soylent at a sufficient price, especially if you subsidize it heavily through government programs or charity. But this of course get's into the distribution and logistical problems that really plague attempts to solve food shortages through clever solutions. This also ignores the potential negative economic and political impacts of making entire countries reliant on a food product distributed to their people through an outside agency.

All this is to say, I do not think this is as clear cut a solution as you are pointing out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
[2] http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ensure-R-Powder-Vanilla-14-oz-can/...
[3] I know using Walmart's price isn't a perfect analysis, but I needed a quick reference to frame the conversation
Facial recognition is, amusingly, flagging other people as Snowden. "Is this you?"
Yes. I think they're revolting. I wouldn't be able to live on them.

I didn't search for the cheapest option, so maybe the cost could come down a bit? I don't know if the other products make you feel fuller?

You're right about it being an expensive way to live.
If it's legitimately the case that the government isn't allowed to compel you to lie, then they will have a harder time punishing noncompliance, which is significant.
But even if they lost at the Supreme Court, wouldn't they just appeal to the Secret Supreme Court?
Yahoo to Buy Qwiki for $50 Million
Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense
hmm... that's interesting, we use chrome for our web dev, so I'll take a look at that. Thanks for the heads up. But can you tell us what system you're on?
Poll: Would it be OK for the NSA to spy if the code was publicly available?
Is there some transparent system that would make it possible to identify potential terrorist threats and provide a comfortable level of privacy to US citizens?

EDIT
I was wondering if there was a criteria we could agree upon and publicly uphold to make data collection OK. For example, immediately throwing out any piece of data collected unless the public agrees that that piece of data is likely to help counter-terrorism.
iPad drawings are easier to email to grandparents / post to Facebook. But hey, nostalgia. :)
Perhaps so you can tweak it to your tastes, e.g., "extra 10% carbs for me, please."
As it says on the site, Fogus is "a core contributor to Clojure and ClojureScript". I wonder why he didn't just write a book on ClojureScript instead. Isn't ClojureScript already a way to write functional javascript?
I allowed it to connect to my gmail, hit the uncheck all (for inviting friends) and checked one person. It ended up sending invites to a few hundred people I had only had vague communications with. Apparently "uncheck all" only means for the 10 they're currently showing you. A lot of awkward "do I know you?"'s
The Joy of Clojure is my favorite programming book, so this is a no brainer for me.
I noticed you didn't use a URL shortener on your own company's URL. Why is that?
In other news OPs startup not the future of PaaS but OpenShift, Redhat's open source alternative is.
I agree, but good luck getting the average internet user to do so, and their refusal will prevent you from effectively doing so as well whenever you want to communicate with them.
Let's rephrase that.

I'm unsure whether they have the ability to remotely search my hard drive, but when you pair the existence of exploits with what appears to be widespread surveillance, I believe that the government feels that it MAY, should it ever have the capability to do it.

edit:
Yes, I think they CAN remotely search your hard drive. Whether it's by installing malware over the network or by a team of experts who physically breach your security doesn't matter quite as much, other than in terms of scale.

More importantly, if the government CAN do it, you have little redress as a citizen. You can't sue them unless you can prove it happened, and even then they will argue with the power of infinite lawyers and money that it's legal anyway when the government does it.
Or you could just publish a notification that you got a warrant. Yes, it's forbidden, but if the court has anything approaching smarts (and most do, actually) it's not any more forbidden than what you're suggesting and equally irrevocable.
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"The complaint was specifically about LinkedIn asking for the passwords to their users' email accounts."

Fair enough. He didn't enter his password, it isn't required to use the service. It is only useful for discovering more people via your contacts (and perhaps to spam them as you, that would be bad).

So they implement a feature poorly. Why the hate? The automatic climate control on my Subaru sucks dead gophers through a hose, but I don't translate the fact that Subaru let an crappy design get of an auxiliary feature get into production with "the car sucks, I'm selling it." Especially if my use of it doesn't require a lot of climate management (which it doesn't in California). I might think differently if the car wouldn't start unless the windows were up and the climate control engaged on automatic, that would cause me to sell it.

So I'm confused about the LinkedIn rant a bit.
HA no, then anyone would have access to specialized software used for spying, that doesn't even make sense to just give it to the public
They are not really efficient. All they do is add an extra layer of security so you can encapsulate that specific process in a chroot with its own networking stack. Other than that the CPU is still fairshared and the memory still has the same limits as if you ran it without the container. It adds nothing but security.
I am writing a book on ClojureScript. http://joyofclojure.com/2nd
Don't Unit-Test Methods
Much of that revolves around the issue of whether rights are innate to being human, or are a construction of society.
I'm not arguing the merits of the position. I'm simply reiterating Assange's stated belief. Whether of not you agree has no bearing on the fact that tmandarano got it wrong.
If you put a gun to your own head by setting up a situation where you will have to lie to your customers in order to comply with a court order, you aren't likely to get much sympathy.

You can find these specific requirements for secrecy onerous and undemocratic, and I might even agree with you. But these "I'm not really violating the law" posts by non-lawyer geeks are boring. There are all sorts of reasons society can demand you not to make certain communications. If you stop communicating to make the communication, you are still doing the communication in violation of the law.
Any well designed Crypto algorithm is publicly available