skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Steve Jobs had such a way with words.

More importantly, his way with words was indicative of a remarkable clarity of thought.
Do you need to keep them forever? What if you only need to be "you" for a brief moment in time, and another "you" for another moment, and after those moments delete them?
I reckon you could use link honeypots to prove emails are being read. Send out enough emails from many accounts with links that aren't meant to be followed and see how many are followed and what IP addresses the links are followed from. If you do that across enough accounts, you should be able to figure out whose accounts are being wiretapped.

I'm sure there are other types of honeypots that could be set up.
So, rather than sharing with up to 10 people it's now 11 (and the 11th can never go online, because the key for the disk has been burned)?

Alternatively, sell your physical disk used and buy the digital copy off live.
It's possible to have a software based microphone coded into whatever operating system. Speakers can also be used as a microphone. There is software out there that can record sound without any actual microphone.
They could have had the best of both worlds:

1) keep the legacy physical media system

2) enable the new system for digital purchases

would have been a huge win and truly groundbreaking
I'm still leaning toward the idea that if this is happening at all, it's happening at the ISP/Backbone level. Which would mean none of these companies are lying- but still that the Government is way overstepping, by leaps and bounds.

There's also the distinct possibility this is all bullshit. There have been a lot of holes and misinformation on Snowden's side("They can watch your thoughts form as you type", when none of the services except for GMail send textual data at real-time, etc), and the Q&A either doubled down some of them or was trying to be misleading.

I'm still waiting for the Guardian to stop milking this and just give us the rest of the slides, the rest of their evidence. At this point, my confidence in the story is shaken enough that I want more if I'm gonna go Pitchfork in hand at the NSA with all of this.
That would require some form of one disc identifier and a one time (at least) authentication to ensure that someone who had converted their discs into cloud copies hadn't passed off their disc to someone who was now playing offline with the disc.
The digital sharing would've only allowed for one user to play at a time.
Some dairies do that, by including a $1 deposit on bottles. At $1, it's actually worth your while to collect and return the bottles to the store where you got them (likely when you go shopping for your next bottle of milk).
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Your computer or phone doesn't need a conventional microphone to record sound. They could very easily be hidden in software, or by anything that can detect vibration. Not that I'm worried about a console doing this anyway.
http://repl.it/ has a JS-Forth mode with a somewhat nicer interface- I often use it when tinkering from an office machine or public computer.
I think the OP here is giving MS more credit than they are due. I don't believe they were trying to build a car, and I don't believe they had a messaging problem. I think they were trying to pull a bait and switch. Pitch a car and sell a faster horse. They got caught, and the Internet won.

You can easily get to that conclusion by gauging the HD storage shipping with each unit. Add to that the average speed of Internet in the US, and you have a poor situation for over the net gaming.

We're just not there yet.
Do people really not trust that it wouldn't actually be disabled if you disabled it? Can the paranoid not just put a piece of tape over the lens, or point it at a wall?
Microsoft is not that clever, and regardless, I don't see how this 180 will turn out in their favour. They have clearly lost momentum to this.
Always wanted to study Forth! :-)
>On a more serious note, I don't like this rollback. It only goes to show how the witchhunt and echo chamber on Reddit worked.

It seems like you haven't considered that the echo chamber is right on this one. DRM is a cancer on the industry and every attempt to fight it back is worth it. You make points that the DRM could lead to potential benefits, no one is disputing that. Simply put, with the way it was, I was never going to buy an Xbox, now I might consider it. I can't stand the trend these days where the consumer owns nothing and controls nothing. This is capitalism at work, nothing else. It seems like a win for consumer rights and a win for Microsoft. Your post seems like a reactionary post lambasting the reactionary posts on reddit.
LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors
>> "and includes the latest four-channel ECC DDR3 memory running at 1866 MHz to deliver up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth.* "

- It should be "running at 933⅓ MHz". A DDR3-1866 module is 933⅓ MHz, 1866⅔ MT/s, ~15GB/s. They have quad channel DDR3-1866. (If you disagree - check the DDR3 spec. Article at apple.com is simply wrong in stating running at 1866 MHz I know it is a minor point, but when you are listing specs, you have to be precise.) -

Update: sorry, saying "running at 1866 MHz" is Ok. I stand corrected.
Well, I felt inspired to do my own GA program
http://wedusc.com/ga/

with a discussion thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5909829
This is frustrating and it's a false choice. "The Internet" is otherwise known as the people who were most likely to purchase an XBox 1 before hearing about the draconian DRM policies. If the XBox 360 were a horrible product, MS would have heard very very little from "The Internet".

Who they heard from was a fan base who very much still enjoy their XBox 360s and were truly looking forward to an improved product with some sick innovations that only companies like Microsoft can deliver. They heard from this collection of people because in addition to the excellent innovations, they tacked on completely unreasonable restrictions that make the product all but completely useless if you CHOSE not to connect it to the network or have the spying eye watching your every move, and then twisted themselves into a pretzel trying to either make these sound like a feature instead of handcuffs or failing to explain that you could turn off the advanced features of the Kinect.

In response to hearing from "The Internet", instead of actually listening to what was being said and making some reasonable changes to the restrictions, they stopped dead in their tracks, turned 180 degrees, then killed many of the innovations that could have been modified while still providing consumers with an actual choice.

I'm sooooo tired of being told I'm too stupid to understand something. By my government, and by big companies who once commanded my respect.
Front page needs an editorial review:

Zinc let's you build things... -> Zinc lets you build things...

(``let's'' = ``let us'')
>It's like, really... you don't think there even 1 possible plot that could only have been detected by grabbing the unencrypted message data from G+/Gmail or Facebook?

Not so fast now. That isn't the only question. Suppose for sake of argument that getting unencrypted data from Google or Facebook was actually a successful method to foil some nonzero number of those plots. The question remains whether that was the only or least intrusive way to stop them. And unless we have the details, we can't make that determination.
It really was. Unfortunately if it were to happen again in today's world, there would be few to no places for oppressed people to flee to.
I love Forth and used it extensively for many years. I wonder how much real use it is seeing today. I remember a situation many years ago where a friend of mine chose to code his embedded product in Forth. As the company grew it became difficult to find programmers. As things got to the point where acquisition started to become a possibility Forth became a liability. He had to convert the entire code base to C in order to remove objections. I pitched in and helped with the effort. While it wasn't terribly difficult it did take time and cost money.

That experience probably marked the last time I used Forth on an embedded system. Every time I considered the idea for my own work I remembered what happened to him. As a result I pretty much stayed with C/C++ for embedded work from that point forward.

My gut feeling is that today Forth is a liability for most applications outside cases where there might be an existing code base that must be leveraged.

EDIT: I still think it is important for programmers to learn about TIL's and Forth. You'd gain valuable perspective and a different way to see and approach problems.
Web Application Architecture in Clojure - Getting Started
I'm done with LinkedIn.

I've been on the fence about it for a year now. I get more recruiter spam than value.

I'm also a bit too old for the schadenfreude that accompanies news of my overpaid friends getting canned. I'm running my own race these days and I've never been happier since I stopped comparing my lot in life to the few lucky SOBs I know that survived the cull of sub-prime.

I think a better strategy is (1) your own domain and/or (2) a site on github with actual code to validate* your talents.

*I hate those "Joe Schmo supported you skill in [insert banal technical skill here]" messages. I once put down C++ because I had been working with it for a couple years. Then, I thought better (I would not take a C++ programming job. Period. Hate that language.) and took it off. Next thing I know, I've got coworkers supporting my C++ acumen and LinkedIn trying to push it back on my profile. Ugh. I call that invasive feature creep.

On top of that, they seem to leave the backdoor open a bit too much for a company with $20b market cap.
> Laptops usually have indicator lights for cameras

But doesn't that just mean you have to trust the light? I mean this does indeed seem rather ridiculous. If you're really that paranoid, a piece of masking tape will solve your problem.
>>When I was a kid finding gems like that online always made me feel really clever

If you haven't already, you should try notpr0n - http://notpron.org/notpron/

Its an online riddle, and a large part of it is finding those kinds of gems to figure out what to do next. I highly recommend it!
Provided you had an analog communication channel and storage medium you could have analog downloads -- it would be similar to recording per-digital TV on a VCR. But, yeah, "digital download" is mostly pointless noise.
So charge $5 (or whatever the cut they would get from a used game resale) to convert it.
It played fine on my machine; but I have a brand new high-end laptop. It completely brought my phone's browser to a halt; none of the images animated, and it took seconds for it to respond to scroll events.

I find it odd that animated GIFs are suddenly in vogue again, right when HTML5 video is starting to become ubiquitous and is much more efficient and high-fidelity than a GIF could ever be.
But isn't that the whole point? That we're so easily distracted by objectively useless entertainment? I spent hours this week looking at pictures of cats and viewing videos of cats jumping. It was a poor use of my time.
I'm fine with the shooting - you know it's good because of the framing, exposure, and other factors. It's the laziness of throwing 6 animated gifs on the same page that I find deplorable. Even a slideshow with text would have been an improvement. To me this is like offering someone 6 spoonfuls of different food and saying it's equivalent to a meal. There's an entire visual grammar of sequential image presentation that's getting thrown away for the sake of novelty, so someone at npr.org can feel hip for knowing what a gif is.

Let anyone get the wrong idea, I am a huge fan of Vine and think it occupies a happy medium between photo and longer-form video. But you won't make it better by stacking them in big piles, any more than Watching a bank of TVs tuned to multiple channels improves your information intake.
Really, now the sock puppets are coming out?

I hire people purely on technical merit, I don't even bother reviewing educational credentials. I am opposed to abusing the H1-B system rather than opening offices overseas to bring in skilled labor and raise local standards of living.
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Cashier: May I have your Zip Code?
Me: F* no!
Forced myself to NewsBlur, deleting all my feeds in Google Reader. I mostly use the iOS app. While not as good as Reeder, its not bad.
Not down for me...
In a USB cable, is it OK to swap the D+ and D- wires?
The large companies I worked with typically use a combination of one or more of the following on the server names:
- abbreviated physical location (city/state/data center,availability zone/country)
- abbreviated environment (demo/test/dev/prod),
- server role (db/app/web)
- sequential number/letter

Examples:
ATLWEB301 (Atlanta Web 301)
DEMOVA050 (Demo Virginia 050)
NYCDB015 (New York City Database 015)

The standards vary significantly, specially depending if you are talking about internal / public servers. The length also varies but most people try to stay below 15 a-z characters. I personally like to give servers more generic names and not have to worry too much about it. Ex: ATLDEMO001, DENPROD014...

If the servers are public (I mean accessible via internet) most companies refrain from using any information on the server name that could facilitate a potential attack. For example: putting DB on the name of a database server.

Small companies, on the other hand, have a lot more variety. I have worked on servers named after Lord of the Rings and Simpson characters, Greek mythology gods, etc... I had a frodo mysql server that gave me a lot of trouble.
Nice use of a very popular communication platform.
Some internet pundits don't understand the value of a game machine that works without ever connecting to the internet.

MS wants to sell precisely one license but support both never-connected machines and cloud lending, but this was too hard for them to figure out and they're dropping the cloud part.

The cloud lending facility required expiring leases (think DHCP) to guard against the possibility of a purchaser intentionally stranding their license at a friend's house (or on a dead xbox, or one that loses internet connectivity), where that friend would play happily for weeks without connecting to the network.

If you believe in the effectiveness of copy-proof-disc DRM, then a single token permitting ongoing play can certainly just reside on the disc.

How about this:

1. disc alone doesn't suffice to play a game on an unconnected xbox (so never-connected users are out of luck)

2. net connected xbox alone can acquire the right-to-play token as long as the previous holder of the token is online. (physical disc from store would need insertion only on first use to create the initial on-net token).

3. an unconnected xbox that was the last one to use the net token may continue to play indefinitely without net access, provided the disc can be validated. this does allow simultaneous play of at most one online and one disc, but only as long as the xbox stays intentionally unconnected (this limits the number of extra licenses to at most 1, unlike a more lenient cloud-lending policy that allows continued play without check-ins).

I believe the renew-lease-every-24hr model already allowed simultaneous play in case of the last token holder being offline (if the game didn't require a connection to play, that is).

If absolutely prohibiting simultaneous play from a single purchase is a must (and I don't see why it should be; an average concurrency of strictly less than 2 sounds fine), then you just need to require explicit lease releases (and the disc becomes irrelevant again), which has an obvious customer service overhead when people can't release for whatever reason.

Alternatively they could implement a physical 'disc destroyer' that can move a game (one-way) to the cloud phone-home mode. Or just require an xbox to phone home before permitting a new disc (giving up on never-connected xboxes), in which case no physical destruction is necessary.
Founder of Simply Measured talks trip to North Korea
I'll give a +1 just for the title of the article "Tinker tailor Snowden spy"
It's because people don't trust Microsoft, and they don't necessarily subscribe to this guy's generous assessment of Microsoft's intent.
You may have read his link, but you certainly didn't read his comment.
Honest question: who gives a fuck?
The local operator does not seem to be taking enough responsibility for the work they are supposed to do.

In Stockholm you can get your taxi fare paid for up to 400 SEK (~40 EUR) if you are running more than 20 minutes late because of schedule problems. (Details might have changed, was a long time ago since I used it.) You submit the bill and have your own money on the line until/if it is reimbursed.

Monitoring a bus by having a "tamper proof" GPS logger on the bus seem more reasonable than having points where punctionality is measured. The local operator themselves would obviously not be the ones verifying reimbursement requests against these GPS logs.
Damnit. Not excited about this update.
I'll be pretty disappointed in Assange if it turns out he's misleading on this to capitalize publicity for Wikileaks.

I have no trouble believing that he's helping out with the asylum process (having likely dealt with similar issues, he'll have plenty of relevant contacts), but it doesn't seem Snowden's style to dump data via WikiLeaks. So far, he seems to strongly prefer the respected journalist route to ensure the facts are addressed properly.
This is what I've been wondering about. PRISM was revealed in a 41 slide doc, and we are yet to see any but the 4 slides guarding and WP shared. Now that NSA knows about the leak, I don't think releasing them would have any further repercussions, other than better a better understanding of the PRISM program.
I'm just excited the older models will be getting less expensive soon so I can afford one.
Sigh. At least they didn't leak plaintext passwords again
ACHILLES: You are right on both counts. But even though the record is there "all at once," as you put it, we can draw sounds out of it bi by bit. The idea behind this is that the grooves pass slowly under the needle, and as they pass, the needle vibrates slightly in response to those very fine designs you earlier referred to. Somehow, in those designs are coded musical sounds, which are processed and passed on to the loudspeaker, to dispense to our waiting ears. Thus we manage to hear the music just as you said, "a bit at a time." The whole process is quite marvelous, I should say.

TORTOISE: Well, it is marvelously complicated, I'll grant you that. But why don't you do as I do just hang the record up on your wall and enjoy its beauty all at once, instead of in small pieces doled out ove a period of time? Is it that somehow there is a masochistic pleasure in the pain of doling out its beauties so slowly? I am always against masochism.

Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach
Not if everyone phoned home, then cut the cord every 24h.
> You can go into a bookstore right now and find books calling Obama a muslim traitor and probably the antichrist.

But those things are untrue. There is no point in trying to silence — or to avenge the publication of — something that is (1) untrue and (2) does no measurable harm.
Yahoo fought Prism and failed: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/06/yaho....

Yahoo now wants us to believe that this was a court order saying, in effect, Yahoo must comply with court orders to turn over specific user data. WTF? Yahoo also wants its users to believe that Prism is nothing to worry about, even though it tried to fight it back in 2008. "Notwithstanding the parade of horribles trotted out by the petitioner ... Little more than a lament about the risk that government officials will not operate in good faith." Nothing to see here folks, move along!
Don't know if it's just me, but the volume is very low.

+1 for a great SV entrepreneur seeing through a childhood dream.
> so by all means take credit for your good deeds but don't try to weasel out of the negative effects you should also have known about.

G.W. Bush likes to think the war in Iraq was mission accomplished, WMD dismantled, democracy restore to Iraq, a great success.

When will he and the US government stop trying to weasel out and come clean on their stupid mistake of starting the war in the first place?
Try hard as they might, it's impossible to make those "features" sound good.

This one is especially amazing: "You could re-sell your physical disc game to Gamestop or any participating outlet that opted into Microsoft’s revenue sharing system." Gee, thanks, Microsoft! It's not like those outlets will pass the cost right onto the consumer or anything (oh wait, they will). It's incredible how the Xbox team thought, "Look at that money over there. Let's take it!" What's next, Wal-Mart charging Ralph Lauren every time a customer comes in wearing a Polo shirt (because why should other clothing companies get free advertising in their store)?

The other issue? For the author to be completely honest, every "benefit" mentioned in the article should have "for a fee" added to the end of it. It's not very fun or innovative to get nickeled and dimed every step of the way. The fact that the public received 3 different messages about digital sharing costs (the three being no cost, a small fee, and the full price of the game) didn't help matters, either.

Another issue I had with the digital system is with the games themselves. Most critics of physical media on Xbox One mention the iOS model, but fail to note how Xbox One is different from it. If I download an app on my iPad, it instantly shows up on my iPhone and my iPad mini, ready for use. I don't have to pay any extra usage fees for multiple devices. The apps themselves are in the $0-$10 range. Most importantly, most apps run in the 5-50MB range, so downloads are quick and my apps are ready to go in minutes. Compare that with Xbox One, where games are likely to be in the 10-20GB range and $60.00 (formerly with fees for sharing and resale). If you consider sharing to be going over to a friend's house, entering your password, then waiting 3.5 hours for a download to finish to be in some way innovative or interesting, then you are clearly not the target market for this device. Gamers want instant gratification, not waiting around for downloads and jumping through hoops.

The last point I want to make is this: the author, Jason Chen, is a fool if he thinks that replacing one black box in front of a TV for another is in any way comparable to upgrading from a horse and buggy to a car. The DRM-laden, no-money-left-behind nature of Xbox One in the context of tech in 2013 (a jungle of price fixing, nickeling/diming, credit card storing, and "convenient" subscription modeling) is precisely the status quo that consumers are finally revolting against.
I don't understand why they wrote this in Java instead of a language more suited to the task, such as Erlang.

Can someone explain this to me?
Did you read the article? It's often the key to gaining your whole address for marketing purposes.
Gmail uses https by default now.
By purchasing this book you are proving yourself incapable of getting women due to one thing: your lack of SELF-confidence.