skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, it's a counter to the absurd argument that our emails are not private because we share them with third party servers. By encrypting them, we are clearly asserting our intent for them to remain private.
When Sam Altman becomes a Fields Medalist or invents a new kind of particle (that was subsequently discovered!), then we can talk about the same playing field.
Are you joking? Do you know the cumulative cost of policing US roads, prosecuting offenders, and jailing the felonious vehicular offenders? I bet it's a lot more that 1% of the NSA budget.

Also, I'm going out on a limb and assuming you know no more than me about the probability of future terrorist threats, and the value of your opinion is equally negligible.
> Consider https. That is very easy to use, because the user doesn't have to do anything to use it. The user doesn't need to know anything about encryption.

Doesn't this mean that many users will just click through any errors, thus making https less secure than it could be?

Consider the evolution of warnings. Padlocks were shown in different states and colours, then pop-up dialogue boxes appeared, and now Chrome has an entire red screen with a suitably stern warning.

You're right that https is the easiest form of PKI for users to understand. And they still get it wrong. And that's for encryption that could make a difference to their lives - people could steal their money or their products or whatnot.
The kernel.org link at the bottom doesn't work for me.
+1 for Julia. No need for sexprs for useful macros.
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http://webpg.org/

If this sort of functionality was standardised, simplified and baked in to the major browsers, we'd be able to build all sorts of wonderful software on top of it.
There was a time when the CIA was intimately involved with drug traffickers as part of the Contra program. It didn't go to the top and it wasn't deliberate CIA policy, it was just a matter of the CIA building tremendous infrastructure to supply the Contras that led to airfields and weapons ending up being used by the same CIA-supported individuals for drug trafficking. They ended up producing a massive cocaine import industry.

With this level of spying infrastructure and the poor oversight of agents and admins within the NSA, corrupt usage of this technology is effectively inevitable.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this seems worse than lying to me. The primary concern addressed by this point is: as an American citizens, will they store my information? The intellectually honest answer to that question is something along the lines of "yes, there's a very good chance we will", but they've worded this point to make it seem like the answer is "no". In doing so, they get away with lying while being able to claim they are not. On balance, this seems more likely to deceive the electorate than a straight-out lie would be; such a lie would be more likely to be called out and uncovered.

I'm not even close to a lawyer, so again, I may be misunderstanding. But that's how I read it.
I'm curious, would you have begrudged a slave for escaping
from his slave-owner, given that that action was clearly illegal?

Speaking of a lack of nuance...

Slavery was clearly unconstitutional, and was made even explicitly so by passing the 13th amendment. Is your stance that releasing confidential intelligence is an act that deserves constitutional protection? Of course not, so I'm sure it's more like, "Releasing confidential intelligence that exposes illegal programs should be protected." But there's no indication that the programs were illegal, I'm sure they had teams of lawyers sitting next to the engineers who were designing the systems. So then you're left with a judgement call about the severity of the leak and the public good it served. Who's going to make that call?

My stance is that he committed illegal acts, so he should be arrested and undergo a trial, like everyone else that commits illegal acts. If he feels his acts shouldn't be illegal, he can appeal to the Supreme Court which will make a ruling on the constitutionality of laws against releasing confidential information. If he feels that his illegal acts were a public service, he can lobby for a pardon. It's clear that the popular sentiment is on his side, he has some very high profile supporters, it might not be a long shot.

Speaking of, I also think that anyone who lied under oath about the NSA programs should be arrested and undergo a trial, as should anyone who abused the capabilities of the NSA's programs, as should any CIA employees who were illegally monitoring US citizens.

I'm a bit surprised that support for the laws of our country is a controversial position.
I'd be definitely interested. Email's in my profile. Thanks!
I don't think what you say is true for serious terrorists. If they were that naive, they would be easy targets.

It seems more likely that the NSA isn't just hunting hardcore terrorist cells. Terrorists don't act in a vacuum. They are the extreme end of political/religious movements, so if they keep tabs on the radical movements from which terrorists eventually emerge, that could help narrow down the circle of those who are then tracked in a much more intensive and expensive way.
ClutchIO is not native, which is why something like this is needed.
we built this (cloud) city on rock and roooollll!
I know a few of these have been posted to HN before, have any of them ever taken off? We've tried to do this at our school in one of my clubs but they usually die rather quickly.
This is excellent news. Hartl's Rails Tutorial was easily one of the best tutorials for any full-stack framework that I've ever read.

Too many tutorials come up with overly-simplified examples that have no real utility. I hate looking at a tutorial that shows you how to build a toy app that is barely usable even by its own creator.

But Hartl's book takes you through one very feasible web app (a Twitter clone) while explaining common tools and practices in the process. TDD, Heroku, Git, Bundler, the works. When I finished the book, I showed it to some non-technical friends and we played with it for a while with absolutely no problems. Not once did I have to say "well, this is just a demo."

If you want to learn Rails, you won't find a better place to start than Hartl's Rails tutorial.
You lose backend search this way. It's a critical feature.
Also, Snowden himself said that encryption works:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...
Of course it isn't true
"Don't write a macro when you could write a function instead" has been standard advice since decades before Clojure. "Macros make things horribly complicated" is nonsense, or no skilled programmer would use them. And from the frustrations my Clojure friends recount to me, ease of debugging is an issue quite apart from anything to do with macros.
Why it became popular?

It's like power tools for my code.

Until a better way comes along, we still mostly develop software with code in a bunch of files. And we still mostly depend on the shitty filesystem for all that. That's what Git does. Frees me to some extent from the shitty filesystem.

Personally I think Git is always useful but I reap far, far more dividends on big projects where the forking, branching and merging give me support for software engineering as the social craft that it is.
I think such a large product launch, these kind of growing pains would be inevitable and so a certain amount of understanding needs to be expected... but still, for folks like you, Ouya should be trying to make things right. Some kind of "sorry, our bad, here let us give you X on the house" freebie would be appropriate. A special shiny limited "sorry it was late" console or an extra gamepad or something.
http://xkcd.com/1181/
Except in other contexts, the use of the public and private keys is reversed. I use my private key to generate signatures: does it aid understanding to tell someone to use my "lock" to verify such signatures?
It's a bit bizarre honestly. Operations are all deductions, and so write off against revenue. Why would somebody take expenses off they P&L?
After a history of performance improvements starting with Mark Zuckerberg putting memcache on Facebook's Apache servers in 2005:

"In early 2009, a team of Facebook infrastructure engineers started to work on TAO (“The Associations and Objects”). TAO has now been in production for several years. It runs on a large collection of geographically distributed server clusters. TAO serves thousands of data types and handles over a billion read requests and millions of write requests every second."

It is solving some impressive problems, and kudos to Facebook for continuing to share neat bits of engineering with us.
Snowden:

> Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

You probably don't need to use 3 cyphers. Just make sure you're storing your private key somewhere safe.
If anyone could "negotiate from a position of power" in this situation, it would be General Alexander himself...
One of the changes they describe is about reformulating questions to better fit their "model." I didn't see any indication that people would be getting any indication or explanation of what their "model" is, but it's pretty much just another "closed...FU."
I have no doubt in my ability to learn how to do it. What I do doubt is how useful it will be unless it's easy enough for a critical mass of users.
Hosting the email on a server in your office is no protection if the data is being captured at your ISP unless all email is transmitted using SSL, and even then govt probably has that cracked long ago.
Because Google is well known for deleting data rather than storing and mining it?
Actually, if enough of these spring up on various trackers, chances are some real terrorist organization may actually end up making one of these files (but with actual information).

I say we go for it.
Or it could have been "Snowden, your job is being outsourced to BAH, you'll still do the same thing, the checks will come from someone else."
You do realize that the majority of tech companies in the U.S. are on the west coast? This may be a good place to start:

http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/companies/1987518

You seem to want more established companies, so showing ones with over 500 employees, within 500 miles of the Bay Area. I think you will find that there is a great deal of depth in terms of the number of successful tech companies out this way.
This might be a little dated now (a year or two), but I had a class with some emphasis on deep brain stimulation. The overall consensus from the professor was that we know that it does work, we know how the electronics and everything work, but we don't know what's happening in the brain to make it work. We don't know why we see the results we do with DBS, and they're sometimes pretty phenomenal results (like this tremor remover). Depression, chronic pain, tremors, and probably many things we don't know yet can be solved by putting some electrodes deep inside your brain and outputting a constant current.

The one trouble spot is that the brain really, really does not like when foreign objects are embedded in it. The electrode goes in, punctures the blood brain barrier, and works for a while. When you put something foreign in the brain, astrocytes (brain cells that form the blood brain barrier) will form around the electrode and create a new blood brain barrier around it, causing the electrode that was once inside the brain to be on the outside.

Also, the stimulation current seems to 'overdrive' the nearby neurons, causing them to die. This reduces the effectiveness of DBS, as living neurons are now farther away, reducing the effectiveness of the stimulation.

Patients need to be awake during surgery so the doctors know when the electrode is placed correctly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_fjiEOb40M
What's the best option for Windows users? I know I could just search, but I trust the hivemind more.
I had a moment just like this. We would be short $20k on payroll and the founders and myself and to come up with the difference. That sucked. Reality really sinks in when you are not in a good place to write those checks but you write them anyways. It was the responsible thing to do. Also, don't be a dick. Inform your employees that they need to keep their options open.

My biggest regret was allowing my VC to convince me to not worry about money...but you live & learn.
Wish I had the technical skills to do this, its brilliant.
Yeah, I think it's just a natural response to being in a very strictly ruled culture like Stack Overflow. The focus falls on the details ("banned after asking 1 question") rather than the general premise ("banned unfairly"). When you point out the details don't sound right, that is absolutely correct, but that doesn't help the person, since the rules are just arbitrary from their viewpoint anyways. It's a hard problem.

(And I apologize if my response came off overly harsh. I tried to soften it.)
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I imagine we'll be seeing a way to hack in a proper app store into the thing in a matter of weeks, if not days.
So like Fortress, X10, Chapel, UPC, or (arguably) IBM InfoSphere Streams.
Full title is "Rape and Porn availability—Will Censorship Make a Difference?". Edit your post.
https://twitter.com/SCClemons/status/343392529913356289
You may want to consider a flip phone but even that has a GPS for 911... A/B testing is the least of your problems. If you are that concerned about privacy get off the cell network, root your phone with AOSP or your own OS and most importantly do not install any apps that you have not built. At that point consider A/B testing as it could greatly improve your user experience ;-).

Joke aside I understand your concern but this is really not the right place to start.
Tax-exempt status is a privilege created by Congress for which some FOSS groups don't happen to qualify, despite the organizations' beliefs that they do. "Targeting" is a misleading word here - the IRS isn't trying to shut these groups down, it's just paying more attention to whether or not they have to pay taxes like everyone else.
>I think the whole multiple core thing is over blown in association with functional programming. I think it would be pretty misguided for someone to adopt a functional programming with multiple cores in mind.

The multiple core thing, it not overblown. Clock speed scaling ended a few years ago. Single thread performance scaling is dead, and we need a paradigm shift to deal with the multi-core future. Intel MIC has 80 cores and it is only the beginning. We need new tools to handle this new level of parallelism. It’s likely that some form of functional, flow-Based, or reactive programming will emerge as the tool of choice in this coming era.
Answers are never closed as duplicates. Only questions are closed as duplicates of other questions that ask the same thing. The change is that now the original question should have an answer.
At one point Rails 4 was considering Test::Spec, and I for one was disappointed when that was dropped, as it was an opportunity to standardise on declarative style tests in a lightweight native library, and might have stood a chance of building enough momentum to build a groundswell of support.

As it is, while one can of course still use Test::Spec, you're likely to be in a small minority.
Here's an article with examples from popular media:

> Steve Jobs often speaks of Apple's "startup" culture.
> ... an article in the New York Times referred to
> the seven-year-old airline Virgin America
> as a startup. [2]

[2] http://readwrite.com/2010/07/12/how-do-you-define-startup
You know... it's a joke, but it's still less of a joke than everything else out there, kind of like Hacker News or /r/programming. ;-) The people who actually do "real" anything tend to think that everything beneath them is a joke.
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Unless you're relating the end of slavery, women's suffrage etc to the founding of the IRS, this is a fallacious argument. It's perfectly reasonable to imply or outright state that some things worked better in the past.

I consider 19th century architecture objectively superior to that of the 20th century. You may disagree, but cholera is not relevant to that discussion.
Mailvelope is another client-side browser extension that uses OpenPGP.js to encrypt email that works with gmail, outlook.com, Y! mail:

http://www.mailvelope.com/
You're completely correct. I didn't take that into account. No more comments about relativity before coffee.
Not to my knowledge.

Its a shame, as it would be fascinating to see what could be produced.
Is infrastructure really that expensive? I thought it was normal to lay new cables, pipes and build new roads whenever there's new development.

A nearby new area build a new bridge, even underground pipes that transfer garbage, new roads and of course fiber for internet.

Of course, an island is another thing..
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So what is this SmartOS thing?

From what I understand: KVM is hardware virtualization, SmartOS is(a distro for) OS virtualization and Docker is process virtualization?
I see don't see where that article suggests that Mars is outside the habitable zone by any reasonable estimate. The only part I see questioning Mars's position suggests that Mars might actually not be as close to the edge as we think. Mars's lack of habitability is partly because of its position, but also partly due to other factors like its lack of a magnetic field and atmosphere. If you somehow "poofed" a copy of Earth into Mars's place, I think it would be considered habitable (but still not really for humans), though I'm not really qualified to say that with any certainty.
You're right; "never" was a bit too long-term.
People complain that government doesn't do a good enough job, but then people complain when government tries to do a better job.
If it doesn't fit what the site is structured for

It's not complicated: questions and answers. This is common in sitebuilding though: "so unique we are." Well, at the end of the day it's just posts and comments, so quit milkin' it. A question that receives answers fits, I don't know how you could say otherwise.

However, this is all just a nice example of NIH Syndrome on SO's part, since these are lessons that have been learned by anybody who's hung out in a large IRC channel with kick/ban bots and arrogant ops, as well as being practiced on a web level for over 10 years by the likes of Metafilter.

It also reads to me like they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the community part without the humanity, since people's irrelevancies in questions fall into more than the 6 (or however many) preset reasons for closure. This may be an incontrovertible attribute of SO: their "model" (as criticized above) does not allow for the community, "topical identity" if you will, they are seeking to impose themselves,.
Well, mutt works seamlessly with gpg signatures and encryption, but that's probably not what you had in mind.
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Is anyone actually doing this?
I think that frankly you are roundly wrong. Most users just don't care that they are anonymously being tracked or monitored. Most users what good, ease to use, reliable apps that do something interesting. If it phones home to google most people just don't care. The NSA scandal was mostly met with a loud "meh?" from most people. The media is pushing it as a story but really only techies give a shit about it. I'm not saying it's right but I'm pretty sure that's the general feeling about it with the general public. Anon analytics make better apps. It's a good thing for users all the way around. Better apps == a better user experience, that doesn't happen without better data.
Your first sentence, precisely.

And really, it doesn't matter whether the NSA has explicit connections into Gmail, your email is backed up periodically by Google already, so plaintext is available to interested parties for quite a while even if you were to empty your trash.

But even before that, many SMTP servers transmit emails in the clear, so it wouldn't matter if the NSA had their hooks into Google if they've got their hooks into the backbones that Google peers with.

Oh, and you lose all read state, all information about when an email was sent, any labels, stars, any reference headers for threading, ...

Seemingly the only threat that this addresses is "someone may hack into my email account and I don't want them to be able to read my email". There are several other methods for solving that particular issue without destroying email metadata and the usefulness of email itself.
Not sure how that's relevant to "Once your emails get into google servers, the NSA has made a copy of them. NSA copies your emails before you even read them"?

Also, please explain how you would implement a webmail service without storing emails.
Just Pay the Government to Take Your Data
...system like this encrypted and sent every spam email that you received

I wanted to like this proposal, but then I realized these encrypted spams have to be sent somewhere. Any ethical target would be too easy for "the bad guys" to filter. Oh well.
Ask HN: What are the chances Snowden is being tortured in Russia?
I mean, he holds secret confidential information of the most powerful nation on planet Earth. It is not like Russia doesn't want all of it without the world knowing they do.
true, but many people interested in the Ouya probably have one anyway. I might still get one as media box, $100 is dirt cheap, sadly its not available in germany yet and more like EUR 100 (=$130) here :/
Almost none of the policing you mention is directed at reckless driving. The vast majority of highway policing is for excessive (but generally safe) speed, and much of the rest is enforcing bureaucratic nonsense (expired tags!). They get close with DUI enforcement, but non-drunken reckless driving goes basically ignored.

None of us can predict the future, but why would you assume terrorism wouldn't continue to be a negligible threat? Sure, it could suddenly become a leading cause of deaths in the USA, but so could kittens, in theory. If you want the government to continue to pour billions (arguably trillions if you count certain military actions on the ledger) into defending against terrorism, you'd better have an argument that goes beyond "nobody knows, but it could get bad!"
For that matter, a question could be connected to multiple SE sites.
The only issue that's been biting me when using ActiveModel::Serializers and AngularJS is that we must manually return the json with the root: false option set, otherwise the AngularJS $resource provider doesn't work correctly.