skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have information on this postal tracking program? Obviously the USPS has to know the destination (and purported source), but I wasn't aware of any program to save that information and aggregate it. I'd certainly call the existence of such a program a violation of the 4th amendment, if it's real.
Seeing as jazzychad is OP, I think this is the campaign he was talking about.
> The decision was 5-4 but not strictly on ideological lines: 2 conservatives and 3 liberals in the majority, 3 conservatives and 1 liberal dissenting.

The assumption that the ideology of members of the court is unidimensional is not justified. "Not strictly according to the popularly perceived ideological factions of the court" is probably more supportable than "not strictly on ideological lines".
I'm not exactly sure why it's so expensive, but it's not like you will need it. The whole point of Nitrous.io is that it's a cloud ide. Unless you are deploying a huge app (and if you're deploying a huge app, you probably don't need a cloud IDE), you won't touch it.
>Porn is destructive in itself and should not be dismissed as neutral, even if you've never seen it in your own experiences or in those around you.

Then so is food, tv, computer use, and anything else that can create compulsive behavior. You're telling a very particular story about porn but it isn't the whole story.

>Porn is about control.

Which is why women find it so threatening. Sex is about control too. If your partner is giving out sex like they're dog treats for "good behavior" how is your position in life any healthier? In that context maybe porn isn't so bad after all depending on your relationship to it.
Getting the Tech Community to Adopt Encryption
Since most of the tech community disagrees with government surveillance, and tech community early adoption is often the catalyst for mainstream adoption, what do people think of getting the tech community to start using end-to-end encryption for basic internet services like email and instant messaging?

The first I've found is Silent Circle (https://silentcircle.com/web/home/), which provides end-to-end encryption for a variety of services. Does any have experience and knowledge of its reliability, or a suggestion for a better service?
Well, honestly, I feel my score should be somewhere near 0. My score is high enough to qualify me for silly promotions like free access to the American Airlines Admiral's Club, and is 10 to 20 points higher than other people I know who I would actually consider influential.
Coming up next: An article titled "I coded in Silicon Valley for six years and only made $1,000[0]"

[0] Not including salary.
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I admit that this is interesting and insightful research. But I have to look at it in the context of our current world, and in this context it's likely to do more harm than good to humankind.
Hi, yes, it's the same campaign. You can only post a URL xor text on an HN submission, so I decided to post the backstory info as a comment instead.
> "On the contrary, it seems quite likely that others should be paying more."

Not that have knowledge of royalty proportionality, but it also seems unfair to have royalty costs dwarf any other business costs. I have no idea how much it costs Pandora to stream a song, but if it's a fraction of the ~$0.0012/listen they seem to pay in royalties, it seems like the royalty is disproportionate and unfair. On the other hand, if the royalty is more than ~2 orders of magnitude less than cost to stream a song, then maybe there is an argument that it's too low.

(of course the above is assuming you agree with royalties at all.)
hi! yeah, we are going to move the content more to the left instead of centered. glad to hear it's fast for you!
And the majority of people don't care about whether software is open source, but it's important irregardless.
CLI/PowerShell.

Also there's the meta-decision that comes from questioning Redmond's judgment and actually looking at alternatives.
A wikileaks activist flew out to Hong Kong to advise him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/offering-snowden-aid...
This really sucks, and I completely understand the need for closure.

At least in the Bay Area the various coroners process suspected homocides first, then suspected plagues/pathogens, then unexplained deaths, then maybe 'outside the hospital but not unexpected' deaths.

What that means in our fairly area is that if your death isn't a suspected homicide you probably won't get an autopsy. The only way to get that information would be to hire a forensic pathologist to do the work for you.
I hate social sharing buttons and ad networks just as much as the next guy, so I completely understand where you're coming from with this comment. However, you have the option to completely opt-out of any kind of email tracking by always reading only the text portion of emails sent to you.

Asking whether this is morally/ethically OK is probably not the right question. As we've seen with any technology, if something is possible to track/store/analyze it will be. If tracking email opens (or any data on the internet) is not something we want to accept as a society we need to find ways to ensure tracking those actions under any circumstances is impossible -- not just leave it up to chance.
The browser is a native app and can use native apis to access screensharing desktop apis. It can then proxy these via some browser plugin api making those available to browser plugins.
People should be allowed to share what they want. At the same time, people should be allowed to restrict others from sharing information about them.

These two are not at odds with each other. The whole idea of "look at these people with 15,000 Foursquare checkins complain that the NSA is watching them" is fallacious. People choose to share their location with Foursquare; they don't choose (and currently cannot choose) to share their location with the NSA.
Indian government forces ISPs to ban pornographic websites
Best: Entropy isn't what it used to be
Actually there is a pointer lock api that allows apps to control user's mouse. And it can be added as a permission in chrome manifest. They only need the screen and mouse control. Which essentially means control entire machine.

Edit: never mind, I was thinking of chrome app, not the local plugin that we install for voice and video.
I thought "really?" when in was suggested a week ago that an all out character assassination would commence in mainstream media against Snow den. then this. Damn it. Damn it damn it damn it.
You don't need tail calls in JavaScript in order have them in a language that compiles to JS. The tail call can be compiled as a while loop. This is what Scala does on the JVM (and presumably what Scala.js does as well).
That's not good enough; it's too common. Sentence structure can't be copyrighted, just as common design elements can't be copyrighted. Show us HTML or CSS blocks that are exactly the same or slightly tweaked on both websites.
Most of his detractors think that technology has outpaced him.
He thinks that technology has outpaced us, rather spoilt us.
I see timestamps under messages in both the web and Android client.

I definitely prefer the look of Hangouts. I don't see much difference between it and GTalk utility-wise.
Not X11, any app can see or manipulate any other apps screen buffer. It is one reason Wayland is nice.

If your system has MAC you can restrict its file access, but in general you have library support for this stuff built in.

It is also why in most cases it is a PITA to stream 3d rendered screens. Opengl / directX don't provide easy ways like X11 to look at a completed framebuffer and store / broadcast it.
No they don't. Maps links open in Apple Maps by default, hence the requirement for a jailbreak solution like this:

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/12/14/mapsopener/
> It's a bit unfair to mention Chrome performing poorly on these. Both are asm.js, which OdinMonkey is optimised for, V8 not.

Actually Chrome has been optimizing for compiled C++ for a long time - Google even added Mandreel code to the Octane benchmark - and for asm.js specifically (which is a particular type of compiled C++) in recent months, as you can track here

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...
http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...
There's something empowering about recognizing something as an addiction. It allows you to compartmentalize that behavior, and act on it like you might a disease. Exercise and eating right don't become behaviors you're trying to habitually instill, they become "treatments," that you feel mandated to consume, because to allow the disease to continue is unacceptable.
The worst thing about the new Google Hangouts is that it doesn't expose the phone numbers associated with some of the Google Contacts. So in order to make a phone call, I'd have to recall the number and type it in the search bar. Typing the name in the search bar won't reveal that person's phone number either. This is more intuitively done in the old Google Chat which has a phone button which reveals the numbers. So sometimes I can call and sometimes I can chat with the same person. And searching the name reveals number(s) as well.
yikes, sorry to hear that. can you drop me your email and i'll make sure you get an invite link. i'm at my username at digg. thanks!
I agree with your characterization but I don't think that qualifies for the label "partisanship." Partisans would go with the political flow of their party.
If you don't want me picking holes in your "realistic" scenario, don't present it. I mean, seriously. Where do you get off in giving me an example of a supposed "realistic" scenario, then complaining when I point out its flaws? It's not my fault that your example was bad.
Interesting results. I decided to trust a random post with all of my emails on my main email account. Turns out I could get hurt pretty bad if someone got access to my account. It was like $29.00 or something. Kind of neat I guess.

Found 400+ plain text passwords but I noticed a good number of them were from spam emails.
Why do you think other business costs are pertinent to royalty rates at all?
Just switched back to check this out. I see the green bar under only one of my friends but the rest that are online or away don't have this. Do they also have to have hangouts enabled for me to see that?

Also, I understand that they are trying to make things minimal and look cool but it's not something that's very intuitive or noticeable. I thought it might have meant that I have a chat window open with that person.
If I think dirty thoughts will my file system become corrupted? :)
thanks Nick - really appreciate that! still a lot of fixes/features to add..
So basically, you spammed 42k users, and tricked them into sending what they thought were ephemeral pictures but were instead permanently saved and displayed publicly on your website. And now you're bragging about it.
This seems like it could be bad news - they might be trying to make some sort of proprietary 'postscript for 3-D' to lock down the whole industry. Though I'm guessing my worry is probably unfounded.
Topic is connected to PRISM sooo much. I don't understand how so many people here can't see that technology and it's implementation bypassed the legislation and conversations for a majority of population except for cypherpunks and a few others?
Its easy to complain about the low pandora royalties, but these artists are essentially trying to kill the golden goose. Pandora currently spends > 50% of revenue on royalties. Any increases would almost certainly lead to the end of the company. $0 is a lot less than $1,300 for 1 million plays.
The only appearance of 5,000 I can find is the following one in the Visual Studio 2013 Preview announcement [1].

»In that context, we have our Build 2013 developer conference this week in San Francisco, where approximately 5000 developers have gathered in person (with many thousands more watching virtually) from around the world to discuss the next generation of software development with platforms and tools from Microsoft.«

Maybe someone just confused developers and APIs...

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/26/visual-...
Nailed it. There's so much pseudo science around these topics it's hard to find any actual facts to back up their positions. Sharing experiences is important, but don't frame it as science.
How about this: take people out of a 'good' environment, and put them in a bad one, and they'll revert to primitive behaviour. This is something that has been observable even in recent times. In recent conflicts people have committed incredibly base behaviour, including cannibalism... http://documentarystorm.com/the-cannibal-warlords-liberia/

Technological 'progress' is not really progress, it's just an accumulation of information, just like a snowball is simply an accumulation of snowflakes.

If our technology, accumulated information and institutions were wiped out tomorrow, we'd be back in the stone age, and it would take us another 5000 years to 'progress' back to where we are now.

We've been able to observe it in the past too, many civilizations were destroyed and the result was their descendants were much less sophisticated technologically. 'Progress' does not change people, and people will easily revert to base behaviour.
You're right I messed up, the time-stamps are there I just didn't notice them right away as they are faded and underneath the message.
Congratulations, Aaron Swartz.
It will be optional in the final version according to a blog post.
Also catching on in celebrity baby photos:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/kim-karda...
If you want to carry on the analogy, Google has a debit card that only works at Google and unlike Walmart it won't accept competitors coupons and all the stuff sold in store isn't sold anywhere else. You also can't take it apart, and only people with Google debit cards can see any of it when it leaves the store.

Hangouts is becoming a nightmare of a proprietary locked in mess that is destroying decades of progress in FOSS space towards open standards for communication. They are killing Jingle and XMPP by depreciating Talk, and they are now killing VNC. They may not have played nice together, and they may be painfully outdated, but it isn't an excuse to take your toys from the community sandbox, go home, and build yourself a space rocket in your back yard and fence it off, because very few people will pay to get in your back yard and will stay in the sandbox with Tonka Trucks.
The authors use of SMTP and IMAP is confusing. This is a standard tracking pixel, performed in the same way that everybody else does it. There is nothing new here.

SMTP and IMAP are transport protocols. For transporting text around:

"By utilizing SMTPs RCPT TO command" - He's not utilising anything special. This is exactly how every other email that employs tracking pixels is sent. A separate recipient and message body for each recipient.

"Remove any messages stored by the SMTP server" ... "Google's SMTP servers store a copy of every message"

Nope. SMTP is used for mail servers to pass email about. An SMTP server doesn't store mail, apart from in it's temporary queue before forwarding it on.

"Store sent mail in IMAP" ... "If using a service like Gmail which stores all sent messages automatically in IMAP" - Again, you don't store email in a message transfer protocol.

This article reads particularly badly because of the repeated incorrect use of terminology.

[edit] And to address your comment, "they actually almost certainly do want this tracking to be performed" - "want" is an interesting word to use there. If there was a tick box in the top right corner of peoples email clients which said:

Allow senders to track when you open a message,
where you were when you opened it, and various
pieces of information about your system

99% of people would untick that box.
Agreed. I've seen countless demos bungled because they required WiFi and a big crowd came and took out the WiFi. You should always have your own 4G LTE hot spot so you don't depend on site WiFi, but they you still want to keep everything local or over cables that you can.
Pacman: The Phenomenon
Not quite. I did some UI work for a phone-company and their in-store camera's were able to detect clients mood within a second. They even demo'd it and showed the mood of people walking in. Right now it's only capable of 'happy, neutral and not-happy' as well as suggest man/woman. I'm pretty sure the software driving those camera's will only get better. Combine that with facial recognition and it get's creepy.
Couple pleads guilty in [nuclear] bomb scheme
I don't see anything about it in the docs, is there color formatting for polygons, so you could do choropleth maps?
You may be speaking too soon. Let's reserve judgement for after we know the details.
Hey krapp, thanks for your input :D
It's a great example of quick & dirty job.
There's still a LOT of work to do, I accept.
The images are not scaled, passwords are not `hashed',
and no validation, of course. I should have had worked on it later on, but I really didn't look in to it later.

I guess, I am also on the same path as with the author of this post. But yeah, thanks again, I will improve it as soon as I can. :-)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
I agree. From Snapchat's TOS, "you agree to not: 1) Use any data mining or extraction methods in relation to the Services; 2) Interfere with or hinder the operation of the Services or any other individual's use of the Services in any way; 3) Inflict or impose any perverse or excessive burden on the Services in any way; 4) Compromise the security of the Services; 5) Use the Services for any purpose that is illegal, beyond the scope of their intended use, or otherwise prohibited in these Terms; 6) Utilize the Services to transmit spam, viruses, bugs or any material that could be considered threatening or unlawful in any way."

I think quite a few of those terms have been violated.
How is "handle map links" not an OS-level hook?
Closest thing I can come up with is the reference to Pokemon possibly correlating to a stamina level, like how Pokemon have a stamina attribute that goes up as they level up?

Edit: Got it, "see the 93' Bulls reference."
American public opinion is for prosecuting Snowden. This can be because they are un-informed or have a different value set from the mean of HN. If the former, how can we educate enough people to form a critical majority in favour of privacy reform?

If the latter, the process is slower and more complicated. A starting point would be writing and paying visits to decision makers. My impression has been that the lack of communication from U.S. citizens to D.C. has left decision makers with the impression that this is, at most, a foreign relations problem.

Not all elites are in D.C., mind you. Speak with influential and high profile individuals you know. Encourage them to bring this up in the media or at the next conference they are at.

Sound difficult? Convincing people to change the status quo should be. Rioting to short-circuit this process is the equivalent of dialectical violence. Less charitably, it is the making of noise and commotion in the hope that someone else will pick up the baton and do the leg-work for you.
Yogo brings up a good point. You can get solid work via referrals, craigslist and e-whatever-lance by rolling a few wordpress themes and customizing wordpress sites.

You may be underestimating the value of intermediate skills. While a large agency may not pay you as freelancer, you could easily get a roster of clients through referrals and good old fashion hustle on craigslist (which leads to more clients) I have plenty of experience making this work as developer... which is weird since I am not a developer. If I can do it by accident, I am sure you can do it on purpose.
I'm Writing a Book: "The Freelancer's Guide to Long-Term Contracts"
This is kind of a boring t-shirt considering all the nice NSA "art" that is out there...
(and can we drop all black for everything geeky? :P)
We tell users in our snap that their response will be posted online.
Are you saying this cache near Bern blew up while containing nuclear weapons? Why haven't I heard of this before? Even with a non-nuclear explosion, such an event would make international news for a month.
Not really. I (tried) WinRT development when the Surface first came out. The API is pretty bare and lacks a lot of frameworks and general tools that you take for granted in iOS/Android land.

Expanding the API, at least in that direction, is probably a great thing.
There is no thing that "[all] people actually want". There are just things which are important for a subset of people. At least RMS, myself and a few other people seem to actually want an internet without total government surveillance.
Ha thanks, this was really frustrating indeed.
I would have bought it if were a donation to the EFF. Sorry Jazzychad, I empathize with them, but EFF would have been more appropriate don't you think?
Patent Trolls - the Malpractice Lawyers of the Tech Sector
I would argue that these patent trolls are nothing more than shakedown artists, akin to the protection rackets which exploited small businesses in the first half of the twentieth century.
I'm sorry, but what you are writing here is incoherent. If what you were suggesting made any sense, as Pandora lowers their infrastructure costs and overhead, so too would the royalty payment go down, and all the profit would go to Pandora only. The one has nothing to do with the other.
I'm a Windows dev at build, but I know nothing about 3D printing. If you can you give me an idea what G-code is, then I'll ask or look at the SDK.
LA authorities side with taxis, move to shut Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar
Giving Our Customers More Choice with Windows Azure
Enable engineers to monitor the NSA by publishing statistics on its activities
That's a really shitty golden goose.
Considering that I have bought several CDs because I heard them on Pandora, I am sure everyone is getting money, but it usually is never enough. I don't know what exactly the cost of running a Pandora company means financially, but with all the upgraded, changes, improvements I expect from it, they definitely need money to pay the developers, so that we, the listener can love the music and buy the albums, which I would think is what the artist ultimately wants.
Can someone provide commentary on what this means for those of us who aren't knowledgable about SSL/secure web traffic stuff? Is an A rating really good (I presume it is), or is it one of those things that you aren't really good unless you get an A+? What does 'RC4 yes PROBLEMATIC' mean and is that a vulnerability with any real world significance?

edit: Or is this about the fact that it supports forward secrecy?
Yes, roughly. I used the Mac version at home this morning. I haven't used the Linux one for a couple weeks, but it looked like that when I did.

You're sure you're using the UX nightly? The normal nightly doesn't have the new tab design.
Well spotted!

I was worried for a minute there.

I don't know any product that could even reach 5000 API calls. Win32 isn't anywhere near that even after 20+ years.
If you really want to piss Snapchat off, turn this into a client that anyone can run.
I don't think they are saying they don't know what the "mistakes" were - rather, that to reveal what they were would be to reveal classified information. And publishing a fixed version would reveal what the mistakes were.
+1 for ssllabs.com. Nice resource.
Is this trying to show that Duck Duck Go just enabled PFS (perfect forward secrecy)?
Woah, woah woah. So by entering my username into snapgraph to "explore my snap chat network" aka see an animation of my top friends, I'm opting into your bullshit spam contest app, and anything else you plan on making?

Not a smart move dudes. My trust in anything you else make = Zero.

I'm I wrong here?
Also, 35 an hour might be too low. Charging more makes a great first impression, and cheap clients are rarely worth it.