skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do people think the largest social network is going to make it so easy for them to delete their stuff?

Oh, I see you’re fond of the game “blame the victim.”

Facebook did not do what the OP was told they would do.

It’s worth debating whether we think we should have the right or ability to remove ourselves from FB at some point.

How are you helping by insinuating anyone who wants something other than the status quo is stupid or naive?
I'm curious why the fuck it took until 2013 to get something comparable to freebsd jails/solaris zones.

I mean, congratulation guys, but why the hell didn't this happen earlier? I know I'm not the brightest bulb in the room but this has been a fundamentally dangerous feature to be missing. I don't get how anyone pretends that their Linux boxes are secure without some extremely personal contrived creations.
Learn Clojure in 15 minutes, perhaps
Inspired by Tyler Neylon's excellent Learn Lua in 15 minutes
These kind of actions on the part of existing taxi and limo services are to be expected. When a large and powerful group can't win on merit or the quality of their product, they will attempt to win through any other means, including litigation or politics. This move reeks of desperation, and if I were any of the three companies mentioned, I would see this as a glass half full scenario. Time to lawyer up.
He has time for running? I think I know what's wrong.
I remember reading about Hushmail a few years back, encryption was built in the web based email system with PGP, the use would never need to worry about encrypting the mail since it was baked in out of the box, esp between hushmail accounts.

The only problem was that the system was compromised in order to comply with US requests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_p...

Good concept, but anything you rely on someone else doing can always be compromised.
Hey there,

I agree. Great feedback. Much appreciated.
Apparently, Calculus Was Invented In 1994
Stavros, that's exactly what we do at http://www.feedsapi.org , we make it simple for our users to read their full text rss feeds from the comfort or ANY email client and we also delivr those in realtime (under 60 seconds).
> greedy superstitious primates

Press Release: Scientists found $VALUABLE_RESOURCE, making whoever gets there first the richest of all mankind, on $DISTANT_PLANET. Clearly, as God chose $OUR_PEOPLE, we must go there as soon as possible to fulfil his destiny.

(Now we just need to create some vast conspiracy to efficiently spread the message.)

Greed and superstition colonised America, Africa and Asia, lets people drive submarines to place their flag under the north pole and effectively made the human race the only race of remotely intelligent beings to live on all six continents.
Great, level-headed outline of the key steps in this situation. Clear communication seems to be a common theme among people who handle these situations well.
Oracle and Salesforce Team Up
If there "is evidence", you should provide it.
Sensational title. More info please.
Why not fire him after he comes back from vacation? Company is going under either way.
Spatial training boosts math skills
What's notable is that they're now including guidance on voice search, saying that "if a voice interface is used to deliver search results, a search engine should make an
audio disclosure that is of an adequate volume and cadence for ordinary listeners to hear and comprehend it."
Sounds like US citizens should have an unencrypted email signature saying:

My name is XXX, I am a US citizen.
My address is YYY.
By the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and supported by federal courts, the contents of this email are encrypted, private, and require a valid warrant to be intercepted, stored, or accessed by the US government.
But the attention of the community is still finite. It's hard enough to get a moderately difficult question answered already, without opening the floodgates to lower-quality, easier-answered material. Opinion-based questions can be asked in reddit or something, where the time would not otherwise be more usefully spent.
? The databases being collected are much more suited to harassing innocents than capturing terrorists. You disagree?
This is merely a shortcut to accessing verified public keys for our users, not a bug. Saves having to ask people for their public SSH keys when giving them access to something, just `curl https://github.com/<user>.keys` instead :)

See also this section of our API: http://developer.github.com/v3/users/keys/
What do they mean by 'programming questions you'd solve on a whiteboard'?

Theoretical questions/design questions or..?

I'm confused.
This is a pretty sweet view.

I find it had to track what i haven't looked at while dragging around in various directions. I would really like a little semi-transparent overlay in the corner, with a rectangle showing what portion of the UI i am current viewing for reference.
Maybe this is too far-fetched and it's beyond what is technically possible today, but wouldn't the decrypted message be the plaintext for the session key and wouldn't then the session key basically be the plaintext for the public key? I suppose it's considered unbreakable because you only get one plaintext per session key?
Reminds me kinda of what Reddit does where attrs are stored as records.
Sounds like they are priming the pump for Metro and Azure as well as trying to get some new blood on their side.

I've been tempted to go down this road, but then my memory of previous startup experiences and the number of times I've been pissed off about shit from Redmond stops me.
I too had built something like this while learning to build web-sites: http://www.groovydream.com/get_a_bunch/1

Surprisingly, people still post occasionally....
The population of those countries is probably differently off than they are in reality, but not necessarily better or worse.

The Afghani probably wouldn't be as high on heroin as they are now.
I'm using Mandrill for transactional email, and will most likely start using Mailjet for email campaigns.

I believe that Mandrill etc give a better deliverability compared to SES.
Its kind of annoying that most of the comments in response to this post are basically debating vague jargon

The word means many things to different people. This is an indication that people should start using different words to describe things if they want their audience to interpret them as intended.
> without (a) having to pay tax on them as income,

But that is my point: The expenses write off against the revenue in the biz, so there's no point in creating a separate org. There can't be sizeable income left in the separate org, or they get nailed for having assets.

> (b) having to follow the normal reporting requirements for political groups.

That's different, but I got the sense from the article that it was more about advertising than politics. FTA: In short, the IRS is concerned that some of these organizations exist simply to market companies' software, and perhaps the associated services sold alongside them.
He took unilateral action in determining what he thought was safe. Neither of us really knows the impact of the leak or its actual scope (as far as other lesser security breaches likely concomitant with the major leak).

The approach doesn't boil down to that hyperbole at all. There's a place for opposition, but I don't see it as among those people who choose to work on classified projects for the NSA and CIA. Compartmentalized security relies on trusted individuals not choosing to make unilateral security decisions. If he wants to resign and then generally oppose governmental surveillance, then he is welcome to do that.

I see the pentagon papers as along the same lines as this. The remnants of my teenage agents sympathize with the whistle blower spirit, but I see this as effectively the same as vigilante justice and blatant disregard of the importance of trust in security and while it may have had positive societal benefits, that doesn't mean there should be no consequences.
Like lupatus mentioned in the other response, there is considerable variability in the risk from terrorism. I would guess - while tragic, and my profound sympathies to anyone reading this who has been touched by either - that SIDS and infant/toddler choking deaths are much more consistent year over year (and there is a lot of educational material out there on preventing SIDS with sleep positions, and huge federal regulation on childrens' toys for, eg BuckyBalls).

I would instead use the analogy of weather in the context of urban planning around floodplains, building standards, etc. These are typically based on 50 or 100 year storm events. If you look at a 15 year average, these standards look like overkill.

EDIT: Lo and behold, another downvote. What in the way I've structured my argument or my logic is flawed? Or is it just more satisfying to downvote those you disagree with? Anyway, downvote away, you're only lowering yourself. I don't care.
NSA Claims It Doesn't Track Movements of Cell Phone Users
It's remarkable that you think the NSA vacuuming up everything that flows through a domestic AT&T facility, per the Klein affidavit, merely "could" implicate Americans' private communications. Why not stipulate that it "will?" Also note that subsequent reporting has said that similar taps are in place at similar facilities, not just in San Francisco.

You might be right that 641A has been blessed by the Sec. 702 amendments to FISA. But the immunization for providers is not absolute; if requests go beyond what the law clearly permits, they're still vulnerable. Look for more litigation on this point.
It did. But then again, it's a complicated issue. On one hand, I want it to be handle promptly. On the other hand, I don't want it rushed.
Just a guess:

Vendors certainly seemed more focussed on getting people to use complicated virtualization schemes with proprietary hypervisors. I wonder if it was more a matter of man-power at that point.

In comparison, Sun was already selling systems so the value of selling virtualization separately so zones may have ended up being an elegant integrated solution. I'm not sure of the FreeBSD jail history but there may be a similar story to tell if you look at the source of the contributions.
I have been using 4.0.0.rc1 for about a month now and have enjoyed the process. There have been a lot of great updates since the previous versions.

I will caution all to be aware of the turbolinks included by default. I spent a while scratching my head why a setTimeout function worked every so often. I had no prior experience with turbolinks or the discussion thereof, though I believe it's a great feature.
Re: Terrorism. Yes, most of the death count is at the homes of terrorism (which perversely gives the greatest hope that it will stop). However, radical Islamic terrorism is exported all over the world.

Re: Why have espionage agencies, and what should be their scope. Yes, this is a good debate but along the lines of "How big should our military be?" I believe the answer is very complex. As a citizen of a country I would hope my country has a military and an intelligence agency. I would hope both are independent of political influence, yet are under the leash of civilian government.

What should the scope of a spy agency be? By the very nature of the business it needs to be secret from the general public (i.e. other nations). Countries have spied on each other through out history because you really want to know what the other fellow is up to, especially if you can do something about it.

Snowden's statements re: spying on China/Russia whatever are not surprising. If you are a US citizen I would hope that you hope your intelligence agencies are keeping an eye on China/Russia, just as a Chinese citizen you would hope the Chinese government is trying to get information about the US.

It's a delicate game that all countries play to varying degrees of success.

Where Snowden has crossed the line is that he was working for the government and then decided to embarrass it re: other countries.

If Snowden had said, look China spies on the US, Russia spies on China, and the US spies on both. I think this is illegal, he would have been an interesting person to follow though a little naive.

From what he has done, I would think, there is a pretty high chance he is on some payroll, probably Chinese. Again, as others have mentioned, his timing and his statements are not that of a person trying to correct a wrong. It really sounds like some one who's a pawn in a diplomatic game.
People have had their accounts permabanned from HN for less.
Documenting what though? The sites are gone. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any pre-internet Archive efforts to capture large portions of the known web at the time? Finding something like that would probably the best bet I would guess.

Like guys who retained all of the early Usenet traffic, or mirrored old FTP/Gopher sites.
I feel a little sorry for Uber being bunched in with Lyft and Sidecar- the latter two use a sort of nebulous "rideshare" concept to skirt around being considered taxi cabs, but Uber uses licensed drivers, as far as I can tell.
There is OpenVZ, LXC and Linux-VServer which are the same as FreeBSD jails but for the Linux kernel.
Asm.js: now in the release version of Firefox.
Nearly all of the cases where I've found myself annoyed at someone closing a question are the "off-topic" variety. Most commonly, they are questions asked, answered, upvoted, and google-indexed on StackOverflow and then closed because some mod decided it wasn't programmy enough and should have been asked at ServerFault. Due to the large overlap between programming and system administration, the same question asked at both SO and SF may generate different but equally useful responses tailored to their own communities. It's far too easy for an over-zealous moderator to fail to consider this and close out a question for no good reason.

I'll be interested to see if the new "close reasons" will actually improve this problem. My guess is that it won't and there will still be overly draconian closures of edge-case topics that are relevant to multiple communities.
Indeed. If the objection is that people drop off the easy to see communication systems and start having more shielded communications as they radicalize, then the objection carries within itself a description of very pattern that one can use such a internet traffic surveillance program to search for.

A naive version would generate plenty of false positives, but following up on random entries in the list generated would quickly reveal classes of other reasons that people's comms go dark (having children, new job, moving to a new town, major injury or illness, depression, etc.), and one could start filtering using that. Also one might get some use out of looking for clusters of people going dark in various social-connection graphs, and commonalities of what people fitting the comms-going-dark pattern read and say online.
I'll flat-out disagree with you about the opinion-based questions.

We're in a young-enough industry and practice that opinions are really the coin of the realm--there is not the same standard accept methodology you'd see in, say, mechanical engineering.

To pretend that opinions aren't somehow a useful component of learning here is absurd--all the more so because beginners need opinions to start. Once they learn more, once they get exposed to other ideas, then they can form their own opinions. But to pretend that this happens in a vacuum is quite wrong.

Your example "Which is better, Ruby or PHP?" is exactly where opinions, properly backed-up, are useful: a good answer will say "Well, Ruby has these great metaprogramming features, but PHP has a much larger developer pool, and so on". Bad answers will of course just be "ruby is teh 1337 n00b". If only there was some kind of way that Stack Overflow let users filter good answers from bad answers...

At the end of the day, opinions and their debate are what are most useful to a beginner, especially when they don't know what questions to ask or issues to consider. The big failing right now is that you aren't trusting your community enough to filter out the garbage.
>Scenario B: Terrorists recover a missing Cold-war era nuke, and detonate it over Iowa

Which nuke?
I have absolutely no idea how I'm supposed to navigate this page.

Really pretty, though.
>I haven't followed the NSA Prism story as closely as maybe I should have, but I'm curious: is this TRUE?

it is the "least untruthful statement".

> or, is it more like, we can't be sure what they do and don't have access to, therefore, it's better to assume the worst?

it is just hard to imagine how they don't have access to something. They obviously capable of accessing everything they want. Thus if they don't access something, it would mean they don't want to. Ed absurdum.

Interesting piece of history btw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman#Computer_privacy...

"Hellman has been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate. He and Diffie were the most prominent critics of the short key size of the Data Encryption Standard in 1975. An audio recording survives of their review of DES at Stanford in 1976 with Dennis Branstad of NBS and representatives of the National Security Agency.[12] Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size ..."
Why shouldn't the regulations that apply to one group of people who charge money to drive others around on public roads not apply to every group of people who charge to drive people around for money?
Elon Musk put his last $3 million into Tesla to make payroll a few years ago.
Even if there were a perfect solution for storing encrypted email it would still be unworkable because you'd lose the ability to search your email. It seems like too big of a feature to lose. Have crypto people come up with a solution for building encrypted search indexes?
Pink Floyd vs Pandora
T&M is "Time & Materials", which is the same as billing by the hour or week. The advantage of T&M for code sprints is because of the typically ambiguous and uncertain nature of the sprints. Even though there's supposed to be a well defined and constantly prioritized queue of features to be completed during each sprint, the fact that they can be changed and moved around means it's incredibly difficult to nail down an actual deliverable beyond a vague "payment of milestone X due upon completion of code sprint", which is really no different than a duration-based payment schedule which basically boils down to T&M :D

FP is generally (not always) better for both the buyer and provider because:

1. Buyer benefit: For a given scope there is a corresponding, known budget. Typically, fixed/forecasted budgets are preferred by buyers so they can forecast and set internal expectations.

2. Seller benefits:

(i) If it's a task that you feel can be done quickly or with less effort than normal (e.g. done repeatedly for others in the past), you can still charge based on the VALUE of the work vs. the # LABOUR UNITS, ultimately resulting in a higher margin for the seller with a tightly scoped budget for the buyer, even though it takes you less time to complete. The only time you need to consider lowering list prices for work done several times in a row is when a perception of commoditization creeps in, either by the general industry or (more likely) by the customer(s).

(ii) T&M is more profitable for you in the short term, but often causes more overhead and problems for the buyer on larger deals as scope uncertainty and ambiguity increases. Typically, the easier you make your buyer's life in terms of reducing overhead and paperwork, the more likely they are to want to work with you in the future.

>>There's always scope, but for sub-£2k jobs (and worse for sub-£1k) there's a trade-off between time spent tying down the scope and time doing the job.

Sounds like you're an independent freelancer. In this instance, you're in a tough spot. I suggest putting in 1.5hrs that you swallow from a cost basis with a firm goal to minimize potential risks during the engagement.

The worst part of being an independent is that your overhead is typically higher if you try to go the FP route for higher-valued deals as you are solely responsible for writing the SOWs, thinking about the timelines, managing the customer AND delivering. I can absolutely understand why, in that situation, you're comparative advantage is defaulting with T&M in most situations and hopefully raising your prices a bit to compensate for the inevitable pre-sales discussions you need to have with potential customers.

Sorry I can't give more advice there. I've found patio111's posts to be very informative for independents looking to grow.
Can you please share more of your experience regarding deliverability of various services? I'm somewhat surprised to hear SES can be surpassed in this department.
Looks needy. I'll try it up.
Well they are. Most devs can instantly tell if a site is flash or html5. And anyone who visits the site will know it's html5. So even if someone had any doubts earlier, they now know for sure that html5 is mainstream and flash's days on web are almost over.
That comment appears to be highly insightful and very relevant to the topic being discussed here. Low effort content eventually displaces high effort content in high traffic websites. I have seen this in every community I have been part of, I have spent the last 10 years on Slashdot, 7 years on Reddit and 4 years on HN and that comment is spot on.

I can only pray that SO doesn't fall victim to it too and I support the admins in restricting content as long as it is subject to oversight and is not overdone.
I liked it as a demo, but was incredibly slow to load for me, and I dont see anything that indicates a large amount of data is being loaded
In Va., Tesla Motors has a showroom where it can’t make sales
A Usenet poster thinks up Google Glass.  In 1988.
For many industries to be regulated is to be protected. This issue is very little different from others we have read about here, a prime example would be either AirBnB or even Tesla.

The root of all of these is government. Your going to have to push for less regulation to get into many markets. To get there means one or more strategies. Changing who is government, for that you will need to convince people there is a benefit in doing that. Second to that would be reducing the size of government, put limits on what it can do. Third, you could try and get the people making the laws on your side, but your up against numbers.

So whether its taxi rides, rooms for rent, cars to sell, hair dressers, or even where you kid can go to school, its all about regulation and protection of those regulated.

Don't get mad at those who work in regulated fields, find a way to reduce that regulation to give them choices, you choices, and customers of all a choice.
I find the Rails tutorial to be a terrible intro to Rails (unless if you're already a web dev, or a crack dev), but a fantastic intro to TDD with Rails. I recommend JumpStartLabs' Blogger tutorial as the best intro to Rails.
I think the only real solution to this is not to deny information to facebook, but to trivilize the information given to it. Fb already has all our data, now whether you delete it or not, they'll have it, either as visible data or as archives of back ups, they have it. What we should however do is what Adam Huxley suggested in brave new world that by filling in so much irrelevant information, you make it possible to drown out the valuable information.

I wont classify, I wont categorise and I won't tag, I will not create albums, I will just keep uploading everything everywhere. I will try face-detection with different people and my cat. You get the idea.

If enough people over use / abuse the fb with loads of insignificant info, FB's game will backfire.