skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donation. It's not a business, so much as a group of geeks who wanted to bring back the heyday of GR. You can Flattr or bitcoin I think, and they've managed to keep a steady influx of donations thus far. By definition, it's easy to maintain since the goal of the project is "no additional features". So, the main cost is server load, which these days is easy enough to manage.
Yeah. I like and use Chrome, but Firefox is back to being pretty good as well. If Google were to do something so drastic as yanking H.264 support from Chrome, I would probably re-evaluate my choice. But that's the great thing here: This is an individual choice.

I think Google has enough clout in Youtube to move us forward without pulling a Steve Jobs anti-Flash stunt. At the time, there were very few alternatives to iOS in quality, but at the present time we have plenty of good browsers. A "pull-the-plug" approach would alienate a good number of users, who could just pick up and go with Firefox, or Safari, or IE, or Opera.

I like that they're gradually rolling this stuff out, trying to get hardware companies to add built-in decoding, etc. It won't happen overnight, they're playing the long game.
Yeah but at least in the USSR you could bribe your way out of this type of situation. Here it's even worse because the people at the bottom (checking counter people) wont take bribes and maybe even can't because the computer will stop them from entering certain info.
Thanks for the replies! (rescrv and emin_gun_sirer)

I could have been more specific, I meant that I hope other projects do build upon your work. :)

Pleased to see repeated references to Hyperdex on HN, hoping it continues to grow and mature.
at 1:02:30

"Does the technology exist at the NSA to record american's phone calls, or read their emails?"

"No"

There's something weird going on -- this seems too far off from Snowden's reports to be true. Like, p(Snowden leak | no technology like that) is just too small relative to p(Snowden leak)
clippy!
I'm confused about what you're getting at. In the next paragraph he defines being a traitor and being treasonous as different things.
My young daughter makes things in paper that are just plain beautiful. It may be overhyped to some, but I adore it.
How do you read feeds on 4 different devices without some type of synchronization with what you've read?
I changed to Liferea too and it surprised me how little took me to get used to it. Also, on Ubuntu 12.04 you get the unread posts count in the launcher (61 items in this screenshot): http://imgur.com/YHDWrIC

Liferea has few issues but they are very minor (ocassional freeze) but it's fairly stable.
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I doubt it's changed much.

Where would the traffic go?

It's hard enough replacing products & services from the 'big companies' (google, facebook apple, etc) with smaller ones operating inside the US. Let alone replacing them with services outside the US.

Where does the traffic come from?

Do the majority of users really care that they're being spied on. "If you have nothing to hide..." seems to be a reasonably common way of thinking.
I think you are arguing it wrong as the OP does speak to traitor vs treasonous.
Yes, you are right.

Actually, the fact you force your opponent isn't the problem (I don't think) but the fact that the presence of that piece might later give p2 a free move, where previously they wouldn't means it doesn't work.

Sorry, that's what I get for thinking I didn't need to figure out all the details carefully!
> It was an awful time sink.

That's because you were doing it wrong; you probably subscribed to spammy high-volume feeds.

Protip: Don't do that.

But if there are some high-volume feeds you absolutely must subscribe to, try only reading the headlines and then marking the entire folder as read.
Any way to reorder poll options, so ones added after the poll starts can appear in alphabetical order?
Questions, perhaps. Not: "You are not allowed to be here, we don't care if your grandmother is dying; we don't care if you are attending your sister's wedding."

This is what is happening in the US with the no-fly list.
The app store (at least in the UK) has always been hideously slow and rubbish, even on a fast connection. I don't even try on cellular data anymore (to look at stuff, not even download/update.)

As I said, this wouldn't involve much more in the way of data transfer than the current setup. I assume that 15 apps instead of 10 preloading is the same order of magnitude; the latency is the kicker, not the tiny bandwidth required for metadata and icons.
You would think they'd have lifetime appointments as other federal courts do, but it's important to note FISC (and its review process) isn't the final stop on some Orwellian and diabolical train.

It is very easy to get caught up in examining the mechanism itself as a way of stamping out the abuse of the mechanism. As much as I dislike what the court represents, I can't fully qualify its dissolution.

In 50 USC § 1803 (b) it specifically states the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the decisions. The Title itself is designed for expediency and proximity - something its "parent" court isn't designed for.
> That's not what I was talking about.

I was refering to the "backup and recovery plan for people" part of your comment, following the best idea about it we nowdays have.

> Frozen. Minds. Say What?

Yup.

>> will likely require some form of basic molecular nanotech,

> Wild assertion.

It's not a wild assertion, it's the basic assumption of this concept. Cryonics by definition is "let's freeze dying people 'till we crack nanotech". See also [0].

>> and this same technology can in principle convert dirt to habitats on Earth and in space.

> Wild speculation.

If we get nanotech (even just by reprogramming nanotech that is already around us) then this is the consequence. It's not a speculation - this comes straight from the premise. Actually, cheap construction abilities should come much earlier than revival. Notice that we already made some progress in reprogramming viruses and bacteria, as well as using protocells to construct structures (there was a TED talk about it some time ago).

> To sum it up - you have nothing. Asserting "OH the tech we will have by then will magically fix it and we will live in space" is not a solution.

The thing I was arguing is that if we get the tech to escape death, then the same tech will solve overpopulation problem earlier, as it's much easier. Therefore, we don't have to consider overpopulation when discussing whether or not we should freeze people.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics#Revival
How to gather in-store feedback
Perhaps the game makes more sense if you can choose any board as soon as the board is won - not when it is filled. Then, you can only force 3 moves before you have to give up control.
> I am wondering why I use Facebook even.

Because, as much as you shout and holler about your privacy being violated, and as much as you act like you value said privacy, you're more than willing to give it up for a modicum of convenience.

You, me, and everyone else. Anyone who still uses a 3rd party to handle unencrypted data they expect to remain private is simply uninformed. Period.
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu
Why do you want it to be web-based?
You'll be forced to tell your overseas colleagues that you have received no such warrants, and they should update the canary to reflect that. Unless your architecture is set up so they would somehow immediately become aware of these warrants, there's no way they're even going to know they exist.

Legal "hacks" like this rarely work.
I enjoy sharing amusing facts that are embarrassing to established players, and it's also good for society. Such a thing has little power over my life, actually, because I can cease at any time.

It's hilarious to me that a company actually has a physical space called a Perf Room. How does a person not find that funny? You might think I'm in pain, but I actually enjoy some good entertainment.

On open allocation, I believe that it's our duty as a generation to end closed allocation for good. It serves absolutely no purpose in a technology company (in fact, if you're running closed allocation, you should become a hedge fund because you're not a technology company, so you might as well re-tool to something with money in it) and there's immense profit to be made for all sides in ending it. We can be the dinosaurs, or we can be the meteor. I choose the latter.
Meh. Who uses yahoo mail as their main? Nobodies. I don't really know other than I don't get many emails from person@yahoo. I've got a yahoo account (or an aussie Y7) its for spam and pipes (pipes are cool). I've also got a huge file full of yahoo mail hashes... people's password choices can be embarrassing~!
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Read the notes: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Not all videos are in webm format, you can add &webm=1 to any search URL.

ie. Hacker News search: about 3,780,000 results, about 1,320,000 results with webm flag.

In fact sometimes I get an an error like this: http://i.imgur.com/dBPICoM.png

(using Chromium 25.0.1364.172 with no h.264 support)

I don't know if this is because of ads or what.

EDIT: typo
As I understand it, that's possible, but the 'metadata' requests aren't routinely surveyed because they don't capture 'enough' data to constitute something that would require a warrant.

To put it in more real world terms, it takes a warrant for me to go into your house and listen to what you're doing, but I am perfectly free to sit outside your house and watch your comings and goings without one. I believe (but do not know) that the current interpretation of the metadata requests is being treated like this, where the NSA simply feels that no warrant is required.

Your argument however, probably holds more weight because, at the least, you would very much hope that Verizon and company wouldn't be handing over data without some kind of warrant, even with a 'strong suggestion' from the feds.
Seems reasonable - FilePicking (and multi-source rich media) is, for example, significantly more difficult problem than 'Social Login', yet JanRain's evaluation is probably far in excess of FPIO / Ink's.
I can't speak to the parents 'cure for cancer' claim, but it's worth noting that 'vegetarian' really only means a diet without meat.

It's quite possible to be a vegetarian without consuming any more fresh fruits and vegetables than that found in a conventional diet.
Can't you just use node-mysql or something like that? They broke my heart when they dropped custom runtime (and ML-like syntax) in favor of Node and JS, but it should allow Opa users use Node libraries directly, no?

I like the idea of such a "framework" - it's time to abstract away all the cruft web developers need to write and focus on actual logic. I didn't use Opa or anything similar yet, but I'm keeping an eye on them and will try them at some point.
At this point it's become abundantly clear that everything is stored and indexed in a database

Where is that made clear? Listen at 1:00:20-1:01:00
What is the heck of Warts and Wartrol?
Nice.

No Starch is probably my current favorite tech book publisher, I've yet to run across anything less than great under their label and I've been using DrRacket recently to work through SICP.
I would imagine that travelling through South American countries would be a better option (ie., the only option).
Perhaps the game is less deterministic if you can choose any board as soon as the board is won - not when it is filled. Then, you can only force 3 moves before you have to give up control. Then approaches like the Orwin gambit would not work (it is too costly to lose a board if it only lets you choose three spots.)
Thanks. Great explanation. Considering that the ASCII character map is arbitrary and there are so many great ways to test lossy compression algorithms( PSNR to A/B testing), this seems like a pointless exercise, but at least I see what the author was trying to do now.

If I wanted to demonstrate lossy compression, I'd use Image Subtraction plugin in GIMP, not ASCII.
The author misses the point that most stores don't stock anything but the base models. A fully-spec'd, brand new product would have to be shipped to the store (or your home).
Canada and the US share data. It may be possible but that probably depends on your personal situation. If you can get across the border you'd be okay I would guess, although you better hope the flight doesn't fly into (or over) US airspace.

For reference:

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ifim/airspace/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
It seems that, no matter how many times I look for the way to see raw text, I never remember that it's "<>".
Facebook doesn't deliberately block Tor connections.
I have considered this and ultimately this is going to be the plan if nothing materializes over the next few months :)
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I disagree. You give a situation which is suggestive of the person learning they have cancer, and is a perfect example of how mass tracking can expose personal but information about our lives that we would rather keep private (particularly medical information, which I believe is the most vital kind of privacy threatened by these mass tracking schemes). But I wouldn't say that conclusion that you suggested is solid. It is equally plausible that the diagnostic center told the patient that results were negative, and the call to the mother was to reassure her and to the surgeon to cancel a preemptive appointment made by the doctor.

> The conclusions which can be drawn from that meta-data are far more solid than can be drawn from listening in to any or all of the phone calls.

This is just false. If you were a lawyer trying to draw a portrait of intentions with the metadata in court, obviously it would help your case if you could play the tapes and show what was said in each of the calls, so the other side can't propose equally valid situations like I did and create reasonable doubt.

I think we can be so fascinated by the power of having data, that much like the other powerful forensic tools used in the courtroom, we are eager to connect all the dots like we see TV shows like CSI doing. It can be difficult to remind people that more data (particularly meta-data and not content) produces more plausible hypotheses as often as it narrows them down.
If only YouTube's HTML5 video player wasn't so buggy!
I have tried switching to the HTML5 player a couple of times, but a few days later I'm back to flash.
I only read my news on one device, partly to avoid this issue.
Ask HN: Most efficient way to reply to a forwarded email
When you receive a forwarded email that requires your response, how are you composing your reply? Copying and pasting the to/cc from the original message? Is there an extension that automates this process?

Example:

From: john@example.com
To: nick@example.com

Can you provide some more details to them about this?

Begin forwarded message:

From: jack@example.com
Subject: Defining X
Date: June 17, 2013 2:27:51 PM MST
To: joe@example.com
Cc: rick@othercompany.com

What is x?
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I should clarify that I probably should have said "regular article III court." The FISA court is an article III court in the technical sense of the term (at least Orin Kerr things so: http://www.orinkerr.com/2006/07/14/article-iii-standing-and-...), because its judges are article III judges. Reading Kerr's comments, I'm now convinced that this is probably the correct use of the term.

However, when someone says "article III court" they are usually referring to: the Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. District Courts, as these are the only courts that can exercise the full judicial power of the United States. In that sense the FISA court is not a regular Article III court, because it has a circumscribed set of powers.

In any case, my point is that a "secret court" sounds scary, and a secret court with full Article III powers would be very scary. But the FISA court is not such a court.
don't know, but you could probably email the lawyers that wrot e this blog post and find out. contact information for various ACLU lawyers is listed in the filing [1] found on the blog post.

[1] http://www.aclu.org/national-security/latif-et-al-v-holder-e...
I really doubt this would play out well in court. As said before, judges take a dim view of legal "tricks" like this.

They won't be sympathetic to you putting yourself in a quandary where you're essentially requiring yourself to issue false statements. The order they issue will force you to update the canary, as refusing to would disclose the existence of the warrant.
I'm using Feedly for now. Digg's Reader is the obvious choice for me if it turns out like I expect.
It's weird to me that entering $0 then seemingly still requires my credit card or PayPal.
Lots of what we know about the brain is implementation detail. For example brain architecture. Which part processes what. It's insignificant because when brain is young enough you can cut out whole hemisphere and end up with completely functioning individual.

When babys brain grows up it reassimilates most of the neurons that it grew. Architecture of the brain is shaped by funcion during development. The brain begins as generic structure that undegoes optimisations for the sole purpose of probably energy efficiency.
I've basically done the same thing, going through Feedly to The Old Reader (TOR). The only downside to TOR at the moment is it seems to take a while to update the feeds, forcing me to manually hit the refresh button on the feeds I read more frequently.
I've worked in several government run datacenters. No chance they stored all that data that cheaply. They can find a way to over pay for anything.
Check out the full Bank of America whistleblower details (affidavits)
To add to this, the value of the duopoly of AT&T and Verizon, is also the ease of having two targets that make up the extreme majority of all telephone calls / wireless data / and a lot of broadband access. If you're the government and you want to spy on domestic calls and data, it sure beats having to deal with a market in which dozens of companies split the marketshare. This last point is also one of the reasons why the former telecom monopoly of the old AT&T was allowed to be recombined after having been split into pieces.
Self-hosted? I have just migrated back to third-party hosting for much of my stuff because I was bored of maintaining my dedicated host. It was fine 99.5% of the time, but having someone else worry about availability just makes my life better. Consolidation, scale of economy and management. All for much the same reason I don't make my own electricity (although I am on the edge with that as well!).

Dedicated apps have been around forever, heck they owe their heritage to News Readers (before the binaries took over usenet). I have two laptops and a phone, so I couldn't use a stand-alone application for the 200 items I get a day.

As for "panic"? I didn't panic, I grieved and then found a replacement. It wasn't that hard and frankly it beats patching and maintaining myself, I have better things to do. I think that Google's decision was wrong because Reader was a good service, but I also think it has benefited many people because several companies and individuals have benefited from the fallout.
I dont think "America" is a good example of democracy..
Brazil is very sofisticated in terms of democracy than US is in many levels..

US economical development was in part because the industrial lords could do whatever they want without many concerns.. here we got more discussions about social aspects, and more people from diferent ways of views..

You see moviments like ocuppy were really choked by the mass media and
the politics in the very beginning..

People who dares to face against the status quo get convicted as traitors, get killed or are invited to leave the country (Chaplin)
Another interesting way to play tic-tac-toe that makes it a lot harder:

There is a bag of numbers 1-9. Players take turns moving numbers from the central bag to their own private bags, removing that number from play. Whenever a player has a subset of exactly 3 numbers that sums to 15, they win.

This is isomorphic to tic-tac-toe since the magic square for a 3x3 board has rows/columns/diagonals that sum to 15.
I can pretty much guarantee that it will never happen. Sorry to burst your bubble.
From their site, they say that "Opa generates and is fully compatible with standard JavaScript code" so it's really no different than preprocessors like CoffeeScript. So the tagline seems acceptably accurate IMO.

And is it really that odd that they've targeted Mongo to start with? Meteor has done the same thing.
You are right. I should have gone straight to the heart of the matter: An intelligence arising in machines or in an exobiological system (or, for that matter, in a sufficiently different animal) seems very unlikely to function like human intelligence. Does that mean the only philosophically valid intelligence is human, or maybe in a genetically manipulated primate?
It's always a tradeoff between privacy and security. The rules behind the use of the metadata are pretty stringent. For example:

Metadata is JUST number + duration. Not localtion, cell phone tower...

targetting cannot be done on citizens or permanent citizens, or people in the US. Permanent citizen in Madrid is safe.

No "reverse" targetting(targetting foreigner but really interested in US nat'l)

if citizen/perm. res accidentally targeted, info not used, FISA court signalled, house intel + judiciary signalled.

If targeted person is initially out of US, but venture in, targeting stops IMMEDIATELY.

Info accidentally gotten (for example, lag when stopping of the targetting mentioned previously), ineligible info is purged. All ineligible info is purged.

All targeting is reviewed beforehand , both by DNI and judiciary. All targets are audited

Plus this was used on less than 300 numbers. 20 people in the world have access to the info. The justification procedures are stringent.

This hearing restored some confidence in checks and balances. And a good point by Deputy AG Cole: This is for foreign surveillance ONLY. There used to be no oversight for foreign surveillance. Now there is through FISA Court and this second court order with all these rules in it.

Also, NSA can't listen to the calls without fixed warrant, and the brothers were in the US at the time of planning their thing, so out of NSA jurisdiction anyways.
See my correction above. I wouldn't say I'm "wildly misinformed" (the definition of "Article III court" isn't bright and clear, and Orin Kerr couches his opinion that the FISA court is an article III court in a "I would think") but it's probably most accurate to describe the FISA court as an article III court, albeit one that can't exercise any of the powers that would make a secret article III court scary.
Can you cite any statutory or legal authority that states this? Because it strikes me as in the same vein as "a police officer has to tell you they're a member of the police"
My experience has been that commercially available speech-to-text technology doesn't work very well on non-US-accented English. Maybe fixing that tech will be one benefit of PRISM. You know, just like we thank the Apollo space program for Velcro and pens that can write upside down.
Deep learning wouldn't fly on vacuum tubes.
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Can anyone else hear the quiet roar of a thousand not-so-silent fans as they struggle to dissipate heat caused by furious Xcode and RubyMotion compilations?
But being right about the problems isn't automatically the same as being right about the solutions...