skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among other new to me metadata analysis fundamentals, Matt Blaze's identifying metadata as `context' explained the huge lever gained by big-Data collection and long term storage.

Comments' to this Wired story brough me to the somewhat excited but thoughtful link:

"...Still evolving technically, the secret national security goal is to build, over time, a detailed mathematical 3-D model of every citizen’s (metadata) patterns for behavior analysis and prediction purposes.

How do I know this? Simple, two Israeli firms with deep Mossad connections, Narus (now wholly-owned by Boeing) and Verint, drop-dead technical experts in behavior prediction modeling, are closely working with the NSA, DHS, etc. Narus’ corporate website home page clearly touts its advanced analytics as “Fusing together hundreds of data dimensions for deep, focused insight and control.”

“they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.” -Edward Snowden

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/forum-freedom-on-th...
Running their own competing transaction enforcement system (as they're unable to use the one provided by the incumbent force monopoly) is the thing which has significant externalities.
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It seems like an electric car could be made with two sets of batteries: one swappable and one not. Use the swappable one more or less where the gas tank is and use custom sized batteries elsewhere.

You'd have to swap batteries more often on a long trip but I could see the swapping easily taking the same amount of time as filling a gas tank.
I followed you up until ...

> But they're still good ideas, both empirically and morally.

No. They're bad ideas because they don't work, for reasons you mentioned!

Certainly we should strive to resolve all of those issues!

However, until we do, we should be mindful that they are issues and deal with the problems that they cause like adults. For now, free buses are a terrible idea. Once we take care of the issues you mentioned, they might be a wonderful idea. Sadly, we live in the now, not in the future.
Google Chrome has yet to implement the DartVM, I believe the OilPan memory experiment allowing for multiple languages to interact with the DOM without leaks is experimental still.
Secondly, Dart compiles to efficient Javascript and works on all modern browsers.
the only thing any mysql/mariadb news does for me is highlight how the average (and depressingly top voted) hacker news/proggit/slashdot commenter knows fuck all about either of them.
It could be the reason of many, while not being the reason of most.

If comedy central has ever taught me anything, it is that there is still illegal prostitution in Reno, Nevada. ;)
> Presumably this was in the manual I neglected to read

It's also in the options screen. (On the original SNES version, I've never tried the Wii U one.)
You had me right up until calling Apple a hipster love fest with substandard hardware. This adds nothing to your argument and just makes you sound grumpy (as in get-off-my-lawn type of grumpy). The crass children comment just reinforces this picture. I personally find their hardware to be high quality, and most of their margins come from the supply side. But that's beside the point.

True - you can make money on volume, but when you are in a race to the bottom in terms of price, something invariably suffers... it's usually quality. So, if you want to make money selling cheap crap, go right ahead - profit is profit. Just don't assume everyone wants to be in that business.
My criticism is on the authors of the articles, not on the HN voters. If the headline reads "Facebook blocks Tor, putting activists at risk", that's quite a damning claim. Maybe they author should check with Facebook. The commentors here at HN saying "it doesn't surprise me that Facebook doesn't care about activists" might not be constructive, but I'm not criticizing it because it's a forum like you said.

I'm not sure I agree that these things necessarily needed to be brought up on HN in order for them to be corrected. Just reaching out to FB may have done it. The author did not do this, instead issuing a retraction after the fact. Did anyone contact the MySQL team to see if this was a mistake before lighting the torches and grabbing the pitchforks?

The problem isn't the people here on HN. The problem is the authors of these irresponsible articles; authors who know that the more sensationalist of headline they write, the more likely the community will join their frenzy without question. It's meta on the tech journalist community, not the HN community.
Despite the comments that the slogan predates advertising, there is something to the parent commenter's thesis, though it's certainly not pure cause and effect.

This is a commonly discussed psychological phenomenon; if you focus on avoiding the negative, you accentuate that. You're not saying "Be Good", it's don't be evil, and so you not only name the elephant in the room, you chart the path around her periphery, and may actually crash into the elephant of evil.

In other words, as taken from a parenting site:

State Requests Positively

>Positive requests are more effective than negative commands. For >example, your child is more likely to respond to, "Please use your >spoon." than "Don't eat with your fingers."
So the title is pretty obviously wrong. But calling the video old was pretty redundant IMO. Can't quite understand the modbombing but hey.
We at BetterVoicemail.com love Intercom. We'll probably continue to use it with the new pricing, but we have a slightly odd way of doing things and might have to change some things around. We currently create an Intercom user in the first step of our sign-up process BEFORE he/she actually gives us their CC. We do this so we can send them reminder a reminder email the next day to complete the sign-up process. Unfortunately this counts toward the user quota now.
Seems like the Microsoft has already backed from its offering, The post has been removed from their website.
Not had much luck with the two plugins I've tried to install so far:

1. The Nginx plugin has a broken init.d script. Not the end of the world, but hardly a plug and play solution.

2. The Varnish plugin download is behind a self-signed SSL certificate (which is for a different domain no less). Furthermore the Gems it requires are loaded from a GitHub repository that is no longer available to the public. There simply doesn't seem to be a way to get this plugin installed.

The install process and software requirements for the plugins also appear to be wildly different. It would be incredible if New Relic provided the ability to install plugins over the command line from a central repository - something as basic as `newrelic install $plugin_name` would be ideal.

I really hope that these issues are worked out as I think this platform has real potential. It's just unfortunate that the quality of the plugins appears to be far from production ready.
It means you need to hire a professional patent attorney to do a proper patent search, discuss your tech with you, and probably apply for a defensive patent (or alternately, get a license from the original patent holder, especially if they aren't really using the patent on a competing product).
On Fab's Financing and the CEO's Responsibilities
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No, on top of that, it's probable that a lot of these people were already living in Tallinn, yet registered elsewhere, or are still living in a nearby city, and just registered with a relative/friend with an address in Tallinn. I'm not sure which would be the case more often, but depending on that it might be a positive or negative for the cities.

Also, the 15% increase in public transportation would probably demand more busses/trams to be run. There should be some extra marginal costs.
>We’ve had several influential folks from the researcher community join our security teams as Microsoft employees

I can confirm they had a (semi?) official program to do this as far back as 2006, as I was actually doing penetration testing as a hobby in high school a couple years before this article was written. They flew myself and a few other researchers out for retreats, put us up in nice hotels, took us out to fancy dinners, offered us internships, sent me an ipod video for my birthday at a time when they were really pushing the Zune, and at one point they even organized a huge paintball retreat for myself and some of the employees. The whole thing really put a very human face on the "corporate" persona we had always associated with Microsoft.

I think their strategy was more focused on grooming researchers to become permanent employees (which a few of them did, including Skylined, the guy that developed the Heapspray technique [1], who I shared an office with - super nice guy) or at the very least building loyalty to encourage responsible disclosure. They were also very interested in hearing how us researchers could be persuaded to continue disclosing responsibly, as a few of us were known to wear hats that weren't always white.

>I think Microsoft might be unique in offering a huge bonus for core platform exploitation

I'm happy to see them taking such a progressive approach considering a single critical security flaw can rake in tens of thousands of dollars on the black market.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_spraying
In the US and in NY we non-drivers subsidize automobile usage. The costs of building and maintaing road infrastructure are huge as are the costs of pollution and traffic. It's a form of transfer and a large one at that. As a New Yorker I don't have a car and as a Manhattanite I liked the proposed congestion charge that was nixed by Albany. As an aside, you may recall the revenue from the congestion charge was going to pay for improved transit in NYC.

I'm not suggesting a race to the bottom in terms of justifying one transfer with another but the elephant in the room is private automobiles and their subsidies. Nor am I suggesting pay-for-use for everything. However free buses are a rounding error in that light and we need to seriously approach road pricing, congestion charges as part of a unified transportation system.
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. I was just chatting.

You chose to take my position on liberals and conservatives, which disagrees with yours, very, very personally, rather than just saying, "He disagrees with me on politics," which would have been a more appropriate response.

And you've said all kinds of things that clearly are abusive to me... I'm brash, I'm irritating, I'm unable to have a conversation with others...

If you took my disagreement with you over politics as personally insulting, how do you think I'm supposed to take your actual personal insults?

> Don't accuse me of ignoring the Constitution sometimes and leaning on it other times when you don't even know what my positions are.

I am accusing liberals and conservatives of that. So what? That is not personally insulting, rude, or anything else. No reason to get upset.

I don't want to continue this conversation.
Agreed. I agree with the thesis of the article whole-heartedly. I'm adding some context of my thoughts, not a counter-argument. That the meat of the book, not the "words and the ability to think will keep us free" message the underlies it is annoying to me, and it's been used that way my entire life.
Not really a terrible idea at all. They are simply conforming to the CGI specification. In realizing the potential security issues associated with doing so, they offer a way to disable that behavior.
In this context, I didn't consider the "troll" comments to have a negative connotation. In fact, I found it pretty descriptive. They could have just as easily have used "gatekeeper" or "toll-collector". Trolls under bridges though is a lot more fun to picture in my head.
I firsthandedly had dealings with Kimdotcom and I hope he gets everything he deserves. He is pondscum.

Was partly my own fault (for being naive) however he still broke his word!
Not even the servers, just the hard drives. No reason to store anything else, right?
Thanks for hell-banning my previous nick !

I promise not to commit a thought crime, like speaking ill of stevey.

Can I lick your eye balls to show my appreciation, for your integrity ?

I wonder if HN-Nomencletura tries, to re-write other people's comments and submissions with their God given admin powers !

HN \m/
Yeah. I seem to remember Super Metroid as a fairly easy game. Unless you're trying to finish without dying, get all the items, or finish under the three hour mark for a slightly different ending.
Why is it a testament to Jobs? I doubt he wrote even a single line of code any of Apples OSs. Did he design the UIs or did he hire someone and then just approve what THEY worked on and designed?

I hate how people talk about Apple and give Jobs all of the credit for what Apple produced. What about all of the talented engineers, designers, etc. who actually did the work? Sure he had final approval and his design taste and whatnot were important factors, but he would have had nothing to approve or chose from if all of the brilliant employees didn't produce the work.
I think so far 1984 is a much better match. Not perfect, but so far better than BNW.
You can also use the Debian-style setup with sites-enabled/*, though I don't know of enable/disable scripts for nginx.
There's no Dart VM in Chrome atm. So any Dart app in Chrome has to run the same compiled JS like every other modern browser.
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Hey, thanks for your comment about LEAP. I had heard of them in the past, but didn't consider them. That may be where I make a donation, but the issue again is that the organization is about prohibition. In an ideal world, the organization would be fighting for human rights and addressing prohibition as the lowest hanging, and first fruit to take off the tree.

The Innocence Project is amazing, but does not address the widespread solution we need. A noble organization, ABSOLUTELY!

As for your first comment:

>1) Are privately run prisons better for the good of society than publicly run prisons? What does the research say? How biased is the research? etc.
IMO, Absolutely not.

This is the general opinion of HN, but is it the truth? I'm sure someone has addressed this opinion with honest analysis, but I don't know where it exists. Stating that "they are making a profit" is not good enough because there is more to the question than that.

Thanks again for pointing to LEAP. That is definitely a better marketed organization than NORML.
Bringing a Classic Marklin Z-Scale Model Railroad to Life With Arduino
I used a provided XML file. The library I used: https://github.com/peterbraden/node-opencv

I haven't touched the app in about a month, updated the library to the most recent version, and I'm now getting a 100% hit rate. I guess the library was a bit buggy.

Also, these headshots are the ones the players take before the season starts, not action shots. In theory there should be a high hit rate.
Yeah - I feel the same. Looked at my hand-me-down Rancilio Silvia and wondered about the set up. A text to turn it on and prime the boiler would be great and very useful for my late morning weekend coffees. I love this machine, with 2x $40 services it has run for about 15 years, a minimum of 2 coffees per day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JyvkjSKMLw
Yeah, that's persuasive. My summary: "Women are hysterical! And the bitch is crazy! And there was alcohol! And you bad people shouldn't jump to conclusions. And I'm not going to contribute to the drama by addressing any of the accusations directly or making any factual statements, so instead I'll contribute to the drama by clutching my pearls and calling for the fainting couch about the shocking state of modern discourse. And also, I will make vague threats of suing people."

Depressing. And ridiculous. She gave a detailed account of what happened, and has posted photos of her injuries. He didn't even bother to deny the accusations, let alone give his side of the story.
Write video games in Python / Pygame.

Sweigart is a good online resource.
Nope, no bubble here...
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I'm not going to go as far as giving legal advice here, but don't blindly follow the advice above. Doing a patent search can be harmful because it gives you knowledge of the existence of the patents (which is legally significant). Approaching someone for a license can bring unnecessary attention.

Most of all, spending time and money on getting a patent often doesn't make sense.
Isn't it more likely that in both cases, large companies changed course in response to overwhelming user feedback and are trying to cover their butts with "oops, just a bug"?
Thanks, Karen. This looks like great guidance. There is certainly no avoiding the "learn to draw" step if one ever expects to generate original material.
> It's just too easy to be distracted by the internet.

But OTOH a lot of documentation, help, and resources are available on the Internet. Learning to program was much more difficult in the old days when those resources weren't available.
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If you are narrowing the scope of your claim to say that Microsoft doesn't have the expertise to write exploits for every version of every product affected by every vulnerability, ok, sure. That isn't what was suggested though, and isn't something any reasonable person would have implied.

Then again, the notion that Microsoft dedicates resources to serve as an outsourcing shop for NSA hackers to develop "cyber weapons" no longer has "reasonable person" anywhere on the horizon. That's not even worth entertaining, I just had to interject because I thought you were saying MS doesn't have good exploit writers ;)

I do think the MAPP equivalent for governments, probably as an unintended side effect, grants some advantage to parts of the .gov interested in attacking the products. How much, and whether or not they need it, is another story. But I agree that the NSA sure doesn't need their help - it's probably just a bit of free gravy if anything.

And in Microsoft's defense, it really wouldn't matter if they gave them to the NSA or not. The distribution list is very large, and the teams who ultimately receive that content are not vetted in any way.
In my opinion, the Java ecosystem has grown to the point where C++ is no longer "the undisputed master". It is, at least, in dispute. TIOBE isn't perfect, but if C++ were still the undisputed master, Java would not handily out-score it, for instance. (If your response is to start expanding on the imperfections of TIOBE, stop and reread that sentence a few more times, carefully. Exactly what my if-then says, and what it doesn't say, are important to my point.)
The drug war is offensive and I am clearly stating that I no longer want to passively accept the status quo. I am also stating that NORML's brand is ineffective and I am looking for a brand I can donate to and possibly volunteer with without a negative impact to my career.

Until NORML changes their entire brand, their effectiveness will be limited. They do rally hippies which is a positive, but they won't get serious business people who cannot afford reputation risk no matter the cause.

If the people in NORML were serious, they would drop the pot leaf and start talking about civil liberties over "legalization".
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What are you talking about? Of course it will happen. The only way you can have true competition in the way you suggest is if all providers have the same content.

When we start getting Netflix producing shows A, B, and C, and Amazon Prime producing X, Y, and Z, if you want to watch only A and Z, you are stuck paying for both services.

It might not be as bad as paying for 200 channels when you only watch 3, but it's still the same model - just at a different scale.
lol: "NSA Is No Match for the FSB"

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/nsa-is-no-matc...
Russia & U.S. Setup Cybersecurity Hotline to Prevent Accidental Cyberwar
Brave New World is a much more ambiguous dystopia. Many people could read it and say, "Hey, everyone's happy with their lot. They are conditioned to love their work and the entertainment's great. What's the problem?". That's a much more subtle kind of situation to grok.
Agreed. And building on that analogy, Animal Farm would be about the stick holders.
Fun fact. Bjarne Stroustrup indicates the appendix of "1984" as a source for an interpretation of the name C++. http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#name
it's even more work to edit your package management system to include a set of documents that have nothing to do with the anything released ever before it. I would love to the commit comment.
"You need permission to access this item."

ETA: tried again, still getting it.
You're exactly right about how our culture of distrust of government has helped avoid Gestapos.

I have never claimed people should let down their guard. I've claimed that people should actually think and reason about an issue and then make a decision, instead of setting up easy (and flawed) rules for hard problems.

I'd be worried if people weren't initially revulsed by stories about government reaching the traditional line at which we declare civil liberties most important. But just as we've moved the line closer to civil liberties and farther away from state power, I don't see how it's automatically totalitarian to even think about moving the line closer to state power if there are actual benefits to be gained and without corresponding higher risk.

Unfortunately it's hard to even debate that here; even where you can get people to agree that it might be possible to consider a risk/reward analysis, they usually take incredible liberties in the logic process.

E.g. the "50 plots foiled; still no details story". It's like, really... you don't think there even 1 possible plot that could only have been detected by grabbing the unencrypted message data from G+/Gmail or Facebook? If someone can't even bother to think critically about aspects contrary to their chosen end state then how can I trust them to debate using critical thought?

I didn't trust Glenn Beck when he tried to use OLIGARHY as a debate tactic; I'm not going to trust people on other issues when they use poor logic either.
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Perhaps this is a vote for design school?

I've always found Exec's design to be terrifically underwhelming.
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Got it. Well here's wishing you good luck. I am in the processing of quitting my job to launch a new company, will be joining you guys on the dark side very soon!:)

Btw it will be nice to do another HNer meetup in DC.
That seems unnecessarily rude.
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+1 for the link to the Java AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean class doc.
I made that comment on a phone. I mostly wish I had not.
Couldn't it just be playing with the fact that text describing Newspeak is written in Oldspeak? Pointing to the paradox that the very book would be impossible in Newspeak? More like "we're lucky we're not them" than "and the wolf was shot and they lived happily ever after"? I posit Orwell wanted to keep the book gloomy enough. It was not to be a fairy tale but the warning.

Is there any explicit statement of Oldspeak actually winning in the alternative universe we're reading about? Or the reasons for winning as declared by Ms. Frost ("it's da language")?
I guess the HN admins have read that chapter very carefully. Anybody who dares to express an opinion against the elite here is immediately hell banned.
Or just add congestion fees for cars entering the city center, and use those revenues to fund citywide public transportation.