skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen the "Enter password box" and I have a hard time imagining why it would exist. Why would they choose to deal with logging into your email, scraping for email addresses(spawning parallel processes etc), risk blacklisting and (more)user hatred (not to mention trying to prove to google you're not a robot)when there is a perfectly good OAuth(2) protocol/spec that along with good google apis to retrieve this data securely (well: http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell...). I agree its still cheap and tacky but not really nefarious.

There is a 10 message / api-key / day limit using the linkedin messaging API I think http://developer.linkedin.com/documents/throttle-limits still annoying getting spammed.
It appears people are agreeing this (and other) actions by the government are unacceptable.

So what are Americans doing about it?

We see people in Turkey, Brazil and many other parts of the world protesting against their government, while those in the US appear to be doing nothing.

What's it going to take?
Someone needs to write a JavaScript implementation of this!
The problem is less with the tools, and more with the people using the tools. When picking out a library/framework, you should look at how quickly it's evolving and how young it is. That's not specific to web technologies, that's universal. The just web makes it more prominent.

For example, Pylons/Pyramid, etc.: these frameworks are great and I was evaluating them vs Django a few years ago. Since then the projects have moved on and lots of stuff in them has changed. OTOH, Django code I wrote 4 years ago still functions today with some really minor modifications required to upgrade. No, it's not using class-based views since they weren't available back then, but (aside from a few critical things), I don't get any deprecation warnings.

In other words, when a library promises that it'll be quick to get started with it and that it will make you so much more productive, you are not done evaluating it. The equation is (initial savings - cost of future maintenance).

As far as I'm concerned, there isn't a great and stable UI framework for the frontend that exists today. Dojo is comprehensive but complicated, ExtJS is very nice but you cannot skin it, jQuery UI is unusable.

The other thing that makes this complicated is that JS UI kits need to evolve. There are probably only a handful of good ways to do networking code, but what a good webapp should look like changes constantly. As soon as you can package good design into a library it's no longer good design.

This is one of the reasons why I tend to stay on the lower end of the stack. There you can easily write stable, testable code and libraries tend to provide a stable interface or die quickly.
Culturally I suspect it comes from the principle of freedom of action, such that people are free to choose to act they want to act and others are free to interact/not-interact with them based on the choices made. So Facebook might choose to act unethically and then people would choose not to use them. Facebook would fail and a new more ethical company would arise in its place.

That at least is the optimists view. The demonstration of crapitalism [1] shows that if part of the selection function is missing (in this case privacy) then everyone loses.

I really liked your notion of advocating the status quo as a trap.

[1] Crapitalism is when some definition of "quality" is taken out of the product selection mix, allowing simply "functionality" followed by "price" as the selecting mechanisms. This leads to inexpensive products which do what they say for a very short period of time. Ultimately resulting in higher replacement costs (which sadly benefits the manufacturer).
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i think this is the moment when we can say that bitcoin became a real currency. [imo a currency is something what you can use to buy beer]
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Please keep in mind though that it is a well known technique to try to build loyalty by doing something that the customer doesn't expect that isn't in your best interest.

The problem is this doesn't always work and isn't applicable in all situations.

The customer that you sell a laptop to may or may not return. But the salesman selling oracle would get fired for pushing a competitors product under the guise of building loyalty.

The problem is that practices like this are specific to certain places and situations.

Lastly, if you are a local small dealer you simply can't afford to easily lose a sale with the hope that the loyalty is paid back for years to come. You generally have to make hay while the sun shines.
> And, by the way, I hate the term "metadata." What's wrong with "traffic analysis," which is what we've always called that sort of thing?

This has also been bugging me. Metadata is a very general term, and it doesn't explain what the NSA claims its doing (whether they're doing anything else is beside this particular point). Moreover, the use of such a general term seems like it's part of the propaganda, to make us less scared: "We're not collecting data, we're collecting meta-data." Well, it turns out that they are one and the same anyway.
Lots of debate here on what is more powerful, the data or the metadata. I think in the case of voice content, a case can be made that the metadata is more powerful, simply because it's already parsed into a quantitative, objective format that's relatively easy to analyze en masse and find "suspicious" patterns within the public. With voice content, I don't think our natural language processing chops are up to par to deal with the massive amount of data and connect the dots in meaningful ways.

Of course, if you're already targeting a specific individual, and you can get a human to listen to the voice content, the debate is academic - both kinds of data compliment each other and are equally powerful. Metadata still acts as a better "gateway drug" for narrowing down individuals though.
For something similar on Android, the Google Now home screen widget has some of the same functionality and (presumably) philosophy, albeit with a more minimal design.
Run s/privacy/ignorance.
Out of curiosity, how long have you been living outside of Brazil?
I'm a Common Lisp programmer, and am beginning to get tired of phrases like "But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, ...". It's becoming increasingly dishonest to peddle Lisp as a functional language that stands in contrast to, say, Ruby or Python or what have you. Yes, Lisp has very functional roots. But that was fifty years ago. The Lisp of the past two or three decades is fully multi-paradigmatic. It supports a functional style, but it supports other styles (object-oriented, imperative, ...) just as well if not better. Haskell is functional. ML is functional. Heck, Clojure is functional. If my only attraction to Lisp was FP I'd be using one of those languages instead.

That said, lest I be perceived as too negative, I am very excited that this book is being published. Racket has always stricken me as very clean and friendly (two adjectives less applicable to CL), and advancing Lisp enthusiasm in any form is never a bad thing. Cheers!
Why does it have a copyright of 2018 on filepicker.io?
Performance is much better on PostgreSQL than on MySQL, and gets another big boost with absolutely minimal tuning of pg.
Have you considered targeting this use case?

so in short: no. :)

(FYI, their API provides access to all the git objects and would also allow you to add additional keys so you could clone it.)
Considering that recursive loop with bounds is a sort of for loop, recursive for.
No. Because the public would still be generally against it, and many congressmen would be voted out of office over this issue if they had an honest vote over it.
Such software would be non-free - an example of software which does this can be found with the JSON License[0]. The IBM team infamously sought (and received) a special exemption to do evil with that license.

The story is amusing, but the reasoning is simple: ideological restrictions are difficult to pin down legally, because they're murky to define. From a practical standpoint, this means that any company with a legal team that knows what it's doing will avoid using the software, even if their ideologies are in accordance with yours - the restrictions simply expose them to more liability than they're willing to take on.

[0] http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license
Playing the devil's advocate. What if all the data collected was also publicly available?
He's written a further compilation of his works in a book titled "Understanding Privacy":
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Privacy-Daniel-J-Solove/...

It's a great read, and includes a section on the 'nothing to hide' fallacy
Doesn't matter. It's always been known that the NSA is a spy agency. Thats what they do. However, they shouldn't be doing it in the manner that they are.
As the author of that post 3 years ago, nothing has changed:
- Ghostery does not collect user info, just tracker info.
- Evidon sells reports like this: http://evidon.com/trackermap and not actual data sets.

Here are some more details on our blog: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438
Brazilians actually are protesting important things. It just so happens that the straw that broke the camel's back was a bus fare increase of R$0.20.

The problem in the US is that our politicians have learned exactly how to abuse the system in a way that attracts the least ire from the general populace.

People in the US are likely to start protesting and getting angry over things like income taxes and fuel tarifs. That would get the ball rolling and then they would escalate their protests to things that matter.
And what guarantee would the public have that the published code is the same that's running on the servers?
A little bit like bicycles themselves. sure, we've got full suspension and electronic shifting and remote lockouts and carbon fibre and all kinds of other fun stuff now, but it's all really just garnish. a bicycle you buy today is not fundamentally different from a bicycle you might have bought 100 years ago. all the core mechanisms are identical.
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The only possible such system is one where each individual can set his own privacy level. This does not seem practicable.
Oh wow, step away from the Internet for an evening and this happens. Yes, I am a Ghostery developer.

Here is what Ghostery has to say about this non-story: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438

Regarding Disconnect's openness, take a look at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef...

That's Disconnect's master tracking list. I'd say it bears an uncanny resemblance to Ghostery's tracker library, but then I'd be breaking all sorts laws tampering with encryption.[1]

Please feel free to browse Ghostery's source code. All our extensions[2] are zips of unobfuscated JavaScript.

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[1] Nice take on the old "disable right-clicking on images". Not so nice to take tracker definitions from competitors and then brag about having the biggest library.

[2] IE is a bit special, as always, but that's out of our control for now (http://crossrider.com).
"It ended up sending invites to a few hundred people I had only had vague communications with"

NFW! This is a total pox on linkedin and explains why I've been getting so many requests over the past (forget how long) time period.

Linkedin is becoming the party that everyone is invited to that has no value for anybody.
Unless you wind up on a no-fly list.
They haven't changed because they are an obvious dead end. Professional sports aside, it makes no sense to force an everyday commuter to wear such a thing for a very dubious return in safety while we put up with automobile transport and retarded city designers.

Bicycle helmets are the equivalent of telling homeowners they should build a nuclear bunker for their home because we have no interest in ensuring safety standards for nuclear reactors fearing that could cause prices to go up.
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"If an incremental safety improvement results in higher manufacturing costs, the realized value of the improvement must outweigh those costs."

That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
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Have any of you seen the show Person of Interest?

I think there is a pretty good argument for domestic spying. But its a very fine line, the human element is the part of the system that I dislike the most.

I would be totally okay with a Completely Impartial and Unbiased body observing everything I do. Because for me my actions and for the majority of people their actions are completely irrelevant to crime fighting and prevention.

But as we all know there is no such thing as unbiased, or impartial so I don't think it could ever work.
George H.W. Bush would be sending them to Bill who would send them to George W. Bush.
Precisely. GhostRank collects and repackages tracker information on the web, not individual browsing habits.
You mean like, kids?
Love the look.

Without having a chance to download it yet, how does the to-do list part work? Is it pulling a to-do list from one of my current to-do list apps, or do I need to create another one for this?

Any future chance for support for a Twitter feed or possibly an RSS feed?

Am I the only one that wished this is what the iOS 7 lock screen looks like?
Interesting video with Binney who says they would've stopped every terrorist attack, including 9/11 had they used a simple technique him and his team outlined which he referred to as a "two degree principle".

He said its a myth they need all the data to make the connections in order to catch terrorists.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2475191994001/former-nsa-empl...

He starts talking about at the 2:57 mark.
That ratio of men to women can't be right, can it? It's a lot closer to parity in that graph than it seems to be in real life (more men than women).
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An interesting take on this at reddit submitted by user 'thenewlove': http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1gdb63/ysk_ab...

Also mentioned in the post by user 'eleven7' is the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
Can't speak for the original poster but my guess is the obvious drop in power/cost required for computing.

"Just wanna email, word process, and some web and some gaming" has relatively recently gone from a kilobuck P4 couple hundred watt space heater to a hundredbuck tablet that needs charging every couple days.

Unless you all can find a way to make silicon more expensive or dramatically increase processing demand, all these elaborate schemes to dole out processor are doomed to something like the per minute long distance business model where eventually more money was being spent on detailed billing than on actually providing the service... When the TCO of an elaborate virtualization system and its provisioning and billing and firewalling system exceeds the TCO of just spinning up a ubiquitous cheap low power system on a chip...
So one of the projects I got to particpate in at Google before I left were efforts at containerizing disk I/O such that each container could get a strong guarantee of x% of the disks available bandwidth. That resulted in a number of really useful changes to the disk scheduler code. I expect that the code has been contributed back by this time but I've not been following it closely.

Like the author I think containers are a much better answer than VMs. That is particularly true in a "web 2.0" world. I wrote up a bit about that on http://ops.blekko.com. In an architecture where the "app" is effectively a schema across a bunch of platform services you can achieve much higher machine utilization with containers.

At some point I hope the team at Google writes up their results for publication.
For anyone else looking to take a course like that, Coursera has a course on htdp right now: https://class.coursera.org/programdesign-001/class
> What if tomorrow, the law changes, and the government starts hunting down anyone with leftist leanings?

If you think that's a possible reality you're living in a paranoid lala land - which isn't surprising given all the apocalyptic narratives we get from the media (gov't turning evil, zombies/robots taking over, evil agencies controlling the world).

The reality is that no wealthy democratic government in the past 50 years (some of which are less obsessed with protecting liberties) has slid back into tyranny. There are statistics that indicate that past a certain GDP threshold tyrannical governments become unsustainable.

This kind of thing is simply never going to happen.
The one I play with my friends is usually a 4-in-a-row, 4 level board. You can win on any individual level, or by creating a straight line of 4 that intersects plays on each level (so playing in the top right of each level would net you a win, for instance). It forces the players to keep a three dimensional model in their head and opens up the board for more counters/strategy.

Anyone care for a game?

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> They shouldn't be spying in the first place.

Should the U.S. spy agency (one of them, anyway) stop spying?

Should the U.S. disband its spy agencies?

Is there a role for "spying" in this age?
Man, it would have been nice for printing numbers in bases greater than ten (e.g. hex) if 0-9 had come right before A-Z.
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TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.

(C) http://www.typescriptlang.org/

Btw, I've used it a lot, feel free to ask any questions.
Thank you. I was trying to avoid being the who asks what's different. iPhone 4 IOS6 redirects me too (and I couldn't tell as my HN app doesn't display the URL)
I see the new and like it now.
Hi Amadou, you should really post on our support board to get understanding or where Ghostery UI is going.
The implications of having a giant mass of data that includes everything done by everyone is just too awful.

Actually, the implications of having such a mass of data are complicated but not necessarily awful.

Let's speculate. Suppose a publicly accessible database of everything everyone does were available to everyone. Then the NSA could do all its ineffectual terror spying and you could watch the NSA people doing it in real time. Your brother in law could watch you watching the NSA and then switch to watching his favorite basketball team discussing its strategy for the upcoming game in their locker room because he finds your NSA obsession boring.

Is such a omnipanopticon world awful? It would be different, certainly. There would be little crime and terror but you wouldn't be able to keep private secrets, either. Nobody could be blackmailed because nobody could keep any embarrassing evidence hidden. Every intersection would be a red-light camera. The various drug laws would be overthrown by force majeure when there was found to be no space left to lock up half the population.

Yes, a social revolution with both good and bad effects would be complicated.

What the Anglosphere governments are doing is very different. They want to have all the information possible about us and for us to have less and less information about them. Obama and the other secrecy-and-police state governors of our world are working even more assiduously to put the public in the dark than they are to spy on us. And that is a very different thing.
Recruiters on LinkedIn never want to hire me. They just want to scavenge my connection pool. There's been one exception, Google, and they wanted me to move to California and take a 60% pay cut. LinkedIn lets me see where my coworkers have gone and lets me see what my boss looks like. Otherwise, it's useless.

Recruiters have never once helped me out. In fact, one time a recruiter called me for a job I had quit the previous day! I regard recruiters lower than used car salesmen.
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Ask HN: Is is possible live ethically by not supporting sweatshops
Is is possible to buy a phone that is not manufactured in a sweatshop ? is it possible to buy clothes that are not manufactured in a sweatshop ? Would like to hear if the community has any folks that were able to successfully bypass the current system and still maintain a standard of living that one could without bypassing sweatshops.

Also, How did things get so bad ? would like to hear a economist's perspective. Since I feel its partly responsible for the current state of affairs.
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The data of the call isn't important. That's the point. What you say matters less than what you do. And you do a lot more than you say.

To put it another way, Google doesn't know that I am interested in a new iPod because the I used Gmail to tell my friends, "I'm interested in a new iPod." They know it because I have been browsing pages offering iPods for sale. And that says a lot more about when I plan to purchase one than the statement sent via Gmail.

I didn't tell Kroger, "Hey, I've got a dog." I bought dogfood - and now that Witty is dead, they can tell from the change in my purchase habits that my big dog died - they don't print me coupons for Alpo anymore when I check out.

The content of the call indeed contains information beyond the meta-data about the call. But it's not just meta-data about voice calls that's being collected, it's meta-data about all modes of mobile and static communications - and geolocations when calls are not being made.
They could publish the code , but how do you know the binaries that they are using are compiled against an unmodified version of that source and that they are not using any other software?
Great execution, old idea. It's the basic piano roll most midi editors had in the early 90s, or even before.
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I guess they already use open source tools.
You 'might' be? This is not new news. Of course frequent users are narcissists!
I've probably consulted the ASCII(7) man page more frequently than any other, and consistently for almost two decades now.
You probably don't. But it's unbelievably narcissistic of you to defend the idea that "regular users" should cancel their accounts just because of an ancillary feature offered by a website.
Organic soy? Or GMO Soy?

Please post your analysis about the effects of soy - I'm interested.

My own research on the subject shows that the research of male soy consumption being harmful is ambiguous, but mostly proven to not be harmful. Wikipedia has a discussion on the academic research on this as well, if you want a casual glance.
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"This means that if you piss off wrong people you're going to jail."

Except that's not the reality. The reality is that if Obama really really hates someone and wants to make their life miserable, the most he can do it make it hard for him to fly (ie. the no-fly list). The government is constrained in what it can do, surveillance and omniscience doesn't change that.
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Impartial and unbiased observation of everyone would result in everyone in prison.
It's just pretty unconstrained without that kind of rule. And a decompressor that doesn't have to be fast can be tiny.
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