skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you are using Tor correctly

How can you be sure "they" are not running the exit node?
Show HN: How To Monitor Rendering Performance Within Three.js
PS3 also used a BSD fork (called CellOS or something like this). I would have been impressed if they had they own embedded low footprint OS. Forking BSD and "eating" a lot of RAM for the OS in a game console is hardly interesting.
I think you're over simplifying the past a bit. While it's true that it was harder for governments to track you, it wasn't like they weren't trying. If someone in power wanted you dead (or captured... but usually dead), they would go ahead and try. You can go right back to the Roman Republic and the Greek city-states and find cases of people trying to flee, or going into exile, and then being hunted down and executed. Your ability to protect yourself has always had as much to do with your own abilities and luck, as your ability to secure protection from a rival state.
Absolutely I am not suggesting being a door mat to people who would look to exploit you, or putting all your self worth into something external, helping to improve others is an internal quest, to perfect oneself. That being said, being kind to others and generous to others and the ones that reciprocate are people you want to help because they are the type of people that view the world as water lifts all boats and do not have the mentality of someone has to loose for them to win.
Ask HN: How Would Your Market My SAAS Web App?
I have just finished developing my SAAS application - Prospect - and would like to market it to a wider audience.

Having signed up some customers on a trial basis, I'd like to gain more to help grow sales and develop awareness.

What should I do? FWIW, I've spent some time as a digital marketer using the likes of Adwords, Email, Social etc but I'm particularly interested in the right approach for SAAS.

The website is usehuman.com, app is called Prospect.
I have also noticed that the more I need help in a situation, the harder it is to ask for it. The degree of difficulty is somehow connected to the degree of need and factors in my tolerance for disappointment.
Even if you don't encrypt your communications, can you be sure that NSA will not store your data indefinitely? Sure, they can pass the raw unencrypted data through their system, parse out the important bits, save them in a database with a unique key for you and then throw away the raw data. Are you OK with that? They have lied in the past and might even keep that raw data as well. How will you know?

IMO, best bet is to keep it all encrypted. It sounds like an attempt to scare people into leaving their stuff open.
Of course it is. Do whatever makes you happy! Pay no attention to what others say about you and your life as they don't owe anything. In the end that's all that really counts.

Now just love and passion won't get you anywhere. You need to find something to focus your talent and energy on, define a plan, and meticulously execute it.

Be prepared to acknowledge that sometimes you need to pivot because you've settled on wrong assumptions. Do it swiftly, and analyze the rights and wrongs to learn from them.

Just so that you know I've been through a similar process. It never ends. But if you trust your instincts things will only keep improving in your life.
But is it also true if they can monitor the whole Internet traffic?
For a lot of data-sets the amount being passed around is going to be small enough though. I expect CPU power to be more of a limit than bandwidth: depending on what grouping options the user picks a large dataset could take a lot of time to draw making the interface feel very clunky, particularly if like us you have a chunk of your user-base stuck on classic IE instead of more modern browsers.

We are working on something similar to enhance our app's existing custom reporting features. While we're erring in the side of "client side will be fine for our current requirements" if you don't mind the extra state storage server-side (or extra database hits to re-collect the data from the back-end each time) you could keep the data there and pull the results back via AJAX calls - with careful design you could even be share the slicing/dicing code between client & server and make the choice dynamically (if the data is small send it all to the client then you are as responsive as possible, if it is above a certain payload size keep it server-side to improve load time at the expense of interactive latency due to the AJAX calls as the user plays with the data). And/Or you could give the user the choice.
Half hour infomercials can be very lucrative in the radio business (particularly if they reach a metro like Denver). I would say that guy is covering a lot (or all) of his costs with it. He could definitely be generating anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 per 30 minute infomercial depending.

You can buy cheap stations for between $100,000 and $500,000 these days. KYEN / 103.9 FM, is a 16,500 watt station, and if that fully covers the Denver metro based on its tower location, then it's worth a fair chunk of money (low 7 figures). My guess is the owner has had it for a long time, before FCC radio licenses were auctioned; back when you could just pay a small licensing fee and apply for it.

I've seen a couple of cases like what you're describing, where someone owns a station as a hobby essentially. If you're running a very tight ship, it doesn't take a lot to pay for basic operations.
"They can attack an encrypted communication and probably decrypt it"

Why this assumption? The NSA has NO super-human abilities.

And one of their jobs is to protect gov secrets. Which is why they participated in the AES standard. If you really believe they can decrypt AES, then you believe they chose an algo that is insecure, than would allow China, Russia and others with similar abilities to read any of our nation's secrets.

Not to mention, that there are currently no known attacks that would allow them to decrypt AES in any reasonable amount of time, even if they had every single computer in the world.

If you really believe the NSA can decrypt anything, then you're out in conspiracy-theory land, with magical yet-to-be-invented computers, and humans with super-math abilities.
This is painful to read, especially the part about rich establishment late-comers whining about early, small investors getting "too much" payoff. Apparently people from middle-class backgrounds who "got lucky" don't deserve it. This reminds me of when Mark PinkAss whined in public about the Google chef making $20 million.

The people at the top of society really don't want anyone else to win because, as they see the world (and the OP clearly does not subscribe to this) it's completely zero-sum. These people do not believe in fairness at all. They're constantly looking for ways to take advantage of people, which I suppose is how they ended up at the top, but it makes the world ugly and I wish it would stop.
Make a quick website (hosted on Github or whatever), with a bunch of torrent links to a bunch of huge encrypted files.

Then spread the word and give them something to spy on.
He became religious with some Asiatic religion before he came up with his theory on donations. And there was here in HN a post about how his family did donatelots of money.
In Javascript, that would be three level of nested function, equally if not more confusing.
IRS: The words "open source software" suggest a for-profit business
http://www.garykessler.net/library/steganography.html
I'm liking it well enough. It's mobile interface isn't good and I haven't tried updating it yet, but it is certainly holding up adequately.

While I haven't done any tinkering with it yet, I enjoy knowing that I can make whatever changes to it I like.
"His failure to criticize these regimes suggests that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the U.S., not to advance Internet freedom and free speech."

Perhaps the only way you can advance free speech necessarily involves injuring the US national security?
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The NSA's resources are finite. The more people that use encryption the more resources needed to store and attempt to crack it.

Not to mention a push for users to continually adopt stronger encryption.
please, ssh insecure? don't use encryption? wtf!
> the choice is between using everything in the open, unencrypted, and then maybe they won't look at it, or encrypt it and then there's a very high chance they'll look at it

... but then it's encrypted. I'm not willing to take chances with the argument that if I send everything in the clear and take steps to act non-suspiciously then they won't intrude on my privacy. What I send in the clear I assume will be looked at; as for what is encrypted, they are welcome to store it and look at it as much as they like. (Yes, maybe they can break OpenPGP-grade encryption, but if this is the case then we're screwed anyway.)
Cloudservices like tarsnap might still be worthwhile for you.
Actually, if I go to the trouble of encrypting my data, I have nothing against someone storing it indefinitely. That's the whole point of encryption — it no longer matters who has the data, it only matters who has the key.
MVC is not a helpful analogy for Django
Sharing you JavaScript Ninja secrets: Run your jasmine tests on jsFiddle
JsFiddle is a great tool to show bits of JavaScript code in action. And Jasmine is a test-driven-development for testing JavaScript code, that comes with a clean, obvious syntax so that you can easily write tests. Together they make a great learning tool, letting you share well documented pieces of js code online, without forcing your users to go thru the hassle of setting up libraries or anything like that, just an internet connection and a browser will be more than enough. In this artitle we will see how to configure them to work together, so that you can share your Jasmine test on jsFiddle.
For (but not limited to) the British: http://www.derelictlondon.com/
Wouldn´t they probably find that github and just discard those torrents from their cryptanalysis?
Obama is also an incredibly skilled actor and manipulator. You have no idea.

Check out this 67 page examination of Obama's use of covert hypnosis techniques during his 2007/2008 election campaign [PDF]: http://tinyurl.com/5zyxsy

Sounds pretty far fetched right? Obama would never do such a thing. Besides, the American people would never fall for that...
True, but that only applies to data in flight. For everything you want to store and look at again you better have a key - otherwise you could just delete everything and arrive at essentially the same result.
> Well honestly, even as a fellow non-American, I think it's common sense that the US government should have to justify their actions only to US citizens.

I am not sure. The Germans seem to manage a more mature attitude about their responsibility to the world. Perhaps countries should upgrade their civil rights to human rights.
And this is why we all need to start encrypting everything. Every HTTP request, every email. There's strength in numbers and privacy in a crowd. They may have massive resources but they're not limitless, we have the technology available to render tools like PRISM unfeasible for the foreseeable future, the choice is ours.
What your parent comment described is steganography. It's not strictly limited to images or videos.

(1,2) (3,4) (10,7) (11,1) (12, 2)
What does this url do?
I found this url in a what looks like malware link on thepiratebay.sx

> http://1phads.com/%C3%B2%C3%9ANI%15%C2%B5%C2%81y%1E?%82%98%AA*P%FF%CC%E4\%A3%A4%D7%E4%B4%F6%C0%87%A4%BC%85TF

i clicking on it seems to do nothing in chrome. Didn't try in other browser, since it looks like an exploit. I would recommend you don't click on it.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what this might do?
It would perhaps be possible to adapt text watermarking tools like <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2002/Sep/68> to function as steganography tools.
what an awesome country you have there, eh?

here's the rationale: if we don't have total awareness and snooping power over this guy private stuff, he must be doing secret stuff and we can't know if it's bad, therefore we have reason to believe he must be a TERRORIST(are you still using this one or have you admitted to yourself that the objective is just `total information awareness`?)

also, cannot stop LOVING that non-americans basically have no fucking rights whatsoever.
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Exactly. If your government can look into a foreigner's private data without any notice to the holder, then good luck and good bye.
Occupy Google Reader?
This article is idiotic, should I stop using HTTPS too? Telnet in to work?
I love good frozen eats, so I can hope hers is good and can be part of a movement that pushes quality at scale so that US ice cream gets to where Europe is (quality at scale and optimal quality with regular availability)... The fawning contextualization and link bait headline - damn you internet.

Ingredients will be limiting factors since some preparations can not / should not be done in the mixing step and post-freeze manhandling of this soft stuff is wasted time - melt is death.

Traditional hard ice cream has a post-mix hard freeze time of 48 hours and some great preparations, like parkerhouse and butter pecan, just wouldn't render well. Not every flavor should turn out like a Dairy Queen Flurry. Not every texture should be mostly indistinguishable from a lumpy frozen custard.

She is perfecting ice crystallization but pawning off the wider challenges of the product. I hope her efforts don't create a limiting view of the cream-based frozen treat experience.
Being hunted is tangential to my point, which is that that we are entirely at the mercy of our states.
Controlling the exit node does not inherently compromise anonymity, only allows access to the plaintext message. If using end-to-end encryption on top of Tor, you should be able to maintain both anonymity and protection from tampering and snooping.
Glenn Greenwald pushes back hard on latest Edward Snowden “revelations”
For me it returns 404. I tried with both curl and wget.
Our unAmerican perception is somewhat biased by how much we know about the US. Just because people from country A know a lot more about the US than then US people know about them, doesn't mean that people from country A are any more knowledgeable about country B than the US Americans are.

But, of course, we from A still love to laugh about the dumb Americans.
Indeed, in most small-medium project scenarios it may be an overkill.

But, if the people involved are proficient using it and the learning is not a issue, there is still git goodness to be used (or even dare I to say: to enjoy).

I find myself using A LOT of local branches while developing. Not only they are cheap to make/destroy, it's pretty flexible to manipulate it (ya, rebase).

When you are comfortable with things like staging, stashing, branching, rebasing, rebasing interactively, using -p (patch) in commands and reflog git enables you wonderful workflows (note the plural).

There is this gap between awkardness/frustation and power/enjoyment when using git. Tools like these help people jump it.
Silentcircle launches management console
I enjoyed reading through this speech again just now -- I have a strange sense that my thinking has been clouded every time I've read it in the past (primarily in school), but now I can grasp it.

That said, I don't agree with Hamlet at all, and the real problem is far deeper than he realizes. I'm also surprised that Stephen uses this soliloquy to capture his own thinking.

"To sleep: perchance to dream" -- that's the turn, but Hamlet is worried about the afterlife, about supernatural judgement. He's very right to be, in context -- he's already met a ghost. But isn't Fry a vocal atheist? Isn't he already sure that "no dreams will come"?

I don't think I've ever had "might go to Hell" as a reason against suicide... I was already most of the way to atheism by the time I was playing with these kinds of thoughts as a teenager.

It's also a cheat, in a way -- sort of like "I don't kill people because I'm afraid then I'll burn in Hell" is much less moral than "I don't kill people because I understand the pain and harm of murder, and I don't want to inflict that on anyone".

The real problem of answering "to be or not to be" is that suicide isn't as obviously morally wrong as murder. Yes, harm is done -- the people around us can be devastated, for example -- but for a mind in sufficient pain, it's not hard to attenuate the imagined future suffering down to nothing, and I've talked to lots of people actively doing this ("they say they love me, but they'll be happier when I'm not here causing them so much trouble..."). And it doesn't work to argue someone out of depression, of course, though I'm afraid I learned that lesson the stupid way.
My friend who studied in the US said that Americans just in general have a view that they are different and therefore uniquely special. If you have that type of worldview, I imagine it's difficult to really think of the outside world much; perhaps it's even unnatural.

edit: The thought that prompted this whole comment, which I forgot to write. 9/11 happened when he was studying at university. He said there was a big shock among all the students with whom he studied, and among the citizens in general. He said up to that point, Americans had felt that they were untouchable, and this event proved otherwise, really shaking their worldview. I found it most interesting that he said that Americans seemed to think they were untouchable in the first place.

There is actually a term for how Americans view their status, American Exceptionalism (the term appears to have evolved over the years): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

This attitude is easily seen when they call their baseball championship the World Series, when the Miami Heat refer to themselves as basketball's World Champions, etc. In such an saturated environment, I imagine it becomes so self-reinforcing that you cannot blame some (but not all) of American citizens for just thinking the same way.
"Service Temporarily Unavailable"

I hope the website could do what it wanted to before this.
The problem is that we are not enough - you have to get the other 95 % not really caring on the bandwagon...and this without causing the slightest bit of additional inconvenience.
I had hoped that someone would mention what specific thing was missing, because as far as I know it's trivial to do anything one would want to do when making games already. That is, it is very easy to accept UTF-8 input, output UTF-8, munge UTF-8 strings together prior to outputting them, compare UTF-8 strings for equality, and so on. If the game needs UTF-8-aware strlen (for limiting the length of a field or alphabetizing things), it is like 10 lines of code.
AKA "rubber hose cryptanalysis".
Ask HN: is finding an idea a major bottleneck for you?
Just thought this would be a neat topic for HN since my recent research shows that there are surprisingly many programmers out there (two thirds of responders in my survey) who want to start a side project for profit, but their main problem is just finding the initial idea.

Full disclosure: I am working on a book on how to find and test Software-as-a-Service ideas.
I agree. This is my approach for http://mnmlrdr.com/ — no social integration because a lot of people are only interested in reading their feeds, not talking about it in their reader app.
You are using a proper IDE with XDebug or Zend Debugger installed, right?

I don't mean this in a snarky way at all. If you're not, and you work with some of the more complex frameworks like Laravel, do yourself a favour and investigate XDebug, and an IDE like PhpStorm that can take advantage of it. It will change your workflow for the better.

The first thing I do with any new framework (which I did with Laravel a few weeks back) is set up a really simple Hello World app and then step through a request loop, start to finish, to get a feel for how the framework sets up a request, dispatches it, and then tears down..

Just from that first exercise, I am immediately more productive with the new codebase..
Well, thank you for the hostile tone.

a) I in no way critiqued Dennett - in fact, you'll notice that my last statement about how mind / consciousness is not separate to the body, or the world or the universe is explicitly his position (of course, he is deeper than that, but at the level of my response, it was clearly in line with his thought).

b) That was the point: how you failed to understand that I was making a Category case I'm not sure. We are, after all, responding to the accusation that "No philosophy is worth reading". I was making an argument of how a Scientific / STEM background might make philosophy seem "pointless", and was taking the position of the argument, not my own, and attempting to answer it gently (it's called empathy, dear, learn some).

c) You've totally misunderstood my entire argument, and as such I think it embarrassing on your behalf that you've been so confrontational.

I'll disengage - you failed to understand what was being said, you failed to acknowledge that I was uncertain of how technical to make the argument, so pitched it at a Ted Talk level, and you were rude. Not interested, especially if you cannot understand the point being made.

I have fixed the link, however.
China doesn't look any better, US OTOH looks much worse right now.
Link is broken (404). Here's an alternative:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130625073544.ht...
Three Kinds of Sound in Superfluid Helium
I'm getting a 404 error. Even the link posted on their homepage sends the same error.
Ouya’s $99 Android-based video game console finally hits store shelves
I think the subtitle gets to the heart of the issue: "How can a democratic republic function when the bureaucrats are constantly misleading the people?"

It feels more and more like a deceptive charade that the US is actually a democratic republic. It is increasingly clear that in a number of significant areas the shady bureaucracy is taking action without the public's consent.
I find exactly which feeds are 404 varies, so I believe it is an upstream issue in the feed itself.
Will definatly try this!

And will let you know, thanks ;-)
But, for example, if they would run a query "select everyone who uses email encryption", and then analyze this subset of people further, then you might have placed yourself under radar, and they can have a closer look at your other non-encrypted traffic. Basically, you revealed that you "have something to hide".

Anyway, I have found that if some article claims that you should or should not do something to protect yourself against NSA, it is almost always written by an amateur. The real experts know that we currently don't know which capabilities NSA has and what exactly they do, so it is almost impossible to assess if something will help or not help or hurt.

My "amateur gut feeling" tells me that if you really want to send something secretly, you should at minimum setup a separate hardware+software with no connection point to your real identity. But this is not advice against NSA, just an opinion.
Heston has been doing nitro ice-cream for at least a decade at this point - it's a fairly common technique in higher-end restaurants.
The news I was reading yesterday assumed this also, based on the Ecuador diplomatic plates seen: "Two cars with diplomatic license plates of Ecuador – the country named among Snowden’s possible destinations – were spotted at Sheremetyevo airport."

http://rt.com/news/snowden-fly-moscow-aeroflot-125/
It's not really useful in defending this point because the threat doesn't scale.

The NSA can't hire enough heavies to break fingers of every person sending and receiving encrypted data (assuming they could even find the people sending and receiving it without first decrypting).