skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Click" is 50% easier :)

I do UI\UX design and coding for a living, so when I look at things like this, it flags me. For example, let's say that someone designed a car where you had to stick your finger in your ear while turning the key to start it. I could honestly say to you, "It's not that difficult to stick your finger in your ear while turning the key", and that's true enough. But... would you buy that car? I mean, why is it really necessary in the first place?

Most news aggregate web sites that I visit on a daily basis link to a new tab. This is very helpful, because I can browse down the page and click the links I'm interested in without losing the page I'm on at the time, then go read the articles, and tab back and forth to the list of news articles I was looking at. This works well and is how I "expect" it to work.

As the owner of a news aggregate web site, I want people to be "on and reading" my site. I don't want them to navigate away from my site, I want them to STAY on my site. To that end, having every single link on the page navigate away from the site makes no sense whatsoever, and requires extra care on behalf of my readers to use the site in a way that it should really work in the first place. That's inefficient and not in the best interests of HN or its readers.
It's interesting you pointed that out. I wanted to explore the workings of that argument a little more (I choose my words carefully when constructing posts on this site) using "validity" and "soundness", but I was in a bit of a hurry as I have a lot of work to do today. Thank you for your response.
If we notice a need for more secure solution, we can provide specific server with https.
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/mcm85.htm

(1) Completed or attempted desertion with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 5 years.

(2) Other cases of completed or attempted desertion.

(a) Terminated by apprehension. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 3 years.

(b) Terminated otherwise. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 2 years.

(3) In time of war. Death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
i would never say that living in a city or outside a city would make someone more or less innovative.

You deal with different problems in and outside cities.
I think a mix of both is the best you can get to get more Innovative!

When i Study i live in a 2+Million City but when i don't study i life in a village with 50+ people.

You really cant compare them both...

It's like people trying to say which programming language by benchmarks...
yes go is faster then ruby in some stuff but does this only makes go better? nobody can say because it is a matter of problems to solve and taste of the human that will write the code.

just my 2 cents
This article reads like a press release - completely uncritical. I wonder how much of this was independently researched by the reporter and how much was fed to them by the White House press handlers. It even quotes Jay Carney the master propagandist who leads these efforts.

It is clearly targeted at the tech community. This is in hen originally announced on June 20th very similar articles appeared in CNET, All Things Digital, SF Chronicle and the Register. After SOPA they are paying special attention.

By itself this appointment does nothing but give the impression of reform for a news cycle or two. The basic strategy is lie and delay the delay and lie until the public moves on to something else.

If they really want to have a debate about the balance between security and privacy lets have it. The first step is to state your position by revealing exactly what you are doing today instead of continued lies, stalling and doubletalk.
What's really happening in Egypt right now
The true fact of the matter is that any secret kept by the US military, which must not be revealed to the public in order to maintain public order, and which nevertheless does induce Terror in the receiver of the secret .. well folks: this is Terrorism being used on your Government by infiltrating agents whose true purpose is the destruction of the US, itself, and the establishment of a new world order. Of people, governments, corporations, armed with psychological processes designed with specific purposes, weaponized.

The Terror Meme is A Weapon, Gone Loose.

Anyone alive today, who is making a daily business of the commitment to ideas such as that populations must serve Terror, must be immediately taken off their positions of power.

The only possible hope is that the American people realize just how much responsibility they have to take in order to de-Throne their new masters. If you are not willing to burn the curtain, not just look behind it, then you must take responsibility until you are willing, citizen.

The right of the true enemy to keep secrets must be revoked. The absolutely certain result will be more peace, because Peace happens when people reveal secrets to each other with the intention of making Peace. To Make Peace, Communication: and destroy all barriers to doing so.

The US has to have a serious look at its secrecy policies, and there must be a serious attempt, by the People, to demonstrate to the world that Peace itself, has still yet a chance to prevail. Make no mistake: on the other side of US Military Secrets is a reason for the US Military to be removed from post. Always.
My people are protesting because: http://tamarod.com/index.php?page=english
As critics have noted, the split isn't just interior versus exterior. Many sets marketed to boys have as many interior spaces as exterior. The difference is that sets marketed to girls are distinctly pink and emphasize homemaking, beauty, cute animals, mini-dresses and other traditionally female-appropriate things (things a sexist world might call frivolous and stupid) whereas sets marketed to boys emphasize science and adventure. If children statistically prefer one to the other its because we teach them which things are for boys and which things are for girls. AND (this part is really important), through astute powers of observation, kids are also learn early on that people are often severely socially punished for disobeying gender norms (see: how cross-dressing is often thought to be freakish and wrong, how many people hate butch lesbians, how calling a male a girl or a pussy is one of the worst insults you can give him). If it were just a matter of interior versus exterior, why not market them as focused on interior versus exterior rather than for girls versus for boys? To the extent that the sets marketed to girls limit girls' exposure to non-traditional tasks, LEGO is reinforcing traditional gender norms and many progressive people reject that precisely because it is so limiting.
> Soldiers are, in a sense, slaves. A standing army is a vast apparatus under direct control of an executive.

The U.S. military's only oath is to the Constitution of the U.S., not the executive. They are to follow the orders of the executive to the point that they are in keeping with upholding the defense of the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Officers don't even take an oath to zealously follow orders, only to properly discharge the duties of their position.

While I'll grant that it's true that there is a lot of leeway and deference to the executive branch in what counts as a 'lawful order', it's incredibly concerning to me that so many people here have so little understanding of the U.S. military that they can claim with a straight face that the standing army is Obama's personal political tool.

Please see http://terminallance.com/2013/05/17/terminal-lance-president... for a description of how little reverence there is for the President within the military.
so the US Gov is now a D-Wave client.. FUN...
Do I just submit a link like https://news.ycombinator.com/rss? When I do that, it says "cannot connect to server." :(
It's great to see cool stuff being built on Phono! I'm not a javascript developer by any means, but when I tried to write a few voice and text chat demos, Phono made it a piece of cake. I didn't play with the WebRTC support, but I see it keeps improving at a rapid pace, e.g. http://blog.phono.com/2013/02/05/phono-0-6-is-here-with-webr... and http://blog.phono.com/2013/06/25/phono-now-with-firefox-and-...

(Full disclosure: I used to work for Voxeo Labs)
I would love to try this but as an OSX / iOS user, I'm bummed.
Which means that it's not something that Larry Page can just sneak into his datacenter without his squads and squads of Googlers never picking up on it, true.
I guess what I mean is, that for Art - a group of students learning from multiple artists and working together without a teacher (art school is really about the work you do after hours anyways) is the best way. Whether that counts as being part of a University program or not doesn't matter - it's the togetherness that does. Going over Art History on Wikipedia then painting the sunset in your bedroom does not prepare you creatively at all.
Do you mind detailing your notmuch setup a little? In particular, what frontend? I used notmuch with mutt and the search was so slow that I went back to Mail.app on the mac (and now back to sup).
If you look at the products on LEGO site, it looks like it is coming to "pink or ponies for girls" and "dark or soldiers for boys," sadly. I agree that everyone shouldn't have to have the exact same thing, but they could cut out the part where they slather the girl products in pink and characters with small skirts, and include some normal girl characters in the otherwise boy-oriented sets.

EDIT: The more I think about this:

> "Equal before the law" and "equal member of society" does not mean "the same in every way", and trying to enforce the last of these can be harmful rather than helpful.

the more this frustrates me. No one is saying everyone should have to be the same. Did you even look at the LEGO products? What parents are reacting to is the reservation of action, space, science, adventure, technology, etc. for one gender and homemaking, baking, beauty, and animals for the other gender by putting very distinct gender-specific markings on them to make it clear which belongs to which. I'm extremely skeptical that girls just genetically prefer pink things and dresses. This is about forcing people into cultural categories which limit their options for individual expression, not some silly attempt to make everyone do the same things.
I started out in a similar situation as you. High schooler working profesionally and all. I cannot stress enough the importance of acting professional. Do not, under any circumstances, act any different from the other employees because of your age. You are working a job. Act like it.

You'll have a ton of fun working with other professionals and you'll learn more than you've learned in all of high school. You'll have to meet deadlines that matter and you'll have to make decisions based on given factors.

Is this an unpaid internship, where you'll be assigned a mentor and you'll get more out of it than the company? Or are you doing actual work, but not getting paid for it? If you're doing actual work for the company, they are legally obliged to pay you. Make sure you read into your state's laws to make sure you won't get into any trouble by doing work you're not supposed to.

My biggest advice to you is to go in with an open mind. You'll learn much more that way.

If you want to chat more about it, send me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com.
What about the environment? What about thousands of people getting killed by our government to acquire energy sources to fuel your house in the burbs?
IMO that would be a too strong a response for a country that heavily depends on export.
"ridiculously complex mechanism" ... Not really. Anyone with the ability to stick a USB stick in a USB port and hit a power reset button can pull off this attack:

http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/tools/msramdmp/
I did this for a long time, but it's really annoying:

1. If your provider goes down, you lose mail.

2. If you are conversing with people who are using an insecure mailer, such as gmail, Yahoo, etc (which is probably > 99.9% of all e-mail users), your e-mail is still accessible to the NSA, or to some Fortune 100 advertising company.

3. It's only a matter of time before the "big dogs" in email abuse the position and decide who is and isn't allowed to send/receive email outside of their little oligarchy, either on their own or at the behest of governments.

Like so much else that has been corrupted, we need to scratch the current architecture as too insecure, and build something truly secure for the future. This isn't in the interests of the Googles of the world, and it's actively in the worst interests of the NSA/FBI/CIA, so it's probably the right thing to do.
It is really too bad people are criticizing Lessig, or he thinks he is being critisized, because "Palantir is a bad company, or that it has done bad things, or that it has been funded by bad people".

That's not the first thing that comes to mind when I read "technologies that could give us, and more importantly, reviewing courts, a very high level of confidence that data collected or surveilled was not collected or used in an improper way."

That's incredible!
Why web apps should use Elasticsearch
Don't be afraid to ask questions or to make mistakes. You're there to learn, and the company should know that.
It also depends on the type of inhabitants in the city. Pre-war Vienna, Budapest, and Berlin were particularly innovative. Today Berlin is the most innovative city in Germany.

In the US, New York City/Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn near Manhattan are particularly innovative, again because of the type of inhabitants it attracts. San Francisco, SV, LA, Austin, Seattle, are all innovative in different ways.
I don't know enough about Bitcoin to be able to say whether this article has any merit. However, it does bring up an interesting question: could an organization with lots of computing power deliberately destabilize Bitcoin by mining many more Bitcoins than anyone else had?

For example, what if the NSA discovers that Bitcoins are being used by terrorists and decide they want to make Bitcoins useless. NSA has lots and lots of computing power that can be used to mine Bitcoins, and, as far as I know, there are no laws that provide any kind of legal protection for Bitcoin or its users.
Isn't a better solution to get software that supports PDF natively like Acrobat, then edit the documents there instead of doing a (poor) translation to Word.
Show HN: I made an unique personal site - you can cast spells
Language creator here (didn't expect to see this!). Spot on about WebCL not being widely deployed yet, which means code generating it is mostly for kiosk etc. purposes.

For more immediate deployment, I have most of an alternative codegen working that emits multicore + GPU code. Basically, CSS selectors + layout are multicore via asm.js + web workers + typed arrays, and GPU rendering via WebGL.

If anyone is interested in an alternative GPU backend for layout + CSS selectors, say via Rivertrail or old school GPGPU, drop a line :)
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That's all very nice, but while the US seems to be able to invade countries at will, they don't seem capable of occupying even the weakest of countries - Iraq and Afghanistan being cases in point.
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In the upper ranks of the officer class, this is certainly true. I met many LT's and Captains that I enjoyed working with, but once they reached beyond those early grades, they became part of the officer's elite/gentleman's club, where they became further detached from their subordinates and more interested in appealing to their masters.
Benjamin Franklin's vision of "A Republic, if you can keep it" requires questioning in a desire to preserve what can, in fact, be lost.

What Keith is going for here, is , "My Country, right or wrong", blind following.
Yeah, but for such pseudonymous needs, Nightweb seems overkill, running on I2P and such.
Inner workings of a top-secret spy program
This was on HN just a few days ago: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/one-click-selling/
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So if it's declassified, can we see the whole slideshow now?

:P
A classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7nFq9Avtc

Know Your Rights - Don't Talk to Cops Part 1
It is very depressing to me, knowing that computers, which I grew to love as a child are now the driving force behind enabling the new surveillance/police state (formerly thought of as science-fiction).

Everything we do is tracked, recorded. Our information is sold without our consent. Zero privacy and it only gets worse.
Why would you ever post something on HN that doesn't have screenshots or even more than a single sentence of information? No, I'm not going to sign up; I have zero idea what this site does!
Do you have evidence that Berlin is the most innovative city in Germany, or did you just derive this stunning conclusion from your gut feeling?
Why aren't Google, Facebook and Microsoft joining the StopWatching.Us movement? Google joined the anti-SOPA movement last time, and urged visitors to call their Congressman over it, but that was because it was in their immediate profit interest. Maybe they still don't think this spying scandal will affect them much.
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I disagree. What we need, and what we can really achieve if we put enough pressure on congress, is sweeping legislation that protects our privacy. I believe there's a tipping point beyond which even the least privacy-conscious of citizens becomes angry. Once that happens - hopefully within the span of these leaks - we have the opportunity to force congress's hand in making explicit our privacy protection in the digital age.
> But it is possible for a thing to be legal - and constitutional - and in breach of rights which don't need to be named on any paper to still be rights. Like the right to privacy.

Well, much of our current conception of "right to privacy" was invented by the Supreme Court itself so it is true that the Constitution can be interpreted to mean different things as time goes by.

But as you point out, I don't see that happening with this Supreme Court. And to get such a right enshrined there would need to be a case to be brought to the Supreme Court in the first place.
Ask HN: Why are you still working for the NSA?
I'm sure there are quite a few NSA employees reading this and following the whole media discussion with great interest.

I'm genuinely curious - what keeps you there? Do you still believe in the "mission"? Are you comfortable with what is going on, and basing your livelihood on programs that so many people are against?

Let's have the "other side" the story. If you've got a case to make, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it.

Feel free to register a throwaway account and discuss.
Heard of wage slavery ?
Retroshare - a similar secure social netrowk: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
The Church committee never went away. Whatever else you might claim about these NSA programs, the difference between now and then is that now the Senate was in the loop the whole way this time.
Looks neat but it's taking forever for someone else to join.
Patrick is right, I know people who are essentially one person companies doing exactly this and they do pretty well for themselves.
At this point there are ~11M BTC in circulation but only 3600 BTC mined per day, so even mining and selling all 3600 BTC per day probably wouldn't move the market that much. Especially considering that many miners are already selling.
That's cool, but I think a reddit clone would be even more useful.
The US isn't 'friends' with anyone, except in the Facebook sense of "I've heard of you".
Same here. cmatthieu, what use do you want to give to this?
Hehe... It's trending on HN, but no one picks up the phone. Trying it for 3 minutes :-)
I just had an intriguing thought. Wouldn't it be interesting/ironic to see BAH made a target of anon hacking, successfully penetrated, and publicly embarrassed further than the Snowden fiasco? I think Feinstein might pop a blood vessel.
A screenshot is on its way.
This is such arrogant bullshit. You're basically saying that if only everyone else were as enlightened as you, they'd care about the objectively important issues like NSA spying, instead of "relatively small issues" like abortion or gay rights, etc. Among my group of friends, DOMA generated far more interest than the NSA news. Are they just misled by the media?

What utter self aggrandizing tripe.
Similar project on Erlang: http://www.webrtcexample.com

Source codes: https://github.com/fycth/webrtcexample
Tangentially, if anyone in the Rhode Island area is keen on RISD but don't think they can afford it, you might consider taking a certificate course there in the continuing education program. The one I took was like 18 months of night classes for less than $5000.

Sure, you don't get to stay in a dorm or play hockey with the Nads, but the courses are taught by RISD instructors, and at the end -- as far as RISD is concerned -- you are an alumnus (insofar as you get access to alumni resources and they hit you up for donations each year).
is there any way for germany to help him out? that seems, to me, his best chance at the moment. they have the political clout and they're pissed off...
>The way I view it, by definition someone has to be first.

no :). That is the beauty of this Universe - global full order of things on timeline isn't possible. Specifically space-like separated events don't have a preferred order, i.e. given 2 space-like separated events A and B, both statement - A precedes B and B precedes A - have the same validity, basically it is meaningless to talk about their timeline order.
If I may step into their shoes...

Simple answer would be, "to pay the bills". I'm sure the vast number of people working for government agencies (engaged in espionage or not) are simply there to stay fed, clothed and sheltered. The NSA, CIA, FBI etc... are all vast megaliths with intricate internal structures, bureaucracies and buttload of paperwork (digital and dead tree) that needs processing by humans.

Humans that need jobs. That's it. They may feel some sense of patriotism in what they do, but I think most of them are just doing a job.

It's the tobacco farmer syndrome.
In your examples, Google again just talks about 'servers.' There is no language which indicates that there is no wiretapping equipment in their datacenters, except for

There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no
indirect access, no back door, no drop box.

Which is clearly wrong, since there is a indirect access to user data ( via court order). [1]

However at this point Google is trying to prove a negative, that it does not knowingly participates in covert surveillance of its users. ( With the added complexity, that AdWords analytics should qualify as surveillance.) So Google will have a very hard time to convince me. However a published privacy policy, verified by a third party, would go quite a long way.

[1] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/?h...
No; the number of bitcoins allowed to be mined is fixed per block. The NSA could womp up a bunch of ASICs and take the reward from almost every block, but that doesn't mean much; it would also take a long time to build up a big enough bitcoin hoard to really crash the market, and that would likely be a temporary setback inasmuch as miners are already selling a lot of mined coins and so a 'hoard' would have pushed up the price a lot in advance (supply & demand, right?) and everyone understands what has happened and takes advantage of the firesale. (If they had that much hashing power, they'd be much better off doing other attacks like double-spends and censoring other people's transactions.)