skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Russia really not give up anyone? There's lots of crime that is much less complicated than this case. I assume this is hyperbole?
Even better would be if the post office offered free large shipping envelopes to be stuffed with spam. Penalties for abusers of the postal systems could range from additional charges to rate-limited use (I think it would be an unconstitutional limitation of free speech to completely deny a party the use of the postal service).
I'd like to hear more about the project as well. As the founder of a company in this space, I've noticed an acute disconnect between the talkers and the builders. It can be hard for someone with the passion to tackle big issues to break through the noise of 100 people throwing around buzzwords.
That's a valid point, and indiscriminately dumping data definitely deserves some punishment (though far less than the Gitmo style treatment he got, if you ask me).

However, the most relevant point is that, based on what is being written in the media, there is no real distinction in the average American's mind between the two except that one was caught and the other is on the run. They are both labeled as "leakers" and "traitors" by the government, and except for a few outlets, the mainstream media largely parrots the official talking points. Being treated as a traitor based on a label the government applies to you rather than on the details of what you did is what is really frightening.
Just me or, anyone else just throw up a little bit.

Almost overwhelming.
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Almost regrettably repetitive.
Minecraft modding is changing far too fast, by the time a book was written, edited, and published, it'd likely be largely obsolete, by my judgement. In fact just today the release of Minecraft 1.6 has pretty much obsoleted "jarmods" (direct replacement of classes in the minecraft.jar) by Mojang's new launcher, not to mention a brand new resource pack system obsoleting texture packs, as well as a large amount of internal refactoring.

This pattern has repeated throughout Minecraft's release cycle. Though with Minecraft 1.0 it is no longer considered in "beta", each major version has brought incompatible changes. Mojang doesn't use semantic versioning, needless to say. Had a book been written around 1.2, it would have undoubtedly focused on the singleplayer/multiplayer split, and the steps needed for modders to develop SSP-only or SMP-compatible mods, but this distinction was blurred or eliminated in 1.3. 1.3 was mostly a dead zone for modding, only to come back in 1.4. With 1.4 we saw the introduction of new server implementations or administration mods, combining either analogous functionality or proper support for both leading modding frameworks, Forge and Bukkit (including MCPC+, BukkitForge, ForgeEssentials, etc.).

Modding toolkits come and go: about a mere year ago, you might be modding with ModLoader, ModLoaderMP, AudioMod. Or pure Minecraft Coder Pack (MCP), with no APIs. Or lesser-known custom APIs. Nowadays, Forge ModLoader has basically taken over ModLoader, and many modders have been moving to Forge for compatibility and other reasons. IndustrialCraft, BuildCraft, Mystcraft, Forestry.. all leaders in the Forge modding world. But there are still factions of modders sticking with Risugami ML, or even using raw jarmod edits like Better than Wolves. Not to mention - server-only "plugin" development using Bukkit is almost a completely separate community. You have the vanilla original CraftBukkit server implementation, then performance-focused forks like Spigot, or other forks with their own goals like SportBukkit, Libigot, or the mod-compatible MCPC+.. each with their own benefits. Fortunately most have similar plugin compatibility, but a few add new APIs, or otherwise change Minecraft behavior..

Bottom line, Minecraft modding is a hodgepodge of often-incompatible rapidly-changing frameworks, built on an unstable rapidly-changing foundation (which is obfuscated and has to be reverse-engineered each release, nonetheless). There have been advancements to streamline this problem, and it is getting better, but we're not out of the woods yet. Even tutorials you can find online for modding – such as on the Minecraft Forge wiki, are frequently outdated. A book would even be more so.

Nonetheless, I think you're right, it would be very nice if someone could pull it off, putting out an informative yet updated book on Minecraft modding. Maybe things will settle down and stabilize after the infamous Mojang modding/plugin API is released.
> Don't treat your users like idiots
That is exactly what Mozilla is doing , pushing down Javascript on everybody's throat. And marketing teams and advertisers are loving it. So much for their "dont track" stunt.
I'd call this the opposite. It's a devolution, equivalent to if we changed the meaning of the word soda to only apply to cola.
Yeah, nightly builds are not suitable for daily use, but they do show that the same hardware and stack can deliver much better performance in the very near future.
Perhaps the way to delete the information in the account is to replace the status posts, comments, photos with junk. Words and sentences that don't mean anything; photos that are noise. Perhaps there's a way to do that in an automated fashion. I'd use that.
Do they really need to go door-to-door? Why can't the USPS just forward it all to Outbox?
we haven't had much luck with the more religious groups (as heathens). The mormons are actually really cool, so I agree, cross the fence. It doesn't always work out, but it is worth the effort because we live in a broad world and everybody has something to offer.
Clearly they have a bug, but as far as actually deleting your data; I am willing to be it'll never be deleted.

They couldn't possibly manage the data if you could remove pieces, since everything on facebook is intertwined (likes, comments, shares, etc).

aka this doesn't surprise me.
Including power considerations? This is an ancient 10+ year old passwd file that I spent a lot of time working on cracking for grad school. I got ~2/3 of the accounts. I figure that number includes most of the human generated passwords and a couple versions of the "randomly generated passwords." I have always been curious what the story was behind the remaining third. But I'm not curious enough to devote many resources to it.
> "Bush started it for a good reason".

Bush didn't start anything in that part of the world for a good reason. Look what those trillions of dollars got us. For me it was friends with PTSD or other traumas or are still there waiting to come home to their families.

BMD was just Reagan's Star Wars 2.0. It wasn't clever or strategery, just more of the same nonsense to pay defense contractors.

Sorry but this college professor act just really falls short.
To my mind, this sort of thing is a lot like crypto research. As a workman programmer, I know next to nothing about crypto algorithms so I can read the documents, but I can't provide much in the way of meaningful research. That said, I know that there are lot of interested crypto researchers out there who can provide meaningful analysis and who have an incentive to speak up if they find something. But on government-funded closed-source crypto algorithms, I have to take the NSA's word for it...
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I would go back to Bebo (from Facebook) in a heartbeat if I could be given any assurance that my social network data was more private and secure and less likely to end up in a data silo in Ohio.
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I came here to say the same thing. But one of the other comments [1] points out how the "local" listings (Google-owned Zagat) or maps are actually Google's curated business listings, not the business' website. Same goes for Google shopping, Google books, etc, where in popular categories, Google slurps up all the content.

On the one hand, that does level the playing field, because little guy doesn't need huge website and SEO to compete against big guy. But fundamentally, everyone is now handing over the control of their data to Google. Let's say you change your business hours (and as a potential customer, I do love Google's display of today's business hours) or phone number, how quickly does Google update all that? Probably very quickly, but it's now out of your hands.

And as that comment points out, positioning within those "local" results may be determined by ads (and they are not divided into paid and organic sections)--but we don't always know. Google is definitely trying to blur the line by moving away from the be basic search results listing.

I wanted to add that the problem of organic search results is always going to exist for any sort of business (as in both examples of the original article)--as opposed to information. Let's say I'm searching instead for a performance of Beethoven's 9th. Hopefully, people around the internet are linking to good performances, and Google will show me the "best" one. And it will have ads for ringtones and buying CDs of Beethoven's 9th, which is to be expected. But I can be fairly confident the organic part of the results are meaningful. With local search or business search, there is no such thing--Google is not indexing the real world, just what people put on the web. And when there is money on the line, what people put on the web is designed to make them money (SEO, ads, paid reviews, etc.).

[1] akharris: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5972516
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Isn't it all overly agressive? I honestly still can't decide if I think it's satire or not.

Maybe you'll get sympathy from people who already use OpenERP and share your strong negative opinion about it, but more balanced tech and business leaders considering an open source ERP might be put off by the overall tone, maybe even to the point of questioning the seriousness of your endeavor.
It seems like a corollary to the Streisand effect. The US pressured Ecuador to not grant Snowden asylum, which in turn prevented Snowden from escaping to a powerless country and living in relative obscurity. Now to remain free he must ask Russia and China for asylum. Most likely a much worse outcome for the US than what they would have had to deal with had they not applied pressure to Ecuador.
select text an address bar, ctrl-c

click somewhere else ctrl-v

and yes, view-source is beyond most people
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Turning classes into a free-for-all where no one needs to afford the teacher and other students any respect for their time and attention isn't a great option.

This is an insulting straw man. But I'm glad school was optimized for your needs.
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I think those are related articles. The blog seems to have a lot of non-Facebook related content: http://wellpreparedmind.wordpress.com/
I spent a fairly large amount of time trying to completely delete my account - it involved emails, 'hidden' links, and multiple confirmation boxes using a nonstandard UI for facebook.

A few days ago I made a brand new account (but using the same email as before) and was greeted with the suggestion to add ALL of my old friends right back again.

Clearly nothing has been deleted, and I now feel confirmed that it never, ever will be.
Seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
>If it's Frank's head then after the operation you still have Frank.

according to police database of fingerprints - not, according to DNA - depends of where it is sampled from and even after that - what would be a DNA say in saliva, blood?
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This post is full of teh drama, and pretty sophomoric, with the self-righteous conclusion...

The Miltz brothers learned the hard way that cheating Reddit doesn’t pay.

More like 'eventually stops paying.' If they were making $1.2m/month at the peak it seems reasonable to guess that they pulled in somewhere between $5 and $10 million over the two years of unhindered operation and resultant growth. Maybe more, but even if they only made $1 million that's a pretty nice payout for two people.

It's odd how the article totally ignores this in favor of the opportunity cost. To me it seems like gtwo8 and his brother made a small fortune without any incurring any legal problems, and learned enough to repeat the formula in some other context later.
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From TFA:

> Do you think that PRISM can be built using a different tech stack?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo :

> Apache Accumulo is a sorted, distributed key/value store based on Google's BigTable design. It is a system built on top of Apache Hadoop, Apache ZooKeeper, and Apache Thrift. Written in Java, Accumulo has cell-level access labels and server-side programming mechanisms.

> Accumulo was created in 2008 by the National Security Agency and contributed to the Apache Foundation as an incubator project in September 2011.
> There is a huge difference between USA and Germany (and probably many other European countries) - we don't have this paranoia that everyone is against us (justified or not).

I don't think we in the USA do, either. Don't presume that the American people are "steering the ship" of the government. The government is completely out of control. We have let go of the steering wheel. Not all that surprising... the US is basically a 3rd world country, if you consider the whole population. (As a side note, that's also why something like universal health care cannot work as well here as it can in Germany.)
Maybe they just don't care to resist US influence in this case as much as you would hope they would.
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It is possible to harm the USG and help the US at the same time.
> Historically many, many children have sat still at school and behaved themselves.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Please quantify this. Historically many, many people haven't been felons, but we still have a criminal justice system.
In fact, whitelisting would tend to hurt your debugging efforts.
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I found it hard to find the price on any of the pages, but it looks like it's $9.99/month or $99.99/year
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I'll give you a little advice that's been working wonderfully for me so far - don't ever post something that is politically/ethnically/whatever questionable and you'll be fine. Even better than that, it'll play in your favour.
...at least he doesn't pretend to be a nice guy.

Putin does pretend to be lots of other things:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/vladimir-putin-ac...

And he reportedly stole a superbowl ring in 2005:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/22429359/p...
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I don't mind that, but it should be posted transparently in the 'about' field of his HN profile, along with a link and contact. If you're on HN to promote your brand then journalistic ethics, as well as basic respect for other community members, suggests that disclosure of interest is appropriate.
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Seconding this. I was also allowed to take two classes at the local high school free while being homeschooled. Useful for classes that benefit from in classroom interactions (foreign language) or expensive equipment (science labs).
Flagging items as deleted as opposed to actually deleting them is one thing. Of course it's not ideal for someone who wants to revoke facbook's access to their data, but there is more or less no difference from a user perspective. If I understand correctly, what's going on here is that after the posts and other content were flagged as deleted, they were somehow unflagged and became fully visible again. That's different, and really not okay at all.
I wonder then what a champion of human rights should do in his position?
I think he means that Russian never gives up defectors and spys. Also the same is true for US.
The data storage, processing, and development costs for the bulk of the programs that intercept/store the raw data are likely not included, either.

Based on the new slides[1] from WaPo, PRISM collection spans many other non-PRISM programs, such as the now-known MAINWAY (internet metadata), MARINA (internet content), and NUCLEON (voice content).

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
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More amusing is Crunchbase's description of Bebo right under the article:

"Launched in July 2005, Bebo has steadily risen to become one of the world’s most popular social networking sites. Users can create profiles on the site for free, stay connected with friends, watch videos, and listen to music. In early 2008 Bebo had over 34 million registered users and 7 billion monthly page views. Bebo’s founders have extensive experience in online social networking, having been involved in the founding and building of such companies as Birthday..."

I guess those don't get updated unless good things happen to the company.
In most parts of the world, users have dynamic IP's that change every time they connect to their ISP (often multiple times/day in the case of home users)
Every operation at Facebook scale is expensive. But they have the resources. They don't do something because they don't want to, not because manipulating their data is hard. They do complicated things to their data all the time.
If you take a look at the ads, instead of skimming them, you'll see each ad is for a different company in a different city. So it makes sense to have multiple posts and it is in no way spamming.

Just consider a single post saying "Hey, we have several positions in several places in the world", that does not convey any information.

They are trying to be helpful and you're replying with "screw it, they're recruiters".

Disclaimer: I use their services. They are in no way a shitty recruiter service and in the first e-mail exchange they say which is the company.
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I'm fine with it, but you should put your affiliation in your profile for everyone else to see. Mods - this ought to be a requirement of using HN as a promotional outlet.

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My sister has a brain tumor. They attempted to surgically remove the tumor, it rests at the base cerebellum, where it meets the spinal cord.

In order to do this surgery, they had to cut a piece of her spine and in the process cut some nerve pathways. Post surgery, she still has trouble walking and other general motor skills. The brain is the software and hardware, any changes to it will alter its software.
This is harder to do than you'd think, without also giving the bad guys a cookbook for "here's how to avoid detection"
You probably have one of the most bland profiles out there.

(This may be a good thing.)
Screen percentage is also incredibly dependent on your screen size. When I replicate their examples, I get far more 'organic' searches on my screen, because I have four times the screen real estate. Google has to delicately balance their advertising with organic results, and this balance works less well at smaller screen sizes.
Don't forget the constant drill-and-ceremony, both in training and once stationed to a permanent post.

For those who don't "habla", drill-and-ceremony (D&C) is the "attention, left face, forward march" stuff that fills a good portion of footage about military life, not to mention certain films such as Full Metal Jacket.

Oh, and don't forget the role played by PT (Physical Training) in producing human drone-killers.
I'm sure that any edit is really a new version which is then displayed. =/
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Exactly. In France it used to be that finals counted for 100% of the grade (everything else for zero).

That's the thinking behind the "bac" that marks the end of high school: you either have it (weighted average >= 10/20) or you don't, but what your teachers thought about you is irrelevant (except in special cases where your average is 9.8 for example).

Everything else used to work the same as the "bac": you study, or you don't, during the year, and at the end of the year a big exam tested whether you know anything or not.

Before my time it was even stronger; my mother (who's 80 and studied in the 1950s) was able to get her law degree without ever going to law school (she was a full-time secretary and studied law at night). She was a very fine lawyer and won most her cases (including a few for me ;-)

This is an incredibly fair system. What matters is, can you answer the questions on the test (and BTW, questions used to be real questions that you had to answer using full sentences and actual reasoning, never MCQs).

But things are changing. Things have always been changing, but now they're changing faster. People complain that setting up exams is costly whereas the marginal cost of tracking in-class participation is nil (since the teacher is already there anyway).

This is very silly and very unfair. What in-class participation measures is conformity/ability to repeat what the teacher wants to hear, NOT competence or knowledge.

Rating - or paying any attention to - in-class participation is confusing the means with the end. The end is knowledge/personal development. Listening to the teacher while sitting still, or "partipating" (?) is but one of the means to achieve this goal.

In this month's "Who's hiring?" thread I came upon an ad from "ClassDojo", the stated mission of which is to "manage behavior in the classroom" by "easily award[ing] feedback points for behavior in class in real-time, with just one click of your smartphone or laptop".

This upset me in more ways than I can describe.

Teachers should seek to ENGAGE students, not "manage their behavior".

Modern schooling seems to aim at training donkeys for a circus show, using treats provided by the likes of ClassDojo.

This is as far removed from "education" as possible; education is about autonomy of the mind.