skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I've dealt with FB's negligent, frequent, and non consensual behavior:

1) No one can post on my wall

2) No one can tag me in pictures, post or places.

3) My profile picture excludes my face.

4) I post little to nothing.

5) I only friend a narrow group of people. Being an offline friend of mine for years is not enough.

6) People who make weird comments are unfriended quickly.

7) The list goes on, but it can be summarized as do as little on FB as possible.

My best friends, most of my girlfriends, my family -- I am not friends with on FB!

You can have a FB account and maintain some basic degree of privacy. It probably is not the way Mark Zuckerberg intends it. The more he does to interfere with my usage patterns, the less I use FB (and I hold him ultimately responsible for the UX.) I expect to continue to lose control over my account in the future. The more this occurs, the less I'll use it.

Strangely, over the past year I have begun to really enjoy and understand using Twitter.
>everyone has the right to be forgotten should he decide so

This is going to sound like a devil's advocate post, but it isn't. I don't believe that such a right exists.

Why? Because removing all your input from a given medium (a social network, a forum, what have you) destroys context and therefore useful information for other people. Imagine someone who frequented a web forum (say.. Hacker News?) for a number of years, building up a large body of content, helpful posts, etc.

They then, for whatever reason, invoke the EU's "right to be forgotten" (pretending that HN is headquartered in the EU), getting all their posts deleted.

Those posts gone, every single conversation that user was in is now SIGNIFICANTLY harder to follow. What are those thousands of replies in relation to? Who knows? Those conversations are permanently lost to the sands of time.

Putting something out in public should not place any binds on the people who display that information. I believe everyone else's right to learn supersedes the individual's supposed "right to be forgotten".

It's easy enough to fix - don't comment in public if you don't want someone else having those words later.

That said, this isn't to condone Facebook's behavior of "soft-deleting" things that they say are gone. This is downright fraudulent, IMHO.
Awesome! Can't wait to attend this!
Not to be totally pessimistic, but that's probably potentially even more dangerous than trusting all that data to Facebook...
Put them back on our abandoned human bodies so as to allow the machines to fully integrate and understand the human experience as a defense against them misunderstanding our collective craziness and rising up to destroy us. :)
Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... 8/10 though I don't want to see what Wordpress template a restaurant is using this week, I just want to know if it's open, what other people think about it and how to get there.

I find this SERP to be vastly more useful than how it used to be. Restaurant owners should too, I no longer will skip visiting your place because your website sucks or is not mobile friendly.
Not for me. Did you by any chance move the app to your SD card? Apps that use the android Sync provider don't work if they're moved.
It's an interesting question the criminality of his actions may from a legal standpoint be completely independent of his status as a whistleblower or spy ( and those two categories may not be mutually exclusive either ).

Certainly he has violated his confidentiality agreements ( a civil liability ) and exposed information that is classified ( potentially a criminal liability ).

And it's possible for rational people to think that he may be doing things that are morally justifiable even if criminal. Where most people who think that investigating systematic acts of lawbreaking ( and wholesale collection of private metadata absent criminal suspicion from private companies by __any__ .gov qualifies as such on first examination ), may believe that those who bring such acts to light should be spared punishment because they are acting in defense of the greater good of society.

It is healthy for us to be reminded that our naive moral calculus is only loosely mapped to our system of laws.
How do you know? How, for that matter, does he? Given that China operates its own great firewall and that Chinese companies make a lot of network engineering products, I would not consider it a secure environment for digital information that I was anxious to keep secret.
To be sure, it's an imperfect correlation - mostly in that those who start on second or third base have a much better chance at a home run. But the point is that anyone can, in theory, hit a home run. In most historic cultures, that was not true.

To put it in presidential terms, someone like George W Bush becoming president isn't outrageous - he started on third base. But for someone like Barack Obama to become the most politically powerful figure would require an actual revolution in most historical situations.
I think it's a good idea to have a larger portion of lawyers as legislators than the general population - these are the people that are writing laws.

Yes, money has too much influence in politics, but the way to fix that is with real campaign finance reform, getting rid of the corporate "free speech" unlimited campaign contributions, and adding more transparency to the process, not some vague notion of "voting out the rich".
>At the risk of being proven wrong in the (near) future I challenge your statement. I doubt the German government or an intelligence agency would dare to bug an US embassy, the headquarter of one of your parties or whatever comes closest to the EU buildings supposed to be bugged. Equally I doubt they are in the business of mass surveillance.

All intelligence services are in the business of mass surveillance, period. If they're not, they aren't a good intelligence service. The simple fact is that with the way the world is today, it's foolish to blindly assume that your allies are always acting in your best interest. They are, obviously, going to act in their own best interests, but it's important to know when your interests coincide, and when they don't. And it's more important to know that now than any other time.

The difference between today and 30 years ago is that there isn't a Warsaw Pact for NATO to oppose. Keep in mind, every major player in the Warsaw Pact is now either a member of NATO, or in a "partnership for peace" with NATO. The current major "adversary"(and I use that term very, very lightly) is China, who enjoys good trade relations with the entire world, to the point where open conflict with China would be so disastrous to everyone involved(including China), that it's completely off the table.

That's why this kind of spycraft is even more important now than ever. Large scale military movements are easy to see. But knowing things like what the EU as a whole is going to do with trade agreements, or if the Chinese are talking to the Russians about a new oil pipeline, is hugely important.
I suspect they have a pretty good idea of exactly how far they can push it without losing significant numbers.

For every outcry they'll know the impact on usage, account deletions and so on and I suspect sadly for the most part it's negligible.
Even if it's small, it's still not a bad idea to target a market that clearly has a good amount of disposable income.
The definitive resource for Italian's hand gesture is "Supplement to the italian dictionary" [1] by the great designer Bruno Munari.

It is a semi-serious dictionary of gestures: how to perform them, what they mean, how common they are, when not to use them. It is mostly a work of art, and art for the sake of art, nevertheless I found it very complete and reliable.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Supplement+to+the+italian+dicti...
Why I Bill Hourly
Supposedly, the Reddit admins banned it also because of threats of violence.

http://i.imgur.com/o7CrW3y.jpg
> no child left behind

How about instead calling it --
teach everyone the same;
teach to the bottom of the class,
even if they still aren't learning
anything; and no child is permitted to get ahead?

But now finally, at last, we have true,
100%, coveted, equality and social justice!!
Considering the scale, and importance of the system that seems low.
If true, it's surprising that it took so long for someone to find this. Isn't it trivial to check on what your phone is sending off if you use wifi with a network scanner?

With that said I bet this is all for their social networking integration, some engineer thinking it would be cool for them to aggregate all your social data in the cloud, with no concept of the privacy implications.
Yeah, I don't think it's as much a "widespread fear" as much as "widely accepted as a legitimate excuse for exceptional acts by government".

Most people aren't really that terrorized, but when the government (which is pretty distinct from median Americans) does stuff that's unprecedented or otherwise eyebrow-raising, it's generally accepted by most as an explanation.

I think it's more of a circumstance where it's made to seem that society cares a lot about preventing terrorism (via media channels), so individuals go along with stuff thinking that most OTHER people are afraid/terrorized/in crisis, even if the majority is not terrorized/apathetic/et c.

Interestingly, this state of affairs is also congruent with it then seeming to foreigners like the US population is actively afraid, because there's no good way to stop the media message at the borders.
Elsewhere it is posted when people begin school in the US. The rest is arithmetic.
This reminds me of the Nokia HTTPS proxy incident.
This page is a funny, but extremely accurate, Italian gesture guide.

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/11/illustrated-guide-to-it...

I'm used to show it to my foreign colleagues to help them to understand me :)
How Trulia put a number on employee happiness and did something about it
Regarding:
>> Or is it? If Facebook doesn’t understand what should happen when I delete my wall posts, who’s to say that if I delete my account, it won’t come back too?

I thought I had deleted my account in 2009, but I was curious when I saw this. It turns out I can still log in. Curious...
Here's a short story on a similar subject, the ethics of a brain transplant. Won a Hugo in 1973.
http://docs7.chomikuj.pl/1852561988,PL,0,0,Frederik-Pohl---T...
Ignore the first 2 paragraphs. Its the end of an introduction by Issac Asimov from an anthology of Hugo winners.
I'm italian and I really think we don't use gesture more than other nationalities... truth is there is fascination about this, and americans in particular love the story... still don't get why
In regards to your first paragraph, you are completely right because the product has always not been the consumer of the search.

I dont if it would be possible for a subscription based search service to exist, but as long as they are selling to advertisers and not to the people there is very little incentive for this to change imo.
I meant Sturgeon.
Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma paints a really alarming picture of the problem: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patients/...
The last sentence resonates with me. My twitter account was started in 08 and largely unused until this year. I'm surprised how much I like it after it clicked for me one day. Twitter works (for me) by keeping the number of people I follow low and keeping the signal to noise high.
At least in the OpenGL world, compute shaders use more or less the same syntax as other kinds of shaders (GLSL).

It's true that WebGL does not have compute shaders (and neither does OpenGL ES), yet.

However OpenGL ES roughly tracks OpenGL's development with OpenGL ES 2.0 == OGL 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.0 == OGL 3.0, in each case with a bunch of features stripped but with the essential advances in place. OpenGL ES 4.0 which should come about in the next 2-3 years is very likely to include compute shaders.
Did you installed too many apps and your smartphone is lagging now?
After clicking half a dozen times on the arrow, I realized I had to scroll down. I think there's something to do here to make a little more obvious, like actually start scrolling when you click on the arrow, or at least removing the fade effect on the click (otherwise it actually makes me believe that clicking was the expected behavior!)

[edit] I tried again and realized that the fade effect was not triggered by my click, I was just super-synchronized ;)
Id imagine that Google Glass will fall under the same laws banning cell phones and electronics while driving so Im not so sure how much potential this has besides putting the ability to unlock your car on Glass.
I wonder if Russia is setting up Snowden for eviction. If Russia knows that newspapers will soon publish more Snowden leaks, it can publically demand that Snowden stop leaking and then kick him out when the leaks inevitably appear--even though the leaks have, in fact, already occurred. In this way, Russia complies with U.S. demands without appearing to just hand him over.
Maybe I am being overly diplomatic, but this author is responding to an article that includes the following paragraph:

Women are attention whores. They hear you have money, and they flock to you.
They can’t understand that the entrepreneurial life comes first. You
might have to cancel your dinner plans. You might forget an anniversary.
Drop a ho, your priorities are straight.

This article could easily withstand some combination of s/girlfriend/relationship/ and s/girlfriend/partner/ other than that its title is directly addressing the original article. The original article is fundamentally conceptually broken.

(insert political reference about a primary challenge from the left. pick your battles?)
How is that at all surprising? Right click is a really common thing for most non-Mac users. View source is something most people have only used by accident.
Use encryption all the time, and don't use any Microsoft products. All companies that have valuable secrets should already have this policy in place.
backchannel me at ryan@twinenginelabs.com with # of hours you need each week and I will send you information about myself. I work for a web/mobile app design and development agency that also does management consulting and marketing work for startups.
Given Motorola are now owned by the same Google that participates in the PRISM programme (et al), I'm really not sure the encryption matters so much.
Passion for gaming is great. He has a /lot/ of that.

However: Not a very good technical leader, extremely isolated from the troops (even the principal ones who are designing the new products) which badly affected direction and morale, and very bad at messaging (which I suspect is the /real/ reason he's going).

Of course, what replaces him could be worse.
I wonder what kind of quality of life the new body would provide.
Wait, am I understanding correctly that your Facebook password (for example) is being shared with Motorola?
> Facebook can't be blamed for the cultural and relationship issues at play here

Don't blame facebook, blame Canada. Facebookers just do their job :-)
Yeah, it would be really silly of him to travel with the only unreleased copy of future disclosures considering the lengths to which the US military will go to stop this saga.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...

(A laptop was stolen from Greenwald's partner's residence in Brazil after discussing on Skype that encrypted copies of some documents were to be sent there.)
Increasing number of people
This comment is a bit rich, given that you're basically saying you want it changed so its optimised for your needs.
First-ever SF "Design for Hackers" meetup tomorrow night
VnStat - a network traffic monitor
Not of a great help for audio projects but Raspbmc has fixed that popping sound issue in quite a transparent way.
Yeah, I'll try to fix that now. Got similar feedback from others too!

Thanks!
I think you underestimate the effect body changes can have on one's identity. "identity change due to trauma" will find you plenty to think about, for example http://www.centerforpos.org/Positive/POS-Research/Papers/Pap... "Matthew, a professional ‘cellist, damaged two tendons in his
shoulder. […] he felt “a kind of total emptiness and utter exhaustion that really was literally sapping my will to live.” At the centre of this emptiness lay the question, “Who am I now?""

http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_2003_Groups/Hand...: "In addition, assessments should be made of their body-image adaptation after amputation, impact of amputation on their identity and relationships"

http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/traumaeffects.htm...: "Survivors may have problems with identity when PTSD symptoms change important aspects of a person's life such as relationships or whether the person can do his or her work well."

http://www.nbmtlink.org/resources_support/spg/spg_appearance...: "Every time I look in the mirror, I see someone different than the person I knew during my life before transplant."

Is all of that in the brain? In some sense: yes, but bodily changes do change how you think about yourself, and that is one definition/aspect of 'personality' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity#Personal_conception_an...)
180° maybe?
And they can make gold coins shoot out their ass.

>Apple can take Google's search results (without Google's ads)

LOL. Why I bothered even reply to this comment is a mystery. Yeah, I'm sure they can just sprinkle in that stuff and it will magically be great right? Just like Maps blew our mind as soon as they finished that very last strategic partnership, right?

BTW: Google already does all of those things. Kthanx
Putin's direct quotes in the article are entirely unambiguous: he's not getting handed over/kicked out, just that he won't get asylum.

Also, he's not leaking anything anymore, as all the data's been handed off to journos already. Technically his role in all of this is done now—his is now but to do and die.
> Fortunately, I already removed most of those apps when I first got the phone (it was loaded with enough bloatware),

Lucky you. I can't remove, for example, my NFL application (which came installed by default), without rooting the phone. I do enough Linux stuff everyday that I really don't want to bother with it on my phone.

Honestly, this kind of stuff makes me want to get as far away from engineering as possible. I simply do not want to make complete shit and sell it to people for a living. I'm very thankful that Steve Jobs showed us that there are still people who want to make beautiful products.
that's true.
i think its more of a "if we change we can get more people onboard" maybe
I cannot even uninstall the Google apps from my Android phone.
Speaking for a family of three in Chicago, we get a lot of crap mail as well. Really, it's all we get.

But:
a) my 3 year old has fun grabbing it out of the box and pretending it's from various people.
b) it takes literally a few seconds to just throw it out.

Now, if we were getting so much junk mail that it was making us miss our actual, important mail, that'd be a problem.

But we don't get any actual, important mail. It's 99% junk.

Anywho. The Postal Service is going to disappear in my 3 year old's lifetime anyway.
Since this uses the same L5 frequency as GPS, would existing receivers pick up signals from these satellites? Would there be any interference?
Yeah, but still... that's just not right. Even though it should mostly work in practice.
>France is a very close ally of the US with much more than just extradition treaty ties. If Snowden set foot on French territory, he would be sent back to the US in a matter of days.

France also has a history of sheltering people from extradition to the US (just ask Roman Polanski).
"There are two editors that continue to reward learning. Your hands are going to fail. One of the editors is easier on your hands. QED: Vim."

- @garybernhardt
This article never really manages to make a point. Many of the cited examples are anything but secret. The interesting point made about withholding meaning since there is no way to withhold content falls down when you realize it's predicated on out of band communication which is becoming less available generally. All in all, it is merely another example of people doing online, what they do offline, not some fundamental shift in human dynamics.
Nope, learning physically changes the brain. For example, learning to juggle will increase certain portions of their brain. [1]

It's like running Crysis, and having your video card's capability increase,

1. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
thanks - that looks pretty good in that one. as in inline with the chrome icon and others.
Facebook lost me a while back when the Android app first came out. Logging into the site and finding contacts that had no account in my facebook "phonebook" felt like a breach of trust. I figured they'd act in good faith and enrich Android contacts with facebook data. I did NOT think they'd yank my contacts the other way, doing who-knows-what with it. Shame on me for not reading the app permissions with more scrutiny.

Leaving facebook removed a distraction I did not realize I was weary of. At risk of sounding dramatic, it felt like I got a few minutes a day of my life back.
If consumerist would publish an article on such a thing because someone on 4chan sent them a screenshot then 4chan is going to take them for a ride in any case...
> I'm sure that will be convenient for someone.

Individual action and group inaction can have the same result. A conspiracy is not required.
So if you break their T.O.S. bad enough, will they delete you for real?
But I wonder what are the costs to host all these images and traffic.
Any Microsoft product? They shouldn't use any Google product by the same token.

Report: Android malware up 614% as smartphone scams go industrial
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/android_malware_bloo...

From http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

In at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In an incident this spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source. After accessing the kid's account to retrieve her name and phone number, Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call her.

In other cases involving teens of both sexes, Barksdale exhibited a similar pattern of aggressively violating others' privacy, according to our source. He accessed contact lists and chat transcripts, and in one case quoted from an IM that he'd looked up behind the person's back. (He later apologized to one for retrieving the information without her knowledge.) In another incident, Barksdale unblocked himself from a Gtalk buddy list even though the teen in question had taken steps to cut communications with the Google engineer.
Putin: Edward Snowden can stay in Russia if he stops leaks
Ask HN: Using startup processes for creating a nonprofit
Does anyone know of any resources that talk about how to reuse the processes used my modern startups (lean, agile and what not) for creating a new nonprofit?

I imagine that such information must exist out there (especially at a time when wonderful initiatives like Watsi are supported by accelerators such as YC) but my searches haven't resulted in anything concrete.

Backstory:

I am working on a web-based educational resource that helps students learn topics in applied mathematics and computational science. I would like the resource to be freely accessible to anyone interested, while still offering material of good quality and usefulness.

While I have enjoyed working on this full-time and have learned a lot in the process, I'm afraid that living off savings is not a sustainable strategy in the long term. :) I am therefore hoping to build a sustainable nonprofit around my initial efforts.