skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I did try it once but couldn't get it to compile or something. I'm sure it was my fault, but I guess I just don't desire it badly enough over a terminal multiplexer to expend the effort.
Given the resources available to the US they'd probably just have a fuel carrier divert its route and do an inflight refueling, an operation which Air Force One is very capable of.
The IE box model actually made for sense if you wanted your fluid layout to look good.
Part 2 is here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/02/24/iteration-insid...
But we have to find some way to justify the expense. E.g.:

Look! All that money we spend was well spent! We
found a terrorist!
>Well targeted ads are basically useless to the consumer since if you actually need something then you know this and you can search for it. The market operating in ad networks optimizes ads that sell enough to pay for more ads while remaining profitable, there is no mechanic that bubbles the best/least expensive offer to consumers since they are not the customer.

...

>I get not caring about this. I don't get how anyone who understands how it works would not understanding the popular interest in subverting this mess.

Well said. From the consumers point of view? this makes a lot of sense. An ad should convey no credibility.

What I find interesting here is that even as the customer, most of the data passed down to the small business owner (say, me when I'm buying display ads) is massaged by folks who are way smarter than I am, and who have an interest in taking credit for as much of my profitability as possible. I mean, it's possible that they have a better view than I do of what causes people to choose me... really, it's kinda likely. but they have no interest in sharing that data with me, and I lack the ability to understand that data even if they did want to share it with me.

I think the upshot is that most 'targeted ads' are not nearly as effective as the buyers of said ads are lead to believe. Sure, I can buy ads that bring up my company when a user searches for "VPS" or "Linux VPS" or what have you, but I don't think people are going to buy from me unless they've actually heard about me from a credible source. I mean,

Personally? when I buy advertising, one of my first questions is "Do I want to be associated with the content on the page" - I think of it more as 'sponsorship' - you know, when a beer company sponsors a baseball team. I think a lot of the value I get out of advertising is that association with the community, and the more intermediaries you have between me and the community generating the content, the less value I see in the transaction.

Really, Eivind Uggedal[1] probably deserves 80% of every advertising dollar I've spent in the last four years.

[1]http://uggedal.com/journal/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-... (yes, yes, I know he did one later where linode kicked my ass, (I argue that was because linode gives you more vcpus, optimizing for best case, while I give you fewer, optimizing for worst-case, but as far as I can tell, they have some I/O monitoring sauce I don't, that really is better) but still, things like that are what I think is primarily responsible for people going through with a purchase... that and word of mouth. Paying google because they gave me the 'last click' is kinda silly.)
Sales of horse meat rose after food contamination scares in UK.

Also, we want ethical people working for them, because then there's more people to say "Is this legal?" when an order for intelligence comes in.
Wow, I haven't used trn in years; completely forgot about it. Thanks!
Verizon has a femtocell you can install in your home: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?&action=g...
Thanks; I overlooked this post somehow. I may give trn another shot.
Taiwan Animated News Video in Support of Restore the Fourth [vid]
K cool. Thanks for clarifying. Keep up the good work. :-)
Pentagon back in 2011: hacking from another country = act of war
Because these things are usually planned far in advance and they are just now executing on their earlier plans.
Attorneys defend guilty people not simply because it's their job, but because they defend the right to due process and a fair trial. Everyone, even (privately) guilty people, is afforded these rights.
Set up a t1.micro instance on AWS and run a VPN server on it. The VPN instance accepts connections on port 25, etc. and forwards it over the VPN to your home server.

Your ISP sees nothing but encrypted traffic between you and your VPN server.

Alternately, buy a rackmount server and colo it. Authorities would need a warrant to seize it, just the same as they would to seize the server that's running in your basement.
Hi answer will probably be: TL;DR
I wouldn't call her chicken dance in Angola "cute", more like deranged

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_dVvgdiiUU
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Meteor built on top of Node? Though I suppose it does, as far as I remember, completely hide the Node container. (Or did I misparse your sentence?)
Anyone have a master list of services affected? Currently building a VPN provider myself, and I run a proxy provider that accepts Visa/Mastercard. Obviously very interested in this. Fuck.
Interpreting a new programming language in JS: Why & How
It's still possible to identify where the letter was sent based on the postmark and unique barcode printed on the envelope when it is scanned.

Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5986635 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5986011

Edit: this comment is for scrabble's sake, as you and I already exchanged comments on the subject.
Maybe a better comparison would be with having my pocket picked. And yes, I do know if the digital equivalent takes place, unless the attacker has been so thorough as to also subvert my router and modem admin consoles, in which case they probably didn't need to wait for me to wander through an open wi-fi network.
get business class internet instead of residential if that's an option.
Nitpick : the above almost makes it look as if von Braun made that statement, which he didn't. It's from a satirical song by Tom Lehrer.
I'm sure you realise you're been obtuse, but here it goes:

I really do hope this girl is proud of herself! She should be. For all we know, she might be an excellent candidate for an NSA job and have a real interest in working for them, provided that in doing so she doesn't have to sacrifice her integrity as an American. Given what we currently know from the press, her questions seem to be entirely reasonable. And if they aren't, that's not her fault, because she can only ask questions based on what she believes to be true. In short, don't shoot the messenger.
Only the companies funded by YC can post offers in hn/jobs. This is more a replacement / complement of the "Who is hiring/freelancers" monthly posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970190
Amateur radio has a system called APRS -- Automatic Packet (formerly Position) Reporting System[1]. It originated in the 1980s and it's basically Twitter. I'm not kidding.

It broadcasts small packets to everyone in range. Those packets commonly include things like position reports, weather reports, and yes, short arbitrary messages. Receivers can, of course, filter on whatever they want. I can see the firehose of everything going on for miles around me, or just carry on an IM-like conversation with somebody. Repeaters can spread messages over a wider area, or even upload them to the internet[2].

Usually it runs on licensed 2-meter frequencies, or a variant on HF, and it only operates at 1200bps, but in principle it can be generalized to faster data rates, frequency hopping, etc.. Mass-produced equipment designed specifically for this sort of thing could be relatively cheap.

The trick is making everybody want one when they already have smartphones.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_Syst...

[2] http://aprs.fi/
To convince oneself against one's better knowledge that something is right when it's not, because one wants to be able to sleep at night of all things is not amoral? To "just follow orders" isn't amoral? Adolf Eichmann wasn't amoral? What, then, is amorality?
I imagine the fear of not being able to provide for you or your family takes precedence over privacy concerns for the vast majority of people. There was a news report about how 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck last week. I'd argue saying "they could leave" assumes a lot.
Looks cool, too bad the vids don't work.
yeah I've thought about that, both ssh tunnelling to/from home from some hosted machine (e.g. AWS, or Linode, etc). The problem (from my point of view) is that the hosted machine is in someone else's "house". Even if it is a co-lo.... it is still sitting in someone else's house.

Thanks for the suggestion though. It gets part-way there
We'll end up with an ASCII version of Spore, won't we?
Statement by President Barack Obama on Egypt
Like others on here have posted. Doug's true worth was not in the innovations he procured or the things he built, but rather what he saw as the future of computing, humanity, and technology. The way he was able to reach into the future and pull out the best bits, and then execute was something that not many innovators can claim to. The ideas that were built at SRI are nothing short of legendary, and the core principles still carry on.

It may be a bit sad to think that so many don't know his name, blindly believing the mouse was invented by Xerox, that the Internet was invented by Tim-Berners Lee, but in the end, does it really matter? To Doug, all that mattered was being visionary and helping people. It would do good for all of us here at HN to follow his example. Humans only get one shot, and Dr. Doug Engelbart nailed it.

P.S., thanks PG for the black topbar. A fitting sign of respect for a very great man.
I would argue that a de facto right to privacy is created by the nature of the destination. It doesn't matter if someone can see you or your car, the fact that it's a medical destination should create a right to privacy of that trip.
I am going to be using Go and Mongo.
For interfacing with C, I think cython is better than cffi. Well, I don't have much experience with cffi, but I used to use ctypes, and cython is much better. Cffi may be nicer than ctypes, but not enough to make me switch (I may be missing something).

Unfortunately, I think that for python, it is too late to have a better C API: there is so much legacy that depends on python C API details that moving away from that would take almost as much manpower as rewriting it to a different language.

Look at pypy: even though it is 5x times faster on average than python, I don't see people flying from cpython to pypy. 5x speedup is more than what you can hope on todays' CPU with near perfect scaling with # cores. This tells me that no-GIL python, to be successful, would need to have a much lower barrier to entry than pypy. Maybe the future is closer to having hooks to 'escape' python for the numerical stuff: numba and the numerous similar projects jitting a subset of python, or interoperating with some other language more amenable to optimization (e.g. Julia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb8CMuNKdJ0)

I am quite interested in Lua-like design, though: one of my pet project around numpy would be to refactor it internally to use something closer to how lua works, exposing numpy to cpython only at the outer layer.
You signed a contract? This falls under my ISP's TOS.

Anyway, what I would do if I were you is run your Debian server at home, but get a tiny Linode through which your server VPNs, not just so your ISP can't parse the traffic (they're probably considerably more snoopy than Linode and their upstream, leaving the NSA aside for the moment), but also so you don't run into problems common to running an email server at home, e.g. having your outgoing emails bounced because they come from a residential IP block.

As far the constrictive upstream with big files? I'd rely on Dropbox or Spideroak, depending on how much I valued convenience (Dropbox) over security (Spideroak).
This will work until they just start encrypting cookies server-side.
I'm sorry, what?
The purpose of a trial is to determine guilt or innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.
If they admit they are guilty, are not insane, etc, please explain what end this serves again?

Let's ignore the edge cases of being committing violations of unjust laws, malum prohibitum crimes, and stick with something like:
Client accused of murdering 40 year old woman
Client admits to you he murdered 40 year old woman because he felt like it.
No police brutality, confession issues, whatever [1].

I'm of course, not saying they should be strung up. But trying to get them off on a technicality serves nothing. If they go free, it serves no overall goal of the system.

[1] Note that for things like the exclusionary rules, this is actually why a number of 'conservative' justices don't like them - they are actually in agreement that stopping police from committing constitutional violations is a worthy goal, but do not believe letting guilty people go free is the way to solve that problem.
Is this at University of Wisconsin-Madison? The image in the SoundCloud sidebar suggests this happened at Ingraham Hall.
I hate when comments people disagree with get downvoted, because now nobody's going to see this and we're missing a great opportunity to debate with someone who shares a drastically different viewpoint than the rest of us.

> "technically qualified people who aren't exactly choir boys"

I'm curious, are you referring dismissively to people with a steadfast commitment to their own ethical compass? And if so, why?

Edit: I think Gorpus is dead now. I misinterpreted his comment about choir boys though, he was just saying they only hire people with completely spotless records, drug testing, etc.
"It's far more likely that a CA is compromised than an ISP."

I wonder if that's true?

At a high enough stakes game - one would have to assume that state level actors have already trivially compromised both - the NSA clearly has pretty much 100% compliance from Verizon, and I don't think its going out on a limb to assume they've got similar compliance from at least one of (and possibly all of) the US based CAs. Egypt at a state level have been seen using fraudulent SSL certs - and you'd be foolish to assume there isn't equivalent CA access available to any government who has a root CA authority under their jurisdiction.

But that's kind of a moot point - if the NSA is targeting me individually, I have to assume they'll gain access to pretty much everything - even if I strongly encrypt everything (and don't ever make a mistake doing so), many of the intended recipients of my communication are in jurisdictions where they've got enough power that wouldn't be able to resist the NSA's demands to reveal the unencrypted contents. (If they can ground head-of-states private planes in various European countries, there are probably very few places they cant "lean on" someone strongly enough to make it a not-very-difficult question about whether to give up my personal data.) "Lesser" state level actors - GCHQ, or ASIO here in .au for example - might not have quite such god-like global power, but I'm under no delusion about the privacy protection I've got against the "feeble compared to the NSA" local government intelligence organisation of whatever country I happen to be in, if it takes a personal interest in me.

At the attack levels lower down though - carders, identity thieves, the generic "internet fraud" level attacker - I suspect ISPs are significantly more likely to be compromised than CAs - or at least the important part of the CA infrastructure that holds the root signing keys. I'd guess typical ISP infrastructure is not as well secured as typical CA root keys - and that zerodays, unpatched known vulnerabilities, and rogue/disgruntled/underpaid sysadmins in small (and perhaps even large) ISPs represent a much higher risk than non-state-level attacks via stolen CA keys.
BeachMint Founder, Pres., & Investor Rebuke Report About The Startup’s Implosion
It looks like it only works with other people's QR codes from the "Find Friends > QR Code > Your Code" area and not random codes. Worked for me with those codes though.
Interesting comment. They explicitly disabled equipment that provided access to the network which they expected to be used by #occupy protesters in the organization of their protest.

They certainly had the 'right' to shut down their own equipment. Their stated intent was to disrupt protests.

Egypt turned off the Internet during the Arab spring by turning off their own routers (which they owned and was their right) with the explicit goal of disrupting the protesters ability to organize and communicate.

The common theme here is the use of existing infrastructure in the organization and coordination of protests. In both Egypt and BART and Turkey's case the infrastructure had a designed non-protest-organizing modality. When the infrastructure gets shut down to cut off protesters it also impacts non-protesters in a potentially severe way.

The lesson here is that it is possible to create infrastructure on demand which does not require all of your participants to be self identifying by carrying some sort of specialized equipment. Had the protesters been using the 'family radio' frequencies, the ones that are so often abused at DisneyLand, searching and removing radios from people allow them to disrupt their organization. Whereas everyone has a phone, so it is impractical to confiscate all phones in order to prevent lawful demonstrations.
The problem is that she wasn't breaking those big media companies a few years ago when they were pumping the propaganda she wanted, in fact she even let the huge Clarin group absorb Multicanal even though that was against existing anti-monopoly laws.

The wonders of semi-permanent emergency presidential powers...
Quite right. Lehrer had some fantastic lyrics to his credit.
I have a trick I feel would make a confrontation like this better.

Always speak under the assumption that the other person is 'good'. That means not calling them a liar. Instead, ask the questions that you feel would expose the inconsistency. That way they show everyone the point you're trying to make. Also it prevents personal animosity from obscuring the real content you might discover.

Furthermore, it allows a 3rd party who hears the discourse more freedom to make up their mind, whereas they might naturally go against your point of view because it's being pushed down their throat.
This is more about control of information than hindering pirates. This is one volley of a large scale attack.
What I meant was that they have requirements for employment (regarding drug use, travel history, etc.) that disqualify otherwise qualified individuals.
Intro video for High Quality Zen, a new open source art tool
Not to be pedantic, but I suppose you mean license as "you have to pay to use it". Both Apache and nginx have a (free software) licence.
It's easier to say that now that the US won the Cold War as well.
Anyone who represents the NSA in public is absolutely the appropriate person to confront about their organization's illegal activities. They are civil servants after all.
Truly it is a wonderful thing that the most anti-social and introverted people get to deploy technology affecting the common man.
OK, so how does it reach Weev again?
A hashing/checksumming filesystem would make it possible to determine whether a file's contents have changed without reading the file. The burden of computing the checksum is then shifted to writing, which in theory occurs once per sync in the case of Dropbox. This burden is merely computational, rather than a complete disk I/O burden imposed by hashing the file when Dropbox restarts.
If something in the exterior world makes you discontent, then it is not that object which troubles you, but rather your judgement of it; yet to blot out this judgement instantly is within your power. And if your dissatisfaction is based on the condition of your soul, who can prohibit you from correcting your views? Likewise, if you are discontent because you are not doing what seems reasonable to you, why not be active rather than discontent? "But something stronger than me is obstructing me." Still, do not be discontent; for the cause for your inaction is not within you. "But life has no meaning for me if this is not done." Well then, end your life, as calm as if you had succeeded; but don't forget to forgive your adversaries. -- Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

Everybody dies. Few people live.
As a non-american I wonder if Mozilla and others are against all spying of NSA or just Spying of American citizens.
I believe Kyoto Cabinet is an example of a truly Schema-less DB:

http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/
I imagine they raised that $42m at a higher valuation... giving investors preferred stock, meaning normal stock for employees was worth nothing.
Indeed the word is "companero", but its not as formal as comrade which also exists as "camarada", in this context its actually more like partner (in a professional sense) but not as informal as brother or pal in english.

Peron put that word en vogue around here.
I read "1968" as "!986" and when looking at it again, still read "1986"...as in, the mouse was a pretty big deal back in 1986, from what I barely remember. But 1968? My mental picture is just circuit boards and punch cards. How amazing this technology must have seemed.
Maybe, but I don't think that's what Rob Pike envisaged when designed Go.
It looks to me like Go was aiming for low level use. It seems odd that we're trying to use it for web development, its like making web frameworks in C; possible sure but not the best/easiest tool for the job.

I'm not hating, I'm just pointing out the fact we should use the right tools rather than shoe horn something in that's new.
Removing the GIL is a different problem than designing python without a GIL from the start. Preserving C API semantics (in particular reference counting) without slowing things down is the tricky part. I could be wrong, but I am not aware of any efficient memory management that support multithread well without depending on a 'real' GC