skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are sites out there that attempt to offer a service that protects your privacy by fetching websites for you through their servers and then pass you the content afterward—so your IP isn’t part of the request chain. That sounds like a nice service. Unfortunately I found there were 3 problems with a particular company offering this service:

1. From what I’ve read these guys just pass your info on to interested agencies anyway, entirely defeating the purpose.
2. In order to offer the service for free they insert adverts into the content—I assume to cover their operational costs.
3. This particular agency was able to get a pretty high search engine result—rivaling my own URLs—by just copying my stuff, Browser Pong being a prime example.

At the time this meant if someone liked what I did and searched for it there was a good chance they’d end up visiting a boxed in version of Pong with adverts on it. Aside from some tongue-in-cheek exceptions I’ve been firm about not putting ads on my sites. (And for the most part this doesn’t matter because they don’t get a ton of hits, but when something blows up like Pong or Jed there’s you know ... like maybe a whole $29.95 to be made there.) I made these things for the enjoyment of it and didn’t want to dilute them with ”a word from our [randomly selected] sponsor.” So I started experimenting and figured out how this company was parsing the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to patch the links so everything would go through their servers. The code snippet you pointed out was just a quick way to hide the URL from their parser and get them out of my hair.

I don’t have anything against ad-based models or referencing someone else’s work (obviously). But in this particular case I felt it crossed a line so I pulled the trigger. I hope that answers your question ;)
Bruce Schneier is an incredible asset to the technology community. I think it's awesome that he's going to be on the board of the EFF.

Receiving an EFF Pioneer Award in 2007, his introduction alone describes why he is a perfect candidate. The audio for the speech is, thankfully, available in the Internet archive[1]. The introduction given by one of the EFF technologists is a wonderful description of how important Bruce Schneier's contributions to technology and security really are, outside of his incredible cryptographic skills.

"Skilled in his exposition of ideas about security."

Bruce's ability to explain, in clear terms, what is or isn't wrong about particular systems is amazing. Whenever there's some sort of technological thing going on in the world, security related, Bruce's blog[2] is often one of the first place I go to.

"Made people aware of the context in which security happens. The context in which security measures exist … the political context, the economic context, the psychological context, the social context in which security really happens or often doesn't happen."

This is an incredibly valuable and necessary outlook on security in this day and age. The world needs more people who are aware of security, not as just some thing that you do, but really as a mindset and thing that you really have to wrap your head around.

"Worked really hard to demystify security. To help people think clearly about what really works and doesn't work."

"Emphasis and insistence that security is not an objective thing but is relative to the observer. That it's always from someone's perspective."

"You don't just have security as this thing that's out there, but security has a kind of political dimension, that you need to have a prior notion of what kinds of actions are appropriate and what kinds of actions are warranted."

I couldn't think of a more appropriate and equipped individual to help the EFF at this time in our history.

[1] - http://archive.org/details/Bruce_Schneier_EFF_Pioneer_Awards...

[2] - http://www.schneier.com
What I found interesting, was that this so called "contact chaining" (where they graph out who you talk to, and two degrees onward) was only approved after 9/11. Amazing how far we've fallen.

The agency "analyzed networks with two degrees of separation (two hops) from the target", the report says. In other words, the NSA studied the online records of people who communicated with people who communicated with targeted individuals.

Contact chaining was considered off-limits inside the NSA before 9/11. In the 1990s, according to the draft IG report, the idea was nixed when the Justice Department "told NSA that the proposal fell within one of the Fisa definitions of electronic surveillance and, therefore, was not permissible when applied to metadata associated with presumed US persons".
Drupal would be a natural choice for this.

1)It handles thousands and thousands of users out of the box and saves you masses of time with prototyping, and

2) has over 20,000 plugins (that you can get in and tweak) free for the using or modifying.

3) It's got a security team that is constantly vigilant that sends out security updates for you. (That was one of the big sellers for me.)

4) It's got a bit of a learning curve, but it's truly the swiss army knife of CMS's.

5) Once you've built something in Drupal, your app may seem slow, but then you can performance tune it (and its server) to be very very fast.

6) There's a huge community (the other huge selling point) that is very helpful.

7) There are plenty of nice responsive themes that you can tweak for any device you want.

8) It's very gratifying for developers to create new functionality that's never been built before.

9) It has a very well documented API.
How can it be fraudulent when it wasn't signed or stamped? I certainly got the impression from her comments that it was upsetting that the draft/template was leaked ahead of time (without the go-ahead from the government) more than anything else. Was it leaked to the press with the statement that it was official, or did the press come to that conclusion on their own?
Sell the Emotion, Not the Product
How would that be any different than it is today for the "Internet population".

If anything they'd use the PAC to get money from large donors (in the millions of dollars).
Thank you for open sourcing this. I've been itching to dive into some production ready Go code, and I've got a lot of interest in Angular.
Benchmark: Shared vs. Dedicated Redis Instances
If there’s one thing that Redis is known for it is speed; it is considered the most performant of modern K/V stores. Almost every aspect of Redis’ design and implementation screams maximal efficiency and is geared towards top performance.
>Nobody will be mimicking iOS 7, because iOS 7 is already mimicking other UIs. Flat UI design has already been established by Windows Phone, Windows Desktop OS, and Android's Holo UI.

Er, "Flat" is a visual style.

It's not something that you "imitate" (any more than anybody making an action movie is "imitating" a previous action movie director), it's guidelines to implement your design on.

Such styles come and go with design fashion. The trend has swing towards flatter styles, and Apple obliged. Like when in 2004-5, with Delicious Library et al, the trend swung towards ornaments and skeuomorphism and Apple again obliged (and even snatched D.L's designer).

Plus, none of the above UIs made even a dent on the market. So not really inviting to "imitate" a success point of view.

(With the exception of the "Windows Desktop OS". But that sold because it's the "next version of windows", not for it's flat facade, which was universally hated so much by desktop users that MS is reverting in 8.1 to let you have a start menu and boot directly to the classic Windows desktop view).
Thank god. I hate Silverlight. It's so resource intensive.

EDIT: I just felt like ranting against Silverlight some more. The only reason I use Silverlight is because of Netflix. I run it in Chrome on my Mac Air. Besides being buggy and resource hungry, it also doesn't stop my Mac from dimming even when watching a video in fullscreen, unlike YouTube videos, etc. (Could this be because it doesn't use the graphics card?) I watched a movie on it the other day and the audio/video kept going out of sync due to lag (not a network problem) and I had to reload the page every 5 minutes. Aaargh! Death to Silverlight!
Wikileaks: Garzón will not represent Snowden, whose "whereabouts are unknown"
I agree with Starr about having your own Gem repository available for the code you want to deploy to your servers.

However, I don't think this solves the initial problem, and that is that you have to develop a trust with the people writing the Gems.

For the Rails gem, I'm just going to trust those guys, because of their track record, but for a random gem writer with their first Gem, I'm going to read the code of that gem to ensure that it does what it says it does.

Having your own gem server doesn't remove this step, but it does put a roadblock in to stop a gem writer putting in bad code once you've decided to use it.

So this is a 2 step process:

1. Read the Gem code (or trust some other way)
2. Create a Gem Server to isolate from un-wanted updates
Check again in 3 years.
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Anyone know where the images are coming from?

Most of them aren't pulled directly from the story.
There are also copyright issues with images that make this legally tricky to pull off.
Jaguar Marketing: How the Car Company Got Me Hooked
I agree that threats are not how friendly countries carry on friendly business. What I do not agree on is that Ecuador is acting at all as a "friend" to the U.S. in this matter, for the reasons I stated above.
Will there be an ext5?
https://www.google.com/search?q=ext5
Looks great! Unfortunately after the RapGenius fiasco, I don't trust Heroku as a service provider.
I second this. I'm especially interested in how other people model their data for App Engine's store.

Did you have any difficulties there?
The final guide to building growl (if you need a custom build)
Oh God I really hope people start using this in place of Lorem Ipsum.
Ditto, but I find 75% increased privacy is worth it.
Level: HN - 2667.94

Believe it or not, my cars evolved into "Flying Cars" (They start with one wheel stuck in the terrain, moving slowly forward, then it releases and goes flying over the track)

http://imgur.com/n6g8VRH
Why the hell would anyone give away sensitive customer information like that to a free service?! There is ZERO incentive for them to do anything good with MY information once you give it to them. Even if the current owner is conscientious, if they sell their site the buyer probably won't be. I don't want to be goddamn robocalled at 6AM because you're too cheap to pay for the work needed to set up these services properly.

Web services as an industry needs to grow up. "Free" is totally inappropriate for this.
Growth hacking lessons: Turning new users into loyal ones
DuckDuckGo avoids the 'Google' bubble, which happens when the search engine tailors results based on what it thinks you want. Even with engines that do not do this, you still can easily form a bubble by biases in what search terms you use, and in what sources you choose to look at.
Selecting Yourself For Success: Developing The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Population boom might not have set off “human revolution”
Abuse terminology? Apply the label of civil disobedience incorrectly?

I'm unsure if you read the post or not, but I specifically address this. There is a long-standing recognition of indirect civil disobedience--e.g., violating law A to bring attention to the unjust nature of law B because you cannot, or choose not to, directly violate law B. You're thinking inside the box of only direct civil disobedience--e.g., refusing to give up your seat on the bus to a white man even though the law requires you to do so.

It is still civil disobedience, and I think far more civil disobedience than whistleblowing, yet another label that has been used to label Snowden.
interesting observation. he wasn't mentioned in the original one either, i believe. This could be a good thing though. more whistleblowers. I have a feeling this is all part of the snowden thing though. just my feeling
Well, as long as there aren't any more data-eating bugs like with thin provisioned LVM in RHEL 6.

In that case, xfs_repair did abysmal job in coping with the data corruption, which didn't quite provide confidence.
I use both Android and iOS for a considerable part of my day. On the Android side I roll with a Galaxy S3, Nexus 4 and Nexus 7.

It has gotten much better, most certainly, via things like concurrent and partial garbage collections (and the improvements in the integer-units in the CPUs, simply brute forcing through these UI thread impediments), and other core improvements, but it's still most certainly behind iOS (where UI priority was a core architectural concern from day one).

Aside from a still not silky smooth experience, Android still has an endemic problem with completely non-responsive interactions -- you click or do something and everything just stops with absolutely no hints or feedback....and then three seconds later a result appears.
New Zealand Government Announces That Software Will No Longer Be Patentable
I can agree with that. Untyped languages seem to allow for better gradients of separation as well as tend to work with a wider variety of tools. It's not always good, but it usually quicker to start with.
Suddenly setting up a staging environment doesn't suck.
So basically you say that the children must pay for the crimes of their ancestors far back in the past?

History is far too undocumented to go back for millenia and settle old scores.

What I'm saying is, here's the status quo, here's the rules and structure we inherited from the "shoulders of giants" that came before us.

If this is what we like then we keep it. If this is not what we like then we change it. But I'm not going to reframe society as if everything that was ever created is illegitimate because Hammurabi was mean to other people before he created his Code.
Hasty hastens healthy food delivery from your mobile
...and a relentless powerful 365/24/7 `Diaboli Machinae' to avoid. This is interesting, perhaps a text based adventure game is most expedient, release 1.0? A GUI, with Google maps, etc, 3D dynamic hunter-killer thugs and drones, would be awesome but overwhelming.

I've read Edward is a very good gamer, so he has all of sn0wd3n already playing, and winning.
It seems to me the surface tension is the deal-breaker here. When you land feet first, your feet break the surface of the water, which allows for the water to move around the incoming object. You want to minimize distribution of force to only the bottom of the feet.

Of course the force exerted on your feet would more than likely break your ankles and possibly your knees/legs, and severely impinge your hip joint. In addition, your head will likely receive an extreme "punch" as it comes into contact with the water. This alone might be enough to knock someone unconscious or kill them, but it depends on their neck, chest, head, body position, etc.

So if the mythbusters test were done again, it should definitely not be a really fat pig landing on its side; it should be a skinny dummy landing perfectly straight.

I am not a scientist, but I do have experience with cliff diving. (The real trick is when the water level is low, you have to expand your body as soon as you hit the water so you don't shoot down and hit the rocks at the bottom!)
Don't forget buggy as hell! It's got that going for it, too.
Spending on cars is one of those things that I can't comprehend personally, because for me a car is just a means of transportation. My requirements for a car are that it's not too unsafe, has OK mpg, and doesn't break down too often. That's why I got a 98 Honda Accord, works perfectly.

I understand that people can be into nice and expensive cars , but that's gotta be one of the most expensive hobbies out there.
From the looks of things, the 1.2K number is the number of bug reports they plan on filing after de-duping and removing ones that aren't pertinent.
The New Digg Reader for iPhone: Available on the App Store
Thanks. Good feedback. Yes, the time commitment would scare me more, but I have some reliable family members that can help. I already work with them, so I know what they're capable of.

I have considered opening my own idea for a restaurant, and I wouldn't run a Subway or McDonald's for anything, but this franchise is relatively small and growing really quickly because people rave about it. It feels something like Ben & Jerry's in the early days.

I don't have the bankroll to gamble on my own idea for a restaurant, and I'm a noob so I'd probably mess it up like most people do. Even though I'm almost arrogant enough to think I could do it.

A franchise I really like seems like a good balance of risk and reward.

Thank you.
Apple invention combines SD card slot and USB input into one port
There's also another great documentary from Werner Herzog called Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. Very genuine and profound. Werner is a master of being in the moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Tai...
Off topic but Path's and Pinterest's logos sure look similar.
Quoting Netflix, from the article:

We expect premium video on the web to continue to shift away from using proprietary plugin technologies to using these new Premium Video Extensions.

Quoting the article:

According to Netflix, Microsoft made this possible by implementing three features in its still-unfinished IE11:

The Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) using Microsoft PlayReady DRM.

Netflix is using some doublespeak here. Yes, Silverlight was a "proprietary plugin", but they've just shifted to using proprietary DRM with proprietary extensions to HTML5. They got rid of the plugin--great! But they've replaced one proprietary experience with another.
Looks good and simple. But I am still sticking with InoReader. Even though Feed readers should be simple but they should still provide enough bells and whistles for the people to adjust settings (look and feel) according to their own taste and not the taste of the developer. Below I see a comment which suggest that you only prefer to use Google to sign in. Well, most people won't agree and they'd rather you provide your own sign on system. In any case, the same logic works for UI adjustments etc. For all these reasons, InoReader by far is the closest you can get to Google Reader replacement.

PS: I have only recently discovered InoReader and I have no stake in it but I have been playing with many RSS readers as I am a long time RSS user of GR.
I am fairly certain that he was being sarcastic.
Really good idea. I have only talked to successful owners so far. Not sure how easy it will be to find unsuccessful ones, but I'll give it a try.

Thanks.
Dont get me wrong, I can relate to the crying but I feel that this is the physical reaction while the focus shall be more on the emotional side.
And economic treaties are diplomatic tools. They always have been part-and-parcel of diplomacy and it's silly to act like that has suddenly changed in 2013.
Apple Patents Slimline Combined SD and USB Slot
Is this how Google Reader used to look like? I'm asking this because UI is very similar to CommaFeed (https://www.commafeed.com/)
In the near term, nothing.
Really interesting thinking. Yes, if one views Wikileaks like an intelligence gathering agency, a lot more makes sense. It doesnt change my support for it, because in that light it becomes an independent intelligence agency acting for every human, world wide. In that context, should it not be protected and even financed by something like the UN?

Equally, it then makes sense that government, especially the paranoid well resourced US government, will treat it as hostile. Worrying and nasty, but very understandable.

Now the problem for me is why did the wikileaks people not defend wikileaks like an intelligence agency? I suppose hindsight...

I would now suggest a new wikileaks be born, campaign for it to become protected under the UN. It should take all the precautions of a nation's intelligence agencies, and act like one. An intelligence agency to inform the people, as opposed to intelligence agencies to secretly inform people with money and power.

I think we need something like that, and we need it now.
This is my problem. I get most of my technology (and recently the NSA stuff) news from HN, some current events from NPR, and then a couple other politics sites I frequent which I'd rather not divulge ;)
I don't think the buddy who wrote the article is manic depressive... Definitely a long shot. He just seems like the stereotypical ADD teenager/college freshman who has no guidance. I feel like his experience is very similar to my early working years, especially when you are working on a project by yourself, with no one to benchmark yourself against.

That being said the article comes off as way too much of a "Look at all teh knowledges I have" humble brag, with not enough "I severely screwed over my friends (even if I was working for free) because after 2 years I still haven't delivered..." In the real world this situation results in unemployment not a self-congratulatory pat on the back.
downloaded it -- worked great on my iphone 5. Impressive!
Whats the name of the franchise / restaurant? I'm curious now...
Many sites are reporting that Microsoft has confirmed IE11 support for Windows 7 [1]. The question is when, not if.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043129/internet-explorer-11-...
> Previous practitioners of civil disobedience clearly thought that submission to punishment was necessary for their actions to be justified.

No, a subset of prior civil disobedients willingly submitted to punishment to allow their disobedience to remain justified in the public view so they could continue their civil disobedience after punishment. This has not been a rule among civil disobedients, but a feature common to some.

However, submission to punishment is often especially helpful in cases of indirect civil disobedience, not only because the punishment is just, but because it absolves the disobedient of accusations of infidelity to the legal system in which s/he acts. Still not a requirement, though, as it can be detrimental to continued disobedience and successful initiation of change.
Microsoft: Look, We Play Well With Others
I don't care about downvotes but I can't honestly provide feedback as a user without comparing your products with other products.
That's what the tour guides say in SF. Actually, some of them said it was most photographed in the WORLD.
Writing For Myself
Reputation has inertia. Microsoft did a bad job in mobile and desktop for so long that it has a lot of inertia for being dismissed.
> about what the industry I chose to spend my life working in

Would that be the VC-raising industry? Because there are many web startups out there that have had no such experiences, have avoided VC and chosen to simply grow slowly, happily and by investing the founder's time and energy rather than other (often highly dubious) people's money.

Don't be depressed because some fools are handing out millions to other fools, you don't need to compete with that. All that counts is your product.
Are "Premium Media Extensions" also plugins? Because if so this didn't really get much better. It still means Linux users could be on the backburner until someone decides we can watch too. Until Mozilla and Google are on board this doesn't necessarily seem better from a "universally available" standpoint.
Those with a clearance can just glance at the top of the document and see that they shouldn't read it, right?

The only reason to worry is if you believe that your accessing of this document is being tracked by the authorities ...