skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU is a staunch ally. We have nothing to fear from them, and spying on them can only serve to provoke an embarrassing international incident when we get caught.

My opinion is that if they want to keep something secret, then they have that right, and we shouldn't be prying. If the rest of the world thinks that's crazy, well we can be a good example.
As much as that statement intrigues me, note that the author provides no kind of argument whatsoever for why games shouldn't be movie-like. It just says "it shouldn't". You might want to think about that before you call Square Enix.
CueTableReloader - Automatically infer animations for UITableView
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5962954
He does - he says that people younger than him will pay for gadgets and wi-fi, but not music, toward the end. Ie pirating is killing the labels and thus new bands.
One question I've been wondering about: did the NSA/gov't ever ask the operators of large webmail providers to not deploy PGP/PKI?
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I've been hosting my own mail since 1996. It's actually one of the easier services to self-host:

1) SMTP was developed for unreliable environments. If you have problems with uptime, your incoming email will bounce around for 5 days before it gets dropped. So assuming you can get your SMTP server running one day out of five, you shouldn't be in danger of losing anything.

2) Contemporary daemons like postfix and dovecot have sane defaults, so even a naive default install should be mostly secure. They're also extremely low velocity, so once you set it up there's not a lot of ongoing maintenance.
Astyle 2.03: A Free, Fast and Small Auto-Formatter
Was hoping to see more discussion of backups. There are a bunch of possible approaches (depending on level of desired security, what the VPS provider offers, and how much you trust them), but for a mail server, there ought to be something...
Perhaps you'd like something more integrated? There are plenty of projects in this space that are entirely or mostly open source.

http://www.kolab.org/
http://www.sogo.nu/english.html
http://www.zarafa.com/
http://www.open-xchange.com/home.html
https://www.zimbra.com/
You say ancient and archaic, I see ridiculously well tested and battle worn.

Seriously, what would make a "fresh" solution better than a long standing one, in this case?
Given that secure buildings typically lack windows or have RF shielding on the windows, I'm sure this sort of capability has been around for a long time.

Example: https://www.astic.com/sdfilms.php
My only question: with massive data centers owned by Google/Microsoft/FB etc, is onsite direct data retrieval really possible or practical?
What is the significance of Barrett Brown being a young white male? I didn't see any obvious reason for the author to mention either his sex or race.
The point about trusting hosting providers is an interesting one. Indeed, when renting a Virtual Private Server from a service provider, you have no choice but to trust them to keep your data safe.

This made we wonder: would it be possible to actually secure the server in such a manner that the hosting party won't have access to your stuff without your say so ?

I think you can (sort of) do this already with having something like an encrypted virtual server running on the rented VPS. Of course, I don't think this is bullet-proof and you also do have the downside of an additional layer of overhead that comes from further virtualization of your actual server(s).
Lady Gaga? Sorry ...beyond my ken.
My apologies. I did not intend to come across as argumentative.
Generate first N prime numbers
I think it was done more as a literary flourish than anything else.
I recommend cybersource Japan. Same API and documentation as the USA. Unless you are fluent in Japanese and prepared to deal with arcane systems and pricing structures, go with cybersource. I've tried three other providers, still waiting for stripe Japan.
Homoiconicity (code and data having the same representation) is a commonly cited reason, which is key to the macro system in Lisp. Also commonly cited is the symbol type, which is also very useful in various AI contexts:

http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/aisc

This is not to say that you cannot do equivalent things in Java, but it is a lot easier in Lisp.
What? Have you been following this topic at all?

Exactly where are these convincing arguments that google is sending all e-mail to the NSA? Links? Data? Do you have anything that supports this at all?

There is the telephone stuff that was leaked, which has been well known since 2006 [0]. But, where is this miraculous evidence that google is handing everything over to the NSA?

[0] http://yahoo.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.h...
Likely the thing that drives me batty the most when it comes to IE is it's compatibility modes. While I understand MS's reasoning for this, it, I feel, is really doing more damage than good.

I have seen my share of tickets where the only thing wrong was the user had forced the site to render as IE 7. Thankfully I was able to use that to push the addition of the correct meta tag to our pages, but really, I have to wonder how many people see sites 'broken' because they clicked compat on.
Play FPS Pacman
Knowing some information theory should tell us that the answer is precisely one bit. Is there a law like Betteridge's for articles where the headline answers its own question?
The Post says "government equipment on private company property", but the slides don't say that, they also don't say the private property is that of internet companies (Google, Facebook, etc.). The slides actually refer the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which passes the communications to the NSA, including a Protocol Exploitation system.
First, they could always ask your ISP to route a copy of each smtp to their servers.

But this is a bit irrelevant until you solve the social problem: I'm going to guess that >90% of your contacts use gmail/yahoo/hotmail; so the NSA already has 90% of your mail in their databases anyways- until you convince your contacts to install their own email server.
What do you get when you buy through a third party?
This is what I do, but it requires more than a $5/month VPS to run it.

https://www.zimbra.com/docs/os/8.0.2/single_server_install/S...
I was a big user of Heroku for a long time, but at some point over the last year or two it became more cost effective and performant for me to run my projects from an Amazon EC2 instance.

The problem that I experiences is that I wanted my sites to have great performance, even though they only got hit a few times per day. This precluded me from using the Heroku free tier since idle dynos are swapped out and take a considerable amount of time to spring back to life. No big deal, I could just pay for 2 dynos and my app would never idle. Some time after that my postgres database exceded the free tier limit and the only option was to pay $20/mo for a shared postgres DB that was way beyond my needs.

I went from an extremely modest website costing nothing, to an extremely modest website costing over $20 per month.

I switched all of my projects over to an EC2 instance and pay about 15 bucks with no arbitrary limitations.

I hope the new CEO understands that building a healthy customer base means giving people a sensible path for growth.
Bitnami offers a ready-made mail solution with roundcube.[1]

[1]: http://bitnami.com/stack/roundcube
Fans braced for Google Reader's demise flock to new services
Does anyone have a gmail exporter?

i.e. something that imports email from gmail WITH labels.
Surely you must mean Univision, the source of both the WSJ and ABC News stories and data relating to this?

WSJ is going off of Assange's own words, and the RT story linked here doesn't try to deny what Univision leaked, it tries to change the question to whether the NSA is hacking into Ecuador.

But it was Assange himself who apologized "if we have unwittingly [caused] Ecuador discomfort in the Snowden matter." Followed by "...If similar events arise you can be assured that they do not originate in any lack of respect or concern for Ecuador or its government,"

The WSJ itself called the situation "Disarray in the Ecuadorean Government", and it seems hard to categorize that as completely false. There was a safe pass drafted on Pres. Correa's order. Snowden even used it to fly to Russia. Ecuador told the U.S. to piss off with its trade agreement. And then suddenly the safe pass is invalid, was always invalid, had nothing to do with Correa, etc. What happened?
I really enjoyed this, and it introduced me to Candy Box as well. This is saying something since I suffer from pretty severe issues with concentration and haven't been able to play games for some time. Thank you very much.
That's par for the course in the film industry really. Nothing's ever free.
I used to read Dilbert every day, because my feed reader reminded me. Since they changed a week ago, I've only read it once, and that was days ago.
The only option you have is to surrender the domain. If you ask them to compensate you for the cost of buying the domain (which should be something less than $100 I'm assuming), they'll probably do so.
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Gelaran kompetisi pemanasan Piala Dunia atau yang lebih dikenal dengan Piala Konfederasi akhirnya sampai di babak final. Dan sesuai dengan prediksi banyak orang, yang akan bertanding di babak final tidak lain adalah tuan rumah, Brasil kontra juara bertahan Piala Dunia 2010, Spanyol. Pertandingan tersebut sesuai dengan jadwal akan segera bergulir pada tanggal 01 Juni 2013 atau lebih tepatnya pada pukul 05:00 WIB. Mengingat ini laga final, maka diperkirakan laga kali ini akan berjalan sengit dan cenderung berimbang. - See more at: http://www.situsjudi.org/prediksi-skor-brasil-vs-spanyol-piala-konfederasi-01-juni-2013#sthash.7IFpPv87.dpuf
I'm fairly new to iPhone dev and was very surprised when I ran into this. Is there any reason it doesn't?
This article conveniently left out Palantir's reply to the HBGary email leak. http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Firm-targeting-WikiLea...

They can't even do what Aaron Barr was asking of them.

Please approach this article with some level of skepticism. Especially after the last round of discussions[1] we had surrounding the bogus connection Palantir was alleged to have with the NSA. (Due the naming of an internal project which shared the name "Prism").

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5839305
RSS is tiny and static. If your server can't handle a million hits a day to your RSS feed, you're doing it wrong.
This is stupid question, but based on the ToC, is this book suitable for Java programmer who doesn't know anything about AI other than from Hollywood movies?
You might want to be careful: in OS X Mavericks, the default version of Ruby is 2.0.0p195. If you decide to upgrade, you'll have to go through this pain all over again.

If you're using Homebrew, you can install rbenv, ruby-build, and then use rbenv install to install a new Ruby version. Homebrew has its own version of Ruby, but it's the latest version and it's more maintainable to use rbenv or RVM to manage Ruby installations. It's sort of a pain, but once everything's set up, you won't have to think about it again.
They do have a connection to the NSA, just not that connection.

Also, that reply was after the leak, in PR disaster recovery mode, so its value is rather diminished.
Products like Photoshop are a relatively unique case in the sense that they are, in many ways, the only product. There are other other photo editing programs (gimp has actually gotten pretty good at this point), however there is a significant cost to re-learn how to use the new program. This cost to learn effectivly creates a lock-in effect, where the cost of Photoshop is cheaper than the cost of learning something different.

Additionally, Photoshop does not have ongoing costs with pirates. Whereas a web service needs to maintain the servers for the free users. And because Photoshop is pirated, the do not have an expectation of customer support.
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Would like read PDF on your fusion project. Study fusion and high energy physics.
They are toiling for this money. Specifically, the mining system exists in order to verify transactions, put them together into a block, and distribute that block to be added to every client's copy of the blockchain. The reward for performing this very important task is a certain number of Bitcoins "generated" at present, along with transaction fees that the miner can collect from any transaction which includes them.

The reason for centralising the Bitcoin network on the miners (and for each block, one particular miner) this way is simple - consensus. It's of paramount importance that every client on the network has exactly the same copy of the blockchain, otherwise double-spending can occur - causing one half of the network to believe that some Bitcoins were transferred to one address, and the other half to believe they were transferred to another.

The easiest way to do this is to build the network in such a way that one node holds an authoritative copy of the blockchain, and distributes that out to everyone else. But that goes against the concept of a decentralised network. So instead, what Bitcoin has done is built a system where every mining node races to solve a computationally hard problem, that they can prove they found the answer to, in order to become authoritative in order to add a single block to the blockchain. The incentive to do so is the "mined" Bitcoins, along with the transaction fees for every transaction included in that block.

Without this system, Bitcoin could not exist.

For the record - even though the miner is authoritative in adding a block to the blockchain, it cannot forge transactions. It can however refuse to add a transaction to the block, which sometimes happens if the offered transaction fee is too low. The transaction might be added to future blocks if other miners are OK with the transaction fee.
Does anyone know, if I used z-push for a product, would I be liable for not buying a license from Microsoft, for Exchange ActiveSync? It seems they are fairly litigious with activesync patents.
While k9mail is a must, I suggest linking to the repo, which is usually lightyears ahead of public releases on the Play store.

https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/downloads/list

On a side note, they seem to have just hit v4 two days ago.

Second side note, if you decide to use k9, be sure to turn off the signature under composition settings for each account you add.. it's turned on by default.
> The companies all say that they comply with all legal orders, and secret FISA orders are legal. These slides all seem in line with what the CEOs and reps have said.

That's not true, the slides describe a system that receives a raw data flow and decodes it. Google and Facebook have both explicitly denied giving access or even receiving a request for blanket or bulk access. They both say the have only received requests for specific individuals, and every request is individually reviewed by their legal team.
The point is you can't condemn Palantir for something Aaron Barr asked of them. You can't condemn Google for something I ask of them. Even in the event they were able to do what he requested, you can only fault them if they carried that action out.

I'd challenge you to show that they did carry Aaron Barr's request out.
He must be a train engineer.

I work at a place that provides dedicated bandwidth on fiber owned by the company. We would probably get results worse than he did. When you're trying to get to 100% theoretical utilization, you need to do alot of tuning, and then at best you'll pick up another 1%.
Tokyo through a visiting designer's eyes
Agreed. Setting up the mail server is such a nightmare. I'll gladly pay for a for-dummy-solution.
I don't really mean to be offensive when I say this, but you're almost certainly not the target market for them. They're looking at people growing from initial concept to 3 dynos to 30 dynos, and if your app won't do that, then they have no incentive to cater to you, as far as I understand it.
https://arkos.io/
If your computer starts acting visibly funny (as apposed to funny in the sense of weird processes or network activity), you can almost entirely rule out a virus, those like to stay hidden.
What do you use for spam filtering?

Another problem is you will have to use a third party smtp server, otherwise your mail will be rejected by a lot of email providers.
Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776)
Motives Aside, the NSA Should Not Spy on Us
Ah, is this where the hacktivists start eating their own for no better reason than that they don't sufficiently hate the infidels?

This is a notable example of killing the messenger in fact; Lessig talks about using tech proactively in order to aid privacy and accountability, references a company that happens to have the technology to do it already.

Even if you don't like the company (Oh no, their board member knows this other board member! Oh no, the CIA was indirectly involved years back!), that doesn't invalidate the message. It's this kind of intellectual dishonesty that I didn't even dream computer hackers could actually fall victim to, before my rude awakening. Or I don't know, maybe it's the chemtrails eating my brain and Dr. Lessig was really a CIA plant all along, who knows?
You're not wrong. 24's influence on public opinion on the question of torture was profound and significant -- especially among young people who were most likely to be attracted to careers in the military.

It got so bad that the dean of the US Military Academy at West Point begged them to stop, because he was distressed at the opinions about torture he was seeing among his cadets (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_...):

U.S. Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, the dean of the United States Military Academy at West Point, flew to Southern California to meet with the creative team behind “24.”...

Finnegan and the others had come to voice their concern that the show’s central political premise—that the letter of American law must be sacrificed for the country’s security—was having a toxic effect. In their view, the show promoted unethical and illegal behavior and had adversely affected the training and performance of real American soldiers. “I’d like them to stop,” Finnegan said of the show’s producers. “They should do a show where torture backfires.” ...

Finnegan told the producers that “24,” by suggesting that the U.S. government perpetrates myriad forms of torture, hurts the country’s image internationally. Finnegan, who is a lawyer, has for a number of years taught a course on the laws of war to West Point seniors—cadets who would soon be commanders in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. He always tries, he said, to get his students to sort out not just what is legal but what is right. However, it had become increasingly hard to convince some cadets that America had to respect the rule of law and human rights, even when terrorists did not. One reason for the growing resistance, he suggested, was misperceptions spread by “24,” which was exceptionally popular with his students. As he told me, “The kids see it, and say, ‘If torture is wrong, what about “24”?’ ”

They didn't stop, of course, but star Kiefer Sutherland did agree to speak at West Point to remind cadets that the show was fiction (http://www.hollywood.com/news/tv/3662740/u-s-army-invites-ki...).
I had an Eagle 1600. I remember when founder drove off the cliff and I remember how it damaged the company. The rest of that wiki article I don't know if true or not.

I remember the distributor I bought the machine off of (I pretended I was a computer dealer so I could buy wholesale and even had checks printed to make it seem more legit) telling me that he had more demand for Eagle because of the death and all the attention on Eagle from the publicity. (Have no idea whether bs or not but definitely remember him telling that to me at the time).

They were nicely designed machines. The 10mb was not full either. Did all sorts of things with it.
A spy organization caught spying, shocking.
There's a ton more to being a good comedian than just A/B testing a few jokes. (Good jokes are required but not sufficient?)

A good stand-up (like a good DJ) "feels the energy" in a room and subtly alters his delivery as well as the content to work the crowd.
It's also worth pointing out that one of the early products of the industrial revolution--the cotton gin--made slavery far more cost-effective. It would have died out by natural economic causes otherwise.
It's old-school of me, but I still rather like trn.

I might prefer nn if I hadn't already learned trn.
He provided plenty of great insight, do you not see it?

His emphasis is on: completion, budget, and timeframe. That's pretty much accurate. Being a good salesman or marketer is nice too. Nothing else matters. Everything else is a distraction or needless worry.
Citadel is another integrated solution that is really easy to setup. Just one application, all written in C. The web interface is the only thing that I think could be better.

http://citadel.org/
Yes, certainly no dog whistling here... :P
Bitcoin's Religion Problem
Facebook Reveals Its Impotence: Oppressing the Whistleblowers
Is this the case even with a large difference between fast and slow? I would imagine that there's a large intuitive difference between 1 Hz and 5 Hz, for example.
All 3 definitely knew. London might even be impressed. The only real problem for them is that it's out in the public, and they might have to act surprised and offended for a bit of time until it all blows over again.
Here is a spreadsheet I made in 2009 comparing processors who can handle Yen payments in Japan. It doesn't include Cybersource. We tried GMO, Worldpay and Paypal. We eventually decided Cybersource was the easiest to deal with in terms of API.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWgqGUbGJszdHB...
The Drone Wars-Obama’s intended reforms on Drone
Well that's actual advice boy, it's up to you if you still want to think that someone is going to hand you a job just because you need one.
Hats off to ya. I used to view setting up your own email services as a rite of passage for any UNIX admin worth their salt. SMTP was one of the first services I ever got working on my home Linux box, and I had to do it with Sendmail and the goddamn Bat book. Nowadays it's a bit easier.
Foreign citizens have a very powerful ally when being spied on by the U.S. government: your own government. When the U.S. government is spying on its own citizens, who do we have to turn to?
How is my app going to grow from 2 users per day to 20 users per day if it takes 30 seconds to un-idle my dyno? The answer is it won't because the end-user experience sucks on Heroku.

My bottom of the barrel Amazon EC2 instance gives much better performance for a very reasonable $15/mo.

If one of my apps does start to get traction and I need to increase my hosting capacity you can rest assured that I will do it with Amazon. I have no reason to convert my build & deploy process back to Heroku.

They lost any future sales they could have hoped to have gotten from me.
For C, C++ or Objective-C check out the Clang Static Analyzer.

http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/
It's $20/day though, not $20/week. At that rate, if you can grab one right now, you don't really have anything to lose; you will have recouped your investement in about 3 weeks, maybe 4, and everything else is extra.
Correct.

Don't use rvm or rbenv on your production Linux boxes. Use packaged Ruby there.