skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's checking for features, not the version and browser. And as for features, UInt8ClampedArray is missing from IE (it was seemingly a late addition to Typed Arrays and might not have been picked up in time).

That being said, it appears that there is a slower alternative that works just as well, but someone would have to code up a workaround for IE in this case. I would have done it if I knew any JS (or CoffeeScript in this case).
With forward secrecy.

Oh, and don't use a block cipher because of attacks.

Oh, and don't use RC4 because of .. attacks.

Oh bugger.
It may be a valid complaint in the sense that not supporting MIPS is a valid complaint. Rust, because of the decisions made in its design, is going to attract developers of low level systems, server-client architectures, etc. If you are developing the type of systems that Rust excels at, wouldn't you also be the type of developer that has no problem developing on and targeting Linux, BSD, MacOS, etc? Or am I missing something? Obviously Servo would be a good use-case, but apart from browsers, nobody targets Windows native software anymore.
Folk with mental illnesses such as depression or ADD are going to raise false positives here. In my case, depression cost me my twenties.

You can't really ask people "hey, have you ever had a mental illness that you may be super uncomfortable about discussing". Not just because it's problematic, but because it'll probably open you to something involving expensive typists (people call them "lawyers" for historical reasons too tedious to enumerate).

I'm not sure how to get around this. Maybe a blanket statement of some sort.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirm...

This was in 2012?
Don't underestimate the US population's apathy. Until something directly affects us (as in, costs me money, or keeps me from angrily driving an SUV around, or keeps me from buying tons of crap I don't need) it's very difficult to enact change.

That said, I'm still going to the RestoreThe4th protests tomorrow. I believe in what this country used to stand for, and it's worth the fight to get it back, even if the rest of the country drowns in lethargy.
Exactly. I don't understand how any advertiser could think they can control what I allow on my own computer. No-tracking is not the same as no-advertising. You can block the tracking while still viewing display ads. I mean, the television industry has gotten by just fine with little to no user-tracking for their advertisements. They show ads based on the demographics that networks provide them.
this just seems to indicate that the FBI was aware of a plot, by SOMEONE, to attack Occupy protestors. nowhere in the documents do I see information that the FBI itself made this plan and it would make a lot of sense if the FBI was tracking potential violence against protestors...
Page is down :(
If it gets "too big", raise your prices.
Mirror (site is down): http://12160.info/forum/topics/released-fbi-documents-reveal...

Oddly enough, a lot of sites hosting this release are down. Hmm.
Huh. I looked up conspiracy laws in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%28crime%29#United_...

"Under most U.S. laws, for a person to be convicted of conspiracy not only must he or she agree to commit a crime, but at least one of the conspirators must commit an overt act (the actus reus) in furtherance of the crime."

Does anyone know if the FBI could have arrested them on conspiracy to commit murder?
You've never used ZeroCoin because an implementation of it doesn't exist yet...

But libzerocoin is coming tomorrow: https://mobile.twitter.com/ZerocoinProject/status/3521365613...
Will you join my Steam Protest?
Steam's no resale policy is illegal in the EU - see the UsedSoft v Oracle ruling (link below). Basically it says that if you're an EU citizen and you paid a one-time fee for a lifetime license of software, you can resell it. I created a site that will let you sell your used Steam games www.halfpricedigital.com Twitter @HalfPriceDigi

If you're in the EU and you want to protest Steam's no-resale policy, just list your Steam game for sale and then email Valve to ask them how you will be able to transfer the game when your auction ends. Here's Valve's email form http://www.valvesoftware.com/email.php I'm turning off the fees on my site for a month starting today - so, no, I'm not scamming you for a percentage of the sale.

Valve will probably tell you reselling games is against their user agreement. Tell them that that's against EU law and mention the UsedSoft v Oracle ruling. If we can get Valve to allow reselling games in the EU, they might allow reselling games all over the world.

UsedSoft v Oracle info: http://www.forbes.com/sites/raywang/2012/07/04/news-analysis-usedsoft-vs-oracle-ruling-opens-up-monopolistic-practices-by-software-vendors/

TL;DR - Protest Steam's illegal no resale policy by listing your used Steam games for sale on www.halfpricedigital.com if you're an EU citizen.
I'm getting a 500, so here's the cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
Thinking leads to the inevitable conclusion that the laissez-faire policies held by Libertarians are just as flawed as the general policy sets held by D & R.

Gross deregulation leads to monopoly. Please show how this is not the historical fact. Fiscal loss of power leads to the same ends as loss of political and military power.
This is exactly what I do - I also add label colours to differentiate categories. I've also made "Stupid/abandoned" list, so that I don't just delete my ideas, but put them there just in case. I find it helpful to review it every now and then. Then I access them on my mobile too! It's a great tool.
I've done some research before upvoting this. I thought whowhatwhy.com would be some kind of conspiracy site, but they just do investigative journalism. They are usually featured in Salon.com.

http://www.salon.com/topic/whowhatwhy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Baker

Also, it's known that the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coor...
Where I live, many apps are not available and it's not clear at all why. Usually I just end up searching for the apk, install it and it works just fine.
That's certainly one way to handle it.
Would a riot actually change anything? I know a lot of football schools riot when their team loses but that doesn't seem to change a thing or even get press coverage outside of the immediate area.
fraudulent purchases -> chargebacks

Chargebacks are bad for the VPN company. They cost $15 each.

Even if they cost nothing, a high ratio of chargebacks is not in the best interest of the credit card companies, who are at the top of the value chain. So chargebacks are bad for anybody along the chain.
That is ridiculous. Please, have some imagination. In preparation of The Demo, just think about the algorithms that were discovered and technologies that were invented.

Unveiling of iPhone was a marketing gimmick. And please look outside America before talking about human history, and indeed computer.

I really don't want to sound rude but this kind of vanity gets to me.
Are we pretending that Yahoo wasn't part of PRISM as well?
The guys at Tokutek are solving that problem with MongoDB. Pretty interesting stuff ... you should check it out.
Nah, probably not. Who cares about the shooting of some homeless and some damn hippies, right?

Edit: Folks, the country I grew up in and my ancestors fought for knew of a potential assassination attempt on innocent civilians, and apparently didn't care enough to warn the cops standing watch.

Forgive me a little fucking gallows humor.
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FTA:

The use of the phrase ‘if deemed necessary,’ sounds like it was some kind of official organization that was doing the planning.” In other words, the “identified [DELETED” mentioned in the Houston FBI document may have been some other agency with jurisdiction in the area, which was calculatedly making plans to kill Occupy activists.
correction: Plastic firearms are useless and they always will be.

A plastic firearm is the same thing as holding a cartridge in a pair of pliers and hitting it with a rock.

Rifling in a plastic firearm that fires metal projectiles shows how stupid this exercise is. For rifling to spin a projectile, it must be harder than said projectile, and cut into it forcing it to spin. eg bullets are made of lead or copper and are fired through tempered steel.

The first liberator zip guns that the OSS dropped in France in the 40s were a psy op. They were never used to injure "the enemy".

Most armed government employees -- the presumed intended targets for these dangerous toys -- wear a spectra vest with a metal strike plate the makes plastic and wood projectiles harmless. I guess if one were to use a taser to disable an opponent, then they could hold one of these roman candles to the temple of their victim, and if the plastic gun didn't explode in the shooter's face it would seriously harm the victim.

A simple metal pipe, while not rifled, is vastly superior to plastic guns with one inch barrels because the propellant actually has a chance to burn and generate force. These plastic guns do not contain the force of the propellant and transfer it to the projectile.

These plastic gun affectionatos are an embarrassment to the intelligent readers of HN.
I don't get it. When everyone is eating at a circular table with little space between elbows, being the only lefty is bound to cause problems.
Just a couple of thoughts.

If you're aiming for small, non-tech-savvy local businesses, I suggest shortening both the headline and the paragraphs. Say less, and address their pain points directly ("My web apps will save you money. Here's how.")

Also, small business owners will likely not know what Github, AngelList, coderwall and such mean. You need to provide cases studies (perhaps with screenshots) and explain what you did, and how it increased revenue or saved money for your employers.

Lastly, are you tracking clicks on the Call To Action? How many visits are coming from your surrounding area? How can you increase that number?

Good luck!
I have to admit, I've been on this phone call as the person being recruited, a lot. I realized after a while that a lot of the ideas and companies I was being pitched on weren't interesting, especially after I realized that most recruiters know very little about the companies they're working for.

That realization prompted me to become a founder. If I was going to work on a company that was hard to explain, it better damn well be my own, and I better like it.
A better link would be to Makey Makey's own website: http://makeymakey.com/

The project started about a year ago on Kickstarter and raised $568K http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-i...

It's a lot of fun to play with and a great educational experience. They usually have a fun booth at Maker Faire.
People always forget that something tracking companies can always do is simply ask their customer to create a dns subdomain that forward to their ip adress. Then all your browser see is a first party cookie, but it actually sends information to the third party.
That's already what omniture is doing, and having a strong policy against third parties will only make others do the same.
The FBI response: "... if the FBI was aware of credible and specific information involving a murder plot, law enforcement would have responded with appropriate action."

Appropriate to whom?
I used one of the userscripts.org extensions for that and it caused my FB account to get locked for 24h. When I came back all my content had been restored (I know that because while the script was working, I had another window opened checking the progress).

Now the extension does not work anymore (the button it adds to the setting pages is not showing).
That's their stated intention, but so far it's completely centralized and (mostly) closed source.

The biggest problem most Bitcoiners have with Ripple is the creators control the allocation of the currency used within the system (XRP).
Thanks for your response.

I humbly disagree with you though. There are many instances where heinous acts by the powerful have gone unpunished. Many of them by the US and Britain. They have had no repercussions on the perpetrators because of power.
The NSA spying directly affects us. It allows groups with a history of blackmail to save & index any non face-to-face communications.
Sorry about that.

I was able to see it and assumed everyone else would be able to as well

http://infiltratecon.com/watt.html
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| Asked whether he was concerned that, if what he
| was saying was correct, it meant the FBI had not
| warned local police about a possible terrorist act
| being planned in his city, he said, “No. You’d
| have to ask the Houston FBI about that.”

Even if he were mad / concerned about it, he probably would not make a public comment to that effect. There are politics to consider here seeing as the HPD still needs to co-exist with the FBI and hopefully 'play nice' together.
I think this is a better book on him. Less history, more ideas:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Engelbart-Hypothesis-dialogs-Dougl...
The road sign does not mean camping ground here in Sweden and it never has. It means something like "sight", "monument" or "place of interest".

Here's is the road sign at the Swedish Transport Board:
http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/Vag/Vagmarken/Lokaliseri...

The description says: The sign indicates a sight of national interest. The nature of the sight is mentioned in connection to the mark.

More information is available here (Google translated): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en&ie...
It's the best way. Pricing is the longest lever you can apply to profitability. Don't be afraid to move it.
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The Engelbart Mural - co-evolution of human systems and tool systems
BBC: Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart dies at 88
Don't forget the pork barrels.

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

"Homeland Security grants abused, report says" http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/05/nation/la-na-terror-...

"Homeland security money wasted?" http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2006/06/17/16242-homeland-se...

"Senate Investigation Found DHS Intelligence Centers Wasted Money..." http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/10/senate-investigatio...
It's not news because it cannot really be blamed on Obama or "the liberals".
This could be a (fun) major protest -> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/july-4-show-your-suppo...
So you're basically rude and provide no real argument.

You did happen to notice how much the world transformed after the iPhone came out along with the rest of us, didn't you? You do remember that to paraphrase Alan Kay it was a few inches short of someone finally realizing the Dynabook? (And you do know that the iPad came before the iPhone, likely from this very inspiration?)

I find it bizarre that you somehow conclude that saying the iPhone was a very transformative product for the world is somehow "vanity." Strange.
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Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution
Beautiful eulogy. Compels me to read more about the person.
Totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/14030/large/Occ...
Now, now, let's be constructive. Party politics is how they keep the people too divided to change things.
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Absolutely agree. Libertarianism, on a long enough timeline, will lead to anarcho-capitalism.

Highly regulated capitalism seems to be a good mix. It seems like it's too late for the US in this case, since our government is almost entirely flooded by corporate interests. "Democrats vs Republicans" is really "Capitalist-imperialists who support abortion vs Capitalist-imperialists who don't support abortion." Of course, our media doesn't give a damn either, and distracts us with every last fringe issue...or in recent news, "Where's Snowden, LOL?!" vs "HEY your government is fucking treating you like a terror suspect just for using the internet and/or a cell phone!" It's weird that in almost every case, the media tends to whip people into a completely frightened frenzy. Now all we hear are crickets.

I think the first course of action in "fixing" things is a new voting system...one where you don't get two completely ineffectual parties clawing each other eyes out over ridiculous issues. One where if you vote for a third, fourth, or fifth party candidate, they actually have a chance.

We're in a hole, and we've got a lot of digging to do to get ourselves out.
"'Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88'
This is as if you found the person who invented writing, and credited them for inventing the pencil."

That's what obituary headlines do: connect the dead person's achievements in a concrete way to readers' lives.
Ah, glad to have that clarified. The username in the misdelivered email I received looked very much like an attempt at a memorable password, not a username. Thanks!
To clarify, having advance return the result means the design can be used to read from an external queue on multiple threads. C#'s IEnumerable can't do this, because the interface assumes only one consumer.

(Edit: I should point out C# is not the only platform that gets this wrong. C++/STL has the same design.)
i'd say "brilliant visionary of the computer's potentials."

that still misses the fact that the world failed to develop
those possibilities in any meaningful way, but that kind of
myopia would be hard to address no matter what one said...

-bowerbird
Look for IA as an reversal of AI, "Intelligence Augmentation" or "Intelligence Amplification".
Nowadays, I imagine Cypher playing Dwarf Fortress in that scene. "Blonde, brunette, redhead dwarfs..."
Have you watched the demo? Or looked up what an Eidophor is? This is pretty much the invention of the 'computer demo in front of a big, live audience'. I have no idea what teletypes have to do with any of this.
For those new to python/Debian this is an important point -- with python-dev and python-virtualenv installed (and also look out for "gcc" and/or "build-essential") -- generally a virtualenv made with "--no-site-packages" should have a fully working "pip" for installing most things.

Gcc is sometimes needed to build (often optional) c extensions.
don't forget pres signing statements:

http://www.coherentbabble.com/listBHOall.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement#Signing_state...
JavaScript projects to look into
That reads like pure speculation
PACE 231R analog computer, 1961
Need more details.

So, here is the common law/generic multistate answer (and what would have been chargeable in my old state):

If someone asked someone else to help them kill occupy leaders, this would have been solicitation (and the crime would be completed whether they said yes or no).

If they both agreed, and then committed some overt act in furtherance, it would be conspiracy. The overt act does not have to be related to the target offense of the conspiracy, just in furtherance. IE if you are being charged with conspiracy to commit murder, the overt act does not need to be "buying a gun". It could be "stealing money from an old lady that was later used to buy a gun".

Here, it just says "they planned to obtain intelligence, and then formulate a plan to kill people".

If they really just planned to have a plan, that doesn't seem like a conspiracy to commit murder, unless they all had really agreed to commit murder, and were still working out the details.
It's not really clear.
This is just not true. See http://mises.org/daily/5266/

For example:

"Six electric light companies were organized in the one year of 1887 in New York City. Forty-five electric light enterprises had the legal right to operate in Chicago in 1907. Prior to 1895, Duluth, Minnesota, was served by five electric lighting companies, and Scranton, Pennsylvania, had four in 1906. … During the latter part of the 19th century, competition was the usual situation in the gas industry in this country. Before 1884, six competing companies were operating in New York City … competition was common and especially persistent in the telephone industry … Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, among the larger cities, had at least two telephone services in 1905.
I LOVE this app, but it's run by 2 guys with a paid base that I question is large enough to sustain them in the long run. I can't trust my data (my life?) to a web-app like this, when you have stable systems like Evernote, Asana, or even Trello that are going nowhere for the next few years.

Will Workflowy be there a year from now? Can you trust that if hacked your data is secure? I'm not 100% sure. Still, I hope they can create a stable business with sustained growth because it's such a great great idea.
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Ultimately our ability to create new and exciting things is governed by the political and economic power we wield. It is without any doubt that the current events have created a situation where we sacrifice our commercial stake in 'internet leadership' globally for the sake of short term intelligence gains.

The financial machinery of the intelligence community has co-opted the political power structure of the nation. The freedom to speak publicly without asymmetric authoritarian consequence does not exist, if it ever did.

Thus, to focus on tech and start ups, the environment needs to be less toxic.
I am from India, (and have stayed in the US for 3 years, now back in India) but I have deep concerns about the happenings in the US. I am an ardent supporter of the US for the freedom and equality they support. They are truly the greatest country on the Earth. But some recent developments have made me sad. I don't want that to happen in my country.

The Indian Government has denied granting asylum to Snowden, obviously under the pressure of the US.
I apologize on my Country's behalf and take the responsibility of this decision.
Hey, it's free :-)
As a matter of fact they offer living assistance in some cases.
Ask HN: help with my startup
This is my first post, please be gentle :)

In 2009, with a friend, I launched gdocsopen.com, a way to use google docs for local office documents. After launch, we got some really good press.

Fast forward 3 years, after which I put some effort into the website & app, it's not working really well (2-3 sales / month). I realised that the market is really small.

What do you advise me to do? Move on or keep trying to succeed with this app?
This is amusing because occupy uses open processes (no secrets). These scare tactics should be used against the black bloc, but they grok security culture. So this is just babble from yet another security speculator.
The question is who is [DELETED] and what would their motive be?

Killing Occupy "leaders" seems like the absolute worst way to make the Occupy problem go away. Can you even imagine the outrage?

The only way it could possibly be successful is by making it clear that if you protest you will be killed, and I like to think we're still pretty damn far from complete totalitarianism.
Run squid on a VPS outside of China and use ssh port forwarding to access it. In my experience this works better than VPNs while in China, since the latter somewhat recently began to be targeted by the GFW.
Yep, MySQL flew the scene a while ago ... :-)
How about org-mode:

http://orgmode.org/

Emacs extension = is this hacker news or what?
Is this the official source code repository of MySQL?