skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The people who provided BuzzFeed with these documents say that they attempted to leak them to WikiLeaks three days ago, but were unsuccessful. WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson called this claim “false” and said “No one in our team recognises having been approached with such material as you describe.”"

Anyone want to try again with the line that WikiLeaks isn't simply opposed to the U.S. Government, but wrongdoing from governments around the world? Well WikiLeaks, here's your chance to "leak" it for real now that BuzzFeed has co-opted you.
Is it not this? https://www.simplify.com/commerce/docs/tutorial/index#recurr...
How to Create Websites Without Learning to Code
I read this like spoken word poetry. It was quite amusing.
I haven't become depressed, but I've become angry, and thoughtful. I often have new software ideas, and my more recent ideas have turned to ways to organize voters to democratically overthrow the corrupt incumbents.

Basically, I imagine a political party, defined by the software it runs on. The first incarnation of the software (website) focuses on organizing party members (users) to win elections, but it then gets iterated to include tools for distributed, direct democracy (i.e. the site will let the party members cast votes on what the elected leader votes on, but I also imagine most people proxy their power to others, which is a feature of the site).

The website first needs to get a few local leaders elected... city council, uncontested state positions, maybe a state senator if the v1.0 launch goes well. We need to both recruit people to run for office, then build the software to help them get elected, then build tools to allow transparent governance with direct oversite from the people.

It's hard to imagine capturing national congressional seats or the presidency on the first go, but I think that applying iterative processes to the formation of a political party and its infrastructure is one possible way to overcome the existing machine.
IMHO anyone who contributes to the state of the art with regards to public security tooling is doing the world a favour. Even if the majority of these applications are not well privileged, and therefore of dubious value, applying the same technical knowledge elsewhere could earn them cash. I still applaud their efforts.
Let's say that someone sat for the JEE and ranked quite poorly. Who would know this person's actual ranking? Presumably, given the existence of the secret code for checking one's score, not all rankings are made public. Does the test taker himself even know below a certain level of mediocrity?

I ask these questions because they seem relevant in understanding the motivations of many taking the exam. Does it reflect poorly on an Indian family if a child (especially a son, I presume) does not sit for the JEE? If so, it might be socially rational for an academically mediocre child to go through the motions of test preparation. This incentive is heightened if no one would have to find out just how badly the child did on the test. Is it a source of pride or honor for a family that a child is preparing for the JEE?

If these social motivations are present, perhaps a talented student's actual chances at getting into IIT are much higher than the overall numbers suggest. I argue that admissions percentages at top-tier US schools are similarly affected. Little Sally, even after spending hours with a private SAT tutor, got only a mediocre score. Yet, her high-achieving parents demanded that she apply to Harvard, Princeton, etc. This way, they could signal to others that they deemed their child of high calibre and (the real incentive here) themselves parents so good that they want only the best for their child. Because the acceptance rates are so incredibly low, it will not be a mark against either Sally or her parents when she is rejected from all her "first choices" and ends up at a mediocre university somewhere -- her "safety school". Sally's parents might also be rational to avoid mentioning that she applied to and was rejected from a couple schools only slightly more selective than BeerCanU as these rejections would be seen by others as a legitimate measurement of their daughter's mediocrity.
I'm sure they have no idea how much stock he has or what the valuation is.... Like any other start up, the stock isn't convertable or worth anything except "on paper". Wales is on the board but doesn't actually work there.

(disclaimer: I do work there. :)
Virtual Currency comes Under Scrutiny in India
Well, a prism makes sense if you're sending multiple signals in the same fiber, and want to separate and combine the signals at the ends. The fiber connection I'm renting has two wavelengths on the same fiber.

The installation guys actually used a device to bend individual fibers during installation, to see which ones were carrying signals. Here's a similar device: http://www.tuolima.com/optical-tool-series/test-equipment/op...
I'm having the same problem as ffog and have tried several different browsers, reloading, clearing cache, etc.
Humans are a force of nature themselves.
Data is being collected on all people.
All people are guilty of something.
When the time comes, a case will be built for the person currently under scrutiny.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/no-...
That blog layout is gorgeous, anyone know what it is? I'm guessing it a custom made skin by him.
> Warning about an outstanding balance and the destruction of your server are two very different things.

Does this mean that max did get warnings about the outstanding balance, but ignored them? And it was suspension of the account that caused max to notice, and then pay?

I'm not going to mention the lack of backup stuff because almost everyone learns the lesson by losing important data at least once.

EDIT: Don't forget to try the wayback machine.
did you take a snapshot or have automatic backups enabled?
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What if Voyager 1 is sensing things it's dragging with it?
It's not an easter egg, at least not in the sense that it's special-cased to that one chunk of text. It worked with some arbitrary lorem ipsum I generated from lipsum.com . I think this one might actually be funnier: http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Aliquam%20viverra%20mat....
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Tesla vs. Local Car Dealers: White House Petition Nears Deadline
Minister of Ecuador responds to Buzzfeed article
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A judge can overrule your right to free speech? By limiting that reference to free speech? Hmmm.... For amendments to constitution I think the closest workaround they get is...

Circumventing the 5th amendment by granting immunity then imposing contempt of court.

Sounds like great grounds for appeal.
Juries don't issue sentences except in death penalty cases. I swear, I have never seen so many legal misconceptions in any other online community as I have in HN.
"I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax." -- the great Richard Feynmann agreed. :)
Now that banks have grown to the size of requiring Central Banks, is that such a good thing? I have read much suggesting that it easily lends itself to Ponzi schemes, and so far, we have continued to choose/been forced to pay up (bail-outs/too big to fail/too big to jail, etc.).

Financial booms/crisis seem to be cyclical, if one looks over a large enough period of time. It also seems that cycles before Central Banks didn't have such huge swings/blow-back. We tended to recover from the damage quicker and it was more localized.
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But power is power. There's no difference except that the government is given by default certain powers most corporations don't have.

However, corporations can still do assassinations, espionage, or even spying on customers. As long as the corporation is capable of doing it, and has ways of hiding it, then it can also be done.
The public is not acquiescing in surveillance. It is simply rare for the mainstream media to report on this critically (or at all -- note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times), an appalling development given the extension of this surveillance apparatus to targeting journalists.

With that in mind, it is worth noting that the two authors of this piece are NOT professional journalists, although what they report could and should easily have been put together by actual staffers.
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Chris Hayes Nails Hypocrisy On Snowden Leaks VS. Leaks That Advance Gov’t Agenda
Google is developing its own Android game console - Report
From Procedural to Object Oriented PHP
Colleges responded to the availability of easy federal money by raising prices to capture the subsidy (ie. big fat administrator salaries).
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> banks would just give 20somethings who want art degrees $200,000 completely unsecured?

Of course they wouldn't. That's the idea though. Back-pressure. The idea is that it would then become unrealistic for institutions to try and charge 200k for an arts degree which no one can afford, even with loans. This should lead to lower tuition.

Bear in mind that that what any institution wants to charge is the absolute maximum the student can borrow, plus any government subsidies or fees they can extract.
Open Source PHP 5.5 Released with Opcode Caching
A wall on which other stars are painted?)
You cant get a job as a rails dev in SF?
You're not really refuting the article's point, and you're not making a very good argument that school administrators are committing control fraud. Where is the evidence for control fraud?

The article makes a good point, IMO. Schools can pay "big fat administrator salaries" because students have practically unlimited access to money via student loans. Give everybody a 10% raise, and tell students to take out 10% more loans. If the student can't pay the loans then it's not the school's problem, but maybe it should be.
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Colleges have responded to the availability of easy federal money by doing what subsidized industries generally do: Raising prices to capture the subsidy.

Exactly.

This is an American problem though, the Europeans figured out many years ago that making tuition free for the students is a win-win for society. Everyone wants to go to college, so just make everyone pay for it, progressively, over time.
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Using bangs, you can skip a step. I suppose if you're using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" in your URL bar I suppose there is little difference. However, I find there is a bit more effort when you get outside the simple realm of products or celebs.

For example, if you want to search HN, you can just `!hn searchterms` rather than search "hnsearch searchterms", then click. As someone who searches a lot of different resources frequently, the little bit of time saved is helpful.

If DDG's privacy is not a selling point for someone, then I agree with you; bangs are hardly a reason to stick with DDG.
To me this is just as bad of an example (if not worse) of the leaks. How soon till we expand this firewall from "classified docs in the public domain" to "anything that we don't like" affecting "active duty soliders" to "anyone we don't want to have this information."
Someone else posted the link to the PDF, but for downloading sequences:

wget http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/719116/pages/doc03-p{1..52}-large.gif
> Obama in 2008 -- "I will close Guantanamo"

You could as well have said that he's a politician. I'll bet you believed Google when they said you'd be able to access your email whenever you wanted to as well. Such grandiose claims always have to be evaluated in the context of reality, otherwise we would have to add asterisks to practically each and every thing we say to cover all the possible pedantry.

> I can't remember the last time I heard the world in an uproar about US _not_ intervening and invading a country.

I didn't say "invade". I said "involved". Libya is merely the most recent of many examples.
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I don't understand; How'd they leave the solar system to visit the one that broke its sphere if they couldn't penetrate the crystal wall?
might as well rename FireFox to RedPanda too ;)
Apple and Google will most likely be the real 'new consoles'. Maybe this will make Microsoft allow self-publishing.

Looking forward to this.

Apple was always going to take their appstore apps/games to the TV and games are always a huge boon to that.

"Wall Street Journal sources suggest the move is motivated not simply by the recent launch of the Ouya and the upcoming GameStick but also on expectations that Apple will be introducing game support with an upcoming version of Apple TV."

They will also allow self-publishing like their appstores on mobile because unlike Microsoft/XBone they realize larger markets/economies sell more hardware and make more money, in the end they also allow and create games that are more fun. Even it 99% of games on mobile are below par the 1% from that set is better/bigger than any curated/controlled console market. Gonna be funny when Microsoft has to change tune on that one as well.

Also Apple TV and Google consoles will be micro and more like OUYA, less of a financial burden than powerful consoles like Xbone. Sony has it right with PS4 and is allowing self-publishing, which will in turn sell more hardware and get more games on there. Microsoft is just making poor moves on open storefronts.
They go through self-calibration tests.
You needed RapGenius to figure out what 'ye's was saying? lulz.
I wonder if people realize this is the equivalent of an old lady saying "I need Kompozer to edit my CSS". For some reason - albeit illogically - I look at that site and just see a bunch of outsiders monetizing someone else's creativity. Yes there are all the arguments about how the technology can be expanded to other verticals but I mean really. It's mad corny. Next you'll have Oxford tutors walking around singing So Solid Crew lyrics. Sorry I mean Funky Dee's Ruby on Rails remix (what happens in 'napa stays in 'napa..) - Conlige suspectos semper habitos.
Retired US General Probed for Alleged Stuxnet Leak
Very interesting. I've also had similar ambitions. I found this essay inspiring (although pretty long):

http://www.holisticpolitics.org/NewParty/NewPartyManual.php

It basically outlines strategies for how a new political party can realistically gain traction. As you allude to, an important factor is focusing on elections that can be won rather than just running to make a statement.

Perhaps it's possible to write software to analyze past election results, polling, etc. to find races where a third party has a chance and would be the best to allocate resources to, kind of like a Moneyball of politics.
The fact that the defendant used "washable chalk" does not make him innocent of vandalism, as some are suggesting.

Chalk can stain the side of a building if repeatedly used in the same place. Washing the building will reduce the chalk to a faint smudge, but restoring the side of the building to its original state before the offending still requires repainting/resurfacing in the same way cleaning spraypaint would.

In regards to limiting the use of the First Amendment - the right of the defendant to express his views have not been violated. The First Amendment has nothing to do with the vandalism charges he faces. He could have expressed his views over a medium that wasn't illegal, allowing him to defend himself via the First Amendment, but then he wouldn't have a need for defence, would he?
Type Mail also :)
> I would also take issue with "It was an homage to the natural environment," when he admitted the whole scenery and costumes were fake. In other words, it was quite literally the Hollywoodization of the natural environment, not an homage.

These are not mutually exclusive, you know.
Apple Loses Motion to Add Galaxy S4 to Apple v. Samsung II
If I want to beat Google from now on, what should I do now?
I am in China, can anyone give me some advice of how to beat Google in 10 years, especially by a product advice. Thanks.
The Indian govt is surely stupid in subsidizing higher education in place of primary education. However, there is a flip side. Even though the people are allowed to migrate, it is the same people who have brought the IT industry to Indian shores. According to a study commission admittedly by IITians, there is a positive economic benefit to funding IITs.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-11-25/india...
Who gives a fuck about trampling roots, some species of fish you've never heard of before, or manufactured outrage in general?

In the words of Jeffrey Lebowski: "What are you, a fuckin' park ranger now?"

From TFA: "I strongly believe that redwood forest should be a protected ecosystem, but that is not true today."

So, even if he did damage these things on private land - he's not breaking any laws. Take it up with the legislature if you're so inclined.
So.. We make it so that only people likely to pay the loan back get student loans. Then, we watch as the actuaries figure out that students frompoor families are the ones who disproportionately pay their loans (since they don't have the same familial support during and after college.)

So, poor students are disproportionately denied loans, and we continue to see generational wealth inequality expand.

There are no great solutions, and there are tradeoffs everywhere. However, leaving it to the market seems immoral too.
> - note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times

1. As of right now, the story is linked to on the front page in the Opinion box since this is an opinion piece and not a news piece. If you want opinion as news, I refer you to Fox News or Buzzfeed or Upworthy.

2. The story of the NSA surveillance was front page on the NY Times when it broke and for about a week or two after.

3. The Mainstream media has been reporting on this consistently, both on the Snowden drama and the actual substance of his leaks.

It's sad to see both longer-time and newer users running around with this chicken little reddit-level bullshit. The mods seem to be complicit in it so oh well. The upside is that I waste less time here.
There was a big long thread about this yesterday. Also, it's not cool to go into a preemptive sweary rant on your own submission.

Finally HN guidelines are that you should be selective about the quality of your submission; 'topinfopost.com' is a news aggregator (bad) that's chock full of conspiracy theories (worse). Other front page store is include photographs of ghosts and that the civil war in Syria is a Zionist plot. Seriously? This is your idea of a reliable news source? Stop wasting our time with this bullshit. The maximum penalty for vandalism in California (which is what this case is about) is 3 years. It isn't possible to get a 13 year sentence for vandalism in California. In fact, since the defendant has no previous convictions for vandalism that I'm aware of I'm pretty sure the maximum penalty that can be imposed under CA law (CA PC 640.5/6) is community service and a $1000 fine.
Mozilla Firefox 'Do Not Track' Feature Coming, But Advertisers Object
You are right about smart people outside the 2%. IITs own study says that entrance exam marks vary by 1 or 2 for ranks between 2000 and 10000 The govt has recently opened 10+ new IITs. I think they should add many more..though.
SmartPhone Patent Wars: A Lesson for Privateers
How could he have been more specific that he was using an adequate safety device? Were you expecting him to include the brand?
Don't rely on this poorly-reported story for your facts, and definitely not for your legal information.
>A 2010 study by the Goldwater Institute identified "administrative bloat" as a leading reason for higher costs. The study found that many American universities now have more salaried administrators than teaching faculty.

It's not just the number of administrators but also the pay. They tend to make many times that of actual professors. And there's no question which camp brings more value to students.
Yes. It finally hit me today. I've been bitching about this stuff for years but it kind of overwhelmed how absolutely abmismaly little I trust my government. Combine that with, seemingly intelligent people running around here downplaying the severity of the problem based on some outdated anecdotes... and I just sigh inside. As far as I'm concerned, we full on passed my threshold for "hair on fire". I just don't know what in the ever loving fuck to do about it.
You're cherry picking social movements here. Take a look at how fast the 26th Amendment (mandating the US voting age to 18) was passed in response to the Vietnam War.
There is not 13 year sentence, Read the damn law, it's California Penal Code section 640.5-6.
Funniest comment after the article:

Didn't Clint Eastwood steal that thing?

Hah, what a horrible movie that was.
Apple faces potentially damaging battle
So the players are Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Apple, Google, and Vavle vying for living room media dominance through one strategy or niche play or another. I have my popcorn ready. This competition will be good for us consumers.
Give up right now. You won't be able to do it.
Wow, the article managed to explain the comment that I had been holding out as the most ridiculous comment ever. And I understand why it was said.

The comment was that it would violate the privacy of Americans to try to figure out how many Americans were under surveillance.

The key to understanding this is that the NSA believes that it can avoid having to follow the 4th as long as it never intentionally "searches Americans" by doing any analysis on data collected about identified Americans, and immediately throwing away analysis already done once the identification was made.

Figuring out how many Americans had been caught up in the dragnet would require doing analysis on identified Americans. That triggers the protection of the 4th, and can only be done under their legal theories with a real warrant. Which they don't have. Therefore attempting to answer that question really does cross the line that they have set for what is and is not legal.
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As a "foreigner" (From the American POV) I am getting increasingly annoyed at the whole "American vs foreigner" issue as if spying on normal people from other countries is perfectly ok.

Is it so much to ask that I be given the same privacy levels as a US citizen and not be caught in overly-broad privacy invading dragnets?
So is 'Ghostly Figure Caught On Cam In The Woods.' I don't think you should rely on a site where ghost photos are regarded as front page news.
I love Android, but Google has a terrible record with these kind of devices. Google TV is a pretty poor system, it really should be more simple and look more like XBMC, and the (original) Nexus Q speaks for itself.
Stealth payments startup Clinkle raises $25 million
I really wish this would become a meme.
Yes, but isn't the sidewalk public property?

Did you ever walk up someone's driveway and scribble on their house?
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Now you're just wallowing.