skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I'm a fan of Marco and I think he's a smart guy, but the iOS7 lovefest from him, Gruber, and others is really starting to make their "Apple can only do right" stance even clearer.

I've used iOS7 for a bit now and it is actually a pain to use. Slow, clunky, disorganized, limited. It no longer feels "premium". When I first picked up the original iPhone, there was a sense of "wow" and "this is wonderful". That feeling is not there in iOS7 and frankly hasn't been there in quite a while...
Quietly? All of these areas are rather high-profile.
Actually, as an American, I'm considering going there now (on vacation). I like the fact that there's a country standing up to the government I'm learning more and more to despise. Sure, I probably won't spend $23M there, but how many others feel the same way around the world?
We are working on adjusting the algorithm.
The Patriot act has provisions that can potentially be applied to subsidiaries of US companies abroad but not vice versa. If you think about it it would mean shareholders of companies could be pursued globally under US law just for owning shares in a US company. It's all around a bad situation right now with conflicting sets of rules and that's without a doubt.
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It depends on if you define awesome as how others see you or how you see yourself.
They're slightly different, but that's irrelevant. When you breed the two almost identical cars, you'll get almost identical offspring. Diversity is essential for crossover. And crossover is essential for genetic algorithms. Just mutation isn't enough.

And right now the setup appears to be such that you'll end up destroying all diversity from the gene pool as soon as you have more than a few users.
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Impressive!

Where does that 1.2K number come from, though? The abstract mentions only 29 (still a lot) and the results list 'only' 29, too, two of which where 0days. I admit I haven't read the whole article thoroughly.
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I tried it, looks nice and works well.

One feature I miss from Google Reader is the ability to hide feeds that have no unread items from the sidebar completely.
A neutral statement? Not with the Poor little Siggi part.
So did you ask Rafael Matsunaga if you could copy and release his code as open source?
Identical terrain for the example `PubNub-World-2`?

EDIT: Looks identical to me.

>>Join World: The same seed always creates the same track, so you can agree on a seed with your friends and compete. :)<<
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If this is an apple product, why is it built by web design firm called fountain? And why is there nothing on it that says Apple etc though the OP says apple has released it?
Indeed! Cisco Security saved the ancient Republic from the Cataline rebellion, delivering famous orations. "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?"

No, wait, that was Cicero. My bad.
Wow, a great boon for the EFF. Congratulations!
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from the technical point of view, it's largely different as Term uses its own shell whereas iTerm2 would use your shell (probably bash or zsh).

from interface: with Term each output is put into its own scrollable textbox. That way if you run a command that spits out a lot of output (e.g. grep or make), it won't obscure your previous commands.

There's also the command textbox which solves some problems I've ran into. For example, if you want to modify a long command, it can be kind of difficult if you haven't set up vim bindings with your shell or if you aren't quite adept at navigating the command-line. But since this is a normal textbox, you can use your mouse to click to where you want to edit.
It was discussed in The Secret Life of Pronouns by James Pennebaker (Although I only read about his finding in an interview in HBR). A few of his most salient points are explained in this article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201108/the-is-have-i....
Sn0wd3n: the Game
I was shocked when I worked in America at a kids summer camp, and every activity/game was "war this" and "war that".

Kids in America are quite literally taught to go to war at every possible juncture, like it's a valid way to solve some conflict.
No, my point isn't that they submitted to punishment as a method to convince other to join them.

My point is that they Accepting submitting to punisment as a method to convince others to join them.

Lets say they did what Snowden did and fled the country. Both may of had the means, but their potential constituencies did not. MLK/Ghandi said "I'll stick around and accept the punishment, because thats a path others can follow".

It wasn't MLK or Ghandi breaking the law that changed anything. It was their millions of supporters breaking the law that had the effect.
The paper above and the post to the debian mailing list describe two different uses of the Mayhem tool. One with exploits, one without.
My point was that Microsoft isn't doing anything egregious. In fact, there are strong parallels to what Apple does with similar technologies.
Good work on the UI - it has that clean responsive feel I really enjoyed about Google Reader. It took about 90 seconds for my 200 or so feeds to transfer from Goog. This is during the period this article is trending on HN - that is about an hour faster than Feedly managed when it was under load.

I just logged in with my two year old Samsung Nexus and it ground to a halt and took down Chrome. Hopefully the mobile experience is given a high priority - more and more of my feed consumption is doen mobile.

Overall Great work!
Writing is a craft like programming in that you must learn by doing, and you need to leave rough edges behind to polish. My writing ability was "leveled up" by merciless teachers who would torture us with seemingly impossible tasks.

One of my favorite teachers ever was a History professor who taught "The History of Warfare". Writing assignments were due every week and covered a fairly substantial scope. The catch: It had to be written by hand (this was 1998) and had to fit on one side of a sheet of college-ruled loose-leaf paper. The first draft of my first paper was 6 pages long, and took about 3 days to proofread/boil down to what it needed to say. (I still remember way too much about Gustavus Adolphus because of that.) By the end of the semester, I was able to whip out a single sheet in about 45 minutes. I learned alot about the history of warfare, but learned far more about clarity of thought and getting to the root of things.
Edward Snowden's mission is to educate the public about the privacy violations commited by the government with their mass surveillance programs. To continue Snowden's mission, we'll create sn0wd3n - an adventure game that will be made available for free and accessible through the Web and mobile.
Would it have hurt you to put some screenshots up?
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I manage to find what I want most of the time using DDG.

I have had to adjust my search techniques, but I'm pleased about that because it's not just returning what it thinks I want, it's returning what I searched for.

I would ask that they consider adding a "search for results from [drop down list of countries]" option. I often get US results and not UK results.

DDG does have a feedback link, so if you want you can send information about what you searched for and what you expected to find. I accept that most people don't want to do that. Perhaps DDG need to add an easy frictionless "none of these are useful to me" button?
All buttons seem to work well when it first loads but then over time (generations) they seem to require a reload to work again.
It's not mine but a product I frequently use. See for yourself.
Anonymous is like a mosh pit. It is a swirl of activity by different actors that come together in a very loose way with very little organization but that brief shared purpose.

Brown may have joined the fray when certain songs came on and maybe influenced the dynamic of the activity for a little while, but it seems like he was mostly on the edge looking in. But it is absurd to call him a leader in the same way it is absurd to say someone 'leads' a mosh pit.

HBGary got pulled into the pit and some blood was splattered on Brown. That doesn't make him guilty of assault just by being able to accurately describe the activity that led to HBGary's broken nose and pointing out the blood stains to the media after the fact.
It's worse than that, if you're on a world on your own your top 10 cars becomes copies of your best car. You destroy diversity even quicker with fewer players!

At least with lots of players, as pubnub said, some of those identically named cars were actually different generations and different cars, but were cousins or otherwise related from a common ancester.

One recommendation would be to incorporate any mutations into the ID, so if it started f0660f and mutated it would be f0660f0b or something, to track parentage (And in fact it would be cool if crossovers were tracked in the ID too, a bit like the Russian patronym or spanish matronym)
Yes, and then they combine them with a kernel exploit and, uh, suddenly your "unprivileged process" turns out to not be so unprivileged after all.

Resist the temptation to marginalize security bugs. They don't exist in isolation.
This sort of incoherence really isn't unexpected, considering that Lorem Ipsum is not a piece of coherent text, but rather a series of sentence fragments and even fragments of words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
The issue is that over the lifetime of RHEL 7 (2014-2024) disks will grow to tens of terabytes. ext4 can't cut it -- even with extents, fsck times would be phenomenal. You need a filesystem like XFS which was designed from scratch with that in mind, and which is mature (unlike btrfs), and doesn't have licensing problems (ZFS).
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"(TS//SI//NF) General Hayden stated that he never asked for or read the OLC legal opinion supporting the PSP. The Deputy GC stated that it was his understanding that the [legal] opinion [supporting authorization] was not shared with the NSA because it was considered confidential legal advice to the President."

So he didn't want to know it because "President says it's cool, and if it's not, well that's his problem, not mine." Except when you have this level of secrecy, it takes an extraordinary act like Snowden to shed any light on the matter and bring about legitimate criticism. So many levels of negligence here...
I've heard Assange call Wikileaks an "intelligence agency", and others call it "the intelligence organization of the people".

Why is anyone surprised when the US government treats it like an intelligence agency, cultivating informants within its ranks and attempting to intimidate its agents [0]? I suspect Wikileaks has, on occasion, been fed false information by the US and other governments. I suspect the US is not the only nation that has informants inside of the Wikileaks inner circle. Calling themselves an "intelligence agency" and doing the sort of work that intelligence agencies do means we should expect other intelligence agencies to be working against them to some degree.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1220562
Without the laws to enable it, the prosecutors would be unable to do that, and the only way to prevent prosecutors from doing that is to make laws that forbid it. The only way to change this while working within the system is through the legislators.
What about an organization that has no secrets?

EDIT: Downvotes? Clearly I need to explain myself better. My point is that an organization built around full transparency is indeed impervious to informants. Take the government, for example. If they had made public that they'd be monitoring our Gmail conversations for our own safety, we may have agreed or disagreed with the policy but there would be nothing to leak.
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This is a very extreme leak, technical details of capabilities, names of persons (and locations)... No bueno amigos, glad I don't deal with classified documents, I'm sure their lives are becoming hell now.
As part of that you could gamify the installation and use of various tools.

"Download Tor - 50 points!"

"Create a GPG / PGP key? 50 points!"
Isn't the main lesson from Google Reader's being discontinued, not about UI or features, but rather about continued support? The main "feature" for a new reader should be it's ability and commitment to remain viable for the long term.
because it is?
I don't understand what you mean by 'whether we trust them to decide what the public gets to know.' That's a question we're supposed to be asking the governments who have withheld this information, not the whistle blowers. Shifting the focus of these leaks to whether or not the whistle blowers should be hung or not is a great way to deflect focus from the actual things that were leaked. You'd think that a threat to the 4th amendment would register higher on people's radar, but the human interest piece is compelling.

Whether the information should have been leaked or not is an interesting question, but ultimately a 'what if' scenario. The important question is what we do with this information. Or, if you're the government, how to get the people to not care.
good to know. we are looking into this.
While I find the reported results impressive, I'm sad to see another publication about a closed-source application.

Nobody can reproduce the results or place their work on top of that. Research was not supposed to work that way (at least in my little universe :-), yet it gets published by the IEEE (but what does that mean nowadays?).
it's part of that narrative editorial style that turns 1 paragraph of content to 7 pages of sprawl.
Time has a different meaning at the South Pole if you are working with offsite people, as is typical of the science winter overs. "Day" is when the internet connection is working. "Night" is when it is not. There is only satellite coverage for half the day.
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You're right, but so is the parent commenter; there is a popular meme that security bugs in general are worth large amounts of money, but in reality only a small subset of bugs command real money.
Ember vs Angular Cagematch
It's not about the idea though.
What I see is the common mistake of confusing inexperience for complexity. He didn't know all the ins-and-outs of rails, probably went against the grain, and had unmaintainable code. Same thing happened when his browser app became complex.

I don't know why you included the bit about manic depression. If you can pick up a framework and build a full production app on your first try, then you're probably more impressive than the rest of us.
Why is it that people always feel the need to ask, "Why is anyone surprised,", when in fact it's not clear that anyone's surprised? Is it just to assert that you're smarter than some group of imaginary surprised people?
http://www.usap.gov/jobsAndOpportunities/

And in particular:

http://www.gscgov.com/jobsmcmurdo.htm
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Take up skydiving and then BASE jumping. I too was afraid of heights, then one night I was on a scaffold climbing 300 ft in the air. I thought then, you know this isn't scary anymore.

Skydiving is a good way to ease into it, because you're so high it doesn't have the immediate danger that being lower to the ground, but relatively high does.
There is prior art on this in Rochester, NY... we've known about the weather control device for some time:

http://reportermag.com/article/crowdsourcing/campus-rumors

Check out Rumor #9...

"Under Dr. Al Simone, the weather machine was used nearly flawlessly, as tour days always meant good weather, and the day after always rained."
This feels like a move towards the mainstream for EFF.

I have a sneaking suspicion this is the beginning of a gradual recognition of orgnaisations like EFF in having a voice in regular politics. Not a big one perhaps, but being at the table.
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I'd be interested to see the numbers of cars that crash because the driver is drunk or on drugs vs because the car is broken.

I have an annoying tendency to occasionally lose track of time and not get anywhere near enough sleep for a couple nights in a row. According to the internet, driving like this is actually more dangerous than being legally drunk.
For some peculiar definition of quietly!
Thanks kvee! Check us out http://phaxio.com -- we're a modern, RESTful, fax API. Let me know if you have any questions (email in profile).
We should get Rap Genius annotations on HN comments.
Isn't this very odd that the github users are less wealthy?
I'm not sure it's that perfect. Try putting up a new page sometime and watch how quickly someone with zero domain knowledge will come and try to have it deleted, usually successfully.
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Clean, fast. I like.

But I miss some shortcut keys. Especially SHIFT+J and +K to navigate among feeds. (Bonus points if you do it the GReader way -- keep moving the highlight among feeds until J or K is released, and only then refresh to show that last one as the new feed).
For a social site, they are doing great but how could they possibly have any technology that the CIA would need?

And while I realize their personas are a joke, to me, they represent everything I dislike about music.

Also advocating amphetamine use (not much different than meth) and openly talking about delusional theories of having sex on them would somehow produce smarter kids is just insane. I know some of it's a joke but their narcissism seems authentic.
Beware your project’s Schwarzschild radius
This is a maybe-sensible dose of speculation. Be very skeptical of such speculative diagnoses.
It's Open Source, so you're free to host it locally or go with anyone else who wants to pick it up and host it themselves.
>Author and Critic Deepens EFF's Security Expertise as NSA Scandal Intensifies

Great news - I've read a couple of really interesting articles that Schneier's put out in recent weeks - but is the scandal actually intensifying? I'm afraid somebody is going to need to fill me in on the current state of the reaction from the public/media at large; I tend to lock myself in a filter bubble of news relevant to my interests.
What does this mean for anything not running IE11?
Any advantages over someone who's used to zsh?
People in fact purchase products that hit all of those points as a matter of routine. When you're in the store and your child sees an affordable, well-deserved toy that he wants, do you say, "OK, let me just run some thorough background investigation into the manufacturer's history and hiring practices before we decide if they're worthy of our money, and if they pass we'll come back and get it next week"?

For most people, they see a product for sale, they recognize that they want said product, and they purchase it. Buyers implicitly assume that the product was developed and produced basically ethically or its purveyors would be imprisoned, and that's pretty much as much thought as you can expect from the market. That's why regulatory bodies like the EPA and FDA exist.

I think more people would say the priorities of a curmudgeon who will not purchase an occasional gift for his son due to corporate politics are uncalibrated, rather than the priorities of one who simply buys the desired gift.
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Indeed. If any American find him/herself self-censoring for fear of America's security establishment, then they should conclude that America does not have freedom of speech.
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I'm wondering what your experience was like with AngularJS? Pleasant or difficult? This seems like a perfect app for it. Congrats!
If Reader parity is the goal then there seems to be a feature bug. Audio feeds like the New Yorker Comment Podcast and Science Magazine Podcast do not have audio elements in the feed. Though clicking on the title does bring up a download dialogue for the media file.
Is this a feature that will be implemented in the near future?
G-Reader was a great podcast tool.
Thanks. I'm glad it's scaling - that was one of the goals. Yes, a high number of stories will perform poorly. Doing infinite scroll like google reader does is on my todo list, which will fix those problems.
I would probably first of all think the lesson is that whatever revenue it added for google it was too little to justify the maintenance of Reader.

For a much smaller company on the other hand it might actually be a lot of money.

It's Innovators dilemma kind of mutated.
Was thinking the same!
"I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."

The rest are here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-...
I actually pity Marco and the rest of the pro-Apple media and bloggers. What a sad way to make money![1]

[1]Writing controversial articles to create fiery arguments and heated discussion amongst readers, thus benefiting from the resulting pageviews and thus making money.
"...and reject US rule and meddling more and more."

As an American, I have to agree.
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Take out the to decide what the public gets to know and your statement makes a lot more sense.
Pleasant. This is the 4th or so angular app I've written, so I've become somewhat familiar with it.
You don't need to have very many application servers for this to become an issue. For instance, what if you host your site in multiple data centers? Each data center might only have a few servers, but any additional data layers that have to be kept in sync between the two is a non-trivial amount of additional complexity.
Try prepending !s to your searches when needed in DuckDuckGo.

That will send results through StartPage, which will return you Google's results, but through a proxy (mitigating the privacy loss by using Google).
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Same for BASE jumping. I had a talking too with the guy from this blog. He was eventually arrested, but after getting a few things we were jumping locked up.

There is a history of tar and feathering (with cold tar) people that ruin it for everyone else.
I loved that. It's a striking representation of nature and people.
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I like that idea. I've made an issue for it:

https://github.com/mjibson/goread/issues/9
You can read that anecdote as telling you something extra about von Neumann, or you can read it as a reminder of how awful and terrible a thing death is -- an indictment of the way most people accept wrongness instead of fighting it.
> There are in fact many fields of human endeavor where, if you're sufficiently good at your core competency, nobody cares if you project energy, excitement, and confidence.

Probably because they're the bottum rung working for someone who is energetic, excited and confident. Essentially, if you don't need to lead anyone, you can have these traits. Or you work for the government.
Adopting 'smart cities' a tough sell
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Or just be completely honest and say "".
The merit of execution is equally important, if not more, and execution will require taking risks, and risk will require confidence.
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