skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was very interesting to read for me, having tried to make my way through Euclid's Elements some years ago while I was attempting to learn Ancient Greek. My knowledge of grammar and vocabulary is still very basic, and I think I would have had more success if I had incorporated more writing/transcribing as you have done. Maybe I'll have another crack at it some time :)
I'm suggesting X.

X would be inadequate for people who have a hundred windows open. Y would be a possible solution for them (but I'm aware there is a lot of experimentation occurring in this area).

But I was trying to emphasise that I don't hate tabs (I'd be quite content if tabs replaced windows; to some extent that's what my suggestion is). I perceived that you thought I hated tabs and wanted to counter that impression.

I am now feeling vaguely envious of MS-Windows in a way I haven't in a long time.
> Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations.

Ah, but that spin is highly unlikely to generate buzz among moronic internet detectives, and therefore no responsible journalist will deal with such a trite story.
Can you say wearables have arrived? IIICTECH has a necklace/keychain/carry device in production now.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/WINK/BLINK/prweb10367324.htm
Perhaps they're hourly.
>Something about the article doesn't sit right with me. It doesn't match with the way I feel my own thought processes working. My brain is not constantly considering all possible binary options.

A lot of neuro/cognitive science results are not "intuitive". You cannot tell how your brain works only by what it's consciously doing. The conscious part is just the tip of the iceberg of the processing the brain does and when.

>When I feel a phantom phone vibration, it's as if I'm actually experiencing the sensation, not as if some low-level part of my brain reached out into my frontal lobe and started sounding the "phone is vibrating" alarm.

And yet you're not "actually experiencing the sensation" -- in the sense that the real world state does not correspond to it. So it very much is like your brain started sounding the "phone is vibrating" alarm.

The brain can create whole experiences and illusions from nothing at all. Not only in dreams (obvious example), but also in experiments with sensory deprivation.
> What threat to national security...

Ecuador's HUMINT operations and capabilities will be based out of the embassy. They may not be co-ordinated at the embassy but at some point they will make contact with them.

Even so, it's not about national security, it's about protecting interests, political and business. Interests that are an extension of US/FiveEyes policy. Policies which are largely influenced by big business.
Moral of the story: they should never have built Google Reader in the first place?
"What you're saying is that a company wants you to use their product and no one else's. Sure, that's how companies work"

Uhm, what?

So the company selling my milk want me to drink milk, just milk and nothing but milk?

I thought one of the founding ideas of capitalism is that you can strike deals that benefit everyone. That you don't have to screw anyone over.
They voted to strike. And yes, they assuredly are "public servants." It used to be that in exchange for working for the public and taking a lower salary, you'd be cushioned and shielded from recessions, in exchange for more stability.

Now, public workers are better compensated than the private sector and still maintain guarantees for their jobs.

So which is it? Because the way I and many other Californians see it, our state is in such dire straits because unions have squeezed the public dry, run up huge deficits to fund ridiculous pension plans, and haven't done anything beyond baseline to help the People.
Ah... You sound like you know a bit! This method does indeed sound easier to pull off. Do you know how much loss you'd have to create before the fiber was bent enough to provide sufficient signal to the photodiode?
I support public employees, public employee unions, and the right of those employees/unions to strike. I also do not believe most of these salaries and other compensation are outrageous.

But I also support complete transparency in government. Ultimately, we are their employer, and we have a right to know how much we're paying them. I know this will sometimes have negative consequences for the employees, but this is a balancing of interests, and in the end, I believe we're all better served by this.

We would be better served still, however, if we knew exactly how these numbers came to be, because some of them are very strange. I'm guessing we could eventually figure most of it out with sufficient research, but ideally a subject matter expert would come forward and save us some time by explaining it.
The GP complains about the entitlement directed towards the shutdown of Reader. The OP complains about the word entitlement being used at all and I agree with him, except that the GP is right that no one is entitled to Reader. I then go on to say that people should stop complaining about it.
That's old regular interference.

I don't think it's applicable to the situation. For one, it has nothing to do with the vibrating part.
How DARE he compare this to Omaha Beach, even obliquely! Many of the men in this picture, fighting one of the greatest land armies ever assembled (the Wehrmacht), died on this shore, never to return home: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Into_the_...

Snowden's obstacles are a revoked passport and the charges he faces upon his inevitable return to the United States.
Re: Google+

Is their overall strategy to drive adoption working these days? I know their number of users must be quite large now, but AFAICT it is pretty much hugely inflated by being a catch-all for anyone with any kind of Google account.

I actually like Google+ quite a bit and have a lot of people in my circles and I'm in quite a lot of other people's circles, but I never actually go to Google+ anymore (unless I'm following a link to some Linus post or something from somewhere else) because it simply never hit the required critical mass of actual mainstream usage for me to switch. Everyone I know and want to keep up with IRL is still stuck on Facebook, ergo I'm stuck on Facebook even though I don't particularly care for it. Even among the smallish subgroup of people I know IRL who did embrace Google+ at first, they are virtually all like me now, with accounts that scarcely ever get used.

I'm not sure what Google+ has to do to make converts of the masses, but at least among my circles they aren't doing it currently despite whatever collateral damage they are causing in trying to force people there.
well, it's available here too:
http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Ar...

i just want someone to make some cool graphs with it
Yes, it is actually a quite problem because this is something you cannot counter with encryption or other similar means.

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

The power usage is on average 100mA.
The root cert aside and with all the other ssl deficiencies all browsers support it! Usability is imo the issue if more than a handful of people need to access the site. RFC6509 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6509 shows crypto independent of any PKI. Implemented running in Javasrcipt and HTML5 as open source www.certivox.org where unlike Diffie-Hellman the key agreement is authenticated. No passwords, usernames... nothing.
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Is it possible there is a world where Google does share our values but also knows when to kill off products they don't care about?
You are, of course, totally right.

But do you know much about dwarf fortress? The brothers have responded to questions about this a number of times (regarding UI) but more importantly than that, it appears that they don't particuarly care about making the big bucks.

They are totally happy just pottering along with a loyal hardcore following, earning a very middle class salary, doing something they are massively passionate about. In fact, it seems that what they have is all they ever want in life. They are in their nirvana.

Good for them!
Unfortunately I can't. It's not a scientific concept, just something that seems intuitively correct to me (haven't seen the video before, came up with the same concept independently, as I imagine many others did). Could you try to explain why you consider it false?

The only thing I can back it up with is a personal anecdote - when I was five, twenty minutes in a tram seemed like ages, despite having taken that same ride many times.
Why would you support public sector unions? They face a very different dynamic than ones faced in the private sector. Here's a good write up: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/432...
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I believe almost all of the employees on this list are hourly. To pick a semi-random example from the list, a "train operator" with $60,257 in "salary" and $55,453 in overtime is not a "salaried" employee like most of the people on HN are used to.
Not rdl but I use Comodo[1] which is free for personal use.

- [1] http://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certifi...
They are supposed to do it for national security reasons (hence the name, one would presume). On actual enemies or potential enemies.

Spying on EU politicians, corporations, trade negotiations and such is not that. It's using spying to get a leverage and exploit/blackmail/bride/take advantage of other countries.

Except if you redefine "national security" to mean: each and every way a country can exploit and fuck with other countries.
The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close.

SEIU 98.5%
ATU 99.9%

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-vote-to-a...
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Thank your customers.
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> [...] they want to lock you in, shut out competitors, and make a service so proprietary that even if you could get your data out, it would be either useless (no alternatives to import into) or cripplingly lonely [...]

It's very hard not to think of Apple when reading this sentence.

This article is about openness and interoperability, not about spying or government agencies - not sure your analogy stands. Plus, I think it's a pretty well known fact that Marco is indeed a sympathiser of Apple (hence the "conspicuously missing" bit).
You're misreading what you quoted. I'm telling you that the company that sells you milk doesn't want you to drink anyone else's milk because that's how businesses work. They might sell some cheese too, but they also don't want you eating anyone's else's cheese. Also, perhaps that is one of the founding ideas of capitalism, but our modern day version is far away from that. Capitalism screws people over by the day in America.
> Everyone I know and want to keep up with IRL is still stuck on Facebook

FB is for IRL friends/family, G+ as long-form Twitter. It's Twitter for people who don't get 140 characters. I'd say the strategy is working, given the amount of G+ links I see. Personally I'm more interested in what my G+ links say than FB (because they're interests of mine, not just IRL'ers talking about their nail polish), although I check both every so often.
A terabyte of shared secret would run out in seconds on these links. (and if you reuse it, it's extremely insecure). It's totally possible (but possibly prohibitively expensive) to encrypt the traffic going through a link like this but a OTP is _not_ how you would do it.
Yeah, it sucks big time. DB is at the center of my workflow. Having my git repository in it, my projects plans, etc. I just have to not forget to "turn on, sync, turn off, work, turn on sync, turn off".

On the other hand, I didn't notice any difference in battery consumption on my Windows 8 laptops. Who knows, maybe OS X Mavericks will change that with the way it handles processes?
I don't disagree with you. I think I'm just bitter because I hate bad UIs and it stops me from properly exploring the game. I don't understand why they don't care about the fact that so many people will never experience their creation because of the unnecessary barrier they've created.
First the hardware war, then the OS war, followed by the browser war and search engine war, and now the mobile war and social network war. This won't be the last... or could it?

Will we be using Facebook daily 5 years from now? 10 years? 20?

Or is the next war in augmented reality, which Google has a head start? (but using which social network?)

Anyone have good links to futurist thinkers on these topics?
Actually, mehrdata, I think you might be reading a lot more into my statements than are actually present. While cultures evolve, I feel lucky we were able to make Reader within Google. I think that its being at Google made it a better product.

When asked if I would build it in today's Google my answer was "no" given that Google is clearly uninterested in this project at the moment. Seems kinda obvious, really.

I feel that epistasis more accurately guessed at the unpublished feelings I've had. The following are all things I think simultaneously right now...

Google is a great company

Google makes great things

Google is not interested in pursuing Reader

Communication around Reader's value (or how to improve it) within Google was unclear

There may be confusion for inventor-types within Google on how to proceed in today's Google, though that's possibly remedied by better communication internally

I'm glad you liked Reader. No need to guess about my actual thoughts about the past since I can summarize: Thanks to a great company with great people, Google Reader was made into a service that was many times better than I ever could have built alone in my apartment. There's no way to know if that success could have been achieved somewhere else. Everyone working on Reader knew it could have been cancelled at any time. It wasn't cancelled for a long time. I'm glad we got to experiment with the idea and the experience.
Of course it has never ended. The War part was about who gets to be the top dog (i.e not specifically about communism vs capitalism), and that never stops.

Before the cold war it was the colonial powers fighting it out, for the same reasons (when the US was still an emerging world player at the time). This gave us the 19th century wars, and WWI and WWII.

After France, UK, etc lost any chance to the "top dog" position, and Germany failed quite spectacularly, they stopped fighting altogether. (Not because of any "hard lessons" learned during WWII -- if it was that, they would have stopped at WWI and even earlier. There was just not much to fight about anymore).
I always assumed the "learning curve" is the curve required to make progress in the game, i.e. the x-axis is "progress in the game" and the y-axis is "knowledge-percentage".
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We've been using Groovy internally for a few years for prototyping and experimentation. I thought about slowly introducing Grails as an alternative to Spring for some projects. My experience was that it vaguely reminded me of Rails but needed a lot more polish. I had a huge issue trying to chase down archaic stacktraces and found that there is little developer momentum pushing it forward. I usually found myself googling and reading random blogs to figure out simple things I couldn't infer from the docs. Where as Rails magically makes things work, I found that a lot of times Grails made things magically not work. I wouldn't personally suggest it for anything customer facing.
The parts of that article I don't believe are factually incorrect are parts I fundamentally disagree with.

Trying to convince me public sector unions are bad by linking me to a conservative think tank rattling off a list of things public employees fight for/against is a bad idea. I fight for/against the exact same things.

So the answer to your question is, I'm a bleeding heart pinko commie bastard, that's why. Have a glass of vodka, comrade.
This seems to be a common snark whenever someone known for (gasp) using Apple products complains about lack of openness. Because clearly these two things are connected, except for the part about them not being connected at all. (Frankly I have no idea what "no freedom in terms of interoperability in your daily system" even means. What is it my Mac and iPad are failing to interoperate with?)

If I construct a popular online social network, I could run it on Debian, code it in Emacs, have all the source code on Github, genuflect to a picture of Richard Stallman daily, and still have no open APIs for users to interact with their data. If most major players on the Internet lock your data down, then many common uses of the Internet will in a very real sense become proprietary even if it is running entirely on free software.

I'm sure it's fun to smugly go "well, you use iOS so you should like closed things," but it kinda betrays a significant distance between you and the point.
Thanks! I was thinking of asking the reporters for the data.

Though there's an error in the data. Starting at row #1001 ("Caldwell"), the "base" column seems to have disappeared.
well it's profitable... actually you're right
Please note that as soon as you've typed in the key needed to unlock the disk in the vm, your data is compromised. So any verification you attempt, has to be made from the unencrypted boot image...

As for time needed, assume this: The attacker sets up a physical server that can accept the same physical disks as your server (with hotswap), with an additional disk (or ssd) for booting into a hypervisor, sets parameters for this hypervisor to closely mirror that of your server. The attackers server would typically be faster than yours -- it is/can be bought some time after your server was, so this should almost be universally possible.

The attacker boots the vm server, sets everything up; then kills power to your machine, moves the disks over. Your downtime: the time it takes to move the disks (literally).

Good luck differentiating between this and legitimate downtime.

I still think reading the encryption keys from RAM after cooling them with some co2 would be the more likely attack, but it's a fun thought experiment...
> Apple dragged Google into a similar war for extreme mobile-OS lockdown

(although it is a footnote)
But if the vote to strike is going to pass easily, then surely you don't want to be an outcast and vote against it, right? Retaliatory actions from your fellow union members has to be common.
At least with Comodo's s/mime service, they provide you with the private key [1]. IIRC, Symantec/Verisign did the same thing.

- [1] https://secure.comodo.com/products/frontpage?area=SecureEmai...
He does, in a footnote, which refers to Apple having an "extreme mobile-OS lockdown" they dragged Android into a war over.
I doubt it had anything to do with the source leak. Most security bugs these days are found via automated means - fuzzing, fault injection, etc.

But OTOH these bugs become useful in other ways. I believe there was an ios jailbreak method where you simply visit a website on your iphone (jailbreak.me? .com?) and your device is rooted/jailbroken due to a bug in Safari's PDF renderer.
I'm glad you like it! It's been fun to build.
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, I already knew about webmatrix but it's missing a lot of features from VS and is IIS oriented. It's been a while since I last checked it, though. I'll have a fresh look.
I read it a few years back and from memory it was quite an interesting read
He does mention Apple in a footnote.

However, Apple doesn't really make claims about openness (apart from a brief marketing push around OSX 10.2), whereas Twitter's success came from liberal access to its API and Google makes a big deal out of its openness.
> Furthermore, he BRAGGED about rubbing it in AT&T's face, and wanting to cause as much damage as possible. He had malicious intent.

Malicious intent is not criminal.

> That said, weev KNEW for a fact that he was accessing information that should not have been public.

It is massively unfair to put the burden of inferring the intention of a remote system onto the requester.

In fact, he could not have known that he was accessing information that should not have been public (as you claim), because ATT expressly configured their systems to MAKE IT PUBLIC. It wasn't an accident or misconfiguration. Your basic premise doesn't hold up, and neither does the silly physical "unlocked house" analogy.

An unlocked house implies there are locks and doors present, neither of which were in this case.

It's not trespassing, and just because it's non-random doesn't make it criminal.
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>Moves like this make it clear that they're becoming ever more concerned with the corporate agenda (pushing G+ in this case) than the hacker spirit.

The frustrating thing for some of us was that this is how it has always been and trying to point it out to people just got you shouted down. Google has always been about making money, what else? Watching otherwise intelligent hackers get so genuinely bamboozled by a simple motto has been surprising, to say the least.
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The ballots are secret.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-unions-rank-and-f...
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Only the support issue, but then I'd have thought that people using really long passwords as normally the ones who'll make an effort to remember / store them. They mention "Encrypted passwords", which would vary the amount of storage required in their database and also make the passwords retrievable if the attacker had gained access to the key / algorithm etc...

I'd had preferred if they used a one way hash instead, obviously with a secure hash algorithm, uniquely salted and rehashed multiple times. All passwords would then be the same length when stored and users wouldn't have to have such a low maximum limit.

There are worse offenders for low character limits, like Adobe with a 12 char maximum. Used to be a site that listed some, just a shame it's no longer available http://web.archive.org/web/20100526105638/http://www.weakpas...
imo lua (openresty for nginx in benchmarks, Lapis framework looks tight) and go. in reality go, clojure, nodejs and angular will probably be the most relevant

google trends to these languages http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=clojure%2C%20%20angul...
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It's a little humorous that they are talking about unions disrupting the political system when corporations spend infinitely more money on lobbying government.
There were neither "people's credit card numbers" nor "publishing" in this instance. It seems like you're being intentionally confusing.

We're talking about a list of email addresses (which I don't think should be protected data in any way, they're just email addresses) and a journalist running a blacked-out screenshot of a dozen of them.
Technologically I was in the impression that the end-points where barely able to route the traffic that's going trough these cables. Encrypting the traffic in real-time might not be possible.
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