skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may have given Google more power than the NSA.
Every month Google answers 100 billion queries, we only see the results they deem relevant. Here’s a non-technical look into how they got there, what they do, and why they may have more power over us than any intelligence agency.
You would be surprised. I was shocked when well-funded competitors did this to us (and other strange smears and weird things like harassing our users on social media) with no attempt to even be stealthy about it. I don't even get why they bothered--users see through that stuff, putting so much bad energy and nastiness into the world is such a waste of effort and human capital.
Those are terrible solutions, though. If a user has turned off JavaScript, there are basically two possibilities: if they turned it off accidentally, your solution will (in the best case scenario, where they understand the popup and realise they should click the reset button) temporarily break their browser and then fix it again; better then breaking it permanently, but not as good as not breaking it in the first place. On the other hand, if they turned JavaScript off intentionally, your solution will continually bother them asking them whether they want to turn JavaScript back on again. So your proposed solution actually works for no users at all.
So that the US can do the "dirty work".

We give the data to the US and, of course, the US only uses the data to fight terrorism.

I think our politicians knew that the US was doing more with the data than they said. But since this kind of data usage is not really aceptable in large parts of the EU we simply gave the data to the US to get the job done.

Then the politicians could say "we are not using your data and the US is only using it to fight terrorism" but in fact there was much more going on and everybody knew that.
The title here in HN. It was originally "Don't expose your visitors to tracking. Use share links instead of Java scripts"

It was then edited (by a moderator I assume) to reflect the actual title of the post.
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65 million years is a long time even on evolutionary terms. Without K/T you would still have the dinosaur to bird transision because it's an useful nich to be able to fly. mammals evolved with dinosaurs and things may have followed a similar path even without K/T. However, Dinosaurs could have easily followed the same path as humans by filling the same ecological notch of squirls, then spider monkeys thus gaining thumbs to efficently climb with increased body weight. After that increased body weight and brain capacity are useful and suddenly your using tools.

PS: Birds have limited brains because of weight issues but their neurons are just as evolved and capable as primate neurons.
It's sad that anyone associated with Glide didn't talk whoever greenlighted this out of this terrible idea. If your app is good, then let it succeed on its own merit. Not only will you get caught doing stuff like this, but it makes you look like an asshole to the rest of the dev community trying to hack the App Store reviews.
Error messages are very clear and understandable which is definitely a plus. For example:

Error on line 1: expected 'chicken'
When they say "Germany's third largest party" it's important to know that they only hold about 11% of the seats of the German Parliament (Bundestag) right now and are unlikely to affect matters in this case.
Because she is from a conservative party which is more or less "okay" with surveillance.

She is not saying the same because she wants to play conservative and differentiate herself from the Greens/Left Party and SPD.
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looking forward for a Javascript version :) ...it would be serious fun to read, knowing all the horrible language gotchas that will soon byte a beginner that starts coding Js after reading only such a guide.
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Right but the point here is, that you dont NEED a specially designed game. if it supports 3d and keyboard/mouse, it supports omni and oculus rift
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By "fully baked" do you mean a phone that can only run web apps? (Note that I'm talking about the original iPhone, not Firefox OS).
>But would always require a complete page reload.

So? A complete HN page is smaller than JQuery.
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Why can anyone rate an app? Why can't it be that you have to have used the app to be allowed to rate it, and the ratings weighed by your time in the app, your rating history, your rating history's stddev or collaborative filtering, etc?
Does anyone know if these work as advertised? http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=cell+phone+signal+block&...

I rarely receive calls on my mobile - and only really carry one just in case I need to make a call.
I don't think the argument is whether metadata is "protected."

I think that the argument is that the US is collecting whatever they want even on lawful citizens, not being forthcoming, and arguing its all legal whether it is or isn't.

Also - your notion that something not explicitly "protected" is fair game scares me.
Which is the better existence? A civilization that survives in happiness and harmony for 5000 years, or one that survives in highly productive, regimented dullness for 20000 years?

It's not at all obvious, at least to me. But evolution will pick the latter every time. For evolution it's optimal for us to be just miserable enough to not give up, and have just enough happiness as a dangled carrot to keep us going. What evolution wants is not aligned with what we want. E.g. anyone using birth control is deliberately shifting the "happiness/survival balance" away from the one that evolution decided was optimal. But very few would argue that birth control is detrimental to our civilization.
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I have the low-end geeksphone with Firefox OS. Even thought it is an alpha but I think it is really too light for a smartphone. UI isnt that responsive and it freezes quite often. This should be better with mid-end phones in my opinion. But than again, awesome price for a smart phone.
The fact that Germany was spied on massively and it didn't seem that they were all that aware of it and the fact that the US has well established channels from the cold war there would mean that I wouldn't exactly feel safe if that was my safe haven.

Would be interesting to create a "how safe are you from foreign nations' assassination/capturing etc. here" index.

For the pairing Germany-USA I'd say not very safe.
All well and good, but keep in mind there's a fair bit of boilerplate to this way of composing classes and you don't get any type checking when you use dynamic forwarding.
Yes, you're right - I was mistaken (I was thinking of Slime/Emacs). Genera had a proper hierarchical window system - screenshots just don't do it justice!
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Firefox OS is one of the most obviously-wasteful and doomed efforts we've seen in a long time.

There is no compelling reason to use it, or for it to even exist. It offers no tangible benefits that we can't get elsewhere. What it does offer is pretty lousy.

The only two arguments we see used to support its existence are both badly flawed:

1) Devices running it are "affordable". Maybe this is true in some absolute sense, but relative to other mobile OSes and devices this "affordability" comes at a very steep cost in terms of usability and practicality.

Used Android and iOS devices can also be acquired quite cheaply these days (even in poorer nations), but unlike Firefox OS and its devices these used devices are comparatively powerful and much more practical to use.

2) It's "open". This argument is academic at best. We can already use HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and other so-called "open" technologies on Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and many other of the less-common mobile OSes. Android and some of the other mobile OSes are already open source software, so it's not like Firefox OS has any advantage in that sense, as well.

The whole reliance on JavaScript makes Firefox OS even less-open, in my opinion. When it comes to using Android or iOS, for instance, at least we have the option of using mature, non-JavaScript languages. No, I don't really consider CoffeeScript, TypeScript or Dart to be anything but JavaScript with a prettier syntax and/or slightly better type checking.

The effort put into Firefox OS would have been much better spent fixing desktop Firefox, or Firefox running on existing mobile devices. Even putting it toward Thunderbird would've been useful. But it has instead been wasted on an eighth-in-line mobile OS with limited capabilities and a severe lack of usability compared to its competitors.
Clearly HN-induced load broke whatever automatic load-meter they had.
I've tried noscript and it breaks most things. Ghostery quite rarely breaks things.
That's definitly right, but the demand of the greens is all over the media here. I don't think, that Snowden will really get safe haven in Europe, but it's nice to see that a lot of Germans would approve it. The outrage reaches the mainstream.
I read quite a good interview with Chicken Scheme's author a few months ago. Here's the link which might be of interest:

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-...
The purpose of the web-page is to illustrate how much information you can get about a person with just meta-data.

The law should be a reflection of our morals, not the other way around. That would be a recipe for disaster.
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Traditional "Merkelian" politics is basically...wait until stuff blows over and let others make a fool of themselves.
Same policy that Kohl followed ("Aussitzen") :)

I think this has some potential of losing her the elections though. Mostly because it seems the Greens will gain most from all of this.
The class name should really be upper camel case...
Sure. You press the off button.
melling, being able to accept a microSD card is a big deal even to people who are non-techie. My wife takes many, many pics and having a 32gig microSD card is very good if you like take pics, record vids, have music and have a bunch of kids Tv shows to calm a child. I don't even take many pics, and my Samsung Galaxy player with 5 gigs internal and 32 gigs sdcard is almost filled.
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You can infer some amazing things from simple metadata. I spent six months in an R&D team at a large mobile telco, with the task of trying to infer as much as possible from anonymous customer data just like this.

Figuring out where you live and work, to a reasonable accuracy, is quite easy; you simply look at where the most outgoing calls/SMS originate from at certain hours of the day over an extended period.

We built up our own social graph. You treat calls and text messages as directed edges and phone numbers as nodes. These were fascinating to look at.

You can even try to guess when someone gets off a plane. When a plane lands you'll suddenly see lots of incoming undelivered text messages as people turn their phones back on. If a node was last seen in a far away cell, but then reappears in this group, you can cross-correlate with arrival times and make a reasonable guess.
For context, the first and second party got 34% and 23% of votes respectively.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2009
I don't think this language is called 'chicken' but rather 'chicken chicken', which is a bit confusing. I expected some kind of extension language built on top of chicken scheme but no, just no scheme and way more chicken.

It might be funny to also have a 2 symbol language called 'duck duck goose' where statements are terminated by 'goose' or something. I can't see any confusion between that and, say, duck duck go either!
snowden is a white american. americans don't (in general - see reactions here to nsa) care about foreigners (especially coloured ones - guantanamo), but they get upset if a white american is hurt. so this won't happen with him.
Also the rest of the developing world, especially Africa, where Firefox OS looks like a very strong replacement for Blackberry and Nokia feature phones.
The war with Tizen only get started. Yet, it's funny how those two OS will end up being almost 100% compatible (at least for webapps), and so in the end, it won't really matter which one you'll be using.
Maybe this will start a new trend of "web phones", and will push android towards becoming more of a "chrome os".
Omni + Oculus + kinect + horror game = shit a brick. I for one can't wait.
Let's not forget that combined metadata from millions of people allow much greater detail than this (who you meet, talk to regularly, share interests with, are likely to run into ...).
Because heuristic search is often useful. For example, I was recently running some searches for Final Fantasy 10, and was highly appreciative of Google also finding pages where 10 was written as X.

Of course, heuristic features in computer programs usually benefit from a "do what I say, not what I mean" override option, but it's reasonable to call that an advanced feature.
I meant more in terms of performance and UX than features. If Firefox OS delivers on displaying web apps really darn well, then more power to it, but the demo didn't really stand out in that way either. Most likely the poor hardware, but again, that's still part of the end user experience which is crucial imo. Ubuntu's mobile os seems to perform much more smoothly from the demos I've seen for example, but I'm not sure how the hardware compares to the sets that were used for these Firefox os demos.
Remember Bradley Manning?
While useful, of course, I don't think it's as big of a deal as you suggest it is. If it were, the iPhone wouldn't be as popular as it is, for instance.
It would be awesome if someone would implement the Hodor programming language, next.
Good old web? What's that? The one with dancing baby gif? Or the old ARPANet?

Web has always been about managing documents in one way or the other. Now those documents are interactive and interesting to watch and listen.

I mean, if my old chem book had cool animations I could tinker with I'd probably be having fun with it right now. I don't understand the outcry for GOW. It's still around and you can still make those sites, but they are usually hard to read (no fancy column layout to make it easy on the eyes) and you have to be a great writer to really engage the audience.

Going back to GOW won't make bad writters instantly better. No more than returning to 8-bit graphic won't instantly make all games better.
I'm afraid the actual definition of "meta-data" is up to interpretation in the context of IP communication.

What if the NSA considers not only IP source & destination as "metadata" but also anything down to the application layer that is not strictly content? Like the HTTP GET line or HTTP headers.
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Great retrospective, we shouldn't take google so easily, they are big players and should be watched closely... great read
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Actually, there is no need to think that would Go do. Compostion is strongly favoured in Obj-C and Cocoa (Touch) frameworks, and this is quite strongly stressed everywhere.
Technically they can do it but the political implications would be much different. Snowden is not a no-name citizen, abducting him would create an international diplomatic incident.
This mixes up two different points.

One is what the general public thinks about the importance of metadata; the OP shows that it is a bit more than some may think, so arguing about the legal aspects is a bit beside the point.

That said, if you want to argue the legality, it isn't that clear-cut, either. The problem is that while Smith v. Maryland may resolve the question of the constitutionality of the collection, it does not answer the question of its legality. In addition to a search or seizure being constitutional, there generally also needs to be a statute authorizing the search or seizure.

Unfortunately, whether there is such a statute is highly dubious. The leaked court order used an extremely suspect interpretation of section 215 of the Patriot Act to justify seizure of the phone records; which is what Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall kept pointing out. Seizure under the electronic surveillance provisions of 50 USC §1801 etc. does not solve the problem, either, because 50 USC §1801(n) defines "contents" for the purpose of electronic surveillance to include metadata. And seizure under the Pen Register Act would require the government to certify that the information obtained is likely to be relevant for an ongoing criminal investigation.

This means that while Congress could have authorized the NSA to collect the connection data in such a fashion without such a law being unconstitutional, it is at the very least questionable whether Congress actually did such a thing.
Idk what class of hardware they were using on the demo video, but it at least appeared quite laggy.
Stock Android 4.1 works quite well on the Nexus S. If it doesn't for you, you might want to try a factory reset.
I find JS to be a good negative filter for sites that are large (in KB), slow and have annoying/weird UI. Just like Flash.

I wish people would make good HTML/Web Apps instead of trying to (badly) imitate desktop apps. To me, that means being lean and embracing the transactional style (see 3270).
This isn't thinking like a geek, I'm sorry. comparing the internal storage on an Android/Firefox OS phone to an iPhone is comparing apples with oranges[1]; consumers know about SD cards and have done for years.

[1] no pun intended, although given my Keon's case colour, it is quite a good one :)
It should be obvious to anyone that you won't learn JAVA by simply looking over this.

The point is that for learning it is very important to

1) Get a basic overview of terminology and a general feel for the domain (traditionally you pick up three or so books on the topic, browse through them and note similar/repeatet patterns on a very high level)...then you can break down the learning into subcomponents

2) Find a way to get started and just do it

Creating your own checklists, flash cards, high level presentation on the topic are great starting points and usually step 0 before practice, practice, practice.

This looks like an excellent first step for anyone that wants to start with JAVA.
I don't think you understand, ad hominems not needed.

I never said PSGL was better, in fast I said most use libGCM, only that there are two ways to go about it.

I used content (other people, references, forums etc) outside of what I was saying so you could see they exist which you said it didn't, unlike you who just states only from yourself and a 'trust in me' attitude.

I was trying to provide you with basic, 'simples' evidence that there are two paths you can take when doing graphics on PS3, higher level and lower level and both are not standard but platform lock-in.

Again, let's just end this we are on different parallels and agree to disagree that this conversation has gotten off the topic of platform lock-in on consoles which you said was easier than mobile/PC and I took the opposite that mobile/PC is less platform lock-in and easier from experience, at least more standard.

Granted someone who has always made console games might think the opposite and thus let's agree to disagree rather than going off topic again and spewing ad hominem attacks which typically can be defined as trolling.
"For $90, I would rather have a refurbished iPhone 3GS."

You might be surprised (as I was) but Windows 8 is the most responsive mobile OS I've ever seen. Maybe it's even the best mobile OS at the moment.

You can get a new Nokia Lumia 521 for about $150. A very underestimated phone.
This "war" you speak of is between two mobile OSes making up literally a small fraction of one percent of all mobile users.

BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone, which are nearly irrelevant compared to Android and iOS, are absolutely huge compared to Firefox OS, Tizen, and the other mobile OSes.

Firefox OS and Tizen will have absolutely no impact on Android.
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ah, true.

he's gay? maybe that makes him an honorary black? i don't fully understand. any americans here can help me? is there anyone you stick up for? or is it just a big game of last under the bus wins?
How about a leapmotion to detect where your hands are so you don't even need a controller at all?
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I bought a ZTE Blade roughly 3 years ago running Android 2.1, which seems to be a spiritual ancestor to this device. I actually paid about the same as this device (including the free credit) but I think most people paid 70-100 euro. See a spec comparison here:

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3391&idPhone2=...

It was the device that (due to it's price/performance ratio) convinced me there was something to this Android thing.

I'm just glad Mozilla have a reason to focus on the performance of my favourite Android browser, that Google/Apple have a reason to better support modern web standards and that websites can hopefully stop foisting terrible apps on to me and just let me browse.
I think it is: I just saw two people use it and they both knew what it meant. ;)
The dynamic app search , which lets you runs apps on the cloud without needing to install them is an interesting feature.

I heard about something similar for android which runs apps in the cloud , anybody knows how it's called?
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Which could mean that the only thing an unscrupulous government official needs to do in order to access one's data is hinting at implications on child pornography.
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I had one go down about 40 mins ago. Just came back up.
This is completely off topic, but where did this "I am yet" nonsense spawn from? It's completely wrong, since you don't say "I amn't seen it yet", you say "I haven't seen it yet", therefore "I have yet to see it".

Is it one of those things that people get wrong to sound more educated, like overusing "whom"?
I gotta agree, the main experience of WP8 is amazing. Maps is extremely fluid and the development tools are great.

You can really see problems with the 521 on IE. The browser performance reminds me of Android 2.3.

Now, the Lumia 9xx series is rock solid. But I haven't been able to give up my 4s (Nokia should really be giving them away)
Not sure what you're implying here. The EU gives data to the US about Europeans flying to the US. Then the US does the EU's dirt work? And after this "dirty work" is processed does the US play the data back to the EU?
Except real life uses partial strafing all the time. You don't run in the same direction your head, shoulders, or gun is pointing and people can dodge or rapidly change directions. Which is why strafing feels more natural than being forced to turn all the time.
A lot of libraries these days come with a Docco[1] annotated code and examples [2]. This looks very similar, but could make use of Docco.

[1]http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/
[2] http://documentcloud.github.io/underscore/docs/underscore.ht...
Just because the iPhone is popular without microSD expansion doesn't mean the feature isn't a big deal. It's still important enough to be a deal breaker for some people. It's definitely not a feature only geeks care about as the OP seems to think.
WOOOOHOOOO Best knews I've heard for Firefox! Now if only every other browser would do it.
If you're not going to own a mac (to run MacOS), why on Earth would you run Windows?!
Why don't you just switch off your phone? That would save precious battery time, too…