skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I do find the response strangely disproportionate.

It may be that the people directly involved are "overly invested" in the situation. Making mountains out of molehills because they don't have enough metaphorical distance from the events to realize how their actions are perceived by regular on-lookers. After all there is roughly $50B/yr on the line, a lot of people have a lot of money at risk.

Also, fantastic fodder for hollywood. I wouldn't blame Snowden one bit if after it all settles out, he figured out how to sell the rights to his story to hollywood for a couple of million dollars.
It is interesting, but has little to do with the original article, as the police will kindly ask the accused to authenticate, instead of asking for the key.
All they'd have to say is that the plane was a danger to other planes in the area. If it was ignoring air traffic control orders then that is probably all the justification they need, president or not.
The purpose of a court isn't to get the best answer. Its to get a decent answer while resolving the matter with finality. An adverse opinion of experts can be accused of bias and other things that can cause the conflict to continue to fester. The opinion of a group of layman cannot be attacked that way.
Lol. Thanks. But I'm from the french-speaking part of the country.
I can't imagine how discouraging mobile phones at checkouts could damage business. It's damn rude and kow-towing to idiots like this just encourages their sense of entitlement. Bah humbug!
Ecuador says it found a hidden microphone at its London embassy
True, though chef-solo is a local-only solution. Ansible manages to manage remote machines without that kind of setup, and can start managing the remotes without installing anything on them.
One can like and enjoy using Apple devices without wholeheartedly embracing every aspect of their corporate decisions and culture. Don't present a false-dilemma.
They had to refuel in Canary islands. Dassault Falcon 900EX only has range 7400km, but Moscow to La Paz is 12500km
I was afraid it would come off like this. I picked the analogy and went with it.
History may now be being written by different people than in previous eras. In oz, 100 years or so of pro British army brainwashing was undone with one line in one movie.. shoot straight, ya bastards.

its not about karma. what is right resonates.
Nah I'm the author :)
Some people react to bullying by learning how to bully; some people by learning how not to. It's hard to see either tactic working out.
Thats what the whole thing is about but i think he will get a shelter
Yes, because services that cost money never disappear.
It's exactly the opposite: any random noise could be assumed to be encrypted data and therefore you can be jailed for being unable to decrypt the noise.
Welcome to the new HN.

The rate of political stories after datagate broke has skyrocketed, and I don't think the genie will go quietly back in the bottle.

You can downvote me all you want: I have a shitload of this useless karma stuff that I built up on the old HN.
Bravemule (http://www.bravemule.com) is a great read, and it's a lot more current that Boatmurdered.
Sure - after being searched in Austria.
Interesting read for startup(founders)considering to locate in London.
India has rejected NSA leaker Edward Snowden's request for political asylum, the External Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. http://www.wral.com/india-turns-down-nsa-leaker-s-asylum-req...
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Is anyone else still trying to understand the goal here? I know the big lofty goal is to cause NSA to stop spying on people but what will convince people that they have stopped?

Is everyone unaware that the NSA's mission is to collect digital intelligence through clandestine means? It's right on their website. Their mission is to spy on people and has been for decades.

I may be unaware of what people are really upset about. I just can't understand how people are so up in arms by this. I'm legitimately interested in how I'm affected by this as a person who doesn't conduct activity online that the NSA would ever care about. Can someone help me out here?
I've been repeating this all over the thread but the plane has not landed yet in Canary Islands. Right now it's flying nearby Madeira Island.

Updated at 14:40 UTC: landed at Las Palmas.
You can see this in "real life" if you take a glass filled with water and look into it. You can't see out of the glass, but if you press your finger to the side you'll see your fingerprint appear. You've changed the refractive index and change the reflection/refraction properties.
Very curious about the same thing.
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That may be Google's internal philosophy, but their external face on it is a service that looks just like Facebook, at the website plus.google.com, with a title of Google+. They couldn't be trying any harder to make it misunderstood.
Install chef-solo on server.

scp locally dev'd (with vagrant ideally) cookbook to server

Run cookbook

3 steps that can easily be wrapped in a little script (which I know a large company does because I saw their presentation about it on confreaks. Sorry I cannot remember the name of the company or presentation but it was a chef related one).

Still not exactly killing it in terms of complexity. I would avoid comparing ansible to chef-solo in that respect and focus on bits where ansible has a clear (IMHO) win.

Having said that I should say that I have not used ansible and am basing this on what I have read about it.
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The walls have ears.
Out of the 100+ files and archives I have encrypted, I remember the passwords of about 25 of them.

I would so go to jail.
Now with the final results.
From the docs:

chef-solo is a limited-functionality version of Chef and does not support the following:

* Node data storage

* Search indexes

* Centralized distribution of cookbooks

* Environments, including policy settings and cookbook versions

* A centralized API that interacts with and integrates infrastructure components

* Authentication or authorization

* Persistent attributes
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> I believe as I do because it is an essential part of who I am (identity).

Interesting. I do not think I've heard someone put it quite like that before. I find it quite bizarre and circular:

"I believe in X because I define myself as a person who believes in X, and therefore not believing in X means I lose my identity, therefore I believe in X"

So it's literally impossible for you to stop believing in anything, no matter how ridiculous, without losing your entire sense of self. Kind of defined yourself into a corner there, eh?
after the plane was searched and no Snowden was found.
My understanding is that there's not enough fuel to cross the ocean so they needed some place to refuel. Given noone would give permission they probably decided it was for the best to land in Austria.
Pretty much the definition of ad hominem here.
You can from the Internet Archive. The GGP is talking about Twingly, and the discussion is about integrating their data with the Archive Team.
Done. See https://github.com/scanlime/zenphoton/pull/4
The TPP and TAFTA will solidify the global hegemony, and no I'm not trying to be sensationalist or paranoid: this is the nature of economic agreements between countries (shattered borders, economic and legislative integration).
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He is arguing for interoperability ("RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs"). It is not about open/closed source.
Turns out my suspicion was right. But I had nothing at that point to confirm it.

Still, Bolivia's story is slowly falling apart.
You are right, when you look at it like that, my comment was a bit of a hijack. The threat model in question assumes that the attackers know that the person in question has a way to auth / is part of an encrypted / limited access system, which is a very sensible assumption (and is included in the police/accused scenario in any case.)

I was probably thinking something along the lines of, [this proposed system] + a way for the user to discretely convey to the auth/security system the info that they are being coerced, and the system authenticating them to a bogus user account / set of sensitive data. But this would be cumbersome and very difficult to implement given the design in question, probably.

It would have probably been more relevant to mention encryption systems with plausible deniability - e.g. TrueCrypt's hidden volumes [1] and Rubberhose FS [2].

[1]: http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29
>A middle class salary they can survive on for how long?

Most middle class people aren't really financially independant either. 76% of people don't have any means to support themselves 6+ months out if they lose employment. Why should they?

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.h...
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At the time of this comment, r/restorethefourth has 19,511 subscribers. The US has a population of approximately 319 million (WolframAlpha estimate).

We are the 0.00612 percent!
>There are millions of RSS clients out there

You think? Before the Google Reader shutdown was announced, pretty much every mobile RSS client was just a front end to reader, using it to manage the feeds. And pretty much every other web RSS reader died off. Safari killed RSS integration. Net News Wire stagnated.

I mean, honestly, was there a single healthy RSS client at the end of 2012, being actively developed?
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> "OMFG what could POSSIBLY be worse than the VS2008 C++ build system?"

VS2008 C++ build system with CMake.
You don't even need to do that. You can type `knife solo prepare root@my-server` and it will install chef-solo on that machine. Then type `knife solo cook root@my-server` and you're good to go.
"It's making itself vulnerable."

It's not vulnerable, it's more dangerous.

It's just that more people are finally see the men behind the curtains and realizing that they are just as petty and human as the rest of us, but have insane amounts of power. And are not willing to give up any of that power or even display any true global leadership or responsibility.

Realize that "these people" have absolute power. And as time goes on, don't need as much as the population around to maintain their status or luxuries. What would you do in their place if faced with a angry populous?
Actually there was a Right to Silence, in common law. It was removed by statue in the extremely controversial 1994 Criminal Justice Act (which many of us demonstrated against).
Agreed. I certainly encourage seatbelt use as I saw far more people saved by using them than not.

At one point we got to a streak of 8 or 9 rollovers with no injuries whatsoever. If the occupants were not wearing seat belts I can say for certain that streak would have ended earlier.

On a positive note, the number of automobile fatalities each year has been on a steady decline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
YES the NSA's mission is to spy. We are fine with that but NOT domestically. We are not fine with that.

In the borders of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA according to the 4th Amendment of te UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION domestic spying is not legal.

1: NSA should be subject to accountability like everyone in this country
2: All NSA activities should be restricted to foreign intelligence gathering.

This is the jist of it.
For people who don't know about Argentinian politics it's important to emphasize that Cristina Fernandez has her own NSA project: http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfroma...

Not only that, Cristina's Government anticipates Obama using the local IRS against the opposition and individuals speaking against the government in the press.

Finally... a few days ago Assange said: "Argentina has most aggressive surveillance ‎system in Latin America" http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/06/29/311375/assange-argen...
Thanks for the encouragement. Think I'll give it a go, or I guess begin my descent in to losing (whereby losing == fun).
In that case, you can look at the modified date first. Better than re-calculating hashes.

I guess the methods I propose will not guarantee proper syncing if for some reason a file has changed but the metadata hasn't...
I have spent a lot of time in Argentina. Argentinian people are very into being cute and intimate, even with people they don't know that well. There is a refreshing lack of excessive seriousness in that culture. If you know Spanish and have seen Kirschner speak she almost comes off as a goofball the way she cracks jokes and makes "cute" references to things, but it's really just a reflection of Argentine culture more than anything else.
Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites
I push to a bare repo in a dropbox folder because I can't for the life of me get a secure connection through the work firewalls / proxy so I don't bother and let dropbox deal with it.
Don't worry about it. The commenter here is wrong in assuming that using history to understand our own narrative implies something about the scale or scope of the original, or our own.

Events need not be the same for us to try to use them to understand and vocalize our experiences.

Great writeup! Some days I feel similarly about Ember.
Not quite the same, but an awesome glimpse of the story-telling potential of this game:

http://dfstories.com/the-hamlet-of-tyranny/
Coming from a family with a very high percentage of left-handers (about 7 out of 10 on my Mother's side)...I can sympathize. The older ones who went through forced "right handed training" struggle with a host of psychological issues as a result of this forced training (not to mention some physical scars as the use of the "sinful" hand was beat out of them). The long-term effects have never been well studied because when the practice was common, there were social pressures not to and now the practice has mostly stopped.

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/7/2816.full.pdf

http://wasioabbasi.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/never-force-left...

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7282/is-there-an...
Does anybody here had used Android Studio extensively enough to give an opinion? Is it good? Is it heavy?
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Most common monetization options are to either put "ad articles" in the stream, or to not provide the full article text in the stream, so people had to follow the link to the full site with ads.

The former strategy was pretty good for getting around people's ad blocking, since it was essentially a long form text ad.
Figure out a prior probability of foul play, figure out the probability of a car bursting into flames on impact, plug the result into Bayes' theorem, and you get the relative likelihoods.

No, scarcity isn't proof against, but it is evidence. A lot of people are talking nonstop about the rarity of cars bursting into flames as evidence against that interpretation, while ignoring the even greater rarity of journalists being murdered by the US government.
I re-read your post. You are correct. It is possible to read it in a manner wherein you are not making the claim about my post. Seems a little odd as a response. Perhaps your intent would be clearer if your replies didn't hypothesize quite so much about what the parent might be thinking. I noticed a lot of "ifs" in your most recent post as well, as in "if you believe this or that". Comes off rather straw-mannish. Why not just stick to what the person actually said?

But granted, I stand corrected.

I'm aware of the general mode of privileging the hypothesis, though I've never heard that term. I'm not sure that there's anything new or groundbreaking in that post, however. For instance, criminal law is set up to avoid railroading suspects and it's a pretty easily identifiable fallacy, in general.

In any event, your conclusion that I come close to claiming them equally likely rests on its own fallacy. That is, this statement is so general as to be misleading:

"If your mental model assigns the same prior probability to assassination as to car accidents, it's likely broken"

First, I didn't assign a probability. I said we should be asking questions.

But what makes your argument fallacious is that details matter. It is not just any car accident. It is a fiery, one car, high speed accident, under unexplained circumstances. And, he is not just a random person, but a prominent reporter who brought down a powerful person and was working on a "big" story involving, presumably, other powerful people. Ignoring this information, and simply relying on the percentage of the general population who are in car accidents vs assassinated (i.e. relying on the priors) is misguided to say the least.

And while there is a lack of concrete evidence in either direction at this point, the circumstances and information we do have point to the fact that we should be asking questions, not drawing conclusions on any side. Again, that is what my posts are about. Questions.

OTOH, I'm not sure what you are actually trying to say, short of providing an off-topic and somewhat faulty explanation of how we should estimate likliehoods.
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So assuming they ignored being grounded and just refueled in the Canaries, if their flight plan was pre-ok'd, then they wouldn't be endangering others.
I know my HN experience is very, very short, but I have a proposition.

It's true you can write anything you want in your profile's "About" section, but is there a possibility to have a little pop-up window that appears when you hover over someone's username? It only shows you their workplace and education because, as far as I've seen, HN isn't attractive to hackers only, there all sorts of people who use this platform and it would be nice to know what is their background, for example, when commenting. It could bring more quality and dynamics to discussions because then you'll know what you can ask others and what are their expertise. I don't want it to become similar to a facebook profile, but the two previously mentioned information lines are far more important than others such as age, location, etc.

There is a chance that this will turn our screen into a popcorn bowl but I think it can be managed by having a little delay or something else.
People, use this for secure communication & activity coordination:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983913
Exactly. This is the modern-day equivalent of a public crucifixion: a warning that you never, ever want to do something like this yourself.

What's interesting--and a little disconcerting IMO--is that the public opinion of Snowden seems generally favorable. So the US .gov needs to attack him publicly while not making it TOO public because it is not generally a healthy thing for a government to move in opposition to its people. That's how "unrest" starts. Probably not with Snowden, but if it's the beginning of a trend... look out.
There is only one way to find out..
I wonder if there are ways to legally insure against trolls. Say, a patent lawyer might open up an insurance. As a company, you pay a monthly fee of some amount (say $1000). If nothing happens, then money goes straight in that lawyers pocket, but if you're sued by a patent troll, he will handle the case for you, including going to court if needed. You could even further extend the concept with an insurance against any losses that might be the result of a lost law suit, thereby making the whole thing completely risk-free for the insured.

You'll have to run the math on how common these law suits are vs. what the costs are to run the case, but effectively it could be amortized over a lot of people, so it might make sense. Further, with time the trolls would realise that members of this union/insurance are not easy targets, so they would probably back off rather than going all the way to court. Thereby making it cheaper for the members.

Not sure if it exists already.
> There's a name for this.

The inverse tragedy of the commons?
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Isn't all the international posturing over the last few weeks the sort of stuff that starts wars? WTF happened to America? I love this country, but the government is completely off the rails. They think the law doesn't apply to them. Makes me sick.
"Hates Chrome"? I haven't noticed that. Most Mac users use Safari.
There's a big difference between "Google Reader Founder" and "A Google employee who was in charge of Google Reader project". Android was "founded". Google reader was not.
Many if not all of the open standards are terrible. Engineering virtue is orthogonal to implementation freedom.
How I'd do it: Use Embedly! Our extract API returns the dominant colors of all the images it finds: http://embed.ly/docs/extract/api/response#extract-images

For those that are curious, what happens under the covers is a random sampling of the image followed by a conversion to LAB color space (even better than YUV in terms of human perception) and finally some K-means clustering.

To see this in action, check out http://tightro.pe.
They are not allowed to do that, either, due to lobbying from the private media companies. The companies managed to push through a rule that the BBC cannot show any content in the UK whose production was funded commercially, even if they showed the result ad-free in the UK.
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FTR carrying [some] pocket knifes is legal in England and Wales. It is a criminal offence in Scotland.

The UK consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. 3 different legal systems (though England and Wales and Northern Ireland are similar).

Scotland is radically different with many things being criminal offences in Scotland but are perfectly legal in the other 3 countries, e.g. certain types of violent pornography are serious jail time in Scotland but legal elsewhere in the UK. Plus the knife thing, obviously. Children of 8 years are criminally responsible [i.e. /are/ prosecuted] in Scotland but it is older elsewhere in the UK.
lol.
Source: http://www.zeroto60times.com/

1996 Ford Mustang GT 0-60 mph 6.7 Quarter mile 15.1
1999 Ford Mustang GT 0-60 mph 5.4 Quarter mile 13.9
2006 Honda Accord EX (V6) 0-60 mph 5.8 Quarter mile 14.3

Only when they re-designed the GT in the late 90's did it get faster - which isn't really relevant, I was making the general point that modern cars have gotten a ridiculous amount of power, often in a lighter vehicle (e.g. the 2006 honda accord I drive).

> Unfortunately horsepower != speed

Horsepower doesn't give a direct comparison across vehicles, but generally speaking, yes horsepower = speed.

> I have that car and I can attest to it not being incredibly fast.

Perhaps you dont have the v6 manual? Any car that gets to 60mph in under 6 seconds is fast. And again - my comparison with the mustang GT was to paint a picture - we all recognize that as a fast car, and are perhaps surprised that modern sedan's are as fast - and often faster, while typically having a smaller (i.e. lighter) engine. Hell, look at the list of Mercede's on the same site (http://www.zeroto60times.com/Mercedes-Benz-0-60-mph-Times.ht...). There's cars on there coming in the 4 second range.

So - just wanted to point out that without more details, the story isn't complete, and perhaps not as surprising as first-pass suggests.
They also use a similar trick based on the icon colors for the iTunes ios app update feature (for those of us who still like plugging our phone or tablet into the USB cable). In the latest iTunes, when you click on an app in icon mode to find out what's new in the update, the background reflects the colors of the icon, which can make for some odd combinations...
Pressing spacebar or pagedown hides content on that webpage. :(