skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1)
Al Hayat first stated this. (unconfirmed)

2)
Masry El Youm also reports --

Morsi placed under house arrest.

http://t.co/vBzs0ATTXB
I think a forced warning that your data is going to be held in US servers would work. Similar to the cookie warning that is compulsory here in the UK - otherwise your site risks getting blocked.
It's either naivete or posturing.

All major gov'ts intercept each other's traffic and do espionage (industrial or intelligence) on each other. It's a kind of gentleman's agreement. We know you spy on us, you know we spy on you, but let's pretend we don't, publicly, and if something becomes public (one of us is careless), act outraged and protest. (the Lady doeth protest too much)
I hadn't, doh! Thanks. Might be worth adding a link to that at start of the docs, because I found I was hesitant to start writing yamls without knowing the "right" structure for them.
Glad you found it.

Hopefully this is you:
http://instacod.es/76758
With the unnecessary 4 paddings with the same value and the bad indentation. :)
Here's the data from the pastie

Salary Workers
0-10000 180
10000-20000 88
20000-30000 97
30000-40000 181
40000-50000 167
50000-60000 476
60000-70000 633
70000-80000 732
80000-90000 322
90000-100000 207
100000-110000 99
110000-120000 86
120000-130000 56
130000-140000 42
140000-150000 23
150000-160000 11
160000-170000 7
170000-180000 7
180000-190000 4
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Check out the C10K problem.

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
Well I guess it doesn't feel professional. Maybe unprofessional would have been a better word.
I have started doing this with some services and there were good alternatives available. But for search I can't find one. I tried DuckDuckGo for a few weeks but the results were awful compared with Google. Can anyone recommend a good, more secure alternative to Google?
> And I would say "searching for a fix on Google" is almost always the first thing a beginner should do.

I agree in the sense that the problem is that a beginning won't know what to Google, and there's not a thing that will teach them that other than trying it a bunch of times and hoping they have the brain to learn what will turn up results and what won't without having to do it.

It's the difference between googling "ajax photocropping service python" and understanding that what you really need are 1) a library to show a simple cropping interface in javascript 2) a way to crop images in python and 3) a way to receive ajax requests and handle them.
The thing is without a good GUI software is hard to get adopted by the masses. With a good GUI even bad software shines.
In defence of pigclient.co.uk, I've been using them a long time and have always been happy with their....pigs....
A Dark Room goes open source | doublespeak games
> Would I trade some of the depth of features for a better interface?

But that's really not the tradeoff. A more consistent interface takes less total time to write and maintain than one that has one-offs for every situation. Inconsistency makes future development slower.

And we only see the tip of the interface iceberg. I find it highly unlikely that the internal interfaces between components are any better. Everything about Dwarf Fortress gives the impression that their source code is probably a nightmare.

Which doesn't matter, of course, so long as it runs -- until you want new features and progress grinds down to a crawl.
It doesn't have associations between models yet but it does have amazing branding.
No, the only real solution is for the EU to come up with its own proprietary replacement for the internet. Replace everything from HTML up to HTTP with closed source software built by EU governments. Remove any server or computer hardware either built in the US or built by a company that also services the US, and replace them with systems built in the EU. And since you can't trust American IT workers not to be NSA moles they'll have to expel all of them, revoke American visas and bar Americans from entry into any EU nation.

Only then will Europe be truly free.
If you're talking about the EU in/out in the UK I'm looking forward to it, but the EU will resist to it even happening.

Nothing scares the EU more than the threat of a popular consultation.
It was written in neatly written javascript.
It was already open source. :P
A practical guide to using alembic
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero
Relevant HN discussion of the game itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205
OneNote for Android now capable of displaying handwriting markup
For the longest time, OneNote for Android didn't show the handwriting markup that one could create on the PC version of OneNote. I saw that the latest update has fixed this long-standing deficiency.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.onenote
If you think the rather bovine electorate of any of our great western nations will either remember or figure out why they should give a crap... well you have a lot more faith in humanity than I have left.
Six percent of online adults use reddit (15% of young men)
That might be the focus of the scandal in the US, but it certainly isn’t in the EU.
> A tougher change is finding (if it exists) a Box alternative.

Depending on your needs, RetroShare might be the one: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
I believe this may be very helpful. If enough Europeans stop / limit using Google services, then Google's stock price on Wall Street will see the consequences.

Google has powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and they will use their influence to change the playing field such that they either don't have to cooperate as much, or can be more transparent about the cooperation. Either option, or both, would help polish the tarnish on Google's reputation due to this.

Perhaps this is wishful thinking ... kinda like believing Europeans, Asians, etc will build their own Google-replacement ... but it's small a reason for hope, all the same.
The people one state over are part of the same compact (the Constitution) with you. A compact which, by the way, bars you from discriminating against them in commerce, which actually causes a lot of problems in practice. E.g. states that want to enact social welfare programs for their own people have a difficult time doing so at the state level, because of free rider effects (it is unconstitutional to require a citizen of another state to live in your state for say a year before applying for welfare benefits). Trying to get around the free rider effect creates increased demand for solutions at the federal level, which undermines federalism and state sovereignty. At the level of sovereign nations, similar pushes for extending rights across national boundaries creates pressure for trans-national governments. It's no accident that the tearing down of economic barriers between European states went hand-in-hand with the creation of trans-EU legislative and executive bodies.

There is a lot of value to trans-national barriers that isn't immediately obvious, especially in a democracy.
> I believe as I do because it is an essential part of who I am (identity).

What an odd reason to believe something. I generally try to only believe things because they're the conclusion that best fits the available evidence. Why would you use any other technique?
I learnt to run a startup, and then I learnt again
Didn't happen in America. Also your sheriff wouldn't travel overseas :P
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/
Winklevoss Twins Confront Skeptics to SEC on Bitcoin ETP
True, it was already source-available. That was already quite nice, especially because it meant I could fulfill my completionist urge by reading the source code to see everything that could've happened.

The change here is that it's been GPL'd, so you could (legally) build another game using parts of it if you wanted.

edit: see also http://blog.doublespeakgames.com/?p=21
Frame of Reference: The real issues at the heart of modern interface design.
Barrett Brown is the first name that comes to mind. Julian Assange is arguably in the same camp, at least partially. There has also been a sentiment that Glenn Greenwald should be prosecuted for his role in the Snowden case, albit not by government officials.

The US does not systematically persecute investigative journalists, at least not yet. But the sentiment is there, and there are cases that have crossed the line.

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

http://falkvinge.net/2013/06/30/with-journalism-persecuted-t...
We probably would be able to. But consider that the "backdoor" can be incredibly sneaky. Look up the claimed "Crypto AG" attack, which involved pre-internet crypto devices. The claimed way it worked was to include the key or enough data to allow decryption in the transmitted message in some form.

NSA wouldn't need something to contact their data centres and leak the information, because presumably they can tap some fiber connection or other your data ends up travelling to. All they'd need would be a slow leak of your keys. Even, say, just a few of tweaked data per packet, or tacked on to a file format that is resistant to it, so that they can pick up key information together with the data stream, and they're good.

Or even just intentionally introducing a specific way of generating keys, known to the with sufficient precision to allow them to reduce the key space enough that brute forcing the remaining bits is feasible. For a conceptual example, look up the old Netscape SSL vulnerability (Netscape's SSL used to rely on factors like the host time and pid, that especially on a typical Unix-y system also running services like mail servers that often would include the pid of of the delivery agent in headers etc., was extremely easy to narrow down)

It's difficult to do this in a way that can't/won't sooner or later be discovered, but given the number of likely unintentional mistakes that have been made that still have taken in some cases years to be discovered (publicly at least), it's plausible that there are intentional flaws in at least some software to make it possible for specific parties to be intended to be able to break it.
> ...recommend a good, more secure alternative to Google?

https://startpage.com has currently the best results, IMO.
While I dislike the design and am not entirely comfortable with the idea of making ad money off Google (well, Google takes its share) by just wrapping their products, this site gives you Google results but without giving Google much to identify or track you:

https://startpage.com/
Something that has been working very well for us is asking for payment before the work starts on a set of deliverables. Charging gets very simple, if he pays, you start working, if he doesn't, you don't. Not every client may accept these terms, if they give you trouble on this, it may be an early warning for future payment problems.
yawn good luck with that. I'm sure the settlers in their day would have moved onto something better if they had had the sense to recognize it at the time.
All the links on that site 404 for me. Where can I get details on the San Francisco protest?
I'm Always Putting On A Front
To Make Hearing Aids Affordable, Firm Turns On Bluetooth
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
My mistake. Shouldn't have included the number in title. If any moderator is reading this, please change the title. I can't edit it myself. Thanks :)
All this could be avoided, or at least mitigated, by a proper contract?

His way of solving the problem sounds awfully close to blackmail to me. Sure, he deserves to be paid but is that the right way to go about it? Start with a contract, deliver final product upon receiving the final payment etc.

I know that it is not always possible to wait with shipping until you have been paid but, depending on the client, it should be in most cases.
I love this thing... coolest art toy I've seen in months.

http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgggAPAgsBJQJgAKb/AAACmQCAAi...
Oh, the one you turned on in the exact same place you turned off the one minutes earlier that's tied to your home address and credit card? Right.

Oh, look, your real identity at your home residential IP is the very first view on the video uploaded to this google account created yesterday on a burner phone that just happened to be turned on at your house before going to the protest.

You're fooling yourself if you think a burner phone is the solution to wholesale wiretapping.
I think it's more interesting that he used rel="nofollow" on an anchor link. I think that shows that he isn't trying to optimize his own blog. This div was probably hidden while modifying the design and he never went back and deleted it from the footer.
Blogspam, not even linking to its source. Some mod please change the URL to http://edgyseo.com/wordpress/css-hidden-links/

edit: I guess Matt was just too lazy to fix the theme to not render the HTML of the "creds" so he removed them via CSS.
If you live inside the US for a bit, you'll get a feel for how isolated it is. Most Americans don't have a clue how the rest of the world views them and even more couldn't possibly care less because they imagine the rest of the world to be inferior.
Why is Monsanto evil, but Dupont isn't?
Top aide to President Morsi -- Facebook post.

"military coup"

I'm aware this may be my last Facebook post.

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=618096081548153&set=a....
> It's either naivete or posturing.

Possibly a bit of commercial opportunism as well. Regardless of whether it improves security, it would be in Germany's economic interests for more Europeans to use Europe-based webservices rather than U.S.-based ones.
Wait a minute... isn't this just sloppy theme customization and not some greyhat SEO trick? Hardly the same thing.
One of the reasons to kill Saddam was that he defended the end of USD as world currency and had the means to help toward that goal, he was selling oil only for Euro or gold.

WMD was just a excuse, it was obvious to the entire rest of the world it was a lie.
Stonehenge was built exploiting the principles of frost heave
I'm glad the author acknowledges that this really isn't a good way of doing business and only really a solution to the realization that you fucked up by not having a clear agreement and payment plan in place prior to starting work.

One suggestion I would have made would be to remove the "you are clearly avoiding contact with me" line, as contributes nothing to the threat, and it makes a huge assumption which you have no way of knowing whether it's true or not. And how bad would you feel if they came back with a truly legitimate reason for not getting back to you, like maybe your contact had a death in their immediate family and took a 1-month leave of absence?

I can't tell you how many times I've misinterpreted tone, action, or inaction over email, text, and telecommunications. I've finally just learned to stop trying to guess a person's motivations or tone within any medium which leaves out so much context.
What's with the looping commit list? It's very hard to find older commits when the list just loops back to the latest as you scroll down.
You seemed to think this would be some sort of protection, but ultimately you were right. Bolivia is pissed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-sn...
I don't know about your circle of friends, but my link-sharing friends get their material from a RSS reader.
I personally love interoperability and open standards I never said we have to reinvent the wheel but if part of the wheel is broken (like the US spying on us) we need to replace it.
A good practical idea.

I would check into whether the "if/then" creates a case of extortion. (I don't know the answer but it pops into my mind).

That said, even if does (and this is really important although legal opinions might vary) did legally create a possible problem you still have to weigh the chance that the person on the other side is going to pursue that angle or just pay up. [1] I make this point because there are plenty of things that you do in business that aren't 100% defensible but in the end they work and you move on (after taking your chances).

[1] Based upon my many years in business taking chances with things quit frequently. After all people bungie jump, sky dive and do extreme sports because of their judgement that the gain is work the risk.
From a few links in the footer? I think Matt gets the benefit of the doubt here. Clearly more hiding could have been done to really benefit from this. What a non-article--my fault since poor grammar was the first clue.
This is ridiculous, that's just the copyright/credits section of this wordpress theme.

For all you know, he could have paid for a license that allows him to remove that copyright notice; and maybe the theme hides it this way instead of actually removing it.
To be fair, I don't think Ansible has any of those, either.
Austrian plane search for leaker Snowden enrages Bolivia
Probably not, but I reckon my French would give his English a run for its money :P
>> If you think Marco is a particularly rabid fanboi, congratulations on your sheltered and privileged life. Apple fanbois get much worse than that.

I'm not a fan of Marco, but you're right. If Marco really was a rabid fanboi, more than half of his blog would be pointless claim chowder posts.
Did a google image search on that photo to see if it is a hoax and it's real. The park is in Cleveland Ohio.

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/07/0...
I just did some consulting on helping another team improve their hadoop cluster performance and the first thing I noticed is that all 40 boxes in the cluster were burning a CPU core with a puppet agent process that was running at 100% CPU for months.
I love outlandish analogies like this (I could totally picture the Dr. Seuss-style cartoon in my head), but do people really "distrust" RSS/Atom now?
Qt seems to be working alright for Autodesk Maya and Mudbox. They migrated the UI to it and everyone I've talked to that use these on various platforms don't really have any complaint about the UI (especially since they can use Qt, PyQt, etc... for building plugins).
Yeah, the Anglosphere (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and the US) has several exclusive treaties and especially strong relationships that would no doubt take precedence over the EU. They already share quite a bit of signals intelligence, e.g. ECHELON. And most of it has been ongoing for decades.

For example, the agreement that created Five Eyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Isn't Apache's default MPM event driven since 2.4 anyway?
Why? This is stupid blogspam. It's a copyright section on a wordpress theme, no big deal.
I am dealing with your comment only.

Which you said takes "sheer powers of rationalization I can't even fathom". Which really is an extraordinary and ridiculous statement (which I'm learning is the modus operandi among the theorists -- feigned outrage that any other scenario outside of the most conspiratorial could even be contemplated): Such fits of irrational behavior happen to countless people yearly, often under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or simply intense stress. Sometimes it's even a tactic for the suicidal.

The simple possibility that he was on a bender or had an episode simply defies reason in your imagination, which leaves the gamut of the possible rather narrowed, despite your absurd protests to the contrary.
If you had removed that first sentence and the footnote, you'd have gotten an upvote (instead of a downvote) from me. This site isn't for your political/religious bashing. And btw, if you're going to talk about such things you should probably look into philosophy.
"by a proper contract?"

Contract implies you also need a stick which is legal action. Obviously depending on the amount of money involved that might simply not be an option.

While not entirely relevant I will bring the following into play, a saying, that goes something like "if you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem if you owe the bank 10,000,000 the bank has a problem".
Does Salt offer all the benefits of Chef server? To my knowledge, the former has no search engine nor any way to return feedback from the managed hosts. Shared storage is absolutely essential for building things like ssh_known_hosts files and Nagios configurations.
100% true, unfortunately.

But just a little bit of patience: the more users join the platform, the sooner somebody graphically talented is going to step forward and make this excellent piece of tech shine on the surface as well...
So you're saying if other countries' data traffic did not pass through the US the US would be unable to set-up some shop over there to syphon data?

And A US company could not be allowed to buy an EU company?

It's all shortsighted and all these 'measures' could be overcome, if there's incentive for it.
The big red flag here is the author splitting hairs about the copied content being "factual data." This tells me he is insincerely attempting to navigate a perceived loophole. Anyone who has visited "Best of Craigslist" (http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/) will see that there is a ton of creativity there, not just factual data. This goes for classifieds posts as well.

And yes it is the user's content but it is posted on CL subject to the TOS.

Put yourself in CL's shoes: they have to defend not only against "fledgling startups" but also against deep pocketed companies like Yahoo that sometimes buy fledgling startups. They cannot leave their service vulnerable to the whims of any parasitical company that would come along and attempt to exploit their users, their community, and their users' content.

Another piece that Krrb is pretending to ignore is that the users only take the initiative to post in the first place because of the good will and critical mass that Craigslist has, with long investment and significant sacrifice, been able to create. Leveraging third party services is a time honored model for startups, but a startup founder should not expect a free pass if they try to do so in an abusive manner that induces users to violate the TOS.
On my machine - firefox 21 running on linux - it completely obliterates my RAM and the machine starts swapping.

Edit: tried it with a separate profile with no extensions installed. Same story. Just drawing ten walls and letting it sit there not doing anything, it's actively leaking memory. Right now, with just that page open, the firefox process has RSIZE of 450MB and VSIZE of 1.4GB.

Edit²: tried with chrome Version 29.0.1521.3 dev. Same thing.
I remember many years ago an episode of a show (can't remember the name) with a firehouse. The dog in the firehouse was able to predict when an alarm came in before it sounded apparently I'm guessing by hearing some relay go off.
Awesome! Thanks for that
Snowden's 'digital misuse' has created problem, says Ban Ki-moon
> On the other hand, refusal of entry to American citizens is a whole different issue.

AFAIK Jake Appelbaum is a US citizen.

They can't actually refuse entry to citizens, but they sure as hell can interrogate/threaten/harass/etc. I know Jake's been harassed a bunch of times at the border (and had his laptops/phones/etc stolen under the guise of searching them - they get to keep them for 48 hours to forensically image but then never give them back).

It's happened to me, too, and I'm not even on any of these lists, I just choose not to answer any of the voluntary questions they ask of everyone coming in. Anyone who values their freedom and has watched the excellent Don't Talk To The Police video[1] will do the same, and will meet with similar harassment and abuse.

Cops in the USA are real dicks, especially the super-"patriotic" border cops, and they can and will make your day really terrible if you don't do exactly as they say (even if you have the legal right not to).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Just like Captain Renault in Casablanca - though when I was running a dark aws server (bare ip no domain assigned) for my employer it was funny that all the attacks came via Chinese/Russian IP ranges.