skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the cars are seeded (e.g. f0660f), simply importing the top n different seeds in the world pool would be enough. Right now the system is treating everyone's copies of f0660f as if they are different cars, but they are not.
If you go into the settings, you'll see a list of sources from which they pick stories (you can customize the list).

I think they did this to have an extra thing attracting people to the app on top of pure search. People are likely to spend more time in the app because of it, and thus use DDG for more searches.

You can turn off the stories in the settings and use it as a pure search app, though.

My question for Gabriel & team would be: Is there an iPad version planned?
Suggestion: let's identify any elected officials who support this database, and then offer support / donations to their opponents who vocally oppose it.
I guess it's because this is what a permalink really is: an URL meant to last forever (hence the infinity symbol).
Blogspam for http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/2240185580/Red-H...

Downvotes? The only thing on that LWN page is a description of what you can find if you follow the techtarget link. There is literally no new information or even commentary on the page.
Is there an iPad version of the app planned?
Schneier sounds like a perfect fit for an organization like the EFF. I hope that with his help they will be able to do even more good.
Rap genius is the first site in a long while that I discovered and then promptly spent HOURS on in the next few days. Now I can't listen to a song without checking it out. The annotations on all of Kanye's song have a wealth of amazing back story and information. This site is pure gold even if it only ever did lyrics. The idea that they can expand to other verticals is pure diamonds. This site will slay. I think it already leaves Quora in the dust. IMO it's the next big thing blue chip tech co.

PS rap genius annotations implemented on HN would make it a lot cooler. The comments about particular writing style here... u guys should just hop over to Rap Genius and annotate what "hella betta" means. You're living in ancient technology land!
keep in mind:
bug != security hole
FireFox 21 is working as expected can you provide more details?
Alas, this point will be lost for the most of the commenters there. Quite a few probably don't know much about iOS 7 than "it is flat", so even this tiny bit of knowledge is wrong. As for UIKit Dynamics, TextKit—I think only those really interested get what it will mean for the future apps.
This seems like it should be true, but actually I can think of dozens of counterexamples just off the top of my head. There are in fact many fields of human endeavor where, if you're sufficiently good at your core competency, nobody cares if you project energy, excitement, and confidence.
It is amazing how much the Apple focused bloggers resemble political spin doctors these days. Create a talking point full of pro-Apple assumptions such as iOS 7 is an resource intensive OS that only Apple could support (another currently popular talking point is "iOS 7 isn't flat, it has depth" as if other OSs don't). Of course Android mostly sells cheap phones, that is given. Doesn't matter what the actual sales figures are. Forget the old argument that Apple places battery life over silly resource intensive things like widgets. Hammer it home with multiple articles (this is essentially a rewrite of the popular article from yesterday: http://www.allenpike.com/2013/ios7-catch-me-if-you-can/) and back patting links and retweets. Charge people thousands of dollars to get into your inner circle of spin via sponsorships of your blog or podcast, rinse, repeat.
Not really worth responding since you're assuming several views I don't even have. Too much fog to fight through.
There is no exception. When Wikileaks posted its cables, the government mandated that anyone with a clearance shall not visit the websites and view the information. If it happened, it would be classified as a "data spill" which means classified info on a network with a lower classification.

"Data spills" sometimes result in punishment. If the mods read this comment, please return the classification to the title as it would ensure people with clearances were warned about the classification of the information contained.
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Yes, all of those vulnerabilities in non-privileged applications like 'ls' are worth millionssssss.
Heh, I hope you're kidding. If you're not in this context it means the dude is extremely rich and shows it.
f0660f is the top winner for World-2 right now. You will want to switch worlds! Also the cars are all slightly different if you look closely.
Looking into this shortly.
Most people would have not idea what we're talking about in most threads here. Lingo, context and style.
What do you mean nothing quite like it? It may be the very best at supporting more platforms and raw speed, but Amazon Silk [0] and Chrome Mobile [1] are hot on their heals. There are a lot of advantages (eg. how CSS and JS aren't hamstrung) to the later two, and not having to traverse to SWE networks has to be advantageous -- anecdotal.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk
[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/data-compre...
I would use it if I didn't have to use a Google Account to sign in. Why not Mozilla Persona?
Did you even try the app out?

You can change the options from displaying stories, to instead display recent searches, or to save searches.

In any case, the stories feature is quite nice, but I agree that it's feature creepy. I'd rather use another dedicated app for stories / RSS.
I set DDG as my default search engine a couple weeks ago. At least 25% of the time I give up and use Google.

I've even started instinctively switching to Google for certain searches I know DDG will fail on (particularly technical stuff)
It's a cost-benefit analysis. As a completely entry-level developer, I could a lot of time trying to find a company whose product I believe in that will hire more, or I could spend that same time working for whoever will cut me a paycheck, and be in a much better place to decide what I care about working on once I have a bit of actual experience and money in the bank.

It would be lovely if you could just walk into a meaningful project that you care about, but that's not how it works in the current system.
License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers
The interesting thing is that there have come and gone browser extensions to do just this for 15 years. Maybe it makes a difference that it's all contained in the rapgenius site rather than overlaid on other sites (propriety problem) with the content served from the extension provider's servers (data protection problem).
I never knew Google had a "Translate to Allen Ginsberg" option.
This argument works the same way in reverse. If an exploit is discovered, manual updating spreads the update time, creating a much larger window in which exploits may be deployed, increasing the number of systems affected, and increasing the likelihood of a targeted attach succeeding.
Vesper team open-sources DB5, the CSS-like plist system
Because we've set a precedent for meddling/policing for over a century, and to stop now would be certain death to the current political party via a media assault.

Our two party (err, one party) system is set up to preserve the status quo in its entirety. To not do so is certain death, politically.

While I agree with you that the US government has overstepped its bounds for too long and they should not be policing anything but their own arrogance, it is inevitable for our government to have to do some sort of ridiculous posturing over this.
Agreed- you can criticise plenty about Windows Phone (and there is much worthy of it) but they were truly innovative in many areas of UI. Sadly, they'll never get much credit for it.

Your quotes from the 37 Signals blog are so breathless that I'm surprised the author didn't suffocate during the keynote. Absolutely nauseating stuff.
What happens if you run a 4 million number tarpit for junk callers?
I have not finished reading the paper but after the second sentence in the abstract it seems that the authors clearly define what they consider to be a bug:

Every bug reported by MAYHEM is accompanied by a working
shell-spawning exploit. The working exploits ensure soundness
and that each bug report is security critical and actionable.
And here is the demo http://www.jordanm.co.uk/lab/contentchoreography
I think it's a typo of "betta" for "better."
Nice idea. I don't know if the target audience reads this site though.
I certainly think so, not to mention inhumane, fiscally irresponsible and in defiance of all evidence about how to craft an effective criminal justice system.
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Even if they vocally oppose it now, how do we know they will continue to oppose it once in office.

Remember that Obama was pretty vocally opposed to secret government surveillance prior to becoming president.
This post is basically a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5952699 ,

since this document was released by the Guardian, and is discussed and linked to by the article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-...
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People committing suicide would tend to jump off the bridge into the water? There are, very roughly, one person committing suicide per fortnight from the Goldengate Bridge.

One idea to slow down that number o fdeaths is to install a big net. It'll hurt when people land on it, and that might be enough to snap them out of the impulsive decision to end their lives.

The net would cost about $45m.

Some people might feel that spending the money on mental health services and suicide prevention services would be a better investment.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/us/26bcjames.html?pagewant...)

Superficially it's obvious why Fresno CA has such a high suicide rate (14.8 per 100,000) - low employment, high crime, staggering drug (especially meth) addiction. But Sacramento CA has higher rates of suicide (22.7 per 100,000), and it's not as easy to work out why.
Is that really believable, though? Android devices have capable GPUs, and I don't think the web has ever been a real threat to "legitimate" iOS apps (if Apple cared to destroy webapps they could in a second).

The more laughable notion is that Android would want to copy iOS 7. Samsung's shenangians aside, Android now has a cohesive UI in Holo that most new apps are using. There's no incentive to mimic iOS.
The funny thing about feed readers is that we actually only care about the UI, not the underlying feed fetching and parsing and whatever else happens on the server.

So, when I made my feed reader — this has got to be the most popular pastime of the last few months around here — I ended up taking the lazy approach and made a UI that sat on top of the NewsBlur API. Thus, I now have a NewsBlur account, all the messy date parsing and everything else gets done on NewsBlur's servers, and I access it through my own much prettier interface that works just how I want it to work (http://www.altfeedreader.com). For anybody still thinking about making a feed reader, I definitely recommend this approach.
Excellent points. One other thing I'd like to see is a commitment to notify customers to the extent permitted by any court orders and to fight for additional notification rights (as Twitter has done).

We have set-up our corporate structure so that each cloud location is managed by a local company and therefore subject only to that jurisdiction (our holding company is Swiss and unlike US holding companies it has no concept of extra-territorial jurisdiction, if that were to change, we'd change holding company, it is that simple).

IANAL, but this seems a very significant point. However, I wonder if the US claims jurisdiction on the parent company if there's a US-based subsidiary?
Payments Startup Clinkle raises $25 million seed round
It's open source, if you care that much, swap it out yourself.
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Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11
The point is that it's a public comms platform and you can never be sure who's listening, even if you're on a supposedly-private website. Who's looking at that data on the other side? Which of your friends is lax about logging out and will leave your info exposed for the next visitor at the library to peruse? Which of your friends is running a crawler and saving all of that data for posterity, and what will happen to these archives?

It's just like going out on a public square -- you may hope that you'll have basic dignities respected and that no nefarious or malicious players are observing/recording, but since you can't be sure you must take reasonable precautions against potentially egregious misuses.

If Congress says the NSA is no longer allowed to this, it doesn't really affect anything -- because the NSA or a close cousin will most likely defy the essence of such an order via loophole exploitation, etc., but mostly because any reasonable expectation of privacy from any and all entities, intel service or not, while sending comms through a public platform like the internet, requires heavy, explicit defensive measures like correct usage of PGP.

That's how people need to view the network, because that's the reality. In almost all cases, your packets go through a dozen or more routers all around the world before they hit the intended recipient, and it's ridiculous to presume that none of these many nodes are an entry point for an actor who may not have your best interest at heart. It's like going out to the mall naked, and getting upset that someone took and published photos. We may hope that the people at the mall at a given time would not do this, but people realize that this is not realistic and wear clothing to prevent the exposure of their nude bodies. They take the initiative directly and personally.

That is how the internet must be viewed. If you don't want something exposed, you can hope that no "bad people" will come in contact with it, but it's much wiser to personally ensure it's covered before you take it out "in public" (aka, bouncing between dozens of anonymous nodes, sitting on a server which any employee can access (including the cleaning lady, or someone posing as the cleaning lady...), exposed to hundreds of "friends", all of whom have total freedom to copy those bits and replicate them elsewhere, intentionally or not).
The best part, "Information that is no corporate Japan."
Possible Facebook exploit via tinder app? 
Has anyone heard of anything like this?

This morning I received a message from a tinder match immediately upon getting the notification. The first couple of times I responded, I got instantaneous bot-like responses unrelated to what I had just typed (and unreasonably sexually-explicit to boot). After another response, tinder reloaded the facebook login page and gave me a message saying facebook had already been authorized.

Wasn't sure what to make of this, so immediately changed facebook password and blocked this bot/weirdo just to be safe.

Never posted to HN before, but curious if anyone had heard of exploits through the tinder app...
It's part of the US propaganda machine. "War" is used to rally the population against something evil...an outside force that must be stopped.
I also fear that the availability of such extensive records on all citizens makes it more likely that an abusive government might come to power. I.e. what Snowden referred to as 'turnkey totalitarianism'.
Still, probably best not to feed every password to Google.
I commented [1] in a previous version of this [2] that you get amusing character-by-character changes typing into the text box by hand. The results are slightly different today.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5201472

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200728
Initially I thought the same thing but after rereading the sentence/paragraph it seems that the situation is not "better."
He's in good company:

In addition to Schneier, EFF's Board of Directors includes John Perry Barlow, Brian Behlendorf, John Buckman, Lorrie Cranor, David Farber, John Gilmore, Brewster Kahle, Pam Samuelson, Brad Templeton, and Jonathan Zittrain.

Barlow and Gilmore are the EFF founders, along with Mitch Kapor who hasn't been that active for quite a while.
Beautiful, improbable, awesome.
Is the world based on the same map(terrain) or the same pool of cars?
Can you explain how this is really different from iTerm2 + multiple tabs open? I guess the current folder listing....
LWN is hardly blogspam, although I agree they don't add much to the story in this case.

I actually tried to submit the techtarget.com link first, but the story was immediately marked as dead (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876710). Perhaps HN considers techtarget to be spammers.
Stories are showcased from over 50 carefully selected sources that focus on different types of content. For example, TIME and BBC are there, but so are Reddit Funny and BuzzFeed. We also aggressively prevent depressing and duplicate stories from appearing in the feed.
I've been complaining about this for years. I want a railing that will stop me from falling over the edge if I get into that situation, not one that will merely ensure I go over headfirst.
Flask-Admin (http://flask-admin.readthedocs.org) will cover you on the admin area to a certain degree.
NSA IG report on email and Internet data collection under Stellar Wind
I feel getting the right kind of feedback, or the right kind of information is the trick. How much value do you get from the various quantitative approaches you took? What just felt like navel-gazing?
Android still hasn't matched iOS in the responsiveness front, owing to some fundamental architectural choices made early in Android's development (chief being the overuse of managed code, and the costs that come with it). This is entirely a software problem, having little to do with hardware, yet the article makes a hardware argument that is simply not supported.

It's also worth giving some perspective on those rampant "cheap" devices: The most common Android handset in use in the US of A is the Galaxy S3. Other very powerful devices fill the top echelon of deployments. Any notion that assumes that it's legions of bottom tier devices just isn't accurate. And the great thing about GPU shaders is that they're eminently scalable. Again, assuming that this notion that Android will chase iOS is true, these things are the most easily toggled, and having better effects on top tier devices that scale back on lower devices is trivial.

All of this (the submission I mean, and related articles) is just conjecture. Apple did what Apple felt was right for iOS to improve the operating system. Framing everything in an Android context is just speculation.
Again, we are not the police and not a court of law. Authorities can and do require access to customer data from time to time in a way justified by local law; we comply with the law in those cases.

Really?! And what are you suggesting your principled stance is going to be when they shove a law in your face that violates and contradicts another law or an edict or the US Constitution you grew up believing was sacrosanct?

The problem is that they make any law they want to make, then keep it secret. Then they enforce the law they just made, forcing you into a position where you either have to give them the middle finger or subject your business to the possibility of being shut down - legally. Should you decide you want to challenge the enforcement of a law you believe is illegal, on behalf of one of your customers, you can't tell the press, you can't have an open proceeding in view of public scrutiny, and you can't inform your customer of the challenge. When the ruling eventually comes down (from a court who's sworn to as much secrecy as the agency you were fighting), you aren't even allowed to share that with anyone either.

I applaud what you probably believe is a line in the sand. But we can't even get to the real debate of privacy until we are allowed to challenge the very instruments that lay claim to authority over us... in public. It's that simple.
The only reason you don't fear them is because you don't value your freedom enough.
The tech isn't enough without the community. Clearly there are some great annotators over on RG. I agree that starting it on a closed website is key. We all know the big hits were just refining things that had been existing in some form or other in the past. FB not first social network, Google not first search engine, etc.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psion_Series_3a.jpg

What's your point? This is not to say that the industry wasn't heavily influenced by Apple's success, but imitating a paradigm that has been around for decades doesn't make one an Apple copy-cat. This is in the same vein as claiming anything with a solid black rectangular bezel is an Apple rip-off.
> Now, as for the question. The problem is after 9/11, everything changed.

I'm not from the US, and this sort of statement really baffles me every time I hear it. There's nothing remarkable about the events really, probably more people get killed by fridges falling on them than by a terrorist attack, yet nobody seems to modify their lifestyle to avoid standing in front of them.

Can you explain to me what actually changed about the American lifestyle? I genuinely have no idea.
I have the opposite reaction: I only want to use my Google account to sign in. If a site doesn't have that, I'm less likely to use it.
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If it's such a stupid viewpoint, then why aren't they being ousted by Q&A sites that don't hold that viewpoint? It's not like this is something they haven't heard before - people have been making the same complaint since day 1.
Are you using phonegap to get the web app running on iOS?
Same pool of champion cars that work best across a similar terrain.
Voting One Way, Eating Another
The link to reddit mentioned in parent is to the RE subbredit. The link to the actual MAYHEM discussion on reddit is:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1h4vs4/r...
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Stop reading about writing code. Man oh man I wish I had done that a long time ago.
Misleading title-- abstract says 29 exploitable vulnerabilities, not 1200 .
Are you familiar with DEXTR (a big screen Twitter client)?
The NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years and the FISA court renewed collection orders every 90 days.

So the Obama regime didn't curb anything until after the eight or ninth renewal of the program. Pitiful indeed.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1h4vs4/r...
...what does the revolution have to do with interracial marriage legislation?
I have been BASE jumping for quite a while and within that community there is a strong thread of leave no trace. It reduces the legal risk, eliminates property damage, and keeps it open for everyone else.

Back to Joe, I found his blog and saw a picture of him setting off fireworks on top of a crane I had just climbed and jumped in the city I used to live. I kept thinking the increased security probably should have led to my arrest since setting off fireworks isn't exactly stealth and if I was property owner and found that I'd definitely be horrified enough to increase security. I tracked him down and took him out to an antenna for him to climb and photograph warning him what could happen if he kept posting so publicly. He was eventually was arrested for this:

http://www.nopromiseofsafety.com/?p=311

He was an interesting dude. Modified a car to have a skin of bottle caps all over it. He does not walk to the beat of normal society's drum.