skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In both cases they seem to be overplaying their hand. Dotcom has a very real chance of getting off largely because the way it was handled have included such blatant disregard for the law. E.g. without the revelations of illegal spying, and the massive overkill of the way his arrest was handled, it might have been a lot easier to gentle "suggest" things to a judge and make the whole thing go away. Instead they've ensured that it's really hard for the judges involved to not treat this seriously.

Same with Snowden - creating a diplomatic incident that now has pretty much every Latin American leader screaming bloody murder and have officials describing it as virtually a kidnapping, and complaining about colonialism, means European countries and others will quickly start seeing that there's a very high potential price to pay for bending to US demands in this, in a case where they likely have little sympathy to the US position in the first place given that pretty much all of them have faced revelations of US spying targeting them. If the US keeps pushing like that, they might just find that someone will snap and decide to tell them to go to hell.

It'll be interesting to see if they manage the balancing act of pushing just hard enough to keep everyone in line without pushing anyone too far.
Go to any article on the web with social media buttons, compare the number on the Facebook, Twitter and Google buttons. One of them is one or two magnitudes lower than the others, which?
This is one of the things which annoys me about AWS, and certain other providers which do a per GB cost on outgoing bandwidth.

We get around 50TB of data transfer per month from Linode, from having around $500/month worth of servers. The cost of using this much data with EC2 - around $5400 a month. It's not even close to being competitive.

I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more often.
They still have to refuel...
A funny comment I picked up from Reddit:

> "Bolivia should cut all cocaine exports to the US, and push Colombia to do the same, within a week you would see all US politicians panicking and killing each others trying to check first into rehab"
On the other hand, if he gets out of their grasp, potential future whistleblowers will have a recipe for how to handle the situation and the knowledge that they can get away... It's a big gamble.
I loved reading Boatmurdered many months ago; is there anything of similar quality that reflects the current state of affairs in DF?
You mean they need a B round ;)

Edit: People asking for their money back in the forums! Priceless! I'm sure they'll start issuing refunds immediately with all that cash they have on hand.
I'm not shocked.

I'm outraged, but it's been obvious that this stuff has been going on for many years. If you didn't know you weren't paying attention.
> Why can't AT&T be civilly liable for leaving a gaping hole on their application, and whoever abused that information be criminally liable?

What abuse of information are you referring to? The part where they sent it to a journalist?

I blame AT&T for being shitty and reckless, not for being criminal.
Not so much puppets but they certainly don't want to encourage anyone within their intelligence apparatus to follow in Snowden's footsteps.

I really wish some country would have stepped up and taken him in. While I do not fully support his actions we are far to close to the results of what a one world government would be like. No place to run, no place to hide
"Even if no salvation should come": Franz Kafka, 130 years later
It's too bad that firepgp couldn't keep up with the gmail api changes and eventually was aborted.
The few times I used it felt pretty good.

This chrome-only alpha software obviously is useless for me.
Hopefully something more cross-platform comes along at some point.
Paul Krugman: The War on the unemployed
"Yes, but it wasn't in Google's commercial interest. Running Reader as a "side project" is not just distracting to senior management, but also creates legal, technical, and reputation risks which can bite back on their much larger businesses."

You know, I've seen this statement on almost every thread about Google Reader, and it seems to be one of those things that everyone is just giving a pass to.

Google's entire hiring and organisational model is (or at least should be) predicated on hiring great people to get things done. This is how every well run technical company operates. This idea that we all need "senior management attention" or "product manager" love is something that comes out of dysfunctional organisations without a shared vision. Could you imagine this statement being made about some of the tech company darlings here (37Signals, Github, Stripe etc.)?

If you're going to put a product in maintenance mode (or even slow growth) with a team who understands it, you don't need senior management attention from on high.

Also, the reputational risk is just a laughable statement to make. Look what happened reputationally just now - that's not going to go away any time soon and you better believe that it was much worse than someone coming along later and saying "Oh no, Google reader is so unchanged from 3 years ago, I hate Google." Anecdotally, I don't even know anyone who uses Google Reader directly, they all have dedicated apps.

All these arguments are poor. Or, at best, if they're true, they signal that Google has really lost its way - it's now a behemoth organisation that requires senior management oversight on every single product offering, and any non-spectacular product could at any instant bring the entire organisation down with its combination of toxic legal and toxic risk.
No, they don't. The keys are generated using in-browser controls (XEnroll/CertEnroll and HTML 'keygen' tag).
Not really. It changes the background colour of the album view , see http://thomaspark.me/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/it...
How we dogfooded KiSSFLOW to set up Reflections
Well that's nice and all but removing any way to identify it's IE 11 sounds like a bad idea tome.
I don't quite thrust them to not make any more mistakes.
> I don't understand why they don't care about the fact that so many people will never experience their creation because of the unnecessary barrier they've created.

Would people care to experience it if they could? I've always assumed with this (and a number of other things in life) that being a bit of a niche interest (or in this case a lot of a niche interest) in part creates the niche interest. There have been many rogue-a-likes with more modern interfaces but they have either not attracted or not managed to keep up the interest that this one has. Perhaps it is a nostalgia thing, perhaps it is a "nerd" thing; what-ever it is it works for them and their audience and changing the game to appeal to a larger audience might both fail to do so and make the existing fans wander off (and make it less enjoyable for the developers to work on: they seem to be getting quite a kick out of their baby and its current fans and don't want to lose that).

The comparison some make with minecraft on the "being a bit niche creating a niche" thing is quite fair, and this "if you were more like that you might have a much larger audience" comments perfectly valid, but minecraft's niche being an order of magnitude or few bigger might be in part due to luck (right thing, right time, critical mass didn't hit to early or too late, ...) rather than just the relative prettiness and intuitiveness.

Caveat: I've played neither Dwarf Fortress nor Minecraft, so I may not really have a clue what I'm talking about.
Laptop operating systems need to start keeping tabs on what's using your battery, like Android does (with mixed success but that's another story).
Which is information that Bolivia and Venezuela would like to have hard confirmation of.

EDIT: it also gives a good indication of the US's reaction times to such over flights.
That's only the case if in your world theory (and based on the input you have) you trust the government to not do such stuff.

If an investigative journalist "mysteriously vanished" in a Latin American dictatorship, for example, one would not even raise an eyebrow if told it was government work. Even if lots of people also vanished without foul play there.
Snowden saw how Manning, Binney, Drake and others were treated, and it didn't stop him.
>Ah, but that spin is highly unlikely to generate buzz among moronic internet detectives, and therefore no responsible journalist will deal with such a trite story.

On the contrary. Every "respected" news outlet will play this story. After all, it's the place where this happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird (and still goes on, of course).
The wikipedia article has some confusion about whether Erlang uses the actor model for concurrency. If you have some spare time, it would be nice to clean it up.
Sorry, I tried to look smart talking about things I did not know enough about. I sometimes do this because I am very frustrated, as I am your age and have not done anything significant with my life.

It gives me a huge amount of butthurt looking at people like you, as you are my age and a seasoned entreprenur, rich, happy and successful, and I am a miserable failure.

Sure you know how due diligence is done, probably you have had time to be good at knowledge and experience in business, while your employees whom you have made money from have been working barely seeing the sun.

Are all those people THAT worse than you to justify the income discrepancy, or are they worse than you at all?

Do you consider yourself superior to the people who are of your age or older and are still working as employees?

This seems so fucking unfair to me that people like you get THAT amount of money and life enjoyment. Are you really THAT good, that better than the people who are not entrepreneurs?

Looking at people like you, I suppose you believe you are extremely smart and special and the way you life turned was the only possible way.

The human world is so fucked up.

By the way, I do not think that the question "How many companies have you sold" is that rude, I was just trying to find out whether the person speaks from their experience or not. And definitely it is relevant. So go fuck yourself, smarty pants.
Sure -- but a small percentage of them does it in a crash.

Of course, if you are so inclined (either way), you can explain away any coincidence.

We had the "conspiracy theorists", not we have the "coincidence theorists".
i actually do the same as the op and i really like to have a seperate backend up copy of the code in dropbox BEFORE i commit to git. Furthermore i dont really want to commit only because i am changing machines, but if i have something significant and non breaking to commit. This is less of a problem with git as you can just work in your own branches very easily, but still, working on code on multiple machines is just seamless with dropbox.
Open Dropbox when you need to sync, then quit the process. Make sure it doesn't run at OS X start up. I don't see why most of the users want to have a perfect sync all day long since it doesn't happen in real time (large files, slow network, etc.)
I think the opposite is true.

Whistle-blowers may be releasing information because of strong ethical objections, not rational thoughts about their own well-being.

I think watching this unfold with obvious lies from governments has actually strengthened the ethics in releasing this information, and may reinforce others with similar information that leaking really is the morally right thing to do.
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes."

What the actual fuck. How is "not funded by the license fee" justification for censoring it to British citizens? It's not as if the recipients of the BBC's "international service" pay any sort of fee...
Well - you CAN order your dwarves around. It's just ludicrously complex.

You can also manipulate world-gen so you have an easier time of it (making the game essentially Harvest Moon with occasional killer fish), but where's the fun in that?
Zervant Raises €1.3M to Provide Automated Accounting for Micro Businesses
people that need thier head reading
Is the current title ("Google now supports third-party readers using its PuSH hub") accurate? Isn't it the nature of the PubSubHubbbub (PuSH) protocol that it supports third parties? I don't think it's something that has been recently added.
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It's just taken off again, according to that site:

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/fab-001
Zen Photon Garden - Ray Tracing in the Browser
“A butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world might ultimately cause a hurricane in another part of the world” – chaos theory - See more at: http://kissflow.com/how-we-dogfooded-kissflow-to-set-up-refl...
Though if you leave the UK to view content the BBC will pay you a large severance fee...
How would G+ possibly use PuSH? It does not make sense. There is no use case. The main (search) Google crawler does support PUSH.
Yes, but these cases for drag on for years. Many of the defendant companies (especially the small ones) do not have the resources to continue to pay legal counsel until the case is resolved.
>You are massively confused over what airbags do. They don't do anything at all to reduce the chances that one will drive one's car into a tree. They only come into play AFTER an accident has begun.

And you are massively confused about why he mentioned the airbags.

Not to point to their assistance of driving a car into a tree, but as items in a large list, pointing to the ridiculous amount of safety measures built into the car.
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great reminder - I tinkered with firebase a bit a while ago - I'm not sure about the security implications of it though - it seems like (though I haven't actually tried) that anyone could grab your firebase url and start randomly writing objects to it. I know they have some authentication, but I haven't looked too closely into it yet - thanks for the reminder.
They have people on salary playing FarmVille
haven't actually used the rails api - I'll take a look cheers.
I guess I meant forced to land unexpectedly/unplanned.
Which could/would cause as big of a diplomatic uproar as forcibly entering the plane.
great - not seen sailjs before - I'll give it a look see - thanks.
I'd love to go back in time and do the experiment on Zuckerburg - I expect he'd have held out for a billion marshmallows.
If you are going to use git/Dropbox like that (and I can't say I really recommend it in the first place) then you should keep a bare repo in dropbox and use it as a local 'remote' (check out working repos from it on each computer that you are working on, and push/pull to/from the bare repo in Dropbox).
I hate to say it, but really if you read the e-mail it does not really appear to be panicked in any way, to me.
The open source webmail application "Roundcube" combined with the "openpgp_rc" plugin which utilises the "openpgp.js" library, works as follows:

You can generate your keys in the browser, or paste in an existing key. The key is then stored in HTML localStorage in the browser. If you ever clear your localStorage, you have to paste it in again. But this way, the key never goes near the server.

Your method is suitable for most people who can't be bothered backing up their keys. Choice would be a good thing though.
git archive HEAD --format=zip > release_v1.zip

And then ship the code.
Seriously. There are many alternatives out there, but I still miss the good old google reader.
AltaVista. What's That?
Also the next guy maybe will leak anonimously, if that's possible with all that Prism systems.
Maybe creating some downtime in the system while the leak is produced??
There are plenty of things about UIs that are pretty objectively bad. Inconsistency, for one. I don't think there are lots of people who like having to memorize multiple ways of doing the same thing depending on the view.
But the thing is, you get over that. Would I trade some of the depth of features for a better interface? No. Would I make the combat arcade-like in return for a better interface? No.

I play the game for the fact that it is infinitely replayable. I play it so much that the menu is now ingrained into my very being. If the interface was to change, it would confuse me. It would take a lot of getting use to. It could work out better in the future, but right now, it at least works.

Everyone who plays it has different parts they like and dislike. Personally, I'd love it to have a nice API, so I didn't have to go through DFHack for every util I want to write. I'd pick that over a new UI.

Sure, it's inconsistent, but the inconsistency is consistent. I'll take that.
The Extradition Treaties states that one of the many things you can be extradited for is "unlawful imprisonment".
Realizing that, I figure the world community at large could request to have say Bush and/or Obama extradited for the things going on in Guantanamo.

Of course they might object that these fellows enjoy diplomatic immunity and that it's completely ludicrous.
But if this incident has shown us anything I believe it's that US & Friends really don't care much about such minor details.
This is interesting, I've also got a 2013 MBA and use DropBox but I've not seen a big dip in battery usage. I might do a bit more testing this week and see whether it has had an impact and I've just not realised, and/or I've put it down to the code-compile-simulator cycle.
It'd be manageable if Reader was the only small project they kept going, but not if there are dozens of them, and there have been dozens of them. Reader is only one example among many small projects which Google has been shutting down.

Some might protest that Reader should be the exception, but Google is the only one with the numbers, and I do believe Reader's popularity has been amplified by the nature of its loyal users. It's unlikely a complaint from a disgruntled SketchUp user is going to the top of HN.

"Also, the reputational risk is just a laughable statement to make. Look what happened reputationally just now"

Most of my non-technical family and friends haven't even heard of Reader and aren't aware of its shutdown. OTOH If Reader had some security leak that caused people's GMails to be read, they'd certainly hear about it and Google's seniors would be hauled into Congress or the EU to explain themselves.

At risk of sounding like a Google apologist, I don't believe Google has lost its way when you look at their performance over the past couple of years. If stock price is any indication, the all-time high (at a time when its rivals have been flat or in decline) suggests the market doesn't feel that way either.
I think you are seeing the "true" influence of government to government relations, rather than the general sentiment on the street or the empty rhetoric from officials. France made a big noise about the spying allegations but quickly blocked access to its airspace.

Personally, the action by France and Portugal this made this whole web of deceit even more unpalatable. Time for a few leaders to grow a pair.
>> storing a symmetrically encrypted OpenPGP keyring on the server

> now THAT is the way to do it!

Um, no. No, it absolutely is not.

See also: Hushmail.
In general.....

The anti EU people in the UK see the EU as socialist, liberal and left wing. The anti EU people in the UK are...... you guessed it... right wing. Fairly extreme right in UK terms, but probably still left wing by US standards. So, for them, the US is an aspiration further right.

IMHO, the EU makes total sense, even if there are many problems with it, and even the US government have urged the UK to get more in to Europe and stop antagonizing it. Partly I think the US likes having the UK as a gateway to Europe. I just wish we in the UK got more out of that deal than we do, like equality and fairness in our deals.

Right now, despite my criticism of the US, I'd prefer to be a 51st state, since we'd Brits would no longer have no rights over US excesses. We could sue "our" government, or what ever Americans do!!! Ah, nonsense of course, we need to get on in Europe better.
Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
Oh if only it was one App that killed the battery on the last laptop I bought. Before nuking the default windows install, I did a quick test, with all the crapware that comes as standard, it managed about 4 hours. Fresh install 6.5 hours.
Related to Bolivia: "Bolivia president expels US aid agency" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/2013512241536...

I wonder what's going on in the President's mind, he definitely is handling this situation with positive attitude, always smiling in front of cameras.
I am an MSDN subscriber as are the other 100 people we employ. Definitely not free.

Really don't care about Windows 8.1 APIs. The only thing that concerns me is web and WPF Desktop apps in C# as that's what powers my industry.

Compare to the Java EE ecosystem. Costing:

IDE - free (Eclipse/NetBeans)

Server - free (GlassFish/Tomcat on Ubuntu)

Database - free (PostgreSQL on Ubuntu).

Not only that, your profiler, code review, automated build, version control and testing platforms are also 100% free compared to DotTrace, TFS etc.
Do you develop exclusively on Windows?
You guys should try it. Get the LazyNewbPack, that is a windows bundle which comes with a few utils, tilesets etc. Check out the wiki (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/), it's the best website on the internet. If you're still stuck, visit the df subreddit and ask for help, the people there are pretty awesome (http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress).

It takes some getting into, but once you're in, you're in.
Heh, that's what I get for picking a state out of a hat. Thanks for the extra detail on how Texas joined the union!
I wonder what would happen if the plane simply refused to leave Spain's or France's air space and continued on their flight.
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Historic console launch prices - are the PS4 and Xbox One really that expensive?
Google+ is the 2nd largest social network, with more active users than Twitter. Probably not smashing maybe, but that's success of some sort.