skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple supplier Foxconn cooks up its own smartwatch
Watergate "Scandal". From wikipedia: "On September 15, a grand jury indicted them, as well as Hunt and Liddy,[9] for conspiracy, burglary, and violation of federal wiretapping laws."

I find it interesting that when the Watergate "Conspiracy Theory" was proven, two things happened:

1. The perpetrators were charged with conspiracy (proving it was a conspiracy), and yet:

2. The Watergate Conspiracy was henceforth known as the Watergate Scandal.

In the Iran-Contra "Affair", "Fawn Hall, Oliver North's secretary was given immunity from prosecution on charges of conspiracy and destroying documents in exchange for her testimony."

Again:

1. Perpetrators charged with conspiracy.

2. The conspiracy is henceforth known as The Iran-Contra Affair.

Rinse, repeat.
ITS was more intentionally a counterpoint to CTSS (Compatible Time Sharing system, hence the name ITS).

However, it's interesting that you mention that, as I think that Tron was a reasonable allegory for the MIT/ITS crowd's struggle against traditional time sharing systems and/or the "priesthood" that guarded the mainframes.
Secure Website Authentication Using GPG Keys
Relative illegality with respect to GB. "Natural laws," self-evident truths transcend this.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdo...
It's from The Nightman Cometh episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Both the OP and reply.
Part of the problem is a benchmark like this, put together with plain ignorance, and published on the web will give people who don't know any better all kinds of false perceptions.
Developers favour Firefox OS over BB10?
> some high-profile applications such as Basecamp still suck in Opera, for no apparent reason

That's interesting, and I can see it being potentially self-perpetuating.

It's broken because Opera numbers are too low to allocate resources to fix, because nobody uses Opera on their site (more than once) because it's broken, because Opera numbers are too low...
This site sucks. It requires an account or Facebook login to access the PDF. I refuse to do this.

Dissecting it with web developer tools, apparently they parse the PDF content server-side and rewrite it as HTML. So you can't just view source and find the link to the PDF file, or intercept the download with a proxy -- you really do have to log in to get the PDF from them, AFAICT.

Can anyone provide a direct link?
This seems like a really risky way to kill someone. Why bother?
It is unfortunate Netscape "Mariner" was cancelled.
There is always a chance that you won't get anything when you order on Kickstarter. The risk is higher.
Twitch lag is a big issue for most European viewers and I even get issues on the East Coast for big events (50k+ viewers). Their adds are another source of constant annoyance for me. They often pop up when their not suppose to, constantly ignore volume settings and crash the stream entirely from time to time. I've never had similar problems with youtube's streaming services and would be very worried for twitch's future if Google ever steps up their involvement .
I can't help but notice the vast majority of your comments over the time you've been here are basically NSA spying apologism.
This is possibly the worst nightmare for app developers. This problem applies to both Android and iOS.
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I read it closer to 'I'm proud of you' but ya, pretty awesome.
After googling all the acronyms, I would like to know what features you believe SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and HA give you can not get from Postgres with drop in replacements.

Except maybe for that everything is already integrated and "just works".

What I'm asking is if you can specify some elements of the stack you mentioned, that is hard to replicated or unique to SQL Server?
Is his simple benchmark even hitting the disks?
The original is here:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130701-why-you-feel-phanto...
Patent Trolls are one of the reasons I've kept my small business under the radar and rely on word of mouth or known clients to spread it.

I just can't afford it, and I'd rather open source the whole damn thing over giving some random slimeball in texas a dime.

I've read about Patent Litigation/Troll Insurance, has anyone tried this? Recommendations?
I believe recent car models, or at least luxury ones, are designed to eject the engine as a safety feature. An engine projected into the cabin sound quite lethal.
Blocking IP addresses
Ask HN: How do you deal with severe anger issues? I need help
I just had another episode that I haven't had in years. I get angry, really fucking angry. I start crying which eventually turns into just yelling, which turns into a rage cry, and then beyond that I can't remember anything, I black out. I just awoke, huge headache, my left hand is decimated and a lot of things are broken. I need to get a handle on this.

Luckily I've never had an episode around people, I have no idea where it would go if I did and I'm extremely scared of what would happen if it did.

Do other HNers deal with this? How? What did you do?

Please help me, I don't know where else to go. I have nobody to talk to in real life.
Firefox aims to develop 'self-healing' browsers
right click and view source.
I've been getting good results with my light use of mention.net, time to expand it.
What makes you think his case sets a lower bound on the speed required to start a fire?
There's a link right under the blue FB login [Sign up without Facebook] that should allow you to download the pdf, that's worth a try.
Was Breitbart a prominent journalist? I had to look his name up I did not recognize it. After comparing their respective wikipedia pages[1][2] it does not seem that they were equally prominent but I could be missing something.

I am all for connecting the dots and considering ALL POSSIBILITIES but it seems that after a certain point you need to eliminate some of the possibilities when they do not match up with reality. The RT story about the coroner and arsenic seems to be fringe conspiracy theory material that does not stand up well to scrutiny. It seems that the coroner mentioned in the RT story was not involved in Breitbart's autopsy:

"Those theories were quickly debunked by both the L.A. police and Deputy Chief Coroner Ed Winter, who told The Daily Beast at the time that Cormier had nothing to do with Breitbart’s autopsy"[3]

"L.A. County Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter tells LA Weekly that Cormier did not conduct Breitbart's autopsy. "Only doctors" ever worked on Breitbart, says Winter, because foul play was not suspected from the beginning."[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart

[3] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/30/no-answers-...

[4] http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/04/andrew_breitbart_...
Godaddy Suspends domain, Have they gone too far?
Today one of my friends who works in real estate called me and said his website email which is hosted on google apps is no longer working, his website is also down. He is not very technical so I told him. I will look into the problem for him.
No, and I can't imagine it will go over particularly well in Latin America. Terrifying for Snowden now though. If there was any doubt as to what lengths the US will go to make an example of him, it's now gone.
Really… Flash?
That's what I was thinking the geekwire article would help with. But yeah, a tech article is a great idea, thanks!
Conspiracy theories are not common sense

That's a tautology. The phrase "conspiracy theory" intends something only a fool or a fanatic would believe—that's why it's always accompanied by ridiculing language. Cases shown to be real are not called "conspiracy theories" but "history".
What does "the has is" mean? To my understanding, encrypted passwords are stored on the company's servers and they are decrypted on the client-side. I don't know how they're storing their data, but I do know that we never know what the future holds. Those passwords that may be secure on their server today may easily be broken tomorrow.

I'd rather by in control of my data.
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Get into Linux in under an hour on a Raspberry Pi
I don't know that there's any one authoritative answer, but they fended off the initial Internet threat by cramming IE down everyone's throat. They did that in a number of cases, were fast followers and put people out of business by integrating/bundling. I think the attitude was they could do it again if they had to, thought they could do the same in phones and tablets, didn't listen to their customers, didn't update IE and XP for years.

Partly Microsoft got lazy and didn't execute the products customers wanted, maybe the senior people were wrong generation to realize they had the wrong products and Google and Apple were leapfrogging them, maybe all the legacy cruft in their ecosystem slowed them down, maybe the world changed so they didn't have the same market power. I don't know that fines ever really scared them into changing behavior. They flushed more money down the drain in online services than anyone ever threatened to fine them.

Even more than most, Google's business depends on trust. Once people feel they're going to get screwed over after investing time and trusting Google with their information and data exhaust, they'll go to DuckDuckGo, Apple, Facebook (ha), whatever. Google has nothing like the moat Microsoft had. On the Internet, the switch to the competition is a click away.
I'm not 100% sure how it works, but I think the mods are very trigger happy when it comes to deleting content that they don't judge to be appropriate. This has a positive effect on maintaining the quality of the overall posts, but is a negative when one person's opinion shuts down a potentially interesting topic.

I think you erred by trying to make two posts about the same thing in one day that. That might be something that gets you flagged.
It depends on the situation. Normally, due diligence involves opening (and auditing) books, assets, etc. This is generally focused on valuing the company and may be a long, protracted, affair or a cursory,"these are not the droids you're looking for," check for any crazy liabilities or Potemkin villages.

In a given strategic landscape, the number will be multiplied by some factor. For example, if facebook bought a, twitter bought b, google bought c, d may end up getting pre-emptive offers from microsoft, yahoo, and other suitors. It may or may not be a rational move. In other cases, a "unique" offering may be snapped up on the news that a competitor is sniffing around.

It can get crazy, with offers bumped up by hundreds of millions of dollars.
I think we could add some detection to in the code that if the bundle id doesn't match, then app should display a warning.
How much of that is twitch's doing and how much is just increased foreign interest in the Korean Starcraft scene though? GomTV had an English stream through GOM player well before being forced to use Twitch by Blizzard, and OGN still half asses their foreign stream.
Foul play is almost always a possibility if you over analyze things and don't have a lot evidence. If someone randomly kills them self by jumping off a bridge and no one sees it happen, there is no suicide note, or any other signs, then there could have been foul play because there is no evidence to prove or disprove it. For all anyone knows the person was pushed off the bridge by a passer by.

The whole NSA story is disturbing but I don't get how it is connected to a journalist dying in a car crash like 30k or so people do every year do in the USA. The NSA violating peoples internet/phone privacy is a far cry from killing journalists.

It is baffling that a story where there is so little evidence of foul play has popped up on HN multiple times and has received such wild speculation. I get that there are a lot of people who are very upset at the US government right now (I'm one of them) and that there is very title trust towards the US government (for good reason), but it is crazy that such wild speculation is going on in a community that is supposedly made up of highly educated, intelligent, logical, tech people.

1. Why is it practically impossible to crash this car? Its well engineered, yeah so what? Accidents still happen no matter how good the safety tech is.

2. Why is it impossible for a car to catch fire after it has been in a high speed crash? It is filled with a highly combustible liquid for Christ sake.

3. Why would his car get hacked into and forced to crash? There has to be about a million easier ways to make a death look like an accident. It also doesn't seem like something that could be done at the spur of the moment. If "they" had time to plan all of this out, why wouldn't they kill him some easier, safer, more efficient way?

4. Why are people saying he may have been drugged with something that causes a psychotic episode etc. I mean really WTF, this is straight up crazy conspiracy nonsense. Of all the crazy conclusions to jump to, why is that more likely than him being drunk, having a psychotic breakdown, insomnia, or using drugs voluntarily (I believe he was even a drug addict in the past, lots of addicts fall of the wagon).

5. Why do people automatically assume that he was actually being investigated by some government organization? Don't all we have is his word?
Ahh, I failed to check the date on the "Falcon grounded" note at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_transports_of_heads_of_stat...

Either way, though, flying from Moscow to Bolivia is going to require a fuel stop or two, and the middle of the Atlantic is not a good place for that.
So please remember that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Thank-you, I will remember that. I will also remember that, on occasion, extraordinary crimes happen in secret. And that there exist criminals in this world who have successfully suppressed, destroyed, or hidden evidence of their crimes; and as a result have not - and may not ever be - brought to justice.

Note that I wasn't making any claims - just pointing out some relevant information to consider.
I have actually sent a DMCA notice to Apple.

While I would also suggest the DMCA route, I can tell you that you will experience the exact same effect (no obvious response) observed by the OP.
I noticed that I tend to get upvotes for posting genuinely interesting articles.
Or at least articles that I think are going to be interesting (and from a good source). The posting policy here encourages value adding tech links.

Most of them are from tech news sites and out of 5 links I would post, 4 of them will get 2-3 karma and drop off very quick and 1 might get 20+ karma.
> Why are politicians and the government seemingly so incompetent when it comes to the value of digital products and services?

It's not accidental: their PR departments are filled with slackers and their budget needs to be spent. They're going for the lowest-common-denominator with the cheapest cost and the least amount of effort, which is par the course for non-essential government spending.
The Netchan project I think showed how that particular limitation -- distributed goroutines -- will be overcome in time and, i think, built in to the language runtime.

This is just idle speculation but it seemed to me, reading the mailing list ages ago when this was discussed, that netchan worked in many use cases, but not others, and it just was not the right time in the development of the language to be distracted by a tertiary feature like that. Now, I could be mis-reading the whole thing and maybe it will never be a language feature. But if I were a betting man...
I'd actually expect radiologists to be considerably more interchangeable. The goal of a radiologist is to compute a function - `isCancer(mri)` or `isBrokenBone(xray)`. As a thought experiment, consider two radiologists who are as accurate as physics allows - they will always return the same answer for `isHerniatedDisk(mri)`.

Medicine is high skill, but the outputs are fairly homogeneous. Homogeneous output is what makes workers interchangeable cogs, not skill level.
People are making a typical statistical error here. It is unlikely for a car to catch fire in an accident, certainly. But it's wrong to take that and conclude that this fire was therefore likely due to foul play. Foul play is still a much less likely explanation for the facts as currently known.
No Snowden on board? Hiding in the smuggler cargo bays, perhaps?
This was part of their 'public diplomacy' mission, aimed at the rest of the world rather than the US.
I think they would be less disappointed if it meant a consistent schedule. These benchmarks are really a lot of fun, not sure if they change hearts and minds, but they are beautiful and fun.

I think being time-boxed rather than implementation-boxed make sense. If you miss a month, you got 30 days to fix it.

Also, they could only "update" the test rules quarterly or every 6 months, give the authors a bit of time to respond.
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I don't see why your baseless conjecture about nervous breakdowns and substance abuse should be any more credible than the cause implied by this post. I have seen a lot of people coming up with such alternative explanations, which actually go a long way to avoid a more plausible (if less comfortable) conclusion.

Also, I have seen multiple references to some paranoia that Mr. Hastings supposedly had. When I read his email, I see anything but paranoia. He seems very matter-of-fact and even jokes about the investigation. Also, here is a man who had already broken a massive story about a powerful figure and who was in the business of going after such massive stories. Sudden bouts of paranoia wouldn't seem consistent or productive in his line of work.

I take exception to that word because it's dismissive. It seeks to paint him as somehow irrational or the cause of his own demise, while simultaneously waiving the notion that there could be outside involvement. It asserts that of course every element of the government is always good in every situation, such that any concerns to the contrary must be paranoia. It is a very insidious use of language.

And beyond that, it just makes no sense.
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My thanks to you and your team for having developed this. The cost of crypto is, at present, far too high for mainstream use - or so it seems. Undoubtedly, the challenges inherent with its correct implementation are a part of the reason for that high cost, but the media's depiction of the field is certainly no help either.

How technical is your audience? It's been posed elsewhere in these comments, but one area that I'm particularly interested in is your proposal for key exchange. For example, your site warns the user to never email or IM their password: that's great advice, but I don't see any suggestion of a suitable alternative. Granted, I would consider your primary audience to be proxy: that is, the recipients of encrypted messages compelled to install your extension on their machine. Your take may be different, and of course these individuals may simply use-it-and-forget-it, but I'm sure that some of them would want to become your users as well. In those cases, the copy for this section may be confusing or thought incomplete.

What happens to my plaintext once its recipient has decrypted it? From the source, after passing the encrypted data to sjcl, it looks as though the plaintext is simply appended to the DOM in place of the encrypted message. Are we certain that Google is not performing any kind of DOM analysis? I don't know how Google behaves in this regard; what assurances do I have that my decrypted messages are still secure?

With a lack of deeper technical details regarding your implementation (understandable considering your proposed audience), should I assume that you're using the sjcl default of 128 bit AES in CCM mode? Would you consider publishing these details on your website? My apologies if I've overlooked them.

I'd like to echo IgorPartola's sentiments and upvote, however little that may be worth. Usability is crypto's silver bullet and any reasoned discussion which furthers our attention to this problem certainly has value in my opinion.
how would you do attachments and search?
Big stopper for me for using something like this.
Google will soon let you tour Hawaii from your computer
That's not an accurate characterization. It's not that they were buying fake 'Likes' on, say, Facebook:

After the 2011 reorganization, the coordinator initiated a push to expand the bureau's presence on social media and other digital platforms. IIP started or expanded English-language Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and blogs aimed directly at foreign audiences. The bureau also started or expanded online activities in six foreign languages.

The coordinator initiated two campaigns in 2011 and 2012, with the goal of building global outreach platforms for engagement with foreign audiences by increasing the number of fans on IIP's four thematic Facebook properties, primarily through advertising as well as through some page improvements. The bureau spent about $630,000 on the two campaigns and succeeded in increasing the fans of the English Facebook pages from about 100,000 to more than 2 million for each page. Advertising also helped increase interest in the foreign language pages; by March 2013, they ranged from 68,000 to more than 450,000 fans.

Many in the bureau criticize the advertising campaigns as "buying fans" who may have once clicked on an ad or "liked" a photo but have no real interest in the topic and have never engaged further. Defenders of advertising point to the difficulty of finding a page on Facebook with a general search and the need to use ads to increase visibility.
5 point harness and a helmet can really make a big difference.
Hopefully though, your government is accountable and overseen, and there are established avenues of appeal against decisions you see as wrong.
I am quite surprised no one has mentioned SoftLayer. Isn't IBM buy SoftLayer for their cloud offerings?
I use WeChat, so, nothing, I guess ;) But I use it to talk to a friend in China, and most Americans (most people outside China, actually) probably don't have a Chinese friend asking them to install an app.
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Seek counselling either with a professional recommended by your doctor or with a community group like Rageaholics Anonymous.

Don't wait, contact someone before you talk yourself out of it.
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Most therapy would begin by helping you to recognize the observable events that cause you to escalate your anger and teach you strategies to reroute the course of events in a new direction. For example, I recognize that I am becoming angry when my ears feel hot. I can short circuit that process by deep breathing, counting down from 10, and thinking of someone I care deeply for. Its also important to change your environment when you detect your fuse shortening.
I think it was an interesting take on the marshmallow test, but these principles don't solely apply to Silicon Valley.

Incentives power everything -- good and bad. Looking at the financial crisis of 2009, rent seekers taking advantage of Medicaid, etc. You could come up with a million examples.
I object in principle to giving them an email address, Facebook login or establishing any sort of account. I just want to anonymously download the PDF over HTTP. Because this doesn't seem to be possible, I'm probably going to stop clicking on links to them altogether.
> My read: the stated rationale for killing Google Reader, especially in light of the huge cry of protest and impacts on blog traffic (Rob Malda posted web traffic results showing huge declines at WordPress and other blog sites at WashPo) suggests to me something else at work.

Usual theory about driving "updates" traffic away from decentralized RSS and into proprietary arms of Google+. Twitter removed RSS feed access to an account's updates for the same reason.
> Some are speculating

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