skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
443 is the default port of https.

This must all be some NSA conspiracy.
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Who cares about the NSA when all of your logins and passwords are literally being stolen and are sitting on Motorola servers in plaintext. This is extremely egregious, and I'm expecting there will be some major fines from the FCC. How can they be this dumb?

I guess since Google bought them, this is their disaster now.
H+FJ doesn't serve the kind of user who feels that "buying individual fonts feels outdated", or who does price competition in the two digit range between different foundries.

The pricing advertised on their site appears to contradict you.

They seem to be aiming for the mainstream market rather than exclusivity, yet their prices are uncompetitive by mainstream standards, which seems an odd strategy.
I just went and looked too and all my content going back to 2007 which a painstaking hand deleted is back(!)

I hope mark zuckerberg ends up broke doing LAMP consulting.
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I thought the US pressure on Ecuador had nothing at all to do with him being stuck in Russia. Ecuador has stated they will still consider an application for asylum if he can get to either Ecuador or a consulate. His problem is that his U.S. passport has been revoked so he has no travel documents with which to use to get to Ecuador or enter Russian soil (i.e. anything past the airport)
i think the most interesting takeaway, that none of the comments touch on, is PG thinks there are a finite number of good ideas (even though this is currently larger than the number of good startups.) this probably means that (he thinks) that the number of good ideas is a simple function of the number of technological breakthroughs in a given year. so, in fact, it might be possible to comprehensively list all of the good ideas, in a RFS, for example.
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
Ghostery has been really useful imho... the only thing I don't like is the default alert position and timout.. but those are adjustable.
If Torbjörn Söderstedt would like to explain how chicken.js works - there is now an open stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17414435/how-does-chicken...
My assumption & opinion is they know exactly what they are doing. I assume every decision has firm logic & metrics to back it up. However, the very nature of the marketplace is for advertisers to squeeze as much value out of the customer as possible in order to purchase higher visibility. I don't see it as a mistake or a flaw, it is just the end reality of a set of circumstances.

What makes Google's marketplace uniquely challenging is the following: In the physical world, you can go to a store and make a pretty good judgement that the product being sold is real, it is high quality, the cashiers are happy, the (real) customers tell you they have shopped there for years.

Online, everything becomes about human perception of data. It is easier to represent quality when there is none. It is easier to sell a customer one thing and extract a great deal of additional value from them. When that happens, the winner is the one with the most visibility (I think Americans can greatly relate this to US elections.)

Are user reviews and testimonials the solution? Amazon is loaded with fake ones. Many companies exist already to help small business owners "tweak" Yelp reviews. Even when you put a real face behind a review, it can be gamed. A static review will always be quite different than judging something with all of your senses in person.

Load your own site or app up with ads and see what happens to user retention. Prediction based on my own experience: it tanks.

Google is in crises because their behavior tells me their revenue would drop immensely if the result pages had as many ads on them as they did 6 years ago. Google is in crises because the ad revenue is their life blood. They have a massive organization which must have this revenue stream to remain in business.

There is a segment of the market that will click on and respond to bad ads over and over and over again. There is another segment that is more perceptive. There is a whole other segment that doesn't even know any of this has happened because they have used ad blockers for years!

Google might be really good at avoiding the tipping point. I assume that right now they are balancing the flight to mobile with the drop in user retention from "too many ads." Or perhaps I am overestimating the impact of ads, and the real game for Google is making customers think they are just clicking on content.

Some verticals pillage their customers. Many verticals do not, the arms race has not happened for them yet. That is a good thing for Google, and an even better thing for Google's users.

Google can control what they do, however with every step they take in the "show more ads" direction, the opportunity for someone else gets that much bigger.

As pointed out in the original article, in some result pages 90% of above the fold is ads. Would you watch Game of Thrones if it was 54 minutes of ads and 6 minutes of content? I wouldn't.
You're not getting 100% organic results because the author is using screen space as the measure, not returned results (and apparently a custom map doesn't count as an 'organic result'). White space at the sides of ddg? Doesn't count. ddg UI bar at the top? Doesn't count.
That's a whopping 400% increase from my Technet sub.

EDIT: and of course it doesn't include SQL Server.
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Please have the founder send me an email at pmarca@a16z.com so I can fix.

Thanks!
How does chicken.js work
Snowden asked The Guardian to run the whole deck, IIRC. They consulted with people (US Govt, maybe?) and released just 4 slides.

Later, WaPo ran some more slides, showing more codenames and data collection info (such as NUCLEON's phone call content collection). This, too, has a redaction box on it which was confirmed as _redacted by the paper_.

These journalists are not trying to jam their dick in the beehive - they're just doing their job of running this story. They're not in the business of publishing classified data for the sake of publishing classified data.

The goal here is to give you the relevant data and a bit of context/narrative supported by appropriate facts, not just to pastebin a bunch of files up on the web— though in the case of these Snowden leaks, the net effect would be very close to the same.
I wager his cache has been cleared somewhere in the past 5 years.
Without having the letter from Snowden's father in front of us, we can't say exactly what is being asked for; but the fact that the United States of America has been labeled a 'country of concern' by multiple international bodies monitoring human rights violations[1] for it's treatment of Bradley Manning means that Snowden's family may rationally be concerned that Snowden would be subjected to prejudicial treatment whilst in pre-trial detention. Most especially the holding of individuals in solitary confinement throughout the US penal system is currently the subject of international concern [2] as a method of torture and cruel and unusual punishment. Especially in regards to the treatment of whistleblowers; which brings in the question of the right of the citizenry at large to be informed of the deeds of the government. [3]

The fact that the United States has been so willing to violate it's own stated principles of justice, not merely in the case of accused terrorists in the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay; but also domestically. Means that Snowden's father would be justified in asking for public guarantees of treatment that should be accorded to an accused defendant as a matter of course.

If I were negotiating Snowden's surrender I can think of a number of guarantees that I would demand of the US Justice department. They would start with a complete ban on solitary confinement, a guaranteed right of access by his legal team, counselors, internation human rights observers and selected media contacts. I would also ensure that he was guaranteed the right to choose his wardrobe for all public appearances and might even ask for public video feeds of the public areas where he is held in confinement so that the world could see he was being treated with utmost fairness.

This country has never quite lived up to it's idealized image of itself; but the fact that any rational person would today fear torture at the hands of the US government if they are held in detention should give us all pause.

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/usa-must-not-hunt-down-whist...

2. http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights-human-rights-natio...

3. http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/37133/en/usa...
> How do you apply that seemingly unassailable stance to something like iPhone/iCloud, where photos you take with the only camera you have on you during once-in-a-lifetime-moments are immediately and automatically uploaded to a third party for safekeeping?

I apply it equally. The same goes for VPS, EC2, etc., and (especially given recent revelations) it's clear it should apply even to unencrypted communications over the Internet even between nodes you control.
"internet user" in what capacity (checks their emails every week, or participates on online forums?) and in what age bracket? Once you exclude most of the internet users who are only nominally "using the internet", I suspect most are at least vaguely aware of 4chan.
They are developing the technology to make car self-driving. They are not developing the cars. They use Toyota Prius and I think some Lexus model too. I could see them partnering with Tesla to make it the first company to use the technology though.
India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail. No oversight.
He's not a 'stateless person'. His passport has been revoked, but he remains a US citizen.
Enough with the JavaScript already
Every time this sort of articles come up, I feel glad I don't have a Facebook account. As I see it if you care enough about somebody, you have their phone number and their address.
This is a very nice write up. If anyone is interested, I've put several screencasts together about Vagrant [1], creating a Vagrant box with Veewee [2], and Learning Puppet with Vagrant.

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WhatsApp is also a walled-garden XMPP network, with many more actives than Google Talk I'd bet.

Is all this 'net-rage just because they once supported s2s and now they don't?

The whole point of federation is so that people can do as they please. If users want federation, they'll use providers that federate.
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XBox chief leaving Microsoft to become Zynga's new CEO
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What logs were this?
Nice write up. I have been using Vagrant for a while now and it has made it really easy to move environments around to different machines. Mitchell Hashimoto is a brilliant guy.
> I hope he comes home and faces a trial. If he gets an OJ level superstar legal team he has a good chance of being found not guilty. If he loses he's facing around 10 yrs in a lower security prison. The show trial and national debate he'll spark will probably be more than worth it.

Wow, what a terrible and imcompassionate comment. Here's young man who braved it all to give us some factual information about spying. When '1984' scenarios were discussed before this leak, most people shrugged it off as some conspiracy theory or one being unnecessarily cynical. This leak is a big reality check for those people.

Instead of empathizing with Snowden, here you are saying that spending prison time will be 'worth it'. Worth it for whom? The media who can write tons of stories? The US citizens who now got some factual information but put the source in jail anyway?

Snowden _already_ gave up his cushy life for informing the US citizens about this leak. Expecting him to do more speaks more about one's character than anything else.

I am already saddenned that there has been outrage only on the internet but not on the streets in the US. It can only mean one thing - the US people cannot be bothered to leave the comfort of their homes where there is, I am sure, something much more 'entertaining' and 'fun'.
Account passwords?! WTF?

Just curious, were these devices manufactured before or after Google acquisition?
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I've talked to a few people who were sending out their wedding invitations and were legitimately worried about accidentally missing someone on their Facebook friends list or forgetting about someone who doesn't use Facebook.

It's definitely naive to think "oh, if you're really friends with them you'll remember their name without the help of a computer." This is especially the case with larger more inclusive weddings where now-disconnected friends are invited.
The best way to win is to open a restaurant with ridiculously high margins (over priced wine and cheap ingredients).

That's a rather terrible example: a restaurant that had over priced wine and cheap ingredients would fail miserably in short order, regardless of how many Google ad auctions they won.

If you really want the cheapest car insurance, you need to find a company that doesn't advertise, and is non-profit

I doubt those two traits have any measurable correlation with providing the cheapest car insurance, or any other service or business, just as it's possible that a company with rampant ads on every medium and high margins provides the best value.
Google Glass will probably be banned when driving (and rightly so - it'll also be much easier to catch people using Glass than mobile phones). I think something like Siri is much more likely to take off in cars due the the hands and eyes free ability. It's a nice concept you've made but I can't see it being very useful.

I'm interested to know if you considered this and have a different opinion.
I would rather see a different kind of mashup - install the Google Glass into the car.

Put the camera on the rearview mirror facing forward, and install a small heads-up display to reflect off the windshield. This could be a lot more interesting than Apple's in dash iOS approach.

Then you could use all the glass apps + features while driving, without having to wear the headset. From what I hear it will be basically impossible to use glass while driving because you have to look up and to the right to see the screen.
I heard that you have to basically look at the ceiling in your car in order to fully see Glass' interface since you need a dark background for Glass to be correctly visible. Am I wrong? Seems like Glass would be even less safe for driving than a cell phone.
Cool. Any good books on this you'd recommend?
That feeling when you repeat a word too many times and its meaning disappears
It says something about the immense social utility that Facebook provides.
It was. It cost well over half a million dollars, iirc.
Ironically the submitter is a dailydot spammer, the second submission they've successfully spammed about this site spamming reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927904
My son was in a great group this past year that was a Shakespeare deep dive. They gave a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the end of the year. It was a great experience.
Thanks! I just got started with Vagrant and figured I should share my experience!
Looks like it's from logcat.
Common User Feedback Mistakes Startups Make With Solutions
The author seems perplexed that Motorola is not collecting information from Google or Gmail accounts. This is probably because they already have the information: remember that Motorola is owned by Google.
Terrific. I first read that Feynman piece
long ago, but it was good to read it again.

That piece is a great illustration of just
how messed up education can be. Not all
of US K-12 public education is so messed up,
but a lot of it is significantly messed up
in similar ways -- formality over reality.

And in particular, for the OP, a lot of women
trying to teach boys when the women do understand
the girls, are happy teaching the girls, but
assume that somehow there is something wrong
with the boys. Indeed, in the OP, the author
does make progress on the problem but for
her teaching idea of having team members
come to the front of the class to look
at something for 30 seconds, she is back
to some absurd formality instead of
anything close to reality.

Here's one: Boys are good at figuring
things out. So, mechanical things --
boys are good at taking them apart
and then putting them back together.
Then one level more advanced, boys are
good at making things -- e.g., give
them some elementary parts and pieces
and ask them to make something, say,
something that will be the tallest
in the class or a bridge with the longest
free span or a bridge between two
points that will hold the greatest
weight. Have them make, say,
rubber band powered cars and then
have drag races. There are paper
airplane contests with well developed
rules -- get the rules and have a
paper airplane contest. Redo some
of what the Wright Brothers did
with the world's first, good wind tunnel.
So, measure lift and drag for various
airfoil shapes. Then discuss Reynolds
number. For selecting the materials
for the frame of an airplane, discuss
density and Young's modulus. Move
to have the students explain how
Hughes was able to build the 'Spruce
Goose', about the size of a 747,
out of wood.

There must be some books somewhere
with some good projects for boys.

If the girls want to do such things, too,
okay by me. If the rubber band car,
the bridge, the air foil, or the
airplane they build wins, terrific.

But, then, teachers might want to understand
some things about boys! If I was a boy
in that class and making a rubber band
powered drag race car, it'd all be fine
as long as I was racing against other
boys -- I'd like to win, but no biggie
if I came in second or third. But as soon
as one of the girls started to compete with me,
it'd be no food, no sleep, nothing else in school,
nothing else
for 48 hours as I wracked my brains
looking for whatever, anything, to
totally blow the doors off that girl's
car and send her back to decorating
her picture of her little pink pony
and doing gossip about lipstick!
And, uh, I had some pretty good talent
with mechanical things, spatial
relations, etc. In the US a lot
of boys are really good with
mechanical things.
For most people the bigger threat is going to come from the wifi networks they connect to at work, school, coffee shops, etc. If I owned a Motorola SmartPhone I would stop using wifi on untrusted & semi-trusted networks immediately.
Why would they do that when they could just lock you out of your account?
Is this rhetorical? Of course they do. They're legendary and/or infamous for imposing extreme physical hardship as hazing to get kids to fall in line.
We have a joke around here that Italians can never drown as long as they're speaking.
I wonder whether that choice of phrase was a genuine mistake, an exaggeration based on emotion, or a calculated lie. I like to think it was the middle one.
This is incorrect. Adobe would be one example and there are quite a few others.
1.5 million dollars or what? Right out of school, meaning either stock option windfall or trading windfall. So you don't really feel like you earned it.

DO NOT BLOW THIS MONEY. For 99.99999% of people this is a lifetime of labor, if that. You think it's easy to make money - think again. Whatever dollar amount you think you need to feel good about yourself, it's NOT WORTH THE RISK OF LOSING THIS. Then you'll definitely be suicidal. It's infinitely harder to start from the bottom because you'll have to work just to cover fixed costs.

Don't touch the money at all. Put it all away. Let it generate some income to live on. Then think about your life. You will need time. You will need to confront your past, and your parents.

Read James Altucher. He went through the same thing, blew all his money and back again.

DO NOT RISK THIS MONEY. It is freedom money. More money doesn't help you any more than this the level for freedom.
Your next mobile app should be web based
For someone who doesn't want the story to be about him, he sure talks a lot about himself...
I imagine it won't, at least, it won't fall under some of the existing laws which specifically prohibit the use of electronic devices that aren't hands-free while driving.
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