skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) slander is verbal, you were looking for libel and b) even then libel has to be able to be factually disproven.

"No thanks, big banks." and "Shame on Bank of America.", two examples of what was written do not have issues to answer under libel law.

So perhaps understand what you are responding to before decrying getting downvoted. It's hard to take an opinion seriously when it's making serious factual errors.
Apply that logic to passwords, which are being sent in plain text here. By his logic, you should have no password protected data, lest anyone know about it.
Strictly he's correct: it's stupid to assume anything will remain secret, particularly if you don't keep it to yourself. Schmidt, motorola, google, public wifi, can they keep secrets?

It's also funny how upset he feels when the shoe is on the other foot, as lampooned by this slashdot poster:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3645419&cid=4344175...
Yay, I love firefox and still with it even when Chrome was out way back then.

They fixed the memory leaks a long time ago guys... One of the big one was each extension have a copy of the DOM tree I believe.

And firefox is the only webbrowser I know that can handle 100+ tabs. >___<.

Aurora is very very stable btw.
Only Chrome (or webkit-based) support [0], and like the other poster said, blur will be slow unless harnessing the GPU.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter#Brow...
Right now Opera has 1.6% of market share. Safari - 4.1%. Back in 2011 - Opera had 2.5% and Safari 4.0%. You can actually see that Opera is in bad shape. And probably you're right - Opera might be popular in some communities. Globally though - it doesn't matter and its market share is actually shrinking.
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What they should have done is announced that they were killing it, then when the entirely predictable public outcry hit, 'listen to the community', and make it a paid service instead. From the numbers Feedly and Newsblur and such are picking up, it doesn't seem like a stretch that a paid version of Google Reader could have brought in at least $10M/year, even given the resulting loss of users. The only difficulty would be converting from free to paid without massive backlash. The bait and switch would accomplish that.

Hire a few full-time engineers to maintain it, and you've still got many millions of dollars in annual revenue for something that already exists. Surely even a company Google's size would be better off not throwing that away in the interest of 'focus'. But hey, Larry is clearly smarter than I am, so presumably he knows what he's doing.

Heck, maybe he even realized that Reader had become an impediment to progress and removing it would be a net good (pun intended). The progress that's been made in just the past few months is certainly exciting.
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Well, we will see if they add the disclosure in the about field.
Wow, that's a good point though. Does anyone know whether Google uses links in private emails to refine search rankings? With gmail being the most popular free email by far, that might be a small but significant edge on the competition. (Not that Google needs such an edge at the moment, but that doesn't mean they'd pass it up.)
Now if only Feedly will allow me some way to pay them...
Sorry, but, "force"? How? Use the rubber hose until he speaks or dies?
Looks pretty good. But I'm afraid someone complaining about the mathematical foundations of AI is like an aspiring surgeon complaining about how much anatomy s/he has to study.
Scanned Snowden application received by polish government: http://www.tvn24.pl/msz-polska-nie-ma-interesu-w-udzieleniu-...
Doesn't Google Glass force all apps to communicate via Google's servers? When I read the API the day it was announced, it certainly seemed that way.

So basically Google Glass is a massive camera & audio surveillance device, with most probably instant access by "government" intelligence agencies.
Last time I ever trust that company with a service I rely on.

and before you ask no I have never used GMail
Will do.

I'm also looking for another marketer/sales person on a remote basis for my other startup - Human Software. (http://www.usehuman.com)

Specifically, someone with SAAS experience or knowledge would be preferred.
> which might alienate some users forever.

Said users will simply stick to 12.15, given that no other browser (apart from possibly the full-blown Mozilla Suite, which I didn’t test any further) provides a similar experience – including the JS breakage every now and then :)
The problem for me isn't the left or right wing nature of the Guardian, just that they, like many papers, don't have a good history when it comes to accuracy and morality.

In the UK there was a scandal when a low end tabloid 'hacked' in to the voice mail of a raped + murdered school girl. They were looking for some story no doubt hoping to hear that she had gone to meet someone.

This was a scandal that ultimately would lead to the closing of the tabloid. It was a shame though, because the Guardian made a claim too many, they asserted that the tabloid journos deleted voice mail messages, as the mailbox was full, and they wanted to hear more gossip. According to them at the time this lead to the family being given false hope about their daughter been alive.

Now, when you consider the questionable value that this untruth added to the story (it is frankly immoral and shocking enough that the tabloid hacked the phone) and ask how was it acquired? Why was no standards of integrity followed, but mostly, why did they not think of the effect it would have on the friends and family of the murdered school girl. I mean come on, is it helping things to print such speculation?

Anyway, the retraction:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/dec/20/correction...

This is the most shocking example I can think of, and why I always take that news outlet with a grain of salt, expecting them to be full of hypocrisy (See auto trader sale and tax campaigning).
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Well formulated.
Hmmm scary and it doesn't even get the best one:

"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it," he said. Google implants, he added, probably crosses that line.[1]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/google...
Yup. Mozilla persona browser integration should already be here. Then, web apps can delegate auth to the browser much as native apps delegate to the operating system.
Right, and that will break a majority of websites out there, because they sniffed a fully capable desktop browser but the JS they sent as a result of the sniffing failed.

Default block doesn't work.
That's what I thought why not talk to a more experienced Journalist such as Duncan Campbell that covers the security area.

Does sound like Snowden was shopping for a journalist who "wanted to believe" to borrow a line.
> make it a paid service instead

Taking a pure business centric view - We're not google's customers, advertisers are. If we paid for the service we would expect no advertising - and so google's customers would lose.
To be fair to Snowden, he may not have been aware of Duncan Campbell who is well known in the UK and Greenwald being a US citizen who is very critical of the US administration probably looked like a good choice.
No it didn't. It was a mediocre-to-crappy phone, mediocre to-crappy browser, and mediocre-to-crappy ipod, a mediocre-to-crappy GPS navigator, and mediocre-to-crappy Youtube player, a plain old crappy camera. Putting a layer of gloss on the UI doesn't change that.

Now of course, we live in the world of apps and the iPhone has become what it was always destined to be: a mediocre-to-crappy, yet socially acceptable, gameboy. Ha-ha, only serious.

No really, having all those things in one touchscreen device was pretty cool, and certainly pointed the way to the future. The predictable myth-making around Apple is as boring as ever though.

It's just I can remember when the myth-making was around the iPod and "it only does one thing, and it does it really well", and suddenly the iPhone comes along and does everything and anything, usually (though not always) quite a bit worse than dedicated devices. And suddenly perfection gets redefined (yet again) to whatever Apple is currently doing.
Money quotes:

an infrastructure analyst at the N.S.A., like a burglar casing an apartment building, looks for new ways to break into Internet and telephone traffic around the world.

Infrastructure analysts like Mr. Snowden, in other words, are not just looking for electronic back doors into Chinese computers or Iranian mobile networks to steal secrets. They have a new double purpose: building a target list in case American leaders in a future conflict want to wipe out the computers’ hard drives or shut down the phone system.

So basically he was a professional hacker. That takes a fair bit of intelligence, knowledge and experience, and is a fair bit beyond the job of a sysadmin, which is what everyone was assuming based on the title.

I guess it made sense. Unless you're Dr Evil, you probably won't call your hired mobsters "assassins" either, instead you might call them something neutral like "Situation Specialists"...
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> The current build is still lacking a lot of features which might alienate some users forever.

This is one of the things I severely dislike about HN - comments for the sake of commenting, or as someone else might put it - the "no sh*t Sherlock comments". Your point here is discussed in the original story, so there is no reason for you to state the obvious, wasting people's time when they read your comment. Don't worry, you're far from being the only one doing this around here.

"We have neither asked nor forced our 12.x users to upgrade to Opera 15, as we know that some features that are important to you are still to come. So, while you are very welcome to test and use Opera 15, Opera 12.x will still be alive for some time. You can expect that we will keep Opera 12.x up to date and secure. In the future, once we are comfortable with the feature set, we may ask you to upgrade."
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There's NewsBlur for that... :)
I'd love the HN community to review this product. We are ex-Google News, Microsoft Research, thats trying to build the ultimate discovery product for your browser.

Pugmarks is social search too. It indexes documents going through your social circles and makes it available in the right context.

Pugmarks works great on LinkedIn profiles - giving you news and articles about a person, or interesting to the person.

Pugmarks extracts themes to your browsing, and makes your New Tab a mirror of the ideas going through your mind.
How about instead of pushing this mindset to everyone using Facebook that "keep using it, just remember nothing is private", we push the mindset of "just delete your Facebook account, it's bad for you" instead?

I'm getting tired of people finding excuses for Facebook like "hey, you should've known it's bad, just don't do that, and then it's fine". How about you stop using it?
It is illegal here in the UK to not decrypt. I've always wondered how anyone could prove I knew what the key was. Would saying "too late, I have a dead man's switch that tripped while I was in custody" and showing that mechanism be enough?

If so, I could just build a bogus mechanism.

It's not really a situation one should play at :)
Put him in jail for contempt until he speaks or dies.
Facebook always does this. Everytime there's a privacy policy change in some way, they restore everything to default (public) again.
Awesome. I am moving my stuff out of Google Reader. Thanks for the link.
You're talking about a company with $50B revenues; $10M isn't even pocket change.

Running a "service on the side" doesn't just cause "focus" problems for senior management. It creates legal, technical, and reputation risks which far outweigh the few million bucks of profit Google might make.
Put him in jail for contempt of court, which has the benefit of being effectively indefinite and doesn't require finding him guilty of anything other than contempt of court.
Latest released FF (from arch) didn't have any problems handling the page. It was quite smooth, but I didn't check the detailed profile.
This is absurd.

First, the author factored the screen space taken up by the google search bar into his calculations. Really? You want to press the back button each time you want a new search? And don't get me started on the fact that the author factored in the goddamn page margins as part of his percentage.

Secondly: the 7% of the page that is taken up by a map? Yeah, those are also organic results. In fact, they are probably more helpful to most people than the author's version of organic results (just links to websites).

Thirdly: after you scroll down (takes about 0.1 seconds) the percentages change significantly, as the entire box of sponsored results is no longer there.

So. If we eliminate the search bar and the margins, and we include the map in our percentage, and we scroll down a tad so that the sponsored ads disappear, you're looking at a page that is about 70% organic results.

FINALLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY. Google did not become popular because it showed the highest PERCENTAGE of organic search results per page. It won the search wars because IT'S RESULTS ARE MORE RELEVANT THAN OTHER SEARCH ENGINES. Percentages DO NOT affect the relevance of google's results. It's all about relevance.
Once again I find myself deeply unimpressed with those who would seek to portray achievement of a >1% share of a multi-billion-user market as some sort of failure. We'll also leave aside the fact that those statistics you're citing are likely biased against Opera, given the markets it's most common in.

(And I don't even like Opera...)
The funny thing is the music doesn't really sound terrible, even if the songs are silly and the style is vapid. It's surprisingly well produced and recorded for an indie effort. He has spent some money and "done it properly," as it were. Many mainstream country releases sound no better to my ears ;-)
Is there an encryption method that renders my password only valid for <frame>? And I am only able to set a new password and reset <frame> when authenticated? That is, if I do not authenticate and reset in time, the volume has no known password? Unlike a dead man's switch, I don't actually want the volume to be touched -- anything destroyed.
I am unable to download version 15 for linux, probably it doesn't exist.
If Google was already making that kind of money purely from ads Reader, then the rest of my reasoning stands. Just hire a handful of engineers to maintain it full time and enjoy raking in millions of dollars a year for many years.

The fact that they shut it down suggests that it wasn't making millions of dollars from ads, so why not remove them and charge for it instead? As I said, the only real barrier would appear to be the reaction, which could be solved with a bit of manipulation, in fact spinning it into a PR positive.

I suspect the answer is that a few millions dollars a year is considered pocket change by Google, insufficient to waste time on. To me that reasoning seems shortsighted. Again though, it's likely that Larry Page's sight is in fact much longer than mine.
Depends on the intention.

I think in this case, as Yelp have admitted in the past they are dependent on Google/organic search traffic, it is likely that this content is intended to function as SEO as well as (and due to the fact that it is) something cool.

With a company with more of a business-to-business angle, it might have been more ambiguous, but in this case it seems likely that SEO is part or all of the motivation.
Cool. If true, seems like they had evolved tit-for-tat: keep the peace or we'll all punish you for it.
I'm pretty sick of this argument. Google is a company, they are not compelled to continue to support a product which is (presumably) not making money, or even if the resources they devote to it could be making more money elsewhere.

Honestly I think Google went above and beyond by giving advance notice, having an API which allows feed exporting and allowing subscriptions to continue to be exported after they close it down for those who ignored the advance notice as well as linking to alternative products.

Sure it sucks for those who used it, but can you imagine a company like Apple or Facebook doing all that for a product they're killing?
no news.

has been chewed over and over. here and everywhere.

yet, get the top position at HN.

What does this means?
Enough with this "3rd party" bullshit. Just because they are a 3rd party, doesn't mean they can make everything about you public, or hand it over to whoever.

They agreed to keep your stuff private under their settings, and then they just unilaterally decide that it should be public? Screw that. This could be a winnable class action lawsuit.
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I use The Old Reade, which I can use exactly like Google Reader, with the exception that k does not always skip to the next article; if you're reading an article it skips to the top of that. Same strange behavior as Google Reader is that while the number of unread posts is correct, the content of your feed is not up-to-date, so you first have to click on the result number, then it is updated.

Apart from that, it's really nice. I never used any social features of the Reader, just the aggregation. That's why I couldn't care less if they implement RSS support or a recommendation engine in G+.
> Protestants of Northern European descent were horrified by all the "dirty", "drunken", Catholic Southern European and/or Irish immigrants who didn't share their culture.

As a Southern European, I find that idea hilarious. Drunkenness is far more pervasive and culturally ingrained in Northern Europe and in America than in Southern Europe. If all you've ever known is America, you may find it hard to understand just how ridiculously obsessed with getting drunk your culture appears from outside.
I find it very interesting that there is only one photo of Snowden, and that nobody has seen him.
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If the police want to search your apartment, do you need to hand over the key? You can't actively prevent them from doing the search, but do you need to aid them?

Furthermore, good encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, how do you prove in court in that the data on your drive is just random?
But the question is, was it Facebook's right to decide that? Or theirs?
Unfortunately it was only an iPhone Reeder update, not an iPad/Mac one.
Of course they do. They're planning the same.
Hmm...I wonder why Iceland isn't on that list.

Edit: I see that he already has applied for asylum in Iceland and Ecuador.
Which just goes to show how systemic it is, if cracking down on some subset of students put them at such a severe disadvantage as to be worth rioting about.
Feedbin have been using the money I and others have been paying to enhance their service. http://blog.feedbin.me/
Just gotta say, I don't appreciate the "women in refrigerators" trope.
That photo is a still from a video interview he had with The Guardian.
Ha, ya, I just said the same thing in reply to piqufoh regarding pocket change. The technical and focus issues I think could easily be handled by hiring a few people and having them 100% dedicated to Reader. $10M should be more than enough for that. You'd still be talking about revenue per employee of at least a couple million. (Google as a whole, with ~$50B revenue and ~50k employees averages about $1M revenue per employee.)

The potential legal and especially reputation issues I hadn't considered though. If they're trying not only for internal, but also external focus - essentially shaping how people think of the company, which seems obvious now that you mention it - I could see how they would consider 'niche' products like Reader detrimental even if they do make good money.
Apparently you can export your subscriptions using Google Takeout until the 15th of July.
If you've not read this yet, don't start... unless you have a weekend to spend on it.

HP & the MoR is one of the most compulsive and intelligent reading experiences out there. Comparable to the late Iain M Banks in compulsion, imho, and half again as clever and witty.
They build several thousands so they get cheaper components prices. Yet it's still surprising they can get it that much cheaper.

Edit: Zynq-7010 is just about $55 in DigiKey.
Well the courts could not "prove beyond reasonable doubt" that the NI employees deleted the VM - they got off that one on a technicality and the fact that the police did not investigate at the time.

The vast majority of the UK public believe this to be the case.
But always _that_ photo. Never a different photo. Seems odd to me.
It was the right "strategy". If they would've released everything in one day, we'd probably already be on to the next thing by now, and the whole scandal would've lasted a week. They've done you a favor doing it like this.
> Google may be creepy in its tracking, but at least by tracking me they can point me to a mechanic in my area.

Surely you mean "at least by tracking me they can point me to a mechanic in my area without having to go through the trouble of specifying the area in the search box".

You almost make it sound as if Google is providing you service that is worth being tracked over. They're not. It's perfectly possible to find what you're looking for without the search engine knowing who or where you are.

The only thing you get in exchange for being tracked is the "convenience" of not having to type "New York" after your query.
But is it applying the (slow) CSS blur filter? The article claims the filter is currently only supported by WebKit. Of course it'll render fast if it's not actually rendering anything.
odd - I don't interpret the 'afraid' gesture as they do - I'd use it to indicate a place is full of people
medium.com - it's that webpage where you can stare for 5 seconds at a small picture embedded in a white page while the _font_ to the article is loading (or whatever it is they messed up in the webdesign).

So much for focusing on written content...
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It's simply become memetic. Why bother combing through the video for a different still when you can use the same one everyone else is?
I don't understand why you were downvoted for this; it's a valid argument. Not everyone has a Twitter account.
I think the real cause is they don't want to promote a different platform (i m thinkin g+) as the mainstream source of content stream, and supporting RSS as a protocol is only going to dilute that goal. Even if they were making a profit on reader, they would still kill it (unless it's fuck-you profit, which it certainly isn't).

I don't agree with their goal, but since i m not a google customer, and i don't pay them money, i don't get to decide their goal.
If Snowden was a "patriot" who wanted to expose wrong doing surly a more experianced neutral journalist would be better.

Greenwald has only worked as a Journalist for a couple of years.
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you've raised an interesting method to disrupt new-comers - by faking an end-of-life announcement, then "listen to the community" and reinstate a product, you could effectively make the market harder to enter!
Is it www.grep101.com ? Because that site is down.