skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is only nitpicking if you consider the Guardian to have zero editorial control over what they publish.

There is a supposed distinguishable feature between a user/self publishing website, and a publisher with editorial control. One is considered as free from responsibility regarding the content and get legal protection to said effect (with exceptions like DMCA), and the other is supposed to be responsible for the content being published. News papers has always been responsible when they publish secret information, but are protected under the freedom of the press. Self/users-publishing sites like youtube, wikileaks, facebook, twitter, flickr and so on is not responsible for the content available on their websites (again, with some exceptions). Content on those sites are published by users, and the user is responsible.

One could of course argue that Snowden is ultimate responsible for providing the Guradian the ability in publishing the information, through that would be a slight lie. "Ultimate" would mean that there aren't anyone with even more responsibility, which the term whistleblower tend to disagree with. As such, there is plenty of blame to throw around if one wishes to build a blame tree.
I was trying to find out more about this case and was surprised not to find any direct Wikipedia mention for it, after digging a little bit, I found out that this case was removed from Wikipedia entry 'List of cases of police brutality' about 3 weeks ago, under the comment "no evidence that this belongs as a brutality case"

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cases_of_p...

Although I don't know anything about the facts, and it might have been technically correct by that Wikipedia editor, this just feels as the opposite of justice.
Doesn't help.

First, I'm not remotely interested in running my own mail infrastructur anymore. Been there, done that. Today it's much too hard to get mails accepted by others.

But more important: iPads don't have an USB connector, my mobile phone doesn't have one. Friends have Macs, in other places there might be other crippled devices.

The web is a universal building block. USB sticks are not.
Rose-colored glasses, maybe? How about slavery, segregation, the treatment of Native Americans, Japanese internment, McCarthyism, etc. Find a country with a history of unblemished human rights -- it doesn't exist. Anyway this thread is getting off topic, I'll stop here.
Or you could just write the phone number directly into the address bar, and copy it to the clipboard to keep it safe.
Getting a fair trial is really not the issue since he clearly broke the law.

It all hinges on PR. If the government was able to smear him enough that the majority of people considered him a traitor, then they would do their damnedest to make an example out of him. On the other hand, if people came to see Snowden in a positive light they wouldn't dare martyr him. Given the general apathy that we've seen from so many Americans (even Ira Glass from This American Life basically said "meh, what do I have to hide?"), I can't help but to sadly feel he made the right choice.
You can use Powerline without a patched font. Set the separator accordingly it won't use fancy symbols.
Likewise IAP that don't affect gameplay seem to me to be a fairly innocuous way to monetise your player base too, but they probably only work well in multi-player games where they tap into people's desire for individuality and display.

Valve has become a master at this of course, even if they did almost stumble into it by accident when they starting making TF2 hats. They're going down the same route with DOTA2 IIRC.
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If you really want to learn neuroscience, here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Edition-eboo...
>If the end goal was not profit, this would not be a problem.

I suggest you try your experiment on sentient creatures that are not motivated by utility. I am unaware of any at this point, however.
In the UK pre-Thatcher the highest rate for income tax was about 83% as memory serves. Since that was canned income inequality has gone up a lot[0], but (and the article I think draws out this point) it's wealth inequality that really institutionalizes the divide.

[0]http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jun/27/century-...
If you are relying on a third-party cloud email service, please keep a regular backup of your data. From random hacking attempts leading to a account lockout to incorrectly being marked for spamming violations, anything could go wrong. The easiest way is to install Thunderbird and let it automatically sync and backup your emails to your computer.
It's not, but things appear there first, because Australia is in the future.

Never did get to open the door.
Oh, and I hadn't intended "sarcasm", apologies if it came off that way - I'd expected to be more likely accused of paranoia... I've actually got PGP and encfs installed and testing on my iPhone & iPad, but I've not managed to convince myself it's "safe" to put real (as opposed to "just created to see if this works") private keys for either of them onto an iOS device, with all the lack of transparency about who's actually "in control" of those devices.

While I'm reasonably sure GPG/encfs on my phone will reduce my exposure to "dragnet style, intercept and archive everything" surveillance, if the NSA are after _me_, I've no doubt that there are people at the NSA who've already worked out how to coerce Apple into pushing a software update to my phone that sniffs around with root access looking for things that look like private keys, and keylogs things that look like passphrases - and ships them all off to Utah.

(And, truth be told, I strongly suspect all my Windows and Mac OS X boxes would fall in exactly the same fashion, and it wouldn't surprise me too much to find the firmware in my bios or USB bridge or ethernet adaptor or hard drive on my linux boxes is equally traitorous and ready to "sell me out"…)
Could you provide an example? Most police & military have good intentions, in my experience.
There's some stuff about trust of keys. When Alice uses Bob's public key she has to know that it actually is Bob's key.

Looking at other password / certificate mistakes (people use 123456 as a password for important accounts, people click through warnings) I think this might be harder than it seems.

See for example some of the hoax accounts on Twitter. People do get confused, even though it should be easy enough to spot the real account over the hoax account.

Online reputation and trust is important. It's a shame that Klout (totally irrelevant to this) is what most people think of when I say 'online reputation'.
Yes, but £27,000+ minimum of debt for an undergraduate degree is still a lot of money. Plus cost of living is very high for most places in the UK where there's lots of employment to be found.
The questions that you raise is of course what I am interested in discussing. I can't think of any way that PGP/GPG protects you against keyloggers or a pre-infected computer. I agree that they are relevant threats but my question is if it's up really to the developers to prevent rogue JavaScript in third party software and user's localhost. The same threats can be applied on all existing cryptosystems, as for with one-time pads where someone could look you over the shoulder - but that itself is not considered to break the underlying strength of the design. Or another example, how does Enigmail for Thunderbird protect you against having code injected and keys stolen? I don't think it does, but Enigmail isn't considered insecure. I think the questions are fair to raise but I see them raised far more often when people confront new ideas in comparasion to established practice, which I truthfully consider is a bit unfair judgement.

One of the factors which can narrow the scope of attackers is to use products like crypto stick, but then again what is preventing a computer from being rootkitted and having it's keys stolen as soon as they are exposed in the system?

Developers can of course only address weaknesses in what they have control over. We can't stop your computer from being infected by neither rootkits nor rogue JavaScript from plugins that you have volontarily installed. My advice would be to be careful and audit everything that may be a threat in order to at least try and minimize the risks. Unfortunately I don't think many users do that but it's not something we as developers can address and prevent.

The dilemma here is the same as with filesharing: if it's accessible it can be copied and transferred. There's no patch against that.
Feels like a pretty obvious winner...

Not as big a winner as they thing though but that posturing may just be due to having been in fundraising mode or preemtively positioning themselves as a juicy aquisition target..the mentioning of Instagram among Facebook, Google, Wikipedia was rather strange.

"Annotating stuff in a way that doesn't suck" and "getting stuff annotated by others" are two major pain points that they seem to solve rather well. The rest is automatic as long as they can figure out legal hurdles in the domains they want to tackle. If they can't they'll be the Napster and someone like Amazon will probably build the iTunes.

Annotations by domain experts/creators is probably the biggest thing. Basically allows them to extend certain products i.e. deluxe editions of books with annotations from authors (like those director/actor comments tracks for movies)
Here's an API for police data http://data.police.uk/docs/
i actually liked "MEGA". the acronym was meh, but "Microsoft Mega" has a nice ring to it. probably would have gotten some flack at release (sega mega drive, etc) but overall i think the best out of those listed.
Gangs use graffiti to mark territory and presence. They don't necessarily steal it. The person writing it is designated to write it. Overall, they don't use much paint and probably don't care about paint quality.

Artistic tagging and graffiti are a different thing. Due to the amount of paint used, they do tend to steal it if they lack money. "Racking" or stealing it is also considered a part of that outlaw culture. A large mural can cost hundreds of dollars to execute. Even a small picture can take a few cans of paint.

To get an idea of the amount of paint, search for images of "gang graffiti", and then for "graffiti murals".
I have one issue with this article.

You don't "think about getting prescribed antidepressants". You go to the doctor with a health issue which he treats you for.

Antidepressants aren't pills for when you're a bit cheesed off to pick you up.
I guess I am basing my logic off of the occupy protests. The occupy protests got a lot of attention and even though they're still going on in some places, you don't really hear about them any more (not even on conspiracy theory peddling sites like Above Top Secret). The goal was to draw attention to big banks abusing their power and not changing their ways, a couple of years on and all of that protesting only briefly brought attention to the big banking system, but nothing changed. Some people moved money to credit unions, but the big banks like BoA are still around, the protests achieved nothing.

In many ways there are similarities between the occupy situation and the N.S.A secret spying program only people are protesting online and bugging their representatives most of which didn't even know about the program until it was publicly leaked.

I am a firm believer in standing up for something, especially when it's the Government wronging it's citizens, but I think this whole situation goes deeper than any public opinion truly can penetrate and change. I think the power in this situation like lays with other countries acting on what has been revealed, but most are too afraid to stand up to the US. It's times like these you realise why the US has one of the worlds best funded military regimes in the world because when SHTF who is truly going to stand up to the bigger military entity?
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I was reading a couple of good articles about this yesterday:

http://piemaster.net/2011/07/entity-component-primer/

http://piemaster.net/2011/07/entity-component-artemis/
"we as a country don't do actual engineering"

What do you mean by "actual engineering"?

- the UK makes and develops satellites
- designs, develops and produces a huge number of jet engines - is home to nearly all the Formula 1 teams
- the Nissan car plant in Sunderland produced 500,000 cars last year which is a huge engineering challenge and is now the home to the main production of the LEAF electric car
- Teeside is still the home of chemical processing
- companies like Alert Me are leading the charge in smart energy consumption
- last time I checked Arm were stil based in Sheffield and Cambridge and scaring the pants off Intel
- last, but not least, BAE systems is in the midst of producing some of the best and most advance submarines in the world and commissioning nuclear reactors in the process.

I do however agree with your first point - although there are a lot of wind farms around now which is nice to see
There's still plenty of time to pass laws. Why would there be a time limit?
I thought Jeff was active again when I saw this :/
Peter Thiel on Palantir (2012)
One way to do this is:

- have a way of working out which users can see which objects

- whenever an object changes, note that all observers need to see an update

- either push that notification to the user, or record it ready for the next time they poll

- when a user sees "object X has been updated", have them poll for it's latest state (which may be "deleted").

Possible optimisation: you can decorate some or all the "X has changed" messages with the details of the change, creating a journal

This assumes the server can act as a serialisation point for all updates and so provide a single coherent time-series.

It also requires that the server be able to fail updates which are the result of stale UI data. (e.g. someone tries to edit an object someone else has deleted).
I'm not that sure about "totally different" semantics; in Python lists and tuples happen to share quite a lot of public interface. As they both are heterogeneous by default (in Python), I disagree with this being their biggest difference. It's not a case in OCaml or Erlang, where lists and tuples differ significantly in both interface and complexity of basic actions. For example, what is a computational complexity of getting nth element of tuple and list in Python, and why it's exactly the same for both of them? In Erlang, where lists are real lists, getting nth element is O(n) in case of lists and O(1) in case of tuples.

In Python, lists and tuples mean almost exactly the same thing. That's how Python is implemented. Those two things have "totally different" semantics in many other languages, not so in Python. As so, using the one over the other in many cases is purely stylistic matter, not the matter of semantics... unless it's about mutability, of course.

If they're as different as you and grandparent suggest, then please list those differences, and mean in Python. As I said, in OCaml Lists and tuples are completely different types, starting with the fact that tuples are not iterables (!). The same is true in Erlang, where you need to explicitly convert a tuple to list to get all the elements of a tuple. Both list and tuple are iterable in Python, however.

I just see much more similarities between lists and tuples in Python than differences, to the point that I wouldn't mind calling tuples an immutable_list or frozenlist, or something like that.
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I only just found it, read the "Game Loop" chapter and it's great stuff! I like how you clearly enumerate the pros and cons of several approaches. And even if an approach was already familiar to me, that made it very useful providing new ways of thinking and comparing about it.

So please do keep it up :)
To me, much more concerning is Snowden's revelation that the British intelligence program 'Tempora' "saves everything":

"Tempora is the first 'I save everything' approach ('full take') in the intelligence world. It sucks in all data, no matter what it is, and which rights are violated by it. ... Right now, the system is capable of saving three days' worth of traffic [...]. 'Full take' means that the system saves everything. If you send a data packet and if makes its way through the UK, we will get it."
Well to answer your question of pervasive mesh networking, recently in USA NTIA got 700Mhz spectrum to as public safety networks. They are trying to deploy ubiquitous public safety network over LTE, and one of the back end technology will be mesh networks. We should be seeing such networks in 1-2 years from now.
Yes. It is really good idea. I am going to do it something like that. :)
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The highest rate of income tax was during WWII. It was an eye-watering 99.5%

During the 50s and 60s it was a "more reasonable" 90%.

> The highest rate of income tax peaked in the Second World War at 99.25%.It was slightly reduced after the war and was around 90% through the 1950s and 60s.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_Kingdom#...)

I'm in favour of income tax, and I've spoken strongly against people who avoid their tax to extreme levels. But 90% is just nuts. I'd much rather have a 25% and actually collect it from everyone than 40% and only collect it from people who don't pay accountants to avoid it.

There's a really interesting series on UK Channel 4 called "Skint" about a poor neighbourhood in Scunthorpe. It's grim, depressing, watch.
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They all fall under fair use since they were uploaded to social media (so the photographer is no longer the only rights holder and most social media sites assign rights to republish content).

That said, it is only fair and nice to credit all sources. The web relies on links and being able to source content back to origins.
Attached a license. :)
Y'know, if I'd known it was an evergreen I'd have posted it myself, for the link karma.

Humph.
If you have any questions then don't hesitate to ask! Some of what I do is a little different (like using Slim or locales everywhere) and I'm happy to help explain.
So the upgrade took a few hours to complete and it didn't happen instantly in defiance to the laws of physics.

What law of physics necessitates that such an upgrade takes 6 hours?
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> I could go on, share links, etc.

Please do.
even more concerning when coupled with the fact that no UK news outlet is covering Tempora due to the D-Notice.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-me...
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Absolutely. Where did you want suggestions submitted? For example it definitely needs to let you change settings (license, comments on/off/comment-topics, etc) on multiple images at once. Like Flickr's batch uploader/editor.
Indeed, and given the NSA's unique interpretations of some fairly commonly understood english words (like for example "collect" and "no"), I have no doubt that they're capable of creative legal interpretations where they can look their elected representatives and (in theory) overseers in the eye and say "we're not spying on US citizens" - claiming later if caught that it's "the least untruthful answer" - when what they really meant was "we asked the Australians to spy on US citizens for us, and hand over everything they found. _We_ didn't engage in any spying."

On the plus side, while I have niggling doubts about whether GPG and encfs/OpenSSL/AES are really secure against the NSA - I'm reasonably sure that even if they've got practical attacks against them, they aren't likely to be sharing even the existence of them with ASIO. I'm as close to 100% certain as makes no difference that GPG/encfs are secure against even the most powerful Australian government agencies (which is to say, only as secure as anything that'd break easily with rubber hose cryptography…).
$2M is quite the goal. I don't expect this project to make that much funding.
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Not for the old guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Sharing_Option. Thinking of it, you may be right about the "doesn't make sense" part.
It's surprising that the singleton is there - from what I have read on altdevblogaday and other gamedev websites it seems that game developers have long since moved past that antipattern. Honestly, I wouldn't have re-iterated the GoF patterns at all: there is already plenty of literature covering them.

Otherwise, quite informative.
Ignoring the polarisation of the debate when a politician's name is used:

It's possible for someone to reach a high office in a competitive environment and still to make decisions that are not so rational. Cognitive biases are very strong, and affect most people, and so people in high office have their own biases.
Yeah, have improved the title now. :)
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Why is this on the front page of HN? I just don't get it? Fantastic Reddit fodder? Yes. But here?
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Looks like some misrepresentation going on here.

What the download is not is FileZilla - but a piece of software with an Ask.com copyright (as you pointed out).

Looks scammy and scummy - why would Sourceforge get involved with this sort of stuff?
Is this video clip to highlight how the government/defense/anti-terrorism causes are important to Palantir, especially in the wake of the Snowden leaks?
Making stuff easier for more people is tremendously important for programming languages.

I hate - really hate - working with it, but I have to acknowledge that PHP has made a lot of things possible that otherwise might not have been because it made it much easier for people to start doing web stuff.
Required reading for anyone who has children and indeed for anyone making purchases of any kind, anywhere.

The Behavioural economics page on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_economics is a little dry but a good source of references. I can only claim to be somewhat (vaguely) aware of the subject but having a good introduction from TFA certainly kicked my critical thinking skills out of their complacency.
I agree! There's a sorta multiple-editor at the moment but it only lets you switch collections right now. I'm happy for suggestions to go in GitHub issues at the moment; I'll tag them appropriately and it'll help me see what needs doing :D
What does it mean to "uninstall Gmail"?
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How does Ruby work out for Github in terms of performance?
but don't think they're going to be risking more diplomatic flack to get this guy home.

How can you claim that when this

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/edward-snow...

was absolutely inconceivable only some days ago, so much that the President explicitly claimed:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50149843n
Jeff is active a little bit in blogging but not on codinghorror.com,
see http://blog.discourse.org/
I've known of a few cases where the Gmail account associated with Google Apps becomes unreachable. Rather than upgrading to the paid plan, most of the people involved just opened a support ticket which was resolved in a few hours.
Does it do anything fancy? This seems to be very basic.