skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judge Rules Against Apple in E-Book Price-Fixing Trial
I agree, but I've always found DDG results to be pretty terrible, so I just ended up using Startpage with some custom CSS.
4 days ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/05/european-states-...

"European states were told Snowden was on Morales plane, says Spain

Spanish foreign minister declines to say where information came from that NSA whistleblower was on Bolivian leader's flight"

Reuters, today:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/8899974/Spain-admits-US-...

"Spain has acknowledged that a US request had led it to delay approving an overflight by Bolivia's president, but said it had given the go-ahead after receiving an assurance from Bolivia that US fugitive Edward Snowden was not on the plane."
Dang. It wasn't meant to be a thing that you navigate through - it was just a little preview of the actual portfolio page. I guess I didn't communicate that clearly. Thanks for the feedback.
Brazilian government is about to record and censor Brazil's internet
Oh, that's a pity - what app do you use to do that?
JavaScript is an implementation of the standardized ECMAScript language, so technically it is not the same.

Freebase lists JavaScript as a dialect of ECMAScript and draws no influence relation between the two, you can see the data for ECMAScript here http://www.freebase.com/m/019syg
Is that not common? In Denmark where we have a lot of bikes, we have rules specifically written for bicyclists.
Corporations are afforded civil protections in return for civil responsibilities imposed on them by law. These responsibilities include restrictions on types of investment. Nobody's stopping an individual from starting a business, investing via entering a partnership, or investing by making some personal guarantee with another individuals. Corporations aren't people. When you make a deal with a corporation, you're actually making a deal with society, at least in part, so your deal will be upheld on paper. In order to reduce the risk of malfeasance and cost to itself in the form the consumption of legal resources, society imposes restrictions on corporations that include types of investment.

You can make the case that the regulations may or may not be the best for what society wants, but to say that they're somehow a moral obscenity seems silly to me.

I think it's strange to say that you're prevented from investing in a corporate structure because of legal limitations when the same legal limitations are what enable you to invest in the corporate structure in the first place. It's why I don't subscribe to this viewpoint on investing.

I agree with you on the gambling bit, to an extent. Government-backed lottery really preys on a certain class of people and I don't care for it so much. Private casino-style gambling is viewed by many as an entertainment outlet. Like drinking, for example. It's generally understood that you go to the casino to have a good time....and lose your money. Winning is understood to be an aberration. That doesn't stop people from blowing everything, though.
One message may or may not be someone waiting for about 30s for the "beep" to tell them to start their message. Lol.

[I have poor impulse control, sorry.]
I am American, and I have no idea of what Duck Duck Go means. Possibly an inside joke? I personally think the name is a limiting factor, and they would be better off with something else (DDG?).
I really like duck duck go. I just wish they would register ddg.cm so I don't have to type out the whole url. I would register it myself and forward it if it wasn't for the fact that cm registrations cost nearly 100 dollars.
That's okay, it wasn't meant to be the focus of the page - just a little banner of imagery. I guess it would've made more sense if it wasn't clickable and didn't move. The clickable content is meant to be primarily navigated on the Portfolio page.
>Nothing prevents people from gambling in Vegas.

The only reason that people gamble in Vegas is because every other place created laws to protect fools from their own foolishness. Vegas, a city built by organized crime figures who normally had to operate illicitly, didn't.
Boston Bombing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty on All Counts
If you dress up a guy in like a soldier and tell him he's going to war, he's going to go fight one, even if his enemy turns out to be a 12 year old with a baseball bat.

Context leads action. Our police are deeply out of context. Bulls in china shops break china. If you don't want broken dishes, don't send in a bull.
A) many people use Crouton, so there's no centralized control AT ALL. Even if they don't, the only centralized control is over what version of Chrome you're running, and OPTIONALLY whether you're allowed to log in to the device, what your preferences were, and what windows you have open.

B) there's no fine-grained tracking built right in. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. You have the source code to Chromium available to you, please provide evidence. If you believe the visible source code was augmented to add tracking, prior to being installed on the device, then it should be relatively easy to show a Wireshark log demonstrating the fine-grained tracking you speak of.
#1 and #3 does not make it worse. #2 might not either depending on what that feature is.
U.S. Navy Will Attempt To Land Jet-Sized Drone On Aircraft Carrier
Thanks! Nintendo seems to be pretty lenient on app developers. There are many Nintendo-themed apps that are making a lot of money in the App Store, and I can't remember one that's been pulled.
It does not, because !g effectively redirects you to google.com/search?q=foo, where the g00g tracks you as it always does.
From what I can tell, not a heck of alot. It can't do anything about the fact that I will send google my cookies when I go to google.com

It does point to https://encrypted.google.com, which is slightly better, but not much...

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/32367/what-is-th...
I am currently using Balanced to help a client develop a marketplace application - both to collect payments as well as to distribute payouts - and working with the service has really been a delight. The documentation is well-developed, includes clean sample code for everything I've needed (to the point of just being able to drop it in), and support is really responsive and helpful. Just today I had a question about implementing bank account verification, hopped on the IRC chat room, and within all of 30 seconds had my question answered. Great job to the Balanced team!
Speaking as someone who used to buy a bunch of books on Amazon, and now buy them on iBooks, I don't understand the "bad for consumer" angle. I don't tend to buy bestsellers, so maybe I'm not hurt as much by the higher prices for that category, but I do still see $12.99 prices on new books. However, and this is something that everybody seems to be ignoring, I'd much rather pay $12.99 for a new book than not be able to buy the book at all because the publisher is holding it back to promote hardcover sales (i.e. "windowing"). Also, what hardcovers are you buying that cost $12.99 or $14.99? I just looked up Amazon's prices for a book that came out 3 months ago that I pre-ordered (Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb). I paid $12.99 for it in iBooks. Amazon's selling the hardcover for $20.86. I am much happier to pay $12.99 to read it in iBooks than to pay over $20 for a physical copy. And I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason I could do this at all is the anti-windowing agreement. In fact, another recent book by the same author, The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince, is not even available in eBook format (I don't know who published that book but they must not be subject to the anti-windowing agreement). I'd love to read it, but I'm not paying $28.05 for Hardcover.

It's also worth pointing out that the publishers didn't change their prices. Amazon artificially lowered what the consumer was paying, but the publisher still got their $12.99 (or whatever they charged). It would not surprise me in the least if Amazon's long-term plan was to stop discounting books once they cemented their hold over the market.
While the current page is lacking design rigor, it has a wonderfully approachable, no-frills, light-weight, utilitarian aspect to it. I don't think the new design represents the NeoCities mission.

Lead by example! By having a minimal home page identity, you're saying "Hey people! It's ok to have a simple web site without knowing how to do all of these visual enhancements. Dive in and get publishing!"
Nope, it's just a redirect to Google with your query filled in for the appropriate query string argument.

If you want to use Google privately, use Start Page (http://startpage.com) or Ixquick (http://ixquick.com).
They should have made users' domains be <name>.users.neocities.org or got a shorter domain solely for users like <name>.neociti.es (which is not registered!)
Here's their Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brai...

They mention in the "The Tech" section that they're doing a VPN between the "Plug" and clients and that they've gotten it to punch thru "any main NAT & firewall we tested" and further say "it's decentralized when possible" but don't go into any more specifics. I'd like to know what their mechanism is for resolving the Plug's public IP address. Presumably they'll be running some dynamic DNS servers or some proprietary location protocol but since they make a point of saying they're not a subscription service I am immediately dubious as to how they plan to continue to finance running those servers.

This entire class of products just makes me sad. It would be really neat to live in a world where the bandwidth (and lack of transfer quotas) actually existed that would permit us to take advantage of the exceedingly cheap large storage devices that we can purchase and put on our home and business networks. I don't see that world existing any time soon, at least in the United States.
I was pulling links off the front page (not HN links, external ones). This is the most recent:

http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers

It's been going for 2.5 mins.
> I am not sure what OP wants to say with this submission...

I submitted this mainly for the quote:

"And he did so for the noblest of reason — to advance the sacred causes of liberty and peace in his homeland and throughout the world."

For me it means from the view of the CIA liberty and peace are a legitimation for spying and is highly appreciated.
You do realize that PRISM is a separate program from NSA's upstream data collection efforts, right?
Is it inconceivable that crime is lower due to more police on the streets and more criminals in jail?
Are you advising me to remove it in order to improve the viability of my business, or in order to make you (and others who share your opinion) feel more comfortable?

I don't personally use much foul language, but I felt Jeff's comment really captured the over-the-top enthusiasm he has shown about the product. That's why I made a point of including his first.
Threema, does everything hemlis will do for less, now.
Good observation, this relation is not backed by reliable sources and was probably added by mistake.

Someone has deleted this relation today, see
http://www.freebase.com/m/07sbkfb?links&lang=en&filter=%2Fco...

Maybe a response to this thread. Think it's time to update the graph in the near future.
Try http://ddg.gg/.
The Spy Factory (PBS documentary on NSA, 2009)
It seems like this might be the most important comment here. If so, then the law is being discarded just because the companies at hand are pushing their weight around.
Ridiculous. On it.
I think it's better than "bing" and "yahoo".
"The policeman wants to go home to see his kids at the end of his shift."

...and I do not want to have a gang of soldiers invade my home at 5:00am and shoot my dog. When soldiers are doing police work, police work puts the public in danger.
The title of the article was "The laws you can't see".

This is an article I couldn't see.

At least until I switched over to a different browser, that is.
The modify your hypothetical so it fits the Apple facts:

Hasbro then threatens to withdraw all GI Joes from Kmart. KMart can no longer sell any GI Joes--even if acquired from third party resellers. Walmart knows this, and indeed suggested this negotiation strategy to Hasbro.

Of course, this has happened before. This is why the MSRP is now only a "suggested" price and why a retailer is free to sell at whatever price it chooses, however such price affects its own margins.
I'd be interested in you blogging your experience with this.
Why not just create a URL alias? Firefox and Chrome both have pretty good add-ons for creating aliases.
People will emotionally react and download a beautiful secure app because privacy is a hot topic right now. The market could be quite large if opinion leaders use this app.
The job of the US domestic police force is to serve and protect the status quo (NOT individuals). Be against that, and you're against the police. Police aren't paid to care what the status quo is, but the status quo pay the police. And who is the status quo (ask yourself)

The methods they use to protect and serve that ideal just need to be one step less that what the masses will absolutely tolerate. If they cross that line, you get a riot.

Police violate individual citizen rights all the time and usually it's just ignored. It's a sorry state of affairs. That's why I'm afraid of police and police actions.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghetto+fabulo...
Man, not having \n as a statement separator and having to pipe everything through xxd will definitely be a pain.
"Crime is at an all-time low yet spending on police is near an all-time high."

Isn't this cause and effect? Crime is lower because we are hiring more policemen. That is certainly one conclusion from Freakonomics.

This is just a digression, because I do think the "Cops as Warriors" model is very scary, as "collateral damage" becomes acceptable in a war.
For an encryption app? I'd almost argue that not being able to access the source code makes it a non starter. There's no way to guarantee a lack of backdoors otherwise.
Dashdash: Helping us feel like we’re *with* friends who are far away.
> It's also not obvious to me where I can find the same content in a different format- it looks like mostly they're taken from the portfolio section but I didn't know that until I drilled around the site for a while.

I guess that's the main problem. It wasn't meant to be a navigable thing, just a preview of the portfolio content. I figured once someone clicked on one of them, they would see the other games. I think maybe it looks more important than it's meant to be. It was just a little graphical banner that became fancy.
Team Fortress Classic is based on Team Fortress which was a Quake mod. In 1999, Valve hired the Team Fortress Quake modders to port their game to the GoldSrc (HL1) engine.
To some extent what Michael is saying is already true, but since resumes don't have a character limit candidates aren't held to it. If you were given a finite amount of space, such as one page, what would you choose to describe? What Michael is proposing is essentially limiting what you can say. If you had an online application that said to list 3 technologies that you use, that would probably be quite different than the list of 30 you may have on your resume, and it would send a strong message about how you truly value certain skills.
Hey no big deal dude, just giving you a heads up!
Not really the same thing at all.

A subtitle file is pretty useless without a video file or disc. Transcribed lyrics, however, can be enjoyed on their own, without having access to the music.
"He did so for the noblest of reason — to advance [..] liberty and peace [..]"
> It is just not a useful term, and should be replaced with something more specific in all these instances

How about "collection directly from the server of..." just like it appeared in the actual slide, instead of 'direct access' as everyone else misquotes it?
Can I recommend a simple link from NeoCities blog posts directly to the main page of NeoCities? Somewhere visible and easily accessible - would be awfully convenient.
How To Travel — Some Contrarian Advice
This is why tech workers need unions. When Facebook does something nasty, they can blame the unions; the billionaires and millionaires were merely cowering behind their desks.

We shouldn't contort ourselves to avoid the simplest answer: the state is getting what it paid for. The US incarcerates its population more than any known state on earth. That isn't unions' fault — other countries with more powerful unions don't jail themselves like this.

If any enemy nation did this, we wouldn't have any illusions. But we refuse to apply the same logic to ourselves, nor conclude as Chomsky did, "Remember, any state has a primary enemy: its own population."

Otherwise, it might be obvious why police are fighting a war, and who their enemy is.
I see this all the time and it just isn't correct. Working long hours isn't about productivity. We know long hours aren't productive. But they are fast. Sometimes 80 hr weeks at 75% productivity really are better than 40 hr weeks at 100%
> When I saw the Google/Facebook responses, it was obvious that the posts had a lot in common. Both used the phrase "direct access to our servers".
When you see a phrase repeated like that, one of two things has happened. Either one copied the other's phrasing, or someone told them what to say. In either case, the legal department would definitely weigh in on a huge issue like this.

I totally agree that these organizations used the phrase "direct access" intentionally, surely with legal advice. My point, however, was that at the time that these companies released their responses, the slide that actually said direct access verbatim had not yet leaked. Although it's impossible to tell what actually happened, it looks to me like they decided to deny "direct access" in the hopes that there were no slides indicating that direct access did exist. After all, it's unlikely that these companies had the full slide deck (or anything other than what the media had published).

So, either:

(A) Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg actually didn't know that they provided "direct" access to data.

(B) NSA actually doesn't have "direct" access as indicated by this slide, meaning that the slide is incorrect or falsified.

(C) Page and Zuckerberg lied in their statements.

I don't see a fourth option regarding direct NSA access to these companies' data.

And you're right regarding Mayer not addressing the claim directly; I was a little bit off there. Still, by saying "well, we received between 12,000 and 13,000 FISA requests," Yahoo! is implying that there isn't any sort of "backdoor" access, which no longer seems to be the case.
The query from ddg to startpage is !sp and to Ixquick is !ix
"In matters of military contingency, the expected, precisely because it is expected, is not to be expected. Rationale: What we expect, we plan and provide for; what we plan and provide for, we thereby deter; what we deter does not happen. What does happen is what we did not deter, because we did not plan and provide for it, because we did not expect it."

http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/6127193/learning-to-live-wi...
I think that's true, but I also think it's true that it would be possible for police forces to demobilize a bit, instead of continuing their ramp-up. It's like invading Iraq. The police went in and broke the criminal gangs and organized crime. What's needed now is nation building, so to speak. The crime that's left is leaderless gangs of youths shooting each other up in turf wars, and SWAT teams aren't the answer to that.
Dropbox wants to replace your harddrive
Though I can't look at the slide, DNI should stand for Director of National Intelligence.
I've never heard of this game. I thought that the name hints to the duck test: "if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test

I.e. that Duck Duck Go is what it looks it is - it's a search engine. And not some tool which secretly harvests data of its users for its own benefit.
Then:

A) people will just go to the multitude of coffee houses that still offer unlimited WiFi

And

B) you're no longer a coffee house, you're an Internet cafe / temporary office space offering coffee. Big difference.
HBR had an article about this not long ago exploring the "why" (based on several studies on the topic):

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/05/why_men_work_so_many_hours.h...

The takeaway:

'Not only is work devotion a "class act" - a way of enacting class status--it's also a certain way of being a "real" man. Working long hours is seen as a "heroic activity," noted Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and her co-authors in their 1999 study of lawyers. Marianne Cooper's study of engineers in Silicon Valley closely observes how working long hours turns pencil pushing or computer keyboarding into a manly test of physical endurance. "There's a kind of machismo culture that you don't sleep," one father told her. "Successful enactment of this masculinity," Cooper concludes, "involves displaying one's exhaustion, physically and verbally, in order to convey the depth of one's commitment, stamina, and virility."'

The above shows that in many cases Long Hours Are Not About Working, but about signaling dedication and toughness (maybe Robert Hanson could write a post about this one.)

With that said: as someone who has worked many, many of those long weeks (and still does so on occasion) I do see some truth in there, but it's of course more nuanced. I've seen people work long hours because other things in their lives are going wrong (and they were escaping it), because of management pressure (this was in the lull between the previous boom and the current one), or simply because it was "crunch/launch time" (for real - which is a completely valid reason for a long week.)
What difference does that make if malware can just install a separate infested version of the browser side-by-side, set it as the default browser, and adjust all desktop/start menu shortcuts to point to this new browser?
Hey Ivan... Started writing a response but it got a little long for HN, so it turned into a post: http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/55107292357/making-exceptions-fo...
That graph only goes to May. The increase happened two months later. For the date range it shows, their estimates match up with the usage graph on DDG almost perfectly.
We don't love battle, we just somehow wind up in them all the time!
Well, if the government will predictably use legal methods to prevent and even break up monopolies, that's indistinguishable from "monopolies being illegal" even if there is no explicit law that says that.
Which could not have had anything to do with the actions of the state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
A naturally earned monopoly is perfectly acceptable, because it is the result of market forces.

The DOJ only opposes mergers and acquisitions which would substantially alter market conditions to increase prices faced by consumers in a way that market forces would not normally support. For example--Verizon and AT&T could never merge, because their combined market power would effectively let them set whatever price they wanted for nationwide cell+data plans. On the other hand--Sprint and TMobile could merge, because without the merger both companies are in danger of failing but as a result of a merger could theoretically compete with Verizon and AT&T.
Even without CALEA, if I'm reading the press coverage right, the FISA orders to which Google comply once they check that they were issued by FISC can be very broad, including "give me ALL the metadata you have" in a single order. Because "taking all metadata an storing it indefinitely is nothing to be worried about" in NSA interpretations.