skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about an adversary that potentially taps and stores all traffic at major endpoints worldwide. They packets have to go further than a few hops, but not to a specific destination, not necessarily.

Think taping a playing card to the spokes of a deaf person's bike. You won't automagically hear it when they're riding it in the basement, but if they ride through the streets, you'll know.
I agree with your general point but your example is not correct

The Internet Archive makes it very easy to remove content from their site. I had a family web site accessible to the public for 12 years with about 25,000 pictures on it. For various reasons I took the site down but archive.org still showed the pictures. A quick change to robots.txt stopped that though. Basically, even if the archive grabbed the files at a point in time they periodically check to make sure they still have the right to those files in robots.txt. If they don't, they won't display them. I was vey impressed with them when I learned this.
Your app appears free though? Growth and traction of free apps and growth and traction of paid apps aren't really comparable unless you have a plan to convert. Care to share?
IIRC, this removes the ability to use hangouts as well.
I get all those messages too. I think it's because I'm using an old youtube account that I later connected to the google one.
These guys are building a machine that can cook recipes from fresh ingredients:

http://everycook.org
It's not that astonishing, since the question was "Do you regard Edward Snowden, the national security consultant who released information to the media about the phone scanning program, as more of a traitor, or more of a whistle-blower?" If one has not been following the story closely, they might think from that question that releasing information about phone scanning was ALL that Snowden did.

As Nate Silver pointed out at FiveThirtyEight: "Some Americans may be pleased by Mr. Snowden’s disclosures about how the N.S.A. conducted surveillance against U.S. citizens – but displeased that he has also disclosed details about its international surveillance. The Quinnipiac poll should probably have described a fuller spectrum of the information that Mr. Snowden has released."
There is one thing a human can do that these new fancy drones can't yet. Look out the window and identify if a target is hostile or not. My understanding (I used to be in Naval flight training) is that this is still a huge part of the work done by pilots that these drones don't handle well.
True. To be honest I would be quite suprised if they didn't do something like this. Kudos to them.
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No, Telnet does not, in fact, intercept any character sequences unless when connecting to the telnet port (port 23).
It's definitely ironic to use medium as the platform to say why you shouldn't use medium, regardless of how much sense it makes.
i wonder if we can move to a world where wars are fought entirely by machines and then perhaps where wars are entirely simulated inside machines , without the extortionate cost and human suffering
Point well taken.

I've been hesitant on monetizing because of that very same growth I'm seeing. In about 6 weeks I expect to peak in the top 10 US Navigation app for about 3 days (new school year).

I've been debating ads + freemium "ads free mode", but I feel that at this point I'm getting more value out of establishing a user base. My real issue is that I don't have a GOOD scalable monetization option in mind.

Negotiating local deals takes way too long with too much turnover. I'd be interested in offering school apparel deals though. That seems scalable with the right vendor.

e: I am currently split testing one campus @ 99 cents in a separate app to test how that's received.
I guess you meant to say 'rules out the free version of Google Maps', which is a pity because I think it is th obvious choice. Not unreasonably, though, Google expect to recoup the cost of putting it together. Geocoding is one of those frontiers yet to be cracked by the OpenSource community, but if such a thing existed I doubt they would be happy with its inclusion in a commercial product.
Are you happy with specific countries, or are you hoping for a global solution? It's a tough nut to crack, because individual countries often use local datums or grid reference systems, and users in those countries expect to be able to use them, too. In addition, how accurate do you need them to be? Are we talking street addresses [lookup and reverse lookup], parcel location, grid references or what? The precision you need will determine what is an acceptable solution, or at least one 'fit for purpose'.
For Europe, at least have a look at what the INSPIRE data portal offers. I have no knowledge of any available Russian data, although past history would tell me that it is probably held in a locked vault.
Matt Hutchinson's IntelliGeoLocator project[written up here--http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/difficult-addr...] might also be a starting point for you, and the IP is apparently held by the Australian Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information [CRCSI], who can be contacted through www.crcsi.com.au. Ultimately, though, you will probably have to source the raw data you need and improve the accuracy as you go.
Point 1 & 3 are nice enough to convince me to try it out, but I kind of miss the bracey syntax.

Is the backend of the compiler outputting C or native assembly? Is there a way to use Dylan on ARM/Linux?
To be clear, I'm not suggesting you did anything bad or wrong.

I'm just surprised the earlier story died so quickly. HN is full of the kind of people that appreciate Nate Silver's analysis. His work was much discussed here during the last major election. I would have expected that earlier submission to have quickly gathered votes and comments.

I sometimes am completely puzzled by the voting choices people make here.
Yes, I just did so today:

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/16774/how-do-i-le...
I think concern about other points of compromise that would render encryption less useful is very, very valid. Not sure about the CPU itself per se, and perhaps it could be a combination of components, not to mention the firmware, software, etc.

With all of the emphasis on endpoint encryption as a solution in particular, I have been raising this concern. The NSA has already carved out an exception that allows them to keep encrypted data forever as they attempt to crack it. So, that reveals their determination to defeat protective measures. Why wouldn't they attempt to build in other back doors at the hardware/firmware/software level?

It just seems to me that too much emphasis on technical solutions to government intrusions is not the right way to go. As a back-stop, technical solutions like encryption are fine. But, why should we have to play cat-and-mouse with our government to protect our privacy? This posture lets them off the hook and esentially says, "if they can get your information, it's fair game". We shouldn't have to look over our shoulders this way.

Instead, their activity should be outlawed and there should be legal protection, such that whistleblowers like Snowden are considered heros instead of criminals.
You can be pretty certain the NSA's copy isn't wiped.
There's a microcontroller with ARCompact architecture inside Intel chipsets, which has access to all devices, to the RAM, has its own network stack and running custom real-time OS (ThreadX). All technologies actively advertised by Intel such as Active Management, AntiTheft, Identity Protection, Rapid Start, Smart Connect, Protected Audio Video Path - are powered by this controller.

More info: https://ruxconbreakpoint.com/assets/Uploads/bpx/Breakpoint%2...

So basically every desktop motherboard or notebook has a chip which runs unknown software and has full access to your RAM and network interface. There's something to worry about.
Right, thanks, I've updated the title.
What is there to challenge? Information Assurance Directorate does important stuff too. Yes, they're part of the NSA, but no, they aren't related at all to any of the controversy involved. IAD needs to know the latest attacks and everything for defensive purposes. They're the branch of the NSA responsible for securing networks.

Entire departments, even inside of the NSA, have nothing to do with the current controversy. And it is important for them to stay up-to-date on the latest and greatest cyberattacks that go on in the country.

Your mindset is of bigotry and ignorance. You don't clearly don't know how the Federal Government is setup.

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/ia_at_nsa/index.shtml
Make sure you maintain control over the domain and always have a robots.txt file present, because if you ever lose that, those files will become visible again. Good luck arranging for your descendents to do this after you die.
I get pestered with messages from Google on various services asking for my phone, merging/creating accounts, joining Google+, etc. Often the UI is so that for an average user it's not clear how to opt-out from it. Undoubtedly on purpose.

Each time you want to sign out of Google, there's an ever present, huge bright button - "Join Google+". I suppose more than one person clicked it by accident or out of frustration :) On rare occasions when I use Chrome, it never forgets to remind me how I'm missing out and should totally sign-in to Chrome.

Staying relevant is hard work :)
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Craigslist would be another Perl shop. And Media Temple.
!sp (startpage) should give you proxied Google results.
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Most GSM modems are part of SoCs. Indeed for USB dongles for your PC or laptop it's different, but that's not the "baseband processor" I was talking about. It would be somewhat harder to exploit the parent system through USB (at least if the driver can be trusted), on the other hand it could temporarily pretend to be a keyboard and storage device but that'd be very OS dependent.
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DNR

Don't build a business, create something good.
Yes, FB wipes data they have stored on you, but not NSA/GHCQ/FRA and any other letter-combination agency they have copied the data to.
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...those pesky competitors, eh Andy.
The compiler has multiple backends.

The "HARP" backend outputs native code for x86-linux, x86-freebsd and x86-windows.

The C backend outputs C and works on x86_64-linux, x86_64-freebsd and Mac OS X.

We have an in-progress LLVM backend that will support all of the above platforms and more.

As for ARM/Linux, we have a port in progress for the C backend. In theory, it should work after a cross-compile or using cross-compilation tools, but we haven't quite tried it out yet ourselves (the person doing the port is getting married this weekend and going away for a couple of weeks).

If you would like to help out with Dylan on ARM/Linux, drop by #dylan on FreeNode IRC and I'll work with you. (The hack-a-thon this weekend is a great time for that.)

Otherwise, we plan to have this in the 2013.2 release (whenever that is).
Try reading this article replacing Medium with posterous/tumblr/subvtle/Google +/Wordpress

Yes, and? The point remains the same and remains valid, it just applies to more than just medium: if you don't host it yourself, it might disappear tomorrow, no natural catastrophe necessary, simply because it's the choice of people other than you.

The content publishing is a commodity, nothing revolutionary or wrong with it.

For me there is nothing right with it. We're not talking about the expensive and heavy printing presses of old; everybody should have at least one of them new-fangled ones, of not a dozen, just because hey why not.
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The only solution is opencore cpu based hardware

http://opencores.org/donation
Dude, thats awesome. I think its funny as hell that you're irrelevant capstone project would be hn relevant and awesome that you are here to see it.
There's nothing quite like a good conspiracy theory to start the morning, I read your comment and thought, "Gosh, encoding phoning home spyware that way would be straight forward to implement on top of an automatic updates feature."

I won't say I am a bit more paranoid, rather I am amused by the thought that I could be, but for the understanding that the technical details are so raw that there is no avoiding such exploits once anyone is granted my trust.
Libertarians != libertarians. The difference is that Libertarians are a party and libertarians like to party. :)

The Pauls are fiscally conservative which is only 1/2 of the Libertarian equation. The party stands for social liberalism and fiscal conservatism. Basically this just means less tax, more privatized government services, and to leave people alone if they aren't hurting each other.

Small-"l" libertarians are those that believe the liberty of the people is most important, even more important than any social or ethical constraints that have been placed upon them, but they believe that there can be a government that can enforce this, unlike anarchists.
You can use !sp (StartPage) to get a proxied Google query result.

Google search, no privacy disclosure.

That's my first fallback if straight DDG doesn't work. I'm falling back less often (about one month of solid DDG use now).
> Amazon ruled the ereader/ebook marketplace, because it was the first company to offer both a reader and electronic books together

And because it was selling ebooks for less than it was paying publishers for them.
and the german government under Hitler built the autobahns and created Volkswagen.

At some point, any participation in a system that allows such broad and systematic abuses needs to be called out.

yes, i know about godwin's law, thanks.
Time to find a bitcoin car-share.
Why your next project should be public domain
That's now the second article on there I actually enjoyed reading... the other one was about not posting on medium, too.
How the hell does it end up 50% wins all the time? It frustrates me to no end that, no matter how good I get, DOTA can still make sure I only win half the games.

Also, I realized that I feel around ten times worse when losing than how good I feel when winning, so the expected derived pleasure from the game is really really negative, so I scaled my playing down a whole lot.
It's not smearing when it's true. Just plain old exposing.
You can find the 'golden' ratio, as well as any other ratio you fancy, within any complex dataset, such as the waveforms of an audio file or the spirals on a sea shell. The golden ratio meme is like numerology, once you know what it is, you will see it pop up everywhere.
Sign up code for hackers - 4hYdfe ;)
From reading the article, it seems that the TOS giving Medium a right to commercially exploit anything published on their platform without compensating the author is the key point under discussion.

"By furnishing your User Content to Medium, you give Medium a broad license to use and exploit your User Content as it operates and evolves its business...it is a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to exploit all copyright rights now in existence.."
She didn't say "don't use medium for anything at all", she said don't give away away the rights your writing, there is no need to.

Are you really thinking that article is some kind of valuable intellectual property she gave up? That this is her best work? Then there would be irony.
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That is why NSA has their own factory in which they produce their own chips and computers, clean and (electronically) isolated place.

I believe any country worth its salt, such as China/Israel/Russia, has such a capability - to produce their own chips and stack to work with, and they have the capability to compromise/backdoor foreign/target hardware, as well as methods to detect attempted tampering in their own for example military hardware.

It would be too damn funny if a countries communications and/or military hardware suddenly started acting "weird"/against them in case of a war?
Adding weights to the tip helps dramatically, even without rotation. There is a small hole in the tip of streamline darts which you can push metal BBs into to achieve this out-of-the-box.

However one of our design requirements was not to modify the darts because it was disallowed for safety concerns from another student-org of mine: http://muzombies.org
"Pasty Faced App Developers left their laptops Tuesday night"
Those are questions that get at the same underlying issue; they are not the same question. As Nate Silver pointed out, the wording of the question was completely unchanged. He also thinks it did a fair job presenting both sides, fwiw.
I still had to figure out a few acronyms so I will include them here:

Took me a while, but I figured A/P = autopilot, and A/T = auto throttle?

Vref = Landing reference speed or threshold crossing speed. Huge table of "V speeds" here including extra info about Vref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds
I think the emphasis was on "reasonable"
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> eight hundred continuous hours of play

That is supposed to be eight, not eight-hundred. Someone should edit these before they are posted. It was stated as eight hours at the top, so there is little excuse to get this wrong.
The population of the world is slightly under 7 billion.
I've always wondered about those dirt-cheap USB devices sold on eBay. Seems like an easy target for a malicious device masquerading as a USB hub.
You might find it interesting that a fellow HN-er (read: me) totally geeked out to this in college.

I even built a better version of the game engine which is still actively used at Mizzou and Truman State: https://github.com/mikeknoop/knoopvszombies
I don't think it's reading the books that people object to; it's giving money to someone who may use it to campaign against basic human rights.
*300:AD 30 C0 88 D0 FD 4C 00 30

OWWW my ears! And I think you meant "4C 00 03" there. :)
starcraft 2 still windows/mac only :(
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Mythbusters had worse luck than the local media at your link:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-da...
Finally someone said it.

Its also a game that we would loose against our own government/s, since we are paying for all that - in effect working against ourselves from the start.

This is a sociological problem that cant be solved by technological means. If people are fine with with their government fucking them over, no amount of tinfoilhattery will suffice to change anything.
I doubt it because your username is linked with your Facebook email address (username@facebook.com). It would probably lead to other people getting your emails if they reassigned the username. I was actually surprised when I found out Twitter reassigns usernames. After I closed my account it wasn't long before someone took mine.
what began ? :⁾)
When you hear diplomats and intelligence types on radio interviews, as I have in the past week, talking of never having sensitive conversations in private homes or hotel rooms, but instead going outdoors where audio surveillance is difficult, the whole "expectation of privacy" gets turned on its head.

The law may not recognize this (though I suspect that's a tad fuzzy). Spycraft most certainly does.
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Is Russia interrogating Snowden?
>> "I gather this link points to facebook.com. Funny, I deleted my facebook account years ago, but Im sure as heck not going to click on a facebook.com link and find out if I really did!"

So although you don't want a Facebook account, if you have one you forgot about you'd rather not know about it??
Well, this gives the false impression that you have to pay to be competitive in LoL. Which is far from true. The only thing that can be bought only with money are: skins, name changes and transfers between regions. The things that make you actually stronger (runes, levels) can't be bought directly with money. You can spend money to accelerate your's account XP progression (by a factor of two). But that's irrelevant for first account, as it's not the account that is the limiting factor - I'm pretty sure any very good player can make a level 1 account and beat me hands down using it, as I can beat with a level 1 account a person who just got max level with XP boost.

After all, we talk about a game where you have over 100 champions with completely different skill sets, over 100 in-game items to buy, all creating a huge array of possible plays and counterplays... That at the same time requires split-second reflexes, maintaining map awareness and, the hardest part, good teamwork.
There are also similar implications for the baseband firmware (the part that deals with the signaling towers etc) in cellphones. Not a single phone on the market has an open source baseband OS.
Isn't that one of the main features of LinkedIn? Maybe I'm misunderstanding but aren't you essentially saying the equivalent of "I don't use Google's services but it's a handy way to help me find websites"?
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The possibility that Facebook actually deletes "all the data stored on you" is negligible! I give it 0.00000000000000000001% likelihood. This is against anything Facebook has ever done. Empty words!
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If it could deal with daytime vs nighttime that would be amazing.

"Drive Simulator"
Sounds about right. When my house in College Park was robbed, I never wound up getting any insurance money for my stolen property because I just couldn't string together enough competent employees to complete the process.
ChucK does that, too. Actually, that's the only way I have really used ChucK, their performance system is not exactly what they claim.
Changelogs like "Bugfixes to cffi and ctypes" are pretty useless. Do these bugs affect my code? Is my code going to explode horribly if I don't upgrade? Is my code going to explode horribly if I do upgrade? etc.
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The death penalties are what really turn me off to Dota. A player A killing a player B results in player B being unable to play for a short time, player A getting experience AND player A getting gold? It seems like far too many matches quickly become one sided and you either farm them or are the ones getting farmed.
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if they're ever going to do ads, you know it'll be in a fancy 48px font screaming at you...
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> Try reading this article replacing Medium with posterous/tumblr/subvtle/Google +/Wordpress.

I've never played with Posterous, but Tumblr, Svbtle, and WordPress all allow you to use your own domain, which at least allows you to take your URLs with you if you leave.
In my mind, part of the definition of a content farm is that there are people "planting seeds". In other words, content farms have a tier of people (or a process) to orchestrate which content is created in order to generate revenue.

Without this tier, there is too much confusion between the definition of a platform and a content farm.
Why is the author reinventing the way links work? The *'s are far too small and it makes the article itself look ridiculous.