skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grumble. They also really need a $40-50 T-Shirt tier. It's amazing how easy it can be to talk yourself into contributing that little bit extra...
No, he probably did not plan on ending up in Russia, but he has been wise in dealing with the situation he was put in with the very limited number of options he had.

That he is still alive, well, mentally sound, able to freely speak to journalists (and American politicians) at free will -- and finally now "free" to leave the airport is evidence that he's been wise in making decisions.

> Russia protecting human rights? OMFG

That is an irrelevant and uninformed statement with regards to Snowden's situation and his decision to seek asylum in Russia. It was very simply one of the few rational options to pursue in order for him to remain a 'free man', as has been made abundantly clear by now.
Emacs: Easy foreign language translations in org-mode.
"I mean, Putin straight kills journalists."

So does the United States of America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

The United States government wants to make an example out of Snowden. There's no way he would serve just two years in prison.
Since the chart isn't live, here is my hack:
http://ownu.net/rate.txt

(Nobody wants to see the code behind this :)
Germany was in on the spying act itself. Hypocrites to suggest they have some type of moral superiority over the US.
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The idea is to create the same sense of urgency for people on the fence that they had with the initial $600 tier. Their biggest danger right now is losing momentum and people concluding it's just not going to happen.
I guess at least they're referring to them as customers instead of consumers for a change.
Looks great so far !
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Example application? (excepted scientific computing)
I agree it's a problem without an easy solution. It's not just a problem with python, it's exactly the same thing with rubygems (where it's been getting similar discussion, especially after a rubygems vulnerability a few months ago).

But: The elephant in the room when talking about package signing is what exactly we are trusting.

I think it's actually relatively clear. When I install "rails", I want to know that it really did come from the "rails team", and not from a third party man in the middle.

That's the most that can be expected, and that's sufficient. There's no way to technologically ensure that the rails team itself isn't intentionally including malware in their release. And of course no way to technologically ensure that the release doesn't have bugs or vulnerabilities.

The goal is just ensuring the release is really from who it says it's from. Which is of course hard enough already, for the reasons dealt with in OP, and because who is "the rails team" exactly anyway?
You get all the risk of an investment, and all the rewards of a consumer!
I doubt that anybody else will have more than 4GB of RAM or 128GB of flash in 10 months. There may be some phones that match it, but I would be willing to give great odds that there won't be a mainstream phone with more.
To quote my friend Zigurd, who learned a thing or two about tyranny and totalitarianism from e.g. his Latvian parents who met in a Displaced Persons camp post-WWII, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5840210:

[...]

Until the early 80's there was no widespread use of mobile telephony and internet. It's not crazy to think that the surveillance state has ruined the internet and that there is more value in avoiding it than in using it. Maybe it's over.

[...]

The car industry is facing a generation of buyer who find cars a burden. It's crazy to think that we can't screw this up.
"When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger."

No acritude, just joking ;)
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You forgot to work in VC-istan™.
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What implementations do you suggest? I'd be happy to bring this up to the developers if there's a chance of speeding up our default RNG with one that's just as safe. Note that it must also be compatible with our MIT/Apache 2.0 dual license.
Further, he has his facts totally wrong. The real leaker turned out to be Colin Powell's subordinate, Dick Armitage. Colin Powell knowingly let Scooter Libby take the fall and GO TO JAIL over what Armitage had done.

And now Powell does the talk show circuits and tries to come off as some kind of moral authority.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/colin-po...

Libby was innocent.

>> Edit:

Thread is dead, but your response is totally off. Libby had no clue as to what was going on when he was questioned. At worst, he misremembered (thought it was Tim Russert) where he had heard about Plame and the incident and then was prosecuted for it.

There is no evidence that Powell and Armitage let Bush/Cheney/Libby know about what Armitage had leaked.
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Looks like he started out on the right, especially economically (see the background on Reaganomics) but since the end of the cold war the Overton Window has shifted so far that he's now on the civil-libertarian end of the spectrum, which is often referred to disparagingly as "liberal" in American politics.

(Non-American here ...)
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I believe Tony Blair performed a similar u-turn in regards to Formula 1 tobacco sponsorship shortly after a donation to Labour Party funds from Bernie Ecclestone.

Also, Peter Mandelson committed fraud on his mortgage application and had to resign from cabinet at least twice.
If you've ever been near a russian land border, you'd know sneaking ain't an option - they're still very much into their 30 foot razor wire fences, and mile wide minefields.

AFAIK, the only borders which aren't demarked as such are those which ramble across incredibly inhospitable desert, which serves the same purpose as razor wire and mines.
not ALL businesses have a "primary goal" of turning a profit
He's probably hoping that Iceland offers him asylum. Their bill granting him asylum wasn't denied, it just wasn't allowed to be voted on. So perhaps there's still faint hope for asylum in Iceland.
As the OP says, if the same organization -- and even likely the same _server_ -- is being the certificate authority and distributing the signed releases....

> However in this model if someone is able to send you a malicious package they are also likely able to send you a malicious key.
Ah, I never knew they were headquartered in the UK!
"My friend's friend is my friend" ironically enough.
This is cool. It demonstrates that imagination is more important than tools. I'm going to code in Notepad.exe today as a show of support.
Indexed - high-level wrapper around IndexedDB API with downgrade to localStorage
Good question. No idea! If I get charged the VAT and duty, I think I might be able to make up the £90 by charging the other geeks in my office a "fondle fee".

We're all forced to use windows, I might even be able to make a profit :-)
Using OpenDNS as your DNS provider lets you block questionable content.
I think Snowden has lots of courage for doing what he did, specially since it is the type of revelation that may cost him his life.

I have been downvoted already on the parent post, but coming from an European country that experienced dictatorship for 41 years, I have a tendency to not believe in politicians.

Many fellow Europeans had to endure similar governments in the last century.

So how could in the land of free, citizens expect it would be any different?!
> What I was trying to get at is that there's no guarantee of a phone even if the project is funded.

Guarantee from whom?

Normally I'd agree, because the fundraiser is typically a startup, perhaps a limited company, with no existing business with which to back refunds. So they could burn through the money and end up with nothing to issue refunds with. So from your perspective, there's no guarantee, since suing them would certainly do you no good anyway.

But what about an established company? If they want to guarantee it, why can't they? But, of course, are they? I'm not sure whether they're saying they are, or whether the law would say that they are. But I don't think it's as clear cut as the new startup case.
black on white, links not underlined, letter spacing and uppercase in links wrong, line-height / parapgraph spacing ratio wrong (this one's most important and making it all ugly IMO), two column index - that one's really cruel, uppercase / lowercase first letter mess all around.

the page definitely looks a lot better with CSS disabled.
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Well, porn is not banned here in Denmark. You can see a supposedly complete list here: http://www.teleindu.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Oversigt-o... [PDF, Danish]
"able to freely speak to journalists (and American politicians) at free will"

If you believe this is how it will be for Edward Snowden under the control of Putin and the FSB you are sadly mistaken.. or you are being highly disingenuous.

"Russia will try its darndest to be on its best behavior in sustaining that "asylum-giving, human-rights protecting" image it has recently gotten.

That was your statement man... once again, if you think Russia are an asylum-giving, human-rights protecting country you are simply a fool.
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Then they're not businesses, which is fine.
if all the price tiers are sold out, it would generator 2.5 million only.

That is pretty far away from the 32 million they need
At the moment I can't think of a more politically stable country for Snowden to be in. Latin American countries are historically fickle when it comes to flip-flopping between pro and anti US governments. Russia seems to be a good choice. Much better than China anyway.
Hello,

I run the blog mastering emacs - please let me know if there are any articles you want me to cover.
Fortunate for him he is not gay (as far as we know) as that's illegal in Russia and would prevent entry?

In any case I hope he stays safe and I thank him for his sacrifice.
They may have checked developer.apple.com, which is up. It's just when you try to get into the dev centers that you get the notice.
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First of all, it's completely ridiculous to compare copyright with slavery.

You were never going to express yourself in exactly that manner, so from a practical standpoint copyright isn't preventing you from doing anything at all. It's a good compromise; how else do we prevent publishers and software companies from grabbing up indie work and selling it without compensating the creator? I don't understand being totally against copyright.

The area where it's going wrong is that Disney and the labels have big interests in extending copyright to ridiculous lengths and strengthening it to the extent that it's an anchor dragging behind any startup that wants to compete in that industry. We should be able to share movies and books with our friends and families. In their perfect world, every viewer would pay a fee for every viewing.
Granting asylum to Snowden will just influence relations between US and Russia,and is not done to be coherent with previous standings of the country on the topic of human rights,almost always different.

We have to be careful not to associate concepts like "freedom of speech" and "example of democracy" with countries like Russia, given the actual situation the people there live under I am not sure we can say Russia holds human rights in the highest regard in my opinion.
> Even Intel barely got to support OpenGL 4.0 in its PC architecture, Haswell, and they're probably years away from implementing the latest OpenGL 4.4.

Anyone serious about 3D should ignore Intel cards.

EDIT: Everyone downvoting me please provide benchmarks where Intel cards are able to beat NVidia and ATI cards in professional 3D settings.
The madness that comes along with the long shadow trend
It's my impression that OpenGL ES is basically OpenGL without a bunch of backwards compatibility crap that no modern program uses.
By doing this they survived first and took place of some other honest companies. Still very large benefits.
He applied to Germany and was rejected due to "missing requirements". No official statement was given what requirements exactly were missing. Probably, because you have to be on german ground (or very near) to apply. The application itself is declared confidential due to privacy reasons.

Essentially, our government does not want Snowden to enter Germany.
Do you have a link to some technical description of the "camera technology"? I have only found some fanboy blabberings about fast shutter speed.

EDIT: also did you RTFA? Re: "worse than 808":

>The Lumia 1020 holds even further promise this time around with a more modern redesigned 41MP 1/1.5" back-side-illuminated sensor, a faster aperture at F2.2 versus the 808's F2.4, a six-element Zeiss lens with optical image stabilization and the new Nokia-developed Pro Cam app.
Good for Snowden that he is not homosexual or leaked "Gay propaganda" so he won't end up in jail in russia ... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/russias-anti-gay-c...
I just finished Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City the other day, and after reading this article, I'm really excited to see how his theory about education level being a major factory in whether a city succeeds or not is affected.

I doubt we'll see any short term changes, but in places that don't have good access to education (or in places with an education system like Feynman experienced in Brazil) I can't help but wonder what kind of changes the world is going to experience as average global education level skyrockets due to MOOCs.
I agree intent is important.

I disagree visiting a link, or links, is enough to give you intent, it's just not enough information, is too similar to normal web activity and would mean the potential criminalisation of all sorts of innocent activity.
This used to be my "Big" project, back in the mid 'aughts:

http://www.blogabond.com/

I does, well, exactly what you're looking for. I still touch it from time to time, though mainly to hone my spam-fighting skeelz, which need to be top notch for a user-generated-content site such as this.

Give it a try and let me know what you think. Here's are sample user and trip pages (mine):

http://www.blogabond.com/jason
http://www.blogabond.com/TripView.aspx?tripID=10
Up to date graph: http://vertior.com:9000/
GOP insurrection heats up over surveillance
Such bullshit could only be written by someone who has never lived in the USSR and doesn't really understand what it was about. It's amazing what lengths of absurdity people & media will go to in order to get catchy titles.

[I lived both in the USSR and the USA]
why not make founder $100 and give a discount on batch 2.

the phone seems too high and the founder too low. I'd like it to happen but I would rather wait for a second batch.
full url is http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/germany-should-h...

please don't use url obfuscators on hn.
Yeah. If I were Snowden I wouldn't trust this evil government in the least. Hopefully he's still looking for somewhere else to go.
I was under the impression that that website is outdated. The ISC used to just say "and distribute", which is similar to older versions of the Pine license, and had problems. However, the new language is more similar to the MIT license ("and/or ..."), but the FSF does not have an issue with the MIT license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
https://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/legal.html
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
Yup. There is a lot of benefit to be gained from all of these sensors - both societal and personal. It gives us the tools that we need to manage our lives better, and to make better informed decisions. There is no way that we are going to turn down these benefits.

However, the security services of the US, Russia, China, India, and various European nations will also get this data, as will assorted criminal organizations.
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I couldn't disagree more with the author. Twitter is what you decide to make it. If you don't like someone's tweets, don't follow them. Make twitter the experience you want it to be.
Physical analogies do not work regarding the internet. What happened is like he was given an address, he drove to it in a van, and a screen showed him his email. Then, he extrapolated that the buildings in the block he went to would do something similar, so he drove around to them in a car labeled 'VAN' and they showed emails.
Exactly, imagine how the situation would've played out if Snowden were gay (or a woman).
There is relatively easy

https://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls#fam...

But I don't have an easy way to say "No - that site is fine" - I am not in control.

But actually it's easy only because I know what DNS is and can imagine how to setup my router to use their dns servers.
Seems logical to me.
You (and millions others) routinely misspell things, but mean to search for clean terms.
So google auto-correct search terms first and shows results for clean terms.
"Clicking" would mean you actually want to search for "misspelled" variation.

So impulsively clicking on this link would mean that you just need to get your impulses in order.
Can't agree more (Russian here). In Russia it's all about putting up a show of anti-americanism, because that's what the voters like (the one thing that brings back memories of relative security of late Soviet days). Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp.
I'd analogise it to an open book in a public space. The information is there for you to see when you walk up to it, and you have to interact with it (turning the page) to see the other information. On being caught turning the pages on the book, you get yelled at and imprisoned, despite your contention that it's the book owner's fault for not making sure turning pages was prevented.
A much better pattern for the cancelation that I've seen is to cancel your account and then present you with the feedback form, they will get a much higher rate of usefull feedback this way.
So long as a Paypal account is required to make a > $500 contribution, I won't be contributing at any of those tiers. I know I'm in the minority though so I doubt this will have a big impact on the overall funding.
I feel bad just coming here to post a link, but another great resource is Mark Boulton's "Designing for the Web". It's been released as a free book online[1]. (I'm not affiliated with this in any way)

It has lots of detail on typography, but focussed around the web. It also covers things like colour and layout amongst other topics (e.g. research and workflow, which I find less insightful). It's a great and fairly quick read :)

[1]http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php
To you, yes, but to the law and perhaps more importantly – to the relevant tax agency, a business is meant for turning a profit.

If the founders aren't interested in turning a profit, a charity will serve them better.
"the word “cloud” in “cloud computing” is just a euphemism for “some dark bunker in Idaho or Utah.”"

I always said that and I believe that the "cloud" is just some intermediary paradigm, in some time and hopefully soon, people will host all their data at home and will only upload it encrypted to on line vaults to have them backed up and redundant for accessing.

For now, I am really looking forward for an Evernote / Dropbox hosted outside of USA/UK/etc to start.
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> I have taken 73 users details (all apple inc workers only) and prove them as an example ...

> I have over 100,000+ users details ...

> I do not want my name to be in blacklist

One would think that 73 compromised Apple employee accounts should be enough to make a point. Why would he take another 100k user accounts hostage?
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This is exactly the advice given at the end of the post
It seemed like a weird way to convey the content, but I found myself getting into it after a few slides, in a Zen sort of way :)

The author is Japanese, after all.

Of course, I've been a constant Emacs user since about 1990, so maybe I'm cutting him some extra slack. I love Emacs. It is so powerful and I feel that even after 23 years of daily use I'm still only touching the surface of what it can do.

In some ways Emacs has fallen behind the state-of-the-art, but the community is so vast and talented that they keep coming up with awesome add-ins to keep it competitive (thanks, guys!).
Very cool!

Is there code review as part of the judging?

The team that won Angel Hack in my area didnt actually do much hacking and had misleading screenshots stitched together everywhere. Some other teams brought a LOT of code with them already which was also suspect.
This kind of pen-testing, without previous authorization, is a very risky enterprise if you live in the UK. The Computer Misuse Act 1990 expressly forbids "unauthorised access". Sections 1-3 of the Act introduced three criminal offences:

- unauthorised access to computer material, punishable by 6 months' imprisonment or a fine "not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale" (currently £5000);

- unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offences, punishable by 6 months/maximum fine on summary conviction or 5 years/fine on indictment;

- unauthorised modification of computer material, subject to the same sentences as section 2 offences.

If he had been contracted to pen-test the website by Apple then it would be a different matter.
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Yes, but he has to read a LOT more code (arguably the important part of programming) than you or I on a daily basis.
The first job is to try and make sure that there is no accidental viewing of stuff. Once a click on a shock site has been made the damage is done.

I could trust a filter based on a whitelist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ or nothing.
Or just being held accountable for their actions.
So true. And people are going around singing Russia's praises on human rights now they are considering his asylum. It's so wrong.
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The irony is that Russians seeking asylum in the US has been a stereotypic event, to the point where it was made into a musical called Chess.

> Wonder if this will inspire whistle blowers in Russia now?

And what kind of secrets, unknown to the Russian public are you thinking about? Whistleblowing is about informing the citizen about secret actions made by the state (or rich company) that shows corruption or lies. If the action is not secret, then there is nothing to blow about. If the state do not deny spying or corruption, then what can the whistleblower say? "Oooo, look! What the government says is correct, and they are indeed doing what they say they are" aren't exactly whistleblowing. News maybe, but not whistleblowing. The government have to first claim to be the land of the free before someone can contradict them on it.
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I'm not sure you finished the piece. The author says this:

Luckily, Twitter has an amazing feature that will
instantly remove negativity from your stream. It's
called UNFOLLOWING. The next time something feels a
bit too snarky: Unfollow that user. Before you know
it, you'll have a really nice place where people have
interesting and quirky conversations.

So you seem to be agreeing with him, not disagreeing.

To me the larger take-away points are these:

1. We should not idolize these people.

2. We should try to be better ourselves.