skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not all-or-nothing thinking re: failing to pass the law. A vote count's closeness has very very little to do with how close the outcome actually was. It literally means nothing that the vote count was so close.

I also don't think one case will do it. It'd have to be a trend (people literally snatched up in the night), a policy shift (all copyright abuse starts being enforced because now they have that data), or some kind of tragic action leading to the deaths (yes deaths) of people on US soil.
Not knowing what the site does or the concept behind it,(because the site shows as unavailable) the one thing I would encourage you to look for is a different domain. IMO, the name will be incredibly hard for people to remember how to spell in addition to potentially "lacking credibility" when one sees the site listed or potentially advertised. Good luck with the new project!
Mole people?

Seriously, who? CEOs? Wall Street CEOs? CEOs tend to act according to the board & shareholders, and if they don't, they tend to get replaced with someone else. The largest shareholders tend to be places who get money from 401k plans, or pension funds. Want to send a real message? Convince everyone to stop contributing to 401k's or their pension funds. The money dries up, Wall Street feels the pinch in a BIG way (to the tune of trillions), the big corporations fold / find a new CEO that will convince people to put their money back into the markets.
Nonsense. This is just more arrogance.

JSON is code because I use it as code. It's not your business to tell me it's not code -- you haven't seen how I'm using it. And don't go chirping that I should only do things your way, it's none of your god damned business what I'm using it for.

Further, if JSON was really only data, then it's an incredibly stupid way to store data, given that it has a human-readable syntax that the computer can only deal with after it's been parsed. As data, it's bloated and inefficient. To the extent that JSON is a good format, it's code. To the extent that it's data, it's not a good format.
I can't tell if you actually believe this or if it's just sarcasm.
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For the average citizen it's all about reward and risk. A large population of the US is middle class and the risk of being detained, alienated or whatnot is far greater than the reward of complete liberty. And besides the surface illusion of liberty seems to be doing an alright job anyways.

Now if the majority of US population sinks into poverty then the elite will have something to worry about. A far more likely scenario for the near future is that smaller countries become affected by citizen outrage, at which point they cut US political and economic influence out of their governments' decisions. You know how America imposes sanctions on Cuba? Well imagine that a large portion of the world imposes sanctions on the US. That might have some meaningful effect although an ongoing relationship with China alone might be enough to keep the US going for a while.
Yes, this looks like a great little device but for the part about convincing me to buy it.
Oh, absolutely. "Detroit Steel" is far more sturdy compared to its European brethren of the time, but I think the point is that good engineering is an even better protection than sheer material strength.
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While this is possible, I believe it'd be extremely unlikely.

Let's say they indeed decided to include something in the code submitted. It's an open source project, and it is a just matter of when someone will catch that. Once someone catch that, it gives them nothing but material evidence that they are up for something there. (and for that matter, it's not that every Linux users will have SELinux enabled to begin with.)
I think the example he took of moving sites from Linode to EC2 is one of the better things he can do while avoiding working on his product. As he claimed he did learn something, adding value to his skills. But yeah, I get the point. There are so many other things which might not be productive.
I am fascinated with the idea of customizable window managers. I haven't delved that deep, but the difference between XFCE and Unity is night and day. I can choose color schemes, window decorations, and make custom task bars. This should be table stakes for graphical interfaces.
*The Outrage in the USA about PRISM spying is wearing off already.

The rest of the world however..
It's not a Ponzi scheme, because the mining rig builders aren't promising profits, they just promise to deliver the machine. It may very well be a bubble, though.
This is what I was thinking too, but it would also render the entire US infrastructure insecure and I don't see that happening, unless gov agencies and contractors buy a special non crippled CPU and that would raise red flags/whistleblowers eventually. FBI likes to force backdoors but I think the NSA realizes it could be turned against them if purposely sabotaging their own country..... unless just the exports have been backdoored /tinfoil

Then again NIST did once recommend a feeble RNG presumably so the NSA could break it with a RN skeleton key

This is probably BS but hopefully additional fear mongering promotes more open hardware projects. If you want to see terrifying insecurity reverse engineer any mobile baseband stack and processor its running in supervisor mode and everything is executable w/no NX bit
Re how this kind of thing can work: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/...

"There is a substantial design space in malicious circuitry; we show that an attacker, rather than designing one speciﬁc attack, can instead design hardware to support attacks. Such ﬂexible hardware allows powerful, general purpose attacks, while remaining surprisingly low in the amount of additional hardware. We show two such hardware designs, and implement them in a real system. Further, we show three powerful attacks using this hardware, including a login backdoor that gives an attacker complete and highlevel access to the machine. This login attack requires only 1341 additional gates: gates that can be used for other attacks as well. Malicious processors are more practical, more ﬂexible, and harder to detect than an initial analysis would suggest."
AFAIK, intel microcode patching mechanism works in parallel with normal instruction execution. That is, the instructions are decoded and executed normally, and in parallel different circuitry looks for known fault cases, and traps if necessary. So long as you won't find the special case, the execution takes exactly as long.

And there is not enough time in the universe to iterate through a 128-bit number, so you won't find the special case.
Don't put words in my mouth, I didn't claim he was "stupid." To say that one thing he said somewhere is stupidity is a far cry from claiming he is stupid.

I also never said that "opinionated design is stupid".

Perhaps you could rephrase your question in such a way that you aren't presuming to speak for me.
Battery swap requires a reboot (usually) which is bit annoying.
I think the point is that this didn't used to constitute suspicious activity. The range of suspicious activity is growing and growing. Something that no one has really talked about yet is the effect recent revelations have had on the overton window (the narrow range of opinions the public will accept)[1]. Having such extreme behaviour exhibited by governments has the effect of making previously questionable policies seem more moderate and acceptable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me."

-- Martin Niemöller, 1946
My biggest potential profit was during the American Idol reign of terror. At the time, the keyword in Adwords was 1/cent a click. You read that right. Literally, 200,000 impressions/minute with a click-through rate of 1.3%. Nearly 150,000 clicks in one hour. Given a dance related affiliate product, I could have turned $6,000 into $250,000 in less than a day. Sigh.

Oh yeah, another day, long ago, "Face" was not costing very much. The Face keyword shows up for 'face' and 'facebook'.
It’s not simply apathy, and personally I think one of the most dangerous things is for American’s to blame ourselves for lack of change when the system is pretty much designed to minimize civil unrest.

The biggest issue is simply comfort. Most HNers work for pretty cool companies, but even then how many would face repercussions if they took the day off to burn tires in the street? Also this type of serious protest you discuss does happen for just a day, but maybe weeks (or longer). Many HNers would definitely face employment concerns if they took weeks off to protest, and most people outside the tech community would be fired/seriously repremanded as the employer/employee balance of power is extremely imbalanced right now.

The surveillance state is, imho, one of the greatest existential threats to individual freedom in the history of the US, but for anyone looking at the risk calculus it’s still a future threat: today you have tons of food, entertainment, a place to live and most people don’t actually feel the affects of the shrinking limitations on freedom (in fact the only people who do are those who are fighting against this changes, another point in favor of not protesting from the pov of risk).

So the calculus of pleasure means for most people protest is more painful than the current state of things. But there’s also the pain factor. Most Americans are aware of the incarceration rate of the US. We’re also aware of the terrible conditions in US prisons. We know the fate that became Manning, can only imagine what will happen to Snowden and under the current administration US citizens have even been targeted for assassination (no due process involved). Not only is there a threat of reduced pleasure to consider, you really, really don’t want to face punishment at the hands of the US government.

Finally there’s the completely uninteresting but real problem of geolocation: The US is a huge country, where are we going to meet? Even in DC today most protester are actually hired to protest, they aren’t concerned citizens but paid by a group of concerned citizens to protest in a formulaic and safe way.

Assaults on American freedoms are being extracted in such a brilliant way that pleasure/pain calculus won’t sway in favor of massive protest and unrest until the government has such power that such protests can be squashed before their inception (this is exactly why the surveillance state is so dangerous).

But please don’t turn your anger inward or towards other Americans: learn about tools that can fight the surveillance state (legal and technical), start small community discussion about these topics, and continue to fund organizations that are fighting for your rights in these domain. And yes keep being angry on HN, everyone who up or down votes your comment at least has to think about what is being said.
This is a wonderful example of how technology can improve lives. There's a huge way to go between "reading out whatever you're looking at" and "being a helpful assistant", but this does help show the potential.
Not have been invoked since the cold war means they have something better and didn't need to invoke it.

I'd say that the loudest "fuck you" has been when Schroeder didn't join the invasion of Iraq.
Aren't startups just companies? Isn't that program just code? Isn't living just life? Are paintings just paint?
That's seems like a neat app!
How did you handle the concurrent remote-access on the files? Is there a way for the user applications to be warned when you receive an operational transformation?
I'm implementing a fuse filesystem for a similar webapp and I thought it would be impossible for an editor that hasn't be designed for that to deal with the concurrent modifications, even if the filesystem can handle it.
Then they came for the basement dwelling nerd, validating his entire existence.
There's a few niches where affiliates provide nontrivial value as well. For example, in travel there are both kinds. A number do take the minimal, often spammy, approach of trying to insert themselves into a sale that was already going to happen so they can capture it. One route is to create content-farm "travel" pages that don't really have much travel information, and exist solely to get an affiliate cookie onto the machine of someone obviously researching travel.

But Hipmunk is another example of a site largely supported by travel-affiliate revenue, and they do it by actually providing a significant value-add service.
Showing real inputs until the user fills them in may be a nice compromise.
This is basically what FollowGen[1] does. HN discussion of when the guy that built FollowGen wrote about how Twitter should shutdown his app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5607186

[1]: https://followgen.com/
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SHOULD is a horrible word to put in any spec if it doesn't specify what the result will be if that recommendation is violated
Elected officials don't have a reason to action any concern unless you're willing to change your vote over it (indeed, if lots of people are willing to change all their votes over it.)[1]

Something like PRISM doesn't even get the requisite majority support (well, it does for email, not for phone records), let alone high enough priority to make people vote for some third "privacy party" candidate in the next presidential election, or to vote out legislators based on their support for it. It doesn't stand a chance of being changed.

(except by a ruling that it breaches the 4th, which is rather unlikely, sadly.)

[1] example from the UK; leaving the EU (most people would say yes, but wouldn't change their vote over it). House of Lords reform, too. If we ever get a referendum on either, boom!
Almost every other paragraph in this article diminishes the strong-sounding headline

British Foreign Office brushed off the significance of the German move. "It's a loose end from a previous era which is right to tie up," the Foreign Office said in a statement, noting that the agreement had not been used since 1990.
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237 of the Fortune 500 is a powerful reality distortion field. I've been right (Zynga) and wrong (Facebook) before, the future is notoriously hard to predict. The fact that anyone perceives any long term value to software with banner features like "scheduled tweets" is supremely irritating. By the time this slew of darling me-too software startups are ashes, the early stage investors will have already extracted their return. In the end, I suppose that is all that matters. What is most irksome is that HootSuite is effectively crippled because Twitter terms of service will not permit them to develop features that are in incredibly useful, and they will sue companies that do (TweetAdder). HootSuites entire business is predicated on an amicable relationship with Twitter, but if the business delivers features that are truly valuable, how do they prevent Twitter from commoditizing them within Twitters native feature set? This strategy is incredibly naive, and it's destined to fail.
This is the loudest "fuck you" Germany has given the US in half a century.

I doubt it. Surely, the refusal to go along with the phony reasoning to invade the Iraq[0] was more significant? That one resulted in that hilarious old/new Europe thing and Freedom Fries. As was the recent abstention regarding bombing Libya. I'm sure there are many economic conflicts that have been more serious as well.

And I suppose someone with some diplomatic background knowledge may be laughing at all of this because the real divisive issues are not discussed as publicly.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_QbpFl7RM
I used to use bookmarks when they were simple to use.

I'd find a page and click `add bookmark' and then I would go back to it later. Somehow bookmarks regressed even though they were fine as they were. If I bookmark a page now, it just goes somewhere.

If I click the `Bookmarks' menu, I don't see any bookmarks. I don't understand what happened, all I see are a bunch of folders of stuff I never added and don't care about.

Anyway, since bookmarks are worthless now, I just have like 50 tabs open at all times now. I periodically go through them and get any code snippets I want or just close them if I read what I wanted.
I was referring to the large amount of asian, mexican and central american people who live in SF. SF is known as an amnesty city (along with NYC, LA and Chicago).

What is the racial/ethnic diversity of Sweden? Showing stats on high immigration where the top of list is finnland, germany, denmark, etc. It's great sweden takes refugee's, but that is easy if they are a tiny fraction of the population. What percentage of the population is a different race or ethnicity?
Here is san fransisco http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html
> manual click through and thus waaaay too slow

I used the mouse wheel.
Too bad people are flagging these stories more than ever now. It seems that worrying about the surveillance state they're now in is too "boring" to them.
Yeah, I find it stupid as well. I have the Facebook domain blocked at the /etc/hosts level and generally won't go there, period.
"I'll be sure to come to him next time I need to figure out why my car is making that noise. Or when I'm looking for a heart surgeon."

Do I ever agree with you on this one. I laughed when I read that as well.

I worked with Steve at a company he was VP of Marketing at. He is primarily a creative marketing and business guy and is good with the BS (I say that as a compliment by the way). While he does have technical abilities (just like I can put together some code) that is almost certainly not his area of expertise.

Of course what he is saying is possible. Sure. But anyone could have said that and trying to enhance the statement by referring to him as "one of Silicon Valleys leading experts" as if "he was on a high level team at Intel" or something is really just lazy you know what at work.

Next we will hear what Woz thinks about all of this.
> There's no need for comments unless you are trying to use it for something other than raw data.

Is this a true statement? Even books have margins, and word docs comments. I think it’s not infrequent that pure data calls for metadata to put it into context for future users of that data.

And in computing most "pure data" formats have had either comments - or schemas and specifications which outline which the contents. The later sure look like comments stored externally to the documents, from my perspective.

In general I do not think data is self describing, and thus must be commented on in some form to describe it.
Never have done hardware design but is it not possible to say after specific instruction sequence to make the CPU:

1. Not honor NX bit
2. Mess with RNG
3. Give constant ASLR on reboot

These alone can go a long way to compromising a system.
which IMHO is upheld primarily due to confirmation bias

I agree; this was my point. Its frustrating to trot out a trite middlebrow dismissal for when we don't like something and to pretend it doesn't exist otherwise.
Title: "Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors"

First sentence: "Experts think the NSA has hardware level backdoors build into Intel and AMD processors".

Second sentence: "one of Silicon Valleys leading experts, says that he would be extremely surprised if the American NSA does not have backdoors built into Intel and AMD chips".

Top notch journalism right here.
So where does this CO2 go? Do we need more trees to offset it, or what
In many ways it resembles the story of Weimar republic and Hitler's ascension to power. There have been of lot of speculation about why that may have happened, what kind of social forces have made the population behave in a way that ultimately harmed everyone etc. but there was no way to test it experimentally.

Now there's a window of opportunity for social scientists to test the hypotheses and maybe even find out what's really going on in these kind of situations.
This technique would be assuming that it's a full-time backdoor. Some of the speculation has been that there are routines that are triggered only in certain special conditions.

I don't actually subscribe to the "conspiracy theories" for the most part, including this one - really just making an academic point here. The whole backdoor theory, IMHO would have to rely on something in software to leverage the supposed backdoor.

However, the "sabotaged RNG" idea noted below is more plausible.

(Edit: Tuna beat me to the comment, I had not refreshed the page)
Most people in the US probably assume that:

* the agencies performing surveillance by and large have good intentions

* surveillance has or will have no practical impact on their lives, because

* they're not doing anything wrong, so they're probably fine, and anyway

* they can't really do anything about it.

As for the first, it reminds me of this Onion article: "Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: 'We Don't Exist'"[0]. We have ordinary people, people with flaws and cognitive biases. They're hyper-sensitized to threats, convinced we're all in imminent danger unless we institute mass surveillance For Our Own Good. This is essentially a flawed premise (the road to hell, etc).

The second is more or less correct. It makes no difference in one's daily life.

In the third, I chose the word "wrong" deliberately. Most people incorrectly assume they've not done anything illegal, but most people don't have nefarious plans and therefore assume they've nothing to worry about.

The third is also more or less correct, but it's a flawed premise that you, personally, have to be able to do something about it.

I really think more people should be educated along the lines of "Don't Talk to the Cops"[1]. Even if you have no nefarious plans, the justice system's incentives are all aligned against you; they want convictions, not the truth. The adversarial nature of the system is predicated on you not being thoughtlessly compliant.

[0]: http://www.theonion.com/articles/smart-qualified-people-behi...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik.

edited: formatting. wish I knew how to do bulleted lists.
If they are collecting and storing everyone's data, it will be abused. It's only a matter of time and gradually weaker requirements for accessing it.

It needs to be stopped now before they can abuse it.
IANAL, but I don't think so. Practically, probably; legally, unknown.

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

That makes it sound like ripping the license out and replacing it with a proprietary one, even for purely internal use, is probably a bad idea. I don't know who'd be able to sue them for that, though, if the original copyright "owners" aren't supposed to have seen it in the first place.

Article II of the GPL has a specific exception for transferring GPL-ed software to employees to work on without letting them spread it beyond that, but I don't know how much of this that would cover.
Yak Shaving is when you start out to do a perfectly important and seemingly straightforward thing, but unexpectedly wind up having to do multiple surprising errands to achieve the goal. Yak Shaving does not refer to procrastination.
This paragraph sickened me on so many levels:

"...An acquaintance in the biz once bribed a Facebook employee whose job it was to approve or deny ads on the platform. His inside man set his account to auto approve any ad he wanted. ..."

Just wait till some NSA employee starts selling gossip to TMZ or HR departments.
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Yes this is exactly what I was meaning :)
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