skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally find deeply offensive any religion whose followers' responses to insults are violence, or threats of violence.
Is researcher degrees of freedom-recipe the new bias-variance?
that is so awesome.
How Coffee Helped Me See My Limits and Go Beyond
^ NSFW ^

(sorry, used to seeing NSFW, not "not safe for work" so clicked on it before I realized)
Singapore is 100% not a Muslim country. He's probably in Malaysia from the looks of it.
The Android Developer site has a pretty old and still relevant article about designing for tablets and handhelds: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/tablets-and-han.... I particularly like the idea of splitting functionality into "fragments" that get displayed differently based on the screen size.

This figure has always been a reference point to me: http://developer.android.com/images/fundamentals/fragments.p...
Well, had the judge not imposed the extra element on the base version of the UCMJ "aiding the enemy" charge he very well could have been convicted of that too. The UCMJ is sometimes incredibly broad, and that's no less the case here. Certainly there is no minimum document count needed to be convicted. A single document would suffice, in fact.
Is it OK, if BWF pays a cent in a perpetual royalty? Will Zynga have any obligation to license others the name at the same price?
You can already get a 4x4 Intel NUC machine on amazon for ~$150 with case and mounting bracket. They are capable machines.

NUC with haswell processors (less wattage) coming this fall - price TBD.
'Religion' cannot be offended. People can.

And if they are so easily offended, this is not OP's fault.
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The House hearing was canceled several days ago to make time for the House Democrats to meet with Obama this morning. As far as I know they have not been rescheduled yet and I will be surprised if they happen before the August recess. Although Glenn Greenwald did say yesterday he hopes they get rescheduled in the next 24 - 48 hours.
Good catch -- and really, I find it to be quite foreboding in terms of how indomitable it is precisely because of the secrecy of the program.

"This was a secret treaty, allegedly so secret that it was kept secret from the Australian Prime Ministers until 1973."

This is indeed a trend, and I speculate that NSA (and NSA-like entities in the other 4 eyes/countries) probably communicate information and abilities to prime ministers and presidents of the respective countries very selectively.
is it just me who has this pop up ads that don't allow reading of the article?
Singapore is 100% not a Muslim country. Looks like he's in Malaysia.
Facebook's experiments with wifi in Bay Area coffee shops encourage you to both login w your FB acct and check in to the location publicly on FB timeline.
Anna Chapman was a realestate broker too...
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Probably. At this point we are testings things out and want to move as fast as possible. We want to make Two-Factor Authentication completely transparent, and we'll be launching other exciting things to see how they work in the real world.

Once we have the experience nailed out, we'll ported to other platforms.
I'm not telling prison is good! In the current situation there is nothing much to do for him. My point is being a refugee is almost same with being in an open air prison. I know because I live in that prison! And selling hotdogs can be less stressful for a refugee when you compare it to online business without a legal citizenship, passport, credit card etc. Power of the bureaucracy will crush power of the internet easily. Ask that to people living in some countries with limited internet.
Yep, certainly didn't mean to imply it wasn't useful, just where the focus should be.
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Depends on which archeologist or anthropologist you talk to.

What and how we eat since McDonalds was invented a couple generations ago does not have much relationship to what and how we ate for millions/hundreds of thousands of years.

There are some hints in how we're unable to store vitamin C, so obviously we evolved to rely on a relatively stable source of citrus. On the other hand the gallbladder seems optimized to digest large amounts of fatty meat every couple days at most, rather than none ever or small amounts every meal. Our long term iodine storage is somewhat lacking indicating a bit of coastal living / seafood would be a good idea. Given that ethanol is a systemic poison, our livers seem well evolved to get rid of it compared to other systemic poisons, indicating a modest consumption is probably reasonable, although not drinking is probably wiser. Our unimpressive long term iron storage, at least for women, indicates a reasonable source of iron (meat?) be hunted down and consumed at absolute minimum every month or so.

Now you can use modern high tech living to hack what your body was evolved to do, for moral or ethical or profitable reasons. We've got a ridiculously complicated world wide food production infrastructure, and a pharma infrastructure, and lots of scientific knowledge, so why not hack the system and go vegetarian even if its un-natural. Or occasional weird processed stuff. But the modern ability to hack it, doesn't mean the body doesn't have an inherent set of design constraints WRT nutrition. And occasional fasting does seem biologically part of the design. Otherwise we'd simply keel over and die once the initial blood sugar dropped too low, because it would be evolutionarily simpler to insta-pee out as ketones any fat or excess carbs consumed at the time of consumption... Aside from the obvious evolutionary positives of being lighter and faster. So we're built to pig out for a month and starve for a month.
Did the Guardian change the slide? I couldn't see that slide, and it has now appeared with a value of 1234567890.
Thanks, I was wondering when the heroin was going to come into the story.
> all traffic has to exit the VPN's company's endpoint, and at that point it can be captured.

If the only thing they're dealing with is VPN's used as a private proxy for access to the public internet, you're right, and if so it's not so troubling (well, as in it is "only" just as troubling as having them access everyones web traffic).

But arguably most VPN traffic is exiting inside private networks and are intended for machines within those private networks. If they are capable of breaking or circumventing the crypto of those, then that's troubling at a whole different level because it potentially means massive unknown weaknesses in either specific crypto products, or in algorithms that have been assumed to still be reasonably safe.
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"Chilling effect" is a very real & recognized legal principle. When The Government™ shows up at your door with near-infinite persuasive & prosecutorial resources, with nods towards teams of heavily armed men and bureaucrats with crates of red tape, telling you in no uncertain terms YOU WILL DO X, and reminding you frequently that this very meeting itself constitutes a National Secret™, with clear and implied statements that while you may have legal alternatives the slightest contact with anything construed as illegal (starting with the reply "no") will bring all this power crashing down on your corporate & private life, one does tend to comply - regardless of likely after-the-fact "well you could have done this" conversations.

So it goes with many Constitutional rights. You can fight for your rights, but "fight" isn't some lofty abstract term, it's "cause serious damage to another while they do the same to you, until one of you is persuaded by harm & further threat thereof to give up."
One could assume that Americans are spied on by foreign governments and the data is just exchanged. The US spies on Brits, the UK spies on US persons, and the both compare notes.
>How do I find a strong-selector for a known target?

>How do I find a cell of terrorists that has no known connection to strong-selectors?

>Answer: Look for anomalous events

>E.g. Someone whose language is out of place for the region they are in

>Someone who is using encryption

>Someone searching the web for suspicious stuff

Lovely. Suspicious stuff and encryption. But wait! There's more!

>Show me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me the data so I can decrypt and discover the users.

Wait... what? I really hope that doesn't mean what it sounds like it means.

>Slide 22 [regarding determining who authored a Jihadist document] redacted.

Well that's interesting.

>Show me all the exploitable machines in country X.

That's cool. I'm guessing this is what Snowden meant by weak endpoint security.

>Over 300 terrorists captured using intelligence generated from X-KEYSCORE

>Slides 29 and 30 regarding this redacted.

What a shame.
No, but he's no longer with the startup.
"Patients treated online had to perform one predetermined written task per therapy unit – such as querying their own negative self-image."

Smells like bad experimental design. Shouldn't the face-to-face subjects also be completing written tasks in session as a control? There are entire schools of psychotherapy that require in-session activities.

If not, then they should compare standard talk face-to-face therapy with online CBT "chat."

As an addendum: I think social sciences are categorically separate from harder sciences (good social scientists understand this) and attempts at laboratory/population experiments are typically laughable. They're usually just done because that's what the people and organizations that fund the departments want.
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I like the design, the website, the phone app, etc.

However, the desktop app does not feel right. Maybe I am missing something.

- Are the HMAC keys stored or synced to the desktop?

- Is there a password protection similar to the keychain to access these passwords?

If my desktop is hacked into and a key logger has my password as they usually do, it will now also be able to copy these one time passwords at will and use it frequently to log into my account.

I would prefer to use my laptop and a separate phone for my OTPs. I like the Google Authenticator app as it does nothing more than generate OTPs, no sync to server, etc..
Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption
It's impossible for him to do it, he's in Russia!
I suspect that prison might suck even more in a country full of muslims, considering his 'crime' has religious grounds.

He's probably going to get worse treatment than average from the other inmates.
Could be an embassy.
Looks pretty neat!

Couple of issues in Chrome; you can't add a webpage to the home screen with the share button, as that's only present in Safari. Tapping the status bar jumps to the top of the very long web form, which was kinda frustrating but may not be fixable. Chrome hides the address/toolbar bar, so tapping the status bar is necessary to get the bar.

From a product perspective, it's actually not clear that you're listing a property for rent until you hit the move in date or pcm price screens. I'd probably tidy up the photos section to allow adding arbitrary photos with a label rather than the list of repeating forms. The deposit term probably needs to be more flexible (or accept a numerical value).

I didn't go past the confirmation screen in case it published a listing!
One could argue that DNT preference where chosen when the users opted to use IE with DNT as default. As such, NoPreference has no meaning when the user chose is always made one way or the other.

In the end, Microsoft made the decision to force it into a yes/no, rather than leaving it at "NoPreference". I can fully see the argument that Microsoft is not following the spirit of the standard in doing so.
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This is a prime example of why Stack Overflow is well past its prime.

It started out as a community built to help others, but as the comments indicate they've gown into bitter, self obsessed reputation point hunters.

Heaven forbid someone new come in and ask a question without having gone to the very edge of the internet first because the mods and the user community there would rather close the question - with no comments - rather than help the new person or even just point them in the right direction.
Don't worry, you were already on their list.

HN fields roughly 200,000 unique visitors each day, most of which have a markedly anti-gov't-spying slant[1], that's enough evidence to be in their cross-hairs.

[1]: Such that in some capacity you might participate in the creation/promotion of methods or software to get around their snooping technologies.
Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright
Get out. Forget your business; you can make a new one somewhere else.

Any life elsewhere is better than a life in a country filled with morons who believe an obvious lie like Islam and order their lives by it.

When you get out, dedicate your life to doing great things by your own rules and eradicating the stupidity of people who believe the crap they are told without evidence.

And for all the overly-sensitive Muslim fanatics out there: your Allah is a figment of your imagination and your Mohammed fucked dogs in his spare time for fun and profit. Jesus, also, was imaginary, you stupid bastards. I dare you to prove me wrong.

Come and get me. I will defend my right to say these things until I am dead. It's called freedom of speech.
Bingo. A quick summary of the article would be "if you allow external input to pass through as executable values, this can happen". Really, the article is exploring different manners of executing SQL statements against a database, and really just looking at many possible SQL scenarios. The primary culprit in every scenario is the input tier.
Rideshare drivers are exempt from regulation, vehicle inspections, insurance and driver requirements? I'd be upset too if I was a taxi driver.

Regardless, the taxi industry can easily defend against Uber and their ilk. It's not a high barrier of entry quite frankly. Uber helicopters on the other hand...
OTOH, North Korea may be the only place that an illegal immigrant can't find work.
You leaving america soon?

Justin carter for example

http://freejustincarter.org/category/justin-carter/

Thrown in jail with a prohibitive bail for months, beaten there, and finally thanks to an anonymous donor out on bail but still facing years in jail for one facebook comment.
And that's just the most readily available example.

Please less hyperbole and naivety
I think the first thing that comes to mind when you mention "word processing" is compatibility. Most of us in the real world depend on Microsoft Word - can you guys promise not to mangle doc/docx files as soon as we open it or save edits from Quip? :)
leslie?
It's not. It's only just a way to visit sites without a record being stored on your computer. Read the warning. For example, Firefox's private browsing mode states:

> While this computer won't have a record of your browsing history, your internet service provider or employer can still track the pages you visit.

They should include government spooks in that warning!
>If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs, and you felt it was unfair, would you tell him to flee?

For a year? I'd tell him to stay. For 4-5 years, or 10-15? Run if you can come up with any way to. This particular case also revolves around religious freedom, so it may be possible to get refugee status somewhere, esp. being high-skilled and entrepreneurial.
Stories from the interview room
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If people want to follow this story, it is imperative for you to follow Wyden and Udall, and to fully understand the powers of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee was set up in the 70s as a way to reign in the powers of the Executive Branch, after the abuses that came light from the Nixon Administration. (Historically, look up the Church Committee for details on that. There's a lot of history here).

The Senate Intelligence Committee is cleared, has access to all Top Secret data, and is basically the watchdog of the Intelligence Community. There are only 15 members on the Committee (8 from the majority party, 7 from the minority party), so Wyden and Udall consist of 15% of the voting power in there. Every single bill that affects the intelligence community has to pass through the Senate Intelligence Committee before it moves to the rest of Congress.

Wyden's biggest criticism of the intelligence community is the innate reluctance to declassify data. There is a very strong "overclassification" culture in agencies, and its at the point where it sniffles debate on this subject. It would do people good to read up on Wyden's proposals, and to work with him in the Senate.

He's the "inside man", he's got a TS clearance... he has the power to investigate the Intelligence Community. (But not leak information, he has to speak on vague terms of course, because what he talks about is TS information). And he's been stating his position for years on this subject. If you want to rally behind someone, its Wyden and Udall. Furthermore, as a Senator on the Intelligence Committee, he has the power to kill and modify bills before they even reach debate.
You really should learn how free and open societies work. Here's Hans Teeuwen, dutch comedian, explaining it to a few of your fellow muslims: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBnZsbAWGo

(English subtitles are available, click on 'captions' option.)
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I have plenty of family who did this to escape an Islamic regime.

You need to cross the border into a friendlier country and claim asylum. Pay a smuggler, go by horse (seriously), do what you need to do to get across (bribes). Go and start a better life for yourself, I know so many who did and never looked back. You can visit your family in a 3rd country.
It would be nice if google provided free wifi to public libraries.

The announcement talks about kids doing homework. They are more likely to be in the library or McDonalds than starbucks.
do you see that in this document? i can't find it anywhere and wonder if the guardian subsequently redacted it:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa...
Part II：
http://ayende.com/blog/163105/stories-from-the-interview-roo...

About the interview room series：
http://ayende.com/blog/163234/about-the-interview-room-serie...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4916983
The person is a user of storage media seized outside the U.s.

Interesting, so everyone who ever hit a MegaUpload link is potentially a foreign entity?
For all the naysayers, I'd like to mention that the rally is a much more effective political tool than say online petitions, precisely because it requires significant effort to attend. It's very easy to ignore a bunch of people who clicked links online, much harder when they abandon their Sunday plans and show up downtown to make a lot of noise.

However, the age of the rally is waning these days. It was all the rage during the French Revolution, but telephony and television have created much better influence tools; such as the phone-in campaign or the political ad buy. It would be good to at least upgrade to '50s style politics and organize people for either phoning in to Congress ("OK Bob you want to help? You can call congressman Goodlatte's office around 3pm this Friday, here are some possible talking points") or running Kickstarter-style ad buys ("Donate $5 for running this ad on prime time national TV and we'll post your name on our wall").

Of course, the Internet offers new possibilities for politics that have barely begun to be scratched. Everyone uses Google, and Google is a democracy of sorts allowing for tactics such as Google bombing. It's hard to quantify its effect on the presidential campaign of senator Santorum (Republican runner-up last year), but it was probably out of proportion with the small number of people involved. And I'm sure there are many other things possible, if only more smart people directed their attention towards such issues. Politics is important - it won't make you as much money as a successful app, but can change the world a lot more.
In 2008 Facebook ran on HTTP, so back then it would have been easy to sniff this data. I believe Gmail also transferred in plain text back then. When those companies switched to HTTPS, the NSA likely 'leverage some pressure' to get them to join PRISM, which puts the data back in this system.
Hey James,

"- Are the HMAC keys stored or synced to the desktop?
No, nothing is stored in the desktop. Everything remains on your phone."

"- Is there a password protection similar to the keychain to access these passwords?
We store the pair phone details on the keychain. But this is only the phone bluetooth id etc."

"If my desktop is hacked into and a key logger has my password as they usually do, it will now also be able to copy these one time passwords at will and use it frequently to log into my account."

No, again nothing is stored on your computer.
Head over to a public library after school, then head over to a starbucks, and tell me which one has more high-school aged children in it.
Don't put words in my mouth please; I can't seem to find where I mentioned 'jail'? I am saying that none of the religious people I know would call this person 'criminal', would ask for him to be 'outcast' or any other 'punishment' for this freedom of speech 'incident'.
8 years is a long time - a lot more than ~2 which is what I'd assumed. Given the circumstances Op may find running away the best option.
Quite handsome and useful looking. Good job!

Just a quick question, under security it says:

>>". Authy Bluetooth will only talk to pre-approved computers and all messages are encrypted."

Just wondering if you can speak to what sort of encryption and safeguards you've got going on here. The docs cover how the tokens are created, but not the communication between phone and mac.

Seems like an awesome thing but I wouldn't feel comfortable using it for work without knowing a bit more.
I'm right next to DC this week. I was excited to attend the protest that I assumed would take place. The absence of such a protest is disappointing.
It doesn't really legitimize this suit to compare it with another famously absurd trademark infringement battle. "Scrolls" are a fantasy trope (meaning it's so commonly used that it's considered unimaginative)! You can't have that! I think that "Elder Scrolls" is distinctive and trademark-able. "Scrolls" is not.

Setting aside the issue of whether the phrase "With Friends" is distinctive, and therefore trademarkable, BWF and WWF do not serve remotely similar purposes, so they're not going to lose their right to defend the trademark in their own market.

Finally, their big trademark blunder was using an indefensible trademark. The damage there has already been done. It doesn't make sense to then hurt your brand's reputation by linking it in the minds of your customers with a hookup app. The fact that this story is on the front page of Hacker News means that the Streisand effect is hurting the brand already (not that Zynga has a sterling reputation here). Sometimes it's a tactical error to do what the legal department recommends, and this is one of those cases.
I hope you are planning a Linux release too. So many companies leave us out, even though we're even more willing to work past bugs and set things up correctly.
Brilliant, that's great feedback.

The form will hold its state better in the next iteration. And the front screen will be markedly improved: https://www.dropbox.com/s/867t4ef5b0ddkvy/Wigwamm%20List%20A...

:) We haven't hooked it up to anything but email at present; live listing should be functional from 6 August (Rightmove's 'Go Live' date)