skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that would make a difference if you wanted to transfer a few hundred gigs of video from an SSD array while at Starbucks, but for the rest of the world I think the improved speed of this free WiFi is a good thing.
I don't get it. Why is this different from inspecting your web logs? Sure you lose the first-party cookie aspect, but I bet you can get awful close just looking at the request IPs. There's "tracking" inherent in how everything works, so why does it matter if collection is contracted to a 3rd Party?

Does the poster expect the web server to not write a log line because he sent a DNT header too?
Thanks to Thomas for a) being awesome and b) setting this up. The reason for cacheing is to prevent user's browsers from pinging Twitter/FB/Google with every visit, and hopefully helping protect their privacy. We'll try and release this as open source code soon.
Multi Stage Payload : Cross Site Scripting Technique
Tempora in the UK stores all internet data for 3 days and metadata for 30 days too. Wouldn't surprise me if most western governments use XKeyscore along with data sharing agreements with each other.
Bonus: The NSA likely can get around the "no spying on US citizens" by just requesting data from those governments, who proceed to pull it out of the NSA's web interface.
You've got to do both chief. Sure, you won't get SQL Injected with your parameterized queries, but you'll persist content that is damaging to your users. XSS is the example case where malicious content is persisted to the database and returned to the UI as trusted content.

That being said, this is not necessarily an issue with the DB tier as it is with the data input tier.
The Writing on the (Real Estate) Wall is…..Coworking
Having worked with SharePoint extensively for years, I'm highly confident this isn't the case. It's just plain-old crappy custom-coded HTML4 forms from what I can tell and similar colors, so one could easily think so. But at closer look, it definitely not any of the SP versions 2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013. Maybe 2001 but I highly doubt even that.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not condoning their actions, but in case you need a more clear example of where this paradigm breaks down:

IBM & Nazi Germany, Nazi Germany in general, etc. Ironically, sillicon valley came into existence building military SIGINT/ELINT systems for the cold war.[0]

[0] www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
We've got a reputation in London for constantly iterating and not allowing customers a chance to get used to a product we've just released.

As such, we've got a new motto (during Ramadan): Break Fast and Move Things.

Thoughts? :)
I didn't quite grok the concept of GC as simulating infinite memory. After some research I ended up at, what else, SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node119.htm...) with an explanation. Hope this helps someone else.

>The representation method outlined in section [http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node118.htm...] solves the problem of implementing list structure, provided that we have an infinite amount of memory. With a real computer we will eventually run out of free space in which to construct new pairs.[http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/footnode.ht...] However, most of the pairs generated in a typical computation are used only to hold intermediate results. After these results are accessed, the pairs are no longer needed--they are garbage. For instance, the computation

(accumulate + 0 (filter odd? (enumerate-interval 0 n)))

constructs two lists: the enumeration and the result of filtering the enumeration. When the accumulation is complete, these lists are no longer needed, and the allocated memory can be reclaimed. If we can arrange to collect all the garbage periodically, and if this turns out to recycle memory at about the same rate at which we construct new pairs, we will have preserved the illusion that there is an infinite amount of memory.
Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains
There was a chance it might work.
Pluralsight Expands into Open Source with Acquisition of PeepCode
Could you recommend a good reading (a book preferably) for learning about CPU architecture. I'm aware of Intel Software Developer's Manual. What other resources are worth reading?
I wonder if one day, 3d printing will be cheap enough so that one could go to the local hackerspace, Print print out chips, assemble the board/internal devices and be sure to be free from hardware backdoors?
>Foreignness factor

I know NSA's mandate is to spy on foreigners, but it's still very jingoistic and xenophobic that not being American makes it OK to spy on you.
The Federalist papers argued against the need for things like the Bill of Rights, which were considered redundant and perfectly placeable in the law itself (and possibly counter-productive, if it was ever assumed that the Bill of Rights represented the sum of your rights, which is what the 9th Amendment was passed to try to prevent).

Either way, that doesn't answer the point of whether this argument by Madison is valid or not.
As were certain medical facilities in WW2.
And what about all the dots along Antarctica?
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he wasn't suggesting that he'd help him escape the country or avoid his sentence. More likely he was suggesting he could help him with his original question - how to keep his business running. Business emails are moderately sensitive, but most people don't seem to have a problem trusting google (and so the NSA) with that type of information.
Now that it came to light that you are in Malaysia, I would modify my initial suggestion.

1) I don't recommend escape as before. I was fearing you might be in an Arab country. Malaysia has what vaguely resembles a law, at least.

2) On the other hand, you are ethnic Chinese. I'd tell the lawyer to bring up the issue of your safety in prison.

Man, my heart is seriously aching for you, specially after reading your story. Be safe.
The only thing I can think of is satellites?
Read E-Myth. Then you'll know what to do.
Hi, I'm Daniel, Authy Founder. We've worked almost 18 months on this product, it's surreal to finally see it out.

Anyway, you can read more about why we did this here: http://blog.authy.com/thefuture
He is being charged for Sedition which is 8 years in prison. The best thing for him is to escape and i believe even many malaysian muslims will help him to escape as long as he repents for his mistake. People are never cruel only institutions are cruel, because if they are not, they lose control and the consequences are far more than a simple prank.
This is big. Well, not that big, but kinda big.

Starbucks and the Barnes and Noble cafes near me both use the same incredibly slow AT&T wifi. The most I can pull down when the place is completely empty is ~ 150kbs, so I'm assuming they have a T1 circuit for internet.

To make it worse, the router they use appears to not do any traffic-shaping at all. So with just one person streaming video or downloading app/OS updates, it becomes excruciatingly slow. It's kind of rude to other guests when you use the wifi to catch up on the last 4 episodes of Breaking Bad or torrent something. There's also the wifi congestion when the store is very busy but what can you do about that?

With that said, I'm curious as to what the up to 10x faster than before means. If they offer a 10/15mbs connection, that would be a huge improvement.

All the independent coffee places in town either offer wifi backed by 20-30mbs cable or 6mbs DSL, so they are much better destinations if you know you're going to need decent internet access. Nothing like running 'bundle install' and after 45 minutes you just pack it up and leave because you're getting dial-up speeds.
I agree with your first part. Indeed, the question he posed was about his business, and to be concerned for his life, while important, is outside the scope of the question asked.

However, I don't agree with your second part. 4 years in prison isn't just 4 years in prison. It is 4 years in a situation that is widely out of your control, and opens you up to a host of threats that you didn't consider during your 'outside' life. Sure, you can be hit by a car and killed during normal pedestrian action, but it's quite hard to be the victim of prison violence when you're a normal citizen.

Imprisonment is terrible, don't sell it short. It is a completely different world than every day life, including that of an expat, and it very well may stay with him for the rest of life in the form of a crippling physical or mental injury or even death.

He runs a SaaS, not a hot-dog stand. The power of the internet is internationalism and non-locale.
Depends.. I'd run if I had to spend 8 years in prison for example
It sounds like Google is outsourcing the connectivity to Level 3. Essentially you'll have Google branded L3 wifi.
Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk
Not to mention all those Antarcticans!
Wow, is it just me or is Intel missing the market on this one? The price is about 4x too high for what you get (compared to other ARM based boards) and the size is a little big as well.

Who is this really aimed at, anyway?
One such change is coming/has come online in Utah.
Interview with Isowalk Founder/CEO Ron Goldberg
Wraith: Responsive site regression testing tool.
hasty generalizations, high school stuff. you should learn how to argue.
Pretty sure it isn't - some of it looks like old ExtJS if anything.

The more worrying thing is that they're still apparently using IE6. [EDIT: OK the presentation is from 2008 but still!]
It's possible to do by adding a padding-right as well as position:relative on the label, and then position:absolute on the input to place it over the padded area.

Not the easiest CSS to write, but I strongly prefer clean markup (at a cost of hackish CSS) to hackish markup.
Livestream to senate hearings covering all this can be found here: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=0d93...

As of this moment it's all about FISA. Wonder if this new allegation will be talked about.
The Invitation that Just Changed the Course of My Life
Surely the question on everyone's mind is: how good is incognito mode???
Migration tool makes WordPress dev slightly more tolerable
I know a biker would go for the weight savings of carbon fiber but check this out. Carbon fiber reinforced prints:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:91464

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1yOf6Ba1ts
I'd like to mention that, while the FQA pulls no punches and is often sarcastic or worse, it's still a great read and will teach you a lot about C++ even if you disagree with the idea that nobody should use the language. Don't be scared off by that "no-one in their right mind" thing.

Although, if you read through it and subsequently decide that C++ is not the best language to use, I wouldn't call that the worst outcome....
I think it's insane that so many people are pointing the finger at Snowden, yet no one is pointing the finger back at the NSA / US Government.
> My biggest problem, though, is with the button design. The two red buttons on the marketing modules create the strongest CTA. The strong CTA should instead be on the "Create Account" button.

Completely agree. We lost that battle, sadly.
It's a joke. Trust me.
Link should be http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybe...
Stripe Launches UK private beta 
Just got my mail - looks nice folks. And the timing is perfect - was about to unleash my inner jasonkester and patio11 on a side project!
You insulted me as well; I actually got slightly annoyed reading your outcasting post. Something which rarely happens to me on HN. You should respect each other's religion as long as this religion doesn't interfere with the basic structure and functioning of society.

Now you were talking generally, not Malaysian only, which means that your 'rules' interfere with my freedom of speech (which is normal in my society) and that supersedes your religion, whatever it is.

Now as I am a social beast, I personally know many (devout) religious people, muslims, buddhists, catholics, christians and besides my high school religion teacher and in some fanatical news on the tv I haven't heard many people talk like you. Most people I know who are religious, believe in good for all and turning the other cheek. I am an atheist, but sometimes I wish I could believe something like that. If I would tell my good friend Muhammed (who is a hardworking plumber in my village) about this Malaysian guy, he would pray Allah for his release and fulfilling life. He would not feel any 'offensive' thing here. That's how it's supposed to be imho.
Credit where credit is due - NSA made useful and usable email search. Please give it to gmail and outlook.com ... I want to be able to search trough my mail as good as you guys can do.
Show HN: Spott Messenger Makes Location-Based Social Networking Easy & Anonymous
Odd that few articles champion a limited database user. In my apps there is a crippled read only user, an update user with limited UPDATE/INSERT privileges, and finally an admin user that is in no way accessible from the app.

There is no reason for your standard app user to have access to the core database object tables to do DDL lookups or mess around with the internals. Further, most queries should only run through the RO user. Finally, no user for your app should have DROP or SUPER privileges. You also should disable multi-query requests out the gate.

Of course the dev's will need to remember to use the proper set of creds from their favorite SQL IDE, and there will be a few hiccups for 10min until you've got the proper creds set for the app user, but then you can limit the worries from an attack.
This advice doesn't consider OP's situation at all. It isn't the right solution for everyone to drop all friends, family, connections and familiar culture at the drop of a hat. This is the kind of advice that's really easy to give if you happen to be a perpertual traveler yourself, or if you're sitting comfortably in a democratic country with a stable job.

Hopefully OP will have enough information himself to make an educated decision as to whether skipping the country is the right decision.
Happened also because some of the geeks rented themselves out to the NSA.
Show HN: I Made this learning urinal simulator
Don't forget to mention that although we as a default support 3 screen sizes, our grid system is configurable, so you can add or remove as many breakpoints for as many screens as necessary. All with a couple of lines of code.
You can go to Sabah and pay some fisherman to take you to Palawan, Philippines. Once there, ride a bus or van to go to Puerto Princesa City. From there, you can go to Cebu or Manila and start your life all over again. You can stay in Palawan if you want to, but it's more of a vacation place and it doesn't really have the infrastructure to start an IT business. The Philippines is a 3rd world country, but Filipinos, in general, are quite tolerant of people with different religious and/or sexual orientation.
someone who has just been convicted for offending another religion inside their own country is talking about enlightenment. im loving this.
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennesey and Patterson is the definitive text, and it is good (at least the 3rd edition I read back in 02).

One way to put the ideas you learn into practice is to try to write an optimized large NxN matrix multiplication routine. Start in C, converting the kernel to x86 code. Also disassemble the generated C code in the kernel to see what the compiler is doing. See how close you can get to the theoretical peak CPU performance.

It is fun stuff. While this kind of optimization is rarely needed, doing so (like learning lisp) will make you a better programmer.
Balanced focuses on marketplace payment processing
Thanks, there isn't much funny about any of this, but that got a legitimate laugh out of me. For anyone who doesn't know the reference, a clip from CSI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
Welcome to working in the modern advertising industry.
My whole point is that this advantage that China has might be illusory, what if in 5 years time the balance of wages in China and the cost of fuel goes up? China moves to robots? Why not have robots in Australian factories with Australian know-how?
None: the website requires explicit opt-in permission to collect personal data in the first place, making opt-out DNT largely irrelevant.

It's nowhere near as simple as that, either in theory or in practice.
I made a suggestion a while back on HN and decided to write a blog post about it: http://austingwalters.com/hacker-news-the-nsa-and-freedom/

I think it would be more effective to try what I mention in the post. I know I'm currently in Illinois and would not be able to attend any rallies (having no car).

Kudos on the website though.
A 'fun' bit of weasel-wording by the chairman of the House intelligence committee: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do." They seem to be denying it, but all they're really denying is that Snowden had access to the system personally.
Just a heads up for anyone interested. I've been working on a very significant revamp of the Package Control site that coincides with all of my work on Package Control 2.0. I've been pushing hard the past couple of weeks, with a hopeful launch in the next couple of days.
The correct "route" has worked just fine in many other cases (Abu Ghraib, Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq).

Regardless though, there were many other routes Manning could have taken that would have been more proper.

And whatever route Manning took, he could have limited his disclosures to those detailing war crimes instead of a mass disclosure of classified operational information.
The information we have already shows that the US person/non-US person distinction is purely cosmetic, meant to allow them to pretend that they're at least trying to respect US laws to some tiny extent. It's rhetorical.

In reality you are always a valid target, US citizen or not.
USA Only?
Apologistic liberal? I know that term has different interpretations, but I've never seen it being associated with inhibiting free speech in order to not cause offense. It would be pretty silly if "liberal" ended up meaning "without liberty".
might be worth having a DC presence.
FBI sued for keeping secret their file on journalist Michael Hastings
Alice receives payment only after sending some good to Bob.
I thought that it was pretty well known that all talk therapy is equally good, regardless of content or delivery system. Here's a couple other references:

Phone Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works as Well as In-Person Therapy:

http://www.choosehelp.com/news/emotional-health/study-phone-...

Talking treatments work equally well for depression:

http://www.webmd.boots.com/depression/news/20130529/talking-...

edit: I guess it's not. It's true, though. Even religious counseling works just as well as reality-based. The content doesn't really matter.
Connections secured with TLS aren't effective if a) you can compromise the CA, b) have the private keys, c) have cooperation of the appropriate company (most likely), d) have compromised the server, e) are aware of flaws in the encryption algorithm, f) weak keys have been used, or g) have compromised the client computer.
If it's your main source of income, it must be making some money. Can you use that to pay someone to take care of it while you're away?

There's got to be some kind of middle ground between 'taking a loss' and 'main source of income'. Even if it's not as much as someone would make in a different job, I bet some people would be willing to help you out for a small stipend.

Good luck!!
Nice! We should work together.
I AM currently in the advertising industry
if you merely criticized religious laws, then i apologize and take back all what i said and believe the you have been not rightly convicted. if you have been convicted however because you insulted that religion (insensitive photograph, your words nit mine) then you should be outcast like a drunk bee.
Let's talk about Browser Applications
My guess is schools and universities, who will buy in bulk at massive discounts.
Hello,

This looks awesome.

When could we expect a Windows 7/8 app ?

Congrats
If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs

OP and his girlfriend face 8 years in jail for posting a picture of themselves eating pork on Facebook.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-coul...
So you've offended my religion. Should you be outcast or not? Try to stay focused here, it's not hard.
The results on that page puzzle me for the nested input/label case - this is news to me. Given how browsers already forward focus for clicks on a label to the nested input, I always assumed that this takes care of programmatic association between label and input.

Maybe an aria-labelledby attribute would fix this? Heck, could still use a label "for" attribute and keep the input nested.

Either way, I meant that it is legal HTML to do that kind of nesting. Did not know that it was frowned upon, as far as standards are concerned, even assistive.
U.S. Declassifies Court Order Allowing Record Collection
NSA Project X-Keyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet
I regularly volunteer computer time to non-profit organizations who are doing good things in a non-partisan sense.

Once you do one, you'll get calls for more. Often it's nothing more than a few hours on a weekend to set up a website, software package or network. These are generally small concerns who rely on staying small to be effective.

I highly recommend this. I have met some of the most wonderful people.... they have found a purpose in life that transcends its disadvantages. I don't even know how to describe it. Not all are this way, but enough are to bring a smile to my face at the memory.

You will feel like it's the last (insert string of expletives here) thing you want to do when the call comes. Computer work, for free? Just like a job but with none of the advantages, right? When you're done you'll feel differently, even though you will (most likely) be working with substandard hardware in suboptimal conditions around people who understand little of the technology.

I don't really get an ego-boost from it and normally I wouldn't talk about it with people who know me. But I highly recommend it. Among other things, you get a sense of power over all the things you don't like about life, society, computing, etc. A chance to put things right and have people you respect notice.

If you can find an outfit like this, do it:

http://www.volunteerhouston.org/

They are an index of volunteer opportunities, like a Google for volunteering. Once you find your first gig, others will find you.
Probably because he has dark skin, and his native tongue is probably something other than English.

I'm a little worried now because I visited his page, and this will surely be logged, hence my past online activities may now be investigated.
Facebook ex-CTO joined NSA not too long ago, that might have helped?
Exactly. There were a lot of people from the government that came out in the past few months and said there are checks and balances and a lot of oversight in these processes. That clearly isn't true.

It will be interesting to go back through all of those statements with this new information/evidence on hand.

Greenwald has timed this well. He put out enough information early on to give Snowden opponents enough rope with which to hang themselves.
you know nothing about those religions, because non of them promote jail. they all outcast the criminals. please dont have strong opinions about something you know nothing about.
Irrelevant.

Even if it were easy as a pie, OP is worried about being convicted of a 'crime' which is not considered a crime in most of the developed world. So, he has a chance of being granted asylum.

Faking a passport, however, IS a very serious crime and it would be something ridiculously stupid to do.