skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I hope people are capable of seeing through that

You and me both, but sadly I don't think it's going to go that way in the general tech-enthusiast media without a pretty significant "nudge" from you folks and maybe a few others. Unless you've got some experience with performance-demanding applications in embedded systems, you have no idea why RPi/Minnow is an Apples/Oranges comparison.

But everyone understands price! All they're seeing is two tiny boards, one produced by David that sells like hotcakes, the other produced by Goliath. Goliath's is late enough to be called a reaction to David's move, and it's nearly six times the price...
As long as they don't hold onto your passwords too, then it's not too bad right? A compromise for the sake of convenience, to be sure, but even in the worst case – if all Authy tokens are compromised – people still shouldn't have access to your accounts.

For me at least (personal use, not company use) that's a worthwhile compromise: I doubt any attacker could get my main password in the time it'd take for me to change it in the unlikely event that Authy be compromised.
Local Anti-Drone Activism Begins
I get the sentiment, but attempts at experiments are what makes science a science. Psychology actually drove a lot of progress in statistics, because of the fuzzy character of data.
I thought about doing this at one point but ran into many API fees to look up ISBN related details. Can you discuss what API you are using, fees you pay to the API owner, and how that is incorporated into your fee? Also, did you write your own ISBN phone scanner app? Or are you leveraging some other, possibly open source, application? Any details would be great to hear. Nice Job!
You've performed a miracle, yourself. A good joke in the comments section of an HN post! :p
You are giving this advice not even knowing which country the poster is in!
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An example of a crackpot is Glenn Beck, that is, someone who is drawing incorrect, incoherent conclusions from the facts they observe.

Suggesting that people abandon social networks, never own cellular phones, avoid using the web almost entirely, these are extreme positions. What makes them crazy is when he's an advocate that everyone should follow these edicts.

Surely it's some kind of "geek social fallacy" that's being applied here. Stallman has come up with what he perceives as the optimal strategy and anyone who diverges from this is doing it incorrectly, just as how free, open-source software is the only kind of software that's acceptable, and everything else is "evil".
That's a great suggestion, thanks!

We focus so much on differentiating against other iPad apps, and maybe we should speak more to the people who don't use their tablets for boating yet.
dschulz is American?
Seriously if I'm going to prison, worrying about my SaaS app is probably the last thing on my mind.
Respectfully, I disagree. The socioeconomic status of the sorts of people that tend to despise the TSA, and the SES of the sorts of people that tend to be front-line TSA agents are very, very different. Those self-same TSA agents rarely fly (and thus bear no inconvenience), and are unlikely to have had the benefit of the sort of education that leads one to (a) despise incursions against civil liberties and (b) open opportunities for employment above that of a TSA agent.
Unfortunately, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 has already been upheld as constitutional by the SCOTUS. Lawrence Lessig writes about this battle (and reasons he thinks he lost) in Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. ( http://www.amazon.com/Free-Culture-Nature-Creativity-ebook/d... - non-affiliate link)
I didn't take out my water bottle from my bag once, because I wasn't aware I was going to have to go through security a second time when arriving in the US from an international flight. It had one sip of water in it. I told them I would just drink the sip of water, unacceptable. The TSA employee told me that if I dumped it or drank it, that was fine, but I'd have to get in back of the line again. Why? I don't know. He sat there holding my water bottle saying "I'll only give it to you if you'll get in back of the line." I finally said fine, keep it. I still don't understand why I could drink it and get in back of the line, but I couldn't drink it and stay in front of the line. It seemed to me like he was just power tripping.
Uncaught TypeError: Type error - gearsketch_main.js:53

Am I the only one getting this? Chrome 28; Windows 7.
How weird is it that cnn.com is included as a reason for being interested in HTTP?
Always great to see Berkeley companies on here. Nice work!
Connecticut-sized dead zone found in Gulf of Mexico
Only if you're a bank. Or the FED.
They mean he didn't have the "capability" to "collect" that data, which in NSA newspeak means he had the technical means, but not the legal authorization to do so.
QUOTE: What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Because it was required that a copy be registered with the Library of Congress back then, if you wanted to copyright something.

edit: not sure why the downvote. I'll expand a bit.

The Copyright Act of 1870 required two copies of a work to be deposited with the Library of Congress in order to register the copyright -- creative works were not automatically under copyright.

Once that work passed into the public domain, anyone could request a copy of it from the Library of Congress (and then, if they wanted to, copy and distribute themselves). This is pretty important, because it pretty much guaranteed that people would have access to a work even after its copyright expired and was no longer actively being printed by the publisher or author.
Copyright isn't perpetual. I'm stating the above argument is weak and hand waving because it is assuming these works are not available strictly because of copyright. It isn't that black and white. How many of these works wouldn't have ever been created if the author had no way to recoup his investment due to copyright?
The reverse sounds nicer :

Detroit - the Perl of cities :)
If anyone wants to read up on this, the controversy is called Dodo bird verdict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict).
Exactly. That type of cynicism and one-upmanship is grating.
Hopefully somebody will create an unauthorized patch that enables LAN play and then Blizzard will have to release an official patch to compete with it.
Inconvenient Fact #4 about Privacy:

The US government was already tracking every citizen's postal mail, and storing a copy of the contents for potential later use, for many years before networked computers, "email" and the "world wide web".

Further, anyone working at a government security contractor could at their own discretion inspect any such postal mail.

I would hope you're now thinking "Wait a second. That would be quite difficult to do." Truthfully, I have no idea whether postal mail was tracked and stored; I am only trying to make a point.

My point is that one reason we're seeing a mass scale dragnet now is because _it is so easy to accomplish_.

phk seems to ignore this inconvenient fact.

I see no reason for him to try to persuade citizens to choose politics _over_ use of technology as a means to preserve their right to privacy. Why does his frame of reference need to be binary: that it's either one or the other? Is there a rationale for this?

Maybe citizens should pursue _both_?

If citizens routinely through their choice of technology make surveillance of their communications _ridiculously easy_, then how will they be perceived when they come forth and demand greater privacy? Who would take them seriously?

If citizens are to persuade their representatives that the privacy of their communications is important to protect, then I would argue they must practice what they advocate. They should not be communicating by megaphone. Or plain text.
Hey guys!

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Want to find some resources on Python? Just check out the Python tag and you'll see everything that our members thought was good enough to share. Same goes with any other topic.

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>Second: realizing that "we should have known" and "none of this is new" isn't so much about reading news articles and being "plugged in", but rather having an understanding of how the Internet works.

These are exactly the kinds of comments I'm talking about. The preponderance of people affected by this program on the globe (a staggering amount if you will) had no knowledge of this because the media failed, and are not, in fact, technically savvy on any level and don't understand, at all how the internet works in relation to the technologies employed by these programs.

>To be surprised at the possibility of storing packets is somewhat naive considering how simple it is to do.

For the vast majority of the potential consumers of this knowledge, this just simply is not the case. At all. They aren't being naive. This is highly technical to them and severely under-reported, and where it was reported it was not explained terribly well, nor was there meaningful conversation surrounding the reporting's aftermath.

But congratulations, rmrfrmrf, on being one of the select few that are not naive. We need to get you some sort of prize.
> The key phrase

There are several key phrases there.

"To promote the Progress"

"for limited Times"

"to Authors and Inventors"

and of course "the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

But you omitted the operative language from the enumerated powers clause itself: "The Congress shall have Power to".

That's a grant of power, but not an obligation to act on that power.

Which is to say:

I've heard people claim that Congress must enact copyright and patent laws. No, Congress has at its discretion the ability to do so.

That those laws be to promote science (writing) and arts (technology). Which would seem to render any _retrospective* extension of the acts as unconstitutional, as well as any execution of the powers (say, by overly-broad grants of low-quality patents).

And that the grants be restricted to authors and inventors. Not the employers of authors and inventors, not entities which can buy, for the remainder of the protection period, the rights.

Narrowly read, an Author or Inventor would retain exclusive rights and would only be allowed to grant a temporary and nonexclusive grant of that right to others.

Patent and copyright were an interesting experiment at an interesting time (the US Revolution occurred on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, and ended a period of over 1000 years in which technological and economic change had proceeded at an absolutely glacial pace). The experiment appears to be failing in significant ways.
I genuinely don't understand all the hatred out there for advert companies tracking user purchase trends. Can someone explain to me why I should care about this?
People aren't going to care about this until they understand what consequences this may have to THEIR personal life. Live with it. Not changing unless the knowledgeable/wise starts educating the general population on how they effects them.

Most people might speak against it (include people here) but at the end, they have the "I'm not doing anything wrong, who cares, not worth the effort" mentality.
After carefully investigating definition of "indie", it seems that Microsoft is an "indie" company as much as Blizzard.
since your nickname is moubarek I bet you know who is muhammad. aisha was just six years old when she was betrothed to muhammad, and only nine when the marriage was consummated. It's sahih hadiths. Suit yourself here: Sahih Bukhari volume 5, book 58, number 234
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I guess the most striking difference is that jacquesm hasn't been convicted of anything.
Are the major news networks ignoring this story? Briefly checking, I only see Fox News reporting related stories, naturally blaming the Obama Administration (perhaps fairly in this case).
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Hmm... maybe there are more common sources of strong-but-slow power. The heat expansion of bridges? The weight of vehicles sitting idly at a stoplight? The swaying of skyscrapers?

I wonder if you could make a purely mechanical solar panel that way. Get a giant sheet of metal, put it out in the sun, and attach this gear arrangement to it, braced by opposite sides of the expansion. Hmm... I kinda want to make this now.
Just incase some of you guys are curious with Malaysian laws especially when it comes to religious matter, a Muslim lady is now probably going to face jail time because of bathing dogs.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/07/31/...

Yes, you read it right. It's against the law in Malaysia for Muslim to be near dogs.
I don't believe in such a thing as purpose unless one uses it as a substitute for some state of mind.
Yeah, I realize I can never know for sure who did it. That's why I figured it would be pointless to try and file a claim against them.
You can both be right.

Even poorly-executed encryption will stop _some_ forms of attack, some of the time.

But a failure to provide legal protections will render even strong crypto a weak shield.

Property laws and strong fences and effective policing make for good neighbors.
As much as I appreciate your opinion, I think we all can agree that turning this into an Anwar Al-Awlaki debate is not going to be beneficial for this topic at all.

I agree with you... but line of argument is going to open a can of worms I'd rather not see opened in this debate. This topic should be focused on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The PRISM program, which requires cooperation from service providers, is just one of the methods they use to collect user data. "Upstream" collection (beam splitters on fiber, etc) is separate and distinct from this, and yields a different set of data.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-nsa-slide...
In the first slide, there are 25 red dots in a row on the bottom.. I wonder what those are supposed to represent?
Google Glass faces driving ban across UK as distraction concerns mount
I think the Bible even hints at that.

Having read it I believe the fundamental message of the bible is to believe in yourself and humanity. We are god. I am god. I am my own god. We are our own gods.

Indeed, the bible warns of false gods and / or prophets. I believe that refers to the gods and prophets of organised mass religion.

There for, a deity is a false god.

I think the bible is deliberately misinterpreted to support great structures of power and control. If people read it with the idea that organised religion never existed, its very concept non existent, they would see a completely different message.

I do not know, but I suspect this would be true for all the books of the major organised religions.
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ORIGINAL QUESTION: Is there anything I can do to save my SaaS startup?

Its kind of insane to suggest someone jump bail and flee their country without actually knowing their full situation and them as a person.
You have a typo in this sentence:

We believe that the future of Two-Factor Auth is one were our devices will do the work for us in order to provide us a greater and simpler security.
Hiring mathematicians and computer scientists instead of MBAs and public policy people.

Probably also not having to follow government contracting rules (lowest bidder, preferring minorities and veterans) because who would have the authority to review their purchases?
I think this is an excellent idea and will do really well. If you have developers who can walk us through real projects that can go live in the wild it will do really well. This can be like the Themeforest for screencasts. This will supplement nicely with Treehouse/Code School/Net Tuts videos because it looks like you guys will show how to do some of the rarer or less widespread tips and tricks that the big guys usually don't cover. Good luck!
Good luck, and I'm so sorry about your situation. I hope you have good legal and family support and that you find someone to maintain your startup.
Could the loss you take from hiring someone to take care of it be a loss your business could handle for the duration of your incarceration? If the choice is loss and still kicking, or complete company failure, the loss might be preferable.
From the slides, apparently a node in
the system just connects at an ISP
or peering site and grabs all the
packets. Then they essentially 'parse'
the packets to TCP/IP sessions, logical
user sessions, e-mail messages, etc.

Then back at HQ, can send
the node what are essentially 'filters'
to return 'alerts' and the associated
content.

So, point: As a system, it's quite
obvious. As software, it's quite
routine.

And, from their description of working
with anomalies, they are being just
intuitive and elementary and not at
all advanced or powerful.

It would appear that a terrorist
Internet user
could
do fairly well beating that system
by using a proxy server also used by
many other Internet users and also
using a lot of strong encryption --
PGP used well might be strong enough.
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Two Factor Auth - the future
I really want to crack an eliza joke here, but I'm just not clever enough.
When you are done attacking Stallman with a false analogy, would you care to name a few of his invalid conclusions?

More specifically, what is so impractical or "completely wrong" about not using smartphones?
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Web browsers must be some of the most demanding applications to develop: they have to do very many different things; they must be very efficient; they must be very reliable; requirements change very rapidly.

If claims made by certain language X apologists are to be believed, one can infer that language X should permit developing a web browser in shorter time than C++, with performance within say 20% of C++ (or even superior to C++, depending on X and the apologist), with fewer bugs, and with a more maintainable codebase as the result. Actually delivering such a web browser would be a rather more convincing argument than empty talk or even glorified Fibonacci programs. Hence, I'm very much looking forward to future progress by the Rust guys.
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1. How is that calculated?

2. Is there a ready way to simulate it?
I have nothing wrong with people having suspected it for a long time, or even saying so. I suspected it for a long time as well. My problem is with the attitude many people seem to have once evidence confirming those suspicions comes out and they go on about how the evidence means nothing because they knew it all along. No, the evidence confirms their suspicions, which makes it incredibly important!

Ultimately, whether they intend to or not, such statements end up making other people who are hearing about this for the first time more complacent about it because they come into the comments and see a bunch of people going on about how it's nothing new and therefore the new information is no big deal.
I've always wondered how a system like that could work. If you do it right, it could be very useful.

It would be interesting if for example Hacker news discussion threads could something decide on collective actions to take.
I agree completely. We need more education on the subject as opposed to back patting, and we definitely don't need to attack the very people that need to hear and understand the reporting most, as the person you are replying to is doing, by calling them naive. A bit sad imho.
> "Blizzard is leaking subscribers in the hundreds of thousands recently"

Another few years of that and they'll merely be ... well, still the largest subscription MMO ever...
Content Security Policy is going to make the web safer.
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Starbucks derives much (if not most) of their success from product positioning. It's no secret their coffee is just meh in comparison to any other coffee shop. People frequent Starbucks because they love the brand. A lot of things comprise a brand. The logo, the music, the smell, the brown tiled floor, the atmosphere, and yes, the wifi they offer.

If Starbucks partners with Google it isn't really a play to make the free-loaders more comfortable from an operations standpoint, it is about improving their brand image. Once you know they have faster wifi, it will be one more aspect of the brand that you are drawn to, even if it isn't to use the wifi. It may sound absurd, but I believe this is more of a marketing play than actually improving the customer experience.
>How does it enter anyone's mind as a thing to do in the first place?

Because a lot of people make up code as they go a long.

Think of it as story telling vs. ordering. When story telling something happens and the your characters/code react to the outcome of that event, but stays in the same context.

Instead it would be better to write code as your being ordered around by an old drill sergeant. He'll always tell you to do one thing and one thing only. When you've completed that task, you given the next instruction and are no longer in the context of the previous action.

It's something I thought about often when reading code, both that of others and my own and it's the best explanation I've been able to come up with.
That's the nature of the RF business. Most folks are interested in one (<= HF), or the other (> HF), or have money for equipment that handles both. Building good equipment that handles the full spectrum is challenging.
A MITM would steal your VPN credentials would it?
I did see remote bots attempting to guess ssh usernames besides root. For instance bob, john, guest, ...
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ReferenceError: angular is not defined

Maybe this still needs some love...
BMW could give Tesla a run for their money
Thanks Joseph, having developers release screencasts where they work on actual projects is definitely a big goal of ours. People often underestimate how much you can learn by watching someone who's an expert in something.
Plenty in the cafes I go to

Just not the ones on HN.

UK:Note mobile coverage is generally very good in UK but there are surprising dead spots, especially in 60s vintage office buildings.
Of course it would "work". So would a lever - ask Archimedes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archimedes_lever_(Small).j...
For me, personally, it's not about "look how smart I am" as it is genuine surprise that the story actually seems to be sticking this time.

I'm glad that people are paying attention, but especially early on, it wasn't entirely clear that Snowden's leaks were substantially different from the leaks that have been coming out of the NSA for years that never got traction in the media.
That’s not unique to Amazon. You can find those books for free in the iBookstore as well or download them from the web.
This looks beautiful, do you have to buy specific charts? $0.99 is a lot cheaper than other chart apps I have looked at.
If you want to abstract part of a common query, then do so. That is what views are for. Everyone trying to sell the world on ORMs always seems to make this mistake. You can't say "if you do things the worst possible way now, an ORM can help you!" and expect me to be excited. I don't do things the worst possible way, I already get the benefits you mention from my database.
In the PRISM related documents they used that exact term, "foreignness".

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/bombsh...
Videos seem to be unavailable at the moment.