skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no problem with him getting 81m. The fact that all of the other employees combined get 29m combined while he gets that is pretty lame though.
As a teacher of Computing, I couldn't agree more. I've blogged about it here
http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
Habits I see daily include: typing domain names into search bars, using Caps Lock to type a single uppercase letter, holding down off buttons to 'shutdown' a computer, using passwords like asdfg1234.
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Heya, i'm the koding user (not staffer) who wrote those docs :)

> This seems aloof. I feel that this is more explanatory of what Koding offers:

I would agree with this sentiment. I didn't expect so much publicity over my little doc project haha. I'll look at rewording that, thanks for the feedback :)

> On a side note, would it be possible to offer offline capability? Perhaps allowing users to download/upload Vagrant VMs configured with Puppet.

To my limited understanding, the VMs will offer an always-on option in the future. I haven't heard of a timeframe on any of this though.

My apologies if i'm slow to reply/etc, i'm new to this platform.

edit: I made an issue on this note. https://github.com/koding/docs/issues/71
Can someone explain to me why this has to be a hardware project? Why can't they just make this an OS project and load it on whatever high end phone exists in 2014? Hardware falls outside of Canonical's core competency, and as such seems like an inconvenience.
http://www.projectcensored.org/12-us-joins-forces-with-al-qa...
Nice job, though I’d like to see news.ycombinator.com/best included, I only read that. :)
Joey has his whole house wired to a PV setup. Not really the same thing as mounting one on the back of a laptop: for one, you can make the panel bigger and thus get more energy quite easily. Having just the surface area of the laptop constrains you quite a bit. With current technology you can only get around 10-20 W out of a laptop-sized PV panel.
Okay, if we are going the play it safe then we need to ban sugar. Oh, and soda. As well as chips. Definitely chocolate bars. Tea of course contains caffeine, an extremely dangerous substance in extreme circumstances?

The point is that people can become addicted to essentially everything. If you single out one thing as being an opt-in/certain age simply because of that reason then you create a situation of forcing your worldview on others simply because you created a reasoning that can be applied to anything and used that as a justification.
Also mimicing Slashdot: after-the-fact dupes!
I don't understand the convergence here at all. Isn't it better to just have whatever laptop is best for you and whatever solar power source is best for you?
It's quite obvious why though. Making taxes easier to file will cost them their entire business.
Back in 1996 I had a side gig teaching Internet 101 to people who generally had just bought their first computer at WalMart and were afraid to open the box. Every class the first mention of "mouse" caused a few hands to go up and ask what a mouse was. Most of them had the mouse in their other hand at the time. We used Yahoo for search, and Alta Vista for the 'Advanced Search Strategies" class.
I did few places, or other replied to this questions in the thread.

I am not using any framework, but I am using zepto and fastclick library.
> I couldn't imagine the comments that I've seen about blacklisting former government workers and publicly shaming service men and women coming from anyone who has carried this kind of responsibility.

I think the 'activists' that were derided are also working hard in the interest of the country. As for blacklisting and shaming former servicemen, see the aforementioned Bill Binney, and Thomas Drake, former NSA workers who dedicated decades of their lives to their country, and were blacklisted and prosecuted by their own government for daring to blow the whistle about violations of the constitution and Americans' privacy rights.
Why have such a narrow view? Have you considered that 99% of NSA employees might be just like you and me, have absolutely no malicious intent, and have absolutely no knowledge or understanding of the programs the NSA is reported to practice?

Look at the converse - these employees have already been through a thorough background investigation and have been entrusted with highly secure data. These employees probably also have a higher (or at least average) tolerance against "being coerced" as you say into circumventing security mechanisms enforced by their employer - I can only imagine the counterintelligence nightmare that would exist if the clearance vetting process didn't try to weed out easily coerced individuals.

My point being: try not to focus on the negatives of the news, and remember that these are real people, many incredibly talented and trustworthy.
That's not actually a rebuttal, but if it makes you feel better...
"Yes, we've filed for a patent"

Instant boycott.
It's hard enough installing Ubuntu onto a normal computer (well, not really, but for the masses it is), installing a new OS onto a smartphone is much more difficult.

I agree that they don't really need this phone, rather they should try putting out a 300-400 phone, along the line of the Nexus, that carriers can offer for 0-99 dollars on contract.
In-n-Out Burger has a similar reputation. Privately held so it's hard to get info.
It is not so simple - trends are important.

For now few things are clearly visible:

1. US spends disproportionately on security and surveillance.

2. There is mission creep and mission search in all security related branches.

3. Vague laws gives prosecutors insane amounts of heavy mallets with which to threaten people - if 95% of trials end with guilty plea and a deal - due process is illusion.

4. US is having very high incarceration per capital ratio.

And while 4 has leveled in the last few years I think the other are accelerating. Of course it is not impossible to be reversed. Or even that hard.
Sorry but if you believe that, you're a fucking idiot. They are lots of things - morons they are not.
I wonder what are the differences between the "Sweet* and Sour* Partitions" of PINWALE?
"Only if you sold the stock at that price."

Nope, you don't get to redefine a return as only realized gains. This is a very liquid and can be sold at anytime. I can borrow against it in my portfolio to get a mortgage, can use it for margin, etc.

"But at some point, growing profits has to be a concern, too."

Not when the cash can be more smartly reinvested in growth. Facebook is above it's IPO price btw which means growth is in line with a year ago.

"Maybe the best way I can phrase it: Do you want to be Apple or Amazon?"

Apple's growth has completely stalled and they have no clue what to do with $100B+ in cash which is the reason for their massive stock price fall. Amazon knows exactly what to do with their cash and is piling it into growth. This is a far more efficient use of capital for an investor.

And I don't know what it means to "be Apple or Amazon" but I'd rather be an investor in Amazon - and so would most of Wall Street.
Probably nothing, because the actual people at NSA have remained pretty focused on their mission even absent any real technical or legislative-oversight controls. I suspect that will be the case until the hired-in-2001 people leave the agency and are replaced mainly with people trained by those post-2001 people. In the most junior roles at NSA, that's probably already happened.

I wonder if "diffuse harm happening to everyone" can ever compete with "concrete harm happening to specific people you identify with". It's clear "concrete harm happening to people about whom you give zero fucks, or actively dislike" is meaningless.

In the first category, let's go with atmospheric nuclear testing -- a small but concrete global cancer risk increase. We ended that, but only after doing it a lot, and getting most of the benefit. I'm not sure if occasional-but-universal things like car accidents (measures like airbags, etc.) count as the first or second category. The second gets a whole range of things. The third, virtually everything about warfare. All serious privacy/comsec things to date have been in the third category (unless you don't hate drug users, in which case some might be in the second category). The harm of the first category has been exceptionally minor, even if you believe humans at NSA read every single packet.
Thanks. You hit the proverbial nail on the head. Data wrangling is precisely where my degree doesn't help. Does Webb's book have any pointers for data manipulation or are there other resources?
A de-facto blacklist where having the NSA on your resumé is as desirable as having NAMBLA?
> It's worth pointing out that you don't need to work "for the NSA" to be contributing to state surveillance.

The flip is also true: you're not necessarily contributing to state surveillance just because you work "for the NSA". Two easy examples are SELinux and the various NSA Guides to Securing <OS_of_choice>.
no the one true terminal is the VT100 - with the clicky sound turned on a touch typist sounded like a reenactment of the st valentines day massacre.

We even went and brought the official DEC schematics so our electronics shop could fix the rs232 isolators them when a nearby lightning strike took them out.

long cable runs under a metal roof
I was disappointed that it isn't real. This would have been a great way to keep in touch with prisoners, whose mail is being read anyways. It would have been nice to type letters without needing to print them out and mail it, and "free" sealed the deal.
Anyone who watches government in action understands quite well how laws are twisted and turned to meet objectives. It only matters what is explicit, and there is no mention anywhere in the Constitution about "privacy". If this is a value that we Americans wish to continue, then it needs to be codified. Any government action begins with words and the interpretation of said words.
I thought distance meters were already built in in all smartphones using the camera's laser.
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It could be. The NRA is actively engaged in working with a traditionally liberal segment of the population - poor minorities. There are lots of reasons for that, but one big one is that they are mostly Democrats, and the NRA has become too dependent on Republicans lately.
>I wonder if someone has done analysis on what features make browsers so complicated.

There is a visualisation of the chrome binary here: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/ I'm not sure how up to date it is now, but it gives a vague idea.

>I guess a large chunk of this stuff should be in the OS, so that other apps could benefit from it. And another large part of it should be in plugins, so the browser can benefit from all the codecs on the system, for example.

That is the case for Safari for example (using PDFKit for pdfs etc and system codecs for video and audio). Mozilla like to bundle everything with Firefox because they view Firefox as an OS itself, rather than just another application for viewing html documents. Most of the huge size and complexity in modern browsers is due to people trying to turn the browser into an operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
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I gather that in a lot of states they haven't been put to the legal test. Not a good bet where judiciaries lean more left than the state itself, e.g. any that picks judges with the Missouri Plan, like my home state of Missouri where our Castle Doctrine has been judicially nullified. Especially since you won't find many political profiles in courage supporting ownership of NFA items.
I don't work in design. I do a combination of software development (and often get UI design input from my colleagues) and sys and network administration, but while I'm not good at handling situations like this, the owner of our company is exceptionally good at it, and I've taken notes as to how he deals with.

He always seems to be in absolute control of the conversation. If somebody wants something done, he'll always be totally honest with them, in a very direct way. So, if someone says, "Instead of buying recommended UTM, I'd like to just use free Antivirus program that's not fit for business use", he doesn't let it just go, he'll say something like, "That isn't a complete solution and it's going to end up costing you in malware removal time and headaches. You really should just use this product as it will save you money and time in the long run. I can get you a quote on it before the day is over."

He totally owns the conversation and directs and redirects it to a central point. In this case, that point is 'Free AV is not a good solution for businesses that have hardware in house. You need a UTM of some kind." It's never, 'I recommend..." or "I think you should...", it's always, "This is how it is in the real world. You aren't hiring me to softball in suggestions, you are hiring me to be an expert." He addresses their motivations, in this case, cost and benefit of a proper solution.

For design, I'd imagine it'd be very similiar. Something on the lines of, "Comic Sans is an unprofessional font. It does the face of your company a huge disservice and should be avoided."

I honestly suck at it and I'm trying to get better and owning and directing conversations with customers -- The advice he gives me is go into a conversation with a purpose and a direction. Redirect the conversation to the original purpose when you need to ("We can talk about other thing, but first, I really want to get this product/website/solution in your hands before we address that. What do we need to do to make that happen."), and finally, slow the conversation down enough to really hear what they are saying and understand their motivations and then respond accordingly. It's really easy to let a conversation run away from you and you end up following a mental script instead of actually responding to a customer.
The problem is you have to know that behavior exists. Many of the users that "search to site" will still type Google into the omnibox, and complete the process as they always have (by searching Google for Facebook and clicking the link).
You may be correct, but their core support being baby boomers doesn't exclude the possibility that an audience they need to reach is also in that age group. The issue with privacy is that it should have the largest contingent of support of any single issue. Tea partiers, pure libertarians, anarchists, leftists, gun rights supporters, free speech supporters, paranoid conspiracy nuts, militias (I'm running through every group and stereotype I can come up with here, please don't be offended, just trying show how broad the coalition should be), Black Panther types, the immigration crowd, even some number of religious groups worried about persecution should all be able to unite behind this issue as a single one they care about. Really, it's only going to be the most autocratic types who don't at least sympathize (if not support) the movement. At least, I haven't encountered anyone who doesn't at least get my outrage, even if they might be a bit more open to NSA-type activities than me.
I'm the koding user (not staffer) who wrote the docs, good point on the Koding link. I never expected anyone to be reading the docs who didn't know the url for Koding, but both Reddit and Here have linked to the docs directly.

Not sure why, but i'll add a link to Koding from the docs today. Thanks for the feedback :)

edit: https://github.com/koding/docs/issues/72
It's disheartening that despite the continual stream of information pouring in about the NSA the average citizen remains comparatively indifferent and the media and most representatives seem to be supportive of the NSA's activities.

That being said, I wouldn't go as far as to say the average American doesn't care, just that their reaction in light of these leaks is underwhelming. I don't believe that the slide towards total surveillance (or anything for that matter) is inevitable, but I would much appreciate confronting mass surveillance now as opposed to 10-20 years down the road.
Get rid of restaurant tipping?
On technical counts, I agree. The scenario of a poorly implemented filter reminds me of "porn before the Internet": young people learning the basic tricks to gain access to forbidden material and then spreading them within their groups. Even with physical pornography, doing this was neither complex nor particularly time-consuming.

However, I maintain that there's reason for concern when a government elects to make sexuality a matter of policy. Steering public opinion in a certain direction (making the filter opt-out sounds more like a "you shouldn't be doing it, perv" rather than a "it's entirely up to you, my well-adjusted friend!") and exerting control over exposure at the infrastructure level might not be censorship proper, but I wouldn't consider it harmless from a cultural perspective. Generally, I'm indeed bothered when my government wields morality to crusade against something of dubious consequence.

Granted, this comes from someone who considers the most common stances on pornography and sexual education largely detrimental.
Indeed they do. And not all of them have the benefit of being able to justify themselves with "I leaked this for the good of the country".

It's not all that rare to see sysadmins that get fired or even just perceive mistreatment by coworkers or employers to jump the shark and mess up the systems they're meant to take care of.
A few hundred dollars could get you a full 3' x 5' 250W panel plus a microinverter.
Why do you use Alexa’s Chrome Extension? For making web a better place?
Prohibition failed because it allowed the bootleggers of the underground to fully monopolize their trade without having to abide by any legal restrictions. If a business no longer has the threat of ramifications for questionable acts, then the questionable acts increase exponentially.

That can be two-way though. Cracking down only builds a stronger underground, which is where I see the entire surveillance issue going. As with all other ails in society, the ones with the power to effect real change are precisely the ones who would suffer most by said change. So it won't happen. Petitions, demonstrations, appeals courts, etc, are all useless. And there could never be a massive, singular pro-privacy effort as there is no money to be made. The NRA and big pharma have huge lobby groups playing with billions of dollars because there's billions more to be made.

So what? It's harder to combat guerrillas than a standing army. There's not always safety in numbers, sometimes that just results in a bigger target. So what if the Feds can tap into the larger encrypted anythings, give them a thousand tiny encryption outlets to deal with instead. Not a united cause, but a million different efforts. OWS failed bigtime because there were too many cooks in the kitchen. Aligning forces means individual voices get lost in the shuffle of the crowd. And Prohibition aligning with the Suffrage movement only resulted in the Suffrage movement being falsely placated to as a new target for Capitalism. Sell them ladies some cigarettes! Sell them some clothes-washing machinery! Let them know how much we respect their struggles by giving them things to go broke on!

(Apologies for any lack in logic- still working on 1st pot of coffee.)
Trying to split the "sporting gun owners" from the "ccw and evil black rifle crowd" was an effective anti-NRA tactic (attempted again recently). I guess I know a weird subset of gun owners who have to buy new safes regularly.

I think CISPA was an attempt to split the security/privacy crowd as well -- there certainly are those who care about infosec just to keep their corporate IP unrustled, vs. those who care about it from individual liberty grounds, the same way.
Encryption is basically a tool against wiretappers and men in the middle. But what if you don't fully trust your users, and fear they'll try to add exploits to your software ?

Another high level effort in security is meredith paterson's "language theoretic security"[1] can help you code secure protocols, to fight against this problem.

There's also a tool to help implement it called hammer[2].Not sure if fully developed yet.

[1]http://boingboing.net/2011/12/28/linguistics-turing-complete...

[2]https://github.com/abiggerhammer/hammer
Some of your translations are confusing.
And how is this related to "altering the content of the email"?
(See also: Goading the NSA and freaking out your friends)
http://www.thiscallwillbemonitored.com/

I'm truly surprised that I haven't had a visit from one of those black Suburbans yet.
And as surely as you could "accidentally" visit a porn website (does this really happen to anybody? I am convinced that this is a myth created by the go-to excuse of every teenager and husband with a controlling spouse...), you could accidentally visit a restaurant that serves alcohol.

If such an incident disturbs you to the core, then turn around and find the door.
Sorry, i had to find original PSD to find the font name. Its called Ribbon. I doesn't render like this. I modified in PSD to make it look like this.
worries about government databases of guns should be very easy to relate to actual government databases of communications.

Bingo. There is a strong ally for privacy advocates in the NRA. This hasn't blown up in the media yet, but you can be sure it will next time discussions of gun registration/background checks comes up.
If that is so and the last 10% are as you suggest, surely that's discrimination for nonconfmormance?
Yes... accept it so we can hack you next time more easily ;))
Actually, (as I told his parents) I think his use of DXM in both Robitussin and powdered form was a big contributor to his schizophrenia. I'm pro-leglization of marijuana for both recreational and medicinal use, FYI, but I think the science is still ongoing as to whether it can aggravate latent schizophrenia in people.

I'm certainly not claiming that I KNOW what caused his schizophrenia. The point I was making was that I know how bad schizophrenia can be from experience, but I still think it should be legalized due to the huge harm of prohibition.
Camera's don't have lasers (at least in smartphones).

You could use infrared with two cameras to do depth measurement like the Kinect and the Leap Motion, but I'm unaware of any smartphones currently doing this.
If you think of a warehouse as just a place to put stuff, then yeah, there has been a glut of capacity for over a hundred years now. Walmart has an incredible transportation logistics system. I have no problem admitting they do it better than Amazon. But WalMart still cant compete on fulfillment. Throw in the worlds largest inventory selection (I'm guessing at least an order of magnitude larger than WalMart as a whole, and about 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than an individual WalMart store), and the ability to guarantee same day fulfillment, and Walmart doesn't even come close.

Remember, even then, you are comparing Walmart to Amazon...not JoeSchmoe.com to Amazon. If you think it just amounts to putting things in a box and calling UPS for a pickup, I double dog dare you to compete with Amazon. It doesn't get any closer to a pennies-on-the-dollar comparison.
I believe they let you tell people who ask since being evasive would raise more suspicion.
Yeah. My long-term plan involves either running as CLEO (in a low-population county in WA), and/or becoming a manufacturing FFL (looking at how to make .22lr mini-mag clones at <$0.05 all day, in the $10-20mm+/yr scale -- it's sadly a bit of a black art)