skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, they will work it so that there is a very expensive and labyrinthine process for privacy "compliance" for companies operating in the US which will purely by coincidence be so expensive and convoluted that only the big companies will be able to afford it. Just to reiterate, this will be 100% accidental and will in no way reflect an intent on the part of the established players to create a de-facto barrier to entry for potential competitors. You know you can trust them because the meeting was behind closed doors and both they and the president refused to comment on it.
NSA's statement: Missions, Authorities, Oversight and Partnerships
Call it Stasi-Email
I'm furious that reporters just kept throwing soft balls at him in the face of the Special Operations Division revelations.
If that's not abuse, what is?
No, that's not the thing, and you don't get to characterize what I mean in order to support your rhetorical argument. I'm disappointed that you chose this approach.

I most certainly am talking about how the police responded, and saying that it makes rather more sense when you include the full context of the call.

You originally wrote Sunnyvale police drove their tank over to a house where someone had called in reporting a murder, they asked the person to come out and then immediately shot him dead. You left out the fact that the caller identified himself as the person who had committed the murder, and you've been trying to change the subject ever since.

I have no problem with the police driving an armored vehicle* to an address where the caller has identified himself as a murderer. In a situation like that there's a high probability of getting shot at and I don't expect the police to go in defenseless. This is totally different from an innocent third party calling in to report the discovery of a murder.

* This is a Sunnyvale PD armored personnel carrier: http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/654*488/swat.raid.2.jpg
This is a tank: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/M1_...
They are nothing alike.
> The real problem is that browsers can't use them as good as they should

That's the obvious inevitability of having too many superfluous options. And one of the main thrusts of the article.
You've re invigorated my desire to work on my startup, get myself and my life into shape and work on everything. Thank you so much for your advice, I appreciate it.
I love the HTC One, but sadly it's not available for my network(T-mobile equivalent of Canada). So I am really pissed of at these companies for making identical phones and two versions.

I mean the phone costs upwards of $600 and they are going to make two almost identical versions of the same fucking phone. Doesn't that have anything to do with how much it costs.

I am settling with Nexus 4 primarily because I will be able to at least run Ubuntu on it and leave Android just because everything about the platform is garbage. From the development environment, to the UX, to involvement in community, to all the shady things vendors are pulling(I'm looking at you Qualcomm), and especially now it's got backdoors in it for sure.

I swear if there is one thing I want to do with the rest of my life it's start developing tech to tear down the Berlin wall of technology that these vendors have.

They have been holding back innovation since their inception. Restricting our choices because supposedly they know better.
If you must do so, then create an extra user on your computer that you use for things like this. (Make sure not to give that user sudo.)

Switch to that user before running any code you are not sure about.
I don't hate them. I have no problem when they contact me through legitimate channels such as LinkedIn or StackOverflow. I even try to respond with a polite 'no' in most cases.

I have a problem with them abusing the git commit logs to get at my personal email as a way of manipulating me.
Even as a developer I've caught myself dismissing errors too quickly; so I can hardly fault users for it.

(However, when I dismiss an error too quickly, it's usually followed by an audible: "oh crap. I hope that's in a log somewhere.")
Obama proposes nothing of the sort. All he's proposing is a fresh coat of paint over the same policies and procedures in an attempt to make it seem like it seem like Obama cares about civil liberties and privacy, but he really doesn't. The security of the state and the establishment is what matters to him. Hasn't his Justice Department's failure to go after the big players in the financial crash, failure to go after the Bush Administration war criminals and instead go after easy targets like Aaron Schwartz proven that to you yet?

Sorry guys, we thought Obama was our friend, but he's thrown in the law enforcement and military types over the geeks. Color me a disappointed Obama voter, but at least I know where the Democrats stand. It'll be third party voting for me here on out.
Obama to reporters: 'I don't see Snowden as a patriot' [video]
I think many developers complain about recruiters as a way of subtly bragging about how many people want to hire them. Secretly, they'd be kind of disappointed if the emails stopped coming.
So our mistake is that computers don't make grindy noises when they are broke. More grindy noises engineers!
This was just for a real life example, to support author.

For us it was the economy. Upgrading was too expensive.

I don't think in IT there is much a child can do wrong. Only giving up personal information should be prohibited mostly. Other than that, its pretty safe. I managed to light computer on fire only once.
You sir, are a genius
That. Or maybe they realized that with the downturn, a newborn child, a newbought home, a mortgage, and a wife that had been fired when pregnant I wouldn't have had much room to leave anytime soon...
the idea is generally a great one, but do we really need to save our key data in the cloud? Especially you think about what happened the last few days & weeks.
What's her vision?
Except that that is almost never the way you would go about logging someone out. Which is precisely the point.
"got the medications to prove it."

Please, elaborate?
Thanks, although I agree with the sentiment of the original title :)
Yes please, what are the implications of this release?
Awesome, lately privacy has become a real concern for me... my inbox filled with Recruiter e-mails will also like this!
They will release a redacted version of the opinion in question, and a redacted version of exactly one paragraph from a classified whitepaper given to congress on it. In both cases, how redacted they will be is up in the air.

They requested an extension until August 21st to do this (original deadline was August 12th). The EFF "reluctantly did not oppose this"
yet struggle to convince "artsy" persons that what I do is creative.

As another mathematician I've almost found the exact opposite. As soon as I mention math to an arts person they instantly start babbling about fractals and chaos and Fibonacci and all kinds of other vague pop-culture terms they've heard of but don't really understand. Artsy types almost seem to find math much more artistic than I do.
So how is this different from using any fake email address?
By the way, the counterpoint to that Cory Doctorow quote how everything is a computer (airplane is a flying computer) is that the EXACT PROBLEM with software is that damn near everything is a computer. And when you add a computer to anything, it tends to go to shit. Things that worked just fine without it, now saddled with the typical software engineering mindset, are suddenly not so good. BMW iDrive, Ford Sync/MyFord Touch case in point.

Read the preview of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672...

The part that says "what do you get when you cross a computer with an airplane".
The difference here is that they aren't perceived to be wealthy now, but perceived to have the means to generate significant wealth quickly in the future.
...and <BLINK> was a HTML element. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
It's not difficult language and I think what you really want to ask, without asking, is does anyone have a TLDR? At least that's what I'm asking because the PDF on my iPhone is on the fritz.
Former SAP Exec Gets Prison Time for Lego Price Switcharoo
This is one track of a two-track strategy:

1. Close the exits, i.e. Lavabit

2. Spray soporific gas
PUT /myuser/following/theiruser
Once again, "you can opt out" isn't a serious answer. It's a matter of policy to anonymize the data, and Canonical changes policies unilaterally. The feature isn't under the control of users at all, and that is why it's dangerous.

Canonical has made it abundantly clear that their users have no voice in the development of Ubuntu, in fact they've been quite hostile when confronted with their secretive and authoritarian development practices.
It is never their politician that is the problem. Its all those other politicians you see. Nevermind that a good portion of those "other politicians" are from the same party and more or less vote the same way...

My hypothesis is that people are (mostly) not subjected to the election time advertising campaigns of other (nearly identical) politicians. Their politician is from a small town just like theirs and has a cute dog and a nice family! That other senator from the next state over? Who knows, he's almost certainly a scumbag.

Advertising works; film at eleven...
Science doesn't fully understand the human brain so I cannot agree that intelligence can be fully measured by any scientific means today. We have some tests, but the value of them is debated.
When people say "but government is supposed to do that" it sounds almost like a religious belief. Just because the holy book - in this case, the constitution - says so, it doesn't mean it is so. It also doesn't mean we should somehow fix the government. When a religious person complains his priest is not praying hard enough for him that's why he's not doing so good, the solution is NOT to find a better priest.

But a less abstract reply to your comment should be this: what does protecting privacy and communication mean in the case of NSA doing it, how is it done specifically and why does it make you safer?
This is intensely thought-provoking and beautifully well-written. It's not directly about hacking, but it's the type of treasure that hackers love to stumble upon.

It's worth noting the times when HN really delivers. I doubt I'd have come across this anywhere else.
Ask HN: What do you think of Bitcoin?
I am curious to see what fellow hackers, entrepreneurs, and generally bright people here at HN think of Bitcoin and it's future. Questions worth considering: Is it a worthy investment? Can it really be compared to the internet in its early days (as many people say)?
I was an Obama supporter during his first presidential campaign. I remember some people warning that Obama would be a disaster. I tried to listen to what they said, but I couldn't find any criticism at that time that made sense, just some wingnuts saying that he was the AntiChrist, or that he wasn't born in the US (me neither, I don't care) or that he was a fascist without explaining why.

I wonder if it's just that the media was really good at mocking these people, or if they were really wingnuts and they have just been lucky in being somewhat right in the long run.
I don't approve of the execution, but I cannot condemn the decision to fire.
Well - I'd go a bit further. Use of $gnu combined with the function name and location is also fairly clever in that a casual glance will just appear to be some gnu/gpl-related code in the copyright file -- not at all out of place.

It won't pass any real scrutiny, but it does help it to slip under the radar if someone isn't paying close attention.
Here's one website I was thinking of: http://formds.com

Is the information disclosed in Form D's severely limited or useless for determining who is being funded and who is funding them? If yes, then what is the purpose of this website?
So the police stopped planting evidence because a 12 year old called them out on it? This sounds like a made up story.
This 1000x.

Getting a user interface correct is exceedingly difficult. How would one know what a toaster is for if they had not seen one being used?

Computers are layers and layers of abstractions built to deal with an important resource, information. We've done a good job of burying the fact that at the lowest level we are coercing an electrical charge on a microscopic wire through a p-n junction the way we want. Hardly anyone needs to understand how to create their own incredibly tiny p-n junctions, nor understand what the hell a p-n junction is.

However, at the larger macro levels, there is still much work to be done.

Something as necessary as WiFi still causes a great amount of confusion. Why not alert the user that their wifi is off? Better yet, why not just pop up the wireless selector when someone opens anything that requires a remote resource if they are not connected?

If we were really good at designing things from the start we wouldn't have these problems. People don't need to know about the file system and how it works any more than they need to know about the change in voltage inside their electronics.

The curious among us will always dive deeper into the layers of abstraction and ask how and why. This is not unique to just computers.

The modern world around us is tantalizingly complex. Things like plumbing and water have been solved and "just work". The interface is very obvious and simple, and through a little bit of experimentation, one can figure out a water faucet with very little risk of failure or consequence. How we interact with water in our homes is pretty much solved. Assuming, of course, you live in a society with running water and plumbing. (Some still dont, it's amazing how often the first world forgets this)

How we interact with information is in the process of being "solved". Once our interface with information is "solved" it will be understood and there will be very little need for the major technical skills we require today to interact with this resource.

In the meantime, you are probably gainfully employed because of your ability to understand the current interface with information. It is your job to make this interface better for everyone.
>It's worth noting the times when HN really delivers. I doubt I'd have come across this anywhere else.

At risk of getting to meta, this piece seems to pop up everywhere. I don't mean that in a bad way, but this is at least the fifth time over the course of many years that I have seen this piece pop up on completely unrelated sites.
Customer Series: LifePlay Sees Explosion in Survey Competition Rates
Instica Insight, The Crowd Domain Appraisal Platform
Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America
I agree but your first comment says "I dont think it is related at all". That is what I was responding to.
"Ok. You win. Give us a few more days to redact the hell out of the opinion, and then we'll give it over to you."
I'm having trouble seeing how this will work. They say:

> Data are encrypted directly by the provider, ...

and they also say:

> automatically encrypt data over all transmission paths

If it's done by the provider, how does the data get from my machine to their machine to be encrypted?
reputable location - whatever reputable means...

It´s funny that web.de is also on board. If you have a look at the business model of web.de, they are always trying to get they users automatically locked into an overpriced subscription model after the free trial period ends.
Clearly a cousin of the "HumbleBrag", this should be called the "HumbleWhine"...

Boo Hoo, Just Look At Me, What An Awesome Developer I Am, That So Many Recruiters Spam Me With Their Offers

Darn, spoilt rich kids (devs) and their rich problems!
Very true :) But with a little statistical analysis, that's true of basically all communication. An organization with the NSA's resources can automatically infer a set of people I probably talk to even if they can't directly observe my communications with them. I'm not willing to turn my life into a Le Carre novel, and I think that's the level of effort it'd take.
It never was. <BLINK> has never, ever, ever been part of the HTML spec or even the HTML drafts. At best, it was an easter egg.
You've hit on what I think the core problem is: since forever (as far as I know) computers have been regarded as "magical and incomprehensible" - that is, non-technical people think they will never be able to understand what you just did with the proxy settings. So even if you show them and explain what you did, they never even consider that they could use that knowledge again in the future.

I think this is a failure of education. As the author points out, learning MS Office shouldn't be the first step, learning the principles of technical problem solving should be. That most computers operate the same way regardless of what they look like, and that you can draw inferences about what's wrong, and where to make changes. It seems like drilling in 'try a few things and then google for it' (as we all do) would help a lot.

Certainly unwillingness to teach can be a problem, but I think often it's born from the experience of solving the same problem for the same person many times over, and seeing their unwillingness to learn. </huge_generalization>
You feel it's not difficult language to non-lawyers, but you physically can't read the text because your phone is broken? How would you know?
Also, note how he put it: "the american people NEED to have confidence". Because WESAYSO.
I recently read former Seattle police chief's book "Breaking Rank" http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Rank-Expose-American-Policing... where he talks a lot about the idea of community policing and de-militarization. It's a great book.
I'm not sure what the point here is, since ubuntu edge won't change this?
The Browser Console ✩ Mozilla Hacks
Brooklyn, NY - Full Time - Dash (www.dashwith.me)

http://dashwith.me/backend-developer/

Description:
We’re looking for a badass developer who’s passionate about building the infrastructure behind an aggressively growing start-up. Join us in shaping the future of mobile payments.

Responsibilities

- Loving code, but also loving constant collaboration between a killer team
- Building Web Services to be consumed by Mobile or Web applications
- General Algorithm, Data Analysis, and Performance Development
- Clean, Object Oriented Design and Coding
- Documentation and Collaboration
- Automated Testing and Quality Assurance

Skills and Experience

- Comfortable working with PHP, Go, Rails, or Node.js
- Experience with one or more database systems (MySQL, Mongo, etc.) and the ability to learn new data systems
- Demonstrated ability to write organized, object-oriented, server-side code
- Solid oral and written English communication skills
- Experience working with Git version control and continuous integration
- Experience with automated provisioning and deployment (Chef, Puppet)
- Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services

Apply

Ready to apply? Please send an email to jobs@dashwith.me including your resume, your favorite text editor and linux distro, a link to your github, as well as why your passionate about working for a start-up. (Bonus points if you include a story of when Dash would of been helpful to you in the past!)
I'm biased, as I know the team personally, but they didn't neglect the software side. A majority of the team are software engineers, and hackability is very much a part of their design. So definitely, buy one (or more) and make some killer apps!
No. But to be clear, I'm not defending the firing, only explaining where it may have come from.
Are you saying that it was a bad thing they tried to make it a reality?
It's fascinating that the situation is such a mockery of the rule of law, yet it keeps on rolling. If the FISA decided that the NSA's activities were illegal, why would it keep rubber-stamping the warrants? It seems like at that point it should deny every single request going forward until the illegal activities have stopped.

Is there a process for impeaching the FISA judges for malfeasance?
> They requested an extension until August 21st to do this (original deadline was August 12th).

I don't get it; how long could it possibly take to redact such documents? Is there somebody toiling 8 hours a day for 7 or 8 more days, scrambling to get this done in time? Or are they lazily just sticking it on the backburner of some intern?
Edward Snowden should be pardoned for his actions in blowing the whistle on NSA criminal activity.

However if he leaked other information to foreign governments he should be subject to prosecution for those actions. It would be interesting to see what credibility the government has with the public in making this case. Of course the public would never know because the trial would have to be kept secret in the "interest of national security". Of course by that point the secrets are already known to those who would be interested. And down the rabbit hole we go.
Not entirely true. I have the first edition of this as an eBook.
Pretty good business idea. Solicit back-order to mass produce your own bitmining ASIC's. Use them to mine for awhile until they become obsolete, now dump the trash onto your customers. And onto the next one!
Someone from the Senate edited Snowdens's wikipedia entry
I think Obama believed most of what he campaigned for. But I believe the Office of the President changes people, and I'm sure there is a lot going on that we don't see. Something changed his mind. Not that I agree with his change in stance, but I suspect that's what happened.
I think he had a point that he was trying to get across, and did it very efficiently.

I'm not defending what he did by any stretch, just trying to understand it and propose an explanation. When work environments are hostile like that, you either put your head very far down, or you get your resume onto the market.
I'll buy it. I own hundreds of domains, including http://StartupJobs.com

Harry Joiner / 404.281.2025 / http://EcommerceJobs.com
Obama is not a disaster. He is a great product of a system called democracy, where people are taught to believe they are free and can make a difference by voting.
AdWords for Video