skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Public places. It may sound obvious, but you have little to no privacy when you are in public. When you are in a public place your actions, movements, and conversations are knowingly exposed to the public. That means the police can follow you around in public and observe your activities, see what you are carrying or to whom you are talking, sit next to you or behind you and listen to your conversations — all without a warrant."

From the EFF https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy
Hacker News isn't even listed on search engines because it disallows Googlebot.
Apparently the NSA has never investigated the Milgram experiments of the experiments done as followup?

Yes, most people will just go along and do whatever they are told - even if they are told to hurt or kill people. Very few people will resist if they perceive someone else as being in control and bearing the responsibility. BUT there is an exception to this. Once ONE person decides to rebel and refuses, it spreads like wildfire.

If Snowden had had to work with a team of a dozen people and he decided to resist their secrecy, it's most likely that the rest of the group would agree and join him. At least as likely as it is that the group will go along without question for awhile and that people like Snowden will be rare.
Hey, my name is Toby from Senic.
We're focusing on these simple solutions for the building industry first because they are under really high cost and time pressure and it help them the most.
With our SDK and API, it's a really flexible product. We're already working on integrating it into different robots etc for some of the mentioned functions. If you have any good suggestions, please drop me a line.
German mail providers enable TLS transports and call it "E-Mail made in Germany"
"If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in." --Alexander Warbucks
True, but the NRA was powerful before Ruby Ridge or the Davidians.
Using existing hardware does not mean making the end user do the install.
He is publicly available for theguardian journalists 24/7 to reply on current matters so you can assume the USA can pinpoint his exact location with precise accuracy. Unless you think the USA didn't know where Osama was either untill they did their raid?
> his own "ThinThread" system was designed to do exactly that, but with better technical controls over who could view the data.

That's plainly false. His system was specifically designed to throw-out private data, that is, never to store it. There is no data to view if it's not stored. See his 29C3 technical talk where he goes over it. [1]

>The notion that Binney is a staunch opponent of PRISM-style surveillance is revisionist.

This ignores nearly everything Binney has actually said when asked about why he came forward to blow the whistle on NSA's spying activities. Also, see above.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDM3MqHln8U
Hasn't been true for some time, except for a few companies. For most of the last century and continuing into this one, the US civilian market has been the most healthiest and reliable. E.g. while there are fads and fashions, we don't select guns because of politics or direct bribes.

Fabrique Nationale of Belgium is a great example, they've been selling to the US market since the '20s or '30s, the first shotgun in my family is a Browning Auto-5 with FHN markings bought by the grandfather I'm named after, we still have the papers for it.
Part of the problem is the FISA Court. The court has the power to interpret the constitution, holds secret hearings, the rulings are secret and only government lawyers are allowed.

You can now break the law without even knowing it.
I've been anticipating companies like Virgin Galactic would prove out hardware & know-how with sub-orbital tourist trips, then move on to sub-orbital travel legs. That possibility seems nearer term than Skylon.
I wonder if he'd be allowed to work remotely.
Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you
I used a web app called SnapTax one year in Canada to do my taxes. It was easy and fast, ahead of its time for web UIs, and showed what much better technology can do in the space. Intuit bought them and killed the product. Their own product (needless to say?) is awful.

If all you want is to get acquired and you don't care about your product being killed, making usable tax prep software is probably a good way to go. Unless there are regulatory barriers, it doesn't seem particularly hard. You'd have to immerse yourself in tax details, though, plus not love what you were doing.
What's up with all of these news articles where person A thinks topic B is word "C", in quotes? Maybe I'm missing something, but just throwing words onto events and calling it news looks like unthoughtful neurolinguistic programming. "this thing is called 'horrifying'". Often the articles don't declare the subject, so we just see that an invisible someone has done something. Sort of like "Wall graffitied with "$GANGTAG" sign". Off topic, I know. Just having a tough time grappling with news articles titled like this..
I see them as a "thing".

Things merely are.

I don't want to prejudge them with loaded terms such as as "bad" or "good". Sometimes events which would appear to benefit an individual are harmful to that individual or other individuals, and sometimes events which seem harmful are beneficial.

Yes, it's unfortunate that those individuals will have to expend more effort to prove their value to other people, but this is something which we all must do.
Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. [video]
What's the AOL Keyword of your website?
The SABRE's primary goal seems to be to get an SSTO (single-stage-to-orbit) into space. Anything else looks secondary.
Mission creep is a concern I have with this though. It's a short jump to go from optional blocking to mandatory blocking (as we already have with CleanFeed). The proposal is for it to be on by default - that's censorship in my eyes since you have to ask for the perverse content you're already being protected from.

I don't agree with the notion that the freedoms offered by the internet need to be curtailed to bring it back into line with the rest of life.
Generally, I won't be hiring them, in hiring interviews I'd recommend against them for ethical reasons, and I'll avoid doing work for them if possible.

I'm referring to a very small percentage of the government and contract workers who are involved in security and surveillance. I'm not talking about VA or even the regular marines/navy/police.

I won't be doing this explicitly.

Whether people would want to to work in a place that explicitly will not work with former NSA contractors depends on the area. In SF, Boston, NYC, Portland, maybe LA it would probably help you hire good workers. Obviously, in DC or Houston it would be more controversial and hurt the company. Remember these organizations/contractors are destroying our jobs, especially in silicon valley.
Clearly this is just another symptom of the Great Argentine Coin Shortage.

i.e., http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2009/06/08/090608ta_...
Looks like the website wasn't totally ready? The partner logos are all the same, and what does Square have to do with it?
> Why can't they just make this an OS project...

It is already an OS project, and is happening regardless of the Ubuntu Edge fundraising initiative. Images are available for various hardware, including the Nexus 4 for example. (But it's still a very early preview, not for production use.)

> Can someone explain to me why this has to be a hardware project?

Mark Shuttleworth explains the reason for the Ubuntu Edge initiative in the video on the main fundraising page. My interpretation: the high end phone that exists in 2014 will not be as good as what technology is available, because the existing phone hardware industry is conservative in technology selection. As Ubuntu is focusing on a converged experience with phone hardware driving the desktop as well, it would be better for the hardware to be better than what the industry is expected to deliver by 2014. So Canonical are driving this initiative, which is separate from the existing Ubuntu phone plans, to additionally deliver a phone with better hardware than what will be available on the market otherwise.
ok it's nice

but why?
Not atrocities, but the threat is definitely personal. The message is basically "the government will take YOUR guns if you don't stand with the NRA."
It is definitely listed.
Indeed. I missed the section where it showed that the warrant was executed, and "One Memorex DVD" was retrieved.
Still much faster than Android/Java apps.
Touch volume buttons are very very useful, the ability to control volume just by feel is something that should not be dismissed for the sake of a misguided minimalism.

A physical "home" button is also useful for when a phone starts to hang/go slow. If pressing the physical button has no effect then you press the physical on/off button, if that has no effect you power cycle the phone.

If those first steps are software interrupts you cannot trust them when software starts to hang, so the only satisfactory option is to powercycle, which is less useful than being able to just get back to a home screen where the phone can better recover from whatever was causing the hanging.
You are GROSSLY ignorant of the history of gun grabbing atrocities, and they critically proceed the NRA's rise in political power. Read up on '70s BATF abuses of the GCA of '68 and get back to us before continuing to spout counterfactuals.

This is exactly what got me started on this issue in the early '70s.
I'm not sure I trust that site, they also claim that IE had 56% of the Desktop market share during 2013, while all other reports claim to have very different data: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Here is StatCounter for Mobile for the last 6 months, the iPhone browser with 23%: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201207-...
"When does it make sense to use machine guns, armored vehicles, and flash-bang grenades on a crowd of people"

Obvious answer: on a battlefield, when the crowd of people is an opposing army.
My latest thing has been to relentlessly bombard them with questions on their decisions. "Why do you think it needs to pop?" or "what do you mean by pop?".

Even if they eventually agree with you in the end it's still a massive waste of time. Sometimes it takes 30-45 minutes just to talk someone out of a ridiculously bad decision. I feel like it shouldn't be my job to do this.

Maybe I do need to be more assertive. I often use "I recommend..." or similar lines.
When someone is clearly making an effort you need to recognise that.

A common symptom of management insanity is that if you're working like 14hrs a day, it's because you are inefficient and should be thankful that they're putting up with your incompetence.
Working in Windows IT with small businesses you run into a lot of non-savvy users. We tolerate a lot of simple issues, I mean simple issues are our bread and butter sometimes, but it can be a little ridiculous. I expect the average office user to know a few things. To remember their username. To be able to choose a different printer than the default. My opinion is that their job, their paycheck, depends on their work on the PC. And they’ve been using it for decades in some cases, you’d think something would get through. For some though I think its just too abstract, they don’t have a good mind for thinking about the computer. And that’s ok.

I often feel bad for small business users. If they’re living in Microsoft’s world and without volume licensing they are forced into whatever new flavors of Office and Windows are in the pipe when they get a new computer. You try explaining that no Office 2013 isn’t really all that much better for basic functionality than Office 2003. Or anything about Windows 8.
Michael Lewis ‘retries’ Sergey Aleynikov
A simple SSH shortcut menu for ubuntu
[✔] LanguageTool — an Open Source proofreading software
I wouldn't say that you should expect to get fucked over.

You should treat the favor as a gift, and not expect a quid pro quo. You shouldn't do more than you can afford as a gift for them; you shouldn't spend years of your life, or a large fraction of your salary, or anything of the sort. It's just a gift for a friend or family member.

That way, you aren't left hanging, expecting something from them, and having that poison your relationship. Be very careful about letting some kind of debt or obligation hang over the head of a relationship that you care about.
Google Nexus Rumors: Asus, Motorola In; Samsung, LG Out
"An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone * in Berlin, June 7, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski"

* Surrounded by cables that couldn't connect
Hm, that's a recent change, then. HN wasn't listed just a week or two ago.
New Yorker:

Pilot tests of ThinThread proved almost too successful, according to a former intelligence expert who analyzed it. “It was nearly perfect,” the official says. “But it processed such a large amount of data that it picked up more Americans than the other systems.” Though ThinThread was intended to intercept foreign communications, it continued documenting signals when a trail crossed into the U.S. This was a big problem: federal law forbade the monitoring of domestic communications without a court warrant. And a warrant couldn’t be issued without probable cause and a known suspect. In order to comply with the law, Binney installed privacy controls and added an “anonymizing feature,” so that all American communications would be encrypted until a warrant was issued. The system would indicate when a pattern looked suspicious enough to justify a warrant.

But this was before 9/11, and the N.S.A.’s lawyers deemed ThinThread too invasive of Americans’ privacy. In addition, concerns were raised about whether the system would function on a huge scale, although preliminary tests had suggested that it would. In the fall of 2000, [General Michael Hayden, the director of the N.S.A.,] decided not to use ThinThread, largely because of his legal advisers’ concerns… .

I'm sure it discarded some things, but the basic technical control that ThinThread appeared to have that Trailblazer (and PRISM) lacked is cryptographic authorization controls.
Are OVH and Hetzner the top contenders here? I have things split across DigitalOcean and Linode and am about to drop both - thinking a non-VPS provider is actually the better route as I'm willing to pay if I have my own server. Any good hosts in Switzerland? That's likely the best country to host in at this point, or one of...
Maybe I'm missing something but

https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

shows no such thing...
The Weather God of Oklahoma City
The police can do what they want, without repercussions. (OK, if they really screw up, they get suspended with pay.) We traded one class of criminals for another. The Joker would be pleased, I reckon.
It comes down to the user experience. I see it as analogous in some ways to Apple and iOS who want control over the hardware to ensure a high quality consumer experience. If the user experience is not something to lust after then I don't see it taking the place of Android-only or iOS in people's pockets.

Given that they are trying tmake a phone which runs Android and an OS traditionally run on a desktop there are many hardware requirements to ensure a quality consumer experience is upheld.

Because they're working with two operating systems and trying to integrate components between them it makes sense to me to, for the first foray, make it work with one piece of hardware and get it into peoples hands. The downside to this is holy shit hardware really complicates things and is expensive.
Ask HN: How to borrow money?
What is the best way to borrow money? a very necessary situation occurred where I have to pay money but don't have the total amount on me so I need to borrow, I would be willing to pay with interested of course within only 5months. I want to borrow at least $3k.
This is a terrible article. It presents no arguments, only meaningless statistics quoted out of context.

"The costs are astronomical, too. The British government’s financial contribution to the project is just a small fraction of the billions needed to complete it."

They conveniently don't mention that every new airplane design costs billions to start producing. This is true even for mundane passenger jets, never mind anything new and experimental (the B2 bomber cost $45 billion to develop - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit). Without technically lying, they make it sound like this project in particular is outrageously expensive, which (as far as I can tell) isn't actually true, compared to other new aircraft designs.

"It was one of the greatest economic boondoggles of all time."

Of all time? Really? The Concorde (cost: a few billion) is now in league with the 2008 financial crisis and dot-com bubbles (cost: trillions upon trillions)? Evidence presented for this claim: none. In fact, we know it was profitable on its NYC - London and NYC - Paris routes (http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=VAQkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MO4...).

"Very few people could afford a $12,000 round-trip ticket.... "

This is true for every elite airline service. Ask anyone who travels a lot - most of those in international first class are using miles, or are on a corporate travel program.

"Not to mention the environmental waste—more than 6,800 gallons of fuel per hour."

More meaningless numbers designed to look scary. Doing some math, if the Concorde had 100 passengers and flew at 1,350 mph, that's 135,000 / 6,800 = 20 passenger-miles per gallon. Better than most SUVs.

"In spite of its well-earned reputation as one of the great economic debacles of the 20th century..."

Evidence presented: none. In fact, when the Concorde was retired, Richard Branson offered to purchase the fleet and continue service "for many years to come" (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-109201077.html).
Valve’s San Francisco Remote Office Shut Down
Is Apple more fashion conscious than we think?
If they used a standard Kinect and sold an iPad app, they'd end up selling it for 99 cents because "it's just an app".

But sell a $30 device for $149 and you can make much more money per customer. Much easier to build a sustainable business that way.
The article mentioned that Tumblr would still be run independently from Yahoo in New York (Yahoo is in SV). Fun fact: SV can mean Silicon Vally or Sunnyvale in this case :-).
I dont' think that's true. https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /x?
Disallow: /vote?
Disallow: /reply?
Disallow: /submitted?
Disallow: /submitlink?
Disallow: /threads?
Crawl-delay: 30

Links in comments are marked nofollow but submissions are not.
It reminds me: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
We do have a pretty clear historical precedent. In the late Vietnam era and immediately after, the prestige of the military, and thus the quality of recruits and soldiers in the US military was basically at its lowest point ever (at least since we started having a big standing military with WW2). I mean, really bad. I'm not sure how much of this was due to "evil babykillers" meme about Vietnam, or the stink of failure from losing our first (and unpopular) war, or what, but it's conceivable the same kind of thing could affect NSA recruiting. The post-Snowden fiasco is about 5% of the way toward doing that, though -- until we see evidence of actual people that "we" "care about" seriously harmed, it won't get much closer than we are now.

(It was bad enough that they had to pass laws to consider Vietnam-era veterans a "protected class" for discrimination. From everything I've read and heard about the post Vietnam military, especially the Army, it was even worse (at least until the 1980s, and really until Gulf War I in a lot of ways.)
I'm convinced of the opposite: humans judge basing on incomplete and incorrect data, they are often malicious and selfish and blinded by personal gain.

Computers don't have prejudices, don't have a motive, and work on the specific task without being sidetracked by feelings.
> Anyone who watches government in action understands quite well how laws are twisted and turned to meet objectives. It only matters what is explicit

No, it doesn't matter what is explicit (which anyone who has observed the non-impact of the 27th Amendment would know.)

It matters what the public holds people in official positions accountable to.
RAGE Creative Director Matt Hooper Works at Oculus VR Now, Too
I think there's an implicit bias against entertainers expressing politics because politicians are jealous: entertainers haven't had to compromise their politics in order to become public figures, and in many cases their popularity is directly related to these principles.

The vast majority of politics is populated by people who have mastered the art of selling out, and indeed diplomacy is the art of compromise. When someone who has been able to retain their youthful idealism is able to communicate it to large segments of the public, the knives come out.
it's actually 350. i'm not sure why they claimed the price wasn't announced, as the bottom of the page clearly has a price for both: a 350 model and a submersible version for 400. http://solaptop.com/en/products/laptops/
100,000 Digits of Pi
TheCowboy summarized my intentions well. I have no hostility towards open source. I know what you mean when someone stars or forks a repository. I created a boilerplate project for Sinatra applications (a Ruby micro web framework) a few years ago and forgot about it, although now 20+ people are using it. Since then my Ruby has improved greatly and I want to give them something more so I am working on a version two of that boilerplate project for them. This is how I'm using Github, to try share my knowledge (what little I have compared to some). If you choose to use my Github as a job application requirement, understand your intentions and my intentions are very different thus exposing the flaw in how recruiters use the tool.

I had someone comment on my Github commit for the blog post itself and I'll copy it here so you can see my response: https://github.com/rziehl/from_the_terminal/commit/497939af2....

I have nothing against any tool or belief, just the misuse of that tool or belief.
It will seldom if ever blow up in the media---did you hear about the publishing of gun owner names and addresses in various parts of New York, let alone a big media backlash???---but it is something we gun owners know about.

For both causes we're going to have to depend a lot on other methods of publicity. E.g. I'll bet you haven't heard that the Democratic administration running Missouri illegally gave the Social Security Administration the entire list of the state's concealed carry licensees.
I realize that alpargatas and espadrilles are a thing (I own some higher end ones myself! :)). I meant are these "artisan shoe makers" actually in the communities where they're sending shoes and are being actively hurt by their actions. I believe the answer is no, but I'm definitely open to being proven wrong.