skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things you'll notice in everything that Obama says, is how he ties everything to an emotional response. His rhetoric is that of one who is using suggestive language to sway the public - and he is a master of it - but once you recognize it, it just makes you ill with simply how often he invokes the tactic.

Emotions can affect behaviour, especially in those who don't have a good filter, which is a majority of any human who is poorly educated, especially about themselves.

Obama is a true political propagandist and absolutely nothing he says should be believed - and it should be listened to with caution. It is better to read his words than to hear them as you can more easily filter out his suggestive emotional tone, and spot his key phrasings.

This is several years old... but there are many people who have stated what I stated above. This is a 67 page writeup on his method of suggestive language.

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/files/obamas_use_of_hidden_hypn...
I have always wondered if there is a "master list" of things that can be used to uniquely fingerprint a browser. For example, I don't see system time offsets[1] being used here.

[1] An example of this can be seen here: http://time.is
They don't rubber stamp warrants because there are no warrants. See the XKEYSCORE presentation. They just need a loose reason that the person may or may not be affiliated with a foreign entity by up to five degrees of separation.
It tries to prevent terrorism before it happens. I don't expect it to give us a detailed breakdown of its activities toward this end. What I expect is for there to be good checks and balances along with consequences for the bad actors when abuses happen. They have not done a great job on those fronts, but the agencies existence and mission is not a problem by itself.
Taking as many physics courses as I have, I was getting worried for a while that there was nothing more to life than solving a boundary value problem in some domain or another.
Anecdote: It looks and performs horribly on my iPad. Try it in landscape...
Is the poor resolution just the first generation devkits or does it still seem low on the updated 1080p versions?
I am unique among the millions so far.

It took me a moment to realize that means I am completely trackable.

A little surprising since I just built this computer from scratch a couple weeks ago. I'll take this more as a commentary on the popularity of Windows 8 more than anything.
Is this article returning a Server Error page for anyone else? Whereas the others by this same author are not.
I just realized this is the domestic version of "...and you are lynching Negroes!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
> You're welcome to point out examples of kind and gentle police states

Again, we have people making assumptions and coming out with stupid readings. Where do I say that there are kind and gentle police states?

The likelihood of a kind and gentle police state is the same as the likelihood of someone's house staying neat if they never clean, or a machine never breaking down even if preventive maintenance is neglected. Entropy is not on your side.

> You may have a point in your last sentence, but I don't see how it derives from the previous paragraph.

There are a lot of people who think of themselves as "clever" but who don't create little trees or clouds of implications and converse on this basis. You are currently operating on one meta-level too low for this conversation.
It's fun, simple, fast, and has a good package manager. JS is a high level scripting language like python or ruby but gives significant speed benefits in a lot of cases (in particular, the startup time of CLI programs written in Ruby always bothers me).

If you want to write in C for performance reasons, go ahead. But if your other alternatives are Python or Ruby and you already know JS, give node a go -- it's pretty fun.
>If the NSA wants your data, they would actually have to justify it to the Germans.

does Germany still have "German bureaucracy" ? From my anecdotal experience with German business they seem to place huge value on the "correct" way of doing things.
He explicitly denied warrantless surveillance in his press conference a few hours ago - a few hours after the guardian published a piece on exactly how they go about it.

Also telling were the pregnant pauses when posed questions about the NSA, the backtracking on and modification of sentences that he realised were about to be dangerous, and the fact that he quipped about journalists reading body language when he met Putin - which rather tells us what was on his mind.
To be fair, it's probably not a security vulnerability in most cases, because it's rare that serious code does the equivalent of `$func = $_GET['func']; $func($_GET['userinput']);`, but it certainly makes for nice backdooring.

Regardless, PHP in general was never designed for security of any sort.
If you're doing crazy heavy processing or something, it's not the right tool. But you wouldn't do that in JS. You'd shell out or call something native.

Node is best used managing parallel streams of stuff. Perhaps surprisingly, a command line application is a great example of that.

I would much rather build a nontrivial command line app in node than in anything else. Try it, you'll see.
In Texas, companies give away Nests [0][1] to lure customers, thanks to the deregulated market. Competition is so healthy, they are even trying to capture 'green' customers who use less.

[0] http://www.greenmountain.com/nest

[1] http://www.reliant.com/nest‎
Mobile. Other people with mobile. Other computers. Nice. If you can't get a error message searched for, you can't use computers.
Well then it's not REST anymore. Your URL should indicate the resource, that's it. Moreover, to say that it's "bullshit" that it would break every REST API is just wrong. That doesn't mean you couldn't change the API to work around it, but it would be broken.
Well, if Telekom is on the case, the US has nothing to fear.
Aaaaaand it's gone. The censorship is a bit high lately.
No, because 32 pounds of marijuana and a 4,000 plant operation aren't a package with detergent.
If I was to guess, I'd say they are most interested in the idea of smoothing demand. The more base load and the less peak load, the more profitable you can be.
Don't be joking that way. I would not be surprised if some consulting futurist convinced some general that, unless everyone is under constant surveillance, some anarchist is going to turn his precious bodily fluids into self-replicating gray goo.
The advice on your last paragraph does not only apply
to the local sales market but to almost any services that focus on the long tail market. Being recommemded is always
a safe bet.
Theodore Roosevelt indeed - I jammed his name together with Woodrow Wilson, his Democratic opponent. Wilson beat him handily, but Roosevelt still outpolled the GOP candidate, WH Taft.

You are quite right about the key difference with the US having an elected executive vs the parliamentary democacy system of the UK, but I don't see how FPTP prevent the election of Congressional candidates from outside the two major parties. There are usually a few independents in either chamber of Congress, but I don't see any particular reason why another party couldn't make a showing if it were willing to put in the organizational leg-work.

In my (limited) experience American politicians and parties are excessively focused on elective office; being from Ireland myself I think long-term success stems from building a solid local constituency. So for example, I think it's a complete waste of time for the Green party to run candidates in the US presidential election, instead of working to capture a few seats in Congress or in state legislatures. I have been involved in a few such local campaigns, and what I've observed is that on failing to win a major election the candidates tend to exit politics instead.
a lack of local tech talent that can build viable alternatives to the US cloud services.

It is amazing to me that someone could say this with a straight face.
Will definitely be the Windows Watch, made exclusively by swatch, rather than the xWatch.
This needs to be correlated to the weather/temperature pattern of the two years since the nest is on your HVAC. Much of the US has had a milder summer and winter than the previous year; it may be the same for you.
Yup. Along those lines. Has anyone had any luck with these incentives and grants for various improvements?

http://dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=...
The "free" Bachelors is still mostly the privilege of American students (with a few truly exception international students sprinkled in).

For PhD, As sidww2 pointed out, and what I have experienced as well, the admission pool becomes much more international; and now you are competing with the world. There is a phrase about China saying that underlines the scale well: "in China when you are one in a million -- there are 1,300 other people just like you".

Moreover, overall the number of spots in graduate schools is by far smaller than for undergrad; making competition even tougher.
I'm not sure how anyone can has enough reasonable information to make a case that FISA doesn't rubber stamp cases. It seems to me it works that of the way large organizations navigate political nuances internally; people who don't run the technology and platforms make the decisions as it pertains to influence that, is often, good for self-preservation and fiscal motivation - the operators implement the systems as they see fit and generally don't have "real" oversight from the approvers. Even if they do - generally they don't have enough understanding to enforce it if they wanted to. It's just a matter of mincing words at that point.

I think until we see clear evidence from examples the number of cases denied are an obvious minority. Based on what we know from public disclosure, there is abuse. That to me states there is a good indication rubber-stamping has in fact occurred and should be reviewed. But, since it can't be...

The trustworthiness of the system is not there anymore and it has degraded to a point where most informed citizens would err on the side of saying there is something wrong. There are some grave issues that need to be addressed in short order or our government is going to push any data related industry the way of safer harbors.
Your argument is with the GP, not with me.
Yes.

If a person already knows JavaScript well, then it will be easier for them to write a CLI app/utility/script in JS than it would be to write a shell script.

Another reason to write in JS would be to gain code reuse. If the person has a web app that uses node, then they can share code between the web and CLI applications.
Matlab is not a JVM language, it just has some ability to call Java built in, and some of the IDE is in Java implementation. Launch Matlab without booting a JVM: matlab -nojvm
There previously was no way to use a fake email address when making changes from the web UI and still receive email notifications from Github since the same email address was used for both things.
I used to hit this a lot in Maps on Android. It would happen whenever the GPS position fix changed; my location would change and it would 'reset' the UI for some reason, hiding the keyboard.
Or you can't search for it because you can't reach the internet.

Anyway, if you can definitively figure out which of the following is true from that message without the use of additional diagnostic utilities, well... (yes I have personally seen all of these (except exactly 12 which I've seen variants of but worded it the same way as the article))

1. Your cable modem can't find a signal, because of weather conditions

2. Your cable modem can't find a signal, but can once it's rebooted

3. Your access point stopped working, and needs a power cycle

4. The AP failed to give your computer any of: an IP address, DNS, a gateway, a working gateway

5. Your computer thinks it's connected to a wireless network, but the AP isn't receiving packets it sends

6. Your computer thinks it's connected to a wireless network, has the correct gateway, and can ping the AP, but nothing else (despite other computers on the same network working fine)

7. Your AP randomly resets long-lived TCP streams (due to a bug in its firmware)

8. Your ISP reliably corrupts traffic from eBay, fixed by getting a different IP address and gateway from the ISP (by changing MAC addresses)

9. Your ISP has the wrong DNS entries for the site you're attempting to visit

10. You need to visit a specific, unadvertised intranet page and sign in before your connection works

11. You need to manually enter intranet proxy settings before your connection works

12. Your intranet proxy is blocking Youtube and the player you're using doesn't bundle a general-purpose web browser

13. Youtube videos buffer at 3 kb/s from your laptop, but work fine from your tablet, on the same network

(okay 12 and 13 are cheating a little since they don't give any error message, but the point is that the error messages are basically never enough on their own to diagnose network issues)
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This is so embarrassing. So they finally implemented STARTSSL? A standard which is how old? 14 years. That is what they are advertising? Looking at the past events it should be clear, that encryption during transmission is not a final solution. Secure transmission is important, hence HTTPS, but due to the past events, using this marketing gag is just grotesque to fool people who cannot differ between these technologies.
>"Canonical has put its users over the barrel"

This seems undeservingly harsh. They have an opt-out system and that's "over the barrel"? If so, then if they were to hypothetically sell a users' list of most popular apps they ran or something like that, what would they be doing to the user and how would the barrel be used?

>Privacy is a serious question for businesses, and "you can opt out" isn't a serious answer.
It is a serious question for everyone and you provided no explanation other than your opinion as to why "you can opt out" isn't a "serious answer"
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For me, it made a larger difference in my awareness of how much energy I actually use. Before nest I simply programmed my thermostat once and never touched it again because of the pain. Now I consciously adjust the temperature throughout the day from my desktop or phone. Just being able to walk out the door and turn the temp down from my phone if I'm suddenly not going to be home for a while is savings enough for me. I'm sure there are other thermostats that do the same thing but nest has done their advertising right and their interface/product design is top notch.
So they are going for feature parity? Woo! I really miss the freshness value (x minutes ago) and the accuracy radius.
The actual commits will have the fake address. The change isn't that they're hiding the email addresses in the UI; it's that they've added the option to use a fake email address for commits made via the web UI while still receiving notification emails from Github.
Freakonomics: Should Tipping Be Banned?
Who are _advertisers_? I don't see the advertisers spending millions of dollars (coca-cola, car brands, medicals) on social networks. I do see them on TV, magazines, and search.
Bitcoin Ticker Arrives on Bloomberg Terminal (But only for Employees for Now)
The illusion of hoice must continue. While I cannot say that GHW Bush wanted to lose the election, I can say that it didn't mater.

Clinton was brought into the CIA fold after his complicity to allowing CIA drug importation to Mena Arkansas.

Here is a brief clip where Clinton does not deny any of the allegations of the trafficking - he simply attempts to deny any awareness of it.

Watch the Mena Connection....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMktUYvC7k

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There is a lot more to it as well.
There are a few key differences though...

OCA is a little more 'obvious' in its shortcomings. We still disclose this as clearly and responsibly as we can, but to the average, non-technical user, it seems intuitive that calling a phone that is "outside the circle" is less secure. Our choice for the brand name "Out-Circle" was very intentional.

The key difference though is in the data that we have to hold on to. With email, we had to hold on to all sorts of metadata in the email headers (no matter how it's stored, we would obviously have to be able to read it, in order to provide 'email' service). OCA has no such issue. We don't have to log any metadata. Obviously you need to assume that information is being logged _somewhere_ (again, the 'outside' part), but we're not ending up with anything that we could be compelled to hand over.

OCA is designed for a different threat model. If you're concerned about the NSA (or the USG (or more broadly the 5 Eyes) in general), then OCA isn't for you. By and large, OCA is for people that need to get their communication securely out of some 'hostile' environment, and aren't especially concerned about western governments (e.g. someone living under an oppressive regime who wants to talk to their ex-pat family in Canada, or a US business man traveling in a country known for stealing trade secrets who needs to talk to his home office about product designs).
For me, without a doubt, it's my fonts and one or two other things that make me unique.
I did the test afterwards again, Panopticlick can use the information anyways.
Also, gerrymandering. It's a major, major factor in maintaining the status quo. The UK has picked up on this trend (well, they've done it before, but it's kicked up a notch), and the conservatives been quietly moving parliamentary boundaries for the last few years.
... or if they just ask the BND.
As I understand it the 1080p Rift is a prototype for demo purposes only [0].

Also, I wouldn't say the resolution is "poor". Again, it's hard to describe, but it 800x640 presented through the Rift is a lot nicer than it looks on paper.

0: https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3...
Yes, this is a concern. I believe the latest version with the patch is 5.3.21 which is included with OpenBSD. But some of the features in Suhosin were merged into mainline PHP. It would be interesting to see a side-by-side of 5.4 and Suhoshin patched features.

I'd still advise people writing new applications to go with PHP 5.4 first if only because development is made simpler, therefore it's less likely to include accidental vulnerabilities while trying to (re)implement new features available by default in 5.4.
Doesn't using ACH imply giving a company direct access to your bank account? Credit cards offer all sorts of consumer protections that ACH doesn't have, e.g., the customer can be immediately reimbursed for fraudulent transactions, etc.

Not to mention that credit cards allow people to buy stuff they can't really afford on credit. If you remove that ability, you'll be losing a lot of potential customers.
I have a sweatshirt that says "No, I will not fix your computer." It gets many laughs, and the best part is that it works!
Intro to Flow-Based Programming & NoFlo
Show HN?: http://www.vendetta-online.com/h/news_27833.html
There are tons of better options to choose from. If you're not making a web UI, literally any choice is better than Javascript, unless that is the only language you know.
If I'm a Republican, and I have a Republican congressman, I like him because he represents my views, for the most part. I dislike Congress as a whole because half of it disagrees with my views, and the half that does agree with them is hamstrung by the half that does not.

Despite the rhetoric of "both parties are the same" people really only care about a few issues, which the parties differ on: taxes, welfare, religion, education, social issues, etc. I just got hassled on the street today by a college-aged male to support planned parenthood. Who do you think he votes for? Why? What does he think of Congress?
I can't find a link right now, but AFAIK, one of the NSA bases is basically right next (in terms of a couple kms) to a T-Online company hq.
If I were to guess, I'd say that buying electricity at 3 cents/kWh and selling it at 12 cents/kWh is profitable enough that you can afford to give away a thermostat to attract new customers. There's a $300 cancellation fee so they'll get their money back if you depart early.
Heck, I didn't have a programmable thermostat for three years, in Atlanta, and would be surprised to see anywhere near these savings. I had a thermostat with a manual lever, which was mechanically coupled to a mercury-glass switch that controlled the A/C (this was a new apartment building built in 1999, strangely enough, not some ancient relic). I turned the thermostat way up (i.e. reduced the intensity of the A/C) when I would leave, and turned it back down when I got home. This by itself was enough to reduce almost to zero the operation of the A/C when I wasn't home, which was a pretty good approximation of the desired outcome.
Would love to use this on my blog all the time, but the price point is way out of range. I've tried it though, and it's incredible if you can afford it.
These companies also charge a higher rate and lock you in to a long term contract. So they are just financing it for you. It probably works out to a crazy interest rate but people love it.
"Obama added that he was directing the Justice Department to make public the legal rational for the bulk collection of Americans' electronic data."

This would never have happened without Snowden, It's absurd to claim he is not a whistleblower. I have lost so much respect for this president in the last few months.
Too little, too late.

It's not just whether or not the President believes the programs are being abused now, it should be about whether or not they are ripe for abuse now or in the future (which they clearly are).
that's good 1:506 means you're not very unique. Unfortunately for me it says appears to be unique among the 3,229,643 - probably because I'm Chrome/Linux, my ratio basically means I can be trivially tracked across the web.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,229,638 tested so far.

I'm a snowflake!
I'm decidedly with you on this. I don't have a smartphone, and I rarely answer my phone when it rings -- it's rare that an out-of-the-blue call is urgent. Text messages always wait a few minutes, and often a few hours after I forget about them. As a member of the younger generation, I'm probably somewhat of a rarity here.
> "I don't think Mr. Snowden is a patriot," Obama said, adding that Snowden had legal means to bring his concerns to light.

> Even without the leaks, he added, the U.S. government would have made the reforms he was proposing, except it would have done so without sacrificing national security.

Complete and utter bullshit.
> I don't see what a bunch of corporate entities have to do within election campaign

> I don't see what a bunch of corporate entities have to do within election campaign

> I don't see what a bunch of corporate entities have to do within election campaign

Read. that. again. Good god.
Good stuff, thanks for the links. Especially Felton's course page has several good references that were new to me. Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type [1] seems a fun read. Great designs also on the competition page [2].

[1] http://thinkingwithtype.com/

[2] http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1374
How many countries are overflowing with top tech talent that can replicate Google, AWS, etc?

I stand by my straight-face :)
Wow I didn't read this article. Awesome. Thanks!
Even without the leaks, [Obama] added, the U.S. government would have made the reforms he was proposing,

Pull the other one, Mr. President.
> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,229,622 tested so far.

> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.62 bits of identifying information.

Your result sounds a lot better than mine. Simply using Opera gives me a one in 111366.28 result.