skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's actually worse than that. Obviously I have only anecdotal evidence, but as far as I can tell, a large minority (maybe even a small majority) of people support what the NSA has been doing. They don't necessarily understand the technical details, but they completely understand the implications and consequences and they explicitly approve. When I go outside of my usual online and real life social circles the attitude about government surveillance is shockingly complicit.

I'm starting to believe the only way to change this isn't to get people outraged or make them understand the effects of pervasive surveillance on freedom. The solution is to instead make it clear just how ineffective it is at its stated purpose of keeping us all safe.
Exactly, since when did we declare war on our own citizens, and of those nations we call friends?
Tesla's Falcon doors are not the same as Gull-wing doors.
They have an additional joint which minimizes the horizontal space required, so you won't hit the car next to yours while getting in and out.
The main point I was trying to make is that, if you don't own a computer of your own and you are trying to leak something, an internet cafe or other public terminal that sees use by several people might be an effective way of hiding that you sent something. If you don't own a computer of your own you have no trusted place you can go to generate a PGP key, to set its passphrase securely, to encrypt email before you use the public terminal, to decrypt what you retrieved from the public terminal on your home machine (so your passphrase can't be keylogged or your key cannot be copied), and so forth. If you use a mass-market operating system (Windows, Mac OS X) you might have a computer that you own but cannot trust in any way. That's where opening a "throwaway" email address and sending something unencrypted is a viable use case. If you muck it up by trying to encrypt using PGP then possession of the key is persuasive (but not conclusive) evidence that you are the one that sent the email, and quickly becomes conclusive evidence if even the most basic automated surveillance techniques are used on that untrusted machine.

>One could argue that GnuPG is actually safer on a public terminal than generic online email access, because if you keep your keys on a USB stick, it's another critical piece of data that would have to get collected separately before the captured input data was of any use (this could be automated, but it'd be much harder than just running a keylogger, especially if one undertakes avoidance techniques).

One would be wrong. If an adversary is keeping a copy of every file that is opened on a USB stick (which would be trivial to add as an "update", "patch", or "option" to, say, an on-demand antivirus scanner) then it's game over.

>If one accesses an ordinary email service, the log would look like "gmail.com↲cookiecaper↲mypassword", which obviously contains all information necessary to access an account. As long as the private key is not automatically copied by the terminal, you can simply change your passphrase after each usage of a public terminal and it simply won't matter if someone stole your input or not.

If they have your key from the previous step then changing your passphrase does absolutely "jack" and "shit". Where are you going to change this passphrase anyway that's on a computer owned/trusted by you if you don't own a computer or don't want to tie that key back to your home machine and identity?

>The only issue is that in the real world, most terminals do not have GnuPG installed. We should be using taking this opportunity to try to change that, while public interest is on the topic.

Then you'll have backdoored copies of GnuPG installed on these machines that will offer you no security.
The article said nothing about playing music but rather listening to music. The difference is like saying I can learn through osmosis as opposed to I can learn through deliberate study and practice.

If the article actually compared the benefits of fitness to the benefits of playing music - now that could speak to your question.
most people in the US already don't vote, and look what that has accomplished ...
I've never heard of bootswatch. I could see many people using this. One thing bothers me on your page though. The header text is fixed with no background so it ends up jumbled with the other text: http://cl.ly/image/3D133Y1E1V2P

fyi I'm using chrome28 on osx 10.8.4
Wrong medium.
Story: interesting.

Result thread on HN: nightmare.

For me, that suggests we keep it off the front page, but I'm just one me.
She'd be subject to NSLs and court orders and warrants. In fact it could even attract those things. She's cutting to the chase.
I'm curious about the differences mentioned in the threading section, "In nanomsg the objects are not tightly bound to particular threads and thus these problems don't exist."

Does this mean that threading is still used/required, or could nanomsg use non-blocking techniques?
What's the incentive of artificially inflating the article count? Is it just a stupid race to be "on top"?
$500 for a bug report. that'll be cheaper than a day's work for one of their developers
Basically - in bootstrap...etc, if you want to do something "nonstandard" by library view you need to carefully unmake all the defaults.

Here for example there are no default paddings forced upon you.

It all depends on wether you know what you want, or just need "anything that works - doesn't matter how and what it does".
Was anyone here speaking exclusively about programmers?
And therein lies the real problem. Very few (possibly none) people think "I will subvert and subjugate the entire populace in evil oppressive ways for my own power". Rather they think "I truly believe my job is important and this is what's best".

The SWAT teams that destroy a peaceful organic farm in Texas are just doing their job to collect evidence according to a warrant. There may be a little petty "fucking hippies attitude" in there, but they aren't thinking "lets scare everyone from ever trying to have a nice big garden again". The police commander/cheif/whatever isn't thinking "lets make sure to cause as much damage as possible", they are thinking "lets do this safely and decisively, criminals need to be shown there is no point in crime". The prosecutor and judge aren't thinking "hey oppressing is fun!" they are thinking "we need to live under the rule of law, lets make sure that happens", and that is just their job. Hell even the people who vote for laws and representatives are thinking "this really is the best way to keep crime down and keep people from trashing the nice places we're trying to make here.

The intelligence apparatus is the same. Sure they are just doing their job to get material labeled as sensitive back under control. They really think it's dangerous for it to be out there. The people who label it such are truly under the impression that it is dangerous to the country they protect for it to be widely known. The people who build the gathering apparatus truly believe it won't be abused.

The abusers themselves aren't looking at it and saying "oh subjugate subjugate subjugate!" They are saying "I know my motives are pure - a little abuse of means is less important than the noble end.". The bad ones are not saying "fuck the people, they are an impediment". They are saying "I can get my own position bettered by ignoring one little rule". They say " My primary goal is personal gain, this twisty interpretation gives me that, and besides - it's legal in that light, so why is it bad?"

It's a death by a thousand cuts - the slow erosion of OK action by a large number of distributed players playing for their own gain. The agency of a group (a conspiracy) is not needed - and in fact would be better - it's easier to target and stop. The people who aren't abusers can't imagine the little abuses that would arise - they say "but it won't be used that way, it's absurd!"

Think of it like engineering a system: the security people fight their own engineering teams as much as they fight the "bad guys". They hear regularly "why would anyone think to do that?" "how could someone know that to abuse it?" "I can't imagine anyone going to such trouble for my little bit" and on and on. It's difficult to make people who aren't used to thinking and seeing it realize that such things happen all the time. Human systems and rules aren't any different.

This is what we need to focus on - closing the holes, fighting the little abuses, and generally making things overall better, rather than looking for the big conspiracies that may not even exist (because they don't actually need to).
It's called "making shit up".
So, then, what do you get by using nanomsg? Is the value proposition "BSD sockets but less lousy"?
You're still falsely equating. Even if it were a slippery slope along a line, it's still a line. Not all of the points are directly adjacent to each other.
Iranian history is a complicated story. There's a free 2008ish audio podcast series of lectures about their history.

You could consider that Mosaddegh was doomed to fall, given that, the only question is who gets his job, and Pahlavi, at least initially, looked "better" than the previous Qajar Turks or any of the other competitors, we knew that at least some of the Qajar in the past were completely nuts, whereas Pahlavi didn't start going nuts until later. Perhaps he literally developed a severe mental illness in the 60s as some suspect, which would explain a lot about his behavior. Anyway, its one of those monday morning quarterbacking things where in retrospect everyone involved might have done better going back to the Qajar dynasty, but of course predictions are difficult, especially about the future. Currently, looking back to 1970, he looked like an epic disaster in 1970, insert lots of whining about decisions made in 1950, but in 1950 he didn't look so bad.

One big problem with talking Iranian politics is all of it resonates to present day fights, so the only people talking about it almost by definition have an economic or religious or nationalistic axe to grind, so discerning the truth (if any) is kind of hard when almost no one says anything but PR. Its a political confuseopoly. Whats better, coke or pepsi, well, good luck figuring that out from TV commercials and astroturfing.

My opinion based on some study, it seems Iran is relatively cursed with poor leaders on average. I'm talking about centuries not last month timescale. Once in awhile they'll have a (poor) leader who resonates (at least superficially, temporarily) with some western-ish values, or once in a while they'll have a (poor) leader who anti-resonates with us when they nationalize their oil wells, etc, but the common theme seems to be be relatively poor at government leading to turmoil and general misery of everyone involved. Which is probably how they ended up ruled by Turks for so long, and other imperialist issues.

Its a pity, aside from the politics and the extremists 99% of the country and people are pretty cool with a nice enough culture and interesting history. Although, I suppose that's a universal truth around the whole world that if you go anywhere and get rid of the politicians and extremists, pretty much everywhere ends up a paradise...
"The Client's Rights"
The WOT at least provides some authenticity, but only for people you already know. If I want to email you and aren't part of your WOT, then it's as good as plaintext.
Really? I have had a look at bootswatch.com using IE8 and a lot of the stuff (certainly columns, drop-dows, and navbars) doesn't work at all. I just get javascript errors. I would contend that if you want something that works in IE8 then avoid this like the plague. Unless someone can tell me differently.
Improving CSS Compression through Property Name Enumeration
The goals of terrorism need not be worldwide. The point the gunman was trying to make when he shot Malala Yousafzai was not to the West. It was to the local people in Pakistan that education of girls would not be tolerated even if it were mandated. It was not to stop schools from opening, but it was to deter interest in the parents and girls from attending those schools. That is a political goal, and it absolutely motivated the shooter to commit an act of terror.

One may argue about the legitimacy of that goal (it's certainly taken as a religious teaching in that part of the world), but that does not make the goal apolitical.
So because of such heinous acts that are committed by individuals (that happen everywhere around the world, everyday), the population must be subjugated with fear of entire groups of people?
I think the situation is unfortunate because of their new launch, but the real problem is, as the author mentioned it, that Google webmaster tools did not alert them of the problem, so they were not able to address it on time. I also think their vendor should have alerted them (their clients) about Google flagging them and that perhaps this should be considered immediately, which would have saved them some headaches. Therefore, if the two previous problems has been taken care of, then I think we would mostly all agree it is good to be alerted of potential malware, which noone wants on their machines.
When we declared the war on terrorism.
All I want is the truth. The details are inconsistent - someone's being economical with the truth. We found out that the NSA lied repeatedly, and I'll be bitterly disappointed if the other side doesn't hold itself to the high standards it (and we) expect of our governments.
As this project has pointed out even getting an MVP isn't the problem with starting a successful business. $8000 isn't a lot of money if your talking about a profitable business.
Thunderbolt is Intel's external, hotswappable PCI-e interface found on many Apple laptops. Lightning is Apple's proprietary interface found on iOS devices. Aside from being named after different aspects of the same natural phenomenon, they have nothing in common.
I agree, this seems to be all for show. The first thing that came through my mind when I read the title was "offsite backup". Makes even stranger really...
5% seems very high. Maybe 5% of geeks? Maybe they'll just round everyone up who wears glasses or just datamine our hacker news posts. Balls.
That's all good, but to they use STL in the internals?
> Add Google authorship information to your online content

I can't find the reference, but I remember reading here on HN that someone investigating a large drop in traffic to pages with #1 organic rankings traced it back to the profile photo that got added to pages with authorship attribution. There didn't seem to be a traffic drop on pages with #2 or #3 etc., so the author came to the conclusion that the profile thumbnail was causing their listing to be mistaken for an ad.

Anyone remember that article?
Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops
This, this, this.

You can't let yourselves lose a power war by wasting all your time losing tactical battles. It's a tragedy if we all spend any time trying to protect our LOLs and OMGs to-from each other. If you are working on means for tracking behavior and extracting value (monetary, political, etc.) you are doing something less good than you could be.

Don't get caught by rope-a-dope when you could just cut funding for all this. We don't need protection from 20 terrorists who can kill 3,000 people. We can deal with them together. Somehow (fear, greed, stupidity?) we've lost our collective front. We need a 'We' now.

When Bush and some war-nat-resource-industry profiteers stack the deck, it's awful, but expected. At least the actions are rational. At this point, it's pretty obvious (not that it hasn't been for 50+ years) that we have a problem. The organizations at the heart of this are willing to act outside the spirit, if not the letter, of US law. The political factions riding power act outside the spirit, if not the letter, of our law and founding documents.

Our government is not behaving towards the world or our own citizens in the way that inspired generations to come here to build a better life for themselves.

The baby boomers frittered everything away. Lazy asses. Now, it's time to make amends. It's time to FORK THE USs REPO!!!
> I've never seen anyone say, on their profile somewhere else, "here's a direct link to my blog; it's on Medium."

There is at least one example of this that I'm aware of: defense writer David Axe and his "War Is Boring" blog. http://www.warisboring.com/2013/06/04/war-is-boring-is-movin...
No, that's Thunderbolt.

Thunderbolt is the PCI interface, Lightning is the alternate USB connector.
>They aren't built to fit into a particular price range or demographic

I'm not sure about this statement. If you follow the investment news on Tesla, it seems that the Model X was built specifically to fit into a lower price range, and hence get more people into Teslas. The reality is, there's no way they are going to sell 500,000 luxury cars; they needed a "real" car. And I think that's a great strategy.

This is an interesting car. I have to admit I've been a Tesla skeptic, but between the crash tests and the Model X (and whether they can really build it for the stated price), I'm coming around.
The iPod dock connector is actually an industry standard that Apple happened to use. They didn't create it.
On proper USB cables, it's always logo-side up, isn't it?
Crazy. And here I was thinking NZ would be my refugee when the rest of the world goes to hell in a hand-basket.
These are very high voltages. The Tesla is 375 volts and the Prius is 275 volts.
You must have mistaken Light Peak for Lightening or Thunderbolt for Lightening. Light Peak = Thunderbolt, which competes with USB 3. Lightening is completely different.
A Wretched Google Interview Experience
Except the universe hasn't shrunk.
If these accounts were internally tagged as security test accounts and were created automatically and a security researcher had no control over them (think honeypots), Facebook could monitor changes and see if anything on these accounts changes that should not. As the security researcher does not control the account unless an attack is successful, Facebook can grade attacks without human intervention. I can't see anything suggesting they have such a system in place.
Quick Tip: Testing another country's functionality.
But then if you have some 3rd party library code using setjmp/longjmp (libjpeg and others) this would no long work with RAII - no unwinding would be done. That is if the your library calls a "callback" which calls one of the said 3rd party libs (or your code) with longjmp
Thanks, now I wish to know more about the protocols and checks in car controllers.
The republic of paperwork
Yes. We absolutely should. But I personally think the actions by the state (completely ignoring due process and right to trial prior to the acquisition and destruction of a private entity's property) are even more treasonous.
Apple wins, while the rest of us get stuck carrying around a wide variety of cables for no good reason.

The argument that the free market will find a solution works when competition is allowed. It doesn't work when every company who isn't Apple is legally prohibited from adopting Apple's connector.
I generally abhor motor vehicles of all kinds and hate driving, but when I saw a Model S roll past me while walking to work, I had to push my jaw back up. The lines are just so luscious.
How I got a 67% performance improvement with a better layout and Russian Dolls
They're still doing that!

"US project worker Alan Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the state in Cuba."

"Gross, 61, was arrested in December 2009 accused of setting up illegal internet connections in Cuba under a programme funded by the US government."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12724632
Or infinitely ;-)

But, hey, I'd love to be wrong.
Maybe they already did? Seems like the current government have introduced secret courts recently... http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-c...

Also the Guardian hasn't stopped printing these stories in the UK or online. They've been staffing up in New York (including Nick Davies who brought down much of Rupert Murdoch's print empire last year and crucially prevented newscorp from buying the rest of bskyb).

It's interesting to me that the US has a better low-level legal framework for a free press, but it's not plain sailing at all (i.e.: the nytimes and washington post "asked dad" before looking at wikileaks files; judith miller and now james risen have no shield laws).
I like the Confucius quote. There IS a certain danger in taking shortcuts in your thinking. It's probably best to use shortcuts anyway when in discovery mode, but then to check those shortcuts rigorously.
Yup that's exactly what I said verbatim.
Given the many transitions that emerging adults face, it is not surprising that their friendships change as well. Transformations in friendships and friendship networks relate to life stage rather than age. So knowing that a person is 20 versus 26 does not tell us much about their friendships.
Indeed, also Palestine is full of money transfer places too not like there isn't a moneygram or WU branch everywhere. Russians cash out Bitcoins to banks there as well through Anelik, Contact sys ect
Meaning if you want get better at math... practice math, not crosswords and not running. Crosswords make you better (primarily) at crosswords. Running - at running. But the idea is that math + physical activity suppose to make your better (at math inclusively) then math + crosswords.
Ah, but that's answering quantitatively and most people would probably want any value question answered qualitatively.
There is a meme in the conservative rage-o-sphere that electric car batteries catch on fire all the time.
Make better use of your 404 page
"Thousands of children go missing every year across Europe. Thanks to the NotFound project, you can make a difference. Install our application and a picture of a missing child automatically gets published on every ‘page not found’ of your website. "
Where did you see the 7m revenue figure -- source?
No, Lightning is a separate port used on iPod / iOS devices which is slower than the Thunderbolt interface.
He didn't even win the last election, when he was running against a widely despised incumbent. I hope Milliband can wake up in time.
The Fallacy of Just-In-Time Learning: We All Know Everything (Just Google It)
They don't hate US and what WE stand for. They hate our government and its foreign policy. Also the decade long occupation of their country.
Thanks, much appreciated. Sorry about the lack of units. If it's any consolation, I included them in the text surrounding the calculations. :)
Omg you guys have no sense of humor.
Ok excellent. We've established that it's terrorism.

So how is that blowback for American policies?
I 100% agree with this article in my own life. Went through a huge lifestyle change, and noticed my entire life and cognitive ability grow once I started exercising, getting out more, and really experiencing life with friends and family. If you want to be lazy that's fine, but after having my eyes open to a better, more energetic, more intelligent self, I would never go back to the couch and bon bons
With medium, you simply make traffic for them. Start your own blog, host on your domain.

Traffic is all yours. You can do amazing things.
good suggestions (I'd add HRW), but you could leave the disrespectful attitude aside. Instead of your first paragraph, maybe mention the publications of the Albert Enstein Institute (http://www.aeinstein.org/).
But it's not the heaviest car ever made. So they're doing something exceptionally well other than making it heavy. I'd imagine much of that weight is in the batteries and electric motors.
> What is this trying to accomplish? Did they really think the Guardian has the only copy of that data?

Of course not. The idea was to frighten people who haven't been obedient and to create a lot of costs to reduce the profitability of running stories on unwelcome subjects.