skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i brought this up when my family using the "family tree" app a few years ago. they kept marking their familial relations online for all to see, for free and in great detail.

needless to say, i was met with blank stares when i brought this up.
They had to do that for national security purposes, and you know, the children. </sarc>

And yeah, that was very sad. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57464415-93/facebook-e-mail...

I never sync Facebook/my contacts, but I do wonder if they steal this info anyway... most likely is my guess, but that's just me being a cynic.
Babylon.js is based on the Babylon Toolkit for Silverlight, and includes significantly more features than Tree.js (not just a few), including sprite support and other 2d-graphics functionality.

BTW...Babylon.js works in all 3 of the major browsers, and performs best in Firefox, not IE10.
Would you get a lawyer to write the letter? That might be most fruitful.
Forgot to mention one key aspect of the app. Its main feature is that it has no feature except listing Todo items. So, no special permissions required.
Oculus Rift + Babylon.js = <3
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I suspect that you're implying that the user doesn't really care about the underlying technology of the site. You're correct, but whether they realize it or not, they are still reaping the benefits.

As an example, responsive design allows small businesses that may not be able to afford to build multiple versions of a website to instead create a single site that provides multiple experiences based on the type of device used to view it. Users win, whether they care about it or not, because they can now use the site on the device of their choosing, without worrying about it being functionally broken.
Well we mean "The City known as London". Most people outside of those that live there wouldn't understand the difference between the history of Londinium and its founding all the way back to Roman times. And the "suburbs" if you will that most people would identify to be the city itself. It is much like most people don't always distinguish the boroughs of New York from the City of New York until they need to have a reason to.

TLDR: I agree, and disagree simultaneously and think that the whole rats nest of London and who controls what with things like the "Mayor" to be... stereo-typically British for lack of a better term. :)
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How is it futile? Bitcoin exchanges and related services do all their business in broad daylight, which makes their business much smoother. If Bitcoin exchanges were black market services they would be forced to charge much higher fees (due to the higher risk) and their business would suffer. There would also be substantial damage to Bitcoin's perceived legitimacy if exchanging Bitcoin money for USD involved dealing with criminals.

The truth is that Bitcoin would be a toy if there were no exchanges. Regulating Bitcoin can be reduced to regulating exchanges, and the government knows how to deal with that sort of business. You are talking about a couple dozen currency exchange businesses; this is not at all difficult for the government to regulate. Even offshore exchanges would have trouble doing business in the US if they failed to comply with regulations; many world governments cooperate with the US government on that sort of law.
So, the time value of money. Also, as foobarqux commented, this leads to a silly valuation of the very capitalized lemonade stand. If a similar-but-broke lemonade stand would be worth $1000, most people would be extraordinarily willing to pay $1000 for 1% of the very capitalized lemonade stand. It would make them millionaires!
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The NSA can't stop you from visiting Hacker News. That's what control means, the ability to alter your behavior or the course of events. The NSA does not have the ability to do this.

So no, this is not historical fact.
Also: one of our neighbors has an Internet business that involves making a lot of short informational videos; she hired a consultant who got her set up filming, editing with iMovie, and publishing to youtube - all on her iPad. I was curious enough to buy iMovie for the iPad and try it myself, and it is not bad.
What's really cool, is it's the first time that gittip has demonstrated that people can raise this level of money this quickly. The equivalent of ~$12k/yr in only a few days. With those numbers it might become a legitimate alternative to things like kick starter even for things that are more project oriented.
True, but I have seen it happen with things that end in racle and start with o.
How does this differ from credit reporting agencies and other forms of legal public spying and data collection?
> storing the communications of Americans is blatantly unconstitutional and dangerous for our democracy

Is it?

> The idea that there are "not-so-big tweaks" that could be made to these programs is false if preserving privacy and democracy matters to you.

So I'm either wrong or unamerican? Right.
Cause of the dreaded INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE on Android
I JUST finished watching (for the nth time) episode 6 of SAC, and this is where the laughing man case takes form. I feel that if you're on Hacker News, it's a must watch because it blends philosophy and technology with a bit of ethics and possibility very very well.

Heck, I won't be surprised if someone's startup is inspired by that. I can already see usage of some tech that vaguely resembles the Oculus Rift (and yes, the Virtual boy of the past), ah you know what, just go watch it. You will not be disappointed.
The device I envision is definitely a long-term prospect. That's why I used the word "eventually."

I'm not saying that a perfect hybrid will exist in the next five, or even ten years. I'm just saying that it will, because it's the obvious direction to go in.

Right now, creating such a device requires a significant amount of compromise, but in the future it may not.

The idea that such a device can't exist because all previous attempts have failed strikes me as short-sighted.
>> it boggles my mind why everything thinks BB10 is crap, and that no one wants it

The brand is ruined, much like Yahoo, Myspace or AOL.
Like many here I picked up one of the Peak developer preview phones with every intention of dogfooding it, creating some basic apps to get familiar with it, and enjoying something simpler.

But, and I feel like I'm back in 2007 saying this about the first iphone, the lack of copy and paste is a deal breaker. Going back to a phone without it and not being able to copy a url into an email, paste a friends phone number to some one else in a txt, or have a reasonably useful password manager is much too far of a step back for me to take these days.

I'm hoping this is something the core team puts in before too long, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747798, but until then the phone is really useless to me for day to day.
The next step is a formatter like gofmt. I really hope more languages adopt something like gofmt over normal linters.
The author/editor's definition of "impossible" is very loose. It was an "impossible material" because they did not know how to make it, not because they believed it couldn't exist.
I'm surprised this wasn't widely known. For a couple of years I would get invitations to join Facebook that showed the names and photos of some of my friends (some of who didn't know each other).

My problem now is that somebody tried to create an account with one of my email addresses and even though I didn't confirm the account (and contacted Facebook asking them to delete it) I'm now getting emails from Facebook.
Ideally, someone with zero knowledge of a subject shouldn't score much above 0%. Perfect tests are unachievable but I find the ubiquity and frequency of multiple choice tests in the US alarming. Also, because they don't involve writing, I feel like literacy has been in a long slow decline over the ~20 years I've lived here, although that might just be because I can't stand Twitter.
I didn't even see that! Thanks for the honesty, at least we all have the option and you still get some commission...
And why can't they be remade? It seems to me once upon a time Apple was in dire straights.
and the ties between all the email addresses and phone numbers.
I took that phrasing to mean something like:
"CS is taught more in abstract principles like data structures than actual core mechanics for something like PHP"

A former co-worker about lost it when the CEO asked "Does GA Tech teach PHP?" because one doesn't get a CS degree revolving around specific languages and semantics, but abstract concepts that surpass all languages.

Having said that, there does need to be at least some portion that teaches on the real world concepts. Things like documentation, requirements gathering, and yes specific language implementations not just whatever they decide to use to propel a class along. I've found a lot of the language-agnostic portions of the CS degree I took part in weren't nearly enough to handle the application of that CS knowledge. I had to get my hands dirty and it had to be quick.

The sad reality is, a lot of kids and people today just don't want to "get their hands dirty" and expect that a degree means they're a Ruby black belt or some shit.
Can I ask you, where did you learn OTP? Did you know it from before, did you follow a specific book/tutorial? I've been interested about OTP, and would appreciate a good starting point.
The ratings may be hard-coded but they've certainly changed over time. This snapshot from February 2013 shows different numbers than today: http://web.archive.org/web/20130216125824/http://apps.usa.go...
There was a related HN discussion of the fairly recent security vulnerability where Facebook was giving away information about your friends (a shadow profile with additional info on users who hadn't been the ones to give that info to Facebook) when you requested your extended data download:

Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5921092
But aren't you doing this AFTER you install the app? Which defies the purpose because by the time you turn it off, all your data is transferred.
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Its connection as well as contact information. Who you have been in communication with as well as your contact details.
I find it funny when developers don't make Android counter parts or do so in a half effort fashion and then complain that no one spends money on Android apps.

If I could get the same apps on Android as iOS, my Android app spending would easily triple if not more. It isn't a lack of funds that keeps me from buying more. If a dev didn't bother to make it for Android, then he can't complain that no one bought it.

The Google Play store is full of shovel ware right now. The fact that Android users spend less only reflects that. That isn't going to change until the offering changes.

There are instances of Android sales producing higher margins then iOS. I'm surprised more folks don't notice that too.

http://www.hatsproductions.com/blog/features/organ-trail-one...
What makes you think any of those companies want that?

They're happy where they are. Profits are good. This article is one of the most naive pieces I've ever read.

What do Google, apple, etc want now? For this subject to go away and so that their big mass of users forget about it, that is what they want.
Great article! Not only do I like Android better, but you can save a lot too. It's a win-win.
Brains Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences
We think developers are going to love to use Barley for their customers when WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla are just too feature-rich for the job. We'd love to get the Hacker News audience feedback too.
This is maybe not true given the right parameters. Typically, people "self-study" on a whim. Probably in the evenings or on weekends. They go for about 30 minutes and then quit, saying, "I feel good about this, I'm going to study like this 3x a week."

And then they utterly faily, because self-study is not one of their pre-established habits.

If you make a schedule mimicking a college curriculum (during the weekday, with a lunch hour, 15 minute breaks, etc) like you would with an actual class, and use the "tuition money" to pay instead for a good desk with ample room for notes and a solid reading light, then I bet almost anyone could do a college education on their own.

It's all mental, and in my experience, mindsets can be changed with the right training. It's like learning to brush your teeth, except you're an adult now.
Consider me the devils advocate, but wouldn't foreign spy-ing be better than local spying if they can't make use of that data to incriminate you in your daily life?
Anyone knows if the preinstalled FB application sends anything to FB even if you've never used it?
Zookeeper is a kludge derived from a different kludge because nobody could continue to maintain it. The description and example use of this project is definitely simpler than, but it no way encompasses (or describes) the half-dozen different uses of Zookeeper. Can't decide how to respond to your ironic meta-insult, so here's a bunny with a pancake on it's head: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0B0VEm_uRcA/TPLhoaUdLEI/AAAAAAAAAA...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

The relevant parts:

In April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama placed al-Awlaki on a list of people whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to kill because of terrorist activities.[32][33][34] The "targeted killing" of an American citizen was unprecedented. Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court.[32][34][35][36] Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in the last years of his life.[26] The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in Yemen to search for and kill him,[37] firing at and failing to kill him at least once,[38] before succeeding in a fatal American drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011.[39] Two weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, was killed by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen.[40][41][42] Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father, released an audio recording condemning the killings of his son and grandson as senseless murders.[43]

And US officials admitted the killing of the boy was mistake.
Same here. I barely spend time on FB, but check in once and a while.

A while back I received a stream of "family tree" invitations from a relative, who'd noted our relationship via the app.

She'd done the same with a bunch of other relatives (who in turn did likewise). None of them meant any harm, but it turned my stomach.
Depends which Americans, and where they are. I've been at quite a few research seminars at MIT where speakers got pummeled with questions so hard that the material on the slides more or less fell by the wayside.
Heroku's free plan is a good option, but it does require some knowledge of git/one of their supported framework. Good learning regardless.
Is this it? This is our brave new world of pervasive data gathering, social network analysis, and the dying gasp of any shred of privacy? This is the future we've built for ourselves?

I haven't had a facebook account for 3 years. I'm certain FB has a shadow profile for me today and there's nothing I can do about it. My friends don't understand (or don't care about) the implications of everything they do online being tracked, in minute detail, and stored indefinitely.

Real-time indefinite mass surveillance is a fact and yet failed to galvanize the public into action. What can I do other than allow the cynicism to take hold and become a recluse?

I earn my livelihood from technology. I want to believe technology has great potential for medicine, exploration, and improving the human condition. The cognitive dissonance has to give somewhere.
Just the first one that popped into my head. I'm not really a word processor kind of guy, so I am not surprised I picked the wrong one. :)
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That's why this is still very relevant: http://betabeat.com/2011/12/in-which-eben-moglen-like-legit-...

By merely using Facebook, its users are harming others (i.e. their privacy). And it extends even to those who don't use Facebook themselves.
I've heard this bullcrap forever and it's not true. Steam only restricts access, publishers choose to restrict software. Steam is available on the platforms the games are made available on, so once you download the game via their protected channel you are free to do whatever with a DRM free game.

If you don't like it, don't buy from there. Steam has done nothing but help Linux since its Linux release.

What do you honestly expect them to do, just allow anyone, paid or not, to download all their commercial software freely?
In most cases, the lenses are the expensive part of the camera kit as well.
That's not what I'm saying at all. In fact I was pretty clear about that fact.

What I said was that I, personally, am going to be writing more personal tooling in Go. I was pretty clear that our team is NOT switching off Python. It's in the last section entitled "This isn't a switching story"
CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Michael Hastings' Next Target
This data could actually be used to support my previous statement. Graduation rates are not a great indicator of actual knowledge gained. Nor are test scores, for that matter.
It's all in the video!

http://youtu.be/HverdXMmuEE
Even if the only purpose is to propagate absurdly naive and ineffective ideas?

What, google and apple "fighting" the US Government they've gladly been cooperating with since forever???

Why doesn't Schneier call them out for what these corporations really are, government snitches? What makes Schneier think any of these companies want to do what's "moral"??

This article is one of the most naive pieces I've ever read. It parts on the principle that these companies want to do what's moral, but the government is keeping them from doing it. That is absurd.

Google, Apple and friends have been willingly cooperating with the government in exchange for perks, for immunity against FTC probes and so on. They're NOT gonna "fight" because they have nothing to fight against.
in this particular case, the company is global and has a fixed load set for their computers/notebooks. the last version was compiled together around 5 years ago.

when you have to support multiple thousands employees, having a stable environment is key. upgrading becomes an expensive and slow process.

the next load set at that company is currently in testing for the last 9 months (!) and will upgrade to ie9 and office 2010 - both will be around for a few years to come, their extended support periods end in 2020.
I think it's still very common. In fact, tableless design is still very much the mantra from what I see.

But, you're right: tables can be used for the same.

Not something I've done much either way. I just don't think its a nice effect. Guess it's just a style preference.
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So why, exactly, is there no evidence that US citizens on US soil are being "renditioned" or otherwise extrajudiciously held as a result of NSA data collection?

Because, if you'll recall, that's what we were talking about.
Why wouldn't you consider it a violation of privacy simply because another person provided information about you? If you had friends and family who intentionally shared any information you provided in private, you would have no problem with that, and think it should be a generally acceptable societal norm?

The idea that any information you share beyond your own mindspace is up for grabs by any method seems bizarre to me.

It is simply too inconvenient to live in a way where you give up zero information about yourself to everyone. It shouldn't be a black or white decision when it comes to sharing any information, but it's to the advantage of companies that make money on other people's information to want people to believe such a severe stance on personal information is a reasonable choice people have to face.
Yes, it was available until 2010 - when they were purchased by RIM.

See: http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.commun...
That's not entirely true. Go allows you to tag with the Go version you are aiming for and imports will use that. You do not have to keep your master clean. If you clone explicitly into your GOPATH then you can develop on any branch you like. Similarly, if you use git for version control and so does your library then you can always submodule your dep into your GOPATH and submodules allow you to specific the exact commit you wish to use.
Ah, so not the streets of the US, which is what I said.

Got it.
I'm not sure what you mean. Cutting and faceting precious stones is a manufacturing step in the production of gems of the quality needed for jewelry. It seems like a reasonable metaphor for finishing and releasing something called a "gem".
I don't think this conversation actually happened. It does not read at all like Einsteins other conversations.

I feel like some follower of Tagore may have authored this after the death of Einstein.
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Where do you mention convicting the government of thought-crimes? In the very next sentence! You are not capable of predicting the future, you don't know what is going to happen if we grant the federal government additional powers.
Define privacy. If I tell my mother what my girlfriend's name is, that's not an invasion of privacy. If my friend tells Facebook what my phone number is, that's not an invasion if privacy either.

If I share my phone number with my friend, under the agreement that my friend will not share it with others, and he shares it with Facebook, then my friend has violated my privacy... not facebook.
Great work and the site is fat-free and very intuitive. Just a thought, grouping the domains by name and showing various TLDs for each name would be nice. And .in TLDs would be nice!
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I'll second the namecheap recommendation. I've used it for registration and hosting for setting up a few sites for friends and I've always had a good experience with them. They offer hosting as well as domain name registration.
The case against data lock-in (2010)
Probably based on your IP (range). If 5 people from IP address X work at company Y, chances are you work there as well.
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and "process calculus" too, imho.