skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You bring up good points.

And speaking of privacy in anonymous forums and NSA snooping, I've been thinking as of late:

We can reasonably conclude now that NSA is probably in the game of data mining in a manner much like Google or Facebook, graphing networks and all. Data mining is considerably easier to do on social networking sites like Facebook where there's a push from the beginning to tie accounts to real identities, unlike anonymous forums. Now, the thing is, Reddit/4chan is a breeding ground for contrarian thought, indeed it is where a lot of the interesting stuff is born in the eyes of three-lettered agencies -- half of the Lulzsec memebers were active Redditors, Edward Snowden was a Redditor, every other programmer with unorthodox political interests is on Reddit. So I am really very confident that NSA/FBI keeps a special tab on Reddit, but what I'm curious about is how they go about doing that. I don't think Reddit staff has made a deal with three-letter agencies to help them tie anonymous accounts to real identities... but I wouldn't be surprised if these three letter agencies are putting a concerted effort on gathering data from anonymous networks in hopes of linking all things said and done under the guise of anonymity back to some real world id. (I imagine are probably sitting on a good many zero days, and can presumably carry out operations in which they surreptitiously steal a lot of data that can help them to tie Reddit accounts to real id's, for example).
I'm fairly sure that I've installed (and run) Mac OS X apps via drag and drop with no admin prompt.
I'm continually fascinated by these comments (there's one on every story like this) that try to second-guess the decision based on no actual information. Doesn't it seem likely that the person who did this is in a better position to judge the potential consequences than you?

Unless OP is right on the threshold of being hard up for work, it makes no real difference to his dealflow, and it has a nonzero probability that it will shame somebody into paying.
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Incognito mode is useful because it's easy to use. Master passwords are not, as demonstrated by the fact that 99%+ of Firefox users don't.
You ever tried putting a different graphics card or network/wifi card in your mac? We're not talking USB drivers here..
This project has been "dead" for about 6 months or so. Personally I don't thing that should matter much– it's an interesting project, and the more exposure it gets the better chance it has at being rejuvenated.
Um... I dont get it.

So they release a GitLab Enterprise Version. And Killed off GitLab Cloud? Well not actually killing it but offering it for free.

Why?

What's the business case behind it? Or GitLab simply dont want to run a Commercial, High quality Code Hosting Services?

Without some sort of payment, I think any business will be hesitant to use GitLab Cloud.
Yes, indeed. I started to build my digital safe ~20 years ago ex nihilo. I think it's still possible today. Build a second identity with which you can really speak your mind. The funny thing is that your "real name" identity is, as the OP points out, a bit less representative of your real-self than your "fake name" identity.
I use Ubuntu as my sole OS too, but it gets on my nerves with some things. I have cmd+E mapped to a new nautilus window, for example, and it doesn't work half the time (I always have to press it twice). Sometimes the focus gets lost and alt+tab won't work until I click on a window. It's also not very responsive.

Windows, on the other hand, are extremely snappy everywhere. Pressing cmd+E immediately launches Explorer and Explorer itself is very snappy.

I wish Ubuntu would just get its shit together and address UI latency at some point.
Replace "NSA" by "China" and no one would care.

China is the scapegoat when it comes to hacking. Just as China is mentioned the interest just dies - since it's expected of them (the article even mentions Chine trying the same thing...).
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Agreed. I only want a tool that will convert from one format to another.

My books are organized beneath ~/Books/ by author, series, and title. I don't need them "managed", I just want to be able to convert them, and once done I can copy them to the device via /bin/cp, etc.

I'm using the command-line tools from calibre and they work, but the GUI itself is redundant for me.
Paypal always always always ALWAYS sides with the buyer.
Chrome already uses the OSX Keychain to store passwords. Firefox, on the other hand, stores them as plaintext unless you find and use the option to set a master password.
Yep, Crouton was originally made for the ARM Chromebook from what I understand.
And how do you know if someone actually used their real name, or just something generated by a tool like rig?
True, also GNU was/is made possible by university funding (MIT in particular but also others) and corporate donations (much of which ironically comes out of profits from proprietary software). Not really the same situation as an indie Android dev trying to put some food on the table with their apps.
Why do you need anything to put on a shelf?

Because it adds to the room. I realize this is very much a question of personal taste, but I find that a room with a wall covered in books can be a beautiful design detail that adds warmth and character to a room. Plus physical books are pretty awesome in their own right.
That assumes you'll always have the luxury of being able to pick and choose your job. For you perhaps that's the case, for others it won't always be the case.
Is it not possible without "virtualizing" Ubuntu on top of the host OS with crouton?
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Haha, you're assuming that if they knew what bitcoin was and believed that the seller and the sale was legit, that they would have sided with the seller.

Paypal doesn't work that way, mate.
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> But will this increase the web designer's chances to get paid?

The customer has a choice: pay for the product he had developed and approved of, or look for another web developer to do it over again.

Finding a new web developer will be tricky given this situation (who wants to work for someone that has a reputation not to pay up?) and would take a lot of time before a new site is delivered.
I've had one blow up in Poland. Ul. Winklera, Poznan. I'll never forget that. My s.o. was about to use the (common for three apartments) bath and the thing blasted its outer cover clear across the room. She ran into the hallway totally forgetting her state of dress or lack thereof. The neighbours, alerted by the explosion that something was up, all piled into the hallway and sure appreciated the view.

Fortunately she was only scared but otherwise ok. Quite the bang, I've had a healthy respect for old Junckers products that have gas lines fed into them since.
Chrome already uses the OS keychain facilities. People are complaining that this is insecure because unauthorized people can look at the saved passwords if the user leaves their computer logged in and unlocked. They want Chrome to adopt the Firefox approach of storing them directly on disk optionally encrypted with a master password.
I think this is very true for the consumer-web (and therefore also web development), but not if you're purely using ancient unix tools that were fast on ancient hardware. They are incredibly fast on modern "low-end" hardware. Git is of this school.

But to undermine my own point... can you really escape the consumer-web? Sites like github are JS heavy and very slow on old hardware. And, in practice, you'll want to use a PC for consumer tasks, like buying stuff, researching it, reading news, watching videos etc.

Maybe it's worthwhile buying a special-purpose consumer-web device - a tablet? It's optimised for the web; and the web is optimising for it.
> An author I'd read in some scifi story or something similar had suggested that the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy.

Sounds like Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age": http://steveedney.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativ...
> Ironically if you had sent it through the post on a USB key you'd be in the clear.

No, no he wouldn't. This is Paypal we're talking about.
>> the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy.

You must live on a different planet than me. :-)

Let me take an example I saw this week:

I have some Eastern Europeans with different opinions in my Facebook. One upset discussion right now is about why Russia gets so much criticism for homophobia these days.

They assume it is an old Cold War prejudice, since the whole Middle East and much of Africa are something like a factor of ten worse.. And they get almost no media cover. Including the immigrants (at least in Sweden), which have the same opinions.

It might be some unspoken racism from the left wing (not expect better of the primitives), but it is probably just hypocrisy -- harsh criticism of an external example as a way to get everyone on the same page.

I'm all for tolerance and acceptance of the gay community, but I seem to be quite unusual in being equally shocked by hypocrisy and double standards as by homophobia.

Even if you use double thinking in a good cause to spread tolerance in a group, it clouds your analytic capability in the group. That is a bad thing.
Some more info if anyone's interested:

http://m2m.riotinto.com/issue/1/article/let-ballet-begin
Your ability to conceal your identity on Reddit, and in public forums in general, is an illusion. Your identity can be revealed by your writing, regardless if you use a nym or not.

Text analysis algorithms can detect and match you by your writing style and reveal characteristics about your personality that you have no idea you're leaking (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-...). Even your use of pronouns provide clues. It's like your fingerprint, or your gate (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~chiraz/icpr02.pdf).

"The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us" (http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Pronouns-Words-About/dp/16...), by Dr. James Pennabaker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Pennebaker).
I don't know why they recommend 2-4 GB RAM, but we're running Gitlab on 512 MB with Phusion Passenger Enterprise just fine. It also helps that Phusion Passenger Enterprise happens to use the least memory among all Ruby app servers.
The definitive advice on the subect, Mike Monteiro's "Fuck You, Pay me!": http://vimeo.com/22053820
> an aggressive response in most.

The word you're after is defensive. If you've been ripped off, you are not the aggressor.
Yes, I was wondering about using it for testing some (very low level) osx stuff for automated testing in a vm. But thats about the only use I can think of...
As a user, it doesn't look nice to hear this from the developers. I think it would be nice to have a stable upgrade mechanism that doesn't break anything for people - or maybe an automated mechanism that does all the upgrades step by step so the user doesn't have to do much.

Since I have seen this 'upgrade' problem repeatedly mentioned here, I think it would be a good problem to attack to help people feel more comfortable about using your product.

I recently set up gitolite internally and this thread interests me because GitLab looks like something that could be considered for Git hosting. However, someone in my place may not be so comfortable with the idea when I get the general feeling that "upgrades are a pain".

I only mean this as feedback to help you make your product more palatable (because I want to see a lot of good Git hosting solutions!)
I'm working on a hosted forum/community platform, and the feedback we received when asking customers (site admins) and users was strong, and unequivocal: They want to present themselves as an alias and not have their interactions with their interests be tied or related to their real identity.

When asked why, various reasons were given:

People view their hobbies and pastimes as a sanctuary from real life, home, family, a safe space, and they don't want that safe space ruined by being forced to use real identity.

People distinguish themselves in ways that their real identity might not allow. Their work or social position might not grant them the ability to express themselves fully as an avatar in an online world, or as someone into tap-dancing, but a constructed alias allows them to immerse themselves more fully.

People fear that engagement in their interests/pastimes will lead to them being judged by future employers/partners/others.

Aliases allow people to really engage with their interests, and from that it becomes more likely that the experts in a community will congregate and share information. That the value for a community is realised.

And if you need to cite an example of that: Hacker News

For all this, the downside is that you have to have ways to deal with trolls and spammers that do not use the very easy and simple mechanism of "who are you?". That's harder to do, and so you either allow it (4chan) or you create complex flagging/reporting/moderating layers. The really interesting part for me is how active/engaged and in-your-face that moderation is, or how invisible it is, and where the line of transparency is (the more transparent the easier to game, the less transparent the harder to trust).

tl:dr People want anonymity so that they can share freely, but the price you have to pay is managing spammers and trolls.
Indeed, but aggressive defense is not an oxymoron.
Google Chrome is not open source, you mean Chromium. Chrome is closed source and could contain all sorts of different code found in the Chromium project. Chrome is the Google branded version of Chromium. It is a minor difference but makes a major impact regarding your freedom.
Ah nice. Reminds me of ECS175, IIRC, crash course in quaternions and reimplement some of the OGL pipeline in c.
What do you mean by 'standard DRM'?
You exchange positive feedback before you send the refund request. And sellers can't leave negative feedback any more.

With that said, your ebay account might get shut down after this happens more than a handful of times. Better pick up some spare accounts from a botnet operator.
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The sad part is you really still can't do this in HTML5, not if you want it to run on the most popular smartphone platform (Android).
Hmm, maybe it's just the System and root Library folders that require authentication. But those would be what you'd need to access to install a keylogger or some such monitoring software, I'd guess.
Yes, I agree that master passwords are badly implemented in Firefox.

It should be on by default — like Safari where it uses your keychain password when attempting to display a plain text stored password. Chrome and Firefox could easily do this too (they do use the Keychain to fetch passwords anyway.)
This is not hypocrisy and has nothing to do with the cold war. Quite to the contrary: we hold Russians to a higher standard than Saudi Arabia.
Like we hold the USA to a higher standard than either country in regards to privacy.
and there is http://multiplayerpiano.com
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I don't know, this is a new site: https://www.google.com/#q=site:nycfreshmarket.com

There is no cache, so I think this is an over-reaction at this point by the designer and only discredits their business sense and will most likely result in not getting paid for this job.

The phrase 2 wrongs don't make a right comes to mind. WE already have a legal system in place to handle these issues, no reason to defame on the internet, which is truly a permanent record.
I have all my source code posted nice and pretty with highlighting. I did that from so much skepticism, not really need, perhaps, possibly weird.

How do I blend all the help documentation with-in onto my website if I don't use plain text?

I have so much content that exists as text wit-in my operating system, I have no choice unless I mix glossy and austere styles.

Gordon Ramsay makes all his food look excellent. One thing he's good at is artistic eye and making shit look good. And videos. He's an excellent charismatic asset, too. (unintended pun)

God says...
potentially I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you LOL fight soap_opera
what_luck illogical Wow cheerful grumble once_upon_a_time
fake sports This_is_confusing when_hell_freezes_over so_let_it_be_written
computers Is_that_your_final_answer rubbish adultery I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you
let's_see Zzzzzzzz you're_nuts choose_one not_too_shabby
peace big_fish God_smack I_quit I_hate_when_that_happens
scorning don't_worry
If they really do understand what each other is trying to say, it doesn't matter much what words they're using.

What annoys me is when half of the comments is about form, not about substance. It's understandable, people (including me) love to correct mistakes of other people, but it still annoys me.
The United States of America is under attack from the Republican Party.
Oh please. China hacked into the JSF project at Lockheed twice, and the US did its best to avoid confrontation at all cost.
Or the Safari approach, where even though it could show you the passwords directly, its policy is to ask for your password before doing so. Note that while Chrome uses the keychain, it actually circumvents the point of the keychain by decrypting all keys at startup, before they're needed.
It's the former "Caps Lock" key
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how much was the sentence ? was it worth it in the end or was it such an angry reaction that your prof forgot to anticipate the cost ?
That's kind of beside the point. While Chrome may store passwords encrypted via Keychain, the problem is it readily displays them to the user via its UI without any re-authentication. Its creators think that any attempts to authenticate users beyond the system login are "theater".

Is this really true for OS X Keychain? Are its admin password prompts for actions like installing system components or displaying secrets in the UI just theater?
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I use Spotlight to open apps the majority of the time as well. But people are fuzzy logic creatures. Sometimes they know the app by name, sometimes they need to see it in the context of a menu ("Oh, it's that program in the Productivity menu from $vendor"). Or they can't remember the name of what they need, but DO know roughly when they downloaded it, or where they put it.

I do variations of all these things to find apps, documents and files. Taking any one of them away from me makes me use a less-efficient path, and that's a stupid thing for an OS to enforce on anyone.
Yes it is, Chrubuntu boots directly.

http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/chrubuntu-one-s...
My threat model is any untusted subject accessing my computer. What's why I lock it even to walk to the other side of the room. This requires any attack to open laptop, remove epoxy on RAM, then quickly switch my RAM out and read keys.

I don't know the details of the OS X keychain. If they indeed validate programmatic access to the keychain by authenticating the code executing (that is, verifying Chrome by Google is accessing the same data stored), then sure, it's possible to do somewhat better.

But if the browser prepopulates fields and they are inspectable, that defeats the purpose, yet again.
I don't know how hard it'd be to use Calibre for background/batch conversion, but Calibre + DRM plugins automatically pics up anything delivered to Kindle for PC now, which runs fine under Wine. So it should be reasonably simple to set up a script to run Kindle for PC under wine against a VNC server regularly, and run Calibre and trigger conversions now and again.

I push my Kindle stuff straight to my Android devices without caring about DRM, but only because I semi-regularly dump any new books to my Kindle for PC install and make sure I get DRM free copies for backup purposes, but I currently do this manually. My "exposure" is never more than a handful of books.

Otherwise I've bought a lot more than I otherwise would from O'Reilly because they're DRM free and happily sync my books directly to Dropbox etc.

My "own cloud" I currently handle simply with rsync - storage capacity on my devices grow faster than the content I want to have on the go for the most part, other than video which I do need to manage a bit.
So does HN, but you need 500 Karma before the downvote button appears.
Yeah, that's what I meant by the total hollywood economic value. Google makes money from multiple services and products too, and in the context of new companies coming in and taking a slice of the pie it makes sense to look at hollywood as a whole. Content (TV, Movies, whatever) and Merchandise (Parks, toys etc) got hand in hand. You can buy angry birds plush toys because once any company establishes a brand they are going to find multiple avenues to exploit it, and any companies coming into the market will be in that position too.

Edit: And you're right Google is a 'better business' than making movies most likely. But that doesn't mean it's not of interest to VC. After all, oil is clearly a 'better business' than Google!
Content library tools that refuse to index arbitrary content should be considered broken. The mindset that you can only index content if the canonical copy of the data is in your database is just awful.

It's also at least a little bit problematic that there is little support for treating source books as special, which would be a nice feature given the fact that the convertors are not yet perfect (and last I looked they didn't work very hard to make semantically sensible conversions, which makes knowing the source book that much more valuable...).
It's pretty easy to link psuedonyms together so I don't think you're right.
I used to think this too for the cases of Virtual Goods, but Paypal surprised me. Our company suddenly started getting Paypal chargebacks resolved in our favor one day. Not all of them, but more than the zero we previously had.

We have a fairly large number of transactions per day, so I can only assume that our account got flagged somehow.

That said, Paypal only sides with us if it was a transfer of Paypal balance. If the transaction was backed by a credit card, and the credit card was charged back rather than done via a Paypal dispute, we will lose every time.
Hmmh, I have no clue why my opinion sounds like a judgement.

I just think this confrontation in public (with one side as yet unidentified) will not work towards a solution.
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We do enjoy our public shaming, don't we!
That entirely depends on the action you choose to take after being ripped off. Being ripped off doesn't give you a blank check to do whatever you want. If someone fails to pay you, you can prevent delivery of the service they failed to pay for. Anything beyond that and you are the aggressor.
I'm assuming that he's comparing it with FB.
http://www.jtable.org/ is another similar product we have used before.
I'm not the person you addressed, but I would. And just a single glimpse at facebook (or twitter or a newspaper comment column) shows people will show horrible, socially absolutely unacceptable behavior on the internet, even if their real name is attaced. I think facebook has worse manners than reddit. The believe that real names would increase the quality of the content or the manners is IMO back up by nothing but wishful thinking.