skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure this is fair. The government isn't crazy like Deputy Minister Helpmann in Brazil. It really is trying to do its job. Imagine if every American football coach had to announce his play to the other team. What purpose would there be in it? So, there needs to be a system in place that helps keep secrets. But, the question is how should those that expose secrets be dealt with? No one wants to deal with those exposing state secrets because they are doing it to no one in particular, and aren't being seen as actively trying to help terrorists. That is the problem and that is the reason we are comparing things to the movie Brazil here.

Growing up in the U.S., we were all taught the history of our country, which included Benedict Arnold. But very few see a parallel to Benedict Arnold in Snowden. They cannot see how someone whose main claim to fame in the press has been, "They are watching you!" has exposed state secrets. Neither do they think Julian Assange is Benedict Arnold. Julian is just posed as a well-meaning but much misled Australian hacker that probably got framed in a rape case and is on the run, like a modern day Frank Abagnale, but with state secrets instead of fake checks.

The fact is, our governments need respect in order to keep secrets better, but prosecuting and hunting down these people is not the answer, neither are other "control" techniques. They just need better security. If they had better security, I for one would respect the fact that they said, "Oops! I guess I left the playbook in front of the press tent. I guess I should keep it on my person at all times."
Another question is: does hashpix have the license to do what I does? When people post a picture of twitter, that doesn't necessarily mean the give the license/rights for someone to include it in his album in another service.
I'm looking at your link, its related links and your comment history. I think I see where it's all going.....
I simply say that it's a combination of identity loss and racism. The War on Drugs, particularly weed, was pretty much started purely because of greed & racism. http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal... When alcohol was attempted to be made illegal, too many white people got mad so that law had to be removed. Since weed mostly effects non-whites, it's illegal to this day. Put them in jail, ruin the background-check, we already know a resume with a black name doesn't get called back as often as a different name - all good for continued welfare. Nobody is saying there'd be zero problems without racism, but it wouldn't be so disproportionately bad.
Africa itself also has a troubled history of slavery & other countries colonizing it. Also, the greed and corruption that comes from having diamonds & oil is still a problem today. It is also known that US dollars are funding those military.
Also note that there are some parts of Africa that are not bad to live in, you just never see that on American TV. Of course it takes two for that to work, one to give the money and the other to accept it - but greed has millions of dollars & guns and everyone else doesn't, so...
I will end here saying that if I had my magicwand-timemachine, went back in time and removed slavery and somehow the corruption related to the country's vast natural resources, things wouldn't be like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resources_of_Africa

And a quick side-note, there was a radio-host. A white woman I believe. They talked about gun-law reform. That's another thing that gets minorities in trouble. She made the comment that if someone started a campaign to get all black males in Oakland signed up with the NRA and obtain a gun legally, gun-laws would be changed immediately. Why don't minorities sign up with NRA to begin with? I don't know, but whatever the reason is, that's why gun-law hasn't changed. I believe that to be very true and I think laws in America are generally set in a way that lowers the likelihood that a non-minority will break them. It probably wasn't that way on purpose at first, but once some people noticed the money from prisons and correction-facilities - combined with American's fear of immigrants... the success of war on drugs in terms of who's getting ruined by it...
again not saying there would be zero problems, but the disproportionate levels e see today wouldn't be happening. Don't forget the reason why a lot of black people are even in America to begin with...
Names of undercover agents infiltrating criminal organizations, to start?
Well there go the last Gnome users… Since Ubuntu abandoned it, Gnome seems to be getting less and less usage (I can't blame anyone for it, seeing as how it's become completely unusable…).
I'm more than okay with that. Middle click paste is one of the weirdest user experience elements and it does not even safe much time and is very easy to miss execute.
i recommend stephen baxter and arthur c. clarkes "the light of other days". as far as i remember it focusses more on the social than the economical impact of absolute transparency, but i still strongly recommend this excellent book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
My mouse has a scroll wheel which also doubles as the middle button when clicked. When scrolling through text, a little too much pressure and you end up pasting code all over the place. It's a monumental pain in the ass when dealing with code and requires minute checking all of changes in case an errant paste makes into the repository.
Protecting against leakers
> max rio

Do you mean ROI?
EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense - Instant Messaging (IM)
They don't - the startup considers it in addition to the credit score in making their decision. That said, I don't imagine you need a great deal of data to identify most people's Facebook account, not aware of any research into that though.
I think you're right. This makes it simpler. All that is required is an authentication. Right now this is 'input through keyboard' because a keyboard was the only way to provide input. Thinking about other forms of input would help.
Part of Assange's philosophy is that secretive unjust organizations will operate less efficiently and become less effective as they lock down their internal flow of information in response to leaks. Looks like things are going according to plan.
> In times of basically zero interest a 30-day free loan doesn't sound like a very convincing argument ...

Look at it this way -- for 30 days, you have access to funds that the poor person doesn't. Interest or not, you have more financial latitude.

Also, people who automatically and fully pay off their cards every month tend also to be the sort of people who have most of their money in investments that yield reasonable interest returns (like equities), not zero-interest bank accounts. So for them, the saved money is kept in a worthwhile investment until the moment it's needed.

I personally think the difference between the financial condition of the rich and poor, and the choices each make, is terrible and unjust. But after I've empathized with the poor, I know which group I want to belong to.
I'd get away in my car if I could afford the petrol for that length of time. Travel across Northern Europe to get to the cold countries. Would be epic actually, might do that when I'm older.
It's really useful when you have to paste many things repeatedly in a way that has some spatial ordering. But most of the time I dislike middle-click paste (and highlight-to-copy) because I will occasionally copy and paste things accidentally. Some kind of keyboard shortcut to toggle this behavior might be quite handy.
Its a beautiful command when all you have is a touchpad. Click both right and left to paste the last selected text.
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Oh, that's awesome eh! I can't wait to put up my "Brew in a Canoe" project!
What you should be learning from this is that there is no government that rules government - that laws, constitutions, and democracy exist only when and where those in power believe they ought to. I'm not arguing they're all amoral monsters. Often, it's their moral side that's the problem. They want a reasonable thing, such as protection from terrorism, and they sweep all impediments aside to obtain it, because they care, and they can.
I try meditation for my ADD and counting helps. I still get distracted once I breath out but it gets better ;)
I can confirm we have no marketing department, it's just three geeks with a Twitter account. We are getting press because people think it's an interesting project and because privacy on-line is a hot topic right now.
And why would you want to bring religion into this discussion?
Our goal is to create something you install on your desktop or laptop. Think Thunderbird, not Squirrelmail. We do happen to be using web tech for the UI, but that doesn't mean it has to live in the cloud.
Perhaps they were rich in sanity. Unlike the 20th century. (Stalins, Hitlers, nuclear brinkmanship, massive pollution, tens of millions killed in war ...)

Sanity alone explains their remarkable success. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Money is a symptom.

That and (towards the end) a couple of kings who had absolute power. Like ... Stalin.
It's also still attacking based on a lot of assumed patterns. Any passphrase that is a quote from popular literature or movies is bad choice. At this point any grammatically correct phrase is probably a bad choice, as that's a much smaller pool than you get with and handful of truly random words (e.g. as you get with diceware).

I hope we see a much stronger push to two-factor auth soon. Even if it's imperfect (e.g. SMS messages) it's still a huge extra hurdle for the typical cracker.
We are facing a troubling future as increasingly squeezed natural resources combine with the ever mounting public debt burden to create a toxic environment, perfectly suited to breed civil unrest, subversion, and anti-authoritarianism, terrorism and open revolt.

The stability and security of a well-ordered society demands conformance to certain social norms and limits on behaviour. These limits must be upheld even in the face of rising food insecurity, income inequality, and economic distress.

The protection of civil order requires the enforcement of conformance to behavioural norms, which in turn demands that that we crack down on destabilising influences, both in traditional and digital/distributed media.

Fortunately, modern digital tools allow the state to monitor and control discourse, behaviour and thought as never before. These tools must be exploited to their full potential, and dissent and nonconforming behaviour - in all it's forms, must be detected, isolated, and crushed immediately.

For example, forums such as this one are hotbeds of dissent - anarchic and destructive cess-pits of ideological filth that lead our vulnerable and easily influenced youth astray.

The state must identify the minority of subversive participants in these forums who are actively encouraging dissent -- and must silence them, for the good of a well-ordered society.
But it's not outside the scope of the OSA, necessarily - Section 5 covers the recipients of secret material leaked by a civil servant.

The current leaks are only outside of the scope of OSA because Snowden isn't a civil servant of the UK. It appears Blair wants to prevent the publication of all information considered highly embarrassing - er, I mean, 'damaging to national security' - regardless of where it came.
Looking at the commit in question, they're not only removing it, they're planning to have a new function for middle clicking:

> The middle-click will be used to start selections, and provide text contextual menus (such as word definitions, sharing, etc.)

This seems wrong. They're removing a slightly obscure feature to replace it with a completely obscure one. I wouldn't call myself an UX expert, but this seems to violate at least two important principles:

1. Affordance/User expectations: How is anybody going to figure this out, if not by accident? Worse, users who knew the middle click will probably be irritated by this.

2. Consistency: Are only Gnome applications going to support this? It very much seems like that. So their new function for middle clicking won't even work consistently across applications.

I know I'm being an armchair critic here, but I honestly wonder why they think it's a good idea.
Show HN: Gantt chart for Angular.js
- information theoretic optimal succinct/compact/implicit data structures
- cache oblivious algorithms, especially CO-B-Trees
- linear work suffix array construction
- new lower bounds on external store and search
- sure there must be plenty of results on distributed systems techniques too

Plenty of amazing results in the last few years.
Technically this is an app, not a startup (from the looks of things.

Voice is great, if a little forced at points, she can sound a little TOO enthused.

Animation was nice, obviously not top of the line, but professional-grade nonetheless.

Fonts could do with some work, you use at least two (ignoring Votechat brand font) once looked like Times New Roman, the other like Comic Sans, neither of which are that great.

App concept is simple, but perhaps not too clearly explained. The algorithm explanation left me scratching my head as 'number of people' / 'number of ideas = 'votechat' makes no sense.

I was also left wondering about your first example of a user case: several ideas. Wouldn't it be best to have people rank their preference and have a simple algorithm work out the activity/idea with the highest combined popularity?

A situation where 5 out of 8 people want to go paintballing, but 3 really don't, but they'd all like to go to the cinema would be problematic for your app. If the 5 vote for their paintballing over the cinema, 3 people will be left out, or unhappy to attend, whereas with a ranking method, you may have all 8 doing something they like, together.
Don't forget that it is one of two buffers, called PRIMARY for whatever reason (there is no secondary). If you select and press Ctrl-C, the content goes to CLIPBOARD. I can't count the number of times I've yelled expletives when I pasted the wrong buffer by mistake.

There should only be one clipboard.
> According to a commit on this matter, it will [instead] be used to "start selections ...

You mean, like Plan9's UI, where buttons and menus are "just" text? That'd be something I'd love to see come to another desktop environment...
I've accidentally pasted lines with --username --password into source files because of a sensitive scroll wheel... That's pretty embarrassing in code review.
Sure! Thanks for the suggestions.
If you want to see the largely-tamed press suddenly become rabidly anti-national security, go ahead guys.

The press is still massively powerful in the UK, and even more so in the United States, where the First Amendment still holds relatively strong. More importantly than any legal protection, civil society won't stand for it.

I think I've made clear through previous comments that, by HN standards, I'm slightly to the right of the Kaiser on SIGINT to prevent terrorism. Large scale persecution of the press would be enough to get even me to consider switching sides.
Why don't 'they' get it? What the Guardian has leaked does not benefit terrorists, and I've heard nobody make a case that it does. Until they make that case, the reason this was hidden was not because of terrorists unless we've widened the definition to preliminarily classify the whole worked as such.

Sure there's stuff that's reasonable to keep secret (in my opinion), but if this is identified as such that just weakens the case for any of it being secret.
Why are non-gnome users always so pissed about Gnome when there apparently are so many excellent alternatives?
There are many over reactions in this thread and none of them mentioned they actually use the paste feature. What is the big deal? I like it. I don't know any one that uses the middle button for pasting. In fact the middle is more likely to be a scroll wheel and so clicking on that never happens. Overloading that something is okay with me.
You mean, names of agent provocateurs infiltrating peaceful protest groups?

You see, the thing is, as soon as you say "well, clearly X needs to be secret", you open the avenue for all of the unintended, unforeseen uses of said secrecy.

The only solution, as far as the state is concerned, is to have no secrets. Undercover police/intelligence work would be obviated by not defining economic and social systems which engender the kind of behaviour that mandates such in the first place.
NSA: Listening to everyone - except oversight
Well, it is a fair comparison in that the crazy torture/interrogation state of Gilliam's "Brazil" was driven by the profit motive -- the victims of torture paid for their own interrogation.

This is eerily similar to the manner in which our own surveillance state is also driven by the profit motive - ordinary people paying for the profit-driven private companies that subject them to surveillance -- and in the process, keeping us all in a state of abject terror of the hidden dangers from which we are being "protected".

Hmmm... how much is it like a protection racket? Indeed, look at what happens to the people who want out?
So it goes! I don't know why it surprises me, but a sizable portion of the expats here in Berlin originally came for a guy/girl.
It is not security through obscurity. It works even when the attacker knows I use a passphrase and has a copy of my dictionary. It's about the same security as a random 8 character password with lower and upper case, numbers and choice of 10 symbols.

Maybe that's no longer secure enough; I don't know how fast password crackers are now. So use "shuf -n 5" instead.
So, there needs to be a system in place that helps keep secrets.

How about a simple workflow before marking something Top Secret?

1. Did we break the law?

-> Yes -> End: don't mark Top Secret; call the police and have responsible parties arrested.

-> No -> End: mark Top Secret.

-> Maybe -> End: don't mark Top Secret; call the police and have responsible parties arrested.

And we could use the same workflow for encountering already Top Secret docs. In fact, that's exactly what Snowden and Manning did. Not sure what the fuss is about: they're whistleblowers, so we should all be happy and all see a lot of DoJ guys in vests escorting NSA guys from datacenters in handcuffs (or gals).
See also the macroeconomics of middle-earth:
http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012...
How to steal an online identity - a.k.a always use HTTPS
That is untrue, daring fireball one-liners shouldn't be your only source of news: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Fiber-Server-Neutr...
Exploiting HTTP redirects for user tracking
It's Personas all the way down... ?
I can't find a good article atm, but afaik there's an established correlation between fMRI activity (indeed about 0.5/1 slices per second depending on settings) and beta waves.

Btw beta waves can also be recorded using a single electrode: normally these get used to record spikes from a single neuron, but they also pick up the lower frequency bands of all surrounding neurons. The nice thing is this provides a more local view (iirc everything that is closer than a couple of mm around the electrode), whereas an EEG gets you 'everything' so it's more an indication about general brain state without giving information about which part is active.
It's due to the "He's gonna take my guns" attitude that has permeated the fanatical right wing of the US population. Gun and ammo sales has been a growth industry since 2009. Of course they're just laughing the whole way to the bank since no one is going to take their guns.
Or, you could just do PGP/MIME + SMTP over Tor hidden services living on home computers, and not invent any new protocols at all. :-) This allows p2p delivery with strong encryption and anonymity of the transmission, while the message content can still be encrypted and signed for verification that you are talking to the right person.

This is currently Mailpile's vaguely planned "maximum privacy" mode, with the backwards compatible fallback being normal PGP/MIME over the normal Internet.

Anonymity from the POV of the sender/recipient is not characteristic of this sytem, and it doesn't give perfect forward secrecy/deniability like OTR. But most people consider anonymous e-mail to be spam. If you need PFS, just use OTR, it works.

(Note: we have yet to do formal threat modeling and this plan may change.)
Congrats to Stripe team. They have done a really good job, I find since they get it work in UK, they are expanding in a very fast pace for now (y)
Hope it will come to Northen EU soon :)
Because we used to like it.
> What the Gnome devs did was just inverting the setting without providing an option for it, which is a pretty awful idea.

Gnome devs don't like to give the user options.
For RISCOS, a port is one thing, it does not mean the OS itself is in active development (AFAIK).
I use it all the time, even with a scroll-wheel; far more than I use ctrl-C/V.
I've been using this feature for, let's see... about 16 years, and it's not just an ingrained habit, it's actually quite useful. Sooner or later it looks like I'm going to have to sit down and fiddle with the alternatives to Gnome.

It's kind of puerile, but for whatever reason this gave me a good laugh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6282043
That's awesome. My practice is still all over the place. One day I am hybrid Buddha/Professor Xavier, the next I am a toddler after a gallon of soda.
Agreed in that this needs to be an option. I'm using the middle mouse paste very often, it's such a nice and easy thing to have.. Do i want a "text context" menu? No. I'd enable the mouse-click paste again..
You just taught me some weird new things about my computer. It tried what you said and, indeed, you are correct.
> The government isn't crazy like Deputy Minister Helpmann in Brazil.

Who said Helpmann was crazy? He's perfectly sane and rational, from his frame of reference. So are our governments. The issue arises when the subjective reality in which ones leaders reside and the subjective reality in which you reside are radically disconnected, which makes decisions and actions made by either side seem irrational and scary.

I'd argue that governmental secrecy is bad, in all its forms, as it always ends up being abused, from the perspective of the cit. I understand your point, but it's demonstrably the case that secrecy begets secrecy, which begets corruption.

I stand by my parallel of Brazil, for we do not exist under a brutal, evil, autocratic government, nor under a consciously designed society intended to be "better", but instead under a self-sustaining zombie bureaucracy that no longer connects to the world it governs, and in fact is attempting to reshape the subjective reality of others to suit its own ends - which are, in fact, none, other than perpetuation of the status quo and hegemonic systemisation of anything which conceivably can be - which was the crux of Brazil.
> covered with tens of thousands of people waiting to attack. When they did, the entire population was slaughtered by the 20 conquistadors on horseback

That's completely and utterly ridiculous. What were the conquistadors? Supermen?
The European regulations linked there are out of date (2004). I linked to an article about the new ones.

“The study was included in a wider EU review of parasites in fishery products carried out by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which confirmed the Scottish findings and led to the introduction of the EU freezing exemption for farmed fish in 2011”.
>In fact the middle is more likely to be a scroll wheel and so clicking on that never happens. //

Almost every tab I close is by clicking on my scroll wheel.

Some inferior scroll wheels it seems don't click but I've bought quite cheap mouses and they all seem to have scroll-click.
It's developer-friendly, very fast to get started and doesn't require a merchant account.
Buy a better mouse, a B100 is just $13 at Newegg. The cheapest is almost $5 and it'll probably work just fine.