skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It baffles me how poor PR damage control there is from NSA/government. All they had to say was something along the lines "yeah, some of it is true, but we can't comment any further", same with wikileaks leaks. "some", and you can't be sure anymore what's true and what isn't from that source and end of story, only speculations.
That's the real problem. They're selling a premium phone, and many people don't want a premium phone purchased at a premium price.
My point was merely that this TPM thing fundamentally boils down to giving up control over your own hardware to someone else.

While it may not be a direct security risk per se, it represents a model of computing where the security-priorities are reversed as far as anyone not in the content-industry is concerned.

Now... If Windows 8 is any worse in this regard than Windows 7 is probably questionable, but Windows 8 has had as a default OEM-configuration to be more locked down in "secure boot" and TPM-land than it used to be.
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> the felons would be those uploading the streams, not those downloading

I don't think that's completely accurate. This effort would expose sites and services to secondary liability for the actions of their users.
These two points are the most horrifying in my eyes, being enough for the PM to install himself as king by having complete surveillance over all the kingmaker positions within parliament. Expose a marital affair here, schedule meetings during a dental appointment there, and it's enough leverage to apply huge influence over the laws that are created. Now that it's completely legal, there's nothing anybody can do to stop it.

After the US and UK have been revealed as full of state-sponsored security holes, and the software patent idea being banned earlier this year, I was considering moving back to NZ. But now that this law has passed, what's the difference? NZ's just as full of spies, except with very few jobs and slow, expensive internet.
Possibly, though I should note that the one I saw it on was an iMac, plenty of space all around.
Pretty much everyone offers some "free" shipping these days, which is just a marketing scheme anyway. Free shippoing or not, the only number that matters is the total, all-inclusive price. It's not uncommon for me to find a lower total price at a seller that charges for shipping than the Amazon's "free" shipping price.

WSJ actually just published an article on how Amazon is frequently underpriced by other sellers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142412788732342380457902...

There's no one seller that is consistently the lowest price. But Amazon is consistently the slowest in shipping.
> "The whole event loop idea, which is core to javascript, allows for the single-threaded non-blocking I/O (...)"

Event loops are not a property of JavaScript of any other programming language: Every single GUI Win32 application ever written in C directly calling the WinAPI contains an explicit event loop.

> "(...) in a way that no other popular language does. Because of this, javascript has features that make this type of programming easy - first-class functions, anonymous functions, etc."

JavaScript is hardly the only language, or even the only popular language, to ever have first-class procedures or anonymous procedures. You know what (at some point in time) widely taught language has a procedure data type[1]? Pascal. So why not Node.pas instead?

> "So, yes. Non-blocking I/O is a standard library feature, but it works because of language features."

That countless other languages have. Most of them a lot better designer than JavaScript.

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[1] Edit: I originally suggested Pascal has anonymous procedures, which it does not.
I think this is pretty cool (and I like the slider-demo!), but it's clearly developed for laptops and mobile devices. On a bigger monitor the website is essentially unreadable. A 29px font for the body copy is a bit outrageous.

I like the idea, but I don't think fully automatic font scaling is the way to go. Mapping resolution to font size (which is essentially what the Javascript magic does) doesn't work because resolution doesn't mean much anymore. An HD tablet and a 27" monitor have the same resolution but demand completely different text sizes because you sit so much farther away from a desktop monitor.

So for the time being I think the best way to go is to create a mostly fluid layout and to write custom CSS for manual adjustments to make sure it looks good on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop monitors.
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One thing that I've found handy on a few occasions is Atlassian Source Tree. You can stage individual lines, not just individual hunks. Sometimes that makes it much easier to pull apart the changes.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry

Seems like more than a few quant shops advertise that they use Haskell.
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PageFair's blog post & full report are here:
http://blog.pagefair.com/2013/the-rise-of-adblocking/

Some site categories were hit much harder than 23%.
I don't know about 'typically', but it isn't uncommon among freelancer writers.
If I didn't have to worry about malicious ads, pop up advertisements, video ads that automatically play, and obnoxious ads then I probably wouldn't use AdBlock. But since advertisements are nothing but obnoxious then it makes it hard for me to change my mind...
Here's a general-purpose JS implementation of a progress bar that achieves a similar visual effect: http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/
I suspect that having sued a previous employer might block off more future employment opportunities than a conviction record.
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There is this annual event "Freedom not Fear" - which is about fighting the Big Brother - and this year a huge coalition (http://blog.freiheitstattangst.de/bundnispartner-2013/) in Germany and Austria plan demonstrations for the September 7, and other countries will join (Poland and Czech Republic are confirmed): http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2013...

On September 27-30 in Brussels there will be workshops and hearings with MEPs: https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_201...

Organize a local event - add it to the list - don't be afraid that it is small, even if not many people come locally - you'll be a part of a global crowd.

Twitter hashtag: #fnf13
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I asked the last time around, but didn't get an answer: who's on the hook for the $300,000 in non-refundable credit card fees incurred by this project? Kickstarter's page on this is unclear.
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Star Citizen is at over $15 million. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
That's probably the first time ever you did that. But the body adapts.

My brother is a diabetic. Whenever his suger level dropped from 80, he'd start shaking, have headaches and other hypoglicemia symptoms. A few years now and he can hit much lower levels without feeling any ill symptoms.

Try fasting for a day, see how that works out. Then do it more frequently. Then try two days.

Our ancestors were probably(*) used to spending days hunting for food without success, so occasional fasting should not be that big of a deal.

Also, do some checkups. You might have a condition which is preventing you from spending that much time without eating (low blood pressure, for instance, or even existing nutritional imbalances).
What exactly makes you say 16pt is the standard font size?

For instance, the comment threads on HN are at 12px (9pt), and are entirely legible for me.
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Is there a good alternative to OVH's Kimsufi 2G dedicated servers? They've been sold out for a while and aren't expecting any new ones for a while.

[0] http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml
Unrelated question, but where are you from? I've not seen anyone write numbers quite like this before. It's sort of french, but sort of not...
"Don't be evil" wasn't a founding principle, but one suggested by an engineer early in the company's history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

I've got my own very grave reservations about the company, but it has done some good stuff. I'm hoping we'll hear from them eventually. Truth is, much of The System is the way it is because the various participants have one another by the balls.
Coming from a country where this was the norm only 20 something years ago, I never had any thoughts that it would be otherwise in US or anywhere else basically.We were on the edge of Iron curtain, why would I think cold war main conflicted parties would live within their borders without mechanisms such as this, albeit toned down? Cold war never stopped, it switched objectives from war to control and finance.
Wow! A meal replacement powder! Groundbreaking!
Why are we talking about this again? Oh right. Because Tim Ferris is talking about it.
This seems pretty cool but is an absolute nightmare for people like myself who require Ctrl + Scroll zoom all the time for accessibility.
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Presumably there were certain feature requirements for it to work as an effective desktop computer that are missing on many smart phones.

I mean, the early adopters paying for the Edge are probably have desktops with quad-core 1GHz+ processors, 2GB+ of RAM, 100GB+ of hard disk space, connector and graphics card for a WSXGA+ resolution monitor, USB host capability and so on. My smart phone has none of these features.
Well, I'm not surprised at all (nor should any liberals be who understand Assange's expressed political views), though I agree with your diagnosis of reaching for the throne.
Like all of those Amazon products shut down when they still had a sizable userbase?
Exactly, just like all the barista's and waiters / waitresses that became doctors and lawyers ;)
They're pretty well-supported now, I did my blog's entire CSS in vw units.

The only major browser that apparently doesn't support vw is Android stock browser (Chrome on Android does support it). Even my PS Vita browser supports the units.

However, not all CSS styles support viewport units. border-width, a few others. But you can define the doc's font-size in vw (font-size: 1vw;) and then use rem units everywhere to get around those few compatibility issues. (It works.)
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I disagree with this, for one reason alone.

Just because you have grown in the past with a certain tactic does not make that tactic the most effective choice. And, certainly, if the industry changes so much that mobile does indeed take over the personal device market, having a subpar experience on mobile phones could then have an effect that previously wasn't apparent.

"We make the best candles in all of the world!" didn't allow the candle company to compete with the lightbulb maker. (Albeit a less than accurate comparison, it illustrates my point I think.)
Obama: let's just cut to the end and make using a computer a felony.
Not at all -- you can uncheck some files, and only the checked ones will be committed.
Check out contract jobs, which tend to pay higher in the UK.
It's fundamentally nearly impossible to audit (or even control) what sysadmins do. You can try, but at the end of the day the most secure really is based on trust and it works remarkably well. NSA must have thousands of sysadmins (at least over the years) and we've got one that leaked things in a significant way.

The system they use is not really broken, it's just embarrassing to them when it's proven imperfect. The best fix would be to simply avoid doing things that are likely to piss off ethical people like Snowden.
"Dear Google, please save us!"

You might as well have said, "Dear God, please save us!"

Sorry, but you won't be saved by any corporate entity; they're in bed with the surveillance state anyways. It is people like us, yes, you included, who have to take up the baton and run with it.

Here are things you can do:

- Talk to your non-techie friends, and bring them up to speed

- Explain to them why "giving up rights for temporary safety" doesn't work

- Tell them why this sort of surveillance is against the core democratic principles this country was founded on

- Suggest to them that they should vote out any politician who supports such policies. In the end, it is the Congress' job to keep checks and balances; and they've failed miserably. Time for all of them to go.
This is the saddest truth.
> There's always some jackass journalist who thinks they should take the other side, no matter how contrary to the facts, to get some attention. I am just surprised it's at outfits like The Telegraph and Reuters.

Why would you be surprised? It's a given that NSA and friends have people to write stories for them on "reputable" sources. No need for jackass journalists.
If you don't mind me asking, can you produce some food studies/experiments that are up to your standards, so I can get an idea of what one would look like?
There are other places, like http://www.powernotebooks.com/ and http://www.xoticpc.com/ that have excellent warranties and deal with all the international stuff so you don't have to. Granted they don't come with linux, but you can order them with no OS.
google for oil field roustabout.

It boils down to being a maintenance man / janitor at an oil drill site. All the weather, some of the danger, cruddy locale, but the pay isn't much better than working plant maint in a factory.

Probably a negative stereotype but roustabouts don't seem to sweat as much as the drill crew. Then again losing life and limb is kind of business as usual for the drill crew (well, its improved over the years...) but its moderately unusual to kill/maim a roustabout.

If you think about it, someone has to be stuck doing minor onsite maintenance. I mean, you're not going to pay the toolpusher $175K/yr to paint over rust, are you?

I had to LOL at the claim you need to live in the Bay Area to learn how to program, or somehow Khan Academy does IP blocking so only bay area folks can watch.

If you need 50K roustabouts to keep the oil flowing, and you teach them to be "CSS developers", then all you're going to do is crash "CSS development" into poverty and not get any oil. I'm not sure there's as much "force" or lack of choice as you think, and selecting a job you don't personally want doesn't make someone less of a person anyway.
HN isn't really a commercial venture. It has some pretty significant benefits for YC, but pg's mostly opposed to trying to grow the site. In fact, he seems to more or less resent the growth that has happened due to the concomitant decline in overall quality.

Even if you were consider only the benefits YC gets from HN (exposure for YC companies, recruiting, and cachet), the benefits to the first from larger crowds are, I'd bet, offset by the slow dispersion of high-value members that has accompanied the drop in quality we've seen over the last couple years.

I'd be willing to bet that HN would probably serve YC's purposes better with 5,000 - 10,000 users than with 50,000 - 100,000.
Most of what he described in the first days could have been caused by fructose withdrawal syndrome.
I commute 30km a day, consuming around 600 kcalories (it's about (0.1 calories per kg per minute for a 70kg adult going 25kmh). Driving would cost me about 21000 kcal (0.7 gallons a day, that is 0.7 * 31000 kcal in a gallon of diesel). So my car is about 36 times less efficient than me.

Do yourself a favour and stop watching fox news.
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The attempt to compare being shown ads to being a slave is the most offensive thing I have read in months.

Aral should be ashamed of himself. He should publicly apologise.
he probably copypasted it from a spreadsheet/calculator that just rounded the decimal.
In a resource/power constrained device, the last thing I want is to have all my apps restricted to a heavy-weight VM. Jolla and Ubuntu both offer native applications.

I haven't used Jolla yet, but I love the gesture based Ubuntu and Blackberry 10 UIs. If Android and iOS don't move in this direction, they will get left behind.
"While they may have unlimited financial resources, I would pit unlimited technical resources and creativity against that any day of the week."

They are the ones with unlimited technical resources. You don't have armed drones nor biological nor nuclear weapons. You are an hostage like everyone else. You might as well accept that fact for now and just enjoy life.
I bought a week's worth of Ensure Complete and was unable to sustain any sort of meal replacement plan on it. Each drink only seemed to alter the 'flavor' of my hunger rather than sate it in any way.
McAfee Anti-Virus more like, ha! Helping prevent trillions of dollars worth of terrorists damage!
If absence of evidence is already enough to convict, the evidence was never realistically required to begin with.
I guess if you ignored the decades of reporting on the NSA and recent items like Echelon, Carnivore, Total Informational Awareness, etc you might be a little surprised. Or the equivalant programs in Germany, France, England, Israel, Australia, Canada, etc that have also surfaced.
Absolutely agree. This is the right way how medium to long block of text should be styled. Except 62ex, not em, IMO.
I was intrigued to find that the link required me to fill out a CAPTCHA to prove that "I'm a human". I wonder what the reason is that programs are disadvantaged from reading the site.
Quite some countries use commas as decimal marks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Countries_using_Ar...
Obama wins peace prize, Obama administration supports spying, Snowden leaks spying, Obama calls Snowden a traitor, Snowden wins peace prize? Wow.
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Agree almost 100%. I do use vim mode for bash and it works great because lateral motion is most of what I'm doing there.

But Sublime's vintage mode actually was the breaking point for me, and made me go whole hog back to vim. Close enough to cause problems when it fails, like faux amis in a foreign language.
What kind of messages get mass-texted by realtors to their clients?
You can add fibre, if you think that's going to help.
Is sapphire glass really better or is it just a fancy sounding gimmick? And what's up with "Silicon-anode Li-ion?" More RAM sounded good to me and the whole ubuntu in your pocket thing also sounds great

As far as I understand, that was the entire point. To see if that stuff was worthwhile in a phone. To push the boundaries. If all that stuff was a gimme, then phones would already have it.
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What language was that typed in?
Being lazy doesn't help either.
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Yes but when you professed such beliefs you were labelled a conspiracy nutter.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't listening.
>to people who didn't know there were existing products

Would you care to link to where people can purchase these existing products? It seems that every time someone makes that claim they are either referring to medical products not available to the public, or to crap like MET-Rx that doesn't provide a complete, balanced micro nutrient profile.
Well, that means a lot to me so, thank you so much!
This is an absurd claim. We've had dry dog food for a long while now; we totally understand enough about nutrition to create complete diet replacements. Humans are more complex, but not orders of magnitude so.

The only reason there isn't any such product in the consumer market is because there's little incentive for it: too commoditized, lots of liability.
I need more than theoretical maximums to tell me this is practical. At what efficiency could it be captured, and at what cost?

If 1 square meter of "thermal panel" were to cost as much as 1 square meter of modern CPU core, and then operate at 1% efficiency, I wouldn't see many practical applications.
They have a lot less low paying jobs full stop. But this is mainly due to, guess what... unions and government intervention!
It's just European without using thousand markers, right?
There is also the so-called Windows Refund [0] for everyone else, but it's an absolute pain in the butt to go through (deliberately so), and ends up costing more in time and hassle for a measly refund.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows#L...
Maybe they don't want to invest their own money in a very competitive market. If they order smaller number of devices their BOM can easily reach the sale price, so $32 millions sound huge sum, but in fact are not.
While not specific to NSA programs, the US gov't at the city, state, and federal levels have targeted political organizations, including infiltrating such organizations and tracking the movements of members in such groups. For examples see the information about spying on leftist groups for the 2004 Republican National Convention or how the NYPD targeted and helped dismantle occupy wall street last year.
Citations please:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rm09tf

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19...
> and we've got one that leaked things in a significant way.

One that leaked to the public (Blew a Whistle). This in no way precludes previous leaks from leaking to

a) Foreign Governments
b) Businesses
c) for Extortion purposes
d) Personal use.
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A vocational school here in Sweden recently started offering a 1 year Cobol degree, ostensibly after demand from the banking and insurance sector.
Why not get straight to the point and call every crime a terrorist act? Then we can have the America that Obama really wants...one where he can order anybody's murder or infinite detention at any time for any reason.
If it was one of the standard Windows file servers, and not a SMB/CIFS appliance, the audit controls are very-detailed and fine-grained from 7/2008 up. Previous audit controls were so. You need to modify which ones you want logged, and then you would need some central sink to log all the Event Log events on all the servers, and review those of interest. I have never worked in an area with that level of paranoia.

However, if NSA contractors are put under the same Federal Desktop Core Configuration requirements [0] at a minimum, I would imagine the client and/or server (if he was required to use Windows) are known, or the NSA contractors are not in compliance.

What they do with that information is another story. That said, any admin could change local policy settings, reboot with the computer, and reconnect it to the domain later. I got clever with such things to disable security policies like those when troubleshooting lab computers. We shall never know how smart/dumb Snowden was and they were.

[0] http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb/microsoft_content.html
Android has very very few global gestures. That was an intentional design decision, with global navigation working through the Back, Home, and Recent buttons. I don't think that is functionally inferior to global gestures, and it makes it possible for apps use use more gestures for app-specific UI.