skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see this! Though I can only think of toys that I'd expect to see on ThinkGeek, like a coffee mug powered by thermoelectricity that would display the temperature of the beverage within, or a plate that could display the name of the food being served on it (updated by swiping the plate across an RFID or NFC pad or something). Would make a great whiteboard too, especially if you could also draw on it with dry erase markers (especially especially if you could then capture the drawing, etc.)
Becoming a refugee is a bad idea. Get a schengen visa, go to a country like Latvia, show them your references, bank statement with decent documented income, open a company (costs 1000-2000 EUR), and get a residence visa. Takes a few months but you can live most of that time on a 90/180 schengen visa, maybe leaving out 1 or max 2 months which you can spend at home or in a non-schengen European country like Cyprus, which is also close to you that helps. Then get your residence visa and go to Germany - that will not be entirely legal (you'll be supposed not to spend outside of a country where you visa is more than half of your time), but with no borders within Schengen, it is hard to check, and if you don't want to get officially hired for a fulltime job in Berlin (which is hardly your intention), you'll have no problem.

You can do that right in Germany, but may take more cash and time, you will always be able to switch a country once your startup gets going and you are more relaxed cash-wise.

And yes, being a refugee sucks. Forget it.
I think everyone is missing the most important point, the one that history teaches. The enormous power surveillance brings (not the least being the fact that a little "creative editing", ala the Nazis, will allow <anyone> to become both interesting and guilty of <something>). With that much power, even if <bad stuff> is not happening now, it will happen sooner or later; and then it will be too late!
From what you are describing, the nexus 4 might be perfect for you. It's only $50 more expensive than this phone, and has addressed most of your concerns.
This is probably good enough for most purposes if the user is somewhat informed.

Always use a new shell for sudo. Always exit that shell when done.
Exactly, sending a handful of unlucky prosecutors to jail for a few decades pour encourager les autres would clearly be worth it on the whole to protect the integrity of the system.
Show HN: GitRap, abusing Git
It is usually ruled that the plaintiffs can't prove standing, meaning they can't prove they were harmed by the behavior. And of course one would probably need access to their raw data to prove standing, so its unlikely that the courts are the way to go. Even if the court does rule that its illegal it is almost impossible to enforce. The FISA court ruled that certain things were not permissible but the NSA did them anyhow.
Etech 7 Announces New Information on Recovery Strategies After IT Failure
I'm disappointed in how Greenwald planned the whole thing. Did he really not expect this to happen - especially in UK? Why didn't he have Miranda delete the files as soon as he gave them to Laura Poitras or whatever he did with them in Germany.

Now, whatever Greenwald wants to release next needs to be done fast, before the governments prepare well crafted rebuttals to whatever he's releasing, because they'll know what he'll release next.
Apple Core Text Rendering Bug Crashes Apps in OS X and iOS
They should definitely add FLAC downloads like bandcamp.
Essential visual statistics: The economy of blogging [review & infographic]
Oh, there's a whole bunch of pre-Church Committee, especially J. Edgar Hoover (died a few years before the former) ... incidents, but the current authorities can and will say they aren't like those abusive folks 4 decades ago.

And in e.g. the case of MLK they were famously unsuccessful. I claim you need atrocities committed upon "victims most will empathize with"; the latter excludes "rioting hippies" and the like, especially after the Weather Underground and company started bombing and killing people.

E.g. I was just past the threshold of becoming politically aware when this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bombing and it shocked and appalled the nation.
TiVo's User Interface Sounds (Beyond The Beep)
That's extremely impressive. Datasources pluggable at runtime, no side-effect guarantee, hot-swapping code...
"Feature phone is a euphemism for dumb phone."

Or the other way around? I prefer the phrase "feature phone". "Dumb phone" sounds unneccesarily derogotary and condescending. Most of the world's population has a "dumb phone".
What is the best format to publish a digital typography magazine?
Nope. Even if this promise were to hold true, I have no intention of supporting such scammy tactics as content cloaking (which I would by implicitly supporting the company which engages in them, thus validating it).
There are a lot of topics discussed on HN. If someone has relevant experience that really changes how the comment should be taken, they can say so in the comment. It doesn't always make sense to believe people on one thing if they have made good comments about some other subject.
Reporters Hate PR People, And They Should
My younger brother speaks amazingly good English, and I actually think he picked it up playing Counterstrike (or some similar game where you can communicate with the other players with a mic and earphones).
In Finland Nokia has announced that the "official" price will be about 115 eur.
The Sonim X3 I am using easily gives me 2 months of the battery life. So 38 days is definitely not a record.

Despite that, this Nokia phone looks really nice, and twice as cheap.
If that was the cost it would be peachy. What we're talking, instead, is about no prosecutor ever being able to do their job because they'd be constantly flooded by litigation claiming that this or the other thing amounted to prosecutorial misconduct.
> The Aldis in Illinois roughly 20 years ago were bottom-barrel discount grocery stores. Poorly maintained and all the produce was very suspicious. I don't know which half of the Aldi empire owned those stores.

All Aldis in the United States are Aldi South. The two Aldis are territorially-exclusive when it comes to the Aldi branding.

Incidentally, Aldi South has a different logo from Aldi North. So you can go to any country with an Aldi and tell which half it belongs to.
I was thinking it would be cool to make an open source digital trading card game based on a bitcoin like protocol to insure card existence and distribution probability. (plus there's the nice circular reference)

I'm sure I'll tinker with this idea eventually, but if anyone would like to collaborate give me a buzz. I'll spin up a repo and get the ball rolling.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn't Think Elon Musk's SpaceX Will Put People On Mars
Well, that big screen, fast multicore SOC and huge memory aren't powered by wishful thinking...
The hot-swapping is very new and experimental, but if facebook has a need then Simon Marlow definitely has the capability bring that back to GHC core. He's already stated at least some of the hot swapping will make it.
sp332, it seems that I cannot nest another comment again.

Don't you think that your conclusion means that the Karma system on HN is fundamentally flawed?
Thats why most people plead guilty and don't go to court.
You can export/import views as XML or CSV. The generated XML is UTF-8 encoded and it only has three element types in total for the cells and rows so the structure of the file isn't complicated at all.
"Easy" is in the eye of the beholder. "Close tab" is even easier to do; and very little of Internet's content is actually unique (as in "cannot be obtained from a non-scummy site").
"you deal" by remapping the keys, right ?

right ?

are you going to let a keyboard tell you what to do ?
Having learned English, French, German, Polish, Spanish and Portoguese I am ready to share my secret to the world: read comics.
They are the only written form of the colloquial language, the one you'll need mostly.
Literally 100% of what you learn in a comic will be useful in your daily life.
Read a novel and this drops to probably 50%, read a newspaper and it's even worse.
Nobody speaks like a book or a newspaper.
We speak like comics.

P.S.
I learned those while living in those countries, so I was exposed to the spoken language too. Plus, comics worked for me, they won't work for everybody.
At the end the real trick is to try several methods and find the one which suits you best.
Wat are tech companies going to do about that?
Microsoft and Google to sue government over transparency
I own lots of books. I still buy books. I prefer to read books. e-readers have never won my heart.

If I were still in university I would maybe preferred those text books all be in digital form so I can carry less. However, that was long-ish ago.

still have all my old programming books and find it a lot easier to flip back to things.

30 yrs old; don't care for e-readers.
I'm wondering why he thinks governments are inherently better suited to execute frontier-like missions. Is it because of the incentive structure? Isn't a government in a sense something like a big company or am I being naive here?
Looking to discard a bunch of paper books a few years ago, I discovered that local libraries often do not particularly want donations of books, and if they do, they have particular requirements of what they might want. E.g., if they accept anything at all, they might accept a novel in good condition, but probably not a first edition of "Just Java".
The one issue I've already had with RPN is that you require a separator between numbers anyways - in RPN it's too easy to parse "23 4 +" as "2 34 +", for example, especially if you're writing quickly.
I might not understand what the Datastore API is for, but if I wanted to make a simple app that could sync to Word Docs between to clients, would these .doc files get represented in this database structure (tables, records and values)? Is that data structure just for example purposes?

How would this algorithm handle changes to the same text file? Is the file a record, and each row considered a value in that record?

EDIT: Looks like this API is only for "structured data like contacts, to-do items, and game state."
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore
You can't have official legal "findings" until you institute a law suit . . .

You can have official legal findings whenever the system says you can have official legal findings. One option would be to close the loop and have the system prosecute itself (plenty of precedent). There are others.

Reinforcing the reliability of the system directly reinforces the legitimacy of the state's monopoly on violence - and that's an exceedingly big deal. Perhaps the cost-benefit analysis doesn't fall out in that direction, but I'm wary of that idea without a lot of evidence to back it up.
That's roughly the same price point as Nokia's dumbest smartphone, the Lumia 520, which is significantly more fully featured. The point really must be simplicity, not price.
I really wonder if that would directly apply. The most relevant case law I'm familiar with didn't use it, although that was complicated by the Feds requiring state government agents to do things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printz_v._United_States
That's why we have add-ons like NoScript for Firefox (or the similar NotScripts for Chrome) that let you selectively white-list JavaScript from just the sites you need. Even if some site requires JavaScript to load, it almost surely doesn't require JavaScript hosted from Facebook or Twitter or Google Analytics to be functional.
Welcome To Consumerism (Stuff Stuff Money Money Stuff Stuff TV Advert)
I don't see any reason why it's worse than running a binary installer, and people seem to object to that a lot less for some reason.
FinFisher range of attack tools
He isn't working with the Hs group at Facebook?
See also: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/west-allis-man-indicted-o...

It would appear that governments are able to somewhat efficiently bruteforce TrueCrypt volumes and access a little bit of data at a time. I couldn't get anyone interested in this article, but I would also like to know what's going on here. If a TrueCrypt volume can be broken for a small-time case of a child porn possession, that would seem to have dramatic ramifications for the security of pretty much everything in the world.

Unless RSA is still solid and it's just TrueCrypt.

Can any crypto experts comment?
This makes a lot of sense. Someone should be an easy GUI to create lightweight Facebook apps like the Meetup apps the author talks about. (Maybe this exists. I've never developed for Facebook.)
Facebook Giftcard Scams? HiJacking Brands on Facebook? (BEST BUY, TARGET, APPLE)
The problem with assessing the statement is that it went through multiple people who don't have first hand knowledge of the actual incident, and who don't have a technical understanding of what they are even talking about. Details are subtle but they matter.
Poe's law FTW
True. Perl-style regexes have grown capabilities far beyond regexes in formal language theory. Note that I was referring to DFAs.
If you're right, then why do you have to resort to attacking the motivations of the other speaker to win?

Because in this case I happen to actually know the motivations of both parties. PG's motivation is to help founders. The press's motivation is to drive traffic.
Avid physical book reader, particularly for anything professionally related. For me, there is no substitute for a physical book. They are extremely durable, inexpensive, reliable, allow me to write in them (e.g. corrections and ideas), highlight in different colors, can be set on a book holder next to me for reference while coding, be easily shared, be easily gifted, can have several open at once for reference, last longer than I have been alive, etc. There is a beauty in their simplicity and barebones functionality.

TL;DR Give me physical books or give me death.
So some journalist writing an article should constitute legal findings that can trigger a lawsuit?
Thanks. You can contact me through main menu in app (gear at top right).

UPDATE: My cofounder has just found the bug and deployed a fix. Refresh and it shouldn't happen again.
Apparently he had the password written down, and there were instructions and a key on the disk, according to various stories. Seems like Snowden gave them the key or something it seems odd.
The OS is not 14-year-old but actually the newest reiteration of S40 which has no problems running Whatsapp, native Facebook apps, Exchange support et cetera. It is not a dumb phone but a feature phone. The OS still has its raw edges here and there[0], but it is anything but old or dated.

[0] I tried it for a week or so on a Nokia 301 and an example of a raw edge is that when using the music player and you accidentally remove the head phones, the music continues over the phone its speaker immediately. It should pause instead.
They said on the news that he had the password written down on a piece of paper (which was also seized / found during the search). I don't think there's any mystery here.
Budgeting your life of books
I'd like more info on your learning adventure. When you spent "one hour per feature" -- how much experience di you have prior? And what did you use to learn from for each feature -- what was the most valuable tool used?

I am doing a similar thing.
Thanks.

Also, just now I was seeing other people's cards showing up in my tree. When I switched trees, it corrected itself.
Are there any dumbphones that have 4G hotspot tethering as a feature? I'm not that interested in all the extra stuff that comes in the smart phone package, but being able to tether my laptop or tablet is really useful to me.
I hadn't considered that at all. You are right, I have heard of this before. That one is even under oath.
The problem everyone had with expertsexchange was most definitely not ads and popups.
Yeah, buggy and unstable and just hangs when you throw large quantities of small files at it.
Your edit is correct. To sync files, you would use the Core API or Sync API.

(https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core and https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync)
Yeah, I highly doubt they will target users' endpoints (mostly because the ease and largely unreported nature of fiddling/requesting data from ISPs)

No matter where the data ends up being stored, if it has to GO somewhere, and you are the man in the middle everywhere, things start getting a lot easier to track.
I agree. I am always amazed by, say Swedish's people English (no dubbed) compared to Italian/Spanish/French (dubbed).
Leaked German gov docs claim Win8 backdoor big enough to drive a bus through
You misinterpreted my statement. I meant to emphasize "even if," my point being that even the level of technical knowledge and experience he had in 1987 should easily qualify him to have intelligent technical conversations about the iPhone.
Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries [pdf]
FriendCode is great with the HTML previewer plugin : https://friendco.de/
Twitter General Counsel Leaves as Company Prepares to Go Public
What's worse than visualizations that make no sense is visualizations that are good at misrepresenting data.

Example:

http://themonkeycage.org/2013/01/08/how-2012-stacks-up-the-w...
Police storm homeschool class, take children by force
A vote for Bill Gates as interim Microsoft CEO
We could not have a central signing authority (ie. use ssh-style approach). This would still mean that Facebook could hand over their key, but would not leave the whole thing wide open as it is now since the NSA likely has already captured the private keys of major certificate authorities.
Interesting. You can root a nook, root, load your ebooks through android apps, enjoy eink, with some privacy? Also, turn off wifi and load the ebooks through memory card.
If one believes the report of the NY Times, I'd doubt that hewould have left traces of files left on the computer they took with them, the article explicitly mentions Poitras (who Miranda alegedly had met in Berlin) wiping harddrives completely before crossing borders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...

Also, with TrueCrypt (or any other well-designed full disk encryption software) I'd not expect single files to be discovered, it should be either all or nothing.
That article provides no suggestion whatsoever that the government is able to efficiently bruteforce truecrypt. I think everyone can agree that if any part of the government had better-than-brute force capabilities for truecrypt, the FBI would absolutely not be allowed to disclose or make use of that capability in a child porn case.

More likely explanations: Forensics recovered the password from an unencrypted volume, or he had a really dumb password, and he probably reused it somewhere.
Just to avoid any confusion: The words are Bill Watterson's. The artwork is Gavin Aung Than's, although clearly a homage to Calvin and Hobbes. What a beautiful combination!
With a little bit of context, the 3D elevation plot actually makes a lot of sense: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/haiti20101014img.h...

It turns out it's like a continuous contour plot (showing deformation from a Haitian earthquake). Thanks to Google image search, such poorly documented images can be traced back to their source - and context! - quite quickly. This one was on the first page of results.
Emacs plugin you say? I would love to see someone create an emulator-dev minor mode that would take a code project like is defined in the emacs-project-mode and create a disk image that could be loaded by a target emulator.

Ideally it could be set up to configure and launch an emulator which would then build the code tree with the platform's native development tools (if needed).

Here's a concrete example:

1. Use emacs to write an AppleSoft BASIC program, myfile.txt"
2. C-x <run-on-emulator>
3. Automatically create a *.dsk file image, with the following files
a) PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM installed
b) a STARTUP program that executes the file, i.e.
10 PRINT $CHR(4);"-MYFILE.TXT"

4. Create (for example) a linapple configuration file to load this DSK image
5. Start the emulator
I've owned other types of businesses and getting bookkeeping done on a regular basis seems very expensive for what needs done. I always thought it would be nice to be able to fax/email my bank statements/recipets to service which tracked my financials. but, everywhere I look they want around $200/mo. for maybe 150 transaction a month. but if I wait until the end of the year and have it all done at once its like $3-400.
If you don't want a data plan, a 38-day battery life is damn appealing.
It's all very confusing so no point rushing to any conclusions.

The Register writes:

"the government says that Miranda was actually carrying a piece of paper with a decryption password written on it. This allowed the police to read at least some of the files he was carrying." [1]

While Greenwald just tweeted:

"Anyone claiming that David Miranda was carrying a password that allowed access to documents is lying. UK itself says they can't access them."[2]

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/30/snowden_journos_boyf...

[2] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/373451644794449922
yes, k2pdfopt does a great job of making PDFs readable on Kindles, etc.
Google acquired WIMM Labs to bolster its own smartwatch plans
For all his discussion about "strong foreign accents" being a big weakness, it is interesting that pg doesn't seem capable of recognizing his own huge weaknesses (and almost all of the 200+ comments - particularly the top-ranked ones - seem to miss that too)

1. At best, pg badly miscommunicated what he was trying to say. He could have just said something like 'founders who cannot communicate well' or 'founders who can't be understood' etc. - but he chose specifically to refer to "strong foreign accents".

Arguably, some Americans might find it easier to understand some foreign accents (strong British accents, some Indian accents etc) than some American accents (e.g. some rural southern accents). More to the point, some folks with foreign accents can speak much better English and articulate their ideas (and make themselves understood) much better than many people speaking in a mainstream American accent. However, pg chose to use the "strong foreign accent" criterion instead of the more correct "communicate well" criterion.

2. imo a stubborn refusal to acknowledge mistakes/errors is a big weakness and pg is demonstrating that weakness with passive-aggressive pushbacks like the one on Twitter "Don't say things people want to misunderstand."

Sorry, I think pg's statement was either blatantly wrong or badly expressed/communicated, but that doesn't amount to me being a part of the alleged "looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended patrol" that one of the commenters below talks about. pg (and his defenders on hn) will be better served by trying to understand the criticism instead of making up false motives for the critics of his statement.

<edit> Ten minutes after I posted the comment, it was at 3 points. Thirty minutes later, it was at ZERO points, one hour later at -1 :) In addition to showing the net-points for each comment, I wish HN also showed the total number of upvotes and downvotes each comment receives.
IMHO, racism and prejudice are a drop of water in the ocean that is peoples' drive to make money and justify/secure their careers.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
I wonder if general tests of written and verbal communication skills would show the same correlation. I often notice poor word choices, confusing sentence structure, and pretty obvious typos in many of the blog posts that show up on HN. Some of these people are founders. I wonder if their companies suffer due to these sorts of errors (or perhaps they just proofread business communications better).