skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what makes the security theater so annoying--it's clear that there are a dozen ways to stage a successful attack were one so inclined, none of which would be stopped or even slowed by our current (or any forseeable) measure.

Yes, but not a very large-scale one. You might like to consider that stuff like the NSA is also part of the security theater; the ambiguity over just what it is listening to, combined with the perception that it has a universal reach, primarily benefits the US in that it keeps antagonists awake at night worrying about the security of their own networks.

I think people need to realize that the number of Bad People in the world is really small, and that they shouldn't give up freedoms in hopes of somehow decreasing their exposure.

True, but it's also unrealistic to be indifferent to an obvious danger. I neither want nor intend to use the fire extinguisher in the corner of my kitchen, but I don't consider its purchase to be a waste of money.

Large state and private groups are much more harmful, especially because they turn Not Bad People into Annoyingly Inconvenient And Impersonally Malicious People.

I don't really agree with this - it's a retread of Rousseau's 'noble savage' theory. Of course, some people get radicalized is response to western actions, but some people are bigoted assholes to start with. Recall that one of Bin Laden's primary beefs was that the US had a military base on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia (by Islamic standards), and this was just intolerable. Disapproving of US military installations on your non-US soil is entirely reasonable, blowing people up over it is not. Although the US had hand tangles with AQ before 9-11 (eg the USS Cole bombing, among others), the western response had been quite restrained, indeed proportionate. I don't think it's the inherent fault of the west that AQ is built upon an a reactionary and quite absolutist religious viewpoint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutbism).

Now, I do think that when you consider Islam is ~1400 years old and look at where Christianity was at a similar stage in its history, it might well be that schisms, reformation, and sectarian violence are just stages that you would expect Islamic society to go through; but that doesn't impose any obligation on us to accept the role of punching bag.

I don't share your belief that scale is the problem, and if we just keep everything local and avoid the formation of large states or corporations we'd have peace.
Smart marketing agencies can take a dead-end brand that's perceived as low price or low quality, then socially market it to young hipsters and get them (and their friends) to like/follow it as a way to signal to their friends that they don't care about marketing or signalling and that they "get it", and thus in the process drive a renaissance for aforementioned product due to its newly found trendy fanbase.
Thanks, I'll research that further later.
I haven't ever seen a paper/foil packaged kitkat. I think i missed out on something.
Unfortunately the Chromecast is so locked down you can't compare them.
The compile/build works fine now (check out my commits).

However what does not yet work is booting the image with Qemu.
So you're making networked mobile robots that can send data back to a central server?
Ask HN: Should I stay in London or move to San Francisco?
Current designer and frontend dev here with a life changing decision to make in the next few days.

Current setup: Working for a fintech startup in London making £24k with no equity. Below market wage but I love my team and they're helping me work on my backend skills. Free training and a supportive environment.

Have a job offer for a consumer space photo sharing app in SF making $46k with 1.0% equity. Will be doing full stack dev - but unsure if I'll get the same level of support. But SF is def the place to be in our industry.

Moving isn't a hassle, but I'm torn between the two. I realize this is tough for others to comment on but any amount of insight that could help me make a decision would be greatly appreciated.
This deal with KitKat may well set the precedent for that to happen! In fact, wouldn't be surprised if the marketing/branding folks at M & M and other candy manufacturers are already thinking along these lines.
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I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired an intern through these threads. These things do work!
> If I use an IP:Port proxy server to connect to the internet, I'm aware that the destination server (website) doesn't exactly know it's me, but can my ISP know what site I went to?

Yes, of course. And if your proxy server pattern is in any way predictable, and in particular if you ever visit a site where you need to sign in, then they have everything -- who you are, and where you went.

Also, a proxy server doesn't undermine cookie tracking. The cookie scheme doesn't care what your IP is, only that you have the right cookies, so this undermines the goal of anonymity.

Also, if for the sake of argument you encrypt everything, and if later on the police want to know what actually happened, they can try to force you to unencrypt your communications (or grant permission for experts to do so). In a recent landmark case, the police tried to make a child pornography suspect provide a password to unencrypt what might have been incriminating files of alleged child pornography. This effort ultimately failed (and the police decrypted the drives by brute force), but it indicates the direction things are going.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/feds-crack-encrypte...

> Lastly, if my ISP can actually see what I'm doing, is there a way to hide from them (e.g. does connecting through an HTTPS proxy hide what I do)?

There are intermediaries that scramble your transactions, encrypt them, so the content cannot be monitored. Others randomly route your traffic in such a way that it becomes very difficult to trace. Here's one example:

https://www.torproject.org/

As to https, it's a suitable level of encryption for everyday matters, but it's not unbreakable, so if there's anything that might come back to bite you, don't rely on it.
Yes, but if you want to do something about global warming it'd be a lot smarter to keep the nuclear power stations running and take coal plants offline instead. Nuclear power has a spotty safety record overall, and the consequences of a mistake can be acutely disastrous, but coal is likewise a chronic disaster.
What are your early financial tips? Should I start a 401K
An ADP Retirement service broker dealer connected to an office I'm interning at came to talk to the employees that have been here for a while about a simple IRA which had been set up for them.
Are there any financial tips you can give, both short-term and long-term, for a college student/graduate?
Kindle Paperwhite now available on Amazon UK for £109
>>>> Exactly, smartphones were relatively rare before 2005

Actually DoComo pretty much made the smartphone what it is today. Japan was selling "smartphones" way back in 2001. It was the incredible revenues they generated that got the attention of US carriers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1835821.stm
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree with the angry tone of the piece. That part is fine - IMO the opportunity for sober, quiet debate about sexism in IT has sailed.

We work in an industry where blatant sexism can be seen around every corner, and yet every time it is (politely, respectfully, intelligently) brought up the overwhelming community response has been deplorable.

We work in an industry where a large portion of the population does not believe sexism is a real, substantial problem. I think getting angry is about all anyone's got left.

That said, that's not the "off the rails" part I was referring to. Discrimination is, despite the common lay narrative, not frequently about hating anyone, it's about treating individuals by the (alleged) characteristics of some class they belong to. It's about treating someone based on Asian stereotypes if they're Asian, or female stereotypes if they're women, etc etc.

It is an incredibly suffocating environment to be in, where every corner you turn you must first prove "I am more than your mental construct of my class" before you can be treated like an individual.

So it would be doubly hypocritical for those of us fighting these injustices to engage in the same. "White male" is stereotyped with "bigot", but we need not engage in persisting these stereotypes, and we need not paint individuals with large brushes based on the alleged transgressions of their (involuntarily chosen!) groups. This is, after all, exactly what is frequently done to us. The off the rails part is the repeated use of "White male" as a synonym for bigotry and intolerance.
> I don't think it would matter how cheap it is.

The level of crime (and particularly, the level of violent and organized crime) surrounding alcohol jumped up sharply with prohibition, and dropped back down with the end of prohibition. I don't see why you'd expect that to be any different for any other drug.

> Even at a dollar a hit a jobless person tends to need to steal to get that dollar, in addition to money for food.

If its legal, a person has less social pressure to not to admit use, and therefore there are less social pressures against them admitting their problem and seeking treatment before being compelled to as a consequence of criminal activity.

Further, when becoming involved with a substance as a user makes you a criminal and violator of societies rules, there is less holding you to observe those rules once you have decided to violate them in the first place.
> people who get frustrated with recent attention to surveillance because "Of course this is going on, haven't you heard of Room 641A? I've been talking about this for years!

> Grrr, I am upset that I am no longer unique for my suspicions."

The first part is entirely true, but the second part is a misplaced caricature. If one wasn't operating with this threat model pre-Snowden, they mustn't have been analyzing the situation too hard.

The people who saw the Snowden revelations as inevitable had to endure being buzzkills for the past several years while everyone else leaped at the chance to party with the "cool kids" as geeks entered the limelight. It was clear that Apple's/Facebook's/Twitter's advances were primarily in the marketing department, but it was easy to ignore this to avoid being negative when you're finally gaining long-craved social acceptance.

Now that the herdthink has shifted towards privacy, we're seeing the same wishful marketing being applied to a lot of non-solutions to privacy (encrypting servers like Lavabit, remote code like Hushmail, facades of anonymity like Bitcoin, etc), when the reality is that solving (as opposed to merely obfuscating) these problems is extremely hard and any solution requires users to start taking a modicum of responsibility for their computing environment. But lowest-common-denominator faux solutions cannot address this inconvenient truth, so they give people the illusion of doing something while wasting away this iteration's outrage.
Amazon press release relating to Kindle MatchBook
In case people aren't paying attention, this is at the bottom of the screen:

> *Not actually a real device or price. See dreams for details.

It's a parody, folks.
Portugual decriminalized drug use and saw decreases in drug-related crime, increased addiction program enrollment, decreased youth use of drugs, decreased drug-related deaths, and decreased HIV infection rates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
No, in the US they're made by Hershey. Elsewhere its Nestlé.
Boeing moves advanced concepts engineering to California
Journey is such an incredible game. I remember how amazed I was when I first started to play it. I couldn't put the controller down.

I would highly recommend you also check out Flower, if you liked Journey. It's made by the same company: http://thatgamecompany.com/games/
The TSA is an aberration of risk aversion, so Schneider's point still stands.
> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win

It was possible to do this before the changes rolled out. Shift-compose opened it (still does) in a new window, and you could work with it and your mailbox side-by-side.
Ah, thanks, HTML is very un-intuitive, you have to know the behavior of each element
> You would intensify the pursuit of criminal prosecution of people who find themselves addicted to prescription painkillers?

No, rehab for them and all other people addicted to hard drugs. I'd seek criminal prosecution against the pushers who knew or should've known the drugs hurt much more than they help.
Mind if I pass on the link to your comment to a friend of mine who might be interested (and isn't precommitted to grad-school right now like I am)?
hehe, that's true for now. xD

Thanks!
I'm a hardcore "real book" lover, but the Paperwhite is definitely as good as they make it look. I leave it on the lowest backlight setting available and it works fantastic in all lighting situations.
I came here to say this. When the market places a crazy value on your stock price, it behooves you to take advantage if you really have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value.

Same principle as buying up your shares on the cheap if the market beats them down unwisely.
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It would be awesome, if they weren't charging you for something you already purchased.
> Relative poverty is still poverty.

Given that the experience disutility of poverty seems to be driven more by relative deprivation than absolute deprivation, its arguably that relative poverty is actually the more important kind to address, from a utilitarian perspective.
Downvotes aren't for disagreement here. Comments are

That's not true. PG has said the opposite many times.

Commenting is for when one has something to say.
The 2 finger multi-packs (x8) have them, sold in Tesco and probably the other large supermarkets, I ate one (for the first time in a long time) yesterday and it was paper + tinfoil + delicious.
By the way, this was the original announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-Sept...

I love how "20" only got 1 vote;)
Court: Federal Law Allows Lying in TSA-Related FOIA Requests
Wonder if the success of this tie-up may start a new marketing/branding trend? That is more companies may start doing cross-brand tie ups among non-competing products.
> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload

If only someone had invented a windowing GUI.

My main issues, now I've set the default to fullish screen, is it's more like Outlook: editing the To/CC fields is annoying, and it wants you to always quote the entire email.

I await a Chrome extension to let me live in the past with people who knew how to use computers.
Chromecast is a closed platform.

https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/ZeHgRXS6...
There are SheevaPlug variants with two RJ45s.
Do you know a lot of meth users? I've known a few who held down jobs. And then there is every person who takes Adderall. Personally, I've taken Adderall for more than a decade, and found it easier to hold down a job with it than before.
You... don't have to hold an eReader up? One of the worst things about reading ebooks on my iPad 2 is the weight.
Good concept, poor execution. The UI is terrible, but what's worse is that the code sample is not sufficient to differentiate the huge swath of Algol-derived languages. This is much like the impossibility of distinguishing all of the vaguely cyrillic baltic languages in the human language game posted earlier.

In the "Identify a Language Game" Game, this one loses. Sorry!
So it's USB 2.0? That's half duplex anyway, so no way are you going to get 470mb/sec out of it. Max is probably around 423.
It's beyond hilarious that blog posts about app developers doing annoying things to make money are totally welcome on HN, and typically spark comments rabble-rousing towards the goal of making a "Developer's Professional Ethics Code."

It's hilarious because in every thread about every piece of surveillance infrastructure that ratchets the United States irreversibly towards totalitarianism, there are complaints that this is political and inappropriate for Hacker News.

You want a tech startup hook on every Snowden leak? 1984-tech is probably a great field for entreperneurial minded hackers. Too many people are stuck disrupting laundry and taxicabs! Think big, and disrupt democracy. Change the way people cling to power.

All of the surveillance state's gear is software, written by developers. Just think: you could be one of those developers! Get your piece of the pie, and talk about it on HN. There's a whole world of posts there:

- Best ways to monitor mobile use patterns while minimizing app footprint?

- What database should I store the entire world's email in?

- Ask HN: I'm a founder of a spying SaaS platform -- how can I launder "black money" from intelligence agencies?

- Ask HN: What Saudi telecos are hiring hackers to help them spy on their people?

Just remember to pitch a fit every time the mobile equivalent of a popup ad gets blogged about. Because those developers are giving us all a bad name, damn it.
When my own kid was very young I was paranoid about touching him in public. It didn't stop me, but I was mindful of it, and I would occasionally feel I was getting extra scrutiny by some parent; a man not at work in the daytime, holding a young boy's hand.

Feh.
I don't agree that Twitter has the same benefits. If anything, I feel that it enables ever more glib, insensitive comments from trolls. It's hard to argue with a one-liner.

However, with respect to Journey, I fully agree. Fantastic piece of work in many ways.
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Kali Linux on Android
And the built in couchdb management web server looks very elegant. It's important to have the tools that we live in front of for so much of our lives to look great, add energy and enhance concentration.
and it isn't blocked by AdBlock
Of course not. But they're still much more resilient.
Haha good lord no. I doubt either party would be in any way interested.
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>>It's not as if these companies couldn't just move their headquarters off-shore to avoid the issue altogether.

Which is always the risk when you call for something like the parent wants.

Huge companies, like Microsoft, have offices all over the world. Microsoft has about equal numbers of workers, and revenue, inside and outside the US. The same could be said for Apple. That makes the US a huge market, and it makes sense they are based there. But if being based in the US put them at a disadvantage in the rest of the world (e.g. they had to pay tax twice), it is likely they would move, at least notionally.

There is a big problem with companies that don't pay tax anywhere, or nominate very low tax countries. A coffee company in Europe famously buys coffee cheap with a subsidiary in a low tax country, then sells it to its other business units for so much that those units claim to run at a loss. No coffee ever passes through its small but extremely profitable office in the low tax country. That's annoying, as it puts the burden of subsidizing welfare salary top ups for its underpaid workers on me.

To suggest a solution - The answer here is to tax sales in the country the buyer is in, rather than taxing profit. Sure, it'll kill some low margin companies, but the overall economy will work better because it won't be so skewed by how easily a particular industry can dodge tax. I suspect financial services would do particularly badly.

In terms of this merger, if the tax was on transactions between companies (and I think it should be, though smaller), if Microsoft France funded the deal, it should pay tax in France.
UK Parliament registers almost 300k web porn bids in a year
By the same logic, the price of food should correlate to the number of crimes committed to obtain it. But far more is spent on food than drugs, and most theft is to buy drugs, so something is different.

The difference is that normal people work at jobs to obtain money for food, but serious drug addicts are incapable of working a regular job and so have to steal to support their drug habit (and for their food as well).

So in fact, crime is proportional to how much drugs interfere with ability to hold a job.
Why not just support both? As a savvy user I can choose SMS-only without ever letting Google anywhere near my shared secret.

Or I can implement or build from source a TFA app I trust and use that.

I really hate sites that support TFA and don't support authentication apps as I have very poor phone service at both my home and place of work and hence SMS is a frustrating experience for me.
I dont think it is actually USB2, just a similar speed bus. But it is a bit annoying - some tests here http://boundarydevices.com/i-mx6-ethernet/
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>> The market of these kinds of devices is booming

It certainly seems to be... I'm curious about who the typical buyer is. Is it primarily hobbyists or are real product applications being served with them?