skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your so called counter-argument, the one that you repeatingly kept asking a reply for is not a counter-argument at all. It is illogical of you to think of it as such. That's why: you and US propose an action with an obscure goal and of obscure scope. Actually, not even an action, but a first step of an obscure sequence of actions the second step of which is unknown. Furthermore, there is no concrete statements or documents that allow us to link the proposed action (however obscure it may be) to the proposed goal (however obscure it may be).

It is logically impossible to argue against something that is so ill-defined. It is the same thing as to logically argue about the unstated intentions of a person or unstated wills of a person.

What we can do, and that is what I did, is to draw a framework in which the possible action is taking place, whatever forms it may take (and that is harder and requires much more effort than debunking something faulty, but concrete). And argue for or against alleged possible forms and alleged possible goals of the alleged action in the boundaries that are set by the framework in which the action is taking place.

My main point is, therefore, that in the current context the action can lead to a catastrophe, much more fierce than the consequences of Bashar-Al-Assad staying in power. Semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit. It is up to you and to US to provide the proof that US actions would lead to the better outcome for the Syrian people. However obvious you and US would like to portray it, you would have hard time to make your case.

!!!There is nothing, I repeat, nothing self-evident about the statement that the bombings would eventually lead to less civilian suffering and deaths.!!!

As lot's of experts and officials see it, the bombings could lead to orders of magnitude more suffering and deaths that it is possible to attribute to actions of Bashar-Al-Assad, or theoretically possible to attribute to him in the future.

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I have not described any single conspiracy theory. I am really disappointed that you didn't follow the footnotes, because all of my significant statements are supported either by official documents or by statements made by officials, or articles by big media. PLEASE, PLEASE, stop attributing to me things that I have never said. All that I said is that I'm skeptical about assessment made by HRW in this particular case. If you would've followed my footnotes, there are direct sourced statements by US SENATORS THAT HAVE SEEN THE COMPLETE CLASSIFIED "PROOF" THAT STATE THAT THE PROOF IS FAULTY. THE STATEMENTS BY UK HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS THAT SAY THAT THE CHEMICAL ATTACK ATTRIBUTION TO ASSAD IS NOT PROVEN. STATEMENTS BY UK HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS THAT SAY THAT THE BOMBINGS COULD LEAD TO HUMANITARIAN DISASTER ON A GRAND SCALE.
The video says they used the PatchMatch algorithm for the background fill, and a quick search reveals that PatchMatch was developed in 2009 in association with Adobe and later incorporated into Photoshop CS5.
If you can get people to admit defeat without shame or guilt, they'll quite happily concede.

You may not have any interest in those restrictions on communication, but you'd have an easier time getting someone to admit their ignorance.
> the site that you're authenticating with doesn't get any further details beyond your e-mail address

But Mozilla's servers (or the email provider, but I don't expect to see any significant uptake of this feature) get information in the HTTP requests, whether they like it or not, and they're based in the US.
Bill Gates plans to teach Australian man's history course in schools worldwide
I recommend Sleepfaring by Prof Jim Horne.

http://www.amazon.com/Sleepfaring-Journey-through-Science-Sl...

Reading it can put you to sleep, but there's interesting stuff there. Some highlights, off the top of my head:

1) 'Coffee naps' are effective - i.e. if you're really tired and have to stay awake, drink a coffee quickly and nap for 15 minutes or so.

2) If you are sleep deprived, you only have to make up a fraction (I think it was something like 1/4) of the lost sleep - not the entire amount. It's easy to sleep too much.

3) If you can't sleep, instead of tossing and turning it might be better to simply get up and do a boring routine activity (e.g. puzzles), until you get tired again.

YMMV etc. - sleep is still not that well understood.
My impression is that the edX codebase is not so good; google intends to fix that.
You always have to read it like "2/3 of male psychology students admit to watching porn..."
So you want to be a consultant
It's definitely in line with what Persona does. After all, Persona evolved from the "Verified Email Protocol" (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol).

Right now, our fallback identity provider (for email providers without native support) requires that people set a password to avoid having to confirm their email every time. However, we're currently exploring the idea of making the password optional and letting users click an email link at every login, just like the author of that article suggests.

I don't think it works for everyone, for example some people read their email on a different device, but it would certainly work for those who always keep their webmail open in a tab.
And if your BMI is over 23, or you ever have been teased about snoring, have a sleep study done to check for apnea
This is very important: women founders and leaders are stepping up and speaking up. The OP is spot on that sexism is worth dismantling. Kudos.
I'm not going to say that your fingerprints won't fall into the wrong hands, but it's incredibly simple to monitor network traffic from the device, and it's a guarantee someone will do this just to see.

It's also a guarantee that Apple knows this, so why bother lying?
What if I've never been to the US? I'm sorry, I don't follow your "logic".
I don't think you have understood the point of a sunrise alarm clock. The reason they turn on gradually is to simulate sunrise, which makes it the most comfortable way for your body to wake up.

I don't know about you, but when I'm sleeping in a dark room and someone suddenly turns on a bright light, I hate it.
"I don't know why other comments are being so snarky or dismissive and apologetic in response to this."

Because if you didn't already know what the FSF thought about <closed source software> you are the cancer killing HN by upcritically upvoting this (along with every NSA comment in every thread not remotely related to the NSA).

"The FSF have made a very astute observation"

No they haven't. They've made the same observation they always make -- closed is bad, proprietary is bad.
> Or a large proportion are browsing incognito.

How many people really use incognito mode? How many people (outside the unrepresentative minority that frequent Hacker News) even know about the feature?

I don't have the data to back it up, but my guess would be that incognito mode doesn't really throw off the numbers in practice.
Streaming. There is no reason to carry a complete copy of your music/video library around with you. If you think there is, the iPod Classic is made for you :)
Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya
Cost of employee time might be lower, but cost of just about everything else is the same or higher. More training & quality control is necessary.
Best iPhone commercial I have seen so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIWez9HAbA
...sometimes your email provider could temporarily be on some block list

For the most part I consider email to be unreliable. There are simply too many things that can go wrong. I'm also amazed that there hasn't been some kind of messaging protocol to replace the damn thing (throw it on top of http even). I guess spam really ruined it for everyone.
The point about it being efficient because you're only changing one element doesn't sound correct. If you change the styles on the page, the browser is at least going to have to iterate over all of the items with the searchable class (assuming that it doesn't build some sort of index). If you did it in JS, you could try to make it more efficient by indexing the data first.
> Sorry, no specific demographic is being "silenced" here. If you think that men are being silenced, well, why are you able to speak?

The verb "silence" is not restricted to scenarios in which someone is rendered literally incapable of speech. It never has been.

> Always been, hm? So they were privileged when they were denied suffrage until less than 100 years ago? They were privileged when they were denied admission to some of the country's top universities until just 30 years ago?

Definitely. The members of the anti-suffrage movement, both men and women, pointed to those female privileges as the primary reason women shouldn't be allowed an equal say in setting the course of government.

> Awful generous of you to round down to "no one." If no one cares, why have you heard about it? Wouldn't people who don't care not be writing articles about it? There are plenty of people who care, who are concerned about this, who write about it and worry about it. That's not "no one" caring.

You got me. There aren't literally zero people who care about the myriad of ways men are disadvantaged to women. Unfortunately, there are close to literally zero people with power who seem care about men's issues, which is why society allocates an outrageously disproportionate amount of attention, money, time, and energy toward women's issues.

> However, despite all of that, there are many fewer women in technology, and fewer still are programmers. Just because there might be other biases in other fields, doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about biases and harassment in our own.

Agreed, but we need to realize that attention, money, time, and energy aren't limitless.

> You sound fairly threatened and insecure; it sounds like you're worried that women might do better than you at technology

Cut it out.

I'm not worried about myself at all. Like many of us, from a young age, I make more money than I'll ever know what do with. I have a growing a set of skills that are almost guaranteed provide me with gainful employment for my entire life.

I'm worried about the men at the bottom of society who are always marginalized by feminist policing and hand-wringing.

Feminists always point to the top of society, notice that there are more men than woman, then use that as evidence that men are more privileged.

However, they never point to the bottom of society, notice that there are more men than women, then use that as evidence that women are more privileged.

Never, never, never.

That's because they have a particular agenda. And that's fine. But it's also fine for people like me to point out that we are allocating an outrageously disproportionately amount of attention, money, time, and energy to women's issues.
It's too bad that Google decided that he didn't deserve compensation for reporting this security vulnerability.
Not to mention all the patent trolling and hardware restrictions.
I found my experience with Fork the Cookbook[0] the same as well.

Also, add to the fact that this is a novel method, I get a lot of emails asking why they get new passwords everytime. If I were to rewrite FtC today, I'd go with Persona.

[0] http://forkthecookbook.com
Right now, you're right and that's because of the temporary centralized components:

1. JavaScript shim
2. include.js
3. Centralized verifier
4. Fallback identity provider

However, we've designed the protocol so that all of these pieces (necessary to bootstrap the system) will go away over time.

#1 will go away once we have native support in the browser (some of our developers have starting working on this). #2 will go away once we make include.js self-hostable, which we are definitely planning to do. #3 will no longer be needed once sites can use local verification libraries, which we have started writing. #4 can already be avoided if you put up your own identity provider (several people have done so).
Ask HN:What are those consulting companies giving H1B visa?
I am in valley on H4 visa. I have had 5 years of experience in India and I worked for an American company's offshore office in India. I arrived in US on H4 visa as my husband had H1B.

I suddenly started meeting a lot of Indian women who were more or less in same situation. Some of them had H1B but no jobs (which I believe legally impossible), they claim to work for some "consulting" company which gives them H1B but the person has to search for job herself.

For last few days I am trying to read up laws related to H1B, immigration reforms and trying to ascertain if this "consulting" thing is for real or some kind of scam.

Does anyone know any better ?
I'm personally more frightened about someone like the IRS being handed data from the NSA, than the NSA thinking I'm a terrorist, and I pay my taxes and everything. I'm just frightened about being nailed for any tiny mistakes that I have made in the past, that this data capture could glean, if that makes sense?

FWIW, I'm not even from or in the US of A, but I'm worried about my government doing something exactly like that considering how much it's cooperated with the NSA directly in the past and present.
For the iPhone announcement, I would have appreciated if someone had written a blog post about their security and privacy concerns and submitted that separately.
Is that a really a frequent enough occurrence to justify always carrying a handcuff key? I'd say that's likely to happen to your average skateboarder about once every thousand lives. You might be better off learning self defense tactics and avoiding being handcuffed in the first place. If you were manhandled enough to be handcuffed, you're unlikely to get very far with a key.
Just imagine how a security vulnerability can be used to grab fingerprints of every iPhone user...

It's cool. Is it cool enough to risk having your fingerprints copied?
Zombie nazi invasion!
Introducing run-one-constantly, run-one-until-failure and run-one-until-success
Star Trek and the shiny, boring future
How Metrics Drive DevOps at Attachments.me
Actually, it doesn't, because properly used biometric isn't a sole auth method. You want to use it coupled with at least a pin - then suddenly just looking over your shoulder isn't enough, you have to handle the phone carefully, or steal the fingerprints off your glass. That's more work, and makes it more costly and skill intensive. It's not impenetrable, but still quite efficient.
Bluetooth Low Energy, which the parent commenter was referring to, uses a minuscule amount of power compared to the old standard. BLE devices can run for months on a coin cell, it has negligible impact on the battery life of a smartphone.

Using NFC, the act of reading uses very little power, and of course tags are unpowered, but the reader needs to constantly scan for nearby tags, and that can be a battery hog. There are reports of 50% shorter battery life on NFC-equipped android phones.
They collect them in OK, CA and GA. Probably more. I'm not even American and that took four seconds to find on Google.
I have a birth certificate with a different last name, as my Dad adopted me (natural father and mother, got married a year later, born with mum's name but now have dad's once I turned about 1.5yrs). I even am pretty certain I have a second birth certificate with mt dad's name, but I'm not certain.

I also have my adoption papers, and I left the country I was born in when I was young (7 years). As far as the country I live in is concerned I'm my Father's last name, but have legitimate primary ID with my mother's pre marriage last name.

Always wanted to get my spy on and build up a second identity with that. Of course that's highly illegal, so itw only ever been a fun thought exercise :)
I think you might be confused with how Persona works, it's not quite like OAuth. There is no "token" in Persona, we have keys and assertions.

The first step is for your browser to generate a public and secret keypair. Then you send the public key over to the identity provider to get it signed.

Once it's signed, you use your secret key (which never leaves your browser) to sign an assertion. The assertion contains your signed public key and an expiration, but it's also tied to an audience (i.e. the URL of the site you're logging into). That's what you send to the site you're trying to log into.

So if that site tries to impersonate you on a different website using the assertion you just gave it, it won't work because it can't change the audience that's inside the assertion (that would break the signature on the assertion). If the audience doesn't match, no other site will accept it.

Of course if a site steals your secret key from localStorage, then it's game over. However if you find a way to do this, then you've got yourself a browser 0-day :)
The Incredible Secret Money Machine
Don't most sites let you do this already? It's usually behind a button labeled "forgot password"
We implemented this with Decal about year ago with an online tour that requires no signup[1]. We initially had an online tour which not only required signup but verified your email.

Not only did this mean fewer people would try it out, but it meant we got a great deal of disposable emails.

Our motivation was obvious: we wanted the free tour to get leads. Each time someone created an account to test, some resources were consumed so we needed to make sure we got a "high value" lead with a valid email.

When I watched Kevin Hale's Mixergy interview he talks about the fact that when they first launched the idea of Wufoo on their blog particletree they didn't even have a backend. It just demonstrated to people what it was like to use.

We were inspired by that when creating our own tour and we created a way to communicate the benefits our product offers for both deployment and end user interface in a frontend application that requires no signup or account creation.

Interestingly, not only do we get a better quality of email now, but about 50% of people who take the tour, put their email address in even though we only ask for it at the end.

[1]http://www.decalcms.com/
Sure, of course. But I've used that tar|ssh combination so much that it was the first example of using the rsh-like stdout/in pairing that came to mind. As much as I bitch about Unix and POSIX and horrific shell brain damage, I still reach for crazy shell pipelines when I have data manipulation tasks up to some pretty large scale n.
Clarification: Best-designed from an end-user UI standpoint. I agree that the code is probably pretty bad, given that it slows to a grinding crawl when it's nearing the due date of a big assignment for a subject. Page load times tend to skyrocket and everything bogs down.

I have a feeling that those sorts of things can be optimised though. On the other hand, the UI is more concrete, because it's what people are used to.
jump just made it into oh-my-zsh:

http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/08/16/quickly-navigate-your-f...
Court Says Privacy Case Can Proceed vs. Google
I hate these articles. Not because they aren't useful, but because I wake up a couple hours before my partner, and she sleeps on a schedule that's so precise I'm not sure she's human. I'm jealous, and in order to not get killed in a domestic dispute, changes like temperature control ("It's too cold!"), sunrise alarm clocks ("Turn that goddamned light off!") and light control ("Those black out shades are ugly!") are not practical.

Tl;dr: if you want to use these techniques to get a good night's sleep, get used to sleeping alone.
I use incognito mode ... the last thing I want is redtube being a permanent fixture in auto-complete, most visited, or anywhere else Google decides to leverage that information locally or otherwise, especially with all the stuff Chrome syncs across computers/devices these days.

As a feature it's received tremendous publicity so I don't think it's safe to assume nobody uses or knows about it:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346730457538...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/technology/personaltech/ho...

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/six-way...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/08/11/ways-to-he...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/americans-go-to-gre... found most people tried to hide some stuff they were doing online.
Medium is not blocked in China. Currently.
You are so far from the point, the light from the point will take billions of years to reach you. It's the platform and the platform vendor that can't be trusted to keep you safe, that's before you even start talking about attack vectors from third parties a.k.a. Apple Partner Companies. And seriously, you're ready to get in bed with the DHS and FBI? They're the ones after your data!
Well, the OP didn't say this, but what really would be great is to extend it to SMS as well. In most cases that would solve the delay piece.
Emails are postcards.
McAfee is also owned by Intel.
It would be an interesting project to look at people's shell usage and try to determine when they started using Unix. I have loads of Irixisms that have only recently been crowded out of my head by Darwin BSDism.
As another Atrix owner, backing this up entirely. It's in a position where you basically hit power and then slide your finger down along it.

Edit: As a side note, the lack of it on other Android phones is really making it hard for me to want to switch.
It's also an Intel subsidiary.
The court made clear that federal privacy law applies to residential Wi-Fi networks,” he said. “Users should be protected when a company tries to capture private data that travels between their laptops and their printer in their home.”

The ruling, written by Judge Jay Bybee, took sharp issue with Google’s contention that data transmitted over a Wi-Fi network was not protected by federal wiretapping laws because it was an electronic “radio communication.”

“In common parlance, watching a television show does not entail ‘radio communication,’ ” Judge Bybee wrote. “Nor does sending an e-mail or viewing a bank statement while connected to a Wi-Fi network.”
E.g.: http://hi-games.net/login.cgi
Thanks!

Yes, there are building codes (which I meet). Colorado actually has some sheisty codes compared to Chicago (where I'm from), so in many places I went overboard, which I think is OK. It's still a bit like the Wild West out here!

For me, getting down to the cabin full-time was the hardest part. 4 years of trying to build a small cabin and building myself up professionally took its toll on what I _wanted_ to accomplish with this project.

So, now the house design and CAD consumes my evenings - I want to be able to document it like the dome chap!
Another Plus vote for the Atrix FP Sensor.
I have used this and it was intuitive.
I wonder if this can be applied to the dating world as well...
>Third party must have access to raw data

Is there a reason that fingerprints can't be stored as hashes instead of the raw data? It would presumably involve re-enrolling if the fingerprint comparison algorithm gets changed, but how often does that happen?
Thanks. I was reluctant to post the link on HN (because it's a less warm audience than feminists on Twitter) but I think it's important that we talk about this. - Elissa (author)
I've thought about this exact thing. Couple additional ideas - I would make it email or SMS and two, you could reduce the number of steps by using gmail actions - https://developers.google.com/gmail/actions/actions/actions-...
Are you familiar with stdin/stdout/stderr on Unix and how they interact? What ssh does that I find so powerful is ensure that what you put into stdout on one side of a pipe flows out of stdin on the process that ssh starts on the remote host.

Of course, ssh also gives you the output of the remote process, so you can put an ssh command in the middle of a pipeline. My day to day life no longer involves interacting with lots of remote Unix systems, but when it did, it was really, really useful.
In my experience, SMS can have longer and more frequent delays than email.