skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GWT with out a doubt. It's running on a smaller stack and the translation is done at compile time not runtime.
Choosing a BDD framework for .Net
I connected my old Yahoo account to my Adobe ID and within days of the breach, my Yahoo account locked up due to "suspicious activity" on it and I had to jump through a few hoops to get it reinstated.

Thank god I didn't have any credit card info on my Adobe account.
In Contrast, there is already a project called Avatar-js - It'
s Node.JS like solution written in Java 8 and meant for Java developers to write JavaScript code in a seamless manner. https://java.net/projects/avatar-js
https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/client/en_US/termsAndCondit...

*edited - I've only done this with iPhones but my understanding is that it can be done with any phone once out of contract.
No DRM in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – an open letter to the community
The PC version of The Witcher 3 will have absolutely no DRM from day 0
We do have air conditioned cabins in the capital - Tbilisi :) http://mail.civil.ge/eng/category.php?id=87&size=wide&galler...
Wait, so until google can defend its cages against the g-men, then all efforts will be in vain.

Also, in other countries, I assume those g-men have access to those cages.
When your opponent uses Navy submarines to tap undersea cables right under the Soviets' noses, you probably shouldn't trust your leased fiber with unencrypted data. This interception could occur where undersea cables make landfall without any datacenter antics.
That's just it, it's not apparent that IETF will mandate VP8 in WebRTC even without Cisco's offer here. Nor can Mozilla go it alone, Chrome has already announced they will also support H264.

As Monty himself put it on his personal blog, in the matter of VP8 vs. H264, VP8 lost. This is an appreciated measure by Cisco to mitigate the damage until Daala can be fielded to proactive displace whatever MPEG LA tries to push after H264.
Those idioms are called "chengyu" (成语) and there are hundreds (or thousands) of them. Some of them come from ancient Chinese stories and poems and are pretty allegorical in nature; others, like (seemingly) the one mentioned in the article, are self-explanatory (to a Chinese speaker).
I didn't mean my reference to a natural state to be taken so literally. In this kind of literature, you see lots of references to the Hobbesian jungle, but I don't think many people think it's a scientific concept to be taken literally.
Actually, in Europe they ARE a bank:

"In 2007, PayPal Europe was granted a Luxembourg banking license, which, under European Union law, allows it to conduct banking business throughout the EU.[54] It is therefore regulated as a bank by Luxembourg's banking supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Regulatory_status
Worse than the last worst thing that ever happened?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581323
how come duckduckgo.com is there? Do you never need to do searches for various (valid) reasons?
You know, one thing I'm sure (hope) will come out of this is that enough people in the public should be sufficiently outraged at this that we start making some private sector headway in the data security race and perhaps we'll end up with some actual secure products by companies that aren't under the "jurisdiction" of U.S. policy, instead of those that just say they're secure but fall flat on their face when it comes to something as trivial as an NSL or an order for a pen register. If they were really secure, then these things wouldn't make the slightest difference.
Can anyone explain what exactly is meant by "SSL added and removed here! :-)"?
Eliminate Buzzfeed from Facebook Timeline.
This is probably a RTFM question on my part - but how does VLC play back H264? I presume it's part of the x264 library, but is this essentially a reverse-engineered H.264 codec?

The weirder thing is that I have some handbrake encoded videos from ~ 2008 or so that don't play "Error: codec 'h264' not available. Yet other videos with the exact same codec/media information play fine...which is spooky.
Googles Latest Mysterious Barge in Maine
It's not just that either. They seem to enjoy it and think that this is a game. If you're going to violate our basic rights, at least take it seriously, guys.
If people were going to get outraged about that, they would have burned the country to the ground when they learned that several NSA operations were given Civil War battles for codenames. You know, the only war where Americans have ever been our own enemy.
Yes, but by that same logic, no music is impossible to play. Just keep adding people to help you. Eventually, you'll be able to play it. This is why the entire "impossible" argument rapidly stops making sense, because you simply have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere, and it becomes a question of impracticality, not impossibility.
I just made the switch myself. The only thing is; it cost me the iPhone. Only Android phones have the WiFi calling on them. As a result, I had to give up my iPhone and switch to an S4. I have to say though it has been useful as I made crystal clear calls in the middle of nowhere (through hotel wifi) where att nor tmobile get good reception.

In the process with the cost of the new device included in the monthly payments I ended up saving about $80/month for a family plan of 3 phones.

I wish iPhone supported the WiFi calling! Maybe a google voice solution is under way.

If you travel internationally the fact that you can use your data connection (albeit on 2g) internationally without any roaming fees is superb. I would say make sure to get the right phone based on your needs but switch soon!
Hey, if you want your precious node back, you can then just run Rhino on the JVM on the node.
Sure, but the phrase "plausible deniability" just reeks of government and corporate double-speak: "you can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt I did it, so I can keep on doing it." Plausibly denying something is just a propaganda technique.

Did Google know or not? Did Google participate or not?
This degrades into comic book villain territory. Every admin and developer professional wet dream is to be able to capture log and analyze every byte. To have unlimited processing power and storage.

And these people lived it ...
https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/
Using Google Translate API with PHP
Yeah, can I spin up Nashorn on this Java running on V8?
I've seen a few that looked a lot like this actually. For example:

http://www.amazon.com/ROBOTIC-3-Channel-Flying-Ball-Helicopt...

The main difference in the research here just seems to be the separation between the outer ball and the stabilized machinery inside it.
Or you can help yourself with your foot, like Jason D. Williams occasionally does.
> Isn't this useless?

No.

> They can serve Google NSL and the court can force the company to release the SSL keys for the encryptions - just like Lavabit.

They can't do that without Google knowing about it, knowing what data is covered by the NSL and having the opportunity to challenge the request, or to factor the fact of the requests and the extent of information covered by it in evaluating Google's lobbying priorities.

> Google CEO/Board can not shutdown the company like Lavabit.

Well, it could (or, at least, it could recommend that course of action to the shareholders), but its true that Google is differently situated than Lavabit -- specifically, Lavabit doesn't have ~$50 billion in cash it doesn't know what to do with that it could pull from for political action to address government policy that it felt severely threatened the way it prefers to do business, whereas Google does, which gives it options to address known actions by a government agency that it doesn't like.

> What can they do, get out of USA like how they got out of China?

Well, its too big of a market for that to be a good first choice, but its not impossible. Moving the headquarters, etc., would be easy, the hard part would be moving all their existing data centers and similar operations out of the US.

If they wanted to do that with minimal disruption, they'd either need to build duplicate datacenters somewhere else and switch operations to those -- or, for less duplication, build a fleet of transport vehicles that could hold data centers, and piece by piece transfer their existing US datacenters into those transports.
Be it Google/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook in a managed solution, AWS/Rackspace in a hosted solution, or Comcast/AT&T/Verizon/Level3/Cogent/SBC in a private solution, you don't control your data at some point in transit. If you want to interact with more than just your wife, you must give up something.
I went through this on my own back in a HS programming class! Glad to see it here.

While the teacher was walking students through how to do loops, I got permission to hack away in the back of the room on this. I ended up building a BASIC-like interpreter with a decent graphics API. By the end of the class, my project was a multi-level breakout game I'd written in the interpreter I'd written. TLDR; two years later, I talked to a girl.
Strap an iPhone to your head for a window into your mind
Well, I don't think it's that easy.

If the NSA wanted your data, they could get into your network probably easier than they could get into Google's networks. Companies like Google have way smarter people (and working full time) securing data than most businesses.

For us to secure our networks as much as someone like Google would, we'd have to have a team of the best hackers around.

And by definition, the best hackers around are scarce. They're already working for Google, etc, and X Y Z security company.
Glass could (perhaps should) be built so that its motion sensor system shuts it down or forced into GPS-only mode when operating at high speeds.

Would be tricky for use on trains and airplanes, though (but is that an important use case?)
There's a simple test you can do with a strip of paper (http://supertaster.com/) tainted with that particular flavor. Most people can't taste it at all, but those that do are gagging from the awful taste.

I'm in that group and brussels sprouts are easily the strongest, most offensive vegetables out there.
I've literally never found myself in a situation where the dependency tree of a ruby cli utility has been incompatible with what's in the current $GEM_HOME. As and when it happens, I'll see about giving it a separate $GEM_HOME to play with. That's the only situation I can think that binstubs in addition to what `gem install` provides make sense, too.
If you search any term in the box related to the icons, they will filter. Like "money" shows various money related icons.
Must...resist...from spending my entire lunch looking at all the videos and wikis.
Interesting! It looks like you've reimplemented portions of the Java Class Library rather than use e.g the existing class files from OpenJDK.

My current research project, Doppio [1], implements the native portions of the OpenJDK Java Class Library so it can use an unmodified copy of the OpenJDK JCL. As a result, it can run a bunch of nontrivial programs (javac/javap/Rhino/Kawa-Scheme).

One issue you will run into is with multithreading. Since JavaScript has no true threading implementation with shared memory, you'll need to be able to suspend and resume virtual JVM threads. For this reason, Doppio maintains an explicit JVM stack representation.

Anyway, feel free to check out our code, reuse portions of it, or contribute if you're interested; it's MIT Licensed and under active development. :)

[1] Demo: http://doppiojvm.org/ Code: https://github.com/int3/doppio
See also, "Google speeding up end-to-end crypto between data centers worldwide."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6351741
I've taken care to add unsubscribe links are at the end of every email that comes from vpsstat.us, even the "account created" emails.

Or you can login, click a button, and be done with emails (other than account-related notices).

I loathe that private email feeling that some startups try to create via mass emailing.
Probably both.

The concept in the 60's at least was partly due to change in culture between the young "hippies" vs. the older "man". People were realizing in a big way that "the man" was lying to us... Vietnam War, etc.

Things haven't changed much in that regard, but the corporate/govt media "alliance" has become more sophisticated in dispersing/distracting such anger.
Writing literate-programming style Elasticsearch shell scripts with Emacs
Hah! I have some friends who had some beautiful (copper?) gutter pipes installed at their house. The metal had a wonderful worn look to them. When I asked how they got it that way she replied that her partner had peed all over them for some time. I've never heard of it before but it seems true.
It seems odd that BMW HUDs would polarize the light. GM HUDs work fine with polarized sunglasses. Visibility on mine was good except when driving on light colored roads (low contrast) in bright sunlight.
> reduce their price plans to account for not subsidizing their phones

When I brought my own phone to sprint and they forced me to sign a 2 year agreement, I knew that business was on the way out. I'm on straight talk now.
Ah, good to know. That's bummer though. I guess I'll have to live with the fees.
That sounds like a rather interesting and large integration project that most engineers would salivate over.
The NSA Hacked Google and Yahoo's Private Networks
Hah, I wish. I'm barely in the $100K group. Soon, though. Soon. evil smirk >:)
Email me if you'd like an HTML version of this. I have converted most of it for my own personal use (through part 11, IIRC) but don't want to distribute it publicly since I'm unclear on the copyright status.
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The implication is that there is no SSL from the front end web server to the back end data center, thus it is susceptible to snooping at that point.
fucking wow ..... that is all i have to say
Soylent lulz as if that hasn't been done and done again. It's just snake oil under different name.
Considering Go is slower than C, and the JVM is written in C/C++, I'd say the JVM would be slower.

I'm not trying to say I wouldn't like to see it, but I don't think anyone would use it, is all. And it's sad when cool software doesn't get used.
I had all those problems until I dropped my ATT DSL for a local provider.
You make it sound as if Google is being altruistic here. Security is essential to the direction they are heavily pushing.

Chromebooks vs. Macs/Windows/Linux

Gmail vs. Exchange(not Exchange Online)

Google Apps/Drive vs. Office/LibreOffice

"Why the NSA loves Google’s Chromebook"

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/why-th...

Of course, all this applies to all cloudhosted services including Skydrive, Exchange Online, etc. but out of all companies, Google is the one that has most at stake if people become fearful of their data leaking on the way to the cloud and decide to keep their data inhouse instead of going to the cloud.

To me, the big surprise was that Google wasn't encrypting the links between it's own datacenters before these revelations.

As usual, Stallman is proven right again. If your data is under someone else's control, it's not yours.

"Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman"
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.comp...
The slowly evolving airline website
> It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.

The government takes the position that their agents are almost completely unconstrained by law when it comes to actions taken abroad aimed at non-US persons.

Even were a court somewhere to find that this interpretation is incorrect, there are numerous "good faith reliance" doctrines that prevent any prosecution or even civil consequences.

The government outright tortured people for years, and nothing has come of it. No prosecutions. No damages for victims. No cases dismissed for outrageous government conduct. Not even very many harsh words from judges. The only people for whom there were any consequences were the low level regular army people who got in on the torture train without first getting official blessing.

It'll be the same thing here. If some low level employee went out on his own to hack into Google servers, something might come of it. But by all appearances these programs were deliberate, planned, and vetted. In those circumstances the bad actors have long since learned to cover their own asses. There will be no consequences for them.
I'm also trying to find a data only plan. I know verizon offers data only for iPad.. I wonder if there is anyway to sign up for that and hack an iPhone to use it?

I certainly don't know enough to say but I imagine someone here might.
I wasn't sure how Retina vs. non-Retina apps behave in memory. Some apps presumably ship both sizes of assets, in which case the OS could load only the smaller ones into memory. But if an app only ships Retina assets, would those go straight into memory, or is the OS clever enough to resize them dynamically and throw that into memory?
re: bediger4000

The phrase has that smell when used by the person denying. If an action or inaction is taken to preserve plausible deniability, it is smelly.

But when used by an observer after the fact, it just means that we have no way to know they knew, unless there is proof. So if they say they didn't know, it is a believable statement.
Samsung Makes Play for App Developers at Conference
> (Nexus vs. iPhone, etc).

To be completely accurate - Nexus phones are an exception. Even the manufacturer of Nexus phones sells their non Google branded Nexus equivalent models at significantly higher cost. There is nothing else in the market priced like a Nexus phone (probably because no one can sell these devices at cost because they don't have the cushion of massive ad revenues).
Prove God and the rest will follow.

God says...
computers don't_even_think_about_it frown humongous That's_my_favorite
phasors_on_stun quit I_pitty_the_fool do_you_know_what_time_it_is
a_screw_loose absolutely endure happy_happy_joy_joy
I suppose you have to admire the resourcefulness - there's no story, so "there's no story" becomes the story.
Yahoo may have figured out how to let under-performers go
The display prism sits above your line of vision (and is transparent besides). It obstructs less than the typical sun shade on the wind shield, although the roof of the car vs. a convertible is probably a more accurate comparison. During normal usage the Glass blocks out a bit of the sky you never look at anyway, it doesn't sit in front of your eye.
Yeah, a lot of what I hear and see in the videos from the article is just octave multiplication. I've seen much more interesting effects achieved by interrupting fast-running arpeggiators. Also very complex, but far more melodic, and playable by humans in real time.

Not that you can't play multiplicated stuff in real time, it just doesn't sound very interesting. Low-pitch piano keys already have harmonics from higher octaves.
This might be a good time to go back and look at what you said to all those cypherpunks who kept talking about the need to build security into Internet protocols from day 1. Whitefield Diffie had pointed out this problem -- that online services could violate user privacy without any technical barriers -- in the 1970s and pointed to it to motivate public key cryptography. Throughout the 90s and 00s people were saying that we should be deploying cryptography more widely, yet these arguments were largely ignored or dismissed.

So really, this is not about the government. Rather it is about the inherently insecure design of today's email, IM, payment, and social networking systems. While the cryptography research community and the hacker community have proposed numerous solutions, few have worked to deploy such solutions. Worse, many hackers and computer scientists have actively worked against such deployment by building businesses that are monetized by violating user privacy.

Before talking about your anger, take a moment to think about what you were saying to people 5, 10, or 20 years ago when this topic came up (I am speaking to everyone now, not just jimparkins).
Meta remark, somewhat snarky: I would like to know at what point do all the HN'ers making fun of those libertarians among us concerned with security -- I believe over a period of months we were called "tinfoil hat types" and worse -- come back and offer us an apology.

I am not holding my breath.

(Although it's a snarky comment, I didn't make the comment just to snark. The point was to point out that over and over again, the folks who are concerned about government encroachment are made fun of, put down, and lampooned to a great degree. More often than not, these concerns turn out to be true. In most cases this happens long after the debate has died down. This is an important lesson from history that we all would do well to learn. This story has a lot more facets to it than just the NSA/USA angle)
I learned this one right around when I turned 29. It's easier to look forward when you don't spend much time looking backward.
Nothing he said actually responds to the allegations.
Security hole found in Obamacare website
The cost-benefit analysis is elementary.

Given:

-A phone is designed to physically break in 2 years (with or without contract)

-A cellular contract last 2 years

-Purchase cost of a new unlocked, contract-free iPhone 16g 5c is $600 after taxes

-Purchase cost of a new locked, contractual iPhone 16g 5c is $120 after taxes

-Monthly bill for iPhone contract is around $100 after taxes(unlimited everything)

-Monthly bill for iPhone without contract is $60 after taxes(unlimited everything)

Total cost of contractual iPhone over 2 Year period:

100+10024=2500

600+5024=1800

((2500-1800)/2500)*100 = 28% more for contract. Factor in the cost-benefit of peripherals you receive with a contract or non-contract phone and make your decision.

Done.
Uh, WTF? What makes you think only the driver of a vehicle would ever be using Glass? And how are hours spent on transportation not an important use case for portable electronics?
The article seems to suggest that it was inter-site links that were compromised and not actual Google data centers. Those compromises could happen at telco data centers or even in the field (e.g., by splicing monitoring equipment into a cable).
With an average $60K cash bonus and $12.5K profit sharing bonus.
The President Wants You to Get Rich on Obamacare
A lot hinges on the definition of "servers" being used. And how the question was put to Alexander. If there's even one alternate interpretation he can say No. Another non-denial denial. He is talking at lawyer-level now. This level of detail is not present in the Politico story.

Not that he would say Yes if we asked in the right way!
I would argue you haven't really learned how to program until you implement some kind of machine yourself or at least written a compiler. He probably has a very intimate understanding of how all that works now, and I bet he did it for that reason alone.