skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Envelopes leak metadata as well.
New and noteworthy features in Visual Studio 2013
It appears they will use XMPP which offers encryption.. so the metadata that appears is encrypted XMPP messages being transmitted between servers to notify users about new messages.
Then you'll see the (encrypted) access to the cloud storage.
Startup weekend byblos
Would anyone else be interested in inserting a private version of a tracking pixel into each of their e-mails, so that you'd get a list of IP addresses where the mail was viewed back?

It would be interesting to see where mail was read versus where it is simply passed in plain text. Crowd-sourcing anonymous data might also allow us to determine which IP addresses belong to the NSA's systems.
Actually, on second thoughts - yes, you are right. This could work - partially. But the other way around. Mozilla could build the blobs, sign them and then send them to Cisco who would then provide the download infrastructure.

It still won't allow a third party to verify the same and would require everyone to trust Mozilla itself. Its less problematic than having to trust Cisco, but far from ideal.

On that note: do you know if the blob download would be wrapped in a Cisco EULA?
A Screenshot Paints A Thousand Words in Webdev
Just because your eyes stay on the road doesn't mean 100% of your attention stays there. Manipulating controls by feel alone is still distracting.
What graphics cards are using 2 or 3 PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots?
It's true, cars have headlight switches, tachometers, gas gauges and electronic mirror controls. The horror.

The only devices that can actively command your attention are the gauges & lights in the instrument cluster (which are all important to driving safely) and possibly the screen on your radio. Speaking of which, I hated the old radio on my old car, because it was too bright and had too much activity on the display.
You would have to prove that glass was the cause which I believe you would find hard.

While inactive they're no more distracting than a pair of regular glasses and while using them for navigation they're significantly less distracting than using a traditional GPS.
The rubber duck
> Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers.

How do you know this is the case? In the diagram submitted within the article, the box highlighted with the smiley face is labeled "GFE" for Google Front-End [1], which means it's a Google controlled server. It seems more plausible to me that the NSA compromised this target with a FISA court order rather than hacking it. And if that is true, then someone at Google did know about it, they just weren't willing to discuss it because of a legal threat.

[1] Google server names: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-server-name...
I am imaging you in the Amazon meeting a previously uncontacted tribe and asking, "How could you eat today if you didnt feel like hunting and gathering?" When the elders answer "we dont know" you would go back to the lab and try to invent Cheerios.

Just because people dont know about something doesnt mean that it doesnt exist. Just because something exists doesnt mean that one shouldnt work solving the same problem.
According to the talk given at InboxLove they will use Curve3617
The case against Gmail
The problem is that the networks support status at all beyond online and offline. If the other users know nothing more than the fact that your machine is reachable, that's all they need to know to contact you. Whether or not you respond is your call.

IRC has worked for years without away messages and the like as a feature. I've never once missed a status beyond knowing that my message was delivered.
> We're already seeing workarounds - graphics cards are using two, or even three PCI-E slots to get that precious bandwidth they need. With 4k displays on the horizon, and textures in games being updated accordingly, we're going to need more bandwidth to graphics cards. At some point, we're either going to have to switch to two dimensional connectors like processors are using for GPUs (which will still only delay our issues), or we're going to have to move away from the 1mm build fabrication for our interconnects. If the later happens, we simply can't rely on consumers to properly line up lanes in components.

They aren't actually using the slot, just potentially covering a slot right? One of the fastest desktop cards out, r290x only uses one PCI-E slot.
> I am at a loss for words. Arrogant, self-righteous, disrespectful, ignorant, mendacious...nothing cuts it. It is illegal in the US but who cares about the rest of the world?

Do you really believe that this is the modus operandi only of the United States?

Since, say, France has _at least_ the same position with regard to the rest of the world vs. French citizens, are you angry at France too? Will you cut all french, german, russian, and bahranian cables as well, so as to maintain a consistent position?
They can't "supply". Cisco has the patent license with MPEG LA, not Mozilla. As per the announcement, each firefox user will have to download the blob directly from Cisco.
Well, the fact that Skype and Cisco were already onboard and using it helped a bit and that audio codecs don't have the kind of deployment challenge that displacing H264 does.

Surely, the argument is going to come around in 2015 or whenever Daala ships that H264/H265 hardware is too widely deployed on billions of mobile devices to justify a new codec.

Does Cisco really want to WebRTC to succeed when it clearly commodifies their WebEx offering? The question is, what are they getting by ensuring H264 is MTI?

What Mozilla and Google were going to get out of VP8 winning was pretty clear. So one has to ask what their motivation is for spending so much money to keep H264 as MTI.
Here, I did your own research for you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...

> Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)
> Eglin Air Force Base, FL

http://blog.reddit.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-m...
Can we not just do this with an open alliance and pick up a name ?
128Gb, not 128GB. 16GB storage on the iPhone 5s iFixit tore down.
I remember making an app similar to this a few years ago. Would automatically create a room if one did not exist, scale-able search range, anonymous users with an option of providing a name, all relied on a jaber server hosted in a micro aws instance. Was a fun project, but the critical mass factor makes things like this very hard to create.

If anyone's curious, github source:

https://github.com/quackware/Crowdsource
What if you eat everything with a spork?
The market problem is a very real reality. Popcorn is pretty simple, you need to invite you friends - but do you have to do that for every area to unlock that area?

We've been working on the same problem for a few months now but haven't quick cracked the market issue. Our app, racut, has a similar feature called Shout where you can say something and it appears over a 6 mile radius.

In addition to Shout you can also start a private conversation, or have a group conversation outside of the Shout stream.

It's good to see others entering the space.
Bold claims - at least fix the glitches in your blog first.
CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Round 2 - Comparative Pentest Analysis Report
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I have no internal knowledge about this, but influenced by this Twitter thread[0] I would speculate that Greenwald and friends gave Google (and whoever else) advance notice and the opportunity to react to it before publishing. Responsible disclosure, and all that (not that it really applies in this case, but still).

[0] https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/395636984313413632
Is the inability to get HTML without being a javascript engine going to be a problem for major adoption? (I know there are hacks around using phantomjs to generate HTML for non-JS clients -- is that a viable solution for serious sites?)
57 Terms You Need To Understand If You Make Games, All In One Place
There are many services for many kinds... Not intention of putting you down but 'competition'. Some come later and just do it smoother better. Overall, lawyer experiences are hard and expensive and there is huge room for improvement so I wish these guys the best and I hope they can make some significant change.
Ask HN: Which web applications run on ClojureScript?
Open-source CMS for gamers
Correcting myself: it looks like Mozilla can't distribute the binary itself (while still benefiting from Cisco's end user licensing), though it could still publish its own signature for verification.
It depends on your definition of kill.

If you mean for new project starts, it might severely diminish it, but I don't think it will flat out end its popularity any more than Rails killed Java.

Also, it depends on what type of project you are talking about. For something at large scale, my guess is meteor won't be any more successful than Rails has been at huge scale (like Twitter).

I do agree that using one language end to end might be an awesome developer experience, but I wish that language wasn't JavaScript. I won't go into great detail as to why, but I would not want to build a large JavaScript app. That sounds incredibly painful and unpleasant to me.
One option for a location-aware system like this: the chatroom-defining radius could be adjusted elastically to make it so there are always enough people to chat with, even if the nearest is many miles away.
What about a recording versus a live performance? Isn't a MIDI essentially a super-low-resolution digital recording, minus any spatial acoustic noise? Is soul then contained in space, or the presence of those souls present?

Here's an idea for a test: start with a song recorded at 44100Hz (standard CD quality) that has soul. We can debate the actual piece of music, but I'll use "Clap Your Hands" by A Tribe Called Quest in this example. Give a bunch of people a randomly-downsampled version of the song (at 12500Hz, 800Hz, 220Hz, etc), and have them answer a simple question: "Does this have soul?"

The song is 93BPM, or 1.55 beats per second. At a sample rate of 1.55Hz, we're looking at one sample per beat. Let's use a standard 16-step sequencer and say that a MIDIfied approximation is going to have four samples per beat (quarter notes). So, at about 6.2Hz, we've got a recording that has no better resolution than MIDI (potentially even worse).

Ultimately, I guess I agree with you: "soul" is in the ear of the beholder.

(Disclaimer: I don't actually know anything about digital audio.)
> Java promised this too us back in the 90's, but it was too big and bloated and hard to work with

LOL @ Java being described as "hard to work with" in comparison to JavaScript. Major indicator of JS developer Stockholm Syndrome right there.
Meteor has a package 'spiderable' which allows Google to index the content — we're having no problems with it.
Operating the controls of your vehicle to respond to environmental conditions increases your safety more than it decreases it. Turning on my high beams does take a few brain cycles to flip the switch, but it also lets me spot the deer on the side of the road.
The NSA gets "mail covers" on every piece of US Postal Service mail: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...

the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States
Designing an App icon
And the reason for that response is that US speed limits tend to be unreasonably low for a given road when driving a modern car.
How exactly did the author come to this Meteor and Rails dichotomy? What do they have alike besides being web application frameworks, of which there are endless?

This makes about as much sense to me as "Why Flask will kill Zend".
‘Box’ achieves mind-blowing optical illusions using projection mapping
Ask HN: has any CA startup launch before incorporate (LLC, S Corp)?
Just curious, has anyone in California ever launch their startup without going through incorporate process (LLC or S Corp)?

what would be your risk besides getting sued on your personal asset (if there is a lawsuit)?

I am curious as I intend to incorporate, but the timing is not right since if LLC in CA today, you have to pay $800 tax for the year 2013 and the year 2014 starts on April 15, so if I incorporate today, effectively I have to pay $800 tax (no pro rated) for ~5 months of activity. These 5 months could be an evaluation if the startup works or not. And these 5 months will probably have negligible revenue (if at all) or even losses. CA law states that inactive or even losses LLC have to pay $800 tax.

I am considering going S Corp but for a single founder, S corp is not as straightforward because you have to create payroll. However S Corp has the first year tax free.

For someone who is bootstrapping, $800 to test the water seems steep. I am thinking I would take the 4 months risk (my site is a month away from getting launch) considering these 4 months would have low activity.

Any advise?

Thanks.
Where did you get the idea the "vast majority of citizens support these initiatives"?

From the very start the polls have generally been against mass NSA surveillance except when the wording of the poll was misleading[1]. As more and more information has come out the polls have become more and more clearly against it[2].

Try to keep the facts straight.

Not sure why you refer to winner-take-all and how that concept could make everyone responsible. Keep in mind almost know one knew about this until very recently and we learned more even today.

[1] http://www.policymic.com/articles/53767/nsa-surveillance-sca...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/polls-continue-show-ma...
With this argument, you're implicitly assuming responsibility for the misdeeds of your own government. It's easy to cast blame en masse, but it is not a constructive response.
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Technically, you can use meteor with rails https://github.com/tmeasday/ruby-ddp-client, so I don't know if meteor is killing rails anytime soon.
Yes, every graphics card that I have seen merely occupies additional slots to make space for the cooling devices. However, I do believe that Nvidia's SLI and AMD's CrossfireX multi-GPU interconnects are a proprietary variation on PCI-E, so in some respects that could be considered an additional slot, but it only provides bandwidth between GPUs.
If you don't accept its cookies, it shows you a blank page.

I hate to be negative but that's not how to win my confidence.
nice game!
the save game is just a base64 encoded string..
Here are game stat
```
"{"version":1.3,"features":{"location":{"room":true,"outside":true}},"stores":{"wood":62,"fur":54,"bait":0,"meat":100,"teeth":10,"scales":20},"character":{},"income":{"gatherer":{"delay":10,"stores":{"wood":0},"timeLeft":1},"builder":{"delay":10,"stores":{"wood":2},"timeLeft":5}},"timers":{},"game":{"builder":{"level":4},"buildings":{"trap":3,"cart":1,"hut":1},"population":0,"workers":{},"outside":{"seenForest":true}},"playStats":{}}"
```
"When a client asks us to build an app, they are really asking for a fully interactive web app that utilizes javascript to get rich client interfaces."

Or maybe they really are just asking you for an app, but you'd rather build a fully interactive web app that utilizes javascript to get rich client interfaces.
My cousin does biomedical research. She said it gets much, much easier.
Bitmessage doesn't scale, it's POW doesn't solve any spam problems, and it's largely insecure. There's been quite a lot of public discussion about just how hilariously insecure it is.
It depends on what you consider the JVM. If you're just talking about something that can load class files and do some instruction interpretation (like this project) then that's one thing... if you're talking about implementing all of the JNI functions within the JVM standard library (awt, net) along with the concurrency primitives (conforming to the Java memory model?) then that is a significant multi-year, multi-developer project.
we went public recently, one article even called out that we were likely a far better deal than twitter.

did we make it to HN? nope.

if you're not something tech-journos are using themselves, no coverage for you. twitter is hot because their userbase is the news. beyond that? nada.
Yes, that's the PhantomJS hack.
You should get Ultimate Frisbee in there. Huge pickup culture.
Add nerd sports, like Magic: the Gathering and Warhammer..
Thanks for the response.

What was the thinking behind current pricing structure? I think they are underpriced, but then again I know nothing about restaurant industry.

[Edit] Are you also doing sentimental analysis of mentions and reviews?
IETF has become less relevant of late, they don't get stuff adopted and have been taken over largely by architecture astronauts.
I doubt the NSA is foolish enough to make external requests to load images in the emails they read.
the word you are looking for is insight problem. Insight problems are problems in which people unable accurately predict their progress. As in if you asked someone to continually report their progress on a problem as they attempted to solve it they would say something like, "0% 0% 0% oh I'finished". Insight problem solving is a topic of significant interest in cognitive science right now and most recently it was found that applying a small amount of electric current to the right side of the brain greatly increase our capacity for insight problem solving. It is pretty dope.
does A see B talking to someone who effectively does not exist?

No, why would you want them to see who else they're talking to? What messaging application allows you to see who other people are privately conversing with??? Not a popular one, I assure you that.
They mentioned having a "web of trust" to help fight spam. But if you use that, doesn't it mean someone like NSA, who can get everyone's public keys (which I assume is what they're going to use for this, just like for PGP), could then identify who are the people talking to each other, and essentially invalidate all their metadata gather protections? Or would that key be ephemeral, too?
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How Real-time cloud reduced our app store submissions from weeks to hours
along 101 between sf and southbay, 80 is normal flow in left most lanes (or should be unless some asshat in a prius is smugly going 65 while 25 cars are flashing their brights in vain and forced to dangerously weave across 3 lanes to pass)

and for those who drive 101, please be considerate and keep up, or keep right.
Surface Pro 2: Less than a laptop
How to approach a Ruby on Rails Developer
9 tips on how recruiters can get a developer attention
https://medium.com/how-i-learned-ruby-rails/db9fdf6c53bc
I'm not getting through to you.

At the end of the day, Google lost. To a considerable extent, cloud lost. People who were trusting Google with their data lost. What is ostensibly true at this point at is that Google could have done something to have prevented this. All else is immaterial. Just like I would expect to lose business if I made a mistake and had data compromised (because doing X and Y was too difficult or too costly for me to do, because it was 'outside' my control, because I was too inept, or whatever else), Google should expect to lose some business the same way. If security is based on a threat model -- and it eventually loses, it was bad security.
Google Glass isn't a radio-nav system any more than it's an Angry Birds control center.
I find it funny how many people say "x is going to move out of the US!". Upon doing so, x isn't protected from spying bye the NSA at _all_, not even the flimsy toothless protections we have as US citizens under US law. Ostensibly, the entire _job_ of the NSA is to spy on foreigners, which you become when you leave.
> How do you know this is the case? In the diagram submitted within the article, the box highlighted with the smiley face is labeled "GFE" for Google Front-End [1], which means it's a Google controlled server.

Yeah, its the external facing server that is the boundary between Google's (encrypted) communication with outside systems and its internal network which doesn't use encryption.

> It seems more plausible to me that the NSA compromised this target with a FISA court order rather than hacking it.

If you read the article, the leak of documents that included the diagram indicates that:

1. The GFE server itself wasn't compromised, whether by a court order or hacking -- the unsecured communications which occur "behind" the GFE server were compromised, and

2. The entity which compromised the unsecured communications wasn't the NSA, but Britain's GCHQ. The NSA gets information from the compromised system because GCHQ allows NSA to submit search terms ("selectors") which are matched against the data GCHQ collects from tapping Google (and Yahoo!) unsecured internal comms, and then feeds the data matching the selectors back to the NSA.
As a software engineer just about to graduate from college. When I see drawings like that I just can't believe that people who know enough to draw something like that can actually do it without feeling like they are the definition of evil.
The concept seems great. What's your strategy for overcoming the chicken/egg problem and getting critical mass?
I can't read the site (there's nothing in HTML) but is this a framework that doesn't produce pages viewable without JavaScript? If it is against HTML, my vote is against it.
Really cool concept. Good luck!
I am missing a »primarily« between »not« and »angry«. Spying at innocent citizens is a crime, no doubt, but I still find this attitude of not treating all people equal way more worrisome.
Try it before you knock it, I would bet money you would enjoy it.
This is likely referring to public conversation.
A Guide to Learning Rails in 2 months: How I TRAINed to learn Rails
How I TRAINed to learn Rails
A Guide to Learning Rails in 2 months.
This is all very helpful. Definitely some good points to look out for and some worth while features to a/b test.
In the early 2000s there was a device/toy called the Cybiko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko) which offered similar functionality. It was amazing in theory, however, adoption was never very high so it never took off.
Google and Yahoo furious over reports that NSA secretly intercepts data links
What if you eat everything?
I hope they are successful. For a long time I have wished that someone with the expertise and time would be motivated to create a new email system from the ground up, and make that system widely available and 'open' (in the sense of open protocols).

There are many challenges, but if they can pull it off there are many benefits as well. And perhaps the nicest part is that it is hard to actively oppose such efforts without revealing an intent.
Borrowing money at interest is not leeching. That is not how macroeconomics works. Defaulting is maybe leeching.

Manipulating the defacto world currency -- that is leeching.