skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to fund security tool development, consider contributing directly to that. For instance, the effort to audit Truecrypt is still raising funds:

http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

The security of Truecrypt is incredibly important to privacy efforts.

If you're looking to provide legal support to people, consider donating to ACLU. By the numbers, ACLU appears to be a much more effective way of converting donations to legal support for civil liberties cases. I have some reservations about EFF but unreservedly support ACLU.

As a security researcher working in encryption, I'm not sure what #3 is about. I'm more likely to have the government offer me money (I won't work for the government, haven't in the past, or even accept DARPA grants) than harass me.
It's weird because this awesome site (well worth checking out) has been submitted about 10 times here and never got any comments except for this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496629 .. it's like there's not much to say about integer sequences or something ;-)

Quippery aside, there was an interesting question on Mathematics Stack Exchange about Arthur C Clarke's The 9 Billion Names of God and the OEIS: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/34237/the-9-billion-...
At least they had "use strict" turned on. Not sure why they weren't using DBI and placeholders to prevent SQL injection attacks in 2005.
It might be worth pushing this article up on the subreddit for marketing.
> well, a modified version that gives better latency

Any more details on this (that you're allowed to talk about)? Low-latency JSON-alike communication is something I'd be highly interested in.

Personally, I've investigated BERT.js for this use-case, but it didn't work quite right (likely since the available client library was written to construct binary messages using String.charCodeAt, rather than just writing directly to an ArrayBuffer.) I kind of gave up when I realized I might be--especially on mobile--spending long enough on the pure-JS encoding/decoding processes (versus the browser's native JSON implementation) to lose any gains I'd get from the network. If you know otherwise, I'd like to hear about it.
Ask HN: Any cool ideas for an M.S. thesis involving WebGL?
Hi all!
I have to write a masters thesis and I want to use WebGL as my main technology.

It's such a new technology.

I was wondering if anyone had any cool ideas for a thesis involving webGL?

My first instinct is to write a game but I am but one person.

Thanks in advance.
> [deniable encryption] has no particular advantage in protecting data from criminals over non-deniable encryption.

Sure it does, in that the criminals can't see the attack target or even be sure one exists.
His entire point appears to be that an entire branch of discussion is out of bounds. If I'm trampling, consider it counter-trampling.
Israel Launched Strikes On Syrian Missile Sites, Damascus
That site is more than 15 years old. I don't know how anyone is still discovering it for the first time.
I don't need to live in a utopia to see that doing the right thing despite being afraid and aware of existential threats is something worth doing.
HTC One is better
On the subject of Chrome on Android, why can't we have a permanent desktop view option?
Apple, Facebook and Google call for 'substantial' reform of NSA surveillance
Have you called Comcast about the connectivity issues? I was having problems with connections dropping and packet loss. I called them, they sent a tech out who replaced a bad wire connecting to the building. Apparently others in the building had the same problem, but I was the only one who had a tech come out.
which subreddit? r/technology hasn't been giving me much love
This is the first Nexus phone model available in Italy
It's easy to see why this is the case: it's another, unexpected, result of ever-increasing regulation in financial markets. The best and the brightest are often driven to innovate, but if regulation becomes so stifling as to reduce the opportunities (or perceive opportunities) to innovate then those with the drive will go elsewhere. Having worked in banking, I can assure you that the environment is often (though not always) very stifling. There is often a constant pall over the entire organization...stemming from the constant sense that you're owned (in every way that matters) by the regulator, and that the "free market" as it pertains to the financial world is, in fact, largely an illusion. In fact, in one position I worked in, most of our efforts where directed at satisfying the regulators NOT producing any analytics of value to the business.

Now I recognize this isn't true of all financial institutions, and I suspect those that survive and thrive will be those who innovate effectively even within the stifling constraints of recent regulation. That said, it's just become a very difficult space to work in, especially in comparison to the freedom offered by the tech space.

Please note too, that I'm not arguing whether or not the additional regulations were necessary and effective; I'm simply stating that they are having the effect of raising the cost of doing business for financial institutions, and also tightening the constraints they operate under which has the indirect result of making it difficult to innovate, reducing the desire among the best and the brightest (i.e., those who I suppose might be the most driven to innovate and harvest the appropriate rewards for their efforts) to work in those institutions.
Is it realistic that you could find an underground stream wherever you want? Around 20 million people live in Mumbai. I'm just not sure it would work on that scale with tall residential buildings, as awesome as it is.
Yes. Don't define yourself by the tools you use. It creates silly divides that don't matter, and only harm.
geoip?
The difference between Seattle and other cities that are considered dangerous is that generally in dangerous cities it isn't a single demographic that feels uncomfortable in the allegedly dangerous parts of town. In actually dangerous cities, everybody does.

This said, Seattle's downtown does have a rather dead nightlife; you have to go to other neighborhoods for that, and it is something that Seattle should work on.
Also, if they are Americans then they are benefitting from the history of the United States whose founding fathers shared our ideals. Certainly there's an argument to be made that without those ideas and conviction we would have ended up much more like Brazil. And being a Brazilian-American, let me be the first to say that the average American could not imagine a life as the average Brazilian and the type of systematic oppression that they have come to expect over generations.
Surely it was, but 'rumor' sites were writing about the dedicated movement processor in late August (at a minimum of 10 weeks ago) and I'm sure there are enough moles at either company so that Google / Apple know what their competitors will do several months in advance.

* * * Late Edit * * *

So I looked through the Google public Git repo, and it looks like the initial Step_Counter functions were added in Dec 2012.[1] The hardware must've been wrapped more than 6 weeks ago, so I was probably wrong. Google must've been working on this for months ahead of time.

[1]https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/libhardwa...
To be fair that is a limitation of HDMI 1.4. You'd have the same problem if you bought the ASUS PQ321Q and connected it with HDMI.

Personally, I'd never buy an HDMI anything...DisplayPort is the current standard and the future of displays.
> Non-testimonial acts, like forcing someone to unlock a box, are not covered.

(IANAL) The example is not 100% applicable. You can only be legally compelled to open a lockbox if doing so provides no testimonial information. If there is uncertainty around whether you had control over the contents of the lockbox, then opening it would definitely provide that information. This action is therefore considered to have a testimonial component, and covered by the 5th Amendment.

You can still be compelled to open the lockbox, if doing so will not run afoul of the 5th Amendment. There are generally two ways to do so. One is that the action does not have a (non-trivial) testimonial component: If there is no doubt that you had control over the contents of the lockbox, then there is effectively no information being provided. The second way is that the testimonial component is not used against you: the prosecution cannot say that you opened it, but is otherwise allowed to use the contents as evidence (with caveats).
While I can see the argument in that direction, the point he made was to "delete" the other post before reposting. Think of it like first drafts of a story/article/blog post you're writing, you almost NEVER get it right the first time. Sometimes it takes a few iterations (just like software development hmmm?) before you find the right combination to trigger a general interest.

HN, Reddit, Slashdot, all of these share similar requirements of "finding the right combo of post/title/content/etc... to appease to the wider audience".

What he recommends, I think is a worthwhile endeavor. As long as it is not abused...
I'm not willing to give up a single thing, because I don't worry about the evil terrorists. I also don't worry about the homeless people who walk by my home every night, or an asteroid somewhere out in space that could one day smash me where I stand, or the car that might jump the curb and hit me one day.

The nobility of man is partially predicated on our ability to carry on and build and dream without giving into fear, rational or otherwise.

The only way out of this mess is to accept that sometimes losses will exist and to be able to overcome them when they happen--even if you've built in N layers of security some day somebody somewhere will cut through N+1 of them, and to pretend otherwise is folly.

It's time for us to grow some fucking backbone.
Trust us we have really good reasons and arguments but we just can't tell you. lol
The Internet of Things Needs the Laws of Robotics
Android version coming? I'd like to be a user.
There are a number of things OWS was successful at:

1. re-igniting a national conversation about the nature of wealth and who has it and for what reasons.

2. Giving a large number of people who were isolated in their individual homes a space to come build some kind of community.

3. Several sub-organizations, such as Occupy Sandy and Strike Debt, have been incredibly successful in their niche.

4. A whole new generation of people were introduced into some aspect of activist culture.

Those are just some, off the top of my head.
Google, Samsung, Huawei sued over Nortel patents
GeoIP isn't really a good solution. I work on a large ecommerce site and this comes up from time to time. GeoIP databases are unreliable at best, especially for areas where IPs tend to jump borders (e.g., Toronto and Detroit)
I don't fly, but wouldn't the in-flight audio be cut off if there was an emergency?
In the medical monitor world there are higher pixel density displays at a a much higher price: the 5-10MP (21-30") displays from Barco and NEC cost between $12,000 and $20,000, and slightly more for 510(k) approved models. Some of them are grayscale only (mammography), but increasingly we're seeing good IPS displays with 30bit color for pathology.

It's not that the technology doesn't exist, but the device yields for these parts are so low that only people who absolutely need the pixel density (life or death decisions) are actually able to afford them.

Would you drop $20,000 on a monitor?
I'm looking forward to clearskies and will gladly switch over to it once it's ready!
Off the top of my head:

Make a 3d website.

Make a game (Easier then it sounds)

Make a scripting language that compiles to WebGL.

Good luck!
Its quite funny how the smartphone revolution will finally make VR devices viable.
Or... the system catches things like this all the time, this is just one that slipped through, and if the system wasn't in place, there would be many, many more incidents of this type.

Maybe. (This is normally "bear-repellent amulet" type thinking, but I think there's a specific exemption in this case, in that there are good reasons why you'd see no evidence of the system's effectiveness: the government doesn't like to get the public riled up by terrorist threats--terrorism is entirely about riling-up, after all--and so, when the terrorism is caught ahead of time, you'd imagine they'd sweep it under the rug. I might be wrong, though; this still might be a bad justification!)
"There exist reasons" != "There exist good reasons"
sweat cools you down when it evaporates. I could only see that making it more dangerous to wear
Suburban middle-aged middle-class white people. My condo building in Seattle has many middle-aged middle-class white people who are apparently quite comfortable living in the city.
It could also be that they're former "hackers" that were caught and turned into informants/employees/slaves in exchange for their eventual freedom. An example of this is Sabu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_%28hacktivist%29), who would have been sentenced to 124 years in prison, but instead decided to work for the FBI.
Chlorine has a clear justifiable use and is easy to remove. Hence, filtration is very popular and recommended to remove chlorine and other contaminants. Water treatment serves to bring a base level of safety. That which does not kill one quickly is not equivalent to that with which one should be satisfied.

Fluoridation, alternatively, is not easy to remove. Fortunately, I can afford distillation and reverse osmosis. Many other people can't. I'm not sure why you're so eager to medicate the water supply when more studies, decade after decade, present more negatives. Positive fluoride studies are notorious for conflating correlation with causation, especially in light of the more direct causation of cultural advances in education for merely brushing teeth as well as access to dental care. There is a lack of evidence showing significant variance in dental caries between fluoridated and non-fluoridated municipalities. That should alarm you. Fluoride accumulates. For whatever reason, you don't seem interested in its negatives.

Again...

Even if there are light or even startling benefits, it does not make valid the ethics of mass medication. You may feel strongly about wanting everyone to have fluoride. I suggest voicing your pro-fluoridation stance in a more positive way rather than advocating it be done through a water supply where it's very hard to remove, and compounds. Maybe advocate for "free fluoride tablets" and fluoride-filled toothpaste if you must. Don't include others in your treatment.
can someone explain what the big deal is with the smiley face?
Do you understand the concept of a example?
Just goes to show how much code quality contributes to a successful product.
Here's a sample that will let you authenticate using Facebook and then upload content to S3:

http://aws.amazon.com/developers/getting-started/browser/
Fair enough, back then the newer, sleeker jvm frameworks may not have existed. But now, perhaps there's no such excuse.

Maybe these options will become really compelling once Kotlin is released. It compiles to both the jvm and JS so it will hit the performance, convenience and "fun to write" sweet spots all at once...or so I hope.
That's the theory, I'll share my reality.

I'm here on an L1A visa with my spouse. She quit her high paying job and followed me here after our lawyers said that getting the visa was the hard part.

We have been waiting on her L2 work permit since May. Processing time is supposed to be three months. We called, scheduled an appointment with the USCIS, all that. They say it's being processed, and the lawyers say there is nothing to do but wait.

If you search the internet, you'll find plenty of people waiting to hear back from the USCIS for trivial stuff. Apparently, sometimes they even sit on your application for years, wait for the visa to expire, and then reject on that basis.
I don't know where you're getting this “out of bounds” thing from. I didn't tell anybody to shut up. I didn't tell them that they can't say what they're saying. And even if I did, it's not like I'm in any position of power to force them not have that discussion. I just alluded to the negative consequences of having such a discussion (yes, discussions on the Internet do not exist in a vacuum, and they do have material effects in the real world, therefore we have a responsibility to choose carefully what discussions we have and what we say). People can still choose whether or not they want to have it.

Edit: I know there is no malice intended in this, and it's not directly related to the discussion at hand, but I would appreciate it if people didn't assume that my preferred pronoun set was he/him/his. In general, it's best to use they/them/their unless you've been explicitly asked to use otherwise.
Sorry to divert off topic, though but: I wish local governments would start treating the Internet as a basic utility; like electricity. You'd have 2 entities involved: the government (PUC) which would, for a very basic rate, maintain your fiber; and an ISP which would actually route your traffic to/from the Internet. So, as a consumer, you'd pay a small amount ($5/mo?) for the fiber; and then depending on your service requirements, pay some gateway to get out to the 'net. This way, Comcast would just be a gateway provider. GW providers would offer different types of services to set them apart from each other (VPN? Movies? Music? etc.).

That's my dream. :-)
Licenses: pre-made LICENSE.md files for your project
"Adding more workers to a late software project makes it later"

see the Mythical Man Month.

I wonder if there's an additional scaling factor for gigantic government cluster fucks.

Yep, obamacare is doing nothing to provide more doctors.. just more computerized bureaucracy to boost IT salaries. But I hope we all know the government doesn't give a fuck about your health, or privacy....
Dealing with feature requests
... which has been Google's stated policy for quite some time now, so I'm not sure why you feel the need to be sarcastic about it.
Most of us aren't here to be the audience for whatever startups and sites that treat HN like a marketing tool. This morning when I checked HN there was 4 advertisements on the front page excluding the official yc hiring notices - exitround, envato, statuspage.io, aws.

42floors' the other week described HN's front page as part of their SEO campaign - we're literally being exploited just to boost their visibility on google.

It's making HN unattractive to me at least.

Note: I'm not talking about "Show HN" posts. Those I like because they generally tap HN for feedback.
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I had to look up the photo bomb thing, and found this:

http://teamcoco.com/video/chris-bosh-photobomb

It's refreshing when pro athletes in the U.S. can engage in an interview and come off as classy and intelligent.
There are many ways of defining success vs. failure, there are many ways of defining difficulty, and there are very different barriers to entry.
If you can not understand the difference between these instruments and a for example a Kawai MP10 than any discussion is meaningless.
"democracy was not structured to work this way"
That is my point - it is being corrupted.
Well, FWIW AirTran used to offer <$60 business class upgrades. Not sure if they still do.
Halloween Costumes Perfect for Programmers
It's not necessary to give up anything to go to that Laker game without worrying about terrorism. Just like it wasn't 20 years ago, when the threat was as great as it is today.

The only thing that has changed, is the bureaucracy acquired a massive amount of new money and power after 9/11 and they're unwilling to give any of it up. This despite the fact that the threat isn't even remotely as great as they've claimed for the past decade. The security theater production - eg most of what the TSA does at airports, in which they just pretend to work security - is meant to keep Americans living in constant fear.

The US Government's fear business has been booming, worth a couple hundred billion a year these days.
> Because every Android device running an certain version of an OS all have exactly the same functionality for the most part.

Google seems to be encouraging the opposite:

"A new API, ActivityManager.isLowRamDevice(), lets you tune your app's behavior to match the device's memory configuration. You can modify or disable large-memory features as needed, depending on the use-cases you want to support on entry-level devices.”

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html
And who decides what regulation exists?
Would your opinion change if a nuclear bomb was detonated in Houston, TX?
> Most people need to drive to work

I'm not sure that's actually true. Most people live in cities.

It may very well be the case, though, that most people driving need to drive to work, which is probably sufficient for your argument.
But you don't have to believe in the literal Christian creation story 7000 years ago. Most lines of Christian thought allowed for non-literal accounts as far back as the first century A.D.
Don't forget you will be building up an German pension as well.

I considered going for some dutch jobs one of the reasons woudl be I that I have the max no of qualifying years in the UK pension scheme.
No there isn't a line in the sand. It's a gray issue. Ideologies and society values change throughout the history, and there is not right or wrong answer in many of those cases.

Like a poster above mentioned, what IF thousands of lives are saved by sacrificing the privacy of a few million people? Is that worth it? If you say no, then what if I ask you the lives could be that of your loved ones?

Just want to stress from a different perspective, my family grew up poor in a 3rd world country, and they laugh at American's obsession with human rights and they just say "that's what people do if they never needed to worry about putting food on their table".

It's all a matter of perspective actually, and you will NEVER have a productive conversation without being able to understand what the other side is coming from.