skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the fact that he leaked a lot of details about NSA surveillance of foreign governments diminishes his moral high ground. That is the stated mission of the NSA and while the details are highly classified, everyone knows that they're doing it and agrees it should be done as a matter of policy.

Er, no actually. Most people actually believe the NSA should keep their dirty fingers and prying eyes to themselves.

The only ones arguing differently are Americans somehow under the delusion that they are alone on this planet. Thankfully, taken on the whole they are a minority.

But go ahead, asserting that my private information should be free to be vacuumed up and abused for whatever purposes your shady intelligence organisations need.

For some reason you think there's an imaginary line to be drawn between US citizens and other human beings. You have a right to privacy, and the rest does not. Superiority much? Kind of a stupid thing to say, on an international forum, IMHO, showing your true colours, US vs "Them", etc. This is the 21st century, wouldn't you like to be able to look each other in the eye?

Joke's on you, however. Because don't for a moment believe that this shadowy government organisation "of yours" shares your ideas about how US citizens somehow have more rights to privacy than other human beings. "Stated mission" or not, they're in it for the power and money, and have done and will do anything they can get away with.

And if you'd have been paying attention instead of sitting back convincing yourself "hey at least they're fighting on my side", you might have noticed that this "moral high ground" is there for a reason. It's also sometimes called a "moral compass" for a reason, because you can use it to make right decisions when you can't know who to trust.

Snowden couldn't have leaked just one without the other either. Not to the same great effect. That's a hint right there. Because the imaginary line doesn't really exist, leaking just the "spying on US citizens" bit and not the rest, would have been so incredibly disingenuous--it's the whole Internet, silly!!--it could only have been done by someone with much less of a moral backbone than Snowden has. And then it wouldn't have gotten the exposure needed, coverage by the Guardian/Greenwald, a leftist UK paper, speaking ill of the US? Ridicule and ignore. No, it had to be the whole picture.

The rest of the world's outrage is actually helping you, you understand?

The NSA, they're not actually working for you, you understand that too? If there is any Us vs Them, we are in fact on the same side.
My Preemptive Strike at Google
When I switched away from MS Office apps to Apple's equivalents, it was such a pain googling for help in "Numbers" and "Pages". The app names are so generic it was frustrating finding relevant results.

How do I "insert page numbers in Pages"?

How do I "round down in Numbers"?

Edit: I guess "Word" is not much better.
Our First Week: Learning from a soft launch
http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/10/pew-democrats-cool-with-ns...
Actually the major issues are; low atmospheric pressure and radiation (which is related to atmosphere density, as is temperature).

So live underground in air-tight domes, at least in the beginning before industry takes off.

To actually fix the cold, pressure and breath-ability? My bet is on either a heavily optimized artificially created vegetation that exploits Mar's soils enough to generate greenhouse gases, or, more realistically, shit loads of (or massive) machines doing that same thing. Here's to hoping 3D printing-esque evolutions in technology and automation permit this to happen within 150 years instead of 500.
You can outsource your work before he does.
Generous is an unreasonable word to use in this context. Their profit margins though, those are generous.

"Elsevier made $1.1 billion in profit in 2010 for a profit margin of 36%."

https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-acc...
>give secret ssl key to cloudflare

meh
Abusing Bloom filters for fun and profit (and search)
No, because it's a kernel google didn't invent with a runtime that uses a language they didn't create and has borrowed a lot of ideas from a competing OS that beat them to market.

Android is important. Is it really innovative? I don't see how.
I can't wait to rip out my "client => server => SQS => queue processor => S3 => redshift" flow and turn it into a "client => kinesis => redshift" flow.

Web scale analytics capturing just got way easier.
Seconding this. Ali Soufan's book is fantastic and extremely readable.
$250 for a full day of both devs and designers, plus some kind of product manager to work through the idea? Can't say it's not cheap. I have my doubts you'll end up with anything impressive though. Would be nice for someone to give it a try and post the results.

EDIT: To clarify, I have doubts because it is cheap. Generally a team which can build good mobile apps would have no need to try and get work for $250 a day when there are companies who would pay them 5x or 10x that - so the low price creates a feeling that the work must be low quality even if its not. You guys might be underpricing severely here...
That would't work - the main reason they use a subsidiary is so that they can play around with tax.
but doesn't this mean that all the other peers would need to manually upgrade their copy of the torrent file?
I'm not even sure what it explicitly means. I interpret it as 'miffed' or 'vindictively annoyed', but I don't really know.
Getting the 40-hour week took a revolution in France, Mexico and Russia, an incipient revolution in the UK and Chile, industrial action in Australia, Portugal and New Zealand...

If you really want to argue that the 40-hour work week was the product of benevolent capitalists I think you have to try a bit harder. Perhaps there's an Ayn Rand blog somewhere with some made-up facts you can use?

And yes, I linked to the website of a union.

The IWW worked tirelessly to bring about the 40-hour work week, as well as other fun bits like "weekends" and "workplace safety" (probably Ford's ideas too, right? -_-). I'd say they're in a better position to comment than either you or the author of the original misguided article.
TED is brilliant - I've sat there many times and said 'wow' after the talk. I've also worked for a lot of councils and education authorities in the UK and sat in on some evangelical 'how to improve kids education' meetings.

Both exhibit the same moment of 'insight' that people crave. It's like the 'idea' alone is the objective and now everyone can go home.

We lack a mobilizing 'do' component in this flow of peoples attention - what that is I dunno - a TedDone conference? In councils it was 'right - so, everyone back to work'.
> Would you agree with yourself if we were all in North Korea knowing what we know?

That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't agree if we were in North Korea, but I will if we're talking about a third world country where the alternative to no public education is simply no education. What I see where I live is that where there is no public education, kids end up joining drug trafficking gangs, or end up crack addicts. If we're talking about Northern Europe, sure, go ahead, abolish public education, I won't be worried, I'm all for personal freedom from the state where it isn't irresponsible. It's just that some places, if you take away the state's presence, there are other forces with high interests in taking over that space where the state used to be.
Are you telling me that CSS can now make nice animated wobbling circles but still can't center in a sane way?

(Nice work, btw, like the animations =)
I thought that but Hacker News tends to be a good source of knowledge, inspiration and time saving ideas and products.

Granted there's a 1/5 chance of finding something golden but you break even eventually.

Other places, not so much.

About the only things I read are: HN, LWN and occasionally the Guardian.
Self-directed programming and computer science study through MOOCs (part I)
I guess we're looking for well-scoped projects that are within what we are able to execute. We're a team of 4, and we can get quite a lot done, including UX and backend instead of just an app. What you get is 4 specialists who will focus on your project for a short amount of time, and what they think they're capable of executing.
In the sequel they go on a Bogus Journey and encounter death.
Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers
I'm the guy who says "poke the SMTP server" rather than validate the email address.
looks like a problem with my chromium as firefox is almost idle when displaying the indicators.
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Very nice idea, but useless to me since it's US only.
Is there a global or at least europe support planned?
Replay protection isn't about DoS attacks. Replay protections is about re-injecting previous messages to confuse recipient.
Noooooooooooo as web component
Make sure to enable web experiments in your browser. Hacked together within 15 min.
Just another reason I like my all natural biocide soap which doesn't cause resistance[1]. It is made in SF and organic and called Cleanwell.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanwell#Active_Ingredient
What are you quoting from? That text doesn't appear in the linked article.
I could be wrong, but I doubt it will happen. Government won't go against the US like this.
Unfortunately in BT's case the PRP system (aka stack ranking) shows evidence of discrimination against these groups.

It's also very easy to manipulate and leads to massive gaming on the system one guy i knew was going for a promotion and was spending so much time in prep that as my boss said "he hasn't done any real work in the last 6 months"
Co-founder here. We got really, really good at building pretty decent apps in a hackathon timeframe. That's what we're offering - nothing more or less.

I'm going to offer a freebie for HN users - the top reply to this comment which is a project we can take on and build, we'll do for free.
Slower algorithms?!

All popular KDFs (PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt) are adaptive (tunable). You choose the number of iterations.
I take it from your answer that you haven't read the court decisions I mentioned?

That's okay, I haven't read all of them either.

E911 data is a subset of geodata. US. v Jones concerns tower data, which the business captures as part of its normal business. This is not under mandate from the government.

"A majority of courts" (quote from p9) "have concluded that the acquisition of historical cell site location data pursuant to the Stored Communications Act‘s specific and articulable facts standard does not implicate the Fourth Amendment, regardless of the time
period involved."

By your argument, since the phone companies are not compelled to store this historical geodata, then it's okay for the police to access these records.

"I don't find a substantial difference..."

Congratulations. But there is a substantial difference anyway. Trespassing on someone's car, in order to plant a tracking device, is quite different than, say, tailing someone to get the same information. The courts have said that the first is illegal. The second is definitely not illegal, even though it provides the same information.

I understand that you want a limited, very technical distinction on what information law enforcement cannot get from cell phone data. You base your argument on similarity to what land lines provide.

In doing so, you reject the 10 pages from this most recent legal opinion of Judge Leon which characterize why this similarity is not appropriate.

In doing so, you ignore other technical ways that law enforcement can and does get geodata from mobile phones even without using government mandated methods like E911. The government can bypass the phone company entirely and use IMSI catchers. By your logic, which only looks to see if the government is compelling a person or company to do something, then IMSI catchers are acceptable.

Would you kindly read some of the relevant court judgements, hopefully starting with this most recent one by Judge Leon, and comment with regards to them?
Go to the websites of well-respected university computer science programs and browse their research groups; for instance, go to MIT's site, and then check out PDOS. University research group sites usually have indexes of projects, each of which has a bunch of papers backing it. Read the web pages to see if the project is interesting, then read the first paper, then decide whether you should get your hands dirty with the concepts.
Or you can read this in its original form, as a StackOverflow answer: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/43369/best-pract...
Thank you very much for providing actual evidence as opposed to speculation. However, there is room for interpretation here, and I am not sure the evidence is quite as conclusive as you seem to suggest. Its not strange at all for published articles on the bleeding edge of science to be shown later to be incorrect. And there are some things that hit me when looking at the abstracts.

For example, in that first study observing behavior from six females and two males seems enough to suggest that there is a "greater female interest in infant care, with stick-carrying being a form of play-mothering". Unfortunately, I don't think that is quite enough conclusive evidence to make any conclusions about chimpanzee behavior beyond those particular individuals, let alone that of the entire family of great apes.

In that third study, I seriously question the gendered objects. A toy pot might be a girl toy in human society, but I question whether the same is true in vervet monkey society. Do vervet monkeys hold a sterotype for female vervet monkeys cooking with a pot in the kitchen, before they invent cooking, pots or kitchens? And I don't understand how it is that a plush toy is female, but a stuffed dog is ungendered.

I'd be interested in reading the full papers if anyone can pass on links to the full papers. I'm sure I remember coming across these same studies previously.

I suspect that negative results are not actually published and there is a lot of existing pressure to confirm existing cultural beliefs in order to actually get published. Look at what happened to the Harvard President Lawrence Summers when he questioned whether women have less aptitude for science. There is a lot of emotion behind this (and I won't deny being very biased myself). Though I have to admit that the evidence does point towards a gendered difference in toy preference, I just felt the need to question its conclusiveness.
Here you go: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/butthurt
I don't think the article mentions it, but in addition to the tips in the article, stay away from wireless or bluetooth connections, remove the card(s) if possible... While it might seem tin foil hat, any over-the-air communication is fairly trackable (not saying wired isn't). And while your computer or device tries to connect to a network, The control packets sent out to channel 0 will even send a list of preferred networks you've connected to in the past...
As equally as we can say Capitalism hasn't panned out either since the banks needed bailing out.
We don't want to narrow down scope to very discrete things. We're a tight-knit team, and we've built many things in a 24hr timeframe. We regularly win practically every hackathon in Bangalore. So odds are, we'll often find a way to do things.

That said, we're probably not the best suited for projects were prior context is important, such as integrating with an existing private API.
This is how SSL works if you use Cloudflare. You have to hand them your private key. Also the article doesn't state this, I would guess they mean that everyone on their service should use ssl (maybe they will enable ssl on their free plan or something). I may be wrong, lets see what they will write on their blog.
Well, as long as you don't own a company worth stealing you don't get problems with the police (and other organized crime)? :-)

I've only been to gay parties a few times in my life. Very depressing, since they have much more fun than we hetero people. You feel a bit ashamed even, for your "preferences". :-( It doesn't matter, since (at least for Sweden) they have horrible music taste, Eurovision is the least bad component.
OpenSUSE 13.1 released with GNOME 3.10 already :P
Some discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6918845 (sciencemag.org)

Other submissions of other sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6920163 (scientificamerican.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6919419 (livescience.com)
Rule of thumb: If you ever find yourself asking "Could there be political motivations?", the answer is almost always yes.
I really don't understand any of the points in "Your Environment".

> Never use Tor from home, or near home. Never work on anything sensitive enough to require Tor from home, even if you remain offline. Computers have a funny habit of liking to be connected…

How exactly? The entire point of Tor is that such stuff should not matter since the first node doesn't know what you have requested.

> And while the jackboots are very unlikely to show up the same day you fire up Tor at Starbucks, they might show up the next day. I

Yeah, no. Wait, what?

> I recommend for the truly concerned to never use Tor more than 24 hours at any single physical location; after that, consider it burned and go elsewhere.

No?
We are planning outbound and inbound US shipments soon but not within Europe. Did you check UK based www.parcel2go.com?
Best would be a replaceState: would not break back button, would allow deep linking.
The final 20% always takes the longest...
Edward Snowden to seek asylum in Brazil
I think he (and others here) are being too hard on TED. TED is not a forum for research or a focused campaign for change. It's a forum for 15 min talks. It's an educated sort of entertainment where some interesting ideas get shared. The author claims to have something better in mind. I hope he builds it. I'll sign up. Until then, when I want to unwind, I'll watch a little TED instead of Breaking Bad.
I assume the code is passed over once completed, so this is a good service if just to get an app off the ground...
If the only existing mechanism for ADSL delivery is down a twisted copper pair that BT own, then it seems reasonable to pay BT for the use of that line. What's actually annoying is the way that you can't rent a line without buying a phone service as well.
If you're communicating with a CyanogenMod WhisperPush user.
Actually map reduce as a programming paradime predates Google by a long way - Dialcom/BT where using it back in the 80's for billing systems.
Good luck, and your first page is golden:

joe@alchemist~$ rethinkdb
joe@clockwerk~$ rethinkdb -j alchemist:29015

Just guessing, but joe is probably a Dota fan :)
Yes, we deliver code & assets once the product is completed. You have exactly the right idea - we help get the product off the ground, and create quick MVPs.
Well, at JetBrains almost all oral communication takes place in Russian, while written is expected to be in English. And we have pretty stark engineering influence on culture, so corporate language is most of the time received with raised eyebrows.
Don't really like Whonix, a bunch of VMs stacked on each other for critical isolation. I'd rather use a hardware firewall box running openbsd or portal by thegrugq. What kind of RNG is being handed out by the Tor daemon Whonix VM that has no human interaction too.
Tor is far from perfect. Even if Tor does everything it's meant to. People can still compare when you're using your internet on Tor and when you doing activities online (on Tor). What this person is saying does make sense.
on the network connection

They do use forward secrecy on SSL, but not on the messages themselves.
As I understand it, this is very similar to Linkedin's Kafka.

To understand how you would use it, read some of the kafa docs: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction
I remember writing mappers in Pl/1G which appear to be much easier than this bloody Java :-)
World's first standing classroom
Facebook launches auto-play video ads on news feeds
"A pre-print of an article typeset using LaTeX on the academic's own machine is not under their copyright, and yet they're demanding take-down notices of such pre-prints hosted on 3rd party machines."

I have no position in this battle, but misinformation is misinformation: who has copyright on pre-prints is entirely immaterial. Authors, in order to get published in an Elsevier journal, 1) promise they didn't publish it before (with exceptions) and 2) promise not to redistribute the final paper or its preparatory versions after it has been published. They also agree to not allow anyone else to redistribute any of that in case, through whatever channel, it gets out. So this is purely a matter of Elsevier holding the author to their end of the bargain. Said author is entirely free to not enter into it in the first place, of course.
Well, Skype, which is currently tapped by the NSA, is being used in Microsoft's Xbox and Kinect. So, much like in the book 1984, people have cameras in their living rooms.

The difference is that in 1984, the cameras were put there by the government. Today, people themselves unknowingly put those cameras there.
Yep. This library is the very application and example of H. L. Mencken's:

> There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

often paraphrased as "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
As someone that grew up on a farm (and a data point of 1), I am pretty damn healthy and very rarely ill.

My wife on the other hand grew up in a spotlessly clean house, and has a range of allergies, asthma, coeliac disease, allergic to asprin and anaesthetics.
FBI also once had a carrier OTA update somebody's internet usb stick to broadcast their location
That is an issue but how do you combine this with not connecting from your home? I would hope that as long as you keep care with your preferred networks and only connect over Tor the idea of using lots of cafe wifi spots is better than just using your own wired internet?
That is entirely besides the point. This is a contractual matter, not copyright.
Facebook Billionaire Sean Parker Hates The World He Helped Create
Mhm, there seems to be no service offering that for Germany. I even checked the local Postservice (DHL) and their API doesn't seem to support that kind of features
My favourite Disney book is "The Illusion of Life" which is written by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson, 2 of Disney's "nine old men"

The first chapters deal with the creation of the Snow White film, and the startup culture within the Disney studios at that time.

Co-incidentally, both authors are referenced in the film The Incredibles (the original subject of the OP's post)
Ubuntu Touch and User Privacy
We're based in Bangalore. I'm a product manager with 6 yrs' experience in the valley building salesforce.com's first social products & Digital Chocolate's first social games. My co-founders have worked at Yahoo, InMobi & TAT. We're offering short timeframes and low prices because we can afford to (being in India), and have no patience for negotiating rates.
Windows 7 as a Wireless Access Point
University Lecturer Opens New Interaction Design Course Curriculum on Github
The CLDR provides locale-specific formats for some datum types (IIRC numbers, dates, and durations). These formats can probably be reversed into the corresponding regular expression in order to perform locale-aware data detection.

Of course further complexity is added in people being able to provide partial and context-dependent information, which is much harder to detect e.g. "December 3rd"