skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I don't see how what the NSA is doing would not be unconstitutional and illegal. I don't care about the mechanics of how it's actually done but wiretapping requires probably cause and a warrant. Fishing expeditions are not legal. The fact that it's not listened to directly by a human but instead stored for later processing has nothing to do with the fact that it's wiretapping. Creating a secret court that is a rubber stamp of approval for broad warrants does not make it legal.

I actually wonder what would happen if the government was to prosecute someone where the only evidence they had was obtained via this illegal wiretap. Would the evidence gathered this way actually hold up. I know the point of this is not the due process but to detect terrorist plots, but the legal hypothetical is interesting.
It also uses some of the iOS APIs to download podcasts when you are not using your phone for extended periods of time. I listen to podcasts on my way to classes, and new episodes are already downloaded when I wake up.
It's a lot better, and easier, in Emacs 24.3.x. Just run

M-x customize-theme

And pick from a list of themes. New themes are installed via the new, built-in package manager:

M-x package-list-packages
I am so glad you mentioned Hailstorm. I was in MSN when that was announced and we just all looked at each-other and went back to writing our C++ code.
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Personally I kinda wish we could use different terminology for this. When the phrase "leak private information" is used, I think of Target losing my credit card info. In this case a more accurate title would be "Google Calendar Sometimes Sends Emails on Your Behalf which You May Or May Not Want." Granted this title sucks and is no where near any kind of quality link bait.
When, a few years ago, I really started to get serious about using Emacs, I spent three days or so going through the customization options for pretty much everything, or at least everything I could figure out at that time, and adjusting it to taste. Since then, I haven't had to touch it except for minor tweaks. Emacs is what they used to call "a moby frob"; some initial investment is required, and it took me three or four tries before I had the perseverance to stick with it, but the payoff has been handsome indeed.

As for slow starting, the best way to solve that is by running an Emacs server, and creating and killing client frames at need. You only pay the startup cost once that way, and all your editor instances share history, buffers, and everything else, which is sometimes handy, and doesn't get in your way otherwise.
The poster says in the first sentence of his post that it is Stripe [0] (his payment processor), not him, that stores the CC info.

[0] https://stripe.com/
Nothing you do online is really private. But maybe some of it should be. And if Google, Facebook, et al. hadn't been slowly lowering the bar of privacy protection, we might've had a more robust culture of privacy in Silicon Valley.
I was getting the same on lvl2, seems to be fixed now, so perhaps try again. The performance after it works does seem to be extremely variable though.
I haven't tried it since the previous version, but syncing a few directories with thousands of small files completely brought owncloud to its knees.
The type of database used didn't matter, the syncing just started taking longer and longer, and because it hadn't started an auto sync in the last 10 (I think it's default time is) minutes, it would start another and essentially never be able to finish attempting to sync.

Apart from that issue, I thought it was quite good, will have to give it another try.
yes

there was not enough characters in the title and i should have said profit
This is something I'd love, great idea.
Yep, same here. Had our first customers in February 2012 on Stripe. Glad it worked out, but we always knew it would :)
> I only live once, I can't afford to fix Italy.

I'm not happy to say this, but this has become my point of view since the last few years, too.
So THAT'S how they've been doing it. For the past week I've been inundated with spam events on my Google Calendar, it's been winding me right up.
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Like what organizations for example?
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I remember this being HUGE at disney hotels at the time. It was really awesome, but I can't say I knew of anybody personally that did have it.
Dirty water leads to clean future in Amazon village
I live in California. I still use my iPhone 4, which I bought over three years ago. It is the only cell phone I have.

I'm running iOS 7, and I don't see what the big deal is. Sure, the 5S feels snappier, but my old phone is still beautiful, solidly built, and easy to use.
That's roughly what I do, but it's too much fun to call it "crunching". Or is it the lack of deadlines? Hmm. It's a good thing with consulting though.
An excellent point; having a command line in your editor is something whose value is hard to recognize until you've tried it, and hard to overstate once you're used to it.

It might, though, be worth using the typical Emacs nomenclature for key sequences, i.e. M-x where you use 'MX' and (assuming your Command key is bound to Meta, as is ordinary for OS X Emacs users) M-. where you use 'CMD-.' -- your choice of preferred nomenclature is of course up to you, but using the standard forms makes it easier for other users, particularly neophytes such as the one to whom your advice here is directed, to understand what you're describing and relate it to the Emacs manual and to whatever other resources they're using.
Circumstantial evidence can be used for a conviction, so the absence of non-circumstantial evidence doesn't mean that there isn't evidence sufficient for a conviction.

And, even if the FBI could know that a hitman left a series of incriminating phone calls without already having evidence which could be admitted against the defendant of the content of those phone calls, a wiretap based on a warrant issued after the fact wouldn't recover those contents.

Further, I don't think anyone in the thread has argued that wiretaps aren't useful in criminal prosecution, the issue which started this was a poster expressing that it would be wonderful if wiretaps were categorically outlawed, which does not require believing that they aren't useful in certain circumstances. It could, for instance, proceed from the belief that the capacity is so likely to be abused covertly in circumstances where it is inappropriate if its existence is tolerated at all, that the usefulness it has in the circumstances to which it is appropriate is outweighed.
Well another minority might view strip teases as an act of empowerment and self expression, and be made alienated and uncomfortable by your sex-negative viewpoint. How would you balance the interests of these two minorities?
Yes, XML is data, but it allows you to specify where other data is located that should be included when processing it. These links can be to addition data, or to definitions of how to process the data in the document (XML entities). It's a simplification, but it's as if XML can have #includes, where the source of the #include is a URL, and can even be a file:/// URL.

So the attack looks like this: Server takes input from evil user, inserts it into an XML document in memory. The input is malicious, and contains not only XML data, but XML directives to include other documents, specifically /etc/passwd on the location machine. The XML document is processed, the contents of /etc/passwd are automatically read by the XML parser/processor. However the data is not in the correct format, and the XML parser/processor spits out a detailed error message, showing the data that could not be processed/parsed, which is the contents of /etc/passwd.

Make sense?
You could not hide slavery, a woman's inability to vote, internment camps, segregation, or any of these other things.

Spying on your own people, however, is something that has always been hidden in this country except the times it has arisen to the public eye (think of the communism-witch-hunts of American citizens by the government and fellow citizens).

... only to retreat and be hidden again and forgotten again.

At best, these people believe it is an obligated imperative to spy on our own citizens in order to keep them safe after the sickening mandate congress and the American public gave them weeks after 9/11 and ever since. "They are scared and they demand their government protect them, so we are going to protect them, even if it means violating everything we stand for".

At worst, they believe they need to control the public for their own benefit. Be that to accommodate lazy police work and law-enforcement work or to facilitate further abuse of the public at large by politicians and aristocrats. My vote is for a little bit of "at best" for the more naive and less involved politicians and "at worst" for those further to the inside. After all, there is nothing about spying on lovers, potential love interests, collecting dirt and blackmailing and threatening journalists, activists, and fellow politicians that is anything but vile and self-serving. Oh, and don't forget its primary use - not as a terror-prevention, but as a tool to protect American "economic interests" (if you recall the speech a few months ago, he listed "terrorism" as the last concern, after protecting our energy supply and then economic interest).

So I lean toward the more malevolent intent.

Either way, they will continue with this mindset and the only thing anyone will accomplish is some public dressing-down of certain scape-goats while the whole spying machine retreats back into the dark and continues to operate in silence.

Quite simply, none of us will ever know if they have actually stopped or not. Even if they do. Which they won't. They are above the law. Our only possible recourse is the widespread utilization of security measures that we must find a way to turn into common-practice. To the point that your great-grandmother wouldn't even think of sending a birthday card to little Billy without encrypting it.

Even that requires some degree of faith that the unlimited spending machine of the US Government (or the combined governments of Five Eyes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement), etc) haven't compromised its security. And assuming that utilization of such measures aren't simply outlawed (not an irrational concern, given that such security measures are -- or were a decade ago -- disallowed from inclusion in software for international distribution due to classification as a munition).
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
I'd like to see graphics inline, for example. Another one: in Emacs, to display inline docs, you either use the modeline, or a buffer, or a tooltip. It could be nicer... The amount of hackyness needed for adding something like a Markdown preview bothers me..

To me, LT could be Emacs with better rendering.

I really enjoyed learning Emacs, its a great design, like an open-world game. I want more apps to capture that.
I agree with you on several things:

[1] Actually I am a Rubyist and a Pythonista at the same time. I did not see the original post on the forum, so I just posted this one

[2] I am not sure if the favicon has anything to do with YouTube because I see the colours are slightly different. However, I may not argue for or against because it is of less significance to me

[3] "If there is still a high priesthood among programmers, it must be those few who know how to do this [i.e. develop a programming language]." - (Herbert Schildt, C - The Complete Reference). I think there is a big difference between the language and the creator. We may not like all languages (because of our personal preferences) but we need to respect the creators because just to create a programming language is not an easy job. So I do not think it is good to insult, exasperate, degrade or demean a creator of a language. Larry Wall is a good man just like Matz (Ruby), Dennis Ritchie (C), James Gosling (Java), Ken Thompson (B and Go), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), etc
Facebook was founded in February, 2004, almost exactly 10 years ago. A lot of those college students it started off with are already the soccer moms of today.
Privacy is not all or nothing. It is about context. Information _x_ may be shareable with person _p_, but might be an invasion of privacy if it is shared with other people.

So "not putting deeply private stuff in an email" is not practical in general. Even shallowly private stuff would become deeply private in a different context.
> Snowden chose to go to Russia. He just did not plan to stay there.

He chose to go through Russia. As far as I remember, Snowden wanted to get to Ecuador. There are not many ways to get there (from Hong Kong) without landing in a country that could easily extradite him. Landing in Moscow was probably the only way.
To throw another into the pot (Good guy stories beget good guy stories) I ordered something or other from Amazon which didn't arrive a few days later than their estimate, they sent me a new one for free.

Couple of days later both arrive, I offered to send one back they told me not to worry about it :)
Exactly. If I'm going to go with a particular carrier anyway, then it's better to go with a subsidized phone, unless I get a discount for bringing my own unlocked phone.

The error that nailer thinks I made, I did not make.
Agree with the less is more idea when it comes to configuration. An additional benefit to this is that it's more comfortable to use vanilla emacs when you need to work on hosts you don't typically use.
Every action has a reaction, while redistributing wealth seems like it would create a utopian world there are consequences and problems it would also create. These billions of dollars aren't simply sitting around in bank accounts doing nothing, they're being invested in companies which are (should be) providing some form of value to the world thus increasing the wealth of the world as a whole. If that money was taken and given to those less well off it could be squandered and then we're in a worse off position than now.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, it seems fantastic, but there are always consequences and the reason we have capitalism is because so far it's proven itself as the best method of improving the wealth of everyone (through technology and cheaper goods.
Ahh, I get it now. Pretty clever.
It immediately reminded me of the mini-mills example from Clayton Christensen's amazing talk on Disruptive Innovation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FxFfymI4g
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And don't you want the current weather to go alongside your Nyan, thanks to an Emacs minor mode inspired by a Hacker News comment?

https://github.com/aaron-em/weatherline-mode.el
I think they were referring to "she uses an alias on facebook".

I.e., Facebook requiring real names pushes the alias towards being a negative reputation component
> The data emerges from a study carried out in September 2013 of 450 British owners of smartphones

A thousand is generally accepted as the minimum significant sample for statistics, so this study may not be representative of the whole UK market.

However I'm typically in the case they describe : I'm a first time Android buyer and my next phone may well be an Apple.

There are a lot of apps that I see on iPhones that are not ported on Android.

Android particularly lacks a good GTD solution like Things and Omnifocus.
The word hack becomes cheaper and cheaper each day.
I like it! Some suggestions:

- Make the Pref / About etc. submenu an expandable item from the main menu instead of requiring an extra click (I know you were going for minimalism but it's not that intuitive)

- In the pref window list all the sorting options instead of adding a toggle for reversing direction

- Prompt to create or enter a token immediately on first run

- Auto load project list if there is no cache of it
I thought it was a fair question. You're being downvoted by overly-sensitive emacs junkies :)

I know I'm keeping an eye on lighttable (I'm an emacs users since forevs) -- it's definitely the only modern editor that seems geared to possibly being a match for emacs in the flexibility and customizability departments.

But of course, historically, emacs just incorporates whatever's interesting in other editors and continues on, more powerful than ever.

It's the borg of editors.
Sorry to be 'that guy', but this as old as Methuselah and not in any way related to tech... Can we keep the Buzzfeed fodder off HN?
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Yay mildly interesting graffiti ... in London you say? Oh holy cow whatageniusneedtotweetaboutthisomfg
Hello, I'm interested in contributing to django, could you please give me a few pointers ? The django ticket list is daunting for a newcomer, that I don't know what to start with. My email's in the profile, and I'll be checking this comment as well. Thanks.
There's a reason why I was using my G+ account pseudonymously.

However, when Google went out of its way to link up multiple accounts despite my telling them not to, the trust was broken. It's one thing to make an inadvertent disclosure yourself on some mailing list or another, it's quite another to have activities from multiple sources aggregated and de-anonymized for you.

I'm of an age which learned "you don't transact personal business online". I've found e-commerce, online banking, social networking, and the like to be highly curious in that regard, and the long tail of tears (yes, with many successes) to be rather predictable. Maintaining an offline separation for these activities isn't a perfect solution either, though it does generally provide me with plausible deniability and far fewer opportunities to worry about disclosure, though integrating surveillance into phones with integrated GPS tracking your location everywhere makes things a tad more difficult (read Stallman's many postings on this topic).

It's not that I'm planning on a life of crime or terror, but I've already seen my (largely professional / intellectual) online activities come back to me, and by disassociating myself from what I do in my online an offline life (much as you describe), I'm sparing myself that pain.

Facebook is arguably worse than Google in this regard, but both companies have a positively autistic lack of emotional comprehension over this issue.
Definitely not for first time and far from being news - http://stickersonthecentralline.tumblr.com/ from Oct '12
Of course. Everyone there's best. (Cheers).
Slow emacs startup isn't a problem thanks to the new emacs-server stuff. Running emacs with the "--daemon" flag will cause it to do initialization, fork into the background, and become persistent; now edit files using commands like "emacsclient $filename". Eamcsclient will connect to the daemonized emacs server and have it open $filename, bringing it forward either in an existing frame or (using the "-nw" or "-nc" flags) creating a convenient new frame to edit with. Not only does this give you the ability to get into emacs without going through init, the server will maintain all of your editing in the same process so you don't have to manage editor instances.
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>>>> Up until the 90s the KGB was paying hackers to hack U.S. servers of interest. This is documented in Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg.

Interesting you bring this up. When I read Levy's book, "Hackers" in the late 1990's, he made it seem like Koch and his buddies were more or less thrill riding and trying to make a quick buck on the side by selling information to the KGB. I think he even mentions the stuff they gave the KGB was pretty worthless.

If I remember correctly, Levy even downplayed Stoll's book and the work he did, minimizing the importance of the arrests that followed.

There is a some controversy about how Koch died, and many think the KGB may have been involved:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_%28hacker%29

"Koch was found burned to death with gasoline in a forest near Celle, Germany. The death was officially claimed to be a suicide.[2][3] However, some believe there is little evidence supporting suicide and many believe that Koch was killed in order to keep him from confessing more to the authorities. Why Koch would be targeted and not Pengo and Urmel is unknown."
I'm considering making the same move (US to Dublin). I'm an EU citizen, so no visa issues.

What resources would you recommend for job hunting / networking?
+1. Please flag.
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When they have evidence collected from these sources, they basically pretend it's from other sources. See "parallel construction."
HP's WebInspect, a blackbox testing tool, also can find XXE's. However, as the OP shows, XXE's can be tricky and involve a lot of nuance to cox them out. General dynamic testing tools aren't as good at uncovering XXE's as static analysis tools.

Disclaimer: I used to work on WebInspect's audit engines
I was very much into this article until the end, when they started blaming white males for all their problems.
Lest anyone be confused by that headline, there are 6 other nonprofits in the current batch. So there is a 7-way tie for 2nd nonprofit.
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I don't think you have a good understand of IBM's business.

IBM is divesting its low margin hardware business. Currently, IBM's gross profit margin is 51% driven mainly by software sales, services, and global finance. IBM wants to jettison lower margin business units (margins have been falling in hardware for years, it's a race to the bottom) and instead focus resources on the more profitable business units.

"They are now moving up-market to software and services..."

IBM is not moving up-market, they've been "up market" for many many years. Low margin hardware revenue has been quite behind software and services for many years. IBM has not failed to see it, instead, this is a move anybody paying attention has known was coming for years.
Emacs supports inline graphics; you don't see the capability used all that often, but it certainly exists, and has done for quite some time.

Inline documentation doesn't seem all that desirable in the first place; from the screenshots I've seen, it looks like it would get in the way, which documentation in a separate buffer doesn't do. (I'm half tempted to implement inline documentation for Emacs Lisp mode as a proof of concept, mind you, but I really don't see the point of it.)
Finland - maybe, anywhere else - meh. I see sometimes people with Windows Phones, but Android is ruling in the Europe. Nice table here:

http://cdn3.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/12/...

I guess people who don't have money might buy Windows Phones as they are slightly cheaper (subsidies from MS?) but that is considered poor choice.
how about not trying to make money off of people who forget to cancel in the first place..
That is good advice. Let's see a change to all the peivacy policies so it is made clearer.

"Anything you enter might be leaked. We might not warn you before we leak your information. We have complex confusing interactions between your accounts on all our services, and we hide the settings pages, but if any information is lealed then LOL that's your fault".

I kind of feel sorry for Google here - it's the 21st centuary and people are still persecuted for their sex or sexual preference. Part of the outrage is misplaced here - why the hell should she feel the need to hide such a fundamental aspect of herself from her colleagues?

But then again, who cares what the reason was? She wasn't trolling or abusive or trying to male the Internet a worse place, so let her use whatever name she wants and stop linking everything together.

There are much better ways of doing unified accounts that the mess that Google has given us.