skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a positive day for the freedom of information and I am happy to support it, make the calls and emails, and tell friends about it.

I also think framing it as a one day campaign where the “fighting” involves passive action at the individual level is not a game winning strategy. It is still a great rallying signal though, and its effects have already gone beyond the single day, and for every person too lazy to change their avatar back, they will carry on for a good while longer in some way.

However, the motivation for the average person to even think about engaging such an overwhelming and invisible force as mass surveillance is very close to zero. For those who are willing, involvement seems to be passive (donating to a more capable organization, hitting a like button, resharing links), bursty (waiting for organized events to rally around), or demoralizing (low visibility of opponent, lack of support from uninterested peers or locals, extremely slow and indirect feedback loop for any action).

For these reasons, I hope that a campaign modeled as a constantly running open source game engine emerges, because that is actually just the bare minimum required for victory - to at least continue playing the game as long as your opponent is playing, no matter whether you are winning or losing at the moment.

A game model will at least make undeniably clear that there exists a thing worth playing for (your personal information perhaps), that there are actual opponents who can and will take this thing from you, and the visibility and mechanics needed for you to take action to protect that thing.
Thanks for the comment. I agree that tools go obsolete quickly. But it occurs to me that debugging is both a set of tools but also a knack.

I'm curious what you think about how to teach the knack.
Same error here, but `ls' works:

./mbox ls
test
> /tmp/sandbox-14587

./mbox -- wget google.com

Stop executing pid=14629: It's not allowed to call mmap on 0x400000
Sandbox Root:
> /tmp/sandbox-14625

BTW, I'm on Arch:

Linux colossus 3.12.9-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 31 10:22:54 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Wow that is nicely done - front page HN - ~700 concurrent users and I'm having fun playing! Good Work!
The review systems on the app stores, and internet comments more generally do have a tenancy to bring out the hate, and the article does a great job of exploring the effects of this.

As people who designs user interfaces and interactions, I wonder what we can do to bring out more respectful reviews and comments, to remind users of the human on the other side of the app...
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Neither did the Amiga, but that didn't stop it appearing. Note, the "restart Workbench" dialog there was for restarting the gui, not the operating system. It you wanted to reboot, you just did a three finger salute.

I like how the mouse pointers change according to which window you are hovering over.
There definitely seems to be – my local ISP runs ads like this: http://rcn.com/j/rcn-supercharges-your-netflix-experience

Since I live in a neighborhood where FIOS, Comcast and RCN are all competing this is particularly attractive – we get rock-solid HD quality on Netflix and the Comcast customers are usually complaining about quality. I'm hoping this strategy proves successful…
Thanks. Quickly glanced over this page (I wasn't aware of this option, I admit) but can anyone tell me if the conversion pixel is just a tracker for conversion, or whether it actually affects ad serving? I know on google it does.

Anecdote: once had a Google advert that resulted in many more clicks, but another advert was served more. When I inquired about this, google staff explained that the other advert had fewer clicks, but resulted in more (or actual) revenue. I did not have to manually track the results of the campaign and adjust, it was adjusted for me.
FirstLook plans to earn money by selling technology solutions rather than through its journalism (which is not for profit). With that in mind, one would have expected something a little more 'innovative' on the technology side for their first publication.
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Well I haven't say or hypothesized why is that so.

Chimpanzees and crows can make tools, we make tools that make tools that make tools.

Animals have language(s), we have several highly symbolic languages. Ours is just more sophisticated.

I'm pretty sure there are examples of animals empathizing, humans can empathize with a large part of biosphere.

There is nothing that fundamentally divides us. Or you can say that humans are nothing special. It's just we have more most mental tasks at greater lengths and do it more consistently. That's all.
Only France, hm? Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=language+academies&l=1

Just because English borrows words more easily than most other languages ("We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Nicoll) and has no central language regulating authority, doesn't mean all languages ought to work the same way.

Complaining that the French say "disque dur" instead of "hard disk" is just silly, because "disque dur" means "hard disk" in French. It's a literal translation. There's no reason to use an English term when there's a perfectly good French one available! Why don't you use a German loanword and call it a Festplattenlaufwerk in English?
In my opinion, the front page should really, really highlight the call-back-and-show-script feature. Sending this out to family and friends, this is the piece I really want them to see.
I have generally ignored this flappy bird malarkey, but this sucked me right in. Nicely done!
Not working on Firefox nor Chrome on Win7, is it slammed by traffic?
These instructions have been put together recently - mostly in January this year. It's an ongoing effort to include as much useful communications software as possible.
Just because someone has a 15Mbps connection doesn't mean Netflix will eat it all up - Netflix will use the minimum bandwidth needed to stream the quality of video being watched. Sounds like it is working great in this case.
The robots are coming
You change your number every year? Why? If it's a privacy issue surely it's more important to change your facebook account every year.
Assuming you're not trolling, why would you not assume this about Hacker News as well? This place has practically become a hangout for armchair dissidents, and employees from many large tech companies are known to post here. It would make the perfect honeypot.
A disappointing effort by Taibbi, usually does a lot better. Way too much exaggeration.

Its a dying city because its population dropped about 0.3% per year. Like saying my blood pressure has dropped about 1 point due to some (minimal) exercise in the last month, therefore I'm dead. And then later on the population is now booming because of white heroin addicts moving into the city, but its also dying anyway at the same time or some foolishness.

The rust belt was news and new and insightful in 1970 or so. Unfortunately its almost the spring of 2014. That's all ancient history. Like reading breathless reporting of the activities of Martin Luther (not MLKjr, I mean the original ML). My grandpa thought stories about "rust belts" are "news", and I'm not that young anymore.

"Not long ago" means a century ago, in a nation with a 24 hour news cycle. Uh huh. Just a few moments ago I was driving my covered wagon to work and ... oh wait.

There is some insight in the "future is already here, just unevenly distributed" aspect of the story. Also its got some "true crime" voyeurism.

He's a good writer, usually better than this. If joe average journalist wrote this I wouldn't be as... offended. For my local fishwrap of a newspaper this would be an average tolerable article, which might be why its going out of business slowly, the point is he usually does much better than this.

It is funny to see articles like this on a site with so many hard core followers of urban living. For 99% of the population, Camden is "real urban living" not SV/SFO and NYC. So you can see the disbelief bordering on laughter WRT urban revival. Yeah I can't wait until I can live in Camden and walk to work LOL, sounds like paradise. And Camden is a thousand miles from here, but where I live you need a car and a suburban house and a (short) commute if you don't want to live in Camden-Lite. And that's what the real world is like.
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I wonder if this is a part of an attack that has been targeting private torrent trackers recently.

A lot of private trackers lately have been getting hit by DDOS attacks. To the point that a few have taken on extra developers/admins which have openly stated their primary goal is to deal with said attacks.

One in particular that has a large user base (35,000 active users) has been experiencing difficulties and is also customer of CloudFlare. This might be one reason why CloudFlare is hesitant to give out details.

The "French networking host" (OVH) that is mentioned in the article is one of the largest suppliers of seedboxes I known of. Usually indirectly through smaller companies who buy from OVH and then provide support and server management services. In fact, this is so widely known within the private P2P community that "being on the OVH network" is actually a selling point due to the sheer amount of peers that you'll be getting ridiculously high speeds with.

Of course, it could all just be a coincidence too.
And I might add that double the salary is a good reason to re-negotiate. You're not jumping for 5-10K, which may be reason not to negotiate ("Hey, he's jumping at the drop of a hat, if I keep him he'll jump at the next offer"), but when you're looking at a severe discrepancy in valuing an employee, it's worth the discussion. For most people a 2x salary is something you can't put down, even if you absolutely love your job. I think most people would understand and if you have a good transition plan you won't burn any bridges.

The counter may or may not be the full 2x. They may counter lower and try to keep some fuzzy items like "You know what it's like here, you enjoy your job", etc.

The counter may involve more responsibility. Why is company Y valuing you at double? Do they expect you to take on different responsibilities? That's definitely going to be a factor in the discussion.
lol It's so slow with 800 players I can't even see where my bird is.
The thing that seems to be missing from most people's argument is that the cost doesn't go away if you move to a single-payer healthcare system. You still pay for that $75k in the form of higher taxes and higher prices... it doesn't get erased. Wanting a non-standard treatment and not being approved won't change with single-payer... you'll still have to sell everything you own to pay for it.
As others pointed out I'm not the author of this wonderful video.
> I think we are going to see a major showdown over legality of encryption generally within the next few years with a push for legally required back-doors ...

<boggle> History, people. History. This showdown already happened and the intelligence services lost.
This is really, really, well done. It'd be nice with some simple styling, to not make it look too "alpha-geek" to the wider tech sphere. Otherwise, cracking work.
Yes, that's the intention. Anyone with minimal skills should be able to follow the instructions in a straightforward way.

Until such time as FreedomBox or maybe ArkOS are in a more developed condition this is about the best I can manage.
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Lets not forget that while Hitler and Stalin were playing their games, ordinary citizens of Germany and Russia did not vote for any war, hyperinflation, police state (neither imperial, nor soviet), collectivization etc. One regime was pushing people in the poverty, another one was using the faults of the predecessor to justify its own evildoing.

Debating whether Stalin really helped Russia by killing some generals and starving ukrainian farmers to death is pointless. Several high-rank psychopaths in Europe were manipulating people left and right with carrots and sticks. That's the main concern, not any particular tactic used by any one of them to achieve their own goals.
You're simulating a full game of poker. Once a player has been given card 'i', you have to ensure that card 'i' isn't drawn again during the game.
You could maintain a set containing all cards that have already been drawn, and re-select your random number if you draw a duplicate, but that's going to get awfully laggy once large numbers of cards have been drawn.
Pull requests for corrections or installation sequences are welcome.
I heard about Kiva long before I learnt about zidisha (in fact, i learnt by accident after a google search on phone tools landed me on zidisha)but I never had a chance to meet up with Kiva field officers in over six months. So naturally zidisha got my attention from August 2013 to date. I also cannot say much about KivaZip. A friend told me about it but when i went online I found out that someone at KivaZip had to read your "expression of interest to join" then on their on discretion offer you a chance. Its been 3 months of waiting for a email reply ever since, apparently, KivaZip responds almost immediately on "Trustee-ship" requests. As a result am on my third loan at zidisha. Here is a link to my current loan that is 21% repaid https://www.zidisha.org/microfinance/loan/Shehi/4590.html . in addition, at zidisha we have a very lively and transparent forum that gets everything sorted fast (http://zidisha.org/forum/members/samuel-shehi.1253/ ) I am grateful that I found zidisha in time to help my stagnating business. Through zidisha loans, I have co-financed power connection ($400) with a business patner to lower operation cost of my business (I previously rented power connection from a nearby business), I have paid the deposit($120) for a laptop that I use on frequent power outages in my town (mazeras,kenya). I dont know what I would have done without Zidisha loans, they look real small but they really assist me. In contrast, I would have to depend on very expensive loans form Milango, SMEP or KWFT loans here. Thank you zidisha lenders for subsidized loans without collateral requirement, (i had no collateral).
I am David founder at ManageYum! Well will bring the data in, which needs their attention on day to day basis. We would be using the same technical jargons related to the services so they don't have anything new to learn.
I am at 200. Who can catch me? :)
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This might be niave of me, but couldn't he just accept his $50,000 a day and simply not read the hate he was getting? It's not like he has to go on the computer every day - he could just do something else for a couple of weeks (at the most) until it all dies down and be $mucho better off.

I spent longer than the three days he's supposed to have spent on my latest game[1] and I would love a response like he's got.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplyappe...
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I found this on 4chan.
The creator said to go ahead and post it elsewhere but didn't seem interested in sharing the source or anything.

Though I'd imagine this will be backlinked at some point.
Just something i started this morning, so very much in a proof of concept phase...let me know what you guys think.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here and suggest that if political involvement is what we're shooting for, robo-calling your representatives isn't the best way to achieve true reform.

Pissed that the NSA (or insert gov agency here) is running amok? Get involved in your government, vote out the lawmakers who let/made [it] happen, and advocate for and vote in representatives who will invoke the change you want.

Appealing to the public in this manor encourages laziness and while it may be "practical" (as we can't expect everyone to throw themselves into the process) I don't think it's the best long term solution.

Not trying to torpedo this movement but I cringe whenever I see the words "script" when talking about invoking political or societal change.
Whatever is the reality about Flappy Bird, it is inconceivable for me that at the same time an IT world that is incredibly capitalist, interested in big earnings, VC moneys, and where success is measured in rounds and exits, at the same time, can't accept that: 1) A simple game can earn 50k and is deserved, if people like the game. 2) That there is no need to search at any cost some hidden reason to remove the game. 3) That one does not need to get insane and/or break to go away from money.
Viacom is all about the money - I'd say there was a non-zero chance that they actually made Starbucks pay to be the subject of the sketch, and Starbucks PR are just playing along.
History's not the only one. This is just adorable. I'm sure everyone involved feels like a really, really good person, though.
I agree with you completely. If my very shallow understanding of the issue is correct, I think it may be because US foreign policy strongly pushes drug prohibition with its trade partners. By keeping cannabis "illegal" nations get to sort of feign compliance with US demands while having as little domestic effect as possible.
lol my thesis
In the grand Nazi vision they would all have been killed.
Nice!

Seeing this page made me notice the professional look of Windows 2000 Professional. I wonder why. I don't think it has to do with the word 'professional' but with the blue color and the white top. Also the gray is warmer than most Windows versions.
Anyone with better web page design skills is welcome to make changes or forks via the Github site.

https://github.com/fuzzgun/freedombone

Presentation and clear readability is certainly an important factor.
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HN effect
This article definitely rings true. As someone who has published a few apps in the past, not even games, 90% of feedback received was negative and completely nonconstructive. It takes a while to realise it is nothing to do with the quality of your work or in most cases at all related. Regardless due to the low volume of downloads I received I responded to every single email or comment requesting more constructive feedback and mostly never got a response. In some cases I actually managed to help users with the ways they were using the apps which gave me a good sense of satisfaction, but mostly it was a complete waste of time. In one instance I really regretted replying as it just encourages further abuse.

Looking back all I can say is I can sympathise with anyone who has this problem and would also like to note weirdly I've never had the same experience with web apps. I can only assume the demographic of usage and ease of commenting on and contacting developers of mobile apps/games affects the feedback and comments you get.
Because you can recognize distributed narcissism at thirty paces?
I feel like XP wins this one. Too much text on the others.
That's called unsupervised learning and it already exists. Supervised learning is more practical though. I'm not sure why you distinguish them because they are both AI and sometimes even the same algorithms.
as in, you crave the feeling of being on it?
From what I've heard the Vietnamese media went crazy trying to contact him, organise meetings, put his family into the media spotlight. Vietnam's still a communist state, don't forget - making this kind of money puts unwanted attention on him from state and from organised criminals in the area. I bet his family didn't want that kind of attention.
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>> In September, its last supermarket closed, and the city has been declared a "food desert" by the USDA.

There might not be a Safeway or a Kroger, but there are still places to buy groceries.

http://i.imgur.com/Ey903PW.png

Really tied of the media exaggerating the term 'food desert'
By living in a few different countries, I found out believing that the current political climate of your own is somewhat worse than other ones where supposedly things work better is a common fallacy.

Universal healthcare exists (and works, with various degrees of success) in most countries that are otherwise very similiar to the US in terms of culture, form of government, and in some cases have worse corruption and bureocracy.

As in many things with democracy and social security, there would be inefficiencies, abuses and problems, the real issue is, in my opinion, if the people would be better off in the end, all things considered.
There is no reason a robot body is necessary for intelligence. It might even hinder it as the real world is much more messy and complicated than cleaned up and relevant data fed to machine learning algorithms.
So if you are to be killed by Hitler, it's okay if Stalin kills you to prevent that? What happened with "initiation of force is bad, period"? If there's no moral absolute, then there's no point in debating what's better and what's worse. It's just some atoms wobbling in the spacetime.
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Sideloading doesn't really introduce security issues. Security against malware on iOS is provided by sandboxing, not by Apple's approval process, which is far too cursory to detect any serious malware.
The gameplay would be more interesting if, instead of progressing even if you don't jump trough one pipe( like now ), you would always start from the beginning. Then the bird population would get more and more sparse as you progress; with a possible checkpoint system.
What are the copyright issues involved with this?

People get upset about Zynga and other big game companies cloning games, yet this 'clone' is a direct copy of graphics, etc. - minus adding multi-player capability.

Not a single mention of this in this thread either at the time of posting this comment.
How does a backup server help you with a domain name registrar taking your domain away? And how does it help you with government interference? What?
Would you not be curious what people were saying about you and your app? And would it not be advantageous as an app developer to know the feedback you are getting and be able to improve your app? I think these are the sort of reasons combined with the fact that people are very resourceful and persistent in obtaining your contact details make it very difficult to just ignore what people are saying. But its a good point and with some effort you could probably mask your identity to some degree, the trouble is once one comment has really got to you, it doesn't really matter.
ImageShack has improved its UX and turned into an image cloud storage SaaS
Yes, right here. And actually English is really a Scandinavian language (Northern Germanic), and not Western Germanic as many believe:

http://sciencenordic.com/english-scandinavian-language
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