skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right, I opted to download PDFs, not to view them inline.
They're not a viable privacy option. And it has little to do with their ethics: they are still vulnerable to subpoenas, many of their users don't even live in the same country…

The only viable privacy option is to host your mail at home. It doesn't have to be difficult. We "just" need a suitably tailored GNU/Linux distribution in a Sheeva Plug, or Raspberry Pi, that you just plug-in, then use as a web service. (Just one snag: your ISP must allow you to send and receive e-mail: many close off port 25, and some even ban home servers.)

Now to get your email, they need a search warrant and someone to knock on your door, which is inconvenient and costly.
They could have reported the case to the authorities. The cops would have sought a search warrant for the mail and had to go through the legal process for that. That's how these things are supposed to work.
Please share your approach to counter someone pirating your products. We could all brainstorm on what works. Cheers!
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I don't know how long you have been a Chrome user, but Firefox has felt snappy and responsive for a few months now. Australis re-design shows that often speed is more a matter of impression than benchmark results.
"In Africa, the arrow usually goes money -> power: you want pull with the government, so you buy it."

Hate to break it to you, but it's the same in America (and most "western" countries). There are too many examples of corruption in our [American] government, in the last 6 months, to even list - from local traffic cams to the new F-35 fighter jet. And it's at all levels of government.

Don't kid yourself, America is not liberty, it's Negative Liberty. And money buys power. it always has.
Woofram Alpha.
I came up with this idea, in my orignal post. It is tottaly possible, like fly by wire could break all communication with the outside world, and make the plane fly in an unknown direction. Even if ur on a the plane, what the fuck r u gona do it u dont have any control over it nor can communicate with the outside world ur traped.
Yes - Italy has plenty of problems, but it's still a place where people vote, and it matters.

I hate this defeatist, cynical bullshit about "there are no democracies" - it only plays into the hands of those who want people to sit down, shut up and not get involved.
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I, for one, have tried it and it makes things I do frequently, more difficult: there's no longer available a bookmark button to open the bookmarks sidebar, there's no longer a menu item to show all bookmaks, when I bookmark something I click the bookmarks star twice in order to enter tags but the second click is only sometimes registered. For me, the previous theme worked much better than australis. I struggle to see the improvements in australis.
Because the guests have their own SELinux policies. Docker containers don't come with policies, but if it would support running containers under a user account I could at least restrict each to their own category so that theoretically a chmod -R 777 / (inside a container) and access to the host wouldn't compromise other containers (unless the kernel is exploitable, in which case KVM would still win).
I've been using it for quite a while (as "Aurora"), and it is quite a significant improvement over regular stable Firefox builds.
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Like it or not, but there's currently more reason for the manufacturers to support XP than even Linux.
(~30% market share, 2nd most popular)
That's the problem with studying animals, they can't defend themselves to correct our hilarious over-generalizations and misrepresentations of their species.
It's good to see gradual typing rising!

2 things are not obvious from the article:

1. Why a new language, and not just a gradual typing tool for PHP (like Typed Racket and Typed Clojure)?

2. Is type information somehow passed to runtime to assist JIT compilation?
"he just chose the one that ended up being correct"

Yes, but it wouldn't be so impressive if he were to choose the envelope which said "your guesses were all wrong, and normally distributed about the actual value".
"The closest thing, they say, is Haskell, a statically typed language that provides a way of executing code relatively quickly."

Type-annotated PHP =~= Haskell? In which universe?
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Let me guess, they were under the couch cushions, with some Lego pieces and stale Cheetos.
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The big problem with corporations (as far as I see it) is that they act as a dehumanising mechanism for representing shareholders. An individual who has tight control over a company (like Elon Musk) can shoot for long term goals in order to achieve their noble aspirations. However, in most cases, the legal obligation of the directors of a corporation to represent the interests of their shareholders seems to default to purely financial interests. A board of directors aren't really obligated to represent the humanitarian or altruistic interests of their shareholders. In fact, typically financial interests are only served in the short term.

This means the capital that a shareholder represents is only ever set to work to meet financial interests. It's up to the shareholder to then divert their profit from their own investments into charities. This seems very inefficient to me.

My solution is to include a much richer mechanism for representing shareholder interests locked into the company charter. Shareholders could vote on what things they valued, and on values that they assign to those things. Then, instead of a quarterly bottom line that represents monetary value, the bottom line would also include those externalities that the shareholders voted on.

For example, you could have a company where most investors were patriots who cared about the economy. They could vote to assign a value to every month of employment that the company provides to an American worker. So, when the bottom line was calculated, each full time worker was treated like an extra source of income. This means when the board of directors considers whether or not to close down a factor and outsource to Mexico, the reduction in costs has to justify the expense to the patriot virtues of the investors.

The obvious objection is that if you only valued jobs you might run a company into the ground. However, running the company into the ground also gets rid of all the jobs. So it's not something the board of directors would want to do. Balancing short term gains over long term company growth is something directors have to do anyway.

This example really illustrates the power of this approach. In our current system, a company can move a factory to Mexico even if all its shareholders want to keep jobs in the USA. Those shareholders could then earn a significant amount of dividends from the move, and then try to invest those dividends charitably in order to express their patriotic virtues. However, no charity is going to be able to replace all those lost jobs for the price of those dividends. Charities just aren't efficient and reliable enough.

A valuable addition to the charter would be to make it so that the votes and results were made public. People who claim themselves job-creators would be able to put their money where their mouth is - and called to account if they failed to do so.
Hence the "at least no more than it's traditionally been". Money in politics is an important issue, but an old problem. It's certainly not any worse than it was in the 1890s or the 1920s.

Also, the problem Lessig raises is sort of weird from a democracy perspective as it arguably stems from too much free speech. That is, when speech is not free as in beer but is free as in freedom, in a market economy, the wealthiest speakers tend to crowd out the rest and disproportionately influence campaigns and politicians. So I'm not sure I'd file that as "democracy is dying" so much as "democracy is hard".
"There is a lot of truth in the idea that doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week."

There is? Tell me, how would colonizing Mars help the average man?

Frankly I can't think of any higher calling to donate to than environmental groups. Now there are good groups and bad groups (both nationally and local) - and it's up to you to do your research.

Well, I guess if our environment goes to hell, building a colony on mars might be a good idea. But somehow I doubt the "average" man would be able to afford a house on Mars.
Yes, although I read Futurama as Futamura which made me wanted to click even more.
Also, the guy ran a grocery store.

Funnily enough, you don't need to be a brilliant person to manage a 1920s grocery store. You need someone who's reliable, honest, and good at keeping minimum wage workers reliable and honest.
"Bing it on your Zune for further reading." I lol'd.
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You could presumably log some such packets in iptables -- but that assumes you actually receive duplicate packets. If NSA owns a router between you and the target for spoofing, there's no reason that router need to relay the "correct" packet. I know a lot of the text on these attacks states something along the lines of "replies before the legitimate packet arrives" -- I'm just not certain it's that simple in practice.

edit: This might be of interest:

http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/8490/tcp-retransmission-i...

edit2: Perhaps a logging dns resolver (to track "strange" ip changes) coupled with an iptables rule that uses contrack and logs INVALID packets is a start?
"I think the best solution is to make charity cool again."

No, charity doesn't need your branding efforts. It needs accountability.

Throwing money at a generic "charity" initiative is the best way to see your money disappear in the pockets of a handful of corrupted individuals.

When giving for charity, you need to be able to see what exactly results from what you gave.

Say, $10 million required to build a hospital with this and that, all written in specs, and by year 2016. People pool money, and if the funding goal is reached, the providers keep the people taking the money accountable to build the hospital to specs.

And not "give for charity", feel good, go back to your life, and achieve absolutely nothing because no one is held accountable.

The latter is what 90% of charity is like. It's only remotely better than throwing money at lottery tickets and hoping it results in good things.

And then you're surprised why Larry Page has the common sense to say the things he says.
So now I need to give them my email address plus remember yet another password for sync? Do not want. I always thought the old model with the sync keys was pretty sweet. Is the synced data end-to-end encrypted? It better be!
Opening the bookmarks toolbar takes indeed two clicks now (but you can use the keyboard shortcut CMD + B to open it instantly). Regarding your second point, the double click works great, and the bookmark details overlay appears.
I really get annoyed by all this. It's not Netflix traffic, it's my traffic. It's data I requested from my ISP, and the ISP carry the traffic because their customer wants it and pays for the service. If you're not making money from me then charge me more, don't threaten and extort the services I want to use!
This game does not any have bugs by design. If you discover a bug than it is a feature.
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"Passable machine translation coming real soon now" - that, and the flying cars, have been making headlines for _half a century_ now. Meanwhile IRL: [a tumbleweed rolls by]
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Paying it back is great and all, but it shouldn't have had to be done in the first place.
This is a dangerous misunderstanding. If I wanted to have a one-party cleptocracy on the cheap, I would hold tons of referendums. Putin for example should clearly do this more often. And because most people have the same misconceptions that you have, they will celebrate him as the best-ever democrat!

One problem is that referendums have to follow a very detailed process to actually mean something. As can be seen in the Crimea. Putin essentially asked down the barrel of a tank: "Do you want to join?" Of course he was somewhat more subtle, but in essence...

In Switzerland severely different conditions prevail. It's a small country with around 10 million inhabitants, quite a few of that non-voters. Try doing a referendum every couple of months with dozens of millions of voters! The potential for abuse abounds!

And then, don't think that referendums will be about important or at least relatively sane issues. No, no, most moderate parties are content with the way parlemantary democracy works. The referendums will be issued by the most right-wing and most left-wing parties there are, with each crack-pot idea becoming at least marginally possible for a time. In Switzerland there is the "concording principle", which tries to remedy some of that uncertainty and chaos. Try that in France, Germany or Italy...
Reminds me of this: http://i.imgur.com/gAGjP.png
I don't see why they won't treat this like Glass, where it's the same sort of experience on iOS and Android.
> They have no authority to bailout a bank.

Is the understanding of the financial crisis really this poor? Paulson literally forced the banks to take TARP. The CEO of BofA and other banks that didn't need it spent a lot of time in the media complaining about it.

He also forced the retail banks to merge with and absorb the losses of the investment banks.

He wasn't able to do this because of direct permission, but because the Fed has so much power that everybody just has to listen to what they say.
Well, Turkey had 2 of them in the recent history (1957 and 1980), and they did not help democracy at all.
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I think it depends entirely what you need to do and what your programming tastes are. Primarily, will Node's async nature bother you, or is one of the means of dealing via practices or libraries enough for you?

I've not found anything in the Node.js world that's as nice as Django's models to sit down with and model the data and relationships required for whatever you need to do and play with it in a REPL as you do so, or kick off an admin config to get the data working before you touch a line of request-handling code. It's a similar story for things that are built on top of django.models, like its auto-admin, or much of the ecosystem of django-* libraries. I couldn't leave django.forms behind, though, so I ported it to JS :)

In terms of your everyday handling HTTP requests, it's much of a muchness. Request objects, response objects, get some data, render a template, you know the drill. It's never going to feel the same as Python & Django, but you can comfortably write the sort of apps you write with Django in it, as long as you're down with the asyncness. If anything, certain parts can be even stronger - Jade templates, IMO, make it even more convenient to to do Django-style template inheritance, while its mixins make it much easier to extract reusable chunks of markup + logic without having to step outside templates. You also have the option to reuse templates - and other pieces which support the whole "isomorphic" thing - on the client side , but that not might be the sort of thing you need to do.

As ever, "it depends".
In relative terms I'm pretty sure we have as much democracy in the UK as we've ever had - after all we have Scotland contemplating leaving the UK and it's being done in a reasonably civilized manner and it will ultimately be decided by a vote.

If a large chunk of a country can leave the country based purely on a vote then I'd say we do have democracy in the UK. It might not be perfect, and we have a lot of problems but to say we don't have democracy at all is just plain silly.
Thanks, makes a lot more sense now (especially the part about dropping 6 zeros)
The banks may have paid back the cash they borrowed, but the negative impact of their behavior and the 2008 crisis is still being felt (and paid for) around the world.
Any¹ sufficiently advanced social network contains an ad-hoc, statically typed² implementation of half of PHP.

¹ YMMV
² sometimes

See also:

KPHP (subset of PHP to C++ translator, released by Vkontankte).
These amounts are lost all the time in governments in conventional currency..
They should use Twister. Try to shut that down.

http://twister.net.co/
I have tried Chrome and I didn't like it.
Let's not forget that in neither case is it 'free'. The public foots the bill in both cases.
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I was wondering how he thought of that. Even though we don't know, this explanation is beautiful and makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
You don't know if he just started being angry now.
Moreover, one don't need to be a selfless saint to object to wrongdoings.
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In times of free and secure password managers "remembering passwords" should really be a non-issue.
Hopefully, Google will take the path of Napster!
Putin has successfully replaced referendums with opinion surveys and polls. For everything he does, he has a survey to back it up (he is free to ignore surveys on questions he doesn't like, tho).
My RBS and Natwest accounts both have CAP devices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program

Edit: apparently I don't need them any more.

HSBC does still require it though.
How is the dev EULA scary? Don't leave us hanging.
"In addition, Firefox Sync is also upgraded so that all current users will need to create new account"

Seriously, NO! How to alienate your existing customers.
Did you know there's a Linux based console in development?
Nitpicking: I think you have the colors wrong - it's "yellow case, dark face" as far as I understand. Not that it makes a huge difference..
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This is kind of off-topic, but I don't know where else to ask.

Have we seriously entertained using "OSS" licenses that would prevent NSA & co. from using them?

I know Douglas Crockford has his "don't be evil" JSON license that got everybody's knickers in a twist. And I know OSI has a nice page on why field of use restrictions are bad.

However... I wonder if these pre-Snowden viewpoints credibly consider an organization that uses the software community's tools to conduct targeted attacks on that community. I mean, these documents suggest a much scarier attack on software developers than, say, putting the Linux kernel in a TiVo or whatever they changed in the GPLv3.

On the other hand, maybe FOU restrictions are still bad on principle. What do you all think?
I've been patiently waiting for Firefox to fix their ugly UI, I look forward to finally ditching Chrome and returning to a browser made by a company whose primary concern isn't accumulating data on its users.
Power at the NSA would be concentrated towards the most shameless bastards. It's not really within the power of random employees/contractors/grunts to fix. Snowden would be the example to follow here, but you really have to work outside the box.
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They used to offer 2 factor authentication to some personal account holders but they have removed that and it only appears to be available for business accounts:

https://www.bankofscotland.co.uk/online/portal/
If we confuse referendums with democracy, of course.

But the basic tenet of a functional democracy is that it is functional (duh). I have some doubts if the swiss model will stay both functional and democratic, in the mid-term future.

The referendum about quotas for EU citizens has shown a few disturbing tendencies: It is now possible for a referendum to issue a constitutional crisis where the government does not see a way to implement the referendum without damaging the country.

And if I listen to swiss people, they are completely not in agreement over whom they want to oust. Somehow almost all EU citizens are employed, and they want to oust the unemployed like they could even before the referendum.

But if the government doesn't oust anyone, it can't implement the referendum.

Another danger is that there have been increasingly xenophobic referendums. If this escalation maintains, democratic freedoms will suffer. If anything, referendums do have this tendency of distorting "public opinion" toward the emotional and down right hateful side.
Just because things can happen based on a vote, it doesn't mean it's a democracy. Or to rephrase your comment:

If a large chunk of a country (like Crimea) can leave the country based purely on a vote then I'd say we do have democracy in Ukraine.
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I worry that desktop Firefox will go the way of the Android version or the neutered Firefox OS browser, where you cannot install the vital security add-on NoScript due to the incompatible add-on model that the mobile versions use. That used to work on Android, but no longer (and it seems the noscript dev is not a fan of the mobile platform). There are many more add-ons that only work on the desktop version. They should all be cross-platform and not desktop specific :(
Yeah, that's the one we're using. Still takes a couple of seconds, though. And as I said, big changes can't be reloaded, so the whole server will have to be restarted.
This is an interesting comment. I think comments similar to this should be looked at and at least the message evaluated and at most the user profile examined.

I may start browsing comments which have been downvoted the most to create a list on political-heavy threads. However it may be difficult to determine whether the user is a shill or just stupid.
That's news to me - not that I've logged into my accounts for a few months! :)
The title should say, mimics native iOS UI in the browser. Nice job though.
Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site. Why do journalists always use these kinds of titles? They seem to be so terribly afraid of pronouns that they make titles that make no sense. Which social media site was the prime minister attacking, and why is twitter blocked because of it?
I'm on Ubuntu, if that makes a difference about the double click on the bookmark star so perhaps it's a platform issue. But I was referring to the bookmarks sidebar not toolbar. How do you open the sidebar?
So you would rather prefer more trustworthy security partners like Russia and China?
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I'm not sure you mean otherwise, but part of the bailout process in 2008 was to allow Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America) to become bank holding companies. The major reason was so they could shore up their balance sheets with cheap and safe FDIC insured accounts.
As an outsider it seems to me like a choice^ between military backed Nationalism and Theocracy.

If one side uses god as their method of maintaining power and the other uses the army then neither can claim to be representing democracy, at least as a method of acquiring and maintaining political power.

Outside of a basic democratic paradigm, I'm not sure what choice really means. But, even inside modern democracies the concept slightly theoretical.
Do HN users outside of the UK get the surreality and humour of this entire conversation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)

You can tell it's currently morning in the UK and night-time in the USA.