skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think there is any truth in this article, then real democracy becomes ever more important as a check on the power afforded the elite.

I note that the European Project (i.e. the slow but relentless move towards a United States of Europe) is a step away from democracy in that the European Commission is not elected by universal suffrage, but appointed, and that rules are made centrally and applied to diverse populations with different priorities.
Ask HN: Code Sexual Innuendo, got any? 
Hey Everyone, I have a friend who is trying to think of some code style sexual innuendo, related to security to use on some promotional thongs she plans to give away at a conference.

I've come up with:

Protect your private $_SESSION;
Protect you private bytes.
Don't let your back door become vulnerable.
Please be respectful of my private $parts.
Don't be unwillingly injected.

Have you guys and girls got an better or more to add to this?

P.S by 'friend' I do actually mean a friend :)
Mind your Language(s): a discussion about languages and security
Power is granted by the beholder. When you no longer believe in an entity's power over you, it is shattered.
From H.G. Wells interview with Joseph Stalin, which made the charts on HN a week or two ago:

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The capitalist is riveted to profit; and no power on earth can tear him away from it. Capitalism will be abolished, not by "organisers" of production not by the technical intelligentsia, but by the working class, because the aforementioned strata do not play an independent role. The engineer, the organiser of production does not work as he would like to, but as he is ordered, in such a way as to serve the interests of his employers. There are exceptions of course; there are people in this stratum who have awakened from the intoxication of capitalism. The technical intelligentsia can, under certain conditions, perform miracles and greatly benefit mankind. But it can also cause great harm. We Soviet people have not a little experience of the technical intelligentsia.

After the October Revolution, a certain section of the technical intelligentsia refused to take part in the work of constructing the new society; they opposed this work of construction and sabotaged it.

We did all we possibly could to bring the technical intelligentsia into this work of construction; we tried this way and that. Not a little time passed before our technical intelligentsia agreed actively to assist the new system. Today the best section of this technical intelligentsia are in the front rank of the builders of socialist society. Having this experience we are far from underestimating the good and the bad sides of the technical intelligentsia and we know that on the one hand it can do harm, and on the other hand, it can perform "miracles." Of course, things would be different if it were possible, at one stroke, spiritually to tear the technical intelligentsia away from the capitalist world. But that is utopia.

Are there many of the technical intelligentsia who would dare break away from the bourgeois world and set to work reconstructing society? Do you think there are many people of this kind, say, in England or in France? No, there are few who would be willing to break away from their employers and begin reconstructing the world.

Besides, can we lose sight of the fact that in order to transform the world it is necessary to have political power? It seems to me, Mr. Wells, that you greatly underestimate the question of political power, that it entirely drops out of your conception.

What can those, even with the best intentions in the world, do if they are unable to raise the question of seizing power, and do not possess power? At best they can help the class which takes power, but they cannot change the world themselves. This can only be done by a great class which will take the place of the capitalist class and become the sovereign master as the latter was before. This class is the working class. Of course, the assistance of the technical intelligentsia must be accepted; and the latter in turn, must be assisted. But it must not be thought that the technical intelligentsia can play an independent historical role. The transformation of the world is a great, complicated and painful process. For this task a great class is required. Big ships go on long voyages.
Including mine. What I'm describing will of course supersede social security. While it's true that they don't allow you to own anything if you're on long-term social security, it's not really the same.

First, at least in my country social security is so vanishingly small, those people can hardly be called consumers anymore. So basic income will have to be a lot higher, over time approaching a normal salary.

Second, social security is not added to your debt. That means you can in theory get out of social security and resume a normal job. Basic income, on the other hand, must be added to your debt for a variety of obvious reasons.
The Ultimate List of Freely Available .NET Libraries
Haha, your account looks old enough that you should remember the mid 2000s when every other startup or website was a dashparts website that looked just like that?

Personalised homepages? And they all were just a bit broken? iGoogle seemed to kill them all off.
There's nothing as absolute privacy on the internet. Even Tor cannot keep you truly anonymous (http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/34294/tor-is-not-a...)

However, perhaps Snowden's biggest achievement is to bring security to the forefront of everything and create a wave of new half-baked "security" products which want to ride the wave.

The notion of security is relative and the weakest link is always us. A small overlook or an error is all it takes...
Regarding #2, I tried someone's pair a convention for FIVE MINUTES (or less!) -- instant migraine that lasted the rest of the day. It was horrible.

It felt like I was staring at a CRT that was set to a 60 Hz refresh rate.
Changing the master password will be a problem because you will have to update every site your have an account on.
The food industry’s devious, ingenious, magical misuse of science
It wont have to at all. In the end elites can live in secure castles/gated communities surrounded by hi tech wonders while cattle gets rounded up in ghettos. All you need is soldiers and robo factories.
Everyone would be ok with blind people keeping their augmented reality glasses on, the same way guide dogs get special treatment today. Why does it have to be an all or nothing thing?
Aren't there any offline GPS apps for Android? I use one on iOS. It was 25€ and works without WiFi or Data enabled. Without the AGPS it takes a while to see satellites but it works.
Why people might not want to get involved? Every situation is unique but 1. How do they know these two women don't know each other? 2. How many people actually saw the knife? Not everyone has 20/20 vision either. 3. Sounds like both of these women were arrested. Hypothetical hero could have been arrested too. 4. If you're going to intervene in a dangerous situation, you could be sued. 5. There could be a more dangerous accomplice nearby to make sure she gets the job done. 6. What if the woman with the knife is in a gang? Will the gang retaliate tomorrow? 7. Maybe she has a gun in another pocket? 8. How many people in the crowd know how to defend against a knife attack? 9. Maybe I watched too many Zatoichi episodes but "no good deed goes unpunished." ;-)

I was in a similar situation once and just gave up my phone and mug money. I was somewhat prepared because I was warned it would happen. Maybe this book saved my life http://www.roughguides.com/shop/rough-guide-new-york-city/ As I was pulled into a dark alley, a young woman walked by like it was completely normal to see someone mugged. Then I packed my things and left NY and never looked back.
So, apparently somebody still uses Google Code.¨

edit: .... just not for the actual code.
well, it the same when you pick the goat from the herd for slaughter. It screams a lot, but the herd does not care. Well behaved, docile, bred to be ignorant of each over.. Just like typical civilized man.
That's not a stable solution, that's the premise of a movie.
That's uncalled for. The upper classes joined the lower classes on the battlefield and shared their fate. WW1 brought about the near extinction of the British aristocracy.

And I don't see that men in power were any more racist, classist, sexist etc than anyone else of their time.
wow those benchmarks are pretty impressive
This is an extremely hard problem. Being charitable without decreasing the self esteem of the receiver is very difficult, I have no clue how to go about this. People will wise up very quickly to make-pretend-work, are proud and will likely develop all kinds of problems if you force this on them. Personally I'd rather try to live of the land than to accept social security, but on the other hand in winter or if you have a couple of mouths to feed and no job your choices are extremely limited.

It's one of the reasons why I'm all for dropping all borders. That would force us to deal with these issues right now, rather than to push them further over the horizon hoping for some miracle. We're setting ourselves up for one of the worst wars the world has ever seen. (The haves vs the have nots).
Elysium.
I haven't used one of those myself, but yeah that does sound dangerous - however you could just tell the Googlebot to ignore the link in GA and it should be fine. I've seen people do similar things to create infinitely deep directories to screw with evil crawlers, since the Googlebot should obey your directives.
Great advice, thanks! I'll give that a go.
What is the new eBay? That's a serious question too, not rhetoric.
I'm not saying you're wrong.. but I feel this argument is getting a little bit old in an era where we're being filmed everywhere by everything from subway cameras to iPhones.

To me, one of Glass's biggest problem has always been its looks. But this isn't an iPhone on your head. We can't compare this to any polished products anywhere. It's a cellphone in a briefcase.

'Would you want a wearable computer on your head' ?
- Answer will be no, generally.

'Would you like sunglasses that can do a little bit more than just being sunglasses?'
- Answer is now not as obvious.

I've used Glass for a few months now and I don't think it's a consumer product as it stands.

It WILL be, but it's not a consumer product now. Think certain sectors and use them 'for a purpose'.
You certainly don't provide any information supporting your argument that society will be more oppressive and controlling.

Postmodernist views like yours are certainly in vogue today, but paradigm shifts happen and postmodernism will yield to new philosophies. Perhaps hypermodernity or transhumanism is the next big thing, they definitely have some potential to alleviate opression of the societal superstructures.
It uses a local database.
I really don't understand the electorate in Spain. Just looking at how the two main parties took 75% of the vote in 2011 (down from 83%). And it doesn't look like it's going to change.
Compare that to Greece (Pasok went from 40% to 8%, Syriza nonexistent 8 years ago almost won) or Italy (with the rise of Grillo's Movimiento 5 Stelle).
Does Spain need a new party with a powerful personality at the helm or after all it has become a de facto two party democracy?
No. Word lens doesn't have to use data. The glass version works without any connection whatsoever.
Guess what, market for "endless runners" is big but very competitive. A new Master of Magic, on the other hand, may rake up money for a decade.

No, I didn't, definitely give it a try!
I dunno.

My wife quit using eBay when her Paypal account got locked out and she'd have to send a fax to unlock it.

I quit using eBay because the auctions stopped and it wasn't possible to get good deals anymore. The AMZN marketplace works better for most of what I buy and if I want something funky there is always etsy.

This is just one more step in eBay's slow decline.
I agree that the design is a bit old-fashioned, but to me sites are about the content, so as long as I can get the information I want without getting a migraine, I'll ignore it. Authoritative comes from content, not looks.

In fact, to me MeFi and HN are about the same, design-wise...
Why? The code is GPLd for those who are allowed to use it. It is not free as in beer. But once you get the beer, you will get to know the recipe.

But if you think there is some other license that better expresses my... sentiment... you are welcome :)

(I know, it sounds kiddish. It was a long time ago and I felt really burned because PayPal management, from lower to top, is seriously fscked ethically. It took me more than a year to get interested in creating something new.)
Question: Would it help mitigate timing attacks if the function would sleep for a random amount of time?
Cynically perhaps I'd imagine that increasing number of tor users for his node would be a great benefit if he wanted to reduce the possibility that his own traffic could be easily tracked. If you're the only user of a Tor node I'd imagine it's far easier to track traffic and potentially deanonymise if not decrypt some communications.
They will also expand to Belgium, here is how our monopolist prepared Netflix's coming... It's kinda frustrating

So, take this use- case: Telenet is the market leader, they provide telephone, fax, internet and digital TV. All together the cheapest combo is 64 € / month. Since Netflix came to Europe, they added a package called Rex en Rio.

Rex is the lite Netflix alternative, it's 15 € / month. (1000 movies, 1000 series, not the latest series), whileRex's big brother (RIO) is 25 € / month (2000 movies, 2000 series and the "latest").

So, having "everything" from them costs 65 + 25 € = 90 € month, that's 123 $. But let's say i buy Netflix and want to stream in HD, that's 2,3 GB / hour, while i have a limit of 100 GB/month (more expensive packages also have a limit of 100 GB/month).

That means if i chose Netflix, i can watch <50 hours Netflix per month, for having broadband, i have to pay Telenet 0,5 / GB.. So watching a 3 hour movie (Lord of the Rings) will cost me an additional 1,5 € that i have to pay my ISP for 1 movie through a third-party..

:-(
If the dump posted downthread is real- they are using pbkdf2-sha256, salted and 12000 rounds.
Skill set comes into it to.

If you have a dog with an injured paw then different people will willingly help you (dog lovers) than those people that will willingly help you find a lost cat (cat lovers). Same with directions, some random tourist might not be as willing to help you with directions as a native, the tourist could probably get the maps out on their phone, but they will not feel as if that is the thing to do. However, if you were lost in their home town then they might walk you to where you needed to go.

As a cyclist I often help other cyclists with flat tyres etc. and you try stopping me from helping out. I spent a decade working in the cycle trade so, for me, fixing someone else's bike is merely an opportunity to keep my skills fresh. I cannot say that first aid is my thing, however, I am sure that someone else will keep the patient warm until the authorities arrive, so I auto-delegate myself to warning traffic and collecting debris from the road in such circumstances. Because I don't do cars, I am unlikely to offer to bump start someone's car or help them back in if they have locked their keys inside. However, others that have those skills will take up the opportunity to help.

When it comes to violent confrontational circumstances, there was a time when I would have a go, however, after getting my head kicked in by four muggers I no longer feel inclined to get involved. However, I do have friends that have been doormen and they will leap to the opportunity to do a little bit of enforcing - it is in their skill set.

Most people are willing and able to help out if they can and if they have confidence in their usefulness in a given situation. The problem is that when there is some rare and outrageous act of violence going on that there are very few people around who have 'enforcing' in their skill set. Hence the apparent 'bystander effect'.
>> If you don't want me to see you don't go out in public.

Going out in public should not mean that my activities are automatically recorded and published by anyone that wants them. It's not like I have an expectation of privacy, but I do have an expectation that in general it's none of your business and I really don't want to be recorded, tagged and uploaded.

There's a huge conversation to be had about anonymity in society and freedom from pervasive surveillance, and it's nothing to do with being a luddite.
Recording and remembering are not the same thing. You cannot publish, replay, run algorithms on, .. a memory, this should be pretty obvious? Invading peoples privacy by recording them is not part of your rights. It has been possible for quite a while now to record people -- it has never been okey without their consent -- just because "new" technologies allow sneakier ways todo so doesn't magically make it okey.
A new wave of social media triggered by SEIS
I've had by far the best performance with Sumatra, which is open source but unfortunately Windows-only. I try Chrome's PDF reader once every few months, hoping it'll improve, but I always disable it when I see it's still disappointingly sluggish.
The issue is that it's ranking below extremely low quality sites in many cases, not that it's ranking below SO or Reddit (and in my experience, Metafilter results are almost always higher quality than Reddit threads, less so for SO, but those are only technical whereas Metafilter represents many more topics)
Internet 'Do Not Track' system is in shatters
I think the calculations are extremely wasteful, since the writing being discussed would actually be visible from much of the solar system, while we only need it to be visible from Earth. The Earth subtends 1.2 millisteradians as seen from the moon, which is about 1/5000 of the whole half sphere. So if you place a mirror on the moon which throws a sunspot on the Earth, you can be 5000 times as efficient in emphasizing that patch of ground as if you simply paint it completely white (the reflectance of the moon itself is only 12%, and of course its light is diffuse and not concentrated on Earth).

Going with his surface area of 500,000 sq. kilometers, we would only need about 100 sq. kilometers of mirrors, spread randomly through the area to be emphasized, to produce a readable message on Earth. This is actually doable, although hard, and the message would only be visible at one particular angle (say, full moon directly overhead edit: depending on how much of the Earth you cover and how well, it may not need to be directly overhead), unless you want articulated mirrors.

In fact, I read, long ago, an article about a guy that performed this hack on Earth during the fairly early days of satellite photography. He drove around the desert in Southeast US, and placed small reflectors at angles calculated to reflect sunlight into a passing satellite. This resulted in huge overexposed letters in the satellite image, since each reflector exposed a very large pixel/grain of the fairly low-resolution satellite. I can't seem to find this article anywhere, although I remember it pretty clearly. If you can find it, I promise to upvote your submission!
I don't see why, given that educating the US public about security best practices perfectly aligns with their mission.

I suspect how well it aligns depends on which part of the large and complex organisation that is the NSA any given individual works in.

If it is seen as subversive to a few of the many within the NSA I doubt they'd do a straw poll across the organisation as a whole to see how they address such an issue.
There's nothing that guarantees we will reach a stable solution. I am afraid that Elysium-like scenario will be the default if things continue as they are going now.
It's harder to build a rich interpretation from K-Wave theory. The beauty of the Strauss-Howe formulation is in its ability to be an coarse interpretive framework for historical events - to say something about historical societies and answer questions about how and why they made those decisions.

I wouldn't say K-Waves are something to dismiss, just that they're not as much fun to play with and think about. And that is for me the more important aspect of these "long cycle" models - whether or not they successfully predict things, the act of testing the model refines my own thinking about the world, too.
Not exactly, first he was proposed and voted in a open list. His list of evaders, which is not public includes the top bankers and politics in Europe including some of European deputies. His personal goals are to deploy by law in European banks a system he has developed to monitor bank transactions at European level to elaborate a map of money movements to detect tax evaders.

Because of him, governments in Europe have been able to get back millions of euros back

Corruption in Spain is a big problem and politics have never been trusted or respected, he is death treated by looking for the common good which at least is a sign he will never be involved in corruption and he will never hide his head in the attempt to achieve our goals.
There's OsmAnd for offline navigation with android, it's very good.

You can even get it through F-Droid if you prefer not to use the google apps.
Their Weissman scores are incredible!
thanks for the link, that was a great read.
Integrating a Mobile UI Framework into Rails (13:28 minutes)
Are you guys using proprietary image compression tools, or are you doing the same thing as these guys and just sticking a web interface in front of open source tools?
Wearhaus headphones wirelessly sync so people can listen together
Also reminds me of Halting State by Charlie Stross. The buses in that book have an auction system where people bid against each other for it to go to their stop next.
Right, and probably some money changing hands.
I never meant to imply FP is already the right choice for big data (which is what I think you refer to by 'systems people') or high performance computing.

The reality though is that well over 99% of the market works with data sets for which, with current hardware, the performance costs of these persistent data structures are very much irrelevant.

When you add FRP on top of that so that you can keep your managed state minimal you can actually often achieve quite dramatic performance improvements over the traditional hand-written data-to-UI synchronisation.

For persistent data structures to come into their own for big data quite a few more things are needed of course; but if you look at Nathan Marz's Lambda Architecture for example it's little more than a handwritten system for making large scale persistent data structures manageable with today's systems already.

I'm fairly sure that tooling for that will only improve over time until the very thought of manually managing derivation pipelines becomes as quaint as manual memory management.

As for HPC; yes... I would not be surprised at all if at that level mutable state no longer is a premature optimization. Even there I could imagine many of the more high-level control structures benefitting from persistent data structures though.

About the FRP part; which competing paradigm are you working on? I wouldn't be able to name a 'competitor' so I'm quite curious.
They haven't publicly put names to it and the domain is WhoisGuard Protected, so I guess so? Either that, or their trolling level is so artful they're even self-decepting.
Wild speculation: iOS 8 will bring an out-of-process, heavily sandboxed webview, which was the missing piece for enabling webgl for everyone. The greatly increased attack surface (with almost direct gpu access via shaders etc) was too risky to host in in-process web views - explains why webgl was only enabled for iAds (since those would be vetted by a review team)
As a European I am always amazed how much the US-citizen work. Very little vacation, very little security and a atmosphere of a very (very very, haha) competetive nature.