skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>> So you're conveniently ignoring GSM?

Nope, just saying this isn't possible under CDMA technology.

>>>> Or claiming that the information released by the manufacturer, or the limited information released under subpoena is all just "bullshit"?

For me, it's pretty hard to believe considering how secure CDMA is. Might be different for GSM. It makes for a good sales pitch though for Stingray, doesn't it??

>>> Because it's entirely impossible that a carrier has given keys to the manufacturer "for authorized legal purposes only"?

I said this is possible if the carrier has given them authorization. Considering my experience working at Verizon, they don't give out stuff like that willy nilly. Maybe times have changed, but it's hard for me to believe Verizon is giving state and local police forces the ability to do what they're claiming in the article.

>>> 3.3 is pretty much irrelevant if you consider that even as a simple statement of purpose, the Stingray -at least- has to relay the raw traffic.

Which on a CDMA network is encrypted. Not sure if that's the case on GSM, but all they're getting is encrypted traffic. They make it seem like they're sitting in a coffee shop just intercepting raw, unencrypted data, which is false on a CDMA network.
Well this probably isn't what you are looking for but the Saudi family (of Saudi Arabia) is worth "well over $1.4 trillion." That is spread out between an extended family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_family#Wealth
Also, this article was already posted to HN 4 days ago. With a correctly spelled title.
I believe there are, but your definition of family has to be loose.
Really? Do you know what you linked to?

Have you actually gotten an APK from that site?

It looks like a 100% fake site that takes you through never ending scam surveys and sign ups.
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Good luck getting traction. The web is littered with the corpses of "comment on any website" apps. The problem is that there are too many websites and too many incompatible "comment on any website" standards for any one of them to emerge as a clear leader.

P.S. You list non-tracking as a differentiating feature, but how do you silence speech you don't like without tracking users?
Is there way to register without Google or Facebook account?
> So everything is oriented towards source-level debuggng. Which makes sense since normally source code is available.

Maybe it's just the way I use debuggers, but I don't find this to be a particularly compelling reason; I use instruction-level debugging quite often even when I have the source (debugging a program I wrote, when simpler methods fail), to [1] verify that the high-level language statements are doing the expected, [2] ensure that the compiler is generating the expected instructions, and [3] to observe where exactly the bug is.

> IMO gdb isn't very good for binary-level debugging

Having come from a Windows background, I'd say using gdb for that is an absolute nightmare - it appears to almost be designed to actively make it harder to do instruction-level debugging, despite the fact that the implementation of a debugger for source code is far more complex than one that doesn't. E.g. the "disassemble" command absolutely requires a symbol table, and will still complain if there's no "function" at some address, when all it really needs to do is start reading the bytes at the address it's given as a parameter - which could be the name of a symbol - and interpret them as instructions. Instead the somewhat unintuitive "workaround" is to use "x/i".
I've thought about something like this for ages also. But lazy always prevails.

Now, do you know something about a Google product from some years ago that did something like this, but was discontinued?
thanks for the feedback. appreciate it.
Looks like slate bought right into some excellent PR that seeks to redefine "privacy" -- moving concerns away from how FB uses all of the data it gathers, and instead into how it presents a subset of that data amongst its users.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.

One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, then goes to site B, they start over with a clean slate and can continue being sucky.

Words benefits from the fact that it's web-Wide. If a user is terrible, they get silenced everywhere.

You're totally right (as was Paul Graham when he spoke about how Hacker News is evolving) that these sorts of systems get worse the larger they get. And that getting too big too fast is definitely a bad thing. Just look at Digg.

So I definitely anticipate badness down the road, but feel the code foundation is there to deal with it as it comes.
> Amazon's persistent lack of profits

This has been addressed several times already. Amazon is effectively making profits on several on its key businesses but is effectively reinvesting most of its profits into new infrastructure, distribution centers and new services. The day Amazon decreases that investment ratio, profits will significantly increase. In other words, Amazon is far from being in the red. They are just massively investing.
No. See my dissertation about it here:

http://www.words4chrome.com/2014/about-words-login-options-a...
The implications are the same as when Google pulled out of China. That is, native Russian services will overtake US competitors, and with government backing, the US companies will be unable to respond or compete. This policy, while I suspect it will hurt Russia in the short term, will ultimately only benefit domestic Russian corporations while hurting American ones.

We saw this happen with Google/Baidu. Before Google pulled out of China, Baidu didn't stand a chance. Now, it's a global competitor. I wrote a final paper for my "next china" class in college, where my thesis was that the Great Firewall is economically beneficial for China. By inconveniencing Chinese users of foreign (read: American) services, it gives domestic competitors an inherent advantage. I argued that China doesn't actually care so much for the political reasoning behind the GFW, as everyone knows it can be trivially circumvented, but rather continues utilizing it because of the economic advantages it bestows on domestic corporations.

Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, and other massive Chinese corporations built their businesses by copying the models of their American counterparts. The Chinese government gave them a huge advantage by subsidizing their development and crippling their US competitors. Now, these companies are on their way to controlling markets of the same size as their American competitors. It won't be long before Chinese companies are actually competing with American companies for American customers.

I suspect Russia, which is a country full of engineering talent (see: malware), will follow the same roadmap as China. That is: 1) cripple US internet businesses in Russia, 2) subsidize domestic competitors, 3) watch its own Internet companies take over the domestic market.

This move by the US government will have short term effects detrimental to Russian efficiency, but in the long term, Russia comes out on top in this scenario.
W3C is tackling the compatibility issue.

http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/

https://hypothes.is/blog/peer-review-annotation/
For what it's worth, I'm in a newish (2010) apartment building in Berkeley. It's one of those wood and drywall jobs, and we never hear anything from neighbours except those above us if they drop something or stomp.

Perhaps this building might be unusually well built. All the windows are double-glazed for example, which is definitely not needed for climate reasons around here (Berkeley has to be one of the mildest climates on Earth).

Having said that, this building is mostly populated with moneyed students (the garage looks like a BMW/Merc/Audi/Porsche showroom - factory stickers are common). I imagine they're not the noisy type. We're a family of 5 where the kids have done things like use skateboards indoors, so perhaps our neighbours are cursing us for the noise :).
Why Google Killed Your Favorite Feature
See, this is really begging the question. As in actually "begging the question" - the logical fallacy.

The author states that people who have weird religious beliefs that imply that people are the centre of the universe should not do so because science shows us that the universe is indifferent to us. We are not special but part of the universe and a product of the same rules that produced everything else. But this is obviously begging the question: if you accepted the scientific view of the world you wouldn't have a nutty religious view to start with.

In essence, the author says: accept science because science. No different to when Christians say: accept Christianity because of what the bible says.

The author is correct but his argument is crap.
I think I prefer the new title though.
Yeah the new title is better for us, less judgemental.
Here's my explanation of Google SideWiki... near the bottom.

http://www.words4chrome.com/eli5/

Q: “What happened to it?”
A: “It had several problems. (1) sidebars are the worst (2) web site owners hated it, presenting a threat to Google’s core business, and (3) because Chrome had negligible market share in 2009, it had to function in all browsers at once, harming UX. Hence, the sidebar. And the name."

Also, it was open to everyone. Words is designed to select for -- um -- not everyone. Internet explorer users, for instance.
DO NOT ENTER. RADIOACTIVE ZONE.

Write it in chinese and english.

It is more likely we will be speaking two or three major languages in ten thousand years. The trend is toward unification.
> that any internet technology should be considered private regardless of the technical reality

I think that there's a pretty bright line distinction between "I read this message you posted on Twitter" and "I set up this fake cell phone tower to intercept the messages you thought you were sending privately through your cell phone carrier."

Similarly, physical locks on doors may be easily circumvented, but that doesn't absolve a burglar of any wrongdoing.
It shows up (with $99/month) after giving a name/email/phone number but before giving credit card info or completing sign-up.
The Rothschilds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family
Did you mean Google Wave? It was open-sourced as Apache Wave.
JotEasyCron – cache (health) care in limited environment
I think this is educated by the technology and consistent with the intention of the 4th amendment that the expectation of privacy be objectively reasonable.

I thought the expectation of privacy was based on a so-called "reasonable person", not an objective definition of reasonable. Is that not so?

Where I think I disagree with many people on HN is whether it is reasonable to believe that information on the internet as it is structured today is private.

That disagreement seems to be evidence that there is a widespread expectation of privacy, even if the implementation doesn't perfectly preserve privacy.

Especially with regard to the government, I think people could sanely expect privacy to be the default state (even for poorly implemented technology), with narrow exceptions for specific, targeted investigations of small numbers of individuals and well-defined groups.
Seems like a lot of "do first, ask for forgiveness later" except here, forgiveness is asked for in the form of judicial opinions that legalize the practice and grant such permission retroactively.

If they can't get that, they just go back to doing.

Because terrorism.
Well, I'm using Linux Mint with Cinnamon and I've seen a "Save page as" dialog after the orkut community listing page was opened, then the script tried to write the path in the "Name" field of the dialog. It failed to erase the default name then failed write the slashes, resulting in a name like `homefiatjaforkut-community-downloaderPrevious-name-of-thepage.html` and error that (luckly) caused the program to stop.
Ramanujan was mediocre Math student
Ask HN: What are some ways to educate at-risk groups about hazards?
There are several at-risk populations whose own ignorance, prejudices, and fear is preventing helpful outside intervention. For example, the failure of the government of Liberia to maintain an effective quarantine of Ebola patients due to interference by mobs of protesters. How would an NGO go about calming and teaching the population that the hospitals are not killing the patients? What are some time-tested strategies for rapidly educating large groups of people about hazards?
Messages in the Deep: The Remarkable Story of the Underwater Internet
It says $99/month on the site.
So why is the US pushing STEM so much?
The CBC posted a piece they did in 1982 when Canada was switching to the metric system.

It's a really neat piece, lots of strong opinions on both sides.

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/mea...

~10min long
Why stop at a dragnet of 22,000 samples? Why not take DNA samples of every newborn?
Introducing the $7.76 Big Mac
I can see why it might be tempting for technologists to create these surveillance technologies -- a single Stingray II is quoted at $148000.
As have I. Mine works with Google Voice. How do you integrate your bot with text messages?
This is very sketchy. When I try to login with Facebook, it shows me chromless modal window with (what appears to be) a facebook login page. Except that I'm already currently logged in to facebook so this shouldn't be necessary. Sorry, I'm not going to hand you that info.
Religious vs. non-religious childrens' perception of fiction
I live in the Philippines. Drink coconuts every day. If the coconut is really young the water can have a pinkish beige hue. You usually want to drink the coconut a week or so after that though (when there's a bit of young coconut meat/gel formed inside), but by then the water is clear again.
Instead of trying to fix the bugs, maybe you should look at what I think would be better tools for accomplishing the job:

* PhantomJS[1] (with or without the facilitator CasperJS[2]) -- in fact I'm kinda motivated to write a script myself using CasperJS to save my communities, now that you remembered me they are there waiting to be saved;

* Selenium[3] (I never looked at this, but it seems interesting as it holds the slogan "Browser Automation").

[1]: http://phantomjs.org/

[2]: http://casperjs.org/

[3]: http://www.seleniumhq.org/
It's crazy to think through the ramifications of fusion power. A Sahara irrigated with desalinated water. Mining trash to get the metals out. Sequestering CO2. Turning the entire globe into a climate-controlled mall.
> You'd see tobacco+marijuana cigarettes too - a highly marketable combination of high and addiction.

Damn, right there's almost good enough reason to oppose legalization.
I use GVoice but it's rather limited. What do you use server side to listen to and respond to text messages?
That one could be wrong, I don't have an Android phone anymore, and stopped following pretty much all things Android. However I've personally used an iMessage app on Android a few years back. They definitely exist.
Everyone else doesn't want you to see what they can see.

They even pass secret laws about it.
It's obviously true that all this computer use that I use to learn more about programming, math, and various other fields, and communicating with others, is rotting my brain, yes. I should go watch TV or something, right?
Tens: a game of mental arithmetic – first effort at game dev
There's a saying my mom used to say: "money never makes it past the third generation". The idea is that if you grow up wealthy, you don't have the skills/drive necessary to keep that wealth going.
thanks for sharing your experience

> The lungs and heart are muscles too... sometimes people forget this

... are there really muscles in the lungs ? and is the diaphragm a muscle that benefits from training ?
CloudFlare uses AnyCast. We'll route any incoming requests to the nearest data center automatically. http://blog.cloudflare.com/a-brief-anycast-primer No additional configuration required.

If you're referring to making different origin calls based on the geographic region -- such as when we go back to your origin for a request hitting our LAX data center if you happen to have an origin near LAX we'd use that origin specifically versus your other origin which might be located in let's say LHR. We currently only support that functionality for our higher end enterprise contracts. The functionality will likely to be available for other plan levels in the future though.
There are good reasons why the A's don't do as well as other teams in the playoffs. Mostly, it's that "playoff" baseball is different than regular season baseball. The strike zones expand, the scores drop and the breaks between innings increase to allow for more commercials. There's also more rest/travel days between games. All of this magnifies the value of top pitchers since it allows them to pitch a greater percentage of games, pitch longer in those games and pitch more effectively in those games. Meanwhile, the value of the pitchers at the bottom of the rotation is minimized or eliminated.

One of the reasons the A's have won so much in the regular season is that they make up for the lack of high-priced stars by being solid, top to bottom. As evidenced by this season, when two of their starters went down for the entire year, they had guys in the minors who were almost as good and the drop off was minimal. But whenever one of their guys starts to look really good, they trade him to replenish the minor league stock. It happened with Hudson, Mulder, Haren, Gonzalez and Cahill. This incredible depth of similar players works really well in the regular season and makes the A's pretty much injury-proof. But it works against them in the playoffs when 1 stud pitcher can basically dominate them as we've seen with Justin Verlander.

They've been eliminated twice by him in games where he basically pounded the outside corner on a pitch that isn't a strike but the umpire was giving the entire night, albeit to both pitchers. But since the A's don't have a pitcher that can hit that spot with near-100mph heat reliably, the Tigers were able to take advantage of a few location misses. When the schedule means that you're facing Verlander for 40% of a series and the extended breaks between innings make it easy for Verlander to pitch the entire game, it all adds up to the A's getting beat and, I think, explains why Beane went out and got Samardzija to pair against Verlander or whoever that #1 guy they face is thinking that both of them can pound that outside-the-zone strike with upper 90s stuff equally well.

Also, the OPS-minded strategy doesn't work as well against #1 guys as it does against #4 and #5 guys who you're not going to face much in a playoff series. And with lower scores, the teams that manufacture 1-2 runs in a game do better in the playoffs than the teams that know that sacrificing will lead to fewer runs over the course of a season.
Who's In Control? The Rise of the Empowered Consumer
I don't have numbers either, but I think that we are continuing to specialize. We have an ever increasing portion of the population understand technology, but any given technology can be used by many and understood by few.
Precisely. I've been trying to remember that name for months.
Definitely nice to see a real-world example of how to use Docker.
Are you aware of any other services that can be used to integrate a bot with real time text message communications?
Grave of Fireflies is the saddest movie I have ever seen.

Space is already militarized, and out of the entire population of HN you were the only one to complain about my comment. I didn't get a single downvote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3oSS_FP-cA&src_vid=ZWSMoE3A...
Not necessarily true. The coconuts used for oil and meat are picked much later than the coconuts used for water. Of course that's only the case if you're talking about pure coconut water -- coconut brands who use concentrate are probably making the concentrate from the mature coconuts that are used for their meat and oil. gross stuff.
>> We simply don't know.

Exactly. We dont, but exercise studies are not treated with sufficient skepticism, as if the life-extending effect is so obviously logical that it's exempt from criticism. My thought experiment was meant to show that it's hardly obvious. Strange, but scientists seem to need reminding.
This is probably just more propaganda attempting to redefine what privacy actually means.
I think this might be what you're referring to?

https://neosmart.net/blog/2011/how-to-recognize-a-stellar-ne...
I sincerely wonder what percentage of institutional investors have any semblance of a fucking clue what "the cloud" actually stands for, or for that matter, that Amazon is even in the cloud business. I talk to friends in finance all the time who have no idea that Amazon is more than just an e-commerce website. Granted, they do not specialize in tech, and no 22-25 year old analyst is making any real investment decisions, but the general sentiment makes me wonder.

Who are the people responsible for tech sector investing at large investment banks? Do they know anything about the operational details of "the cloud," or is their knowledge limited to marketing gimmicks and enterprise parlance?

The fact is, the technical details of cloud businesses are what differentiate them, and ultimately what sway engineering decision makers one way or the other in terms of choosing an offering. Yet I get the feeling that the investors in these cloud companies have no fucking clue what any of these technical details are.

Wall Street is a joke.
Just messing! :) Cheers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Perhaps a good way to monetise without alienating their core users would be to only advertise on the default subs. The vast majority of users are there, including the less technical users who might be more likely to actually consume the ads instead of ignoring or blocking them.

Another idea which I saw the Whirlpool forums do in Australia is to only advertise to those who aren't logged in.

If the sub-communities continue to thrive I can't see Reddit fade into obscurity any time soon.
The Google login window seems to be safe, but I'm intrigued about the how and the why.
Is anyone else stuck on level 24? Halp!

Edit: I know this is a terrible comment that contributes nothing, please don't downvote it just for that... :3
The Pixar Theory (July, 2013)
hur hur yes god forbid a victim of sexual harassment seek reprimand
As one commenter said on the comment thread of the article:

No two ways about it, this IS a wire(less) tap.
Well, I both built and am using Pixtulate since it makes all images responsive. Currently in free beta.
I've got my 7 year badge but I don't go back anymore. I'm aged out. The front page doesn't interest me, the memes don't resonate with me, and the reposts don't keep me.

It'll keep happening, year after year as most people age out. But year after year more people join up, I'm sure there's a net again. Enough of a momentum that it will just take decades before the decay happens. Radical changes also risk a Digg implosion.

Tough nut to crack. They've been taking every trick from the old forum (SomethingAwful, General Mayhem, OffTopic, GaiaOnline) days other than literally charging for membership. Which is always the final cashing out death knell.

Common refrain in the past when positing how the community is turning and reducing value the default rah rah answer has always been to hit the edgy subreddits rather than the mainstream ones. That changes the value of the reddit product from a community to community software.

My small business projects rely on subreddits for customer service. Give me customization tools and I'll eagerly pay. After all, it's like vBulletin but better and people out of the wazoo for that.