skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen Maleficent either; but, that was exactly the impression I came out of the movie. That said, I have a gay friend and he said it was a movie about homosexuality and coming out of the closet and accepting yourself.

I didn't read into it that at all. I don't know which intended meaning Disney had when they adapted the story into a script and animation; but it seems to resonate with different people differently (as is often the case with movies).

I saw it in staunch contrast to the historical Disney "Princess" narrative, where happily-ever-after doesn't mean marriage, remarking how they openly mocked the idea of falling in love with someone and marrying them after a single day.

I'd have to ask him directly, but he could have easily seen the movie from Elsa's perspective, the woman imbued with a gift, or curse. Both perspectives are presented in the movie, if memory serves me, and it entirely depends on the person speaking at the time. The parents thought it was a curse. The trolls saw it differently. Whatever the reality of her situation, she fled, and then accepted who she was, and eventually defeated the parts of her gift that had made it so sad to have.

Perhaps, then, it is both. It was a movie that was a push away from the 'True Love's Kiss' story of Disney olde, as much as it was a story about accepting who you are. And the whole story is bound together by the very real presence of the two sister's familial love for one another.
This is true, but there's a bigger problem than the mere fact that a lot of data is being collected. It's how transparent companies are about the data that's collected, along with how long it's stored and who has access to it.

One might be fine with having their TV scan their face, but does that mean they're okay with that scan being transported to someone else's servers? Who now owns that information? Can the manufacturer sell that to someone else without telling you?

This kind of information shouldn't be buried in 46 pages of legalese.

Many people aren't aware that Siri functions by sending your voice off to Apple's servers for processing, let alone knowing whether that means that Apple now owns those recordings of their voices. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but the Average Joe isn't going to read the 50 page ToS, let alone be able to accurately parse it. And if Apple chooses to keep that data for themselves, they aren't exactly incentivized to tell people that they now own this information and can resell it.
Another possible interpretation of this graph is that in the US today, the feeling "I disapprove of X, so X should be illegal" is a much more common approach to politics than it used to be. That's also my explanation for the "put people in jail for letting their kids play unsupervised" stuff that's been going on...

Chances are, of course, that the graph reflects a combination of several factors.
Agree, not sure what is the use case.
> At least in a fascist state, you know you're going to get screwed.

Lots of people know this about our state, but most of them get dismissed as radicals.
What version control does Apple use? Is this the same that is being hosted in the linking site as well?
As long as your phone is nearby, it will work.
Things that require a lot of typing would be hard....but apps requiring quick actions/taps etc would work very well.
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Well, at some point Facebook had a code base with a whole bunch of PHP and it was worth a lot of effort to make it more efficient. One possibility was rewriting stuff, one possibility was this project to make a different PHP compiler. It wasn't obvious what the right strategy was and the Facebook spirit is to try lots of stuff and see what works. So effort went into each, and basically each of the methods turned out worthwhile for some things. Nowadays a lot of components of Facebook are not written in PHP, especially the infrastructural components. But a lot are written in PHP and work goes into the compiler. So the answer is, it didn't happen dogmatically, it happened bit by bit.
Real life is boring, sorry. Posts like this are all talk. It's a fantasy that makes you feel good inside. Go ahead. Throw the first brick.
My "solution" is to wake people up to the fact that we should not have rulers at all. That's the only way to achieve a non-nightmarish future in the long term.

People see tyranny creeping up all over the West, for example, but it doesn't occur to them that instead of asking our rulers to please not oppress us, we should stop believing in their authority altogether.

You have your activism, and I have mine.
finally a microsoft product that works well with other players in the ecosystem
Thanks for the useful list. The only problem with these things is that they require some time, effort and expertise to set up, which the average citizen may not have. I understand you are just being pragmatic, but we definitely need to work towards solutions, which works for more than the educated tech folk.
You know, reading this and some of the comments, especially about run-away authority with the “cops making stops to take money” make me think. I recoil as I’m sure many do about the increasing ubiquity of potential surveillance technology such as this. I think about the slippery slopes that we have evidence of (see: patriot act). But then another part of me thinks back to the “dirty cop” comment. It seems like cops carrying cameras is a strong mitigation to such behavior. The counter argument that such recordings might “going missing” when convenient for the officer comes up then. The sentiment I read often is the solution to that problem is citizens with cameras as well. And that brought me back to the notion of “ubiquity” again. If and when these things are everywhere, then they aren’t just in “normal citizen’s” homes, they are in NSA agent’s homes too, uploading details to the same manufacturer’s servers, carrying the same vulnerabilities. Of course, there are loopholes and restrictions authorities can implement, but can they get them all? A good chunk of my job is penetration testing, and my experience definitely makes me think not.
> In the 1970’s, an experimental nuclear thermal rocket engine gave an energy equivalent of 8.3 km/s. This engine used a nuclear reactor as the source of energy and hydrogen as the propellant.

That was intriguing, but didn't go into detail on why a nuclear thermal rocket hasn't been tried since. The obvious explanation is that there could be serious consequences if such a rocket exploded, spreading radioactive material, etc. And rockets tend to explode sometimes. However, it sounds like while that is certainly a concern, it is not as great of one as it might seem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket#Risks

And indeed there is still work ongoing on such designs.
That's correct, yes. But pnacl is close to a big update to llvm 3.5, and hopefully emscripten will follow that not long after.
I'm super excited too. It's been great to see how much the language has been simplified, and how much more powerful it has become. And how despite a very democratic approach to development the language still seems very considered in its design, thanks to strong leadership by the core team.
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Certainly I could hook up a netbook or raspberry pi or whatever to my tv and get this stuff, after some amount of configuration and likely some amount of debugging now and then. And indeed I've gone that route in the past. But when the TV does it all for you, it's hard to argue that that isn't more convenient.

Of course, one could certainly rationally choose to forgo that convenience in favour of increased privacy. I'm just saying the smart features aren't worthless.
I'd argue that we already live in that world.
Bullocks. Mass surveillance and targeted investigations are two entirely different things. Unless you're assuming the NSA can break AES, encrypting your traffic prevents mass surveillance of its contents. That doesn't stop them from breaking into your specific device (or planting a bug in your house etc.), but that isn't mass surveillance anymore. It also doesn't stop metadata surveillance but nobody ever said it would.

And there is no need for intentional security vulnerabilities, the accidental ones are quite sufficient. Fixing that is a whole different problem.
what's the use case for this ?
Posting to Hacker News does do something though. Not in isolation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)

There's something very powerful when I know what you think, and then you know that I know what you think. When mass understanding foments, common knowledge kicks in and there will be (it's already in the works) a sort of large scale adknowledgement that this is the will of not only us as individuals, but also us as masses.

[I will leave my usually blurb about documented programs in the US and elsewhere that specifically target and derail the forming of such community consensus and on the flip side manipulate media to create desirable consensus.]

Posts on Hacker News will only go so far, but as a community that makes recommendations and gives technical advice and knowledge to the broader community - and as patriots and democratic citizens - we can (and I do) discuss these issues without bashfulness to everyone we are close with.

People care. Old people care and young people care. Democrats, Republicans, Centrists, and Populists care. Religious people care. So do atheists.

Information is key and the media has a really poor record - even (especially) with the handling of the Snowden disclosures. The EFF and ACLU can only bring so many cases to court. _We_ need to be the reliable source of information - for those who look to us for technical advice and information.

And we need to demand an option during elections. This next (national) election is going to be another 'security year'. Screw that. Neither Ebola nor ISIS pose a credible threat to the United States. The real issues are class issues, democratic issues, police state issues, social issues, etc.

Your vote doesn't count for a whole lot. But all of our voices (for the most part) do. Man, it's depressing I had to qualify that... Anyway - posting to HN absolutely contributes. It just isn't the only place you should have your voice heard.
tinder'ing would get even easier!
Nintendo (IMHO) is missing out on a huge potential revenue source by not releasing its old IP on a Windows/Mac/iOS/Android version of the virtual console. Sega seems to have been at least mildly successful re-releasing Genesis era games on these platforms. Do they really feel re-releasing something like say Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) for iOS would detract from Wii U sales?

Nintendo has the best back catalog in the industry, and with today's microprocessors, emulation makes that catalog fully portable.
I seriously have no idea what you're talking about. If you'd like to point out something specific you think I've misunderstood, I'm listening. If you just want to engage in content-free sarcasm, I'm uninterested.
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To put it really simply: Batteries are nonlinear. Charge/discharge rates vary based on the current amount of power stored in the battery.
Or plug it in to a dumb network so it thinks it's connected and just never succeeds, or log everything that it saves about you, so it thinks it's connected AND is sending traffic, but doesn't get anywhere. There's plenty of options
I think it's more like cell phone A can't even be produced because of economies of scale.
but if the wolves are smart a bit, the sheep can trust that the wolves would eat them in moderation and in orderly fashion as to avoid starving themselves when all the sheep are suddenly eaten.
No, it's like "I wish cell phone B would go away" because I prefer cell phone A, and I think cell phone B is POISONOUS to community and discussion, and leads to a worse society.
Hahaha, I'm going to read the rest of the article but am I the only person having trouble taking the author seriously after the opening sentence where the other takes seriously the idea that Nintendo just make iOS games? Enough so to lead a post by addressing it?
You do realize Chrome 40 is also coming out in November, yes?

http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar
I think people are conscious of things such as the disproportionate African-American incarceration rates but rather feel powerless to change that fact
Eh, those downvoted comments were from me and one was totally deserved because it was awful and I left it there to accumulate negative karma as punishment for making it. The other is a bit relevant here and was initially upvoted. It likely got downvotes by association with the idiotic comment.

Here's a more upthread link with a bit more context for the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8506560
Safari on OS X already does this - you can do a Spotlight search for text on any page in your browser history or in your bookmarks and it'll show up
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solutions that ignore the fundamentals of human nature are masturbation.
The soda can analogy is horrifyingly informative. I wonder what kind of efficiencies could be obtained with semi-science-fiction fuels like the Orion nuclear-explosion propulsion system (which is different from a nuclear rocket) or even straight-up antimatter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_a(nuclear_propulsion)
Twitter is definitely not for everyone. It is definitely not for me. I don't want it to go away. I see people, communities achieving a lot with it - it is a medium to get heard.
The solution to this lies in educating & incentivizing the vast majority of lay consumers who either (a) don't know what their devices are up to, or (b) don't care.

But looking at the way people buy ACs and refrigerators, I think a "privacy rating" of some kind might work. So a "smart TV" that monitors & reports everything you do ought to get a 1-star while another that zealously guards your privacy and uses explicit opt-ins may get 4- or 5-stars.
What about profit share? Are any major tablet vendors aside from Apple actually making decent profits?
You're clearly a terrorist. Or whatever the correct synonym is for an American who disagrees with authority.
Fascinating read. Are there more blog-type posts like this from NASA? I'd be interested in reading more but I can't seem to find them from the main page and can't find links to these posts...
Normal folks are simply going to want this stuff integrated into the TV. It's convenient and doesn't require any more assembly.

Heck, I can DIY it myself but I don't, because smart TVs have the apps and features that are baseline useful. And because it's integrated, I don't need to make sure to turn on some other device to get access.
There may be a slightly-strained analogy to be made here with vaccinations and herd immunity. Just as refusing vaccinations makes others in more danger of contracting infections, willfully allowing yourself to be surveilled makes it more difficult for others to avoid surveillance.

Anyway, are you saying that you personally have no problem with a TV that listens to you, or that you don't like it but other people might not object?
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This is why I'm glad I read https://news.ycombinator.com/classic [1][2].

Just another recommendation for anyone who stumbles across this article later - it currently seems unlikely to reach the front page :(

P.S. This is hugely useful - I have an immediate use for it in connecting many disparate daemons of the project I'm currently working on (I'd played with Hamachi, Docker/Weave and full custom on OpenVPN until now). :)

[1]: even if I'm not amongst its voters. :P

[2]: this is on the third page of /news at the time of writing.
I specifically said that I'm divided on the issue and I haven't taken position one way or the other, I just disagree with those particular arguments.

If you want to make me into the enemy, go ahead, but you're the Quixote here.
Thanks! I have to say it's been an awesome experience working with Edmunds.
Any hardware solution recommendations - or things that will run on a RPi/router?

I don't like the idea of having to keep a desktop/laptop computer on 24/7.
I think the article was leaning closer towards: regardless of the encryption, it's much easier to smash-and-grab the key.

I foolishly transferred an old private key to a cloud server years ago, therefore I can no longer assume it is private. Even having the only copy on my laptop isn't ultimately safe, as it is reasonably possible that the vulnerabilities that exist in my browser or the OS may have been compromised.

In the earlier leaked docs Snowden mentions targeting of sysadmins by looking for SSH usage patterns. Lookup by IP, fingerprint the device using HTTP headers (and other tells), look up the usage patterns, execute a MITM attack by injecting the appropriate malicious exploit code into the TCP stream as required.
Realistically the only thing that will ever change the evolving IOT industry (which is what is breeding the surveillance) is people actively choosing to buy privacy-enhancing or privacy protective products. Do we really need internet connected TV's? Does this author ever plan on using these features or is he just keeping up with the Jones? More importantly -- what does the average user think? Would they ever even bother to find the privacy policy (if you can even call it that at 46 pages) let alone read it?

To the author: if you have a problem with your TV, especially if you are actually 'terrified' of it, perhaps consider returning it and buying a normal one?
Out of pure curiosity: Why are you interested in having it cross posted on Stackexchange?
I think you are the rule, not the exception. Most people won't bother connecting their TV to the Internet, if for no other reason than it's a huge hassle. Ever tried to type a WiFi password with a remote?

But if TVs start phoning home on their own terms, without my WiFi password or Ethernet cable, then it becomes terrifying.
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Where did the protons and neutrons that initiated the "big bang" come from? What set them in motion?

The balance of the fine tuned requirements of our universe, once understood to be "just so" are now, accepted as having a probability so slim that the likelihood of them occurring in the balances we find them in the known universe is infinitesimal (I'm talking about the gravitational constant, our distance from the sun, gas balance in the atmosphere etc etc). Tweak one of these balances just a little and life would never have occurred. The only answer pure impericists have for this "fine tuning argument" is the multiverse argument - that there are actually billions of universes and we just happen to be in the right one....thats grasping at straws and has absolutely no evidence to support it except that it allows them to continue claiming "there is no intention behind any of it".

You're talking like all Christians are anti-science. Some are, but they're sadly ignorant. Western science began as an attempt to better understand the mind of God. God was not taken to be a convenient excuse to explore nothing but motivation to know him better was given as justification to explore more. I know there are vocal luddites who do what you say but they do not represent all of us.

I believe this debate is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tU3-crvTDc
> they can leave pretty much at any time due to FMLA, and hiring someone else is not feasible (due to law).

Why? Around here you see plenty of job offers that go "must start on X and will be terminated on Y (1 year later) -- to replace an employee on maternity leave". I would imagine you would publish that offer plenty of months in advance to X, so you'll have a replacement person hired on time.
... Wow.

You're here calling @"dang" disingenuous when he has posted nothing but straightforward explanations of what inputs the HN ranking algorithm uses. Then you make a reply laced with the pretense that he doesn't get what you are saying, or are trying to say.

Really he's (I'm just inferring here, because it's soooo obvious) 100% clued in to your conversational gambits.
Lest you despair of ever making space flight routine, a rocket is not the only way to get into orbit.

Virtually all of the needed velocity is tangent to the surface, not away from it. So you can accelerate the vehicle along the ground at least part of the way, and only then turn heavenward and burn fuel to get into orbit. With this boost you significantly reduce the amount of fuel needed.

There are many way of doing this. You can have magnetic propulsion (very futuristic and powerful), you can have a simple motor on the vehicle, powered by contact with rails on the ground (but motors have a limit of how fast they can work). You could have fuel "guns" fired into the back of the vehicle as it passes them, which would then capture the container and burn them as a normal rocket would. This has the benefit of not requiring a large rail, just fuel stations that the rocket would pass over.

These are just some basic ideas, there are many more.
it seems that it wasn't just my hallucination that recent FBI director show was really an attempt to make everybody believe that encryption is an insurmountable obstacle for the FBI and the likes. Not a good theatrical performance. “I don't believe it!” :)
"If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets for transport."

Don't tell hollywood.
No, it's not "obviously ok" for conversations if "millions of people use it that way". What kind of strange thought process leads to that conclusion?

It's only "obviously ok" if (a AND b), where:

(a) "millions of people use it that way"

(b) it's productive and beneficial when used that way.

The (a) is only enough to show that Twitter serves a need people have for certain coversational structure (short messages). Doesn't prove that it's the best tool imaginable tool for the purpose or thats it's the pinnacle where evolution in such networks stops.

Actually, this very thread started with a FA saying that it's not (b).
"The company (LG) allegedly offered an opt-out of “Collection of watching info” in its options menu, but apparently toggling the opt-out didn’t actually do anything."

While they are fixes this it is unbelievable how reckless they are with their dishonesty.

Also too bad as they have WebOS TVs. Long live WebOS.
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I emailed you - also checked out http://visidraft.com/ - looks like you are mainly involved in architectural CAD right now?

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That's... quite interestingly worded. It seems to suggest that it only supports repeated single readings on-demand, a shame for sport enthusiasts who would rather not be talking into their watch during the action.