skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSA also had a tap on the Yemeni safe house where the attackers were calling to coordinate.

The hijackers even stayed in Laurel, Maryland, from which you can literally see Alpha and Bravo.

Yet the 9/11 commission only spent three visits and a paltry amount of time up at Fort Meade and NBP, anecdotally because the commute to the Fort is too long.

Edit in reply:
No, they never put the intelligence together. See here for a not-terrible summary: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/13/the-al-qaeda-sw...
No, read what I wrote again. Same files, different metadata (eg. tracker URL, comments, creation date)
Let it fall apart, and stay out of it, all the while boosting the society back home in order to solve dependence on fossil fuels.

Yeah, I know: its a dream.
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is in the public domain.
It's interesting (exciting) to see all of the excitement about Python frameworks on HN lately. I've used both Flask and Django extensively, and highly recommend them.

I used to be on the Flask "micro-framework" bandwagon...until I realized that almost everything I was integrating into Flask was already included in Django (e.g. a test suite, an ORM, database migrations, authentication, an admin interface, etc.). Don't get me wrong; I love Flask. It launched me into web development with Python at a time when Django only confused me. But I just can't justify using Flask for a big project anymore when Django is just so much faster to work with (for me). If I need to, I can customize nearly any part of Django I want, store it as a project template, and use `django-admin startproject myproject --template="https://sometemplate.com/in/a/git/repo.git" ` to start a new project with it.
Better use for who?

Right now Google is one of the leading companies in making work obsolete leaving a growing number of people without any chance of participating in the society because digitalization and automation two areas google is one of the key drivers of taking a lot of jobs out of the market.

So not only didn't Google create their company in isolation from society but on top of what society established they are also transforming how society works affecting a lot of people negatively.

This is not true with all companies but it's certainly true for Google.
> The CIA and/or NSA very likely knew that the 9/11 terrorists were in the US, learning to fly airliners.

Has there ever been an explanation why the hijackers risked conspicuously attending flight schools under the noses of the US authorities, rather than, say, absolutely any other country in the world?
The question is about duplicate torrents (ie content addressing), not hash collisions.
The difference is that tax avoidance is defined as legal and tax evasion defined as illegal (at least in the US). If it's a legal activity aimed at minimizing taxes, it's avoidance. Likewise, if it's avoidance, it's legal, and if it's not legal, it's not avoidance.

From the IRS manual, section 25.1.1.2.4 .1 & .2 [0] [1]

Avoidance of tax is not a criminal offense. Taxpayers have the right to reduce, avoid, or minimize their taxes by legitimate means. One who avoids tax does not conceal or misrepresent, but shapes and preplans events to reduce or eliminate tax liability within the parameters of the law.

Evasion involves some affirmative act to evade or defeat a tax, or payment of tax. Examples of affirmative acts are deceit, subterfuge, camouflage, concealment, attempts to color or obscure events, or make things seem other than they are.

If I move to Florida or Texas to escape paying state income tax on my earnings, that's avoidance. If I earned the money in Massachusetts and simply decide to not declare and pay tax on it, that's evasion.

What's happening to some of the multi-nationals is that their attempts at structuring their affairs are being judged on the wrong side of the line. While it may not be being called evasion legally in all cases, it's exceeded the bounds of avoidance, resulting in settlements.

[0] - https://www.irs.gov/irm/part25/irm_25-001-001.html#d0e299 (light emphasis mine)

[1] - That section numbering scheme itself gives a clue as to how complex the tax code is.
I think that you and Peaker are merely interpreting the term "blindly manipulating symbols" differently.

Here's an explanation of what the term means:
http://blog.absentdesign.com/2013/05/blindly-manipulating-sy...
Try selling off your SaaS through something like Flippa. Somebody may be interested in buying it.
It's interesting to note the unprecedented success Apple has achieved at keeping millions of its users at the very leading edge of Apple OS technologies along with its "difficulties" keeping up with new Web technologies.

And it's amazing how rapidly they are able to invent a whole new programming language, compiler, toolchain, overhaul the OS APIs, add new OS features, and innovate Apple-only "native" technologies on Macs, iPhones, iPads, and even watches, while porting some features from open-source browsers into Safari is so darned "challenging". (I'll bet Apple could get some help from organizations with more resources like, say, Mozilla or Opera, if they just asked.)

I might suspect that they were intentionally impeding the progress of the Web, sabotaging all of us while putting on a great show, if it weren't for the fact that they allow other browsers, such as Chrome, on the iPhone. No, if they wanted to slow the progress of the Web platform, they would slow the development of their own browser as much as they dared and simultaneously cut off all detours around it except the one that goes through their own native apps.

But no, they aren't doing anything like that, because there's Chrome right there in the App Store. As long as it's not some sort of trick, some sort of imposter, there's no reason for suspicion....
The more the UK slips down the hole of tyranny and fascism, the more despondent I become - even though I'm not a UK citizen.

The reason is, I just don't know of any way that the British people can claw their way back up out of this hole - their tyrannical government seems to be 10 steps ahead of every effort to reign it in.

So I feel like I'm witnessing, helplessly, the decline of the UK as a power, and as a nation of free peoples, and the despair comes from knowing that as time goes on, the likelihood of non-violent solutions to the oppression of the British people are ever-more unlikely.
People like the one you describe thrive in a culture that is blinded by its reflexive urge to support its officers in the face of the nature of the work.

I'm talking about how the abstract concept of these jobs inherently contains the seeds of their inhumanity. If that is fixed the many who are abusive can be seen clearly by each other. You rightly point out that there are individuals carrying out a far worse sociopathy than even the job could dream up for them. I completely agree.
Why the Future of Work Is at Home
That's a perfectly fine parable that, except for the distributed part and some vocabulary, could describe _ANY_ modern version control system not just git.

THe problem with git is not that it can't do those things, but that it is hard to attain mastery of git commands even if you know what version control is supposed to do.
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reframing the question to "python vs. node" on the server-side, the answer seems very dependent on the use-case. there's not (to my knowledge?) much agreement in the python community about how to compile to javascript, much less regarding an ecosystem of client-side libraries. if a rich client-side that shares logic with the server-side is part of the story, i don't think python is a good choice. i wonder if the Django project could do anything a/b this or if it's too big a chunk to bite off?

all that aside, i like Flask a whole lot. Proxy objects are brilliant, and i wouldn't be surprised if koa.js was partially influenced by Flask. i'm considering going back and fiddling w/ Sinatra for the project after next as i'm given to understand that it was a partial inspiration for Flask's routing.

all in all, there's a lot of cross-pollination. i suppose jquery + html -> frontend framework (angular, marionette, etc.) -> express.js + sequelize/bookshelf -> Flask + SQLAlchemy would be a pretty smooth transition w/ lots of docs, stack overflow, community, and sample code to help out.
For me it was familiarity.

I learned ML via Caml Light, so when their designers rolled out OCaml, that was the only one I was following for a while until F# became a thing.

SML always seemed something that American universities were using. My only contact with it was reading the book "ML for the working programmer".
3 Things to Take Away from the Art of Work by Jeff Goins
I would recommend low power nRF51 chips. It's a Cortex M0 with integrated 2,4GHz radio. You can use is for Bluetooth Low Energy and communicate with other chips / smartphones / etc (manufacturer provides a BLE stack) or your own simple protocol. There are some modules below $10, but those would require additional USB chip (like ft232 or $2 pl2303 / ch341 module).

If you need a long distance (like 1km) communication then you need a "larger" radio which works in ISM band. For the cheapest solution I'd go with mass produced devices - two WiFi APs with 2 directional antennas + some custom boards ob both sides or APs with open firmware like openWRT.
How is this possible? How can such a massive car company make a mistake like this ..
Take a wild guess who won the elections in Uganda?
Worth reading. Interesting perspective and useful information, conveyed in good writing.

I think having the feedback at the bottom of the page say reviews instead of comments was a nice touch.
One question about a thing I'm not really sure about w.r.t. Lamdu, from quickly skimming the page and the thread: is it possible to draft something syntactically and semantically incorrect first, and only start making it correct later?
Have we already forgotten FireSheep?
> Climate change? Get educated! It's not caused by sustainable animal farming!

Grass-fed and free range cattle are an even larger contributor to deforestation and climate change than intensive animal agriculture is, since it requires vastly more land area to graze them, or to grow grass to transport to them, than it does to intensively grow corn or soybeans. The only way it can even be supported now is because only a small proportion of meat consumers buy meat produced in this way. Carnivorous animals are at a higher trophic level than herbivores. A meat heavy diet necessarily requires more resources than a plant-based one. As the GGP comment suggested, I'd really recommend Cowspiracy for a more detailed overview on the issue of "sustainable" animal agriculture.

> Vegans have worse health than people who eat sustainable animal products.

This is at worst a lie and at best a controversial statement with little evidence to back it up. The biggest known downsides to a vegan diet that I'm aware of are a risk of some vitamin deficiencies, which can be easily corrected with cheap supplements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism#Health_effects

> The animal products I eat come only from Certified Humane pastured livestock!

Certified Humane has been widely criticized as not actually particularly humane, though it's probably a mild improvement over the worst possible practices. You don't have to do much research to see stuff like:

"Certified Humane. This label, offered by Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC), holds equal appeal to industrial producers, largely due to its tacit allowance of farrowing crates— cruel confinements that prevent sows from moving enough to even roll over— and for its lax pasturage standards (CH beef can be fattened in feedlots). CH does not require outdoor access. Its meat is processed in industrial slaughterhouses and, as a result, the label allows the unlimited transportation of farm animals. CH audits its slaughterhouses, but only to ensure that they meet American Meat Institute standards, which were designed with industry oversight in 1990 by none other than Temple Grandin." [1][2]

That's aside from other ethical issues such as continuing to kill the male offspring of hens and diary cows, confining chickens in large pens with only an average 1.5 sq. ft. per bird, on top of the basic ethical concerns associated with any use of livestock. To the best of my knowledge, all of the "humane" labels have the same problems to some degree or another.

So please do some research yourself before you go around telling others to "get educated" and referring to their arguments as "propaganda."

[1] http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welfare/animal-welfare-l...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-humanely-rais...
Couldn't agree more .. i've been on Twitter for over a year now and i still have difficulties tracking a conversation between two people.
They do use a lot of Go, yes. Doesn't mean that they can't use Rust too. The two languages are good at different things.
The worst thing is that though another government could be elected and clean up some of the mess, it wouldn't have time to undo 30 years of damage, and it wouldn't even try to make the desperately needed constitutional reforms to prevent more of this happening in future.
It's getting harder every single day to run a business in China as a foreign company.
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This kind of killing is generally accepted in society, sadly. People eat meat for sensory enjoyment, not out of necessity.
Err an IRA is a retirement account its quite different to an ISA the UK has generous tax breaks for pension savings - which is likely to change.
> I would be surprised to see any web standard that makes iOS Safari better for "appy web apps" (web apps that are more like native apps rather than documents and forms) implemented, as that eventually just makes Safari an alternative AppStore without reviews.

Which is pretty much what Apple has been pushing since before there was an appstore? To this day it takes just 2 taps (share > add to home screen) to add a webapp to the phone as a "standard application" (with a homescreen icon and everything)

There's plenty of serious crap[0] in the apple web ecosystem, but it doesn't really seem related to "webapps as appstore replacement"[1][2][3].

[0] http://www.raymondcamden.com/2014/09/25/IndexedDB-on-iOS-8-B...

[1] http://caniuse.com/#search=websql

[2] http://caniuse.com/#search=audio

[3] http://caniuse.com/#search=webgl
The better to learn how US airspace worked?
* Using stash to store stuff when I want to pull a remote in that will overwrite things I'm not ready to commit

* git add -p, git add -i are nicer ways to add files

* git grep

* git reset, revert, and checking out old commits

- these commands I currently find tough to get right

- this is mostly because I don't really get the HEAD~2 ^ and what the syntax is for accessing older stuff

* git fetch and merge -i instead of pull. I got burned by using pull a few times.

Most of this stuff is stuff that I've known about since I started using git but I was afraid to use it because I didn't really know how it worked and didn't want to "mess up". Since the previous comment describes 90% of what I need to do, there wasn't really any point to doing it any differently.

The biggest problem I have with git that I have yet to solve is that I will be working on something on my laptop and then want to switch to my desktop and pick up where I left off. This leaves the obnoxious necessity to commit for just syncing things instead of for actually finishing a feature. I don't want to do rebasing because I don't want to lose history. This is the main reason I don't think git is currently an ideal solution for me but since I have nothing better I'm stuck with it.

It needs a simple semantic interface and it needs the ability to "sync" in-between commits.
Exactly. Parking spots should be auctioned off.
Salafism is a very complicated word to unpack. So yes, there are less radical elements who identify as Salafis, including the Muslim brotherhood.

But although the meaning of Salafism as a historical word would take quite a bit to unpack, it's clearly referring to a particularly fast-growing form of fundamentalist Islam today.

Now, as for the sermons... It is my experience that the Saudi's pray with one hand and dole out cash to terrorist groups with the other.
Agree. I m still trying to figure out why tesla would spend time and effort on this matter.
Unless your options trade on an exchange, and they have a clearing house behind them. (The government doesn't let the clearing house fail.)
> This is not a constructive response.

Hm, this is not a constructive response either.
My editing was good enough in this video
I'm not convinced it's either bad for the government nor against the intent of the drafters. (It would be easy to claim "Oh, we never intended this to be a handout to rich fat cats; see, it's right here in the law. Ooops, we didn't think of this super-obvious workaround, but hey, we tried...")

When you do a Roth conversion, that income has already been taxed once (either at the moment of conversion for a previously pre-tax account, or by virtue of funding it with already-taxed money). On all the money that was previously pre-tax (traditional IRA for example), the government gets its tax income now at the moment of Roth conversion instead of much later.

If the government or the individual would make the same investments, get the same return, and the tax rates would be the same, the government would get the same money either way. The problem is the government is running deficits and so isn't investing the money like a wealthy individual would and so isn't getting the same long-run tax income from it. This part is a spending problem, not a tax policy problem, IMO.

The only reason I'm not doing Roth conversions is that I don't trust our government to stay solvent enough long enough to keep the deal that Roth withdrawals will be tax-free later. Instead, I keep my post-tax money in traditional brokerage accounts or other non-tax-advantaged vehicles where I'm more sure that the gains will only be taxed one more time, but where I keep the flexibility to invest and use the money.
And now you've added a new project to my TODO list. Thanks :-)
This is already the case. Wiretapping orders in Europe can come from a large number of organisations, including any police force, interpol, a few UN departments, some branches of the EU itself, ... there is no judicial review. The wiretap orders do not mention a court case, there is no way to appeal them, and telling anyone about any order, even in general terms, is punishable by jail time (for the person who does it, not the person responsible for them. In other words, technically if you're an engineer at a telco and you tell your boss why you're spending hours without telling anyone anything, technically that's 2 years). There's no appeal, no information about a court case linked (because there may not even be a linked court case, e.g. when a kid I knew ran away I know the police tapped her phone to find her. There never was anything more than an investigation). And of course, the government is under no obligation to even pay for the time spent doing the wiretap, nor does it pay for the equipment and upgrades needed to make them happen (for instance cisco's "lawful intercept" licences, which run in the thousands of euros per device, alcatell, lucent, etc. have similar stuff).

The one positive is that it's a huge mess, and many police departments have no idea how to use these laws. But I find it hard to believe that there aren't a few police departments that are actually capable and using these rules for personal gain.
Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and many others are being distributed in the App Store.
"Kleptocracy" is much too mild and kind a word for Saudi Arabia. If all they wanted was to steal money, they wouldn't fund right wing religious fundamentalism, fly airplanes into buildings, and violate human rights.
It responds to tweets at: https://twitter.com/lexiconjure

The code is available here: https://github.com/rossgoodwin/lexiconjure/
You need to modify more than that. Your following statement was:

> "We", of course, proclaim that this is nonsense.

The "this" referred to "the US/the west". It now refers to any threat from a nuclear neighbor.

The US, France, etc. did not regard South Africa's concerns about Soviet expansionist policies in southern Africa as nonsense. Moreover, South Africa had a three phase defense plan (quoting http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Safrica/SABuildingBombs.html ):

Phase 1: Strategic uncertainty in which the nuclear deterrent capability
will not be acknowledged or denied.
Phase 2: Should South African territory be threatened, for example, by
the Warsaw Pact countries through the surrogate Cuban forces in
Angola, covert acknowledgement to certain international powers, e.g.
the USA, would be contemplated.
Phase 3: Should this partial disclosure of South Africa's capability not
bring about international intervention to remove the threat, public
acknowledgement or demonstration by an underground test of South Africa's
capability, would be considered.

Phase 2 would only work if the Western countries/USSR did not consider the threat as nonsense.

Nor, I think, did people regard Pakistan's concern about an attack from nuclear-armed India to be "nonsense", though I haven't researched that issue.

Also, your modification is "...aggression by <fill-in-nuclear-state-here>." South Africa was not concerned with aggression from the USSR but by regional attacks from conventional forces from Angola, Mozambique, etc. with Soviet backing. I don't think this falls even under your modified version.
So did the NSA know what the attackers were going to do?

I find it very hard to imagine that the NSA and/or CIA would have let the attacks happen, even to protect key assets and methods. Maybe they had compromised some Mossad communication channel. Or maybe they had a double agent. But what would have been worth the risk to DC and NYC?
Why should we break compatibility with plain text based tools to achieve what Lamdu is set to achieve? AST could be an intermediate representation but source should be text. Parsing/generating source to and from AST is some work but doesn't look like an unsolvable problem. We would got all the benefits without actually throwing away all the existing tools. Am I missing something?
This. PLENTY of normal people know how to use it. Many normal people can even use Twitter better than the engineers who work on it - "normal" people created some of Twitter's core features! [1]

For me (a non-famous Twitter user with a moderate following), Twitter is the best place to find interesting conversation. It's probably just a matter of following the right people for me, and it took me several years to really curate my list. I'm sad that Twitter would rather muck things up for current users rather than make onboarding/discovery better.

[1] http://qz.com/135149/the-first-ever-hashtag-reply-and-retwee...
Not an endorsement but this is cool. 10 tons of concrete http://youtu.be/lFg21x2sj-M
The browser doesn't know you're behind a VPN or more generically it doesn't know your public IP address.
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The worst part of it too, is denial. You'll have some that "their body needs meat" and others that say being a vegetarian is "too expensive." Yet it's been shown time and time again, that especially in this day and age, it's pretty trivial to be a vegan, let alone a vegetarian.

The fact is that people are pretty weak when it comes to understanding their rather wicked sensory addiction to meat flavors. It is beyond me, how someone could say with a straight face that they trade torture and death for extra pepper. I'm inclined to believe that denial of the alternatives is the primary vehicle for the evil.
It's worrying how much mileage "think of the children" and counter-terrorism gets.