skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you accept elsewhere, there is the law, and there is reality. Oversight is captured; the intelligence agencies and surrounding industry has been given almost everything they wanted, even retroactively[1].

Information sharing has also removed a lot of practical barriers; what does it mean for the CIA to be constrained if they can use other agencies for domestic work? Interdepartmental rivalry is still a constraint, but hardly one to count on.

When thinking about the value-add of agencies like this, analyzing black-letter law is close to useless. You have to look at what actually happens. Tricky, that, when talking about spies.

[1] One interesting question is how, as a practical matter, to provide systematic oversight of spies with the ability to monitor and anonymously leak details of the overseer's lives, blackmail/manipulate third parties, and selectively leak to the media.
More actionable takes on ‘Make things people want’
It definitely takes some experimentation! The window between undercooked and overcooked is extremely narrow for certain things.

My policy is that I won't try anything new if I'm cooking for others. I only make recipes that I've tried before and iterated on. When I have a winner, I print it out and stick it on the back of the cupboard door where I normally store the pressure cooker.
Poachers kill rhino for his horn at French zoo
Does that feature exist in other Visual Studio project types? There's always CMake to help in situations like that.
What makes Snapchat worth $30B?
I don't like to speak in absolutes, but we have two outcomes for the future. An institution either succeeds or it fails. I'm not going to speculate on the outcome which I believe is more likely for my company because it's irrelevant to the thought experiment I'm about to present.

In the event the institution fails, everything is reset to zero and the talent and resources are redistributed in the World. Value is destroyed, but undesirable aspects are too. You can judge if that is a net positive or net negative outcome.

The other outcome is that the institution weathers a storm and succeeds either way. Under this scenario, there are two new scenarios:
(a) the institution survives with all the good, well meaning people you agree with on board, helping steer it into the future; or
(b) those encouraging the good, well-meaning people to abandon the institution, leaving those that remain to steer that institution into the future.

Ignore what you want to happen for a moment. If the likelihood of survival despite current events is sufficiently high, then encouraging those with whom you agree to abandon the institution is contrary to your best interests. This is a game theoretic scenario, which I encourage you to explore on your own.

Remember that the banks survived.

That all said, I'm not discouraging you from challenging institutions that may have aspects to correct. I'm encouraging you to reconsider how you challenge those institutions to determine all the consequences, intended and unintended. Personally, I think it's best to challenge them to be better in the ways I think is better.
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It works well with dishes dealing with tough cuts of meat, soups and bean based dishes. Yes, you cannot check the progress. But that has been the nature of any pressure based cooking. They key benefit in electric pressure cooking imo is that once the dish is in with spices, you can forget about it till it is done. Most electric pressure cookers have a saute mode, so you can quarter cook the dish, taste for spices and then switch to pressure mode.
I think he's saying "If you have a policy of deleting your data older than X, you are OK." You have to be able to prove that well before being asked for the data, you had a policy that resulted in it being deleted.

Where I work, we delete emails older than 6 months as a company policy. I have to assume this is done for exactly this reason. Don't ask why we might want to do that, I'm not in charge. :-)
We are, as well. The problem is that we currently don't have the capacity to train a new colleague. We need someone who can make a running start.
It does support it (though, it can use a lot of CPU for some reason)
Is it just me or was this already available in Firefox at some point in history?

I seem to remember I used to be able to send an open tab on my Android phone to my desktop Firefox, but that option later disappeared with some update.

Edit: It sounds a lot like the "send to device" add-on mentioned in another comment. Was this bundled with Firefox for Android at some point?
A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet
Oh gosh :(
No, it wouldn't require special-case syntax. It could just pass it's argument to '/bin/sh -c'. You'd have to shell-escape the pipeline, though.
CA Bill Would Leave Students and Teachers Vulnerable to Intrusive Searches
RIP.
The way wikipedia does it is to tie modifications to an IP address when someone isn't logged in. Or at least, that's what they used to do. Maybe something like that would work.
I mean the mentioned attempt was not as general as it was made out to be. Obama placed an exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need”. Pretty much what my expectations were set at. Again I am reluctant to take anything that Wikileaks says as absolute truth, they love to spin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/us/politics/obama-lets-ns...
A Turing-complete programming language just means that you can compute anything that can be computed using that language. In other words, it can be used to write arbitrary computations. You don't need much to achieve this; off the top of my head, I think that being able to read and write to storage, basic addition, conditionals and loops are enough. (Formally, it means that your language can be used to simulate a single-taped Turing machine.)

A non-Turing-complete language is any language which does not have one of those capabilities. Because the bar is so low, most languages you have used in your life are Turing-complete. For example, you can imagine a simple calculator-like language for just writing mathematical expressions. It can do all basic math operations, has conditions, but no ability to repeat things (no loops or recursion). That language is not Turing-complete. You can trivially prove that programs from such a language will finish - they can't not! there's no ability to impede progress.
There was a nespresso machine at the office where I used to work. The coffee it produced was tolerable and nothing more. I recommend an Aeropress if you want something quick that makes good coffee.
You've got to remember that Investment Banks have two sets of customers -> the big investors who they want to please and their corporate clients who want to sell shares. In recent times the big investors have become massively more powerful than anyone else, private equity hasn't had a crash like banking has.

In recent times a safe bet for the banks has been to underprice the IPO so that their big investor clients make lots of profit in the first couple of days, and then to weather the storm of the disappointed public company.

The newly public company won't actually do as much future business with the bank as the big investors will.
I think the idea is you can be driving around and launch and recover it without leaving the vehicle. While one person is driving, another navigating, another operating a radio, a fourth person can operate a drone without interfering with any of them.

That seems useful to me. I guess it must be useful to the Red Cross as well since they're using it. Do you have more experience in search and rescue than they do?

> "because marketing"

Who are you quoting with these quotation marks? That's not why they say they've done it. If it's your opinion don't make it look like you're quoting someone else.
You can open the dev tools, copy the request as cURL and run that in another terminal?
A few counterarguments:

1. When their demands are not heard, people use the law instead, i.e. "If you want to do business on our land, you have to play by our rules."

2. "if enough people care that's where the market would follow" - there are so many counterexamples to this I have no idea how you were able to type the words. The 'market' (corporations) will use the substantial information asymmetry and its organizational advantage to steer things in the direction most profitable to it. The way to fight this is through collective action, not by leaving individual consumers to somehow outplay a giant corporation.

3. Patents and copyrights are granted to 'promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts'. Their malicious use, such as restricting the distribution of repair manuals, and preventing the manufacture of replacement parts, could well be grounds for losing them. Demanding they instead be made available for purchase seems like a very reasonable alternative.
Do you have a model number, or a link?
VLSI CRTC's like the 6845 had a light pen input and a register that captured the character position at the time it fired. You could read that and translate it. It was a small matter of integration to make the input work. This chip was meant for text display but the PC and other systems used it for pixel-based displays too.
You make ice with a blender? :)
If we receive valid content removal request through our contact form then we will have to take the content down.

Judging by your username - is there a connection between you and the infamous file hosting site Oron that closed down a few year ago?
There's a great, free, video series online that teaches you how to cut[1]. Also, misen knives are excellent for the money.[2]

1. http://www.thekitchn.com/brendan-mcdermotts-knife-skills-cla...

2. Misen.co and http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/09/best-cheap-chefs-knives-m...
I did something similar recently https://streambin.pl/, you can upload whole directories but only when web-browser is on.
And yet the leaked tools don't seem to have much in the way of hardware-based exploits, which might say something about the feasibility of this kind of thing on actual systems. Obviously it can be done, but it were as pervasive as the tinfoil hatters believe, surely it would have shown up here. No?
Considering the potential size of pages and that this would mean the browser would have to keep around all of the unmodified source for all of those, I think it's a decently justified position.

I will say that it would be nice if there was a way for them to recognize when the devtools are open and use that as a signal to keep around the source of the current page. But otherwise it would certainly cause significant memory bloat for each tab open.
You can minimize the importance of just about anything that way. But I'm glad we at least got to "unfortunate in isolation"; baby steps.
WikiLeaks Release CIA Secret Hacking Weapon Archive
So is there a Mac version?
uBlock is the sole reason I use Firefox over Chrome on Android.
Are there any documented cases of this vector being used against a user?
That is the fun part, attacking with a virus is basically the same as releasing the code (modulo IDA pro). So a US government official can not use a classified virus, while everybody else can.
It's a live video stream, so you might be watching in the middle. Jump to the 1:10:00 mark to start watching at the beginning of the presentation.
This sounds like a typical scenario

- software developer position in 2017 = Micro-managed and treated like resource

- no creativity, just productivity

- small startup where you own %0.1 of the company while the CEO and CTO get %99.9

It's hard to change something that look fairly reasonable. I'd simply look for a larger organization that offers a much better work/life balance if this is what you really want.
Not to mention that people aren't actually speaking 24/7. In any given space there are probably people talking for less than 10% of the day.
At best, Wikileaks has a strong political leaning that clouds their whistle-blowing mission and leads some to question their motivation (even several years ago, some commentators saw Wikileaks as less whistle-blower and more anti-United States -- http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/16/how-wikileaks-blew-it/). At worst, some charge that Wikileaks is essentially working for Russia at this point. (http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/312964-us-finds-link...)

I've personally become convinced that the best way to release "leaks" of this nature is via the Panama Papers approach -- anonymously.
Haven't done anything with Java applets in years, but can't you somehow re-use most of the code and attach a new UI (yeah, still a lot of work probably)?
Thank you! I've been eagerly awaiting containers for a while, but didn't want to switch to nightly
Looking at the name first I thought it was some kind of parody - like /dev/null for uploading servers... Yeah, feel free to upload whatever you want...

The About section fits:

FAST - yeah, nothing faster than /dev/null, ok :)

Compatible - sure, why not.

Encryption + Secure - sure, it's hard to get anything out of /dev/null :)

Simple - no kidding...

The first hint that it might actually not be a parody site was the Preview part and then the file size limit in FAQs.

Even the Which file types are accepted? / All of them. combo
works great for the /dev/null premise.
Getting dumps and sitting on them/grooming/timing releases during the election, their twitter jumping on the Sweden bashing bandwagon [1-3] (because Assange was accused of rape there?), linking back to old Prism dumps after Trump tweets about wiretapping after reading an Infowars "article" [4] and speculating about it [5], etc etc.

I'm not sure if he's buttering up the administration to get out of Ecuador, but regardless, I trusted Wikileaks when they were [input] -> check for mostly pertinent info/responsible leaking -> [output].

The concept of wikileaks is crucial to a democracy, I'm just not sure that Assange's current Wikileaks is that thing anymore.

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838287615929499648

[2] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/837686443329859585

[3] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/837269295797309441

[4] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838298128419852288

[5] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838648893436903424
$8Mln Tech Ready School Opened in South Africa
Thanks! I hadn't seen it, but Vimperator was what finally got me to switch from Chrome/Vimium. If it's customizable enough that I can remap `d` to close a tab and `u` to reopen, I'll be happy... but then I guess I don't need to be happy, as I won't have a choice soon enough :)
Yeah.

http://little-lang.org is a C like scripting language that compiles down to tcl byte codes (so it can call tcl and tcl can call it). Why? Didn't like tcl, did like tk (still feel the same way). And I always wanted a scripting language with structs, I just like how structs are sort of a self documenting part of any program.

Also created an unreleased version of awk that made awk scripts first class, you could have

awk_script | awk_script

in the same script. We wanted this one for some database
stuff we were doing but ended up doing it in C instead.

Also created a "language" for processing deltas in a version control system. This one is pretty obscure but pretty useful. Patterned after awk, so there is a begin/end and then the body is called once per delta. Here's an example that digs out the commits and displays them in JSON format:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/dspec-changes-json-v.txt

when reading this one the rules are that stuff in double
quotes is what is printed, the rest is logic.
Just something totally ridiculous. These spyware / malware competitions remind me of poker in that these are games of imperfect information and we just throw hoops tring to gain a tiny bit more information than the next guy, to improve our bets.
Obviously there's a difference between cyber and conventional weapons, but imagine if the same rationale were extended to physical munitions: "We can't drop this bomb on the enemy, it contains classified technology"
Yes, I have written a few)) Because this is the most interesting area of programming for me.

Many years ago, I wrote BNF-like language to translate text into syntactic tree, it was part of my graduation project.

I also wrote a Lisp-like lexical preprocessor as an alternative to the standard C preprocessor, it can be used with other languages, for example, with Python.

https://github.com/in4lio/yupp
5 UX mistakes that can ruin your ecommerce site, and how prototyping can help
For anyone else who was wondering . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
Just to play devil's advocate here, in many cases the reasons stated for refusal are only one part of it.

In his case, the author doesn't seem to have had an offer on the table. Perhaps the interviewer felt as though the candidate was trying to negotiate too much, too early in the process. Perhaps the interview didn't go over all that well?
Its a great sense of relief to finally ship this product, we really hope folks give it a try and join our live keynote which is streaming now at http://launch.visualstudio.com
I really find I like it best when I've done stews, pork shoulder, red sauces, and stocks.

It pretty much works the same for all of them. I get all my aromatics roughly chopped, saute for a couple minutes just to brown them up, then I put them in the blender and transfer to the IP for an hour or so. I just submerge the meat and guess at a time that matches a stove top pressure cooker.

So I get what you mean about the hassle of multiple steps. I feel like I save time on the prep and stove managing. I only chop roughly and I'm not obsessing over doneness on the stove.

I mostly do it, because the results are just better. Stews really are better under pressure imo.
I just can't believe this!
Even zoos in a country like France aren't safe anymore.

1Kg fetches $60K?!? Not only the ignorance part that drives me mad, but how come so many men can be extremely obsessed about sexual performance?

I lose all hope in humanity in moments like these.
It is problematic especially for newer codecs like h265 which uses approximately 3x the CPU cycles.

Which pushes you beyond what a single core is capable off.
Just today I decided to ditch Firefox after using it daily since the first public release.

On my 15 inch Macbook Pro with Retina screen (and a 4k monitor attached) CSS animations are cooking the CPU. I've waited 2 years for improvements but with each new version the issue persisted.

It's clearly a Firefox issue, as Safari and Chrome don't have problems with it. But now almost every website uses CSS animations, the problems only have gotten worse. I was hoping the Servo project would somehow solve my problems, but I guess that will take a couple of years to fully develop.

https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
The purpose of these forms is to have an excuse to deport or deny your entry if it becomes convenient. The excuse will be that you lied on your form, regardless of what you put in it.
I bought a sous vide set up a couple of years ago and I've been very underwhelmed with it. Are there any recipes that you think are especially good?

I think my favorite is probably turkey breast just because it doesn't get dry. Everything else I've made in it (mostly different meats) has been okay, but nothing special. My family and I generally prefer things cooked on our grill.
Apple and Amazon also have some amount of clout that helps them stand their ground to a great degree in situations like this. The Feds realize that if they shut down Amazon or Apple, the country is going to fall to pieces.

As usual, startups are the ones that will suffer if faced with a situation like this.
Before I read this article, I was one of those people who was "hoping the greater spread of portable electronics will increase the ability of North Koreans to freely access information"

This article does a great job of explaining why it isn't that simple. This isn't like using a VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall.
You misunderstand the point of the form. The point is that if later you are suspected of one of those activities, you can be deported because you lied on the form, even though it might be impossible to convict you for the activity itself.
Yes stopped because of a "random check" as stated in the article.

She was told to fill out a form her fingerprints were taken then told there was a computer problem and she couldn't enter the US. They came back the next day and were allowed in.

But then the latest crossing attempt the border guards asked her why she was stopped in December?! It was the border guards who did it.

It's like in grade school a bully grabs your hand and pushes it into your face asking "Why are you hitting yourself?!"
I don't use them very much, but this stream reminds me Microsoft really does a fantastic job of presenting its work in the developer tools space.
Left an extra bracket in there while fixing other stuff.
Thanks for letting me know!
It does and can most likely be enabled by editing the vcxproj directly. Edit: something along the lines of:

<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="**\*.h" />
<Content Include="**\*.cpp" />
</ItemGroup>

Edit: see response.
> Good bye, you will be missed (not).

I'd like to say they won't be missed, but I've got a state Medicaid portal that uses some annoying Java applet to handle authentication I have no choice but to deal with (I've actually got a little flask web service that uses Selenium and Firefox in Xvfb just to log into the stupid thing and return the authentication cookies, since Chrome ditched NPAPI a while ago and IE isn't a sane option).

I won't be sad when applets finally go away, but that day is not today for me and it's going to really screw things up :/
Here's an application of our faulty, socially-dependent reason: Health care is a right, yes or no? Please explain your reasoning.

The article mentions ACA so my proposal should not be too off-topic.
What's the subset of Vimperator's features supported by VimFx?

I am for example quite reliant on .vimperatorrc for custom commands and set! about:config preferences.
> The instantpot is a bit slower

Are you pressure cooking your rice or using the "rice" setting? I've found rice to cook faster in this vs. my old Aroma rice cooker...
Flood detection sensors
TIL that CIA is using Atlassian Stash for internal code hosting. Many references to the stash.devlan.net, would be nice to see some code, I just found some python scripts: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_9535551.html
Yes, CoffeeScript, in 2009.

Despite being a modest, fun experiment in stripping JavaScript down to a minimal skin, and without any corporate backing, it wound up catching on a little bit.

Thanks to the hard work of Geoffrey Booth and Simon Lydell, among others, there's a new "V2" version that includes many ES6 and 7 features that's almost ready to go: http://coffeescript.org/v2/

CoffeeScript was designed extremely conservatively. The goal was to stick close to JavaScript semantics, to avoid having a runtime, and to avoid features that would require gymnastics and overcomplications in the output, or would run noticeably slower than the raw JS equivalent.

These days, I'm most interested in trying something from the other end of the "political" spectrum: What would happen if you tried to make a web language that wanted to strip HTML, CSS and JavaScript down to their essence — but were extremely liberal in the techniques you used to get there?

I'd like to get a chance to give that a try some day.
The article was mostly about the class lines being draw between the providers and receivers of these services. I agree that this is very important (especially politically) right at this very moment but I think it misses the long view. Eventually this stuff will be done by automation.

If this trend continues unabated, a large part of the population is likely to go full Wall-E, especially as the tech moves the services down-market. That seems like a far more interesting conundrum than a few rich and privileged folks trying to bring back Victorian era house-help with their mobile phones.