skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more few paragraphs down:

> And now we no longer worry about Python version 2 or 3 (is it ever upgrading?)
What are the other kinds of realities?
Interesting. I'd be happy to verify if you email me.
The NSA plays the "Kevin Bacon" game, where selectors target an individual, their friends, friends of friends (2 degrees of separation out, iirc.)

I suspect they're performing a full-take of the call contents as well, just not through the PINWALE/MARINA ingestion system. It's likely commingled with bulk traffic snarfed up by beam splitters at the telcos' NOCs, and separated on-demand from the TEMPORA buffer.

At this point, I'm jaded enough to domestic mass-surveillance, I just want my money's worth. Russia successfully implanted DarkEnergy on domestic SCADA, nation-wide. Do we have that capability abroad? Prioritize foreign retailiatory offense, please!

(hi @NSA if this shows up in XKS!)
It could be e ink which should be power efficient enough.
> That's far too many.

Quick clarification of what's being discussed here--

What AnimalMuppet has estimated is that someone or some group in the Dept. of Defense has made a request to analyze call metadata, the sum total of which may come to 0.3% of all calls. In other words, that 0.3% reflects the data that has been parsed into a form intelligible for someone or some group working at (or perhaps even sub-contracted by) the DoD.

The amount of call metadata that is available to the NSA for such requests (available either through one of their monstrously large data centers like the one in Utah, or available through one of their many programs that automate access to private companies' metadata) is almost certainly quite close to 100%.

You can read about how common usage terms are redefined in misleading ways by the NSA et al here:

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect
> So let me get this straight. For years, I've been disrobing in public and subjecting myself to groping on the off-chance that someone might have a bomb tucked under their scrotum, yet on the BUSIEST DAY EVER it's okay to throw all those security protocols out the window.... why??

I get your point, but you are making a logical mistake here.

If a building shuts down it's fire warning systems and blocks the fire exits for a week because of some construction work, that doesn't mean that they should just be removed because obviously they are not needed.
He or she is just living off of the tips, and of the selling of perfume and mints.
Why is this being downvoted? It’s a valid point. For being so “open minded” and “innovative,” it seems like there is a lot of closed-mindedness here.
> Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program.

I find that hilarious. Trying to make themselves sound like the victim here.
i keep meaning to look for some sort of cloth to place over the keyboard before closing it to keep the glass from coming in contact with the grease on the keys. the next trick would be to remember to use it
This is (and was) pretty common practice in Israel. There was a lot of trial-and-error involved - lots of the early towns were planned with lots of housing to handle the big waves of Middle Eastern Jewish immigration and no employment opportunities - but they've gotten pretty good at it since then.
This could all be right and still has no bearing on whether Telegram made $1.7b on the presale or not unless it was Telegram buying the tokens (Funny enough Pavel Durov has an estimated net worth of $1.7b).
Plenty --- Richland is still filled with "alphabet houses" built by the government. The Tri-Cities really weren't very developed when the feds first came to town.

"Richland was a small farm town until the US Army purchased 1660 km² (640 sq mi) along the Columbia River for the war effort, evicting the 300 residents of Richland as well as those of the now vanished towns of White Bluffs and Hanford just upriver. The army turned it into a bedroom community for the workers on its Manhattan Project facility at the nearby Hanford Engineering Works (now the Hanford site). The population increased from 300 in July and August 1943 to 25,000 by the end of World War II in August 1945. Richland became a closed city (federally controlled Atomic Energy community), with access restricted to residents and others authorized by the U.S. Army. All land and buildings were owned by the government. Housing was assigned to residents and token rent was collected; families were assigned to houses or duplexes; single people were placed in apartments or barracks.

"Much of the city was planned by Spokane architect Albin Pherson in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers.[2] While there were dormitories and barracks built at the time, prefabricated duplexes and single family homes are all that survive today. Because homes were allocated based on family size and need, there were a number of floorplans available. These were each identified by a letter of the alphabet, and so came to be known as alphabet houses." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_Historic_District_(...
Laptops in the 70's do tell
Quite a bit of Richland housing:

https://www.ci.richland.wa.us/home/showdocument?id=2750

I count 3513 "alphabet houses" from that document, plus 1342 unlettered prefab houses and 17 dormitories for women.

The Tri-Cities area was a very small agricultural community before the Manhattan Project.
What have they received in return? Real United States Dollars or ETH, BTC, or, even worse, some shitcoins?
Your arguments are extremely disingenuous. You know that rent-controlled units reset to market when vacated. A barista or a teacher is not going to move into your studio. It's probably going to go to another tech worker.

You dismiss Tim Redmond's analysis based on his vested "millionaire" homeowner interest. Yet you cite an "academic" analysis paid for by the California Homebuilding Foundation. Completely hypocritical.

You attempt to paint the YIMBY groups as diverse and representative of low-income minority groups by citing only their LGBT representation. This blatantly disregards Latinx, AA and other minority groups that are disproportionately affected by the housing crisis.

You mischaracterize BMR as "rent control," then simplistically argue against that straw man. But economists do in fact argue that SF affordable housing developer fees can "improve housing affordability for low- and middle-income households, despite some loss of market-rate housing construction" because "prices are less important than land use controls in explaining whether a parcel will develop new housing."[1] And even economists who argue against the downsides of rent control recognize it has "benefits" and argue for other forms of government "protection against rent increases."[2]

[1] http://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Docum...

[2] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rent-controls-winners-...
Simple measuring of Rails RSS
Though it's a game, not a movie, The Last of Us had a fairly good premise for the outbreak. Theres a fairly large latency between infection and visible symptoms, so by the time society is aware of the outbreak a large portion of the population is already infected. That combined with the fact the infection spreads both though contact and through inhalation of spores.
CIA founded Google, for one. An apple doesn't fall far from a tree.

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
They're an insignifcant part of the problem compared to people who invoke these labels rhetorically and want to argue about them.
It just wouldn’t activate at the force of your hands resting on it.
Air Canada joins WestJet in severing ties with Hopper over 'secret fares' Claim
Self driving cars will be high growth.
This is just my opinion, but I've never found that part of multi-threading difficult. Interleaving doesn't matter except where resources are shared between multiple threads, and the solution is to protect the resource with a mutex.

Sometimes it's hard to tell when a resource is shared, but that has more to do with not knowing how the code works than it does with multi-threading.
Doesn't Firefox add itself as option if you have the browser installed?
Hi! I see 'based in the USA' as a qualification in the greenhouse.io website. Is that a requirement? Do you accept freelance work?
Self driving luxury cars. Apple is second to none in focusing on design.
I've always understood that this person's actual job was making sure that no-one was taking drugs in / vandalizing / doing anything illegal in the bathrooms.

They're there so the owner of the club/restaurant can relax, not you.
I think there's another sliver to be added, though, because the NSA can still give the excuse that the answer to

> why is it spying on citizens

...is that it's doing that to prevent foreign attacks, not eg. mass shootings.

Furthermore, even if it were doing anything useful with its domestic spying, such as preventing domestic crime, obviously we'd all rather address plain ole' shootings, which take many more lives than mass shootings.
and people from Iran or Syria?
I haven't read it yet myself, but John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is on my reading list with this note from a rationalist-fiction-loving friend of mine: "There'll be like twenty pages of epic zombie fighting, and then thirty pages on the logistics of salvaging supplies from abandoned ships. And the characters are complicated and nuanced but nearly everyone is super competent (or dies)."
I agree wholeheartedly! While NYT subscription revenue has picked up in recent years, I wonder if more newspapers and publishers might find significant value in building more of these knowledge based software products? Structuring the data appears to be the key process to make these products effective. Does anyone know of any other examples similar to this effort?
I am a neophyte x86 asm user.

I link using gcc and -nostdlib plus a very simple start.S:

.globl _start
_start:
call main
movl $1,%eax
xorl %ebx,%ebx
int $0x80

fasm 1.asm;gcc -nostdlib start.S 1.o lib1.a;a.out

"lib1.a" contains only the functions needed by a.out instead of, e.g., every function in libc.a

I use ar -M < 1.mri to script changes to lib1.a

(Did I forget about crt0.o?)
How does keeping tabs on every phone call my ~85-year-old grandmother makes help keep the country secure?
Show HN: ProgressIO dotnet stream copying with progress
I have all that except for delegated reverse DNS, but that hasn't been a problem (again, to my knowledge!).
Legal reference? (This is a matter of law, re engineer's compensation.)
Really? I haven't noticed this, admittedly I don't use it much.

What's the best alternative on android?
Maybe it's 500M uniques?
I have strong feeling that while this obviously works on i386 linux (and probably any unix for that matter) if it works on even amd64 it's just a pure coincidence.
I'm not clear what you're saying here, possibly because I don't often have 3 hour French meals. $90 sounds neither outlandishly expensive for a fine meal, nor cheap.
this is the biggest muscle memory i've had to fight myself from doing. i never realized how much time i would rest my fingers on a key in the Fn key row until the touch bar.

i could not imagine trying to do this for an entire keyboard.
And not only agency vs civilians but apparently the agency vs politicians in all areas of govt.
You're totally right; I misunderstood it.
Nearly 40 shot over 3 days in Chicago incl young mother, 4-year-old, teen on bus
Google Minivan in 'Autonomous Mode' Involved in Crash in Arizona
Working for Microsoft, and moved to Seattle, WA last year, after having lived in Vancouver, BC for about 1.5 year.

I can confirm this trend for several reasons:

1) The pay gap is real. Many get about a 40% pay increase by moving 3 hours down south. It's significant.

2) Taxes are aprox 10% lower in Seattle. Makes a difference too.

3) Rent-net-pay-ratio is about the same for Vancouver/Seattle

4) For a tech worker the health care is both places privately insured and the same.

Personally, I miss Vancouver. The city is awesome, and life quality is better, but financially it's simply not attractive enough.
I saw a $96M startup fail, not because the product failed, but because the distribution function for the yield was not understood. It was too sharply peaked to be practical. There’s a lesson there.
Ask HN: Do you know how to display tracks from Soundcloud.com that are free?
I'm surprised it took you all the way till the Superbowl.

I recall one of my first times through high security seeing a guy with lunch box getting thru next to metal detector. I quickly called TSA officer and told them there was a man going thru with a box. "Oh that's fine that's one of us". That was the whole reasoning; because some dude you don't even know his last name is "working for the agency" it means he is saint and would never harm the country. It blew my mind that day! That day I realized its all a carnival ponies show and another way to take away more tax payers funds.
> The touchbar can sometimes be really annoying when I accidentally hit the Siri key when typing fast.

So disable it?
If it's not, you can drop the cost. There are AVR like 8051s that you can get for 10 cents.
I've seen this at airports that had seemingly small or poor quality luggage belts, and figured that their actual role was to help ensure the smooth running of things and stop the belt jamming up with too many bags.
This is true. The secret federal court that makes all of this possible was established during the Carter administration.
So what electron developers appreciate is an easily accessible markup+canvas?

Text editors are a great example, they're very difficult to get right.

I wonder why more desktop GUI platforms aren't equipped with something similar to html5->native markup.

Thanks for your comment, that clears up the question of appeal for me a bit. I can see how much frustration is saved in a project like vscode by using electron.
You're right. (And the linked article is from The New Yorker.)
The ARM Cortex-M series of chips is I believe kind enough to initialize the stack pointer for you before your code even executes, by copying your chosen stack pointer value from a special reserved location in the interrupt vector table. So in principle you could write all your hardware init code in C.
You don't happen to work at a large bank do you?
Many friends at banks say this is common place.
Cars are even worse, but crashes with fatalities don't show up in the news.
Agreed. Serverless is not free, or even cheap for that matter. It’s an entirely new skillset that comes with a million new things to learn and worry about. No thanks.
This is one of the things I love about HN - someone can post an inane and inaccurate slam of a free service, and the CEO of the company providing said service responds in a clear and friendly manner.
i think its not the exercise but the rest that follows after a strenuous activity that makes you prone to get sick. its been my theory that if you rest like you are on your last breath, your immune system stops being active. but if you stay active and keep moving your body like you have to survive, your immune system is boosted.

ive tested this theory time and time and seems to be on point.

there have been a number of times when i was feeling sick and instead of resting, id go out in the cold freezing and walk outside for hours. next day i would be completely healed.

but when im just home bed ridden that sickness can linger for days or even weeks.

im also a huge fan of taking cold shower the moment you feel like you are carching a cold. it works way too often to be a coincidence.
My insurance costs me personally about $250 per month covering a family of 6. My employer pays the rest — AND I make 2-3x a Canadian salary excluding stock.

The health argument is completely invalid when it comes to Canadian salary comparisons because the Canadian employer doesn’t have to pay health insurance costs — so they should have more money available for salaries.
I have the same problem. Even for US standards low paid remote work for the US from outside the US pays more than a senior software engineer in most Western countries. There are some nice career options that I might need to skip because the difference in pay is huge.
Yeah, they had an ATX-3000 Sidewinder.

http://www.vetexinc.com/vehicles/sidewinder.html
It's a very smartly written novel that holds up very well. It's also unusually grim for the era.

Steven Soderbergh's Contagion also comes to mind as an example of a realistic, scientifically accurate depiction of an epidemic.

Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, while not being about zombies, is a very science/fact-based exploration of a hypothetical outbreak. A much less scary scenario, though; the pathogen only affects a single, isolated town which is quickly secured, and all of the action occurs in the experimental underground science lab where they study it. The 1971 film is also fantastic, and holds up really well.
Since when is the whole US tech scene the same as Silicon Valley. All the statistics they showed were Canadians moving to the US in general for tech jobs. I am sure they are not all moving to Silicon Valley. Based on their own statistics seems like they should be going to Austin.
C really does stress the difference. Look up the definitions of "pointer" and "array" in the C standard. They're entirely distinct concepts.

p[i] is equivalent to (p+i), and that's possible because both the indexing "[]" operator and pointer addition "+" operator require a pointer and an integer as operands. (The pointer needs to point to an element of an array object, but that's not enforced at compile time.) For p[i], it's very common for the pointer operand to be an array expression that "decays" to a pointer.

(3[p] is valid because pointer addition, like integer and floating-point addition, is commutative. It could* have been defined to require a pointer as the left operand and an integer as the right operand. The decision was made when the distinction between integers and pointers wasn't as strong as it is in modern C.)
I don't think it's quite the same as your analogy.

The reason we have to go through scanners and take off our shoes and get groped is because once upon a time, some bad actors got through security with contraband. We then decided we just had to spend millions upon millions of dollars, train thousands of people, and inconvenience and embarrass millions of passengers because if we didn't, more bad actors would get through with said contraband using the same methods.

So we closed a security hole. Except that same security hold is opened up again if enough travelers inundate the airport. Not just one security hole, but almost all of them. The entire purpose of the TSA. Conclusion - if you want to get contraband through security, just wait for the right day and the TSA will let you walk right through.
That's 80-85k CAD. The market for local jobs in Victoria is easily competitive with that.

There's opportunities to make six (Canadian) figures in Victoria if you have enough buzzwords on your resume to convince a recruiter or HR person you're "full-stack" (I hate the term but you have to play the game if you want to get hired).
My reading of this is that Hopper did have a "private" (i.e. exclusive) fare, and Air Canada just didn't like the negative PR of the word "secret"
That's great if everyone (a) has boards, nails, and umpty days/weeks of supplies on hand, (b) is in a defensible place or can easily get to one, (c) finds out about the outbreak in time to take appropriate action, and (d) is genre-savvy and knows they need to do all of that.
I go a step further and use pihole and ublock origin. pihole can't catch everything so thats what ublock is for - mostly cosmetic filters really.
After reading that I'm so happy that I develop traditional Flask and Rails applications with server side templates and tiny bits of JS thrown in when necessary.

I'm all for moving forward and using new stuff if it makes my life better, but from the looks of it, Serverless is still many years away before discussions like that can even take place.
No. FISA and the two federal courts (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review) created under it in the 1970s do not make this surveillance possible, as it was possible before FISA; instead, they are part of the regime established to restrict it after a number of notorious abuses (the FISA restrictions have been weakened in the post-9/11 era, but are still more than existed prior to FISA.)
Sendwithus, Ingrooves, Illumina.. oh wait.. scratch that last one :)
>All this is only a bad thing if you care about efficiency. If you let go of that axiom, there are unlimited jobs to be created.

Oh cool, we invented almost-basic income.
Those checkboxes are no longer a argument.

Companys have turned keeping those settings you want into a chore, constantly updating away the users work, pushing in a war of attrition their preferred settings - and sometimes even just outright ignoring the done settings altogether.

So having a checkbox to turn it off- is by now nothing more then a pr-stuntstrawmen - just as the constant updates, which are used to wriggle out of responsibilities for errors and bugs.
Government Admits 5G Is Killing You
Isn't that a bit of a jump, and specifically called out in the quartz article as not true?

"Did the CIA directly fund the work of Brin and Page, and therefore create Google? No."
I just tried using Hangouts yesterday. Did not work in FF, but oh wow it magically worked in Chrome. Also, the only Hangouts "Desktop" app still requires Chrome. Also when you use Hangouts on iOS, and you open a link, it asks if you want to use Chrome (which isn't even installed) or Safari. how about use the goddamn default browser? Nope, it's gonna ask me to use Chrome for the rest of eternity. Total shit.
Well said, I've rebuilt my nexus 5 (3 times)

It was once driven over by a car and I swapped the innards.
The motherboard died and I swapped that out.
Then I replaced the battery. I've a backup nexus 5 and spare battery waiting. I want to get my money's worth. Upgrading every 2/3 yrs is nuts with how much these cost. I'm pushing for every 6 yrs unless a device truly revolutionary is released. No such device has been released.
Qualcomm to depose Apple services chief Eddy Cue
10 Reasons Why You Need to Use an RTOS (real-time operating system)
$73K to $130 - $140 is an enormous difference. Like it or not, they need to pay more if they want top talent.

Not sure what they can do to change that, I'm seeing a lot of interesting ideas in these comments. But, harsh truth, if you're paying that far below market rates in the states, I would expect almost all of Canada's talented software devs to look abroad, it's just not nearly enough money.