skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you can if your on relevant mailing lists / with your department colleagues.
Sure you can if your on relevant mailing lists / with your department colleagues.

Don't know why your laughing.
I've had a very similar experience. I too have learned to like C++. But every now and then I come across something like this

https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/branches/3.0/src/...

and some of it is back.
Hey, it's time for me to tell another third-hand half-remembered unsourced story, just because it's halfway relevant. How's that for a disclaimer?

Anyways, on to the story. I was an undergrad at UIUC in the early 90's, and the development of Mathematica had created a deep rift in the mathematics department.

There was resentment because there had been collaboration between those working for Mathematica, and other professors in the math department, who were just working on "interesting problems" presented to them by the inner circle guys.

Of course when Mathematica was released, and money and options were being given to the inner circle guys, the outer circle guys had, let's say, hurt feelings.
Searching is not the same thing as a range iteration, normally if you want to search a Key/Value than you'll need to scan the entire dataset.

A range iteration allows you to scan a subset of the data, and as long as they didn't fundamentally change how LevelDB works, than they will still support ranges.
Yes, this is bad. Yes, you are right to be upset. Yes you (not not really me, I'm not American and i avoid american hosting and hosting companies like amazon for exactly this reason) should change that.

But honestly, are you surprised? Are you really?

Government agencies have be building large datacenters, the EU loves data retention. There was no tin foil head required to see this.
wow, thank you for that. That just made my use of tmux that much easier!
It happens from time to time, not a huge deal.

EDIT: Downvotes? I'm not sure whats up with the unrealistic expectations of AWS. Its a shared system. You should be encrypting your data from the point it leaves a client app or browser, configuring your app to tolerate misdirected requests, etc. You don't like that? Go rent some colo, buy some hardware, and run it yourself.
Animator vs Animation
"I like your C++. I do not like your C++ programmers" -- Gandhi.

While I am at it, it is my opinion that bad C++ programming style is much worse than bad C programming styles.

For example http://i.imgur.com/xtohcJH.jpg
CUDA programmers would understand.
I have suspected for some time that Congresspeople ask their questions with a public entendre that has a separate, specifically-defined term that allows the answerer to sound like they're answering clearly and forthrightly, but which requires a parse in order to say, "hey, they simply asked the question wrong."

In other words, they collude to keep the public in the dark.
He's got a personal assistant that follows him around everywhere — and perhaps more who don't. Must be nice!
Why wait? They'll start getting users (and feedback) now and once they get sync, they'll get another press release out of it. Apple didn't wait until they could do LTE right to release iPhone 4s.
Congrats Jarrett and John! Happy for you guys!
In Defence Of The BBC And Its Clock
Your understanding is wrong. It is a very good thing to both go after the legislators and those who actually tactically implement injustice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_at_Nuremberg
And many times the terms are defined as a reference to another part of the law. I'm not sure if there is ever a chain of references ("...as defined in secA, secA says: see secB, etc..."), but I wouldn't be surprised.
Yet they wonder why rewrites are fairly common in vNext implementations...
Fsf proponents are not concerned with price, rather with freedom.
Original article in discussion:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/silicon-valley-race-...
I think there was an article here that described how dropbox at the very least keeps hashes of every file.
Why Google loves 'The Internship'
I'm not sure when the security people you are talking about did their audit, but when Microsoft bought Skype a few years ago they changed it from P2P communications to routing everything through a central server. After that it would be child's play to put in a backdoor.
Dropbox.... “coming soon.” Time to look at Bittorrent Sync again?

Or other open source alternatives?
Be serious. This is Apple. How on earth does clientside encryption fit into easy-to-use? Lost your password? Lost your files. That's entirely against the scenario Apple wants to sell.

Clientside crypto will only possibly be mass-adopted when there's some easy system for common folks to store their keys.
I think John is referring to one of these two stories, and I don't see any anomalies in either of their trajectories:
http://hnrankings.info/5833716,5833388/

In my opinion, sitting at rank 22 with 90 points over 5 hours isn't half bad, and probably is due to a relatively slow news day.
I think software development won't be done by machines any time soon. The reason is that the work done by programmers is almost always unique, tailored to the specifics of the situation. All but the crappiest programmers can automate repetitive tasks. Therefore, programmers - by definition - always make something new or slightly different. If it was repetitive, they would automate it.
Using ad hominem against the ad hominem of a response to a piece about the use of logical fallacies. This. Is. So. Meta.

Love it.
Underwater Archaeologist Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago
This is unsubstantiated speculation.
Those are CalDav clients... they aren't using a library exposed by the OS for custom apps... they each have their own CalDav client library.
> Either the interns are there to learn (In which case, they should not be working on anything that provides the employer with value)

I feel pretty strongly about the exploitation of free labor, but I'm not sure I agree with this point. Tasks from which a potential intern may learn the most are quite likely to be tasks which create value for the employer.

I'm not even sure what work an intern could possibly do that did not generate value for a team, other than literally digging a ditch and re-filling it.

> If your business can't afford to pay its employees, you should probably not be in business.

Money isn't the only way to pay employees. A learning experience can be just as valuable (if not more so) than some financial compensation. This is highly situational, and can easily be used as justification to get cheap unpaid labor, but nonetheless remains true.
"Legal" usually implies Constitutional. Collecting metadata is quite probably legal in both senses of the term.
The problem is that multiple government agencies are essentially playing semantics in an attempt to get around these "restrictions".

Having a permanent digital record of what many assume to be transient information is what makes this alarming beyond belief.
In politics, you fire those below you to save yourself. Even if they did right by you.
Dropbox has every encryption key used with Dropbox, so they can decrypt any file. Both transport keys and storage keys. Dropbox does at least (allegedly) encrypt stuff for storage, so they can RMA hard drives without having to destroy them first, but that's pretty meaningless.

There are some (flimsy) reasons for Dropbox to have copies of all storage keys (a web UI, which only some users use). Dropbox has done a good job of misrepresenting how their security worked for the past ~4 years to mislead people into trusting it, though.

This is mostly why I don't use Dropbox whenever I have a choice.
I think you are hitting this exactly right.

I mean, people 'lose' money all the time for things they get pleasure for. And Even when the thing they gained is very abstract.

Like vegas. People lose money almost by definition.

Or basketball games. Normal people get a -100% return on basketball games. And no one writes articles how the Grizzlies are somehow not providing value to society.

It's the same with capital markets. A lot of people get a huge kick out of speculating on the future. Even if they lose. The capital markets, no matter whether you are an HFT firm in Shoreditch, PIMCO, or some retail investor, are more a game than anything. Everybody wins.

No, it's a tragedy when we start saying that people need to rely on the capital markets. Then, sure, there is loss that's not like basketball games or lemonade. It's a horrible, tragic loss. But then you are talking about policy, not speculation. The real question is why on earth do people rely on the capital markets in the first place? Why is this 'loss' different?
What really saddens me is that this confirms all the conspiracy rumors.

Wasn't it always just a rumor going around that the U.S. Government "made" Microsoft buy Skype for spying purposes?

Well:
"10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications"

and on 2/6/11 Skype was added to the US spy program [1]

They were so eager to spy on Skype users that they implemented that "feature" even before the deal was officially done. Considering that Skype had been around since 2003 the events don't appear very accidental.

Wouldn't surprise to find out one day that the Skype acquisition was indirectly tax-payer funded.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
Accumulo: NSA's Apache-licensed BigTable-based key-value store
> Searching is not the same thing as a range iteration, normally if you want to search a Key/Value than you'll need to scan the entire dataset.

In this case, you lost the sorted keys advantage that BTree gives you.

My point is that this project leans more towards exact key -> value lookups and a BTree is an overkill here.
PRISM - US Gov. mining data from Google, y, msn, skype, youtube, and FB
OK. Sh!ts gettin' real boys.
There's no upside to this happening. Governments will still collect data. Your personal details, however, will be publicly available.
That's the point of CISPA. They didn't want to fight the government, but they pushed back asking for more legal protections, especially after the AT&T warantless spying scandal broke. So, they've been trying hard to pass CISPA in order to give these CEOs more peace of mind.
Benny, nice find.
My thoughts exactly. I'm certainly going to be looking at other options, including BitTorrent Sync. As useful as Dropbox may be, it's something I'd be willing to do without if this is true.
I'm not asking for exclusive client-side encryption. I'm asking to have it as an option. Which is a totally legit wish.

If the common forgetful folks like to trade ease-of-use with being spied upon, I'm fine with that.

But me, I'm not willing to do that trade-off.
I'm saddened to see Dropbox on the list. Did they choose to participate or is it mandatory?

In any case, we've moved several projects to BTSync recently from Dropbox (for no other reason than to free up space on Dropbox for our personal files) and have been enjoying the service.

As a p2p encrypted protocol, I imagine it's much more difficult to eavesdrop on your files and would actually require a warrant to obtain.

I presume that's true for AeroFS as well.
> play to the masses and appear to be outraged at what happens

Exactly and typically they won't take a stand unless they can turn it into a wedge issue to rally their base into playing the red vs blue game.
This is fucking atrocious. How much money do we allocate to national security in a year and this is the kind of amateurish PowerPoint slide their analysts come up with?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

I wonder which cub analyst got the job of putting together a collage of logos for that final slide?
This is clearly link-bait.

It’s limited and supervised.

Seven years of daily collections from every major telecommunication company in the United States is limited? I struggle to comprehend what William would consider excessive.
I don't support these internships but "There's a sucker born every minute."

Edit: I think this might have come off wrong: I was saying that's the mindset of these employers. They put these jobs/internships out there because they know someone will take the bait. I am don't condone this behavior.
This is incredible. Having dealt with the FedEx API for a client a while back this would have made our lives much easier. Good job to everyone behind it. Sorely needed product (and it shows based on their growth rate).
Good luck! I think it's a great way to live close to nature for a while. Camped once in the forest in Finland near a lake for a week with my gf, eating fresh fish every day and drinking spring water is awesome, can't wait to do it again sometime.

I also lived in a tent in London, in my garden, for 3-4 months (weekdays only) while my house was being renovated and extended - it's fine. I did it until November, in Sweden you'll want to move back indoors a couple of months earlier.
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
Unpaid internships are bullshit. If they want you to work a 40 hour workweek, then they need to fucking pay minimum wage at a minimum.
They only encrypt it in a meaningless way. Otherwise, their deduplication wouldn't work.
In case there was confusion, we charge 5c per shipment, and you still pay the carrier directly for the shipping label, so the total cost per shipment is the shipping rate + 5c.
"The plot [on the front page] took about three minutes to produce on a Sun 3/260 computer."

Plot3D[Abs[Zeta[x + I y]] , {x, -2, 6}, {y, 2, 35}] takes 0.213483 on my laptop :)
Thanks I tried haskell a few ties but never got the real life application to that.
The tone of this is all wrong, even if the facts might not. Apple has previously allowed carries to completely disable tethering, for no software or hardware reason at all. That is the ultimate sellout, and since they have done it before, the original story is very believable.
Beautiful Antigua
Who wrote this bullshit article?

1. This is wiretapping, par excellence. Metadata in aggregate is shitloads of data, and tells a much more compelling story than the data.

2. Judicially supervised means the public needs to know about the process, and be able to challenge it. Some NSA agent visiting some "judge" who signs a piece of paper in the darkness is certainly not "judicial oversight".

3. US Congress is biased, and lubricated with money on a daily basis. It is beyond me how the US people continue to believe in a political system so cynical and so corrupt.

4. Quick expiration is irrelevant when these orders keep getting re-approved every single fucking time, and again, with no oversight whatsoever.

5. Um, yeah, so the NSA is apparently collecting data from 9 big internet companies. What's that about "further court orders"?

Congratulations, William Saletan, on the worst rebuttal ever of what is now, de facto and de jure, one of the largest surveillance states in the world.
Not to be too conspiracy theorist but maybe just maybe this was why Skype was bought by Microsoft in the first place? The thought crossed my mind at the time of purchase but I sent it away skuttling because I deemed it too tinfoil hatty. My main regret at the time as a Linux enthusiast was that Skype's Linux offering was sure to suffer, so I had that angle more on my mind than government aiding and abetting.
I've written a _lot_ of C++. I'd rather not go back to using it, if possible.

Recently I found this: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

It explains most of the reasons I disliked C++ and, if you've ever used it, you might recognise the issues dealt with.
American here, have only visited NL and DE for a few weeks, never lived there.

It was also my perception that the Dutch had a live-and-let-live toleration, that seems like the opposite of the monitoring regime described in the comment. (I'm not really referring to marijuana, I'm speaking more generally.) To this naive outsider, who admittedly has something of a crush on Amsterdam, that level of monitoring is puzzling.

But maybe all those bike roads and dikes point to another aspect of the culture -- a little too well-supervised and well-engineered.
This is why've were trying to make it legal lately. They were already doing it. The same thing happened with the Patriot Act.

It seems FBI/NSA "test-drive" a new illegal spying program first, and then lobby Congress to pass a law to make it legal (regardless of its constitutionality, as we've seen so far).

I bet they would've wanted retroactive immunity, too, in these new laws. Also, let's see how those supporters of FISA, like Dianne Feinstein, try to spin this one as "they already knew about it" (which makes it that much worse) and that it's nothing new.

Also let me see them say with a straight face that this is constitutional and doesn't violate the 4th Amendment. But seeing how cynical these people have become, I don't think it would be too hard for them to do it.
The book Two scoops of Django is great for learning best pracitces, but if you're starting from 0 it's not what you want.

The django book on www.djangobook.com was great when I learned Django back in 1.1, but it's been outdated for a while. However there are some efforts going into updating it for Django 1.5. Might be worth a look.

The Django docs are awesome. They've been updated recently with more tutorials.
Is there a way to run AeroFS on AWS or something? So it's possible to store files encrypted, but with as simple syncing as Dropbox?
As usual, GNU/Emacs has your back!

M-x spook

http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa/spook.html
I agree. I'm often struck by how threads on HN, Reddit and Google+ about some topic go together and pick up on where past threads left off, or duplicate them unnecessarily. (brings to mind that David Byrne line "Say it once, why say it again?")
Jesus Christ. Shit just got real.
This is not surprising, is it? I don't quite get why this and yesterday's story about NSA mobile eavesdropping are causing so much shock. Over a year ago, WIRED featured a story by James Bamford about the NSA's planned data center in Utah, sourcing an anonymous former intelligence officer who said that the NSA had been installing controlled equipment at ISP facilities for years. (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/)
I hope people who dislike the political stories are flagging those stories.
U.S. intelligence mining data from Internet companies
This article would have been stronger if it had contained a bit of introspection. Why did it require a UK paper to uncover this operation?
Many many years ago I worked at an ISP and I remember getting emails of the form:

From: manager@corp.com
To: minimax@corp.com

Subject: When you get a minute

We got a subpoena to provide information about
<identifying information>. When you get a second
can you grep through the logs and provide any
connection details if he was online from <start>
to <end>. Thanks.

I didn't even think about it. Maybe the people in legal did? Once or twice I heard that the guy we helped track down was a legitimate bad guy (like a murderer or something), but in general I just remember it being just like any other day-to-day task. I'm not saying I actually handled any of these NSA requests. I have no idea if I did. I never actually saw any of the subpoenas.
When presented with new data, some people change course. I am hoping Obama falls into that class.
I think the CEOs knew.
>Even Tor, the darling of the EFF, was initially developed by the Navy.

Tor is open source. Are you suggesting there is some secret backdoor inserted by the Navy which is not apparent in the public code?
Why is circumventing minimum wage laws a bad thing? If you don't have the skills to be paid $9/hr (or whatever it is nowadays), then unpaid internships are awesome, because they help you get there.

How about this idea: let people offer unpaid internships, and let potential employees willingly decide for themselves, based on their own circumstances and free will, whether or not to take them. I don't see any harm in two human's voluntary reaching an internship agreement if they both benefit from it.
"Is BitTorrent Sync open-source?
BitTorrent Sync isn't open source software, and no announcements have been made to indicate that this will likely change."[1]

[1]http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/17782-bittorrent-sync-faq-...
Use Bit Torrent sync
Hey, Did you look at David Romulan (@destructing on GitHub)'s project? https://github.com/destructuring/vagrant-shell
Perhaps whomever leaked it regarded it as essential to upholding an oath of office. 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.... '
IBM's JazzHub
Rule number one of plumbing: Shit flows downhill.
Move fast and break the Constitution.
This looks cool. All the fun terminal programs are all over the place, but I love it when I come across another one!
This article cherry-picks and attempts to bang on the table, probably because banging on the facts would not turn out so well.

He claims that C was designed by committee, which I can only assume is a defensive projection meant to hide that C++ was designed and is maintained by committee. He points out mplayer as an example of C code that is supposed to be good but is actually bad, which is a low blow. (mplayer's code quality has always been awful and this is well-known in the community.)

The railing against C++ object models being bad is similarly defensive, and I get the feeling that the author is deliberately trying to make people forget that pImpls ever happen.

C++ is an incredibly obtuse language, full of so many misfeatures and fancy whirligigs that it's difficult to be certain that even repeated reads through a file are giving you the correct impression of structure and flow.
Really wish there were decent ultrabooks with e-ink displays for working in the sun. This is the only commercially available product i've seen - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2125333
Interestingly, your own extended quote from American Jurisprudence contradicts your thesis, and clearly lays out why "legal" and "constitutional" are not separate terms, as a purported law that contravenes the Constitution, "though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law" and "is as inoperative as if it had never been passed". Therefore, while Congress could pass something that pretended to be a law which violated the Constitution, by doing so it would make "in reality no law", and whatever was purported to be made legal by that law would not be legal.

To be legal, under US law, an act must necessarily be Constitutional as well; an unconstitutional act is, ipso facto, illegal.