skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1: Who have you been spying on?
2: I'm not allowed to tell you.

A stupendously truthy answer.

Likewise, I don't see how a "secret security directive TSA can't tell you about" even hints at a requirement to lie, let alone lie even more.

And this is my problem with many of these discussions on HN. One would think that a "secret law" is bad enough by itself that one would not have to further mislead what it does and does not imply. So great, before I couldn't trust the government or script kiddies, now I can't trust anybody.
'Dead pixels' is a linux incompatibility? Large harddrives not being seen by the BIOS of a very old model? How is that linux's fault if the machine can't even start to read the drive?

That's a list of Thinkpad issues, they're not all linux-on-thinkpad issues. You could make one for every brand - Macbook pros would have "sometimes catch fire", from a story in this thread.
I mean, you're being a little pedantic. Presumably, Americans expect the Constitution and all of our "fancy laws" to protect them from living in a police state.
You can't deny that the wording is far more convoluted and vague, despite the precise legal implications.
Um, obviously Linux has "better" hardware support since OS X wasn't meant to run on more than a few different machines.

This isn't a design flaw so much as a circumstantial necessity. I agree with the article's point, but is this really a common refrain?

As an interesting aside, I wrote this comment from Ubuntu running on a ThinkPad. Touche.
The article looks upside down and in a strange character set or language to me.
I certainly think it is possible to be doing something "ordinary" and end up having it be something revolutionary at the end. It happens with some degree of frequency.

I just don't think a given location and a few keywords let you claim the revolutionary bit beforehand :)
He trolls Hollywood interests, Snowden is effectively trolling the whole US government; the difference is of some importance.

NZ was in the original Echelon program, in terms of intelligence they fall squarely in line with GCHQ and friends. It's really one of the worst locations he could choose, right after the US and Britain.
The point is that the President falls under the laws (plural) of the land, not just the "initial commit".
Everybody seem to call it "batman".
I really find it hard to believe that Win7 on 7 year old hardware with Linux in a VM works better than just Linux on the same hardware. What on earth are you measuring this on?
Faltering Economy in China Dims Job Prospects for Graduates
Among the widely available fonts, Comic Sans is apparently the easiest for dyslexics to read.
In a professional environment, generally the best way to get started is to simply throw something up on a whiteboard, tear it apart, throw something else, tear it apart...rinse repeat. If I tell someone in an interview that their solution is flawed, I want them to be intrigued, ask questions and find out way OR tell me why I am wrong/mistaken in a professional manner - if they are stubborn, rude, angry or simply fail to respond, they will not be a good fit.

In any large culture people will constantly tell you you are going about something the wrong way, it is simply in the nature of large cultures. It is the job of any professional engineer to compile notes, listen and react appropriately to this. Sometimes the other people don't have the whole story, or are simply just wrong...other times they know something you don't and you have to be willing to scrap what you were doing and go back to the drawing board - with a new contact and fresh information.
Are you kidding? CDs were miles better than vinyl and tape and were the dominant format for a very long period of time. Until the rise of mp3, there was no way to get high quality sound in a compact form. Have fun trying play vinyl in your car or on an airplane. CDs were a revolution and an amazing piece of technology, especially when you consider that they were created in the 70s.
You appear to have a high value or `goal' of personal `heroism'. Is this something imprinted from mom and dad or scripted in Boy Scouts? Your kind do well in High School marching band, as E- ball-peen hammers in the motor-pool, and as dutiful shrapnel fodder. That's the only reason the rest of us remain succinctly cordial and pleasant to your schoolboy entrained narcissism.
Twittering every graphical character in the Unicode standard
sigh

Further dragging through the mud of the name of a once great company.
Yes, but I don't see NZ ever abandoning their strategic intelligence alliance with US and UK (which produced, among other things, the original Echelon). Blowback all you want, Snowden would still be sent straight to Washington.
What I don't understand, especially with the constant barrage of posts on HN about this topic ... Were you all really unaware the NSA did things like this or PRISM? I mean really? You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to be this naive. I find the shock and indignation over this news a little over the top. I'm not defending it or anything and I'm not saying it is not an important issue ... but really you never knew or suspected this before? I find it hard to believe any intelligent person would not be surprised to find out the NSA was NOT "spying" on citizens.
I'm running CM10 on my phone but I'm not sure where the most recent OpenPDroid installation is or whether it's phone dependent or not...

Mind enlightening me a bit? Thanks!
As far as I know, Iraq was not involved in the terrorist attack of 9/11. Why should the cost of the invasion into Iraq be consider in the damage caused by 9/11?
Sure you can. The website author can check DOM properties to see the width and height of a particular element, and change the content (to add breaks and buttons) where appropriate.
You got it backwards. Think of a model where you initially commit to pay full price, but everyone gets a discount that increases as sales targets are met. It would be no different than any "refer-a-friend" discount that you see at gym clubs or satellite subscriptions.
I believe you have that backwards. The first statement is not arguable while the second one is, because of the nature of the first.
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And the U.S. undoubtedly killed a bunch of criminals by dropping the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, but even the most die-hard supporters of the bomb don't try to make that a positive point of the whole affair.

Instead that tends to be evaluated as a whole and not just with a narrow lens that happens to mesh with whatever you were looking to find.
Probably this one but there have been a few in the past few years:

http://rockridge.patch.com/groups/schools/p/two-attempted-ab...
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Am I the only one getting a 'sign in to read' prompt?
I would think that SF is still a fairly good place if you want start tech companies and SV is fairly good if you want to work for one with substance. In comparison LA doesn't seem to be the natural choice if you want to make movies nor if you want to be in one with substance. But this is mostly speculation.
Eh? What evidence is there for this, or is it like the JFK conspiracy theories?
I guess nobody has, to be honest. Maybe the WinerWatcher would have helped, in that regard.
> Intel's Xeon Phi cards pack 240 x86 CPUs per card

> We've got a stack of then in the office; they're pretty interesting.

That's funny, seeing as the only Phi coprocessor you can buy right now only has 60 cores [0].

I mean, what Intel has done is quite impressive, but let's not exaggerate.

[0] http://ark.intel.com/products/71992/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Coprocess...
Enjoyable read, however the notes about the hotel gym were a bit strange to me. I may have a insufficient sample set, however I've never seen free weights in a hotel gym, beyond a couple of low weight dumbbells. Certainly no one doing deadlifts, and I can't imagine a hotel dealing with that.
Firefox logs in to GMail and Facebook just as well as Internet Explorer does, and the open protocols that would be used by OSS are just as susceptible to interception on the wire as the closed protocols used by Skype.

I do agree (and have for years) that people with Important Data should rely exclusively on open-source software if it is important that the data is handled properly, but OSS is not a panacea to this by any means.
The UK was where English first evolved, and it seems like there is a lot more diversity in how it is spoken there. Fragments of older dialects that didn't win out still linger.

The US was settled relatively quickly and there wasn't that much time for regional accents to evolve. There are a few recognizable ones, like the Southern US accent, but it's not as dramatic as something like a Cockney or a Scottish accent in the UK.
I share the intellectual curiosity, but, if this thing turns out to actually work, then it is guaranteed to stopped working shortly after when other people take note of this.
I got it as well. It's never happened when reading a Medium article before.
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I wouldn't say that the US is substantially more free today than it was then.
I don't think so. right now Major Nidal Hasan (the army psychiatrist who, by his own admission, perpetrated a small massacre at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009) is having a trial right now and acting as his own defense counsel. Predictably, he's making a hash of it and is likely to receive the death penalty because his only offered defense, which has been rejected as a matter of law, is that he was acting to protect the lives of Taliban leaders; but he's most certainly getting a fair trial - a fact which is irritating a great many people on the right.
I agree that Snowden is better off in HK, I was just responding to the comment WRT Kim Dotcom.
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I'm thinking of a much shorter time horizon. The problem with long-term investing right here and now is that potential possible futures include many where the long-run risk-asset investor ends up with a big fat zero. Someone, somewhere will have to cough up and accept massive losses to rebalance the economy post QE.
collecting and recording isn't listening. Reading an SMS isn't listening. And the content of a phone call is only part of the information gathered... you have metadata including cell phone tower location data, duration etc.

Ultimately, What I want to read isn't a congress person saying, "don't worry, it's cool." It's the EFF or ACLU saying it. I feel like I have to parse anything being said by public officials or government employees with maximum paranoia, just because they know that if they explained what was going on, we would object. Which is sad, because I'm an American, I love my country, and I want to trust my government.
You miss the point--you're talking about outsourcing development. The point of the article is to use libraries whereever you can, not to oursource all development to non-in-house developers. (The other reply to this gets it).
I think the focus is less on the tabs being Chrome-like, and more on the file path and menu integration. Click the buttons on the bottom of the page to check them out.

Seem interesting. Sadly, the "bookmark bar" menu wouldn't really work for OSX but it could just use the file path instead.
Alleged rape.
Tracking actions not related to specific individuals is still extremely valuable information.
As it should! Too often I get stuck in a rut, inspired by the myriad of articles I read about certain patterns and libraries, that I take too long to get a simple task done with my head in the wrong space. Good work! You can't refactor code you've haven't written.
Up to the point where she started talking about Master's degrees, I thought she was talking about Japan.
I find it kind of mind-boggling to read an article like this and not mention why cities are so expensive. Is it because construction is expensive? No, it is because restrictive zoning does not permit an increase in supply, meaning nothing can compensate for the increased demand and prices go through the roof.

You can be in favor of restrictive zoning and still recognize that zoning policies are responsible for turning an increase in demand into a dramatic increase in price.

In the past cities were also highly desirable places for elites to live (think 5th avenue in the 1880's). But at that time the poor could also live there because construction was permitted. I don't advocate the massive slum-dwelling of that era, but I think it's important to recognize that it would be illegal to build Manhattan as it currently is anywhere in the United States now, or even in Brooklyn, despite intense demand for such density in areas like Silicon Valley. Essentially, the elite have made it illegal in most cases to construct their own preferred type of housing.
How so unusually broad?

Congress and the President derive their authority from the grants of power in the Constitution. If the courts cannot find an argument from the Constitution giving them authority, or if the courts accept an argument from the Constitution forbidding a particular action, then that is unconstitutional.

Put an equivalent way, Congress and the President only have authority if there is both an argument from the Constitution saying that they have authority, and if no argument from the Constitution is accepted by the courts saying that the action they want to engage in is prohibited by the Constitution. (There is a grey area where the President does things forbidden by Congress. That can get interesting, particularly since the Supreme Court tends to try to stay out of it. If you want examples, examine conflicts between Congress and multiple presidents over the War Powers Act.)
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"Nobody stands to win by taking decisive action on Snowden, so my guess, based on years of living in Hong Kong, is that both Beijing and Hong Kong will avoid doing so, which heightens the possiblity of a long, long court process."

That depends on how badly the US wants him. If they want him badly enough, they'll buy him from China with an offering big enough to create a winner. That would be trivial for the US to do - they could have Snowden back in a few days - but the price might be very high.
I wholeheartedly agree with that point. I don't think it's made well by muddying definitions.
I think it does apply to non-startups as well, because the "outsourcing" I'm talking about with software development is really just using existing tools and frameworks, not bringing new developers into the fold.

For example, I think it makes more sense for the NSA to use existing databases than writing their own...
You don't have to live like a college student. Move to the south bay and you can get a 2BR place for half of what you're paying now. We have dishwashers, washing machines, garages, and storage rooms here too, oh my!
In my opinion there are two kind of jobs out there:
1- PhD required for real
2- PhD required but not really ;)

Let me explain what I mean for 1, PhD is required because they expect you to publish your work. And I have to say unless you did a PhD you might find it very hard to publish in top tiers conferences, understand the review process and of course be familiar with the state of the art (mandatory citations or your paper would suffer terrible reviews). Or they need the new hire to be a PI on some NSF/DARPA fundings and it's expected that the PI has a PhD.

Case 2, startups or big corp like to show off PhD in their work force just to impress customers/investors or they genuinely look for someone that can narrow down a problem, read about it and solve it. PhD have track record of that to get their degree but a talented engineer could achieve the same.

My personal advice, is stay away from jobs 1 as you probably will have a hard time fitting in. However you can definitely ace the interview for 2 and show what your capable of.
This was interesting but got me thinking about a problem I encountered at work. Is it possible to create two bridges out of one namespace so that two separate programs can receive the same network traffic?
After including annual bonuses, ~214k is perfectly reasonable (on the low side if anything) for a good engineer with 5-10 years experience at google/facebook/apple/etc. Add in a second income and its easily feasible without bonuses. Million-dollar starter homes are obscene, but people actually do buy them.
Clearly the only sensible thing to do at this point is for the court to grant SCO title to Blackacre in lieu of economic damages.
Just to clarify; I simply ran your post through the nitpickertool and posted its corrections as a reply. I agree with you that none of the corrections should be applied. I just found it humorous at the time I wrote my comment.
You could try to get published or get similar field-specific attention by making some advancement in the field.
Linux doesn't have better hardware support than OS X. Linux may support more pieces of hardware than OS X, but whatever OS X supports is better supported.
"Unconstitutional" usually means "directly prohibited by the Constitution" as opposed to "indirectly prohibited by the constitution." We already have a word for "directly or indirectly prohibited by the Constitution": illegal. The distinction is relevant when we need to know where to look to answer a question, what to modify to effect a certain outcome, or whether a law is permissible.
C, C++, Java and D are the languages used by Google code jam world finalists.
Look at the census data for SF. There are far fewer children there than average in the US. I think the average is around 24% for under 18. In SF it is around 12%. Brooklyn, by comparison, is average.
Rape is the offense that they wish to charge him with. I'm not pronouncing on his guilt or innocence, just on what it is that they're attempting to extradite him for.
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My impression was that problems with power management on laptops wasn't really about scheduling, more about supporting the billion permutations of OEM firmware and hardware.

Yes, it would be nice to have slicker support for things like big.little, but... it doesn't really address the current problems with laptop support.
That wouldn't actually surprise Marxist (&tc) critics of capitalism that much. I'm largely not persuaded by their worldview but they have some solid insights on organizational structure as an emergent system of control.
The point isn't that the government has suddenly gone bad, but that the specific nature of the badness has changed very substantially and fairly recently. Snowden's choices may be unprecedented, but so is the situation that the rest of us are facing. His greatest fear (which he was very explicit about) is that this new and very unsettling state of affairs would go unrecognized, even after he made his revelations.
This seems to take the long way around. I wonder why they didn't consider just using the firewall to control network traffic; unless you really need your applications to be completely unaware of IPv6, but so far, I've not experienced that problem.

Also, requiring root privileges for launch is a bit of a burden in some use-case scenarios.
> Budding spies and others of a paranoid nature can buy a couple of those SIM cards to swap in and out of their (unlocked) phones for $10 in any 7-11, no registration, no questions asked (try doing that in India or Argentina!)

Argentine here, you can buy SIM cards literally everywhere. Vendors will even sell them to you on trains.
Iran is another. They've been suffering sanctions for years. And I do mean suffering. Which is not to say it's a smart place to go, just that its resistance to American hegemony is well established.
Well, I'm exploring the process myself. From what I understand, you need to patch the CM source tree for your device with the patches found at [1] (choose the branch that corresponds to the correct Android version; CM 10 is AOSP 4.1.2, CM 10.1 is AOSP 4.2). Then build the source tree and install on your phone, similarly to how you did with the unmodified CM10 firmware. If anyone has more experience with getting OpenPDroid to work with CM, please, correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] https://github.com/OpenPDroid/PdroidBuildPatches/tree/4.2.0
China can and does easily suppress dissent. They love opportunities to jab back at the US regarding human rights issues. That's worth a lot more than the very very very small risk that Snowden presents toward inspiring emulators.
If you really have a PhD level understanding of the topic, you could probably try to prove that in an interview. You have to seriously ask yourself, is that true? Reading papers in your spare time isn't dedicating years of your life to that topic. I can read CS Master's and PhD theses, and even give feedback, but that doesn't mean I could do research at that level. I'm working with a PhD in maths right now, and he is completely on another level; it's not just the technical knowledge to be able to read and understand papers, he's also immersed in the field to the extent that he has strong opinions and ideas about current research.

I guess my question is, if you love this field so much, why not do your PhD? Dedicate a whole bunch of time and effort to actually becoming an expert in this field, make a significant contribution by publishing papers. Then you'll know you're qualified, and you'll already have gotten to do the job.

On a side note, what field is this exactly? There's a big difference between wanting to do stats for machine learning, and wanting to write control systems for nuclear power plants.
We were eligible for consideration for a modification under the DoJ settlement with BoA. After going back and forth with a contractor for over 5 months attempting to satisfy their never ending demand for extra paperwork, we got a letter from the bank saying we were eligible, but because the contractor did not send our phone number in the package to the bank, we had been denied. After a couple more months of back and forth and escalating complaints through the bank hierarchy, we actually ended up getting a modification that, while not perfect, still reduced our interest rate dramatically. The notary from the bank said that almost nobody actually gets the modification - she said that our 9 month turn-around was the quickest she had heard of, most people just give up after the first rejection.

I am sure that a sincere investigation into BoA's practices would reveal systematic denials of some sort, so this article doesn't really surprise me at all. They have never really been held to account for their misdeeds of the past, so there is little incentive for them to reform. The bank has multiple layers of customer service reps whose sole purpose is to block you from moving forward. There is no such thing as speaking to a supervisor; they all seem trained purely in the art of stonewalling. It is truly Kafkaesque.
Except video card..
From what I understand, you have to install it into the ROM and reflash, and then install an app that will manage permissions. Installing it into the ROM is the hard part, but I've heard that there are tools to do it.
Applying.
> The court may plot and scheme, but the king is still their king.

Try watching some Game of Thrones.
I see lots of careful word play in the official gov't statements.

I put no credibility at all to anything said by Robert Mueller, one because he's a technical incompetent; two because of his vested interest and past performance at truth-telling.

Crazy semi-relevant speculation: If the call or communication is ever routed outside the US that makes it international even if both parties are within the US. With cooperation from major telecom co's, calls or comms could be preferentially routed thusly in order to game what's left of the protection scheme.
"Closely" is a relative term when it comes to airport. I'd think Chinese intelligence would be paying very close attention to someone who the US wants to arrest within their borders, seeing as how it impacts relations with their biggest trading partner.