skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If we gave away all of our secrets, we wouldn't have an advantage over our country's enemies."

I am not sure that's the case. If we credibly give away all our secrets then we have the advantage that we are viewed as trustworthy - popular support can mean a lot. Sort of like the theory that we developed a moral intuition because being a "good person" is sometimes the most effective way of convincing people you're a "good person".

Whether this advantage could actually be realized, and whether its magnitude is actually greater than that realized by keeping secrets, and whether the difference is important and worth the other costs, are all very much up for debate though.
This is where I disagree with him, during last Wednesday's CSPAN cyber-security session Senator Leahy made it abundantly clear that he supports sunset provisions that indicates an expiration and discontinuation on such surveillance programs.
Factual authority does not derive from socially validated papers. The law of nature and all the facts exist in nature itself. The problem is that if you don't try to confirm my words through 'what is' you can not recognize the evidence in front of you.
Ed Snowden is a traitor. He betrayed the trust of the government he worked for. That means he is a traitor. He committed a traitorous act against those who trusted him.

What he is not, however, is treasonous. He didn't betray his country. He did his country (and many others, including mine) a huge favour by changing his allegiance from government to country - he did the right thing. It'd be nice if those working in government never had to do that, but it'd be foolish to thing they won't, and downright wrong to think they've done a terrible thing if they do.

If you believe he committed treason then you're conflating the country with its government. They are not the same thing at all.
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Yes, but will be very slow.
is it possible that fb got some heat from above, and forced to do that?
The problem here is that that information is being conveyed solely through contentless innuendo. You can expect the same level of disfluency from a softball

"How awesome is your new program?"
"So awesome"

Q&A session. People only think this transcript shows Obama stumbling with his words because they aren't aware that printed media cleans up the natural disfluencies that occur in speech. This transcript looks highly unusual, but that isn't because Obama's false starts and stops are unusual (they aren't). It's because it's unusual for them to be printed in a quote. Thus, the conclusion that the author is malicious. An attack on Obama for refusing to answer the question is fine. An attack on him for speaking like a normal person in a spoken interview makes no sense.
> I think this is more like the difference between checkers and chess

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

BTW are you aware that despite it has only one type of stone and simpler rules, checkers is in fact the more complex game, to write an AI for?
It seems easier to verify news than a bitcoin transaction. I'd have no idea how to go about doing that.
Could you please just change your username to something like michaelochurchhatesgoogleperf, and then TRY to limit your comments on articles about Google to things that are remotely topical?
Google and Facebook are part of the military surveillance complex, it's as simple as that. They are privatized surveillance companies who serve the US government.

It should be considered enemy soil for anyone who believes in privacy and freedom.
You should post this on your personal block. Talking down to readers isn't appreciated here.
Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman#AIPAC_controversy
Not only that, but I can imagine the number of false positives for a collection that large would have to be off the charts. Your assessment that they missed a direct warning from a tenuous ally because they were too busy listening (chasing down) domestic leads is probably even truer than you think.
Adapting to Automation
1. The form is basically on the Web site. If you copy and paste it into Word, you're all set.

2. There's nothing I'm aware of to force a court to accept electronic filings. But they really should accept paper filings directly.
Privilege escalation via mmap on freebsd
"Of course, it should be free."

Alternatively, "Of course, I should pay a small amount of money so I have to worry considerably less about the possibility of someone pulling the plug on it leaving me in the same situation again."

Your mileage might vary but once a service is established as important to me I'm almost keen to pay money to support it.
Sufficiently strong circumstantial evidence has long been enough to convict.

You can only be tried once, by both a state or subdivision, and the feds, "on the same set of facts", if a verdict of innocence is rendered. In a mistrial, the trial is ended for whatever reason without a verdict of any sort being rendered, generally the judge prematurely ends it because of a procedural issue or the jury deadlocks.

The prohibition against double jeopardy (which the courts have determined does not extend to both a state and a federal prosecution each, e.g. see the Rodney King debacle) is to prevent the authorities from trying you again and again until they get a jury to come to the "right" decision, and this decreases the problem of "the process is the punishment". Also protects you from a better prosecution after you reveal your (successful) defense the first time.
When I've made bitcoin payments, confirmations have usually reached a sufficient threshold in 30 seconds or less. That doesn't mean that your transaction has made it into the blockchain, only that enough servers have validated that your transaction is good based on their state and that they will hold your transaction until it is in the blockchain.
Slightly off topic, but I discovered yesterday Tor provides AMIs for running bridge nodes on EC2: https://cloud.torproject.org

It's really easy to set up, and only costs ~$3 a month if you have your free tier available.
Theora/.ogg/Vorbis, VP8 & now VP9/webm, H.264...

Just as we were starting to finally get resolution around a "standard" Codec for web video -- namely, Firefox recently capitulating on H.264, paving the way for professional video on the web -- Google Chrome comes to make life difficult anew.

I understand that Google has more skin in the web video game than anyone (viz YouTube), but for the rest of the web this pushes HTML5 video even further out on product timelines.
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Also see FreeBSD Jails:
What does this have to do with search and seizure? Maybe you meant the 5th amendment? Even so, it doesn't seem that the defendent was forced to witness against himself and there was definitely a jury involved.

I don't agree this violates my 4th, or even 5th, amendment rights. Maybe someone else can explain the importance of this to me?
Nope. You can only hold the initiative through 9 moves. After X9 to board B, O9 to center. X10 can pick any board C with subposition B, but O10 can force a return to board C. X10 has occupied the forcing position = lost initiative.
Other: Thunderbird. I tried newsblur (indeed, I paid for it) but the UI annoyed me too much.
I'm a fellow Hungarian. After reading your posts here, I'm not proud of that.

While you're right about the new tobacco regulations, I disagree with everything else you said. There's widespread antisemitism,holocaust denial and xenophobia in this country.

There's a far right wing party in the Parliament. Next year they might actually form a government. They are racist, advocate killing and deporting gypsies, and radical protectionism, leaving the EU, and homophobia.

Things like this are also broadcasted on national television. I don't watch TV so I only know about one such person [0]. He talkes about how Jews want to take over our country, that there's an international conspiracy against Hungary, that they're using chemtrail to poison us. He even thinks that the hungarians are God's chosen people. All on TV. And people buy this shit. I count find any video of his with English subtitles unfortunately.

@friendly_chap: I would love to see some sources about the political murders you mention. I haven't heard anything about those, and haven't anything while searching either.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Szaniszló
They just plug it in and run an import process, very similar to how Amazon's AWS Import/Export process works:

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

If you need data recovered, you're going to have to run ddrescue yourself.

Now, what would be really cool? If they had multiple locations to do the import from (Provo, Austin, KC/MO anyone?), so you could get the data to them quicker when they have a sizable backhaul nearby.
Vienna - desktop app for Mac
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I think your last sentence is probably the best rational explanation:

foment drama --> experience drama --> dopamine hit...
Good article that discusses something I have not touched in years, simply because of a lot of the drawbacks he talks about. Also is a wonderful sales pitch, someone has been practicing.

In the virtualization world we argue often about how to do things “right” and what the “industry standards” are. I started a series a while back to help define and explain virtualization and various related topics. Specifically I even talk about this subject ( http://ewams.net/?date=2012/01/04&view=The_4_Types_of_Virtua... ).

The main problem with saying VM’s are “no longer the future” is they are mainstream and have been for a while, so they probably are not not cool enough for hackers but they are not going anywhere fast. Containers have a place and full blown virtual machines have a place. The trick is finding which one will benefit your organization and for which purpose. Most likely both can work depending on the requirements.

The other topic I notice that is usually overlooked when talking about virtualization is the actual OS. Here in this article it discusses mostly Red Hat based distro’s. Some organizations strictly use OSX, others Ubuntu, others RHEL, while others use some sort of mix. Each is different and even for closely related like Fedora and RHEL, what works on one may not work on another without hacking it or some other black magic. (Or it may work just fine, you know how it goes). The other point of the OS talk is where is Windows? We can pretend to be ostriches but Windows server is out there and in large numbers. Lots of people make lots of money writing applications that work strictly on Windows (same for *nix). Just do not forget about it.

If we move forward with containers, and since the topic has come up at least twice in the last 6 months, let’s start to see recommendations on how to run containers. How to pick workloads. How to optimize applications and kernels to run them. What kind of hardware to run them on. How to code for them. Etc.
Malnutrition Costs Uganda 5 Per Cent Of GDP
Leahy does, but do enough other people to make a difference? There are usually a few people in Congress who support moving towards better protections, but in general it does tend to get looser and looser over the years.
This was on of the many interesting points made in the book "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet" by Julian Assange.

http://cryptome.org/2012/12/assange-crypto-arms.htm
Unless you suddenly find a conscious cabbage or an onion with an opinion.
Isn't that how Reddit started? Hosted on a laptop. I read that somewhere. They had to keep it around to restart the server every few hours.
So who is going to open the first branch of fast food soylent chain?
How to hire the best employees: work ethic vs. smarts
I've been happy with NewsBlur, which is worth the small fee. Most importantly, they support pubsubhubbub, which many readers do not: http://lee-phillips.org/newsblurred/
Making eBook PDFs using Docverter
I ended up confronting the owner face-to-face about all the issues with the apartment — basically telling her it wasn't ready for rent. I told her I probably wouldn't leave a negative review as long as she fixed the problems with the listing. (She was new to renting, so I wanted to give her some slack, even though she was kinda dishonest.)
I'm not sure about this. I think Samsung is doing well because they have great products for fair prices, but I'm continually let down by their marketing. They could take a page from Apple in this dept.

Example: Their Smart TV can be controlled with your hand in the air! I've been dreaming of this since I was 5 back in the 80's and when I saw the commercial they put out the only thing I could think was 'meh'. Even when Apple does something incremental like the iPhone 5 their marketing still leaves you with a sense of awe.
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Nope, but third-parties are now making thunderbolt docks[1]. These are useful when you have your monitors on a VESA Mount.

1) I'm having a Déjà vu moment comparing these to the old Atari 850 Interface http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/400800/atari850.h...
The Kid don't do PowerPoint
Starting is Failing
They do only have value when somebody pays attention to them and I am not ever going to buy a no-operation solution for my none existing male pattern baldness, nor am I interested in "losing weight using $N wierd tips discovered by a serial rapist victim".

The truth is ads mostly don't have value -- but the worse your product is the more you need ads.
Fever -- http://www.feedafever.com/

but also giving Feedly a try.
I think that intelligence speaking, one of the biggest value of Facebook for NSA type agencies is to crawl into someones life and identifies someones friends and relationships going back to elementary school. Thanks to Facebook it's now possible with a simple click to find friends and possible connections in your past for which there was no easy paper trail before.
As in Hungarian Jews hating Israeli Jews?
1. HXT, Lens, Arrows.. etc. I think (as in, this is my opinion, someone else may think that the amount of operators they contain are reasonable) they introduce way to many infix operators. They are also pretty important to the Haskell eco-system, so you can't just choose alternatives with less "line-noise."

2. I think the question should be why on earth should they not use the same operator symbol? In most other mainstream languages they are. I know the answer is "because [Char] isn't part of the Number typeclass" but that misses the point.

5. Both Text.Regex and the split library someone else mentioned operators on strings ([Char]). Data.Aeson uses ByteStrings. So not everything in Haskell-land uses Text when they should which leads to lots of annoying string packing and unpacking. Contrast this with Python (3) where you have (unicode) strings and (byte) buffers. Only. If you want more efficiency there are 3rd party lazy implementations of them, but they aren't forced upon you like in Haskell.
I'm learning to approach such SWAG discussions filled with "golly, we just have no idea" by computing outer limits to at least establish "it can't possibly get any worse/bigger/costlier than $X".

In this case, I was responding to "You might as well throw out any number" by throwing out a ballpark figure for the absolute worst case audio surveillance cost scenario: everyone, all the time. OK, so the final number is really huge, and doesn't take into account the many nuances you mention...but I know that reducing storage costs by orders of magnitude will leave plenty of room to accommodate your real-world details. With that sweeping overgeneralization, I've concluded that whatever the details of implementation and whatever the extent of monitoring desired, the cost is well within the operating expenditure of the US federal government.

Now that we know that it's not realistically going to cost more than 5% of gov't spending, we can contrast that with the NSA's actual budget, and guesstimate how big the eavesdropping effort really is from that.

If nothing else, it's an exercise to explain to common readers (not you, you're a telecom guy who groks this stuff) that it IS in fact possible (not easy, not cheap, but indeed practically possible) to record every phone call. The scale of capability of some modern technologies is otherwise incomprehensible to most people; they'll dismiss the notion out of hand unless you can quantify it in very simple terms they can instantly grasp, like "recording everyone 24/7 would cost no more than 5% of federal operating costs."

Kinda hard to mentally keep up with technology which has expanded a billion-fold in capacity in just 3 decades.
How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List
Passively dislike you, or just don't have any particular interest in you whatsoever? (Or is that exactly what you mean by "passive dislike"?)
Why we are investing in Capitaine Train (again)
Ask HN: Social micropayment system for scientists?
I always see papers being posted and a lot are behind large paywalls or only available to certain schools, or only available through large publishers with shit sites and huge prices which I assume the scientist doesn't see any of.

Does something like this exist? I want to make access to journals and discoveries easier while at the same time awarding those scientists.

This could be great for grad students and the like. However, I have no experience with this. I'm not even done my undergrad and I'm not in science so I have no idea how publication works.

My goal is to develop a site where users can upload their papers. Readers can setup a daily/weekly/monthly budget with bitcoin/real money and whatever they read, a percentage of that money they have in their "wallet" would be divided by the number of papers/articles they read.

How do you feel about this HN? I know Flatrr exists which is similar, but I want to target the science community and integrate bitcoin as well.
Strongly recommended by the libertarian law professor Glenn Reynolds, best known as the Instapundit link blogger, http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/170554/: "It’s the #1 paper on SSRN for all-time downloads, and with good reason."
The article mentions, many times, the other soylent company. It's true, you can wait for them to ship. But if you're desperate to try a liquid feed there are many brands already in existence. These are produced by multinational companies in quality environments with known, tested, ingredients.

Ensure is one well known brand. Fortisip is another.

This recipe seems to be carefully worked out - they show the working and at least have some links to proper research. And they're not making extravagant claims.
Writing up the accounting and distributing tax for that must be a bugger.
Someone did try to say that they keep data... In the original release by Snowden.
Or would it push people back to h.264 supportive browsers once they find videos from xyz site don't play?
IT skills in 2013: What's really in demand? (C#, ASP.Net and PHP)
Having read this yesterday I was sure it was the reason:

In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy
http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/travel/in-utah-a-100-mi...

But instead it’s another NY Times author renting goats. There’s an epidemic!
Well put.

However, please note that there have been a few individuals in human history who did have complete understanding of consciousness. The story of this world is that nobody wanted to learn from those people when they were alive.

The reasons that modern scientists do not understand consciousness is that

1. they do not apply a specific principle to their research (In math, when we want to solve a question, we apply the equality to operate the question.) and because

2. their research only investigates half of the set of existent relevant phenomena - that which can be seen with the naked eye.

Once a human recognizes the simple law that governs natural phenomena it is simple to recognize what consciousness is.
I don't think that Paper is overhyped. It is the app I use most on my iPad. If you want to sketch on the iPad, you use Paper. What is overhyped about that? I haven't seen any claims that Paper will change the world.
I'd be interested in hearing, too, so please make it public if you're comfortable with that (and link it here, if the conversation isn't held here).
>Because if the CIA went into a courtroom that was open to the public and asked for a warrant that was part of a legitimate investigation into a group planning an attack on the general public, then there is a good chance that the group could find out about it.

You may wish to read the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 41 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_41)

You must consider there are reasons that the Rules are drafted in such a way, 1. they are Constitutional protections, 2. they are based on the collective jurisprudence.

I do not believe what is mentioned in the Rule is the existing procedure for filing "under seal" which has been created to take into account everything under the sun that should not be available for public examination: such as terrorist activities, names of minors, child pornography, ect...
I started off doing SCADA work. The bar for skills is quite lower than for a software developer, and you get exposed to a lot of interesting domains that you never would doing web work.

So what is SCADA? It stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and convers a wide range of control systems, from the factory floor to waste water treatment and data center power management.

You can search for the term SCADA or HMI (Human Machine Interface) in the job boards. A pure HMI position designing screens in a product like: Wonderware, Cimplicity, Genesis, FactoryTalk or RSView, will be much more entry-level than what most people consider SCADA to be, which is HMI plus programming PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers).

HMI/SCADA are more niche positions than web developer, and as such you can find more reliable and higher paying work. If you can write VBA macros (especially with input forms), some SQL, and know how to set up Windows machines on a network, you can probably find an entry level job. This, plus a few CS classes is all I had, but then I got bored, worked as a web developer, and eventually found work writing an HMI system from scratch.
Sure, but those systems aren't going to flip out when each user clicks one or two ads, because that is what the normal data looks like.
If FISC was an Article III court, wouldn't its judges have lifetime tenure? Wouldn't it's judges be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate?

I don't think membership consisting of judges who would otherwise preside over Article III courts necessarily makes FISC an Article III court, and judges appointed by the Chief Justice actually suggest the opposite.

There's an article at the Yale Law Review that criticizes FISC for not being a regular Article III court.
The only Haskell web application framework I feel is well-designed is Snapframework. My experiences with Yesod echo your sentiment and Happstack doesn't quite cut it. Scotty is too low-level (from my cursory investigation).

The compiler is slow, yes, but it is also doing a lot of work for you; the benefits of using Haskell outweigh the time to compile, for me personally.
I wouldn't expect much Solaris[1] coverage in Linux Journal.

[1] Illumos/SmartOS proponents seem to go out of their way to avoid saying the S-word.
Jesus that's so simple... But I think I'll stick with cash.
> Tangentially, Paper has got to be the most overhyped application in the history of applications.

Maybe.

But, while we bought the iPad for many reasons, being able to draw by hand was not one of them. Paper enabled this in our household. Enabling consumers to create things is a pretty important feat. Introducing a new method? Me think it is worthy of some hype.
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If there are enough 'other people' (read: other senators voting for it) then the legislation passes and the sunset provisions are added, personally I think that's the most important difference.
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