skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just that though. Tyranny usually works by doing three things:

1. Threatening violence against those who oppose them.

2. Propaganda purporting to show the exceptional nature of the dictator. North Korea for example portrayed Kim Jung Il as a genius mathematician, philosopher, writer, and much more.

3. Socially isolate resistance and ensure they cannot talk to eachother. This takes many forms, but in Iraq for example, a lot of effort was spent fomenting conflict between various small groups in Iraqi society.

The goal is an environment where nobody can effectively oppose not just because they are afraid, but because the images of the grand dictator are so prevalent and everyone is so preoccupied that organized opposition is just not possible. The result is that as soon as folks stop being complacent because organization becomes feasible, the dictatorship falls.
Certainly I know this about Cantonese, but I'm just relating to you what I had read.
That's orthogonal. My point is that calling something that is prohibited by law but could, without changing the constitution, not be prohibited by law "unconstitutional" simply because that's where the authority fundamentally lies is not meaningful and is not what most people mean when they say "unconstitutional."
http://johnquiggin.com/2013/06/16/urbanization-in-china/

clarification by a guy who does numbers for a living..
I bring it up only to mention that it is perhaps not so cut and dry who shot MLK...
I guess I lived next to an elementary school so it seemed like there were a lot of kids. I know statistically it's low but I chalked this up to the large numbers of transient workers and singles. Amongst groups who seemed more rooted in the city (like, say Chinese people in the Richmond) it seemed like the number of kids was about the same as anywhere.
> This newly found aversion to tracking and measurement is a stupid knee-jerk reaction to the news.

It's not new at all, and we don't appreciate it.
I'm totally generalizing here but I often find that young entrepreneurs, especially those living in or wanting to move into the valley, lack the financial aptitude that it takes to run a profitable business. You also have the engineers moving there that harbor much of the same mentality.

This has always puzzled me. It's certainly not the salary as many cities around the country pay more in terms of the relative cost of living. My only thought is that it must be the companies that are headquartered there; which in turn takes a severe lack of financial foresight from said engineer. It's almost like these people don't know how to balance a check book, or rather, they don't care to.
The point wasn't that you should take a congressman at his word that "everything is cool," but when what the issue is (THIS issue - no conflation please) an interpretation of what that congressman said in the first place, then I think he has some authority in the matter so long as he isn't outright contradicting himself (but is in this case contradicting someone's interpretation).
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Maxis Keeps Dragging Feet on Sim City for OSX
It's strange the Falun Gong paper Epoch Times hasn't written more about this case.
That's not DRM. If anything, that's a textual version of "digital watermarking" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking

It's old news - it's been done to find internal document leakers for years - I believe even in typewriter days.

Thing is, it only works on a very small scale, when the people under surveillance are unaware, and are unwilling to collaborate. When these assumptions don't hold, it is trivial to generate a version which has all the information yet does not correspond to any original watermarking (or worse, replicates some watermark that is not part of the set used to generate the version)
To be fair I think the whole world is facing the reality of increased efficiency requiring less bodies.
Is Mozilla really "watching" you? Or perfecting their UI design flow? Considering they are one of the groups who created StopWatching.us I would imagine it's the latter.

That tracking image is just trying to see how many people opened the email. And yes, they can tell you opened the email. So what?

The tracking of links is simply trying to gauge popularity for each link in the context of what the email was about.

The reason they're watching you click things in the email you willingly signed up to receive, is because they want to keep you as a subscriber and not anger you by sending pointless emails that you never interact with.

Written from my Firefox browser.
I wonder if I was the only amused by the OP's use of Quantcast for tracking on that page, as well as allowing other 3rd parties like WordPress, Twitter, and IntenseDebate to track users as well.

The point is well and good, but those in glass houses should be careful when throwing stones.
Well, it sounds like their system is the polar opposite of the US: they can't choose their government, but it does what the people want.
not using a watermark but “Steve sent mail last week, he told you not to leak, we were tracking everyone’s mail, and 4 people sent the details to outsiders. They’ve all been terminated and are no longer with the company.”

http://lilly.tumblr.com/post/11230723028/steve-jobs
So giving a large swath of your population more education doesn't magically stimulate economic growth. Hm, where have we seen this pattern before?
I don't know much about the US legal system, but can the president not veto any law he sees fit to?
Tangentially related, certainly to Ike's warning, I've read total cost now of entire F-35 program is something like 1.3 trillion dollars.
Are Sublime's tabs not sufficiently "chrome-like"? They can be pulled away to create a new window, moved between panes and windows, and reordered, pretty much exactly like Chrome's.

The only real difference is how ctrl+tab works, but that's not that big a deal.
Follow the money… or the self-image and self-interest.

The startup boosterism is a lie that everyone wants to believe: the VCs want it to be true (and they want other people to believe it), the new startup kids want it to be true (riches, fame), the older tech guard want it to be true (hey this thing we've been doing forever is finally cool). Sigh.

Apropos of this… I wrote an essay about startups called "Fuck Glory." http://unicornfree.com/2011/fuck-glory-startups-are-one-long...
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Startups are just small companies trying to grow fast.

Some are good, some are bad; but there are systemic reasons why there are a lot of douchebags becoming founders (hint: they have the social contacts to raise money on ideas alone and tap into the private welfare system called "acq-hires") and we need to address the problem, have the conversation in a no-holds-barred format where no solution is off the table, and drive the fuckers back where they came from.

The problem isn't "startups". There are great startups out there. It's this horrible ecosystem that has become a devastating talent graveyard and the latest mechanism through which an entrenched elite can mine the brains of their intellectual superiors for extreme profit.
I know it's really not the point on the article, but I wanted to share a quick and dirty solution for a common problem, especially this:

>> If you were using jQuery to do this, you’d likely bind a function to the click event on each row. When fired, your function would change the CSS class of the row to highlight it.

>> You can’t stop there, though. Your function also has to remove the CSS class from any other rows that were previously selected. That’s a little crazy if you think about it! Changing which item is selected means we have to know everywhere that it’s been represented in our UI.

An easy way is just to do:

$('<all-row-selector..>').each(<unselect>)
.find('<selected-row>').each(<select>)
But he essentially implied that a black guy fighting
segregation during the height of communist paranoia and
racial tension in the 1960's could count on a fairer
shake from the justice system than a wealthy white kid in
2013 with the support of a rich and influential segment
of society.

I get what you're trying to say... but I'm not sure if the latter point of that statement is so spot on. Manning was a wealthy white kid with the support of a rich and influential segment of society... as was Aaron Swartz, and yet they were both met with the heavy side of law.
A PhD answers a question, it is a process for answering a question. Do you know the process already, do you know how to answer the question, do you understand the research process. Are you able to tick all of the todo list items that are used to do research.

How to Organize Your Thesis - describes the output of a PhD. If you already have created output that includes most of the items listed, then sure maybe you can skip the PhD bit, won't be the first time.

Bunch of PhD related links that I found invaluable:
http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/How_To_Study/Postgra...
Hacker News comments are a very low-bandwidth channel, and I bet I'm nothing like you think I am in person.

Anyway, Ayn Rand had a clearly-articulated theory of art (she wrote a whole book about it), so there's really nothing to "confirm" here. But if there were, you couldn't rationally do it from one data point anyway.
There would probably be a few things different. I think the different things could just be replaced by a new different thing. For ex if the words are synonyms, auto-replace it by another synonym. Same with punctuation.

But now you need something like 3 books instead of 1. So they succeeded in a sense.
I don't really have the time or inclination to do all the hardware stuff with real hardware, can anybody suggest software I might use to virtually build the hardware and get the general gist?
I would love to hear the perspective of a native chinese person here - a little hard to take the New York Times as an unbiased source given the tension there lately.
A lot of people think it would be okay for the UK to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy and haul Assange out by the hair of his head, too.

>If not, then what are these agencies for?

Mitigating actual threats to our national security, our allies' security, the security of our citizens abroad maybe. And not for helping Boeing outbid Airbus.
You should point that out in your article. You should also point out the fact that you are using multiple 3rd party services that are far more questionable then what Mozilla uses on your page, allowing them to track your readers.

> I admit I am guilty of similar practices myself.

That's all well and good, but the article doesn't reflect that in the least.
Single page link for those of us who would prefer to read the article whole, instead of broken up into four arbitrary parts:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-18560_162-57588995.html
Are you an expert in the field? If yes, then apply for the position(s). If you are rejected for lack of Ph.D., then move on. It's not good to work in an organization that values credentials over expertise.

If you are not an expert in the field, then become an expert. One way to become an expert is through a doctoral program. Other ways include self-study, apprenticeship, real-world work experience etc.
why even bother with this? just randomly change punctuation the same way drm is and they wont be able to match it with the correct account
I can see some benefits of this but I think the idea of a script automatically going through and making changes is quite horrible. In one example they removed a new paragraph break. That's an unacceptable modification to me.

I think that the best way to do something like this (if you want to do it at all) would be if the original author chose 30 small acceptable changes themselves. The presence of these changes (of lack thereof) would then allow a 30 bit ID number to be embedded in the document allowing each copy to be identified separately. They could also have a built in checksum to allow the original ID to be recovered even if some of the changes were found. By increasing this to 100 possible changes (50 active changes in each copy on average) then you could have a very large amount of error correction data and the original ID could still be recovered when a large number were found and changed (this would prevent pirates buying 2/3 copies to find the changes as 2 copies would only highlight half the changes on average if there is an equal chance of the change and original showing).

Ultimately I do not think this will work however. A pirate can use a pre-paid credit card to buy the e-book. In this way they cannot be tracked. So I honestly don't think this is worth the effort.

Just my thoughts on the matter.
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"It hit me like a rock in the face."
Is there anyone who is interesting implement iOS7 UI in previous versions of iOS?

I am working for this project from last week. With weekend work, basic components are available now. There still are many missing components and details. Working for them continuously. Thanks ;)
It does what a certain segment of the society wants. Government for the professional upper class by the professional upper class.
Especially if he is a Chinese spy. Because bragging about Hong Kong freedom's sounds like a cold war farce.
Cognitive Science and Design — Google I/O 2013
I gladly welcome this. While it's not nearly as powerful as OpenPDroid or similiar, it's a good option designed for the "average user".

I know that the average user isn't going to flash a new rom, but that's exactly the feel that I get from CyanogenMod: a polished additional experience over AOSP, that even the average user could use and enjoy.

Other custom rom, like AOKP, already include a more featureful permission manager. It gives all the control you'll ever need, but it's not as easy to use and it might cause some applications to crash. And the "advanced" user can always flash OpenPDroid over CyanogenMod, thanks to the auto-patcher it only takes few minutes.

Keep also in mind that this is designed pretty much for Facebook, the most hated application on Android.
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As far as I understand, the argument is that, by not actually reading emails or listening to phone calls, but merely observing who communicated with whom, they're abiding by the law but getting quite a lot of information anyway. I don't know what you can do about phone calls, but for emails, email clients could simply send a stream of emails at random intervals to everyone in our address books. If you encrypt the email it's easy to set an ignore flag. Thus actual communications would be masked.
In the 90s there were notch filter systems for music CDs designed to help plug the "analog hole". Yes, they were savaging the audio in order to help prevent copying.

"The average consumer will never notice," said the music industry.

I resolved never to buy music with this feature.

----

Unseriously: If they did this to Finnegans Wake, would anyone notice?

Seriously: Screw this.
It doesn't necessarily take maturity. One can be extremely self-deprecating and refuse to find any good parts in their code.
It's been done, albeit a bit simpler, to cheat/assist in collusion in online poker.

You don't have an API (for obvious reasons) into the poker clients, so you have software that basically reads the screen as an image and works the keyboard/mouse.... the more sophisticated ones do it in a VM to avoid detection (some poker software actively scans your machine for known bot software or other tampering)
I graduated from UW engineering in 2010, and I'm certainly sympathetic to this perspective. The most practical and worthwhile experience comes from good co-op placements, doing student team work, and working on an interesting fourth-year design project.

There were definitely some courses which rewarded memorization—especially the EE courses, as I recall. My exam for an analog filters course was almost entirely graded on my ability to produce schematics for various op-amp filter configurations. Similarly for a power electronics course, which was largely about memorizing equivalent circuits for non-ideal transformers and DC motors, and computing the values of the various resistors and capacitors which account for losses in those types of systems.

And his remark about labs is on the mark, too. Pretty much every time I deviated from the precise step-by-step instructions to "explore the material", I was docked points. The TAs marking my lab report just weren't interested in what I was learning or discovering—they had a checklist of specific plots and statements they were expecting to find in the report, and that's what the grade came from.
Not to mention... would-be pirates could just use a non-traceable method of payment when acquiring these eBooks.

This seems to be a lot of effort for really no good.
This is just for his own safety /sarc.
People outside of Google have heard of Protocol Buffers?
A friend of my fathers. He's been fixing startups who started out wrong for the last 10 years.

Get references for people that are near you.
Dunno about "free", but what really bothers me is that someone decided to seek asylum from the US.

US used to be the gold standard in democracy and justice.
You don't even bother with AdBlock? C'mon. You can always whitelist sites where you support the ads. Ghostery is good (essential?) too.
He said he actually did it, too, later in the thread. He also claimed to have fixed it, then Patrick came back and said he re-broke it in five minutes. The whole thing is hilarious, if you can discount all the customers getting hosed.
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Is this anything new? Hubris is woven into the fabric of human history. The world-wise won't take long to recognize a smoke blower. To the rest, good luck.
That was my first thought as well. Whoever came up with this idea may have more countermeasures, however. For instance, every page may provide a unique enough punctuational fingerprint to identify the buyer.
You really don't understand what a formal declaration of war is, do you?
More importantly, they illegally nabbed anakata from Cambodia, bundled him on a plane, and threw him in solitary for >2 months, which is torture under UN definition. And he's a Swedish citizen.
So true! Google never abandons technologies. At least that's what an article on my Google Reader said. :P
I'm not being entirely serious (hard to be, given the little we know) but I'm not being sarcastic, either. Some of Snowden's behaviour has been pretty odd. A variety of interpretations are possible. One is that he's a mastermind media manipulator/intelligence operator/exploiter of immigration laws/meticulous planner of a fugitive. This idea has some traction on HN and outside but I'm pretty skeptical of it. The interpretation that I lean towards, mostly for Occam's razor-ish reasons, is that he's maybe a little bit naive and perhaps doesn't quite know what he's doing.

If you care about things like your credibility and being taken seriously you probably don't do things like fib about your salary or suggest the CIA is going to hire triads to have you whacked.

If you hope to avoid the reach of the US criminal justice system or intelligence services you probably don't meet, in person, with high-profile US journalists in a Hong Kong hotel carrying a Rubik's cube. You probably don't go to Hong Kong in the first place where your ability to predict your future fate is very limited.

And finally, if you hope to represent your prosecution as political and your acts as acts of conscience in defense of civil liberties, you probably don't start divulging operational details of overseas US intelligence operations to foreign governments - they're not related to your stated cause and just land you in much deeper doodoo.

Now, it's possible all of this is some diabolically clever ploy/gambit but, personally, I find that a little hard to swallow.
NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower [video]
No you don't. Any idiot can slog through mud. Why didn't he fix his dev environment?
Logging on to GSM your phone uploads its IMEI ('phone serial number') with the SIM card identifier or IMSI ('sim ID'). So if you switch, you are still tracked. Budding spies will learn their tech before putting their ass on the line.
Does this somehow make the matter more acceptable on moral grounds though? I think it does not. If a government can't trust another one even when they have all sorts of contracts, policies, treaties, meetings and plans, how on earth should citizens be able to trust them?

I think the status quo should be less offensive and competitive and more trustworthy and collaborative. But then again, who would trust a liar, especially in situation where one too would lie?
I guess my question is what makes hibernate better than sleep? I mean, I realize for extended periods it makes sense, but I have not had a time when I would have needed the extra time a full hibernate would have afforded me.

Now, I have realized massive increases in battery life by choosing to not live life at full brightness. I have to confess I felt silly the first time I finally lowered the brightness and saw how much of a difference that made on battery life.
Why aren't such laws being followed and enforced though?
Pat's Guide to Running Events
Ask HN: effects of surveillance
Have you noticed any differences in how you think / speak / act over the past week? Have you caught yourself thinking about surveillance before you said / posted something?
Crappy experience from American Airlines
The american airlines have really screwed up this time. I have never experienced such a terrible service from any other airline in the world.

I was flying from Zurich to Seattle via JFK where I had 6 hour layover, which is enough for any sane person for boarding the connection. Then many things happened-

1- The flight was delayed by 5 hours in Zurich due to some technical difficulty. When I asked to rebook the entire journey, I was told thatI will make it to the connection in time aka 1 hour is enough at JFK.
2- Flight arrived at JFK but the staff delayed opening the gate by 20 minutes. (seriously?) I was told that was due to technical difficulty as well.
3- I was told to rebook my seattle flight next morning by standing in the line. I did the rebooking over the phone itself, but watching the line progress by 1 passenger every 20
minutes was painful. Cherry on top, there was just one supervisor available to work the rebooking.
4- my luggage was somewhere stuck in the airport. Airlines told me to wait for an hour to collect it just to recheck the next morning.

All throughout this painful journey, I was informed that this happens all the time.
*'Let me call my supervisor' was the line of communication for all the American Airlines staff. All the employees were talking in the tone that they cant do anything and its the airlines fault. Basically, there was no staff that would face me and apologize for the airlines screw up. There was no one who would speak for the american airlines. I was even told by one staff member that there is an office in Dellas where I should go to complain about stuff. (how should I go there? one may wonder, I am definitely not flying this broken airline anymore)

This is not TSA handling me, this is bad customer relations from a big airlines company. If you cant handle that, in todays world you are bringing bad your own downfall.
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And, as much as I hate DC, all kinds of other foods, including really great Ethiopian and Moroccan. But not good sushi (back when I lived there 7 years ago).
the problem is at the majority of institutions you will not get the phd experience you are expecting. Most of phd work is doing what your professor tells you until he decides you have essentially apprenticed him long enough that you can graduate. If you really enjoy your subject you will become a master of the topic but just as many people go through the motions just enough to graduate but dont really care that much about their subject and end up being bad researchers