skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds fine to me, no Nazi comparisons needed here. But I was speaking to the grandparent comment's world-weariness WRT politics being all mixed up in his/her technology.
Activism - Cypherpunks
... and from everything you mentioned, the fact the man has no HS/CS diploma has exactly zero relevance.

There are many great employees and talented hackers without a diploma.
According to Wikipedia, as of 2010 the US military has 52,440 people in Germany, and as of 2013 the German military had 188,921 active personnel and as of 2010 144,000 in their reserves.

That falls a bit short of "occupation" in my book. There has in fact been at least one technothriller based on the US military fighting its way out of Germany, based of course on the Anabasis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon) Xenophon and 10,000 Greeks fighting their way out of the Persian Empire).
Senators propose bill to declassify orders behind NSA spying
You notice the corruption of mass media when they cover a subject you are closely familiar with, but the general population can be easily misled on (say, political situation in an obscure corner of the world). They don't try too hard to be careful and maintain plausible deniability in these cases, and go for outright lies and extremely biased pieces. I've seen this happen too many times across a variety of news outlets, which makes me very skeptical of everything else I hear on the news. This recent scandal is not helping their image either.
And most hard line, true progressives. I think many folks have a hard time stomaching the Pauls and their cohorts on a variety of other issues. Unfortunate for the Pauls (and Amash), but true.

That said this is a good opportunity for both ends of the spectrum to work together.
Loving the new direction of Kippt. Congrats team Jorri and Karri.
The build guy is definitely a vital role. However, a common direction in the industry is to do DevOps instead of having "build guys". For CircleCI, we like to think that the "build guy"'s role will move to writing cool project-specific tools on top of CircleCI, instead of the low-level work of actually maintaining the servers.
Google Wants to Release Details on Classified Requests
Not quite designed, but the effect is the same.

For most lossy encoding formats, there are many ways to compress a single file, and in general, we do not know how to pick the best size/encoding quality encoding of all possible encodings. You can get better compression/better quality at the same compression by searching harder or by searching smarter.

Typically, compression settings deal with the 'searching harder' approach.

Searching smarter is what the successive generations of encoders do, but sometimes, this also is controlled by the compression setting because an alternative approach may be better in compression quality, but so much slower that an quality-wise inferior but faster algorithm is kept as an option.
I'd say it's far more likely that the border official noticed that this girl only had a return ticket a year from entry, searched her name on Facebook, and found she was lying. They're really picky about employment vs. tourism visa status, and a lie can get you barred. This girl was pretty naive about how immigration works.
The parent said absolutely nothing about ending all foreign signals intelligence. You're intentionally dramatizing.
Nothing but a blank white page for me.
I agree completely. NPR is as good as it gets on US radio or TV (the competition is very weak) but has a decidedly pro-establishment and pro-government bias. This will make them particularly conflicted on the spying issue.

This should not be surprising. NPR is based in DC - a company town where the company is the US government. Many of their employees are relatives or friends of government officials or are even former government employees (for example [1]). Most of these relationships are not well known or reported. All of this is in addition to the normal reporter conflicts of having to report on your ongoing sources. Just imagine how uncomfortable it would be to report a negative story about your husband, brother, friend, former colleague or regular source who happens to be a senator.

On top of that NPR is funded by corporations, people and foundations with strong ties to government (Comcast, Soros, Catto Foundation) as well as receiving direct government funding [2]. You don't bite the hand that feed you.

Lastly NPR like most US news organizations has a moderate liberal bias [3,4]. So with a Democratic administration currently in office NPR will be particularly sympathetic to the administration's viewpoint.

All these factors will make it very difficult for NPR to cover this story fairly. This will show up in both visible actions, such as attacking the Guardian reporter [5, AP too [6]]. But even more so in what does not make it on the air. I'm sure many NPR editors would like to leave this uncomfortable business behind as soon as possible. At least we can continue count on NPR to be an excellent source of the government's views.

[1] Michelle Norris is married to a senior advisor to Obama campaign[a].
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/nprs-...

[2] Partial list of NPR sponsors (couldn't find anything after 2008).
http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/annualreports/NPRSponsorsD...

[3] Juan Williams termination report.
http://www.npr.org/about/press/2011/010611.ReviewOfJuanWilli...

[4] NPR fundraising exec sting.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/09/134358398/in-...

[5] NPR examines Guardian reporter who broke PRISM story.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/11/190670954/he-...

[6] AP examines Guardian reporters bias [b].
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1905713...

a-More on Michelle Norris's husband, Broderick Johnson (also former AT&T lobbyist).
http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=1855...

b-Another unreported relationship: Mika Brzezinski (co-host of Morning Joe) is the daughter of former Nation Security Advisor and current Ambassador to Sweden Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Title is wrong. Instead of saying that 16% of web vulns are XSS, it should say that 16% of the findings reported by this particular product/service are XSS.

Web vulnerability scanners can diff a lot in their results. Crawling algos/site coverage, finding and using different input vectors, specific testing methods &c are all very different across various products. Sectoolmarket is a good resource with results from WIVET (crawl tests more or less) and WAVSEP (detecting vulnerabilities). Even so, those benchmarks only cover a very small portion of possible web application attack vectors. And let's not forget the problem of crawling "The Deep Web" i.e., stateful web applications.

TL;DR: title is wrong.
A friend of a friend (I know, I know) was stopped on the border between Canada and the US, and had her possessions searched. Inside they found her diary, which detailed her life and job in New York- which she shouldn't have had, because she was repeatedly entering the country on a tourist visa. She was rejected at the border.

This may well be the same- even if the girl did not intend to show those messages to the border control agents, they can search her suitcase for evidence to then later present to her. So, to the extent that the word "provided" does not also imply "voluntarily", I suspect you're right.
Regardless of political party, people that seek to rule over others tend to be overbearing and hypocritical. Obama and Biden are clearly no exception to this. Here is a very similar video of Obama -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aznaD8yzVjM

I simply cannot understand how his base, including most of the media, is sticking with him through all of this, but they are. This will likely lead to additional brazen constitutional violations by this and the next administration, regardless of political party, because there are no consequences for any of them regardless of what they do. I weep for the future.
Inter-App Audio Coming In iOS 7 – What Will It Mean For AudioBus
1. Yes, myself and another engineer (@schimmy_changa) spent about 4 months getting it ready for public use after releasing the initial version internally.

2. That's unique visitors "currently" on your site, where that's defined as having visited a page in the last five minutes. The question marks provide more detail on the various metrics.

3. Everything is computed in Storm. The reach (unique visitor) calculations are done using some proprietary stuff I don't think I can talk about (although we're working on a more engineering-focused blog post that will have more of these details).
Oh I see. You've not tested it without cookies.

It's nice to get a heads up that you require cookies, you know.
Now there's proof.

So. Fucking. What.

Call me cynical, I don't care. I've grown out of my desire to completely change the world. Right now I want a nice safe place for my family to be allowed to go about its business. I have that now, like I had it yesterday, and based on all available data I'll have that tomorrow. Yes, even with someone possibly monitoring that I called Indonesia 10 times over the past 15 years.

Most western democracies have had this shit in place for years. Canada has CSEC (http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/index-eng.html). ECHELON has been around since the cold war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON). France has internet monitoring. So does Australia.

In case you haven't noticed, none of the nonsense around constitutions, human rights, legal decrees and such really matters. They're just guidelines, and how we interpret the words can and does change every damn day. The same law that upheld segregation is the same law that maintains that it is unconstitutional. It's all just interpretation.

Get enough people to agree with your interpretation, and you can justify anything. Good luck fighting against that.
What's the "utterly implausible" part?

In the past we've had verified incidents of people being refused entry because of things posted on for instance public Twitter feeds.

So we know that the monitoring of social media, collating that with the identity of incoming travelers and passing that on to officials at the border is an existing practice. We also know that once monitoring starts for one purpose, it rapidly expands to other use case. This pattern repeats itself around the world.

The only part open to debate is the suggestion of monitoring private Facebook communication.

So you're suggesting that everything published about the nature of US surveillance until this very day, including the recent PRISM-related publications, is all "utterly implausible"?

Because everything else I read in that article is perfectly consistent with what we already know as fact, and therefor completely plausible, albeit suspiciously thin on concrete facts.
Exactly, if the requests exist only to cover the legality of the access of the U.S. citizen data as long as they are on U.S. soil, the numbers they mention would still represent just a small piece of the whole picture.

At least they mention in one sentence "the number of FISA national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests" which is already much more useful information than only the "number of requests." We saw that in Verizon case one single request was enough to mean "give me all about everything from everybody."
Heh. Saw a story where some Britishers were refused entry to US simply because they tweeted something like "2 weeks till I destroy America on my vacation". They were specifically asked stuff like "How do you plan to destroy America?"

Srsly?
HP Believes Desktops Will Stick Around for a Long, Long Time. Here's Why
I think you may have made my point better than I did: I'm just not that impressed with Apple finally cribbing off the jailbreak community, and I sincerely hope that the future of iOS is not endless tweaking held up as some paramount of interaction design. Am I happy with these changes? Sure, the same way I'm happy that Mac OS X has finally fixed the multiple-display bug that has plagued it for 3 years. But these (long overdue) changes a bold OS do not make. And perhaps the argument is that Apple is not trying to make a bold new OS. However, that is definitely what it is presenting iOS 7 as, so I feel that I have a right to disagree.

I think the community in general has felt that iOS 7 was Apple's chance to respond to the criticisms (fair or not) that iOS was stagnating, and I feel that that is what Apple feels it has accomplished. I feel they have done so in the shallowest way possible. To me they presented a corporate image of playing catchup: catching up to Windows and Android visual design cues, catching up to jailbreak experiments that have been happening for years, catching up to interactions we saw in Web OS ages ago. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done this, I'm saying that in my eyes these are bug fixes and there exists an Apple that pushed further. There are a million things I wish Safari did every single day that I use it, and quite frankly "3d tab organization" is not one of them.

This is my point, I think people are not seeing the actual usability improvements that could have taken place. You think design is more than just visual stuff, its usability. I agree, I just think its more than making things take 3 taps less. Remember the original iPhone and iOS, it was a completely different way of interacting with your phone that allowed you to do NEW things you couldn't before. Google is now exploring real new territory with their excellent services like Google Now. If Apple wants to keep fighting services and infrastructure with "design", that's fine, but its going to require more than endlessly spinning its wheels trying to figure out the "best" weather interface possible and micro-optimizing insignificant interactions with the OS.
On the bright side, now the extremely wealthy will be throwing money at anti-snooping efforts. They may have poked the wrong bear.
Whoops - thanks for the drivel alert. I dribbled a bit.

I think Apple historically has done a great job overall and set a bar where the user experience is concerned. Recently, that hasn't been as true for me with certain Apple products and services. The brand deserves credit for mostly getting things right though.

However, to imply that users who have concerns about products they use are just complainers unworthy of being listened to, undervalues the process that leads to better products.

I believe, negative sentiment accumulates to a tipping point that can easily lead a once loyal and happy customer to another solution when or if one is available.

Whether a hybrid flat design approach works for iOS 7 or not, it's the users who will decide but no brand can afford to ignore those who are unhappy with a design BUT still use it.
I saw some meta-analysis of those numbers. I think it's useful to extract the "people actually changing their minds" number: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732349560457853...

"The Republican response went from 75% to 23% under George W. Bush to 52% to 47% under Barack Obama. If we assume the swing was entirely partisan--that is, if we exclude the possibility that some Republicans opposed the policy under Bush and favor it now--that means 52% of Republicans are consistent in support and 23% consistent in opposition.

The Democratic response went from 37% to 61% under Bush to 64% to 34% under Obama. Making the same assumption as above, that means 37% of Democrats are consistent in support and 34% consistent in opposition.

Add the figures together and you come up with 75% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats consistent in their positions, which would mean that well under one-third of partisans switched for partisan reasons."
Most likely she was logged in to facebook on her computer, which they have every right to access and they simply opened it and read her latest correspondences. If you have things to hide, they are not safe on your personal devices when you cross the border.
well, having let some time pass, I now fill out the payment information and click "review and continue", and a thinking animation displays, and then the exact same info panel slides out from the left, with all the stuff I typed in still in. I can click "review and continue" any number of times to no avail. How do I actually complete the transaction?
Maybe 'private messages' actually refers to public wall posts.
The publicly viewable Facebook message theory sounds more plausible given that (i) plenty of people seem to have little concept of what is and isn't private in Facebook and (ii) the US does have a track record of denying people entry based on public social media posts: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/31/british-tourists-tweets-...

Chances are they got a tipoff or she got caught by profiling or a random check as I doubt anyone bothers to check the Facebook profile pages of every foreigner entering the US.
Video gamers really do see more
Quote: "Gamers capture more information faster for visual decision-making. Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player's hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers. 'Gamers see the world differently,' said Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Duke School of Medicine. 'They are able to extract more information from a visual scene.' (...) This study, which appears in the June edition of the journal Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, was supported by grants from the Army Research Office, the Department of Homeland Security, DARPA and Nike Inc."
"Obviously. It's impossible to eliminate bad things completely. They would happen more without anyone providing security."

To me, this argument is based on how one views human nature. Personally, I don't believe that the majority of people want to commit serious crimes but are only held back by the fact that if they did, they would be punished. Because of that belief, I don't believe that eliminating security would cause an increase of bad behavior.

"Ok, fine, whatever, the world is moving only in one direction, with no nuance, no complexities, and in a very simple, easy to understand way. Nothing has gotten better for anyone."

I probably should have phrased my response better but at the time was stuck in a better way to do so. Surely there are places that have improved in people's lives but it isn't like those same improvements couldn't or wouldn't have been made without a state providing security.
I wonder how much of it is a lame duck effect: The bottom never fell out of GWB's conservative support until his second term, either, despite much to complain about.
A similar case is surfacing in Norway aswell, only here it is for a top lawyer: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
So we know that the monitoring of social media, collating that with the identity of incoming travelers and passing that on to officials at the border is an existing practice.

By the NSA, for national security reasons. Not for visa fraud.

Don't get me wrong, it's possible. But if NSA data was being used to monitor au pair activity and provided to border control agents it would be a step beyond what we currently know.
Mixed-Site Variance
Or if Facebook... well. Guess they didn't really ever pretend, did they?
Apple would have lost many of its top of the range customers if it had jumped directly to full 64 bit, because, due to lack of drivers (note the italics in my original post), those users would have lost the use of their expensive hardware.

Sun, AFAIK, was much more in control of its drivers, so it could move its systems to 64 bit easier.
Der Westen/WAZ is usually pretty credible.

However I think it's likely that they misconstructed the story (not on purpose but because they made some bad assumptions). Pretty likely that this is yet another "routine check sniffing through social media etc. after the person acted suspicious in some way" ... which in itself is noteworthy but pretty different.

Not unlikely that the sources reported the story a tad wrong.
Are there still seats left? I can select positive quantities on eventbee, but I can't for the life of me get it to accept payment.
"Dissapeared"
Rings of this incident with UK tourists and Twitter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3533270
How to Land a Raise on an Annual Basis
I like Kippt. I remember the price being $25 for the year though. Wish I would have went Pro then...
I'd rather give it away to the one that I'm not under the jurisdiction of.
That's really quite odd -- I wonder what's going on. Have you tried another browser? I'm still seeing payments coming in, so everything should be fine.
What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years?
Well, duh. Can't see anybody being upset about that though, except perhaps Microsoft
Everything I hate (and don't hate) about iOS 7
Facebook provided it. Doh.
The Two Keys That Make a Startup Fundable
AMD finally gets AMD twitter handle
Unfortunately, not many others would be willing to put much faith in someone with the grammar of a 6th grader to do a better job at UX design than a multi-billion dollar company.
Well, they do lobby heavily for the religious vote. Better to keep a 'good Christian' in the Presidency than some 'godless Liberal.'
Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook
I fully agree. I find it ridiculous that everyone now is focusing on this man his life, his girlfriend and blah blah blah. The news that is going out about the actual program and what he caused is minuscule. I have seen far more articles and new pieces about how his credit cars are running out, how the Hong Kong government doesn't understand him, how his girlfriend didn't know anything, to that about the PRISM program. Unbelievable.
Can someone explain to me why it's not possible to have two mutable borrows of a pointer with overlapping lifetimes? Under what circumstances would this be unsafe in single-threaded code?
very imaginable
Как ускорить индексацию сайта? - Просто Linux
I'm confused on one point: does the anomaly correlation find other metrics that look "similar" or other metrics that also have anomalies in the same time span ? The latter seems like it would be very useful.

You mention elsewhere that statsd lets you do complicated aggregations over time. If you have a moving average of errors over 10 minutes or something, that's potentially not going to show up when you do anomaly correlation, since a spike is smeared across 20 minutes. Do you account for that? It would require knowing which metrics are aggregated across time and by how much, etc, I guess.
Doesn't smearing Snowden only justify his leaking of the information?

If a communist-spy-high-school-dropout is able to access everyone's private information, what does this say of the NSA program that allowed him to do this?
FaceBook Changes "Privacy" Features Once More (humor / not real)
How was she even attempting to do this when Canadians are limited to 6 months per year in the US?
Smearing him only strengthens the argument that this program shouldn't have been put in place to begin with. He had access to everything.
why? excel runs perfectly fine in its OSX version. which differences have you encountered?
How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US?

A great success for US board of tourism?
Summary: Lawyer conversing with client accused of terrorism, via private Facebook messages. Client's messages suddenly deleted as "spam", and 4 days later the lawyer was notified that his US Visa had been revoked.
It's not world-weariness as much as it is US politics weariness.

If I wanted to know what the major current events were in a foreign country I'd turn on CNN.