skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

Computing how many people die from terrorism is completely beside the point. For the terrorists, terrorism isn't about counting up dead enemies. It's about enacting political change. We'd be fools not to understand the war on the terms it is being fought.
Should the Director of National Intelligence Be Impeached for Lying to Congress?
Lying kids
I'm completely okay with moving from where I am to "complete n00b" :). I've always heard great things about Hartl's book, just never had the chance to sit through and keep going through it more than 1 chapter a week. Did you go through all the videos as well? Did you tackle TDD and git along the way?
Didn't know, it was just an example, but good to know anyway!
Yes. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I don't know what US telly news covers, but this is by no means a niche story.

HN is being swamped here and IMO it's degrading the impact of the story. I'd appreciate fewer, but more detailed/technical/analytical links.
Thoughtful people brave enough to blow whistles seem to be the greatest check on what looks like a secret, unaccountable, illegal centralization of power based on lies from the top of the government on down.

Especially so when you see the oversight committee receive a bald-faced lie, where the leader of the Intelligence agencies lies to the American people by extension, since this is the only public oversight these programs receive.

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/10/james-clapper-hails-sep...
It is not incorrect.
Heck, it's even been tested on the bar exam as part of the MBE, using the canadian fishing example I gave, which is a real MBE question based on a real case (I am a bit too lazy to look it up).

This is how the case has been interpreted by every court to follow it. See US v. Guitterez, 983 F.Supp. 905 for a fourth amendment example from the 9th circuit.

Here is another from the fifth circuit:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ARMANDO PORTILLO-MUNOZ (i don't have cite handy)

"Portillo relies on Verdugo-Urquidez and argues that he has sufficient connections with the United States to be included in this definition of "the people," but neither this court nor the Supreme Court has held that the Fourth Amendment extends to a native and citizen of another nation who entered and remained in the United States illegally"

There are something like 2000+ cites to Verdugo, and and the general viewpoint of courts so far is as i said it is.

If you've got a court of appeals or SCOTUS cite to the contrary, where a court has held that they do apply, i'd love to see it.
ha! i mean, honestly, this is great, but would be so inappropriate for the OP's sister that i had to laugh.
We also require everyone who will drive to obtain government papers for both the people (license) and vehicles (registration).
It's an interesting question though- which is better, to feel safe or to be safe?
Look up "501(c)3 governmental control" in a search engine other than Google.
You really believe that the NSA can't get into Twitter's servers if they want to? They just plant someone in security.

What's the easiest way to get into every consumer internet service? Just get someone there on the payroll. That's how it's always been done.
Mathematics is arguably the worst taught subject. I think this is entirely the fault of the teachers and writers of the curriculum, who systematically fail to explain their subject in an approachable way. I wrote a rant about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819935

TL;DR: This rant identifies a major cause: math is taught as if one should magically be able to comprehend its language and syntax without explanation.
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> https://www.google.com/search?q=djia

Did you really just blame the Internet bubble bursting on 9/11 ?
Interestingly, some network software seems to have nearly frozen. There are people out there running really really old, but still functional pieces of software (like thttpd) that doesn't really need maintenance, especially if the OS doesn't change.
Yeah, that's the funny thing about the Ninth. It pretty much says, you shall not construe the other amendments strictly.

Kinda puts strict constructionists in a bind -- which was clearly its purpose.
Businessweek is a bit behind. NYTimes has already identified his hotel as the Mira Hotel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/world/asia/edward-snowden-...
"anything but google" this: "indiana no knock search without warrant"

I'm serious about "anything but google"
"anything but google" this too if you don't believe me: "google search providing different results to different people"
> No JS interpreter runs a function you define until you call it.

Right, but the browser can call it, that's the possibility we're dealing with here. If I assigned the code to window.onload rather than onresize, it would be called (by the browser).

With the first phase of the onresize stage, the question was "does the browser call this without user interaction?". And hey, if the question had the page in an iframe, the function would be called in IE.

Since a browser is so close to actually calling the function unexpectedly, I don't think it's unreasonable.

> Technically, this could still very well happen without user interaction: consider gravity pulling out a display cable and causing the window to be relocated/resized by the OS

I think it's reasonable and clear that the questions deal with the code presented and there's no outside influence unless stated. The point about no user interaction is emphasis, it's implicit throughout the quiz. Otherwise the user interaction could be the user opening devtools & adding code to the page to make the request, making every answer 'yes'.

> Incorrect. It's a deceitful quiz.

Crikey.
New patent: device shuts down if incoming pinging signal can't be detected.
It seems that one-man show is not a problem for them: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-chances-of-getting-into-th...
Seeing this is such a universal issue really saddens me.
In Israel, High School level math is divided into 5 point, 4 point and 3 point courses. 3 points is a very basic set of mathematical tools, "math for everyone" if you will, which includes basic algebra, basic geometry and trigonometry, basic statistics and what could possibly pass for the first lesson of a calculus course.

4 points is pretty much what this guys sister is studying, conceptually, in that it's a lot of memorization and very little to no understanding. This includes higher level algebra, trigonometry in 3D space, calculus and some other stuff.

5 points is where the problems start - students are required to do 4 point level exercises with "twists" which make them harder and require actual thinking. This sounds great until you understand that most 5 point students have no idea about the underlying mathematical concepts and are just memorizing the answers to thinking part as well. Instead of being elite students who understand the internal workings of mathematics they are distinguished by better memory and more cramming.

So yes - horrible math education is everywhere and no one seems to know what to do about it. Three cheers for the human race...
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Apartheid has a definition (differing sets of rights depending on your ethnicity), and Israel just barely skirts it by dint of the West Bank being technically a temporarily occupied territory.

If you posit that the West Bank is effectively annexed and that the Israeli government has no plans to ever quit it, then technically the West Bank is governed by an apartheid system.
David Byrne's Commencement Speech at Columbia School of the Arts
How To Boost Sales Conversions Of First Time Buyers
If you guys get it stabilized and working I wouldn't mind helping get Konq to support it (time permitting, of course).
Yes, because the house is guilty until proven innocent!
| Spending and making laws are all about the consent
| of the governed, doing things they want. They're not
| about math or logic.

The 'consent' that the public gives here is implicit, not explicit. You can't say that someone agrees with 100% of what their elected official does. It's an impossibility.

And many times this should be about math and logic. Do we really know if all of the measures taken after 9/11 are what the public demanded? What if the politicians went over-board and the the American public just went along with it? What if the American public would have been ok with a much smaller reaction? It's not like there was a poll asking the American public: "How far should we go?"
Meet the AVA-500, Roomba's corporate cousin
The key seems to be keeping the total amount of activity in balance. This can work well if you're single, but once you have kids their schedule will force changes.
Note to journalists: Please stop using the Orwellian term "Rendition". The proper term for bringing a suspect back to face a judge is "Extradite"
Same problem with subversion. Try http://yoursite/.svn/entries

If you use Apache, you can add the following to prevent the .svn directories from being served:
<LocationMatch ".\.svn.">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</LocationMatch
Same here (and on mobile too). Seems like mirrors on Ustream are the best option e.g. http://www.ustream.tv/ltktv
Rollercoasters - I get an adrenaline rush when I am safe, but it doesn't feel safe.
With an extra 10+ hours battery life. With every core (CPU+GPU) at 100%.

Heh, sorry couldn't resist. We all know that's totally unrealistic. What I really want is a changeable battery, whoops there I go again!
Seriously, World Net Daily as a source?

> Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations, indicated that 1.2 million illegal aliens were apprehended in 2005 alone, and 165,000 of those were from countries other than Mexico.

Sounds pretty scary! 165,000 non-Mexicans, I bet there are tens of thousands of terrorists coming this way!

> Approximately 650 were from “special interest countries,” or nations the Border Patrol defines as “designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.”

Oh. Less than a thousand -- .05%

Hmm.. I guess if they were all from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or something, what counts as a 'special interest country'?

> Cuba (712), Iran (14), Syria (5) and Sudan (5), as well as Somalia (9), Afghanistan (9), Pakistan (37), Saudi Arabia (5) and Yemen (11).

So when you said: "Keep in mind a large number of illegal immigrants being stopped at our southern border are middle eastern"

You really meant, out of 1.2 million stopped, approximately 50 or 60 were middle-eastern.
NPR interview of Glenn Greenwald, today.
Great, as an American, now I have to worry about Australians snooping on me, too.
> many people seem to assume that most active 2A advocates

What's a 2A advocate? I don't think there's any substantial opposition to the 2nd amendment itself. The main discussion surrounding 2A tends to come up any time any sort of restrictions surrounding gun control are raised. Then the crowd of people who view any sort of gun control (background checks!!) as an attack on the 2nd amendment start coming out of the woodwork.

I believe that's the crowd that gets stereotyped and I don't believe they're representative of the majority of gun owners.
Right that's the holding, but the dicta suggests that some non-resident, non-citizens (i.e. temporary visitors) also are unprotected by the fourth amendment.

Various lower court decisions have fleshed out what constitutes "substantial connections".
I can't find a smartcard that does ECC. Anyone has one? PGPcard only does RSA (granted, up to 3072 bits -- but that makes for extra long signatures and messages).

GPG and SSH can do ECC for a long time now - where's the trustworthy hardware to help them?

Anyone know of something that can run e.g. on the YubiKey NEO?
I dont know how to respond to any of this. The first part does not seem to relate to anything I wrote. Maybe it was intended for someone else?

The second bit is just a knee jerk jab at the US and a link to a wikipedia article with very little context.
Do you think we need another constitutional amendment to augment the 4th and make data that corporations gather about us be considered private and require that the government obtain a search warrant in order to get that data from the corporations?
Heh, so now even iRobot has built an AnyBots clone. Well not a clone, the iRobot one is driving around a giant screen (which suggests an art project where one person sitting looking out over a bunch of screens that have driven up) but it seems that yet more money it being poured into the WFSE[1] robot thing than ever.

[1] Work From Somewhere Else
This clause is meant to prevent the Executive from preventing a meeting of Congress. It is not a blanket protection from criminal charges. The key phrase is "during their attendance" and "in going to and returning from".
Apple Rolls Out OS X Mavericks With Tabbed Finder, System Tags
Israel is not a "theocratic" state.

Israel has laws to enable members of the Jewish nation (of any religion) to immigrate to Israel. Because the whole purpose of Israel was to combat the persecution of the Jewish nation (which includes the Jewish religion and ethnicity).

Also, Israel has some laws of religious nature (Relating mostly to discouraging work on Sabbath, marriage and burial). While the religious-based laws are a PITA in Israel (marriage is a real problem for many, burial of non-Jewish soldiers can be degrading, etc), it is far from a "theocracy".
Him, Obama, most of the intelligence committee, including Dianne Feinstein, and possibly even the FISA judges if they went along with the government even if they thought the law and the warrants were unconstitutional.

All of them should be impeached. I'm surprised there's so little talk about this. It's time to hand out real punishments for the Constitution oath breakers, otherwise they'll continue to spit on it with every occasion.
I think, looking at the facts of Kentucky vs. King, that's pretty clearly a concise example of the police engaging in unreasonable conduct.
"within its borders" is correct or incorrect depending on whether you consider the West Bank inside Israeli borders.
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I've found a bit of a workaround if VLC is crashing, which seems to fix the problem for me.

1. Open VLC, and open the stream as usual

2. Let the stream load - it'll load in lower quality first

3. Before it automatically transitions to the higher quality stream, go to Video --> Video Track --> Disable. The video will now be disabled.

4. Wait for a bit. Go to Video --> Video Track --> Track 1. The video will now be streamed in its highest quality mode without crashing.

This worked for me, hope it works for others!
I think your fictional example perfectly captures how flawed your argument is.
wuala isn't just doing client-side encryption, it is also doing reed-solomon coding.
Yeah, I think so. I've had a look through the other feeds on ustream, and haven't found one good quality as that one but that doesn't have annoying commentators talking over the presenter. Ah well...
People seem to speak in favor of guns (outside of stuff like hunting, sports, etc, which is not really relevant here) for two reasons:

1. Self defense against common criminals
2. Safeguard against tyranni

I would like to add a third reason:

3. Because I am a free man. Because I am sovereign. Because I hold inalienable rights. Because I harm no one by keeping arms.

I think the first and second arguments hold some weight[1] but really to me this is a freedom issue. I really don't think I NEED to provide a reason why I should be allowed to own a gun, same as I don't need to provide a reason why I am allowed to exist. It's very simple: no one - be it my neighbor or more abstract entities - has the right to infringe on my right to life and liberty. Part of that right to exist is the right to keep instruments of self-defense.

Now, there are a tons of gray zones (eg I don't think individuals have the right to build nuclear weapons in their back yard) but for guns it's very simple. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater here.

Can we really trust individuals to own guns? I'd say it's the opposite: the government is WAY less mature and responsible than individuals. The occasional misbehaving individual is a fart in the wind compared to the systematic, egregious misconduct of pretty much every government ever. Seriously, look at the track record of governments in the 20th century - not exactly a rosy picture. And if you look at history, it's always the nobility and such that are allowed to bear arms, and the unfree classes that are deprived.

I do believe in a minimal state, though, so I'm not an anarchist.

I am born and raised in Scandinavia btw, so I guess I'm a bit of an odd duck as pro-gun and libertarian :)

Posting as throwaway because this is somewhat controversial and I see no reason to incur negative social status in my social circles over something that is purely an academic issue in Sweden anyway (ie there is no pro-gun movement whatsoever here and anyone who espouses those kinds of views is insta-pigeonholed as a radical kook).

Anyway, I felt I needed to vent a little bit. I expect to be downvoted into oblivion. But, hey, at least provide a counter-argument, will ya? :)

[1] But I think some people are overestimating guns as a tyranny deterrent. The US military allowed each Iraqi household to have one Kalashnikov, for instance. That should tell you something.
For those who actually want to learn more math, but find traditional education lacking, I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg...

It's filled with a lot of history on why things are as they are and it builds up a substantial base of math knowledge from there. I can't comment on whether the additional background information would help someone who is math shy to "get it" but, from the parts I read, it certainly rounded out (and expanded) my knowledge.
Irrational fears- they make your life miserable, even if you know you are probably safe, but don't feel safe.
You're making a couple of unfortunate assumptions.

An already economically-weakened ConUS can expect the following:
A domestic military with hardware that is failing left and right.
A domestic military that has no ammunition because the "domestic security forces" bought it all.
A domestic military that has no fuel.
Foreign Fighters that are well stocked and equipped with advanced weaponry.

The real "rulers" don't consider this to be their own country. They are citizens of the world. ConUS contains several million nuisances that would be best killed in an expedient manner, such as by plague or nuclear attack.

In that kind of environment, it is less likely that having an AR or an AK in the attic will help the typical USian.
Actually Extradition is subset of Rendition (which involves any transfer between jurisdictions), which is not at all an orwellian term.

It has only taken on its more negative connotations since the use of "Extraordinary Rendition." Had the term used for that behavior been "Extraordinary Extradition" then you would be complaining when journalists use the term "Extradition"
The sooner the US gets marginalized and put on the shelf internationally

FWIW, I certainly wouldn't go that far. However, I would prefer to see the administration of the US promoting more equal partnerships with other nations, rather than arrogantly presuming that they are somehow automatically qualified to lead the world in every field of human endeavour or that they should for some reason be exempt from normal standards of decent behaviour that they expect everyone else to follow.
It's running great! Nice job, Apple!
I'm pretty sure the web-based interface is completely optional. When I tried it out a while ago, you started by downloading their client and setting up your master password locally.
It requires a repeated, renewed court approval and I don't think it is indefinite. I do agree it is undemocratic and very problematic, though.
Can you give a link to a low quality one? My problem is I have low speed connection.
The first and hardest step is getting them to think of math as something other than torture devices for teaching children obedience. (Un)fortunately, being a mathematically-adept child from a mathematically-adept family, I've never encountered that problem and can't offer solutions.
Agreed. I always assumed the GRE must have been designed to accommodate/calibrated to humanities and social science grad students (or other majors without a significant math component) more than STEM students. Almost every CS friend I had either scored a perfect score or missed only one. It was a little frustrating, as there's no room to differentiate students who are average from those who are outstanding.
Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'
I'd like to know what the cops are doing on your curtilage in the first place? Put up an 8ft fence!
> What I do is define π as the circumference of the circle of diameter 1 or as the area of the circle with radius 1.

This is how π was made clear to me when I was younger.From there I understood it was some kind of ΅natural and constant ratio" of circles.
Hmph, interesting points are raised, I suppose we shouldn't call it software maintenance when fixing a bug but, software upgrades! ;)
You do realize that Paul Revere would by that logic be considered a founding member of the country's counter intelligence program against enemies of the U.S. as well, right? I.e. the NSA.

As far as Revere was concerned he was way past fighting against his government; he was fighting to support his country against Britain's government.
One reason for reading this concisely informative article, in case you're wondering why you should care:

The architect of RSX-11M and VMS was Dave Cutler, who planned a portable, object-oriented successor, PRISM. When DEC wasn't interested, he and some of his team decamped to Microsoft, where they were given the project of reviving the moribund OS/2 3 project after the IBM-Microsoft split. While OS/2 2 was the Intel 386 version, OS/2 3 was to be portable to non-x86 processors. Both PRISM and OS/2 3 fed into the new OS Cutler built for the Intel i860 CPU, a RISC/VLIW chip Intel had hoped might be a successor to the x86 line.

There were two versions of the chip – the basic i860XR, codenamed the N10, and the enhanced i86XP, codenamed N11. Microsoft built its own i860 workstations for the development effort, based around the i860XTR and consequently nick-named the "N-Ten". The initials of these – NT – is where the eventual name for Cutler's finished OS: Windows NT.
Don't you mean illegal immigrants not being stopped at our southern border... in the line of tens of thousands a day crossing over?
But you do have resources to start wars in name of XYZ, bomb other countries because of ZYX, etc?
You really should know there are objective reasons why people from other countries can't stand US government/politics during last decade. If you don't understand what i'm talking about, that same politics is going after it's own citizens now, so you will find out soon.
Email addresses have certain advantages:

- Most everyone on the 'Net has one.

- Most everyone remembers their email address (but they might not remember what usernames they used for which websites).

- Email addresses are unique, so when a user signs up for Persona, they don't have to go through that time-wasting "this username is taken, try this one instead" process.

- Email addresses make it easy to recover forgotten passwords.

So - while I see you point - I think that email addresses are the best option.
Agree, a 4 day week allows you to get better perspective.