skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only intention of a bureaucrat is to keep and strengthen his's position, that's why they do meetings and paper pushing and finger-pointing most of the time - just to cover his ass and survive to the end-of-year bonus.

It is so obvious (and ridiculous) that nginx has more market share than IIS precisely because of lack of meetings and design documents.))
Well, has this been tried in court?

I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't the case and yes, one part of the government makes you do it, and the other one sues you for it.
I'm not against online surveillance, as far as we get notified about it! I see it as a intrusion of privacy that all my data is being monitored without me knowing about it! If it doesn't get into the wrong hand and does not gets abused, it's fine - but I do not trust the government right now.
"Gone are embellishments like gloss and bevelled edges, shadows and borders. Visually dead areas that provoke tension rather than inspiring relaxation. Weight that suffocates, rather than open air to breathe."

Interesting review but silly comments like this are, well, silly! When I see an area of a screen or GUI, I do not feel tension if there is a "visually dead" area. Does anyone else?
How come nobody complained about iOS4 and 5 and 6 in the GUI department? Suddenly they are being seen as old and rubbish, and tension-inducing.

Daft writing is sadly colouring an objective review. Having said that, iOS7 does look brighter but some areas look difficult to read. The lack of indication when items are buttons or controls is frustrating, as experienced on Windows 8, aka. Visit To Flatland
Look at some of the SomaFM radio stations...high quality ad-free streams across a variety of genres including ambient
Schoolgirl, 9, passes through Turkish customs with toy passport
It wouldn't work for the reason in your second paragraph: he would loose too much credibility if he was seen as a mouthpiece for China.
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I tend to go with 12 Girls Band or movie soundtracks (Morricone, Horner, Williams).
Hmm I haven't used it all that much...maybe it's time to contribute to ChatSecure's github
Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV
Snowden could enter China without paperwork from Hong Kong.

Once inside, train travel (usually, though this may have changed a year or so ago) or long distance bus travel requires no identification and there are a huge number of long and porous land borders to cross, particularly in the Southeast Asian direction. Though he'd want to avoid part of the Vietnam one due to the likelihood of leftover land mines.

The Shan, Wa and Kachin armies in northern Burma are known to be extremely hospitable to visitors. Likewise, it's easy to stay off the grid in Laos for decades.

While in China, the lack of a passport could be explained with an easily faked 'receipt' from any semi-local embassy: "they're making me a visa". This would of course gel with one's travel story. (Hint: Between Hong Kong and SEA borders there are international consulates for SEA nations in Nanning and Kunming.)

(Edit: Cambodia has few hills. Vietnam has too high a population density. Laos is a reasonable option. The Shan State Army is perhaps too affiliated with neighbouring powers. The Wa or Kachin would be better destinations, the latter are also near completely Christian due to US missionary activity, and on bad terms with the central Burmese authorities of late so less likely to hand people over. All in all, the Kachin would be a good bet.)
I also can't reproduce it with the Thunderbolt Display.

Are the original reproducers of this all using minidisplayport adapters? Or are some able to reproduce using the native HDMI port?
I don't mind keywords ("hashtags"?). Until we start to have more than 7 of them. Then I want to put some order on my keywords. I think I'll adopt the following scheme: all the keywords for my private stuff will be prefixed with private. (private.accounts, private.pictures, private.mail) All the keywords for my software sources will be prefixed with src. (src.public.lisp, src.pjb.test-project), etc.

Oops, I reinvented the hierarchical file system!
Leave your credit card on the back seat of a bus. Put your fully charged cell phone in the trunk of a taxi.
I wonder why everyone takes for granted he didn't.
> I smell blood. And a republican president in 2016.

The Republicans haven't shown any sign of fixing the structural problems in their party that prevented them from offering an electable candidate in 2012. If they don't do that first, they won't do any better in 2016.

As John Huntsman noted in one of the early GOP debates: "Listen, when you make comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said, when you call into question the science of evolution, all I'm saying is that, in order for the Republican Party to win, we can't run from science". Unfortunately for the GOP, their nomination process almost guarantees that people like Huntsman, who believe that running from science is the wrong approach, are out early.

The Republicans need to get the Tea Party to split off and form a third party, and then run moderate Republicans. They would then be able to run candidates who don't want to fuck the environment, massively cut science budgets, ignore climate change, put all our energy eggs in the oil basket, cut aid to the poor, and so on. This would give them candidates that align better with the majority (and more important with the directions the majority is trending). They could more than make up for the loss of the Tea Party people, I think, by getting independents and picking up some moderate Democrats.
Personally I took the phrase 'frame-by-frame' to be a figure of speech.

"A figure of speech is the use of a word or a phrase, which ascend from its literal interpretation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech

I think the comment author was just trying to emphasize they were trying to be thorough, a bit like when police say they will search an area with a fine-toothed comb. No reasonable person expects the police to use actual combs.
SoundTransit http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html has interesting field recordings all under the CC BY 2.0 license. If you "Book a Transit," it compiles an mp3 of several different field recordings, taking you from city to city. You can also search the database or just browse the collection.
I find it most amusing that you'd buy the laptop with the best screen available and then connect it to a monitor with the worst available connection method (VGA) ;D
Kim Dotcom: concerns over government tyranny are legitimate
Are Happy Developers More Productive?
For decades now, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers’ productivity is to focus on people. Indeed, while human factors have been recognized in Software Engineering research, few empirical investigations have attempted to verify the claim. Development tasks are undertaken through cognitive processing abilities. Affective states – emotions, moods, and feelings - have an impact on work-related behaviors, cognitive processing activities, and the productivity of individuals. In this paper, we report an empirical study on the impact of affective states on software developers’ performance while programming. Two affective states dimensions are positively correlated with self-assessed productivity. We demonstrate the value of applying psychometrics in Software Engineering studies and echo a call to valorize the human, individualized aspects of software developers. We introduce and validate a measurement instrument and a linear mixed-effects model to study the correlation of affective states and the productivity of software developers. - See more at: http://figshare.com/articles/Are_Happy_Developers_More_Productive_PROFES_2013_Presentation/718138#sthash.0mHZGJrN.dpuf
there is a great exploration of why government agencies could, in fact, NOT have prevented the 9/11 hijackings in the book I am currently reading [Where good ideas come from, by Steven Johnson]. specifically in chapter 3, The Slow Hunch.

The premise of his argument is that various individuals within government agencies had access to intelligence that pointed to a terrorist plot, but there was no collabortion between the individuals and so the pieces never got put together. Each agent had a different and unique view of the plot, but not the whole picture. The lack of communication and intel sharing between all of the various agents made it impossible to get grasp on the enormity and urgency of the situation, and so very little was done about it.

The book itself is a very interesting read and I highly reccommend it.
10 Best Practices to Follow while writing Code Comments
NSA gets no reply from Dutch cloud provider
Very good article, it would be interesting to look at Tomcats new connection pool as well: http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/jdbc-pool.html
This has got to be mostly because of which party is in the white house right now. I think the numbers would be more than flipped if we had a Republican president.
Put what I said in quotes and treat it as the 1st (and the last) impression of your webapp.

You may not like the snarky tone, but that's in the essence what anyone remotely interested in a secure online communication will think looking at your page. This is a constructive criticism and, believe me, it is a toned-down version of it. If you are to make claims that something you developed is "secure", the onus is on you to make it clear that it in fact is. If you don't, you come across as an ignorant amateur that makes unsubstantiated claims and who bears no understanding of the responsibility that comes with making such claims.

If you are to develop for the security domain, you need to prepare for a lot more snark and outright dismissal that you got here. Ask me how I know.
I've been using the developer preview version for a couple of days now and I have to say that the experience is pretty nice, except for the fact that the home screen is unusable if you have a light background (white labels on white background, YAY). My main issue with it is how choppy it gets every now and then (I'm running it on an iPhone 4S) but they'll probably fix that by the final release. I've uploaded some screenshots to [1].

1: http://min.us/mjEw1CkvEbR80
Modern Science And Our Sense Of Wonder
Quantum Entanglement: Spooky Action Put to Order
Clustering with DRBD, Corosync and Pacemaker
Grand-ma Milkuski seems to have a good understanding of what she is talking about...
Sorry, but the very nature of a black swan makes it unpredictable, thus unstoppable. This is what advocates of privacy loss don't seem to understand.

A few days ago the front page of HN featured an article about the likelihood of getting a "bad guy" using this kind of surveillance. The conclusion was that mistakenly getting a "good guy" was about 10000 times likelier. Of course, you could argue that the article made some numbers up, but the calculations remain, and the deep fact is that, if an event is rare enough, false positives will outnumber the successes by quite a few orders of magnitude.

Which means a simple thing: PRISM and the like don't even fucking work when it comes to creating security. Yes, the next 9/11 could be tomorrow: but no amount of PRISM would prevent it, no matter how safe may it make you feel.

Preventive actions only work when the offence is common. It's not the case with terrorism. As scary as it may sound, terrorism is as out of your locus of control as getting hit by a thunder.
Same here! Dark tranquility and Omnium Gatherum works great for me as well!
> I imagine that the CIA has a guy in the basement making fake ids

As a government agency, don't they already have legitimate access to the real ID printing machines?
I regularly go with Autechre "Perlence Subrange 6-36", Alva Noto's Xerox Vol. 1, Haliod Copies, Oval - "Systemisch"
How much of that GOP opposition is simply "oppose Obama" is an open question, however.

Sean Hannity seems to have had an evolution of opinion (or perhaps it was an intelligent redesign):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t27i...!
Well, of course a classic programming language is better then a script language for majority of tasks. Script languages like JS and Ruby just should not be abused and should only be used as a very thin layer on top. E.g. GUI scripting.
Try to build a self-assembling heli- (quadro-, hexa-, octa-, ..., pentadeca-!) copter!
Try Ambient Nights - http://www.ambient-nights.org/

About 60 album length mixes
What is Microsoft smoking?
Apparently the hills of vietnam, laos, cambodia etc. are full of westerners on the run. Probably not for quite the same class of crime though.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

This is obviously a problem for people who wish to be law-abiding citizens if the laws themselves are secret.

Having too many laws for a single individual to keep track of can be nearly as good as having secret laws, when it comes to keeping people ignorant of the law, and thus making it easy for the government to persecute anyone they don't like by prosecuting them.

I read once about a defense attorney who played a game while riding along with a police officer. They would follow a car, and the policeman would win if he could point out a legitimate reason for which he could make a traffic stop, if he was so inclined.

The officer won every time, usually within a few blocks.

I saw a video [1] which noted that possession of a lobster can be illegal: "It doesn't matter if he's dead or alive. It doesn't matter if you killed it or it died of natural causes. It doesn't even matter if you acted in self defense! Did you know that? Did you know it could be a federal offense to be in possession of a lobster? Raise your hand if you did not know that. [audience raises hands] There's the problem!"

I don't think this situation is due to a conspiracy to take away our freedoms, on the principle that we needn't ascribe malicious intent when mere laziness and incompetence will suffice. Basically the law is a codebase with lots of sometimes-circular dependencies, which isn't refactored nearly aggressively enough, so the cruft accumulates. Taking into account that in the US the "initial commit" is hundreds of years old [3], there are ~50 forks, and it's still a fast-moving target, it's not surprising that the sheer amount of complexity is more than any one person can appreciate; even after decades of study and practice, AFAIK even the best professional lawyers are basically ignorant of the law in other specializations, and even within their own specialization they sometimes need teams of lawyers and paralegals poring over legal texts to find out exactly what the law says about their particular case.

[1] The quote occurs at about 6:55 [2] in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

[2] The entire video is witty and informative, and it's something that everyone should watch at least once.

[3] Maybe it's more like thousands of years old -- if you go back through English law, there are probably things that go back to the Norman conquest in 1066, or Roman Britain even earlier.
I had moved on to talking about sites in general; the site in question would be just fine with site-wide SSL.

For the rest of it -- at some point you're going to have to get used to the idea that the people putting content on the web are a lot more diverse than you'd prefer, and their motivations are also a lot more diverse than you might imagine or think "worthy".

If you want to tell them all "do it right or go die in a fire" that's your prerogative, but it's not the most effective approach.
Recovering a stolen domain name
I use this channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugb_j1Et8HRUpGiboLsPCw
would love to see how blinkbox, nowtv, netflix and love film compare.
Online tool to create Windows 8 apps and submit them to the Windows Store
I would recommend that you immediately inform Yahoo, 37 Signals, Hulu, GitHub, Penny Arcade, and every other Node, Rails, Sinatra, and EventMachine user of this fact!

Also, Tcl/Tk called and wants its use case back.
What's being Googled right now
Pretty sure that whoever down-voted this didn't actually read the link. Here's the key passage:

"As Aaron Bady has argued in MIT’s Technology Review, the language and concepts for privacy evolved in a world where “walls” were still the dominant metaphor. Peeking through a wall was sufficient to prove you violated someone’s privacy. But technology has opened up a brand new world where walls no longer exist, or things exist in so many places that the idea of walls makes no sense. Without them we need new concepts.

As is often the case, the battle between authoritarianism and democracy can do a lot of the mental work. One of the great things about democracy is its ability to check private and government power, as well as creating institutional structure promoting accountability and transparency. And I fear it is the only way out of the situation our country faces."

The point is that the definition of surveillance itself is changing along with the concept of privacy, leading to shifts in previously-stable balances of power. To a very large extent, these changes - which have both positive and negative aspects - are byproducts of a larger technological shift which has already brought far to many advantages to reverse.

In other words, we need to develop new social norms and structures to ensure the safety of what could otherwise be very dangerous system. We don't have to do this from scratch, but the familiar frames of reference do need updating. And that starts with recognizing that "surveillance" by itself, is neither good nor bad (depending on who is watching who, under what circumstances, and why), but that it can easily be either depending on the context.
Anti Money Laundering legislation normally lists an offence known as 'tipping off'. If during a transaction a bank or regulated financial agent becomes suspicious of a client or a transaction then they are not only obligated to report it to the authorities but they are explicitly prevented from communicating their suspicions in any way to the client.

If the client is asking why the transaction or payment is delayed while the authorities investigate then the regulated company cannot mention the real reason and have to try and make up a lie or explain that some other entity is responsible for the delay and they don't know the real reason.

This is true in the UK at least and I assume you can see how it relates to the Warrant Canary concept. I will add that the tipping off offence is backed up with the threat of jail time for staff and directors in a company.
I think this is one of the few perks not beeing a English native speaker: I do understand lyrics if I concentrate but otherwise I hear the voice just as another instrument.

So I can listen to nearly any music for progrmaming. One of my favourites is Origin - Antithesis. But really everything works.
But nothing is known about how long the NSA keeps records. So couldn't the NSA just shrug off the request saying that they don't have the record and not reveal any more details on their retention policy under the pretext that revealing anything more is a national security risk?
Not surprized. github.COM is a commercial venture. I'd expect more open source projects on gitorious.ORG
Edward Snowden’s Online Past Revealed
Justin Bieber slowed down by 800% makes for some nice ambient noise.

Someone should assemble a collection of lame pop music that sounds awesome when piped through Paul's Stretch.

Would listen.
How is disprove any less strong than deny? If anything, it would be affirm or negate an alibi.
Then just don't read about it.

You clicked on the iOS7 article, read it fully an then made a huge comment about it. Every opinion about the design is so subjective that we can't really discuss it. You don't like the design? Well then don't upgrade or buy an Android phone. Lots of people are pleased with it, complaining about it isn't really going to help.

Why do you think that iPhone users were still happy with the design of iOS6. I heard lots of users complaining about how tired they were of the green playfield and that the address book doesn't really have to have the rings in them to know that it's an address book. This was an early trend, now flat design is a trend. Will you then also make a post about how happy people were with the flat design and that they should stick with it instead of upgrading it?

Every app of them is re-written, as a developer I understand the amount of work they had to put in to achieve this, to align every app for the new design, to think about every app. Really I understand the effort they put in to achieve this, but now you want all this with the latest design and you want it without a single bug?
Good luck. I don't really envy you for the next 1:1 you'll have with your manager.
Re: missing CCTV, aren't you thinking of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes two weeks after 7/7?
E3 management call LAPD on Ouya booth across the street
Interesting. I've seen a few similar submissions here that play ambient/focus music. To me, a product or service like this has to provide enough goodies to sway me from the convenience of a simple Spotify playlist, seeing as that is the go-to choice for many.

If you can strike a balance between creating helpful productivity customization and keeping it simple, something like this could really takeoff.
Did someone help Ed Snowden punch a hole in the NSA?
I think Claude Shannon's (of information theory fame) master's thesis beats out all others in the field of computer science.

"A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits", 1938, proves that you can use electrical switches to do boolean algebra! He basically invented the digital computer, as a master's thesis.
Nice example.

I don't know.
Indeed, in the United States vs Reynolds Supreme Court case that seems to be considered the seminal [1] to establish the State's Secret Privilege:

The district court rejected the formal claim and ordered the documents
be produced; but, the government refused and the court entered final
judgment for plaintiffs on the grounds that the refusal to produce the
documents established the Air Force’s negligence.

It seems the same logic could potentially apply here?

[1] http://law.lclark.edu/live/files/9577-lcb111lyonspdf
Does the law really restrict what Google can do?

I believe it does, yes. At least the law is public and you therefore know what the rules of the game are in the case of corporations and can hold them to it or point out infractions.

With the NSA there is no public law governing their activities (or at least no law that they seem to respect, as you note).
The flight booking metaphor makes it very inviting to play around. Thanks for sharing.

(Now if I could get Firefox for Android to download a .mp3 link to local SD card...)
Yes, http://somafm.com/, is the "bomb".
Mostly the latter; there are a lot of jobs that look for full stack developers so being able to check some of the html5/css/javascript checkboxes, even with the disclaimer that I'm far from an expert, could go a long way.
Shia Labeouf: One-In-Five Phone Calls Are Recorded (2008-09-16)
Board of Canada. Need I say more?
Why do microsoft and google insist on static compiled languages?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872417
http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/7-7-cctv-evidence.html

They really need to sort it out.
As a Ruby developer, I can't get through these sorts of slides. My other languages are C, Go and JavaScript, and the Scala syntax is totally inscrutable to me. Isn't the point of slides presenting something that can be easily absorbed? And I can't just quickly look up these declarations either — Scala is too complex for that given my experience level. Is there a gentle introduction talk for Scala around so I can evaluate the language without putting in a week of learning?
Yay for musicforprogramming. I listen to their mixes quite frequently.

I wish they'd do a 24 hour mix that omitts vocals and sharp sounds altogether, that'd pretty much be the best ambient music I could imagine.
How do you spend the first hour of your day?
It is Handel. The Opera is Serse or Xerxes.