skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop is a smaller and smaller part of their income. It could disappear tomorrow, and the company would still be in great shape. It's growing all over the place. So again, claiming that Opera self-destructed is silly.

Thenwhat? Huh? A fork is taking the code in a new direction and making it differ from the original. Using the code as-is, is not a fork.
The phrase "confirm or deny" is used when someone knows the truth of a matter but might be inclined to lie about it (deny it). In the case of data that might indicate the truth of an allegation, the phrase you are looking for is "prove or disprove" or perhaps "validate or invalidate" or "support or discredit". Data itself cannot "deny" anything.
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The radio/tv program was the first time I heard the theory that the NSA is tapping the routers upstream from the 9 companies mentioned in the PRISM slides. If so, this could conceivably make the public denials by the companies of any knowledge of PRISM be truthful, while simultaneously allowing for the ability of PRISM to tap into the traffic going into the internet companies.
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I'm am deeply saddened by this awful, barely cogent comment.
> Democrats seem to support Obama in anything he does; half of them think this kind of shit is perfectly fine

Did you really not recognize the contradiction even as you typed this sentence?
Can and will invade the government's privacy how? Maybe by forcing them to be more transparent, but I don't view that as "invading the government's privacy."
right, because that's what everyone is in jail for.
Just imagine the uses:

- the govt could build a really detailed voter database; they could pin the political leanings of a person by the list of web pages they browse, their FB and Twitter feeds, or the analysis of the email and phone contacts. This list could be used to improve the efficiency of "get out to vote" campaigns and donation drives

- the govt could run a "graph rank" or "page rank" algo over the network of interconnections to determine the influencers; then, in a sensible situation, they know who to silence first; this would make political crackdown very efficient

- the govt could data mine who's committing crimes and infractions; people who imagined they would slip under the radar will be caught; in the past there was a cloak of anonymity and an asymmetry - there were too few policemen and judges to cope with the illegalities, they had to pick and choose whom to prosecute, but now they could auto-prosecute by machine learning (just like MPAA auto-sends lawsuits based on mere IP addresses)

- if they wanted, they could selectively silence certain people instead of blocking FB wholesale; this, applied on the list of influencers would wreak havoc in the activist social networks

- our health, sexual, religious, political and drug use status would be used against us by governments and corporations; there would be no forgiveness and no forgetting

- economic espionage; ability to blackmail people (because they know all their secrets); ability to blackmail people inside various companies to secretly install backdoors (that's how China gets FB data, from what I read)

There is no escape except self censure. Whatever escapes our heads is public and there is no privacy left. It was inevitable.

The first to be monitored will be people working for the state and especially in NSA, politics and large corporations. They will be the first victims of their own creation. Activists too.
Thanks. That means a lot to me. :)
Honestly, if total surveillance is constitutional, you have to figure the constitution isn't really that good.
Even better: make it so the image of the message appears on the customer's eyeballs' retinas upside-down!
"It appears you have no connectivity."
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It's because theta is so small. Considering a right triangle of height h and a much longer base, h must be quite large for the hypotenuse to be 6 m longer than the base. Below is a simple example:

base	1000
hypotenuse	1006
height	109.7087052

Right triangle here is of course an approximation to the original problem, just to demonstrate what is going on.
On the advice of coffitivity, I've turned to human environments for ambient noise. I've been blessed with library access to the BBC sound effects library. http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound... Some are the typical sfx fare, but the latter half is of city streets from around the world.
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There was an extensive public debate about the Patriot act at the time of its passage, and the security proponents won. It's past time that we had another one, but anyone over about the age of 30 who wasn't aware of this wasn't paying attention.
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I've found that's true for almost all naming and branding. If you have to try to improve the name of a company/product/job, it probably wasn't a very good company/product/job to begin with OR the name is overly aspirational and the reality is the opposite of what you're trying to name it.

secretary --> executive Assistant

waiter --> server

garbage man --> sanitation engineer

janitor --> custodian

Any company/product that has the word "best" or "fast" --> Not the best or fastest at all

strip club --> gentlemen's club

Etc.
Please link 1 major article that says that Apple's skeuomorphism is superior to flat design.
Apologies, Just in case there has been any confusion. I just came across the Service, Liked it, Shared it here.

I am not involved in developing this service.

I liked the fact that, there is a lot of science that has gone behind it.
From what we've been told, Greenwald has a giant cache of classified documents, and the people who actually know say this is the tip of the iceberg. I highly doubt he's shown all his cards yet, if only to milk this story as long as possible. Personally, my money is on another bombshell this Friday.
*he/she, his/her
Wow... good job! But now that Snowden left the US, he must be an ex-patriot. The traditional response is an extradition request.
Self censure is futile. We all generate far too many data points, its simply inescapable, and machine learning can work with anything, it doesn't have to be explicit as long as you have enough little details. But I don't think there's any reason to panic. Governments and large corps just have a head start over the public in utilising these possibilities, but there is no reason for the situation to remain one-sided forever. Besides, any serious attempt to leverage these possibilities to their fullest extent would result in essentially an instant civil uprising.
21 Comments so far and none commenting the State's Secret Privilege that allows such requests to be thrown out immediately. None of these lawsuits will go anywhere.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege

People erroneously tortured by the govt had their cases thrown out. Cases as low as bank robbery have zero chance.
Agreed.

When I was working for my math exams, having to learn dozens of demonstrations by heart, I have a playlist composed of 6 hours of remixes of satisfaction, by Benni Benassi.
Amazing how 6 hours can look like 30 minutes when you listen to the same, repititive music :).
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Not since 1984.

>>The League of Women Voters is withdrawing sponsorship of the presidential debates...because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that the candidates' organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.

>According to the LWV, they pulled out because "the campaigns presented the League with their debate agreement on September 28, two weeks before the scheduled debate. The campaigns' agreement was negotiated 'behind closed doors' ... [with] 16 pages of conditions not subject to negotiation. Most objectionable to the League...were conditions in the agreement that gave the campaigns unprecedented control over the proceedings.... [including] control the selection of questioners, the composition of the audience, hall access for the press and other issues."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...
If it's obviously a sham (like your yarmulke example) then sure - it shouldn't fly. They'd be right to point out "that isn't even your religion, and we have evidence X, Y, Z that proves it."

But if a person practices a religion imperfectly, to propose that their continued attempts to live by it are null and void? That's ludicrous. Moreover, it would also constitute the government telling you specifically how to practice your religion, which is to my mind even worse than forbidding it in the first place.

(EDIT: minor continuity fix)
Nice app but is the favicon a red tooth? This is bugging me more than it should.
In such a hypothetical scenario would the police then be required to return the cocaine? Furthermore, would the owners of the cocaine be expemt from future prosecution. I mean, whats stopping the police from tailing them and waiting a few weeks before re-arresting them?
Boards of Canada pandora, gradually tuned for minor key ambient electronica.

That's my work soundtrack of choice.
From Serse? I thought it was Handel.
I'm not so sure. In what way are this guy's phone records a state secret?
I wish I had written this piece, it's been something I want to say every time somebody says they are in favor of small government or no government.

> How about Rand Paul, one of the leading advocates for libertarianism, explaining why he wouldn’t vote for the Civil Rights Act: “I abhor racism. I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant — but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.”

The fundamental failure of liberterian logic comes if we imagine a world with no (or a weak) state to impose rules on your restaurant. Do you really think that the power vacuum will stay empty? Of course not, even the most shallow perusal of history shows that somebody will have the motivation and power to exert control over people and property. In short, there will be somebody else who wants a piece of your shop and you better give it to them or be prepared to fight them.
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But. Isn't the government asserting that the wiretaps are legal? If so, any evidence acquired through them would be valid evidence in court. Wouldn't it?
It just splits core into sort of two virtual cores. I'm not sure how that could help. Have you check how disabling it influences compiling speed?
It looks sophisticated
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I'd say it's because they are part of a top secret government program
Huh? How is saying the state shouldn't restrict the non-violent acts of business owners the same thing as saying that there should be no police to stop people from using violence against business owners?
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As a counter-example (although I agree with you), the hideous and unusable directions on iOS 6 Maps (the all-capitals blue and white highway sign look) seems to have given way to something more readable.
I find it ironic how many tracking cookies are on that page and that it wants me to sign up before it will let me read the article.
Not being disposable or fungible is their incentive for keeping me.

The things that make me stay at a company isn't the carrot dangled in front of me like some circus animal who needs to do their performance.

People are too grateful for jobs. Employers use this to enforce servitude on people under terrible terms and people just lap it up every time.

I'd rather sleep on the street than sell my soul.
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Have you tried Boodler, a soundscape generator?

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I wish more people understood the situation like you, but there are many fickle HN users who are silly putty in the hands of big media.
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Where is the scientific evidence that bearing a loaded firearm in public harms other people?
I think the key word is 'active' - all Snowden could do is sip through already collected data - he could not 'actively' add a new data source.
last.fm is great for this. Type in an artist/genre you like and for the next few hours while you work, you will discover plenty of new ones as their radio service works by molding a 'radio service' to your taste.
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That's exactly why I think total surveillance can be totally fine. You just need to have unrestricted access to all recordings of you. It can prove many things for you and if someone will try to smear you by using some recording ripped out of context you can provide context if you have access to the material.

Of course US will have to do something about the law mess. Whatever they do, it can be only improvement over current: we have too many laws to even count them, and we are sort of fine not enforcing most of them, most of the time because bunch of them are silly.
To concentrate, I use computer game soundtracks (e.g. from Humble Bundle; particularly the one with Eufloria and Waking Mars), and to drown out voices of coworkers whose volume dial got lost in the laundry, text-heavy music in a language I don't understand (alternating between Czech hip-hop and Finnish hummpa).
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Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working?

EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
Wouldn't publicly hosting the files (even encrypted) be considered "disclosing"?

Then there's the "loss" of the keys - another act that is highly suspicious depending on how well it's orchestrated.

Finally, any documentation or meetings where you are outlining these moves would be highly interesting in such a case.
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I don't know why but this put this all in a whole extra sharp perspective for me.
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Yes! This is exactly the kind of music service I've been looking for when I'm working.
It was opportunistically passed 45 days after 9/11. Very few Americans were in an even semi-rational position to understand or debate the nature of the Patriot Act. The only public discussion was a small minority of people thinking about the future implications, and the other radical majority that was reacting based on fear / emotion (and the lawmakers that passed it were counting on that, otherwise they would have waited a lot longer to pass it).
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Thanks, that was a great answer! I just misunderstood your intent in the OP, good clarification.
Thoughtful analysis. I wonder if the Israeli startup eco-system can now really start balancing b2b and b2c investments, and become the east coast meet west coast it can be.
Actually, the latest Gallup poll[1] showed (and this was a surprise to me) that Republicans disapprove of these policies way more than Democrats do:

Party app disapp
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Democrats 49% 40%
Independent 34% 56%
Republicans 32% 63%

All 37% 53%

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-gover...
It won't happen. Data today holds the same value as nukes during the cold war. A whole lot of intellectual and emotional evolution has to occur, across entire populations, before dismantling either becomes feasible.

I have a feeling this incident is going to start a big data arms race, mostly because, many governments in other country are going to start investing in their own NSA's.

The only thing that can control it, is the economics involved.
But if we rely on this too much it would in theory give more power to hackers, and more reliance on the secureness of such a system. Suddenly you're being framed by some entity with sufficient political or hacking power.
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A lot of these sounds like typical headhunter scams, specifically by getting to know your previous employers, some headhunters make direct contact with them in hopes of scoring more clients; and by knowing your previous paychecks, they have massive leverage over you in payment negotiations (employee salaries are not comparable to contracting daily rates).

Reality check: do you have an offer on the table? If no, let them know these details are available once you do. If yes, consider including redtape into your contract days.

Also, and this might sound obvious, but Know Your Customers: specifically perform at least a handful of searches against both the contracting company, the staffing company, all the relevant decision makers, and everyone you know the name of so far. Do they look legit? Are there other contractors on their payroll? Can you contact them, and ask their experiences?
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True. I like to believe that there are so many holes in those things that it's only a matter of time before they're struck down anyway, and any particular attack against them only has a small chance of ever even making it to court to be tested.

It's one thing to demand secrecy of people who are willingly agreeing to keep secrets so they can be issued a clearance. It's something entirely else to give secrets to an unwilling recipient who never agreed to keep them, and threaten to destroy their lives if they don't.
Ofcourse it leads to escalation. What do you think the reaction outside the US to PRISM is? Are other governments, now that they know the extent to what the US is upto, going to reduce data collection and strengthen privacy laws?

Give me a break.
The CIA is not going to disappear him now that he went public. And he can't slip out of Hong Kong without everyone knowing. Seems to me that this can only workout in one of two ways. Either he requests and receives asylum from some 3rd party country before the US requests extradition so that Hong Kong can't stop him from leaving. But I suspect he has a short time window to make this happen, maybe only days before the US delivers the extradition request. At which point Hong Kong will probably take his passport.

If that doesn't happen then it'll just work its ways though the Hong Kong courts. If he attempts a legal delay and obstruction tactic similar to Assange it could take years. Meanwhile the US demonization will continue and the US/China/Hong Kong politics will wax and wane. But most probably he'd end up in a US jail eventually, with all the political fallout that that will entail.
A full test suite does not replace comments. Most comments are replaced by well-chosen descriptive names for data and functions, combined with refactoring to the point that no functions have more than a half dozen lines, which means that the number of functions is much higher than normal in un-refactored code. This means more function names, and even more variable names, and those extra names provide additional documentation.

That said, however, most business code is there to serve a problem domain which the programmers do not understand implicitly. It is very necessary to provide the programmers with good documentation of the problem domain so that they can write the right tests. Without this documentation, the test suite will be crap and the programmers will be too scared to refactor the code.
So documentation is very important but it must be the RIGHT SORT of documentation. As the brits in the audience will know, the WRONG SORT of documentation will lead to utter chaos and BIG BALLS OF MUD.
True, but so what? that's how things are in a democracy. I keep pointing out that a great many people simply do not share the concerns of privacy and civil liberties advocates, and people keep responding that the public is too uneducated or doesn't really understand. The reality is that a lot of people understand the implications just fine but they simply don't agree with the minority viewpoint. So they're foolish and short-sighted, but it'll be a cold day in hell before that changes.
This article provides some good pointers, but for more detail (all you need to know), read Aaron Shepard's blog, and also read his Aiming at Amazon and POD For Profit. You'll thank me.

To keep your options open, you definitely want to buy your own ISBNs from Bowker (if in the US).

Above all, do not use a "vanity press" that charges you to publish your books.

Source: The rewarding and time-consuming experience of self-publishing my first book.
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Looks like I am on the edge of being hellbanned, as a full hour later I am still unable to directly respond to your comment... Just as well, I suppose.

To be explicit, I am an atheist. More to the point, I am an anti-theist atheist. I think poorly of those who believe in gods. There are very few things I think more idiotic in this world than the belief in gods of any sort.

This said I understand the terminology "self-evident" and do not pretent do muddy my understanding simply because I disagree and disrespect the beliefs of the religious. Things that are considered self-evident by believers are rarely believed by non-believers. Why should they be? If a follower considers something to be self-evident that means that they are not providing any justification to non-believers. Something that is self-evident has no justification outside of itself. There is a reason atheists such as ourselves find this to be absurd and damaging when applied outside of extraordinarily limited domains.

Believers in American style democracy consider certain rights to be self-evident, they provide no justification for these things. Believers of gods similarly provide absolutely no justification for their believes. Both are accurately described as "self-evident" believes, from the perspective of believers. Were they not considered such, then their believers would provide justifications.
I am no legal expert, but the purpose of the exclusionary rule is to discourage police from illegally gathering evidence, not to provide relief. See WARDEN v. HAYDEN, 387 U.S. 294 (1967)

> Just as the suppression of evidence does not require the return of such items as contraband, the introduction of "mere evidence" does not entitle the State to its retention if it is being wrongfully withheld. Pp. 307-308.

So just because the cocaine can't be used as evidence, doesn't mean that the police have to give it back -- it's still contraband. Maybe they would destroy it if they have no other use for it. But Alice would get her car back, if it were seized with the cocaine.

As for future prosecution, nobody is exempt, but the prosecution would probably have to come up with new charges (due the fifth amendment double jeopardy clause). Waiting a few weeks would not change legal circumstances and a judge would see right through such trickery, but if I were Alice or Bob I would keep my nose clean for a while.
great way to promote his service.

here's the link to the video https://mega.co.nz/#!Yo9W0IjB!N0bZRFTnLN-9aOprSj088wEwkclcov...

edit: which i must say, sucks. it's downloading the movie to local storage? what?

edit 2: mega.co.nz sucks so much. thankfully more patient people uploaded that somewhere else

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8793127/Dotcom-humour-...

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