skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy is not an either/or label; it is a term that encompasses a range of different systems and cultures. For example, the US system is definitely more "democratic" than the Iranian system, although they both involve voting. Conversely, the Swiss system is arguably more democratic than either the US or Iran.

However, it is worth noting that attempting to rank systems by quantity-of-democracy-nature stops being useful pretty quickly, and it becomes helpful to introduce other terms/variables/factors/axes along which to measure and evaluate political systems.

Equally, once certain baselines are met, the exact mechanics of the system quickly stop being as important as less tangible factors such as civil society mechanisms and cultural biases:- Particularly the professional culture of the legislature:- Ability of legislators to set aside party politics to work in the national interest; To preserve the integrity of the political system from corruption, and maintain the ability to make decisions without bias in the face of attempts to lobby and influence behaviour.
Wait, so if this surveillance network had been in place in 2001 the September 11 terrorist attacks could have been stopped?

So PRISM was started around 2007/2008, looking at the slides ...

So the 2009 Underwear Bomber should have been stopped, right? His dad even TOLD THE CIA about him ...

How about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? Why wasn't that stopped?

Sorry, but if you can't stop some idiot lighting his underwear on fire, or two brothers with pressure cookers with the existing program (PRISM) and data how am I supposed to believe that the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks against the world trade centers would have been stopped with this surveillance network?

Why is the FBI saying they are afraid of "going dark" when in reality it has already been shown that when they do have access to systems such as PRISM and wide ranging requests from companies (such as Verizon) to disclose certain records, that they still are unable to stop terrorism.

"We need all this data to stop terrorism"
"Then why when you have all this data have you NOT stopped terrorism?"

That's what I want to know... I'd rather live my life with my privacy intact with the small chance that something bad is going to happen because of someone following their religion or being disgruntled or never getting the mental help they needed than living in fear that some algorithm is going to pick me out as an anomaly because I eat my cereal with a fork and do my homework in the dark.
I don't get the cDNA part of the ruling. If the spliced message exists naturally, and it must in order to be expressed, how does a DNA copy of that spliced message represent something novel whereas the full unspliced gene does not. After all most cDNA is initially generated from a naturally occurring template in the cell, since you're looking for what's naturally expressed.
Well, maybe that's one thing that will make the two countries (or at least their governments) friendlier towards each other ;)
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I think what the customer 'wants' is always right. What the customer asks for can be an entirely different thing and a lot can be lost in translation. If you take the first ask at face value without delving deeper it can result in a very disappointed customer.

It's not offensive to check you are delivering what they 'actually' want.

I think the photographer is just checking they know what they're actually getting when they ask for raw files.

If OP is prepared for them to be nothing like the finished version then that's great, they're on the same page. I think they'll get more use out of higher res jpegs though.

Why pay someone to produce 2.5mp finished images or raws you need to work on yourself when you can just have a high res set.

I can't tell you the number of people that ask for raw when what they mean is high resolution. I've heard lots of horror stories where photographers deliver raw files and they get a long furious e-mail back saying "what the hell, these don't even open on my computer, I asked for the best quality images dammit!"

With wedding photography 80% of customers have never been married before & it's their first time discussing photography services, a good photographer will check the customer is fully informed. A bad one will do anything to make the sale, pop the card out of the camera, hand it over and say "hey that's what you asked for"

As OP has said, they're not interested in prints so asking for a much higher res digital finished image makes a lot of sense, ready for the big screen tv, perhaps a large canvas etc. Prepping the raws ready to share is a big time investment.

Also be sure to make your own copies of the disc as optical media degrades over time too. Make as many backups as you can.

Photographers take backups more seriously that you think. We're as precious about backups as we are the raw files! They're our livelihood.

I think our backup strategy is better than the average user. Dual card slots shooting raw images, transported separately from the venue at the end of the day. One is stored off site in a fire proof box in an anti static pouch. The other is the 'working' card and imported to the working machine with SSD raid. They're also mirrored to an external hard drive & cloud backup while working. Exported final jpgs are burned to DVD for the client along with a box of 6x4 proofs and online gallery access.

For our own work archives they are uploaded to our viewing portal which is paid for several years at a time (e.g if we were no longer around, clients can still re-download them within that time frame - good luck doing that with raw file sizes). We also store final jpgs in cloud storage and put an archive of work on both optical media and sd card with the original raw card in the off site fire proof storage along with a copy of the customers details.

I think saying photographers are not tech savvy and don't care about their clients images is equally offensive.
> They have access to IP+time, your search query, and
> cookies for correlation to other requests. It's
> valuable information

Valuable for blackmail, but not really useful for anything else; the commercial value of information rapidly degrades over time. Knowing I want to buy a new fridge today is very valuable, knowing I wanted to buy one last month is nearly worthless.

> IP+time is enough to get your personal identity
> information from your ISP (physical location of the
> endpoint, billing information), I have no idea if
> Google's relationship with ISPs is good enough to
> buy that or if it's only available to cops.

Despite what the RIAA think, a user agent's IP is nowhere near accurate enough for use as identification.

I hope that ISPs do not release personal identity or billing data to arbitrary third parties. I know my ISP (sonic.net) claims they don't[1], and even privacy-insensitive companies such as AT&T have privacy policies that would forbid them from selling personal data[2].

Even if it were possible for random companies to obtain personal data from an ISP, I doubt that Google would have any interest in participating.

[1] https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Category:Policies#Privacy

[2] http://www.att.com/gen/privacy-policy?pid=2506
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Hmm, neat. I've added all the bike sharing networks I can think of to a repo[1], and for all you NY bike sharing lovers, there you go[2].

I don't think I will update it to work in 'real time' because it would not make much sense, but it was fun to play with.

[1]: https://github.com/eskerda/cb-geojson/blob/master/networks.g...

[2]: https://github.com/eskerda/cb-geojson/blob/master/citibikeny...
Agreed it's still frustrating, but it's no where near the clusterfuck the OP implies.
>Legally, the UN charter and thus US law makes it clear invading another country can be done in self-defense or by approval of the security council. Neither of those conditions were met.

Nonsense. That's as clear a case of self defense as you're going to find.
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Brazilian journalists detained while covering protest
> Now they are forced to think again how to keep the old IE6-intranet running next to some Google Docs stuff they bought...

Since they already switched from supporting IE6 to using modern technology as if IE6 didn't exist, then maybe they just won't bother switching back. Maybe it will be more cost-effective, at least for some of them, to finally ditch IE6. And that would be a win. The cancellation of Google Frame may be what is needed to break the feedback loop that keeps IE6 afloat.
What? The HGP was tiny compared to the number of biologists, computer scientists, and entrepreneurs working in genetics research today, both public and private, funded by both taxpayers and investors collectively. The HGP was simply a loose organization that collected a massive amount of human and capital resources to map the genome. The research done in the project set the ground work and standard for much of genetics work today, not to mention propelled cheaper and faster sequencing technologies.

Myriad genetics is a $2.5 billion market cap genetics firm that built its entire company around only a small subset of the human genome (think dozens out of tens of thousands) and they got started a decade before the HGP did. That one company is just a small taste of what's to come.

It's only a bridge to nowhere if you can't see the future.
Or data like this could simply be released before the market opens or after it closes, like most quarterly and annual reports.
Deleting peoples content that they've built up over a decade _without warning_ is a really terrible thing to do, although yes it's a new company with a new product, they should have at least shown some goodwill towards the previous users. Photographs, comments, messages, blogs, these are things that mean a lot to a wide variety of people, if they must delete them then so be it but doing it without notice and without providing downloadable archives is just beyond unreasonable, it's completely disrespectful.

For anyone curious, there is no further response from Myspace in the linked topic, the response marking the issue resolved is the only message, the 19 pages are just angry and upset (ex)users. Hopefully they haven't actually deleted the data and are frantically setting up an export process.
Have a look-see at this section of their Privacy Policy.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s2

Of course, they could be completely full of shit or unknowingly compromised.

My concern is this: even though they don't _collect_ information, they could still forward it on to authorities and not violate this policy.

However, they have a freaking TOR node, so it's almost a moot point.
With the idea being that those who bought access had an unfair advantage in trading with the general public.

However, if "everyone" knows that some companies can buy these reports minutes ahead of time, then when people lose out on trades in the minutes afterwards, isn't it the fault of the people taking the trade?

It's not wise to trade with people who might have more knowledge than you. It seems like there's a reasonable expectation that the people on the other sides of these trades should know about the paid access.
I've spent a few months using more than the quota of processing of my linode, and they didn't even complain.

Yes, most users won't use all the allocated resources. They probably do oversell, but they do deliver the resources if you use them.
What would you consider transparency if your response to that is, "they might be lying."
It's all about the scope of what you would consider "SEO" projects. Would you consider creating search-friendly URLs SEO projects or just best practices?

That's one of the first things I think about when I look at a site from a SEO perspective: can the bots easily digest this site.
Everyone who studies that sort of thing has told me that viewing ancient roman sexuality through a homosexual vs heterosexual lens is not quite right. You need to look at it more through who's the "passive" vs "active" participant.

That it was socially acceptable to be a man and penetrate someone else regardless of their sex, while it was frowned upon to be a grown man and be penetrated.

Similarly, to receive oral from someone else was fine, but it was frowned upon for a man to perform oral on a woman.
I was actually speaking on behalf of one of their target markets, as me repeatedly having to ask my personal trainer to correct his VAT calculations came to mind ;)
China to launch what may become the world's largest emissions-trading scheme
Honestly, I have to take anything that Steve Gibson says with a massive grain of salt. Remember, this is the man who claimed that raw sockets would destroy the Internet.

Given that his suggestions are 100% speculation, I'd be willing to put any amount of money on the line that it's nonsense.
That's pretty standard boilerplate language for a ToS. It essentially protects DO from someone suing them because a client is doing something offensive (like say, running a mail server to email the Goatse pic to as many people as possible)
Except these stop working after 90 days.
Alternatively, this is a perfect use case for a torrent.

It always boggles the mind how the big players seem to be avoiding this download scheme like the plague even though it's unrivalled for these kinds of downloads, especially when there's a rush on the files like you'll no doubt notice in the next 10 days or so.
Those XP machines can download an older version of Chrome if it ever comes to that. And if Google Chrome no longer provides support I'm sure Chromium will. XP is 10 years old. It's remarkable that Google does still support it (unlike Microsoft supporting their own software) so let's praise them on that.
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I ceased using Google search except as a last resort when this story broke, and I had no idea what I had been missing out on with DDG: Excellent keyboard navigation. Also, DDG's results compared to a year ago are night-and-day. It seems to listen to my keywords better than Google did too, a growing annoyance I had. If you haven't, you really should try out DDG for a week.
Should I request payments at freelance milestones?
I'm using Elance (I know, I know) to make some money on the side, and this is my second client. This time the scope of the project is larger, and it's expected that this job will take about 2 weeks to complete. However, in the terms proposed by the client they're asking to pay for the whole project once it's completed. Does this mean I have to send them everything first, or can they just dispute afterwards if the deliverables they get aren't what they asked for?

I don't really feel comfortable sending everything before receiving payment.
Here's what Glenn Greenwald said on June 8:

"Our story was written from the start to say NSA claimed this, telecoms deny-we wanted them to have to work it out in public what they do. We reported - accurately - what the NSA claims. We reported - accurately - what the companies claim. It conflicts. That's why we reported it."
I agree, it's better to find a different photographer than to push the current one into providing something they are unhappy with.
If you're relying on more than 6 months of support (or any support really) from a free product in an enterprise environment, you're doing it wrong.
Interesting that Amash is asking for Mr. Clapper to resign.

I personally feel Mr. Clapper should face charges for perjury and be delt the full force of the law. An example needs to be set here.
Just because they say they don't collect your info, it doesn't mean that google doesn't get it.

Look at the source of a search page and you'll notice that they include scripts directly from google.com...
If the data source is doubleclick, how does it even know who's on HN?
Don’t Hash Secrets (2008)
The FISA gag orders bar you from discussing them. They don't mandate that you lie. That'd be silly.
How does it compare to socat[1]?

[1] http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
> Need to genetically engineer some grain to work better in drier climates? Learn just enough molecular biology to make it work. Economically-depressed nations don't distribute contraception effectively? Develop a cheaper alternative or find a way to incentive its use. LGBTQ community being told they're sick, or they can't raise an effective family? Spearhead studies to show the actual effects of LGBTQ people's lives in society.

I'm not talking about "building websites". I'm wondering about problems that have technical solutions, not policy solutions, that require the skills that "hackers" have, but established people in the area do not. If you want to make new grains, invent new contraceptives and fund studies, then there are better people for the job in every case.

It is hubris to think that established genetic engineers are lacking some sort of "hacker spark" that renders them unable to find a solution to that problem. The materials and medical science needed for cheaper contraceptives is not something that needs consult from an external hacker. Sociology doesn't need hackers barging in and demanding more studies about LGBTQ communities, they've got the importance of that one pretty much figured out themselves.

The extent that "hackers" can work on any problem is the extent to which they already are. You are basically just saying "these things need clever people to work on them." Well they already have clever people working on them. Clever people with degrees and/or experience in the subject matter. I consider myself a clever person, and my experience is in software development. Other clever people have experience in medicine, or materials sciences, or just about anything else you can think of. What makes my brand of clever something that they need?

Software development is not filled with some sort of "unique" sort of clever person that the rest of the world is somehow lacking. That sort of thinking is just developer exceptionalism. If the theory is that software development is creating some sort of "brain drain", then perhaps we could talk about policy solutions to drive more clever people into other fields. But I really don't think that there are not enough clever doctors because software development is gobbling up more than its fair share of clever people.
No. Rather than issue a direct correction to their initial story which so falsely represented the facts on the ground that all of the US's largest internet companies simultaneously issued categorical denials, the Guardian ran another article that redefined the term "direct access", knowing (as they had to have) that their own original interpretation of the term, in black and white in Greenwald's original reporting, had been repeated as fact by numerous major media outlets.
It's about time. The "Grab them all with cURL" instructions are also a nice touch.
I agree with this as well. Such as shift can have more than one benefit.
They are certainly generous with promos. Just today I got an unsolicited $5 credit and I haven't even burned through the original credit I got for signing up via Twitter.
I would ask them give you 25-50% up front then the remaining after they have accepted the finished work. I don't know the nature of your work but maybe you can give give them 50% half way through the schedule and they give you the pay for that work, then you give them the remainder when it's done and they pay you back.

I definitely wouldn't trust them with all my work/result and then hope they'll get around to pay me.
How about; they add a text field, I add the project lang and they can run the machine learning against my (human) input? That would solve my problem and make the classifier better, no? When every file in the main dir of the project is *.py and the repo says JavaScript... something is wrong. Further, you may have a JS heavy application that is powered by Python|Ruby... should that project be called JavaScript? It certainly would not run without Python|Ruby on its own.
if the NSA is intercepting the communications, why would switching sites matter?
OK, now I've got a pretty solid IE test setup, how do I go about testing Mac browsers (eg Safari) without a Mac? AFAIK the Mac OS X license says it can't be virtualized under non-Mac hardware. It looks like the only options are to use remote testing services, buy Apple hardware or illegally use Mac on a non-Mac host.
It looks to me like what he's saying now conflicts with what
he actually wrote in his original report.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845649

edited to be less conclusive
I agree, the whole picture obscures the whole picture.

But having the whole picture without looking at it is useful. In doxygen, for example, you can capture an entire source tree, but then only zoom in to areas that you're interested in. You get the flexibility of seeing any portion of the whole that helps you understand.

Generating something like that before code, though, is a waste of time. Unless it's a government contract, and then it's profit.
I've also been working on a Scala Driver in stealth mode, I've been able to successfully send a subset of queries. Though my primary focus has been on making sure queries are typed correctly in Scala. As well as concurrently engineering a good interface from typed objects to JSON data, so that you don't end up with Map[String, Any] or Array[Any] all over the place. My current approach is adopting some of the ideas from Bryan O'Sullivan's excellent Aeson library in Haskell.
The way the head of state is chosen doesn’t really matter with regards to whether the state is a republic or a monarchy. Monarchies have crowned head of states, republics don’t. For example, the Holy Roman Empire (aka this bundle of German states existing in the middle ages) was a monarchy, but the emperor was elected (by a set of dukes and such), whereas the UK is a monarchy while the queen isn’t elected.
I'm with you on the proper lifetime of diagrams. They should be preserved only until someone else needs the whiteboard.

Even so, I happily took a little time years ago to learn UML basics, because I needed some notation for my whiteboard sketching, and having a common one seemed better than just everybody making up their own. (Even given that the one that I made up would of course be superior.)

I've never regretted it. It's sort of like blueprint symbols. I never do more than sketch out a couple of rooms. But I'd still rather use the standard symbol for a door or a window or a toilet then to screw around coming up with my own, and then hope others can figure it out.

If anybody wants a quick UML intro, I strongly recommend Martin Fowler's book: <http://martinfowler.com/books/uml.html>.
Microsoft will continue to provide baseline support, security patches, and forever

Actually they're going to stop providing IE6/7 support and patches in a little under a year.
Very nice — I'm working to your Fall Creek right now (my code's compiling). Do you use a commercial dummy head or something less costly?
This is great news for DuckDuckGo and I'm all for it, however, DuckDuckGo isn't completely private right? From what I see, DuckDuckGo obtains much of its data from 3rd parties, such as Bing/Microsoft and Yahoo. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...

"While our indexes are getting bigger, we do not expect to be wholly independent from third-parties. Bing and Google each spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year crawling and indexing the deep Web. It costs so much that even big companies like Yahoo and Ask are giving up general crawling and indexing. Therefore, it seems silly to compete on crawling and, besides, we do not have the money to do so. Instead, we've focused on building a better search engine by concentrating on what we think are long-term value-adds -- having way more instant answers, way less spam, real privacy and a better overall search experience."
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