skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The criminal justice system (including police and the courts) is a provincial responsibility in Canada. The only federal piece is the Supreme Court of Canada. Jurisdictions that have no provincial police force (all of them except Ontario and Quebec) contract the RCMP to do their policing but technically could contract it to anyone they want. Arrest warrants are not generally valid outside the province they're issued in (although Canada-wide warrants can be issued in extraordinary circumstances). Municipal police forces receive their authority from the province that they're in. So in theory, the Alberta government (for example), could hire the Montana Highway Patrol to be their police force if they so desired.

In short, every jurisdiction in Canada has one and only one agency responsible for enforcing the Criminal Code, and that may be a municipal police force, a provincial force, or the RCMP contracted by a province, depending on where you are. So unlike the USA, the RCMP is not like the FBI in that it does not have any additional powers to any other police agency, just a different jurisdiction.
"I will not acknowledge, however, that my actions were illegal." - See more at: http://warscapes.com/literature/cryptogams-nsa#sthash.9XxIjY... copyright anyone?
There are a wide variety of coatings out there that could address this -- especially for an application requiring some flexibility like this, there are a wide variety of polyurethanes that have super high abrasion resistance compared to steel.

It would probably also be practical to simply modify the bearing surfaces as well.
Gah, no one expects Finnegan's Wake.

Ulysses (sort of) rewards the patient reader. FW abuses her.
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That, "we have our reasons, but we can't tell you" excuse holds no water with me. I'm more likely to get shot by cop than hurt by a terrorist in this country. Whatever happened to, "give me liberty or give me death"?
Yes, I have an ethical problem with doing the kind of work I do for defense contractors or for the USG. I'm not saying that doing work for USG, or even software security work for them, or even offensive software security for them is prima facie unethical; I only know that I don't feel qualified to navigate the ethical quagmire, and thankfully am not required to do so.

I'm also not a defender of the state. However, of the subset of HN users who are noisy enough to remember by name, I'm probably the most statist; believing in the utility of law enforcement probably puts me just slightly to the left of center among noisy HN'ers.

In the real world, I'm a liberal.

Be careful about assuming that you know what's in the heads of other people just from how they comment on HN. The things that spark arguments on HN aren't a realistic cross-section of policy debates in the real world.
Design your focus - Read better, work better, sleep better, X better.
It's certainly beneficial. Just not as beneficial as other things you could do with that time.
I too saw Taipei 101 under construction... incredible to think it's in a serious earthquake zone.

there is already synthetic rope with dramatically better tensile strength, and it's displacing wire rope in many applications

The article did mention the use of a dual layer anti-abrasian coating for durability.

Honestly though, why increase height and density still further? There are stupendous issues here with efficiency with regards to food, water, and HVAC - if nothing else. My personal view is that cities of the present are essentially anachronisms spawned from 20th century post-industrialism intertia: artifacts of outmoded labour markets, planning laws and now-quaint geospatial efficiencies.

As the cost of living in cities rises due to the shortage of land, the requirement for importing food and water, and the artificiality of maintaining a reasonable healthy lifestyle in high density urban environment, my bet is that, broadly speaking, emerging labour markets (our type of industry, for example) based on new technologies for communications and a reformed education system will cause a mass migration of professionals away from cities, back to a more sustainable, decentralized model. Sort of like the green banker-belt outside of London, but on a far larger scale.

In short, I believe that while the city will not disappear, its face will change .. and certainly not primarily through ever-taller buildings.
the main reason for wiretapping King wasn't his civil rights advocacy, but his communist leanings

What communist leanings? My understanding is that he had none, and that this was just made up by people who disliked King for other reasons. A bit of Googling corroborates this [1], but if there's evidence I'd be curious to hear it.

If King's "communist leanings" didn't exist then they could hardly have been "the main reason for wire-tapping him" or indeed the reason for anything at all. Something non-existent can't provide any "historical context" either.

I think the context you're trying to draw leads in fact to the opposite conclusion. "Suspicion of communism" then equals "suspicion of terrorism" now, and what the story shows is how easily these powers become abused. "Suspicion of X" is a self-confirming charge after all.

Edit: I also think you're really stretching things to argue that Hoover going after King was "the government executing the will of the people".

1. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp. The email circular at the top of that page indicates the quality of thinking among some people who like to believe in King's "communist leanings". Thanks to Google I've just learned that there's a whole world in which this is still a thing: http://www.martinlutherking.org/thebeast.html.
I would prefer not to call it this, merely because the combination of "snowden," "secrets," and "catch-22" really screw up search results.
> a successor called Alembic founded by the same core author as sqlalchemy-migrate

Alembic is not founded by the same core author as sqlalchemy-migrate. Alembic is founded by Mike Bayer who is the core author of SQLAlchemy itself.
It sounds like it could be handy for international shipments? Normally it costs an arm and a leg to ship a heavy package overseas, but if a traveler has an extra check-in slot available, they could carry an extra 50 lb package for like $25. It normally costs like $300 to ship something that big overseas.

The liability and insurance issues would be pretty annoying to deal with, though.
Chute (YC W12) looking for a Front End Lead and a Senior Rails Developer
You have to sell yourself however you can. There are many new developers that don't have a degree, or don't have good grades, so those people will need to demonstrate their abilities in other ways. For example, I had a lackluster gpa, so I made sure to work on my own projects that I could emphasize. If you think you can show that you excelled in relevant CS classes, then do so. If you've got stuff you did before college that's interesting, figure out how you can bring it up. You have to play up whatever potential positives you have.
He's a reporter who has been doing reporting on this story with actual sources. His confirmation of individual comments of mine is useful, at least to me; don't worry, eventually I'll write a comment that will contain something he knows to be wrong, he'll notice it, call me out for it, and you can start jumping up and down again.
Nobody is bound to lie. That is not a FISA requirement or a requirement of any other federal statute.
There are already many buildings that segregate elevator systems into multiple stacked towers such as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia [1]. But in Petronas' case, it can become too complex that even the staff don't always get it right.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Towers#Lift_system (note, lift means the same thing here)
I don't follow. Larry Page and Google's General Counsel jointly signed the denial.
Yeah. Originally I was going to price them at $200 each.

("For the cost of one night in a Hong Kong hotel, this will save you weeks or even months of research.")

Definitely only of interest to someone really planning on setting up a business in one of these countries in the next year or so.

I often drop $39 on random Ruby, JavaScript, or web design ebooks.

That said, now that I've tried the $50 price point, I might try something much cheaper next year just to see what happens. If I do, then all the people who bought it at $50 this year will get it free next year.
Police Storm Park in Istanbul, Setting Off a Night of Chaos
Okay maybe not that backward farming.
This is great. Glad to see Perl support as I'm working in both these days. I have a C# DLL I'm planning on porting and I think I'll give this a whirl. If it can do a good port I'll be very impressed.
I am one of those people who needed both Yellow Dog and PSN with games and Netflix. This was far before Wine was hacked to support Netflix. I used my PS3 as my primary desktop for a long time, and liked the ability to reboot for games.

I eventually needed it more as a Netflix box, so the desktop got replaced. I haven't bought anything from Sony since.

The move was more than just inconvenience. The presence of an OtherOS feature in a major DRM platform was an olive branch. Sony was saying its proprietary system could happily coexist with open systems. By removing this feature, they sent the message that coexistence was impossible. They don't encourage installing non-Sony software on any devices they sell now as far as I know.

Maybe we'll find some way to restore the truce, but it has to come from their side. Free software is always open for integration. It's built-in. If Sony decides they can coexist with it again, all will be well.
This is an exercise in synthesis, not analysis--akin to reading tea leaves. By all means, keep two ledgers: a) claims with hard evidence, and b) suppositions on a tree of conjecture. Though again: having informed opinions on secret programs is structurally a fools errand. Better keep that ledger quarantined, and look for new fruit on the tree of conjecture. You would be well equipped to capitalize on it.

EDIT, quick, and not to make a thread of it: a) NSA is the referent to tea-leaves, not you; b) the rest is advice; and c) lol.
I was only addressing the reason for the conflicting statements. Whether or not National Security is irrelevant I'll leave to others to debate. But it's a virtual certainty Obame and Biden would have disagreed with you (correctly or incorrectly) before taking office, as they would now.
Django's Architecture: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The concept is sound. You increase "velocity" by strategically decreasing your development effort, but this leaves out the idea of technical debt completely. I've start to believe there are things that will kill you in the short term (bugs), medium term (missing features), and long term (architectural issues). You can play with the percentage of effort put towards each area in every version/release, but neglecting any one for too long can kill the product. It seems easier to explain the balancing act to people that way.
I devoured AoCP in three months, Finnegans Wake took a year and a half. I have a compulsive need to finish reading what I start and it just sucked the life out of me. Ulysses is a masterpiece, but I wouldn't recommend Wake to anyone. There are still some gems but most of it is simply painful to read.

-- Lines from Wake that actually make sense:

It was folded by cunning, sealed by crime, uptied by a harlot, undone by a child. It was life but was it fair? It was free but was it art?

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

Shake eternity and lick creation.

Erning his breadth to the swelt of his proud.
YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT! This Chinaman is not the issue, Dude.
This is interesting, but for the linear regressions I'd much rather get the a and b parameters than a function to interpolate/extrapolate y values.
The protests started in São Paulo because of the raise in the bus fares ("measly" R$ 0,20). This in itself is not a big issue, but the people were already fed up of mismanagement in the government. They claim there's no money for public transport but there's money for private transport (tollways, 0 taxes for cars), shiny stadiums for FIFA, astronomical salaries for the legislative...

The protests gathered enough people, and faced fierce, disproportional violence by the police. It became clear that, with the Brazil in the spotlight (Confederation Cup starting this week), the government didn't wanted people on the street. The situation escalated, and more people started protesting the following days in all major cities.

Now they are not protesting for anything in particular anymore, the protests are to show the insatisfaction of the population and how any protest gets suppressed with violence by the police. The São Paulo governor even applauded the work of the police.
I've been in and out of China (mostly in) since late 2001. There are great things about the nation and it's simply incredible to behold. Unfortunately, when you travel through 20 kilometres of empty skyscrapers, with many still under construction, you realize there's some serious problems with both government policy and the international media's mass urbanization notion. Chiefly, development is removing arable land, there's nothing for people who come to the city to do, and nobody can afford the new apartments anyway (mostly they are the second, third, tenth or twentieth speculative real estate acquisition of some corrupt official or real estate developer!). As someone who has watched things change over more than a decade, it is very clear to me that the whole economic miracle inside the country has been propped up by state-level creative accounting and is about to enter meltdown. There's no two ways about it, China's bubble is about to burst. At this point, anything short of broad scale civil unrest will be a good outcome. Best of luck to the Chinese people.
Oh I know. I just thought it was hilarious to see Finnegans Wake being described as so impenetrable that even cryptologists at the NSA couldn't crack it.
Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching In Few Lines of Python
I can't tell you how excited this makes me, even if it's a long way off. Here's to hoping this can cure me and so many others.
Loved the idea, but the in first few test paragraphs I tried, the only results I got were false positives.
Wouldn't expect much of a modern desktop experience from RedHat or CentOS, and Debian isn't exactly up-to-speed either: Stonehenge for stability ;-)

Not a problem, for the multimedia deficiencies you mention, Windows VM does the trick here, and no need for dual boot (although I have that as well to flash BIOS or do other Windows required hardware mod'ing).

Of course, if you're a musician, video editor, or designer, you'd be more inclined to work on a Mac anyway (or perhaps PC/Windows) -- Linux would be the last choice more than likely.

I agree completely that Gnome 3 is far from a joy; it's pushing me toward a DE-less stack actually.
> but one of the sneaky things about Hoover was his ability to transcend and defy presidents

That's one of the reasons he's a suspect in the JFK assassination. The best part of this theory is the implication that discreetly disclosing each new president on exactly how JFK was assassinated tends to get them in line.
Only 36 people in 3 groups of 12. Changes visible in fMRI but not (from the writeup) obviously in any direction of better/worse. Study funded by Danone yoghurt company.

Diet surely affects cognition and microbiome, and microbiome also affects health and cognition. But this is some pretty thin support for anything interesting.
How tall does a building have to get before all the other "utility" stuff becomes a limiting factor for any reasonable floor-space/building footprint? I imagine the space you need to dedicate on each floor to water/sewage, electrical, ventilation, etc goes up approximately linearly with the addition of floors. You also need to add more elevators as you add more floors, just to service the additional people each floor implies. Add too many floors and eventually some of the floors become little more than shafts running to other floors.

I don't really know anything about architecture so maybe my intuition is off. Maybe these concerns are never realized with the number of floors that are practical for other reasons?
If you look at the source of the "collection directly from the servers" terminology, the You Should Use Both slide http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server... , it's fairly clear that PRISM collection is being contrasted to "upstream" collection. In the context, it would be natural to describe getting someone's GMail account state (plus a live feed of account updates) through a FISA directive (and an API) as "collection directly from the servers": the stated alternative is recording the packets of someone's IP connections as they cross into and out of the US, a much more indirect and not-from-the-server(s) option. Then there's the fact that the slide heading is "FAA702 Operations". Using FAA 702 on Google requires the US Government to serve a FAA 702 directive to Google; getting a Google employee to hand over information without Google's knowledge would not be using FAA 702 at all.

(Further, the fact that Greenwald couldn't figure this out from looking at the You Should Use Both slide by himself - instead, actually producing the slide in the belief that it was evidence which undermines the FISA-API theory - and still can't or won't get it after having it explained to him, undermines the thesis that he's both able and willing to interpret the PRISM presentation carefully and accurately. Though he wasn't the only journalist to (apparently) misinterpret the "direct access" claim at first.)
Nobody will read transcripts. Few hiring officers read resumes.

This issue is vastly, vastly, vastly less importance to your success with your job search than meeting and making an impression on people with hiring authority is. The default response to an unsolicited resume is for it to be silently discarded. Rather than making that the focus of your efforts, start identifying people you'd like to work for (or companies and, by extension, the people within them with hiring authority) and pitching them directly. Your conversations will be much, much more interesting than anything on your resume or any response to it.
Pronunciation: http://www.asusilc.net/scr101/les1/s1glas.htm

"ch or tch as in: church, fetch, pronounced softer than the English sound"
Clear Internet is 4G. He was giving an example of how "wireless is a hack". As far as I can tell from their website, Webpass is wired.
But can you change the OS without bootcamp? Arbitrary bootloaders etc?
Thomas Penfield Jackson, Judge for MS Antitrust Case, Dies at 76
The law is more than the statues. The rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are classified, so we don't know how the statutes are being interpreted and applied. We do know, however, that the executive has a history of using bizarre legal theories to skirt the spirit of the law.

But even if Google isn't obligated to lie, it might still be lying.

Maybe Google is lying, not because it's obligated to by the law, but because it's immune from the consequences of lying and the government is leaning on them in other ways.

Maybe Google is afraid of the backlash that will follow if they don't lie.

Maybe Google has carefully written their denials to be technically true, but still hide the real extent of the data they're giving to the NSA. This was my original point, which you completely ignored.

And yes, maybe Google is being completely forthright.

We have very little information, and information we do have may be wrong. Given that, I don't think it's wise to conclude that transmitting email over an encrypted channel is enough to keep out of the hands of the NSA.
"A question you have still yet to answer."

This comment is not only way out of line, but also false. Do you honestly still not know what the answer to your question is? I think it would be clear to anyone else viewing this thread.
absolutely on the mark.
overly picky!
Great idea although it doesn't appear to pick up the misuse of there, their and they're.

I typed "I'm going to walk over their" and Nitpicker only told me that " I'm " is an informal contraction.
Hypothesis: Page was lying; the General Counsel was in the dark for plausible deniability and genuinely believes to this day that PRISM doesn't exist, at least not in a way that involves Google.

I don't see this hypothesis as being anywhere outside the wheelhouse of the NSA. Even outright infiltration (i.e. the hypothesis that not even Page is in the know) is, well, kind of the point of intelligence services, but it's not necessary.
Mac - Chrome browser
I pressed Analyze and nothing happened o.O
NSA Analyst LinkedIn profile
Summary

+Experienced SIGINT Geospatial-Metadata Analyst/Intelligence Analyst/Linguist

+Skilled in the use of several Intelligence tools and resources: ANCHORY, AMHS, NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF, ARCMAP, SIGNAV, COASTLINE, DISHFIRE, FASTSCOPE, OCTAVE/CONTRAOCTAVE, PINWALE, UTT, WEBCANDID, MICHIGAN, PLUS, ASSOCIATION, MAINWAY, FASCIA, OCTSKYWARD, INTELINK, METRICS, BANYAN, MARINA

+ Deployed to use SIGINT to provide Force Protection to American and allied personnel

+Acted as primary liaison for NSA during daily teleconferences with other government partners, exchanging ideas and information to maintain complete and up-to-date situational awareness

+Translated foreign language materials from Somali and French into English and made targeted briefings to strategic leadership regarding regional security matters

+Used a variety of tools and data to provide advanced threat warnings to American civilian, government, and military personnel

+Compiled supplemental threat summaries for specific topical meetings of senior leadership, providing them with a fuller global terrorism situational awareness

+Prepared topic-specific, detailed presentations for senior leadership using Powerpoint, Word, ZapGrab, ARCMap, and SIGNAV

+Routinely wrote articles for CT today, considered a “must-read” by Agency senior leadership and NSA representatives at other organizations.

+Collaborated with partners worldwide to enable efficient, real-time support in a 24/7 shift environment

+Have worked in both foreign and domestic environments and managed to facilitate smooth exchanges between foreign partners that allowed for maximum efficiency of both parties

+Repeatedly called upon to train new employees in a variety of positions

+Improved the quality and immediate usefulness of office reporting, directly resulting in an increase of 15% in requests for this product.

+Able to filter vast amounts of data and reports to identify key information critical to ongoing projects
We covered it in my american history class in high school (97ish).
EU–US Free Trade Agreement
So, if I wanted to listen in on some phone calls, would the best course of action be to bribe one of these thousands of analysts, blackmail them, threaten them, or steal their laptop? Asking for a friend in a foreign intelligence service.
Great, another programming language we can't google!

Please rename it to Membranous language.
Side question: how much in demand are recursive CTE's? I, particularly, hack recursive functions around all SQL View queries, but it kludges the code up quite a bit. Am I the only one with this problem?