skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utter historical revisionism. The founders were upset that they were part of the community of englishmen but not treated the same as other englishmen. They did not hold themselves out to be foreigners then demand universal rights from the English king.

The 4th amendment did not come out of nowhere. It is not a distillation from first principles of rights common to humanity. Its a codification of what the framers believed was a right of englishmen in the English constitution.

This isn't "pedantic legalism." Its about the nature of the country we live in. The Constitution was rooted in the magna carta (rights common to subjects of the English king) and the unwritten English constitution (rights common to englishmen). It is a social compact, among a community, not a universal declaration of rights.
the menu only includes a few distinctive icons. i'm sure you will remember their order and looks over time.
So? Building codes aren't an artifact of ownership.
Anyone who isn't involved in Occupy just writes them off as a bunch of drum-banging hippies who don't bath frequently enough. Even those who would normally be receptive to what they have to say.

I'd say the media is to blame, but the act of camping was probably the real problem.
Perceived intentions and perceived actions often seem to fit the bill better then actual actions.
I think this is the more appropriate landing page, it describes what the XDK is, at least: http://html5dev-software.intel.com/

Edit: It doesn't work with the OpenJDK Runtime Environment 1.6, IcedTea, of course. Why is OpenJDK so problematic? Is it OpenJDK bugs, or Application Developers doing something wrong?
So, on YouTube, absurdism > *.
Because I misread his comment.

Also, because I don't believe that these policies are worth anything; what really matters are capabilities, and the NSA clearly has whatever access it needs to listen to anyone it wants.
Once you get to the bottom you are surround by the highest praise any has ever given you. Given that what percentage of the population would get stuck at the bottom?
In which case it would probably die upon entering the human body, as it would find us miserably hypotonic.
Can we get back to tech?
I know that the NSA and PRISM are important but I am really missing the diversity that posts on HN usually have.
Egocentrism.
Do You Even Load Balance?
I was playing with load balancers this past weekend. Some code that came out of it: https://github.com/darkhelmet/balance
Eh?

Summarising and paraphrasing what someone else wrote publicly is totally ok and legal. Biographers can at the very least use all the available material for their writing. Even quoting non-substantial parts of someone else’s writing – something that could be copyright infringement – is pretty uncontroversial and legal. It falls under fair use. And not the wobbly part of fair use you can easily shot holes into. Especially if the quotes are embedded in a much larger work (say, a biography).

Copyright law sucks but it’s not that bad.
Cat-like robot runs like the wind, on Linux
Get it together, social media experts
IOS 7 Style Gaussian Blur Tray in CSS3
IMO this is a little premature, I know it has an alpha label but functionally this has catch up to do with a number of existing offerings in what is a fairly competitive space. That said, a sane API on top of a service that works globally would appeal.

Here are some suggestions: 1) add the ISO 216 paper sizes that most of the world uses, 2) integrate to various contact / address book formats, 3) add a templating/mailmerge feature, 4) figure out a capability to print and send in more countries than just the US and 5) imagine what questions a compliance officer will ask about security, privacy, data sharing etc and answer them.

Look forward to seeing it evolve.

Edit: formatting lists. Grr.
Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security
I like to think I became pretty adept and being unconcerned about other's opinions and honest yet selective about voicing my own relatively early on.

Though I was quite happy internally and I do believe it was a net win socially, living that way isn't without its own problems.

As a result, I've had to learn to feign back the other way to some degree.
As someone who doesn't engage in much personal gossip I would focus on the business relationships aspect. There is often a lot of nuance in these relationships and talking to them in one way and internally in another. That is not to say you are screwing them over but read out of context by the other party could damage the relationship.
ACELE  ETME ŞARKI SÖZLERİ
Look before you leap into Disk Encryption
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Hold up a second. Read 'philiphodgen and 'patio11's comments, but then wait a second.

Two weeks is not a long time to wait for a receivable. I'm sorry to tell you this, and I may get downvoted for pointing it out because HN doesn't like to hear it, but companies can be slow to pay invoices.

We've waited months before!

You should be aware that if you escalate your demands, it might take longer to get paid. It's possible that you are at this moment stuck in some kind of payables limbo, especially if you're dealing with a sizable agency. The accounts payable people at the agency can get you out of that limbo. But if you sue, resolution of your dispute will involve legal, and legal is slower than accounting.

Can you tell us more about the situation you're in? Not why you need the money, but what kind of firm is it that owes you the money? If it's a reasonably big company, the odds of them actually intending to screw you are low; the risk/reward just isn't there. But maybe they're a smaller firm than you made it sound to me.
This could give a much needed boost to a sleepy part of the aviation industry.
Having seen a similar case up close myself, it is amazingly hard to wrap your head around some kinds of socially manipulative behavior. And I think that is why some people will fundamentally never come over your side - it's too hard to understand.

I've learned a few things from this (my) experience:

- Most people really are not interested in getting to the bottom of anything. Even if it is pretty serious and damaging. Sad but true. They can't be bothered to doubt their first instincts.

- Most people think they are such a rock-solid judge of character.

- If something doesn't add up, people may notice but then sweep it under the rug.

- Personality disorders are probably too hard a concept for people to consider. One thinks of a mental disorder as a person gibbering nonsense.
You have to believe they do monitor all public postings, though that is a job in itself. 2 thoughts about that:

1) they could probably justify secret rooms and data gathering on the volume of public traffic alone. In other words if they are hitting the public APIs millions of times a day, Twitter, FB, et al. Would rather give them privileged access. Then whoops, might as well read all the private stuff as well.

2) just imagine the power of analyzing topics, trends, and personalities on all public forums across the Internet, US and international! Google indexes it, but what if the NSA were able to make sense of it somehow. From usernames and posting profiles alone (and maybe language analysis) they might be able to bullied a DB of online personas. Of course, if they could read everybody's email or get IP addresses from servers and ISPs, then they could easily correlate with actual persons.
It would be a wonderful political hack though. Just thinking of a zero day email dump hack makes me smile. The political fallout alone... just imagine. Wow, I felt like I was channeling John Lennon there for a moment.
You know, a working spouse can count as a roommate. And think, you can do your grown-man-thang.
You still don't need to learn how to implement attacks to catch them.

Implementing attacks is a good way to internalize the idea that "Oh shit, this isn't just a theoretical attack, I better be super careful when doing X, Y, and Z."
I've been through a similar, although not quite so extreme situation (post-breakups) a couple of times. One thing I have realised is that the people that stick with you and don't believe the bullsh*t are those that will be your friends for life.

There seems to be no shortage of people who will happily listen to one side of an argument and disseminate it. I've even met people for the first time, and when they found out my name say something along the lines of: "Oh, I've heard all about you."

It really is childish behaviour, anyone with a modicum of decency would confront you about it, and let you have your say. If they don't, they're not worth knowing (IMHO).
It's currently illegal for property owners to rent out their NYC places on AirBNB, so you're going to see dramatically lower response rates right now.
>What a cheat. The "theory" advanced here is that "mean are weaker" with no further explanation

Em, the article offers several explanations. Perhaps you skipped them?
Or it was and they are backtracking, although maybe not best to think too much about that.
Most balanced comment in this entire thread. Thank you for your thoughts.
Now there's a code golf challenge I can work with. Mind posting some of your techniques?
The shotgun ballistic evidence is what got him the guilty verdict (and I'm sure quite a bit of other things). Not being able to answer a reasonable question was just the icing on the cake.
> On a train, the entire trip is over miles of tracks which 'anyone' can access

Indeed, but trains, even high speed ones, are also very robust compared to airplanes.

Even if somebody does manage to get access to the track (not so trivial in many cases), and trigger an explosion on the track with good enough timing to catch the train as it goes by, and manage to derail it, there's still a good chance that all or most passengers would survive the crash.

Similarly, with the size of bomb one might smuggle on board a train, the likely effect would be to just kill a few passengers in the immediate vicinity of the explosion; the train itself would probably be just fine. So basically not much different than setting off an explosion at a random restaurant...

For a terrorist, the odds just aren't all that great with trains, which presumably is why there have been so few attempts at doing such a thing. One of the reasons terrorism is so scary on airplanes is that they feel (and are) so fragile that it magnifies the effect of any attack greatly.
America Falls Behind in Creating Rich Entrepreneurs
If you look at almost any modern airliner's development cycle, you will see that a significant period of time was spent simply developing the specifications in collaboration with the airlines. I am not familiar with any commercial jet that has been developed without commitments from airlines to buy it.

Even the DC-3 was developed in response to a request from TWA for something similar to the Boeing 247.
There is definitely a kind of crypto attack that isn't very practical to know. For instance, you don't need to understand differential cryptanalysis unless you plan to implement your own block cipher algorithm, which you should never do anyways.
Now You Can Build Google’s $1M Artificial Brain on the Cheap
Deep Learning With Commodity Off-The-Shelf High Performance Computing [pdf]
I don't understand why people here are getting all hung up over the words "direct access" when it comes to Google and Facebook. At the end of the day, if they have access to email and phone records, especially SMS, then they essentially have direct access to any one of these services via the password reset feature, even if you have two factor authentication turned on.
IANAL, but wouldn't this incentivize the police to just question suspects before they are under arrest?
Thats cool and all, but using your firewalls for loadbalancing is kinda.. uh... not so good.
As demonstrated, even derptastic HAProxy is better than the loadbalancing stuff built into your FW...
For about $50-100/each you can buy 10 year old loadbalancers via eBay that do a WAY better job of this. They're more accurate AND use less cpu/watts than HAProxy will as well.

Just something to consider...
Prosecutors argued that since Salinas was answering some questions - therefore not invoking his right to silence - and since he wasn't under arrest and wasn't compelled to speak, his silence on the incriminating question doesn't get constitutional protection.

This judgement sends a very strong message to never talk to the police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik explains why its a monumentally stupid idea to talk to the cops.
I don't get arguments like this. You live in DC. He lives in one of the greatest cities on the face of the earth.

So what. Market has spoken. His rent is X and your rent is X-market discount for living in DC.
"..On Friday, Perry signed HB 2268, effective immediately. The law shields residents of the Lone Star State from snooping by state and local law enforcement without a warrant. The bill was sponsored by Jonathan Stickland, a 29-year-old Republican who represents an area between Dallas and Ft. Worth.

Also, the current- June 24, 2013, cover of TIME is Snowden, Swartz, Manning

"I kind of feel we are at the dawn of it"

-author Gabriella Coleman finishing book on Anonymous
For those interested, Dan Boneh's course on Cryptography starts another session as of today.

https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
Another great resource on generating functions is Analytic Combinatorics by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick:

http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/book.pdf
I wrote an post 5 years ago about how an electronic-design-automation-as-a-service company could sell access to a huge supercomputer for solving these problems faster:
http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2008/08/megahard-corp-open...

most researchers make up their own architectures to demonstrate place-and-route algorithms, for example there is this challenge to improve p&r:
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~vaughn/challenge/challenge.html
Donates to NPR, no?
Deploying a Meteor App to Modulus
I use http://www.truecaller.com. Works well on Android. I especially like the block feature.
> You have to believe they do monitor all public postings

Naturally. I just don't believe that that's what the controversy is about, and that comparing searching through someone's public postings to the subject of the NSA surveillance controversy is missing the point of the controversy rather badly.
the essential characteristics of science are:
(1) It is guided by natural law;
(2) It has to be explanatory by reference to nature law;
(3) It is testable against the empirical world;
(4) Its conclusions are tentative, i.e. are not necessarily the final word; and
(5) Its is falsifiable. (Ruse and other science witnesses).

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mclean-v-arkansas.html
My Creeping Concern that Edward Snowden is not who he Purports to be
http://www.adafruit.com/products/451
> Another big step would be building a reasonable toolchain around it that does not consist of big clunky proprietary tools with onerous licensing.

While I think a toolchain other than Xilinx or Altera is out of the question due to technical complexity, Quartus Web Edition is free and supports the low-cost Cyclone devices including the ones with ARM cores (SoC): (pdf) http://www.altera.com/literature/po/ss_quartussevswe.pdf. I imagine Xilinx has something similar.

> And finally, there's a bootstrapping problem. FPGAs aren't really a mass-market platform, because no one has them (unless they're developing custom hardware).

Yes, that's the chicken/egg problem that both Xilinx and Altera are addressing by putting ARM cores on their devices that run just fine without any FPGA configuration at all. It's an appeal to software developers while pitching the FPGA hardware as a super-special add-on feature really cool to have for ... something.

Altera has just started shipping the first SoC devices I think, about 6 months or so behind Xilinx. Now we'll see if the strategy works...
Honestly. There's computer science and computer engineering. There can be crypto science and crypto engineering just the same.
Sorry, I was actually in agreement with this article, but didn't really make it clear enough.

The hypocrisy is in the people trying to find and make bullshit connections. This article is pointing out how ridiculous it is and pondering how the author--presumably a boring law abiding citizen--would look in hindsight.
June 18th 2013: First GIF in space
It would be nice if they were at least intellectually honest about it by calling a spade a spade, even if that spade is themselves.

"The following articles presents discussion of the man behind the leaks. We are providing this information to satiate the curiosity of our readers. However, despite the fact that we are providing these stories, we strongly encourage readers to view these articles for what they are, rubbernecking. We strongly urge readers to keep their judgement confined to the facts we know about the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program and to exercise control so that their opinion of Snowden does not prevent them from forming an objective opinion on government spying programs. etc. etc. etc."
>Summarising and paraphrasing what someone else wrote publicly is totally ok and legal.

It is, thankfully. The problem is that because of the ephemeral nature of digital media, it's quite possible for biographies to outlive their primary sources.[0] This means that a complete biography would need to include the actual article, if for no other reason than to preserve the original.

[0]: This is one of the reasons why the Internet Archives mission is so important.
How CyanogenMod’s founder is giving Android users their privacy back
I don't think it's the library; the demo uses `CustomEvent`, external to the lib, which is not supported in IE, as a constructor. I honestly didn't test any of it, but looking at the code was obvious it'd both not work and just throw errors in IE.
Isn't the idea that the Miranda warning does not grant rights, but merely serves to inform the recipient of rights that they already have? Well, I thought that was the idea, it clearly is not the case anymore...
In regards to the commoditization point & to you examples of Oil, Investment Funds and Pharmaceuticals there has been consolidation within these. For instance, OPEC has effectively brought all the oil-producing nations under one rule so to speak which has established uniform pricing throughout the world.

Moreover, commoditization doesn't happen immediately as there may be industries who disrupt existing solutions (as SaaS has done to Enterprise Software) but aren't yet fully established themselves (or in particular verticals of the new industry) and these can have time to evolve before commoditizing. Having said that, it's always better to commoditize yourself before customers (and potential customers) perceive you as a commodity. The reason for is that it becomes much harder to evolve into a preferred partner/problem service where you can make much higher profit margins during this stage as you are being compared on price & not your defensible value add.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Not talking to the police isn't just a good strategy for an individual, it is also important for the collective. If no one ever talks to the police, then not talking to the police won't be a suspicious or rebellious act, just par for the course.
Ubiquiti Networks Founder on Information Asymmetry in Enterprise Sales
My reading here (and IANAL, too) is that Salinas' trouble came from the fact that he was answering some questions, and then stopped when they got relevant. That is to say, his selective silence was the damning thing, not his silence, period. If you say nothing all along, or only say, "Lawyer.", your silence isn't so inculpatory.
It didn't exist in the first place, but people pretend that it exists, as long as different parts of our lives are stored in different companies (facebook for fun, gmail for work, phone companies for personal etc). We considered that in the name of competition this data would not end in a single silo in the end. Little did we know
Suddenly, I am reminded of the Rifters trilogy by Peter Watts. Available free to read thanks to Creative Commons: http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
> The canonical student example is the soda machine. Sure, you could put a small Linux system in there and write Python code, but then you have millions of lines of Linux and Python code underlying your simple little soda vending code. Instead, you describe the problem as a state machine and implement it in the FPGA. This gives you an instant-on solution.

If it's indeed just a soda machine, you could implement it in a microcontroller and code plain C for the whole thing. The FPGA seems overkill.

Take Atmel for example. The Arduino boards are based on the Mega series. Fairly complex things (the ATMega microcontrollers), yet easy to program. I've played with the Tiny series - they're great if you don't need that many inputs / outputs.

http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/avr/default.a...

It's instant-on and very low power.

To me, an FPGA is better for real-time video scrambling and stuff like that.
I am glad to offer services for this project, and believe I can complete the project on time and under budget. I will charge $50 for this project, and be finish in 2 hours.

I have completed many such project in the past, and look forward to working with your revered company.
I just hope that documents are leaked in response to any outright lies by the executive branch, congress or the NSA. It's clear that they have lied and continue to lie, but we don't know what is and is not a lie. Having a bunch of documents lined up to call anyone out for lying to the American people is a powerful incentive for those in charge to be honest and candid.

Reminds me of War Games... "The only winning move is not to play"
Right, hence why I said 'much.' Red Hat is big, but it's one project of many.
What you say is wrong because much of the traffic on the subway and busses are commuters who travel from the suburbs.

In Manhattan where I live, commuters nearly double the daytime population from 1.6 million to 3.1 million.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/commuters-nearl...

increasing the building density would simply enable those people who are less fortunate than many of us on HN to also live in Paris.

Moreover, I can't speak for Paris but for certain I know in NYC/Manhattan the subways are not running nearly at their capacity. IIRC, the capacity could double if they automated the systems (which they are taking a very long time to do). The same may be true of Paris.
Same. Coming from Google Reader, Yoleo is the one that I've found to come closest. It's clean and fast and I've had some great support when I've needed it.

It doesn't seem to have the endless scrolling that GReader had however but does have the Reader keyboard shortcuts to move through the feed articles.
Hypothetical: you are visiting a zoo. You see a bear get out of its enclosure, grab a baby human, and run away. You are the only witness who saw which direction the bear ran.

A police officer comes running up and asks where the bear went.

Question: Do you tell him, or do you say that you will not talk without a lawyer present?

I've asked people on Reddit similar questions when this video has come up there, and a lot of them say they would not talk without a lawyer, based on the video.

I'm curious how many here feel that way.
I think I understood this. Does that mean I'm not stupid, or I'm smart?