skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed and, in theory, 100% agreed.

But remember my bit about knowing if you are being watched. Electronic, I have no idea, unless, IIRC, we get quantum about it. Old skool, chances are better. I, or a friend can observe my drop box or exchange, and so on.

Im not saying there are no good electronic methods, I am saying that ultimately I'd be more comfortable not using them. Remember too, I am talking ultimate paranoia, life and death.

In the end of course the weakest link of all is the humans operating any system. I mean, the whole PRISM thing was blown by a human.

The other thing in my mind is that these days spooks expect and are geared up for electronic comms, not so human comms. Budgets slashed, less "watchers", and men on the ground. Going olde skool is a sort of curved ball.

Also, I know paper. I can verify hiding places. I can watch people move. I am not good enough to review, completely and confidently, code and encryption software. I would have to trust programmers I dont know, in a climate where we believe the likes of GCHQ, NSA, etc have back doors and cracks. We are given to understand that these people are all over electronic comms. As far as I know, they have not penetrated writing paper and hiding holes. They are not invisible either. Maybe you and others are good enough to verify all the software, encryption and networking software and hardware sufficiently enough to trust your life to it. I know I'm not.

In short, if my life is on the line, I would go with what I know best. I know paper better than deeply complex mathematics and programming.

Besides, given the revelations, why even bother to risk it? Even before all this, I would laugh my nuts off at terrorists who were caught and convicted using electronic evidence. I thought them idiots for even touching a computer to arrange terrorism. I assume that now, they wont be so stupid. It was nice and easy for the authorities to plunder their computers and and electronic trail. Now their job just got harder.
User are afraid to set any browser setting. It would be better for them to choose the language through web page.

You should also consider user may not be able to switch the language of a public computer. The setting may be locked, or the operating system is in another language, e.g. Chinese, user doesn't even know where the "setting" button is.
I'm just saying though, you have to record the ip in order to provide that functionality, especially for searches over time. So are they recording the ips then dumping them after x amount of time? That's different than what they claim.
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Googling ourselves to death
They make incremental, subtle changes to push users towards Google+ [...]

I wouldn't call it subtle. These steps are very direct and probably successful in that avoiding a G+ profile became really hard.
It's a small, english-speaking country, relatively isolated in space and time from the primary markets.
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I can share much of the thoughts regarding RubyMine (a Ruby IDE by JetBrains). While it is not the best text editor out there (I used to use Emacs for Ruby stuff), the IDE features are great and (for me) outweight some of the niceties that Emacs or Your Favourite Text Editor has. Symbol navigation works across libraries and the graphical debugger is great. Autocompletion could be better, but I understand how the dynamic nature of Ruby (and especially Rails, which uses a lot of metaprogramming magic to do its thing) makes it sometimes hard to do 100% accurately.

(I'm not affiliated with JetBrains, just a happy customer)
Ah, you're right, now that I read it closer, that is the case. Thanks for the clarification.
How does the algorithm to color the song list in iTunes 11 work?
I'd like to see more my whole file instead of just the phone records, because I'm curious how accurate their information is.
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If you're a non-resident alien, they have to get the FISC court to review and approve a FAA 702 order targeting you. The bad news is that there's no standard of probable cause or anything remotely like it: more or less the only thing the FISC is actually even supposed to review and rule on is the likelihood that you are not a US citizen or in the US. The good news is that they still have to issue that FAA 702 order, and fewer than 2000 FAA 70* orders have been issued in any year prior to this one. (That number includes 702s along with other orders which can intentionally target US citizens or residents but involve a higher burden of proof.)

That still leaves the possible loophole of having those 2000 orders cover a huge number of people in a manner similar to the Verizon metadata order (which is a FISA order, but isn't a FAA 70* order and isn't counted among the 2000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879366 ). But this Facebook disclosure along with earlier statements from Google and others allows us to cautiously rule that out (though we probably don't have the same clarity on the situation of all 9 PRISM firms).

Of course, none of this tells us much about what they're doing (or able to do) using "upstream collection" at the telcos. Or indeed through similar "direct collection" from non-US Web companies running non-US servers, which I'm guessing (IANAL) would probably be outside US law altogether.
No, it's not the point. Is the UI difficult for many people to see? Maybe, but unlike you, I don't hear Apple telling people who need to use their accessibility tools that they're "not good enough."

Thank you for classifying me as "not good enough."
About minimalism
Democratic financial systems via Bitcoin
From the Hacker News guidelines:

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The United States is a long, sparse country, one of the longest, sparsest countries on the globe. We are wired because running backbones over 3G blows.

People say infrastructure is too expensive to build, it's not. When you have a discerning customer base with the purchasing power to demand it, infrastructure is the only way to serve it. Wireless cannot support that. As soon as the developing world stops being developing, in will come the telcos to build real kit.
True, I respect the honest disclosure, just bothered by the loaded assumptions: that this is a space that can/should be conquered by some closed device driven by a tiny remote control (supplemented by gestures and/or voice).
Lidar (the technology mentioned in the article) is completely changing the field of archaeology. If you have access to the New Yorker, this article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/06/130506fa_fact_...) is well worth a read.
Intrusive data structures are indeed more powerful. I made my own instrusive AVL-tree which can be found here [1] and an example here [2]. There's also the extra feature that the concept of a "link" is abstracted, so you can for example build a compressed AVL-tree inside an array using array indices instead of pointers, which don't break when the array is reallocated. It's also built in a different way than this usually done (macros), that is, a header file is included which redefines some identifiers, and the actual code of the functions is not inside macros, hence, easier to read.

About strings, I firmly believe that C's zero-terminated strings should be avoided and only used when necessary to communicate with existing code. They're really not simple and fast. You can't take a null-terminated string and extract a null-terminated sub-string without modifying the original - which is very often needed during various kinds of parsing. Also, null-terminated strings are unable to represent the zero byte, so in general, for example, you can't use them to store the contents of an arbitrary file, and if you do use them for purposes where null bytes can appear, you have to be careful and handle errors where nulls would implicitly truncate your string.

Just use (pointer, length) strings instead. It'll save you a whole bunch of trouble you may not see coming.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%... (CAvl_)

[2] https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%... (cavl_test_)
I wouldn't rule out the possiblity that your participation in a thread about this is in your file.
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You're a minarcho-proprietarian who considers government to be a gang. Yeah, that's actually worse than an anarchist. At least anarchists don't pretend they're not radicals.
Senate Staffers Told To Pretend Top Secret Docs Are Not Widely Available On Web
For those wondering, us Emacs creatures use Rope + ropemacs + rope-mode to achieve the same thing. Vim has access to the same tooling more or less.
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"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Very well in line with their mission statement. I love it because it's so much "ah screw it we'll just try this crazy sounding idea"

[I wrote a paper during my university time that was a thought experiment on the availability of cheap internet for everyone...time to dig it up :D]
Reddit uses Python as well
Google Reader closest alternative
Pretty close to the Reader UI. The only descent alternative I've come up to. It also has pretty handy mobile version.
They're hiring: http://www.dsd.gov.au/careers/
And I first read about iPads in Futuretrack Five.
Expressive-router, altenative router for express
I have created an alternative router to express. It extends express router and provides functionality of providing request handlers on the basis of header values and request params in addition to paths. Thoughts?
*insert reference to 'Spooks' here.
After reading the article, the last thing I wanted was dynamic icons. But your take on it makes sense.

I don't want 'photos' to show me the latest photo I took as that could have been days ago and now finding the photos app is really difficult.

But if just part of the icon changed to indicate something, like your stock folio position (without the red/green background idea) then it works both ways. The icon always looks generally the same - it's a graph - but it changes to indicate some data point that may save opening the app.

That said, how would the icons update if you don't open the app. Each app's developer would either have to send out an icon update notification or would have to provide some level of running the app on a regular basis to regenerate the icon.
Mobile Urban Exploration - Furniture Mall Singapore
There will be two ways of looking at that episode if I know anything about South Park.
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The IRS has upgraded its technology to track virtually everything you do online
Large companies keep government secrets every day. What do the employees have to gain? It's called not going to prison. There are ~4M cleared individuals in the US right now. They keep secrets every day. It would not be hard to put a team into place of cleared workers and literally seal them away in contained rooms and tell everyone else to go away. They're called SCIFs. You go in and leave your cell phones outside with any other electronics and do your top secret work. On the outside they appear as normal offices. My point is, this industry already knows how to work without you knowing anything. You're basing your hunches on faith and naivety about how intelligence agencies work.
Of course she is in the public eye: Friends and family of interesting parties always get pulled into the public eye, for stories having nothing at all to do with 'propaganda'. The same is true of so many other details that will always get looked up on people in this social media/online world time. There is nothing at all nefarious about it.

Indeed, it is getting bizarre seeing people outraged that some truth about people is reported. Ms Mills identifies herself as a pole dancer. Snowden made banal online comments. Snowden dropped out of high school. These are not smears but are just interesting facts. They don't diminish either of them an iota in my eyes, but do add colour. A lot of people here seem to think these are deeply embarrassing facts that should remain hidden.
I can only agree, PyCharm ist really great work by JetBrains, i love it.

What i think he really missed in features though:

- VCS integration is really really good

- Plugins for the Atlassian suite (never open Jira in a browser again!)

- virtualenv support

- remote debugging and execution and uploading support

- vagrant support
Not even that. Both are part of Wired Digital.
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Yes. And I saw both immediately. The only issue is not visibility -- it's that people might conflate them as parts of the background image.

But that's just because you only see them now over that one image. After you've seen them with the background (album art?) changed, you'd know immediately what it is and where.
Don't get why the article accuses Ron Paul - rather than Peter Thiel - of hypocrisy
It's a hack for the use case of basic connectivity. Your cell phone connects to a cell tower, which in turn connects to a trunk line. That's the proper way to do wireless.

In the developing world, cell towers connect to other cell towers wirelessly. That's a hack. It's the reason why hotel Internet blows. Not its proper use case, engineering-wise. Service sucks but the customer base isn't discerning enough to notice and wouldn't be able to afford better.

We have Clear Internet service in Atlanta. We had it for awhile, but crappy reception due to trees even though we were well covered by three towers made us go back to cable. Dialup would have been better. I had another friend within eyesight of a tower, he dropped it too because service got so crowded and bad that he couldn't stand it.

Current wireless technology could never replace wired and deliver the same quality of service that wires do. For proof, head down to your local Starbucks and try to get work done. I've not seen one yet where the connection didn't cut out at least once an hour. Radios degrade over time, copper doesn't.
Why restrict "pulling a tea party" to only the republican party? You could start a movement whose primary objective is the infiltration of both parties with candidates aligned with the movement's ideals. As adverserial as both parties are, it would be quite easy to start a movement with meaningful principles whose ideas align with both parties' stated principles.

The lobbyists know how this works: they fund both sides to hedge their bets, and they fund individual candidates, not parties. They understand that the balance of power is not between republicans and democrats but it exists inside of both the parties.
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In the same vein, I've been very happy with AppCode, the Objective-C IDE from JetBrains. Its refactoring, templates and code generators are a great time saver.
The vim emulation sometimes falls short compared to vim (missing Ctrl-N autocompletion and surrounds very much), but allows me to edit quite efficiently nonetheless, while having a comptetent autocompletion engine.
(Also just a happy customer)
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I think JetBrains' IDEs are the best around. But I'm sorry, IdeaVim is not Vim.

I've tried hard to use JetBrains' IDEs, having paid full-price for IntelliJ at one point, and later RubyMine. And the thing that stopped me both times was IdeaVim not being good enough. It has reasonable functionality, but you can forget about using any standard Vim plugins, muscle memory gets confused when some things don't work, and it can really slow things down. Playing back macros (which it does at least support) can grind the editor to a halt.

So I went back to Vim. Running NERDTree and most importantly NERDTreeTabs plugin. As well as other useful stuff like Ctrl-P. It's a good setup. Not perfect; it's still fundamentally a 30 year old editor and it seems like something's wrong not to be able to take advantage of all of the great features in IntelliJ's tools, but text editing is still the highest priority when coding.
A worthy project, to be sure, but the networking guy in me hears "space" and immediately starts worrying about the latency. Does anyone know if there's technical data available on the standard network metrics of this solution (latency, packet loss, jitter...)?
Ethics Aside, Is NSA's Spy Tool Efficient?
c++ will have internal error. Could you check it out?

Error:
{"code":"InternalError","message":"Invalid regular expression: /^/root/docsets/feeds-master/C++.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/?.*/: Nothing to repeat"}
What does your cat do when you're not around?
Honestly, I don't mind. If just googling that is enough to get on a government watchlist, then chances are that everybody here is also on it.

It is kinda relaxing, actually. Like the man on his way to a gulag in Doctor Zhivago, it is the only way to be truely free.
As I said in my post this is me being hopeful - I don't actually think it would work that way unfortunately. Ideally in your scenarios people would be able to release their own source data from their glass (or whatever) to provide context. The constant surveillance would be able to debunk all the stupid arguments against being gay, such as they lead deviant lives etc...; someone would be able to show a normal boring day coming home and having dinner with their partner and then falling asleep in the bathtub like everyone else.

The idea is that in a society that is basically completely honest and open no one will hold a "moral high ground" so it would basically be impossible for information asymmetry and thus natural variation would ensure that there is no "norm."

Again this is all hopeful, if doubtful.
>What he says about the picture of the USA during the cold war, that's what we all thought around the world, especially in Germany. A few people criticized the imperialism, but most people just saw the USA as an example of how the free world should function.

A few people? Speak for yourself, or maybe Germany, but surely not for "throughout the world".

Well, West Germany was the pet child of the US, to serve as a counter-weight to USSR's influence in East Germany/Europe. But even there, there was tons of popular anti-US sentiment. And even more so in places like Italy, France, Spain, Greece, etc etc.

Not to mention that during the cold war, most of third world and developing countries were anti-US, from Africa to Asia to Latin America. And they have had very bad experiences from the US military and diplomatic influence to justify them too, from toppling Mossadegh to being in bed with Pinochet, and from the Vietnam war to supporting Death Squads in El Salvador.

So, "most of the world"? I beg to differ.

Actually, there were two sentiments. People digged American popular culture (rock music, folk, blues, movies, books, the activism, etc etc) and disliked American policy and interventions.
Agreed. This looks like a lot of fun. My company (a traditional swag distributor) is working on an ecommerce site at SwagExpert.com. It's being built using real-time data on almost a million products (including apparel) that comes from an industry provider's API.

I like how this not only provides the product data but a mechanism for manufacturing and fulfillment as well. Very clever.

Good to see you here, Frank. We met a few months ago at SXSW and I rock the shirt you gave me regularly.
It's not baffling when you consider Jersey Shore and Honey Boo Boo.
My question: Is there actually anybody prepping talking points for pundits who oppose these pro-government spying ideas? I suppose there are already few think-tanks working on opposing ends, but these tend to be "slightly" partisan (Cato, etc). Is the EFF active in these kinds of policy circles?
This is a really beautiful solution to an obnoxious problem. If you aren't adverse to the idea I think you should add some share links to get some viral traffic I know plenty of non hners who would use this.
Apple to Bring Official Game Controller Support to iOS 7 and OS X
Works on my Firefox/Ubuntu 12.04
There is only one cloud icon in the entire universe (2011)
Google and Facebook are not intelligence agencies.
> The German people seem to care most about personal freedom

That may be the case, but they still don't manage to get rid of their corrupt CDU/CSU politicians who are also most active in implementing US- and US-friendly policies in Germany.

My belief is that with proper education, people would find out on the long run how governments should behave and what policies should not be tolerated. But for some reason, education is no longer a priority for these governments, I wonder why...
I'm not sure they've thought through the effects of creating that many more consumers and producers to compete with - especially when service industries, services that can be delivered at range, are becoming so dominant. This seems like the sort of thing that's going to force down the price of labour again.

I don't see the percentage for developed countries - seems maladaptive.
I did not mean to imply that. But even if I did, quality is a subjective measure.
Would Xbox even exist? The Xbox 360 certainly wouldn't, because the 'Entertainment' division was subsidised by the rest of Microsoft. It was only 3 years into the war against Wii and PS3 that the Xbox 360 started to win and then Kinect blew all else out of the water.

The cash helped make that possible.

On the downside, it's a shame the Microsoft Courier tablet was killed just before the iPad was released.
"The odds of Facebook handing over your data to a government agency are similar to the odds of dying from a shark attack or lightning..."

The odds can only be determined by how many requests they rejected. If they approved 100% of the government's requests, then the odds of them handing over data requested by the government are notably higher than lightening or shark bites. All they're waiting for is the request.
Indeed. Virtualenv support is fantastic: have a virtualenv dir already there? No problem, PyCharm will detect it. Want to create a new one? Why, let PyCharm do it for you, it will even install packages!

The only outstanding gripe I have is the lack of full PyQt support in the autocompletion / intelligent import features. I know it's a hard problem and there are hacks, but if they could fix it for good it'd make it The Only True Python IDE for me.
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> And if you're wondering why they don't just strap a GoPro camera onto a rock to see what's going on, scientists returning to the site over the years have calculated that the rocks move for short periods of time, just once every three years. That's a bit longer than your battery's likely to last.

Stick a solar panel on it to charge it up then. Christ >_<