skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us had heard about Binney before, but the other guys back up many of the same claims.

Binney's take on what they'll do to Snowden.

"Binney: First tortured, then maybe even rendered and tortured and then incarcerated and then tried and incarcerated or even executed."
Typecasting boolean values in Ruby
Indeed. I think Google is a better place for people that make their own rules than for those that blindly do everything they're told.
I do. I'm suggesting that will probably be the justification, regardless. What is treason and what gets treated as treason can be two different things.
Snowden documents show Britain ‘spied’ on G20 delegates, reports Guardian
Manning was a soldier and faced the military justice system, which is necessarily harsh. With Schwartz, we'll never know what kind of shake he would have gotten--a judge never even got to hear his plea.
> It's old news - it's been done to find internal document leakers for years - I believe even in typewriter days.

I knew it was an old technique but I had not thought about it being that old.

If you have any idea of where you heard this I would be interesting in knowing.
If you have a specific position in mind, I would suggest trying to meet with the PhDs. They often have work that needs to be done, but are unable to do it themselves. I was interested in molecular biology about 10 years ago and was able to get jobs working alongside PhDs in a lab environment because they needed a programming lackey.
anything for the grant dollars!
I think you are significantly overestimating how much knowledge is necessary to do these things. This course does not claim to prepare you to be able to work anywhere near the current level of technology, it claims to teach you enough to construct a Tetris game starting from NAND gates. I can assure you, that Attanasof (inventor of the electronic digital computer) would have killed to have a resource like this.

To go with your specific example of compilers. Why would people need to learn enough to be able to conrtibute to GCC to get anything out of this course. GCC is the leading open-source compiler; knowing enough to contribute is overkill.

To give an example from personal experience, I, over the course of a weakened, wrote my own operating system from scratch, without having had any formal training in Systems design. I have no doubt that my system would collapse under the weight of doing anything remotely close to what we would expect a modern system to be able to do. The only reason I was willing to risk running it on bare metal was that I had an old, semi-broken, laptop that I didn't care about. But I still learned a lot from the process.

In terms of including it in an comp. eng. program, it seems like it would fit in well as a 101 course. It provides a big picture of how everything fits together, and a first look at all of the topics will help enough when you go to learn them in depth that it seems like it could be worth the time investment.
There is still a problem with opt-in in that most people are not cognizant of the risks and so are unable to make an informed choice.
In Angular, there is a powerful concept called services. Services are used when you need to share data between controllers, like your example. Angular services are guaranteed to be singletons, but instead of passing references around, you use dependence injection instead. Ember is fun and kids like it, but grown ups appreciate the superior design in Angular.
SF people have to stop quoting the weather.

SF weather is awesome: ~50-75 all year round with specific neighborhoods that stay warm and sunny all the time if you're into that sort of thing. Heavenly compared to Pittsburgh, Boston, NYC, or DC.

The summer's are miserable with fog. It's as annoying as snow or sleet.

Bizarre claim. Also, avoiding fog is simple: move to a different neighborhood.

And let's not forget that DC during the latter part of summer is swamp-like, with high humidity and 80-90 degree weather. The city largely shuts down in August.
It's probably not that much effort. It seems like the hardest part is picking unobtrusive flex points.
"I just went around saying, “The landlord has the blues,” and blithely fell into the future."
If you control-f, there's squabbling at length below about the fact that they don't cover k-maps, k-maps aren't important, etc.

Or you're being sarcastic. I'd hate to assume that, but someone did go through and downvote all of my posts.
> You can't represent cost:threat ratio as dollars per person tracked

Sure you can. If you're only using the program to track 300 people, the average cost is the total cost divided by 300.

As you point out, there is a very small risk of dying from a terrorist plot is low. So if we're spending so much money and only tracking 300 people, there is clearly a problem.
Citations that back up JVM's excellent post:

The Gated City - Ryan Avent (on how restrictive zoning and NIMBY policy has ruined San Francisco, Washington D.C. and other American cities)

http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005...

The Rent Is Too Damn High - Matt Yglesias,
(Similar to the Gated City in content)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO...

Triumph of the City - Edward Glaeser (on how cities are better than suburbs for their inhabitants, how cities foster innovation, how slums are not as terrible a thing as they seem, etc.)

http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Health...

The High Cost of Free Parking - Don Shoup (on how free parking (and free roads) distorts the market, causing an excess of driving and distorts the construction of cities. It also goes into other market distortions such as mandatory garage spaces, which end up as car subsidies, which ruin the layout of cities in the long run.)
I thought that I was the only person that considered that a possibility.
Angular went open source before it turned into 'official google'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS#Development_history
Really? We covered the Soviet space program in 3rd grade in NYC public schools in the 80's. Maybe the teachers were playing up space stuff because of the Challenger disaster, but I'm shocked that you never heard of him!
And the marines and the army are agencies precisely designed to kill foreign nationals. Would it be a "proper use" for them to target diplomats attending a conference?

You left out one important distinction -- that the thing they are designed to do constitues an act of aggression or at the very least undermines trust. These are supposedly allies.
Part of the problem is that it so many of the tools available have tracking embedded in them. The mozilla guy who posted about how this came to be hit on it - they used a service for email that tracked by default and made it difficult, if not impossible, to disable the tracking.

This situation is the inevitable result of an industry that is built on advertising dollars. All of the tools are designed with that in mind and they crowd out tools that don't support that business model.
The tabs being in the title bar, I guess
Having a email-specific link is not aggregate data; that can potentially be used to identify the user. Aggregate data would be a campaign-specific link that doesn't identify the user, such that a click from any person looks equal.

In double checking, at least it appears that they don't do this for some of their mailing lists; the mozillians.org stuff appears to have unmolested links.
It should not be called "UI7Kit"

UI is a reserved prefix by apple

YKOUI7KIT or U7IKit would be more appropriate
The game Set would appear at first glimpse to be the same sort of raw-horsepower IQ test.

And yet, skilled players are substantially better than unskilled players. They also tend to be formidably intelligent people, but any game may be gamed.
On the other hand, 9/11 apparently resulted in a four-week drop in the UK suicide rate.
Slowly inching towards treason territory. He's now leaking documents on specific operations that would be 'typical' of any spy agency.
Ah, but if you're actually motivated there's nothing stopping you from going as deep as you want into any of the topics. There's never an excuse for "wasting" a semester.

Coursework is the minimum, not the maximum.
Good People Do Amazing Things
Huh? For the record, I have not been bothered by these programs under either of the past two administrations, but if you don't like national security surveillance programs, you should be mad at the President. He could absolutely order any of them stopped tomorrow.

And short of cutting funding for intelligence agencies generally, it's not clear that Congress could order the executive to stop or start such a program, any more than they could order the President to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
They know where to look. You don't. You'll be throwing up a lot of chaff in places they aren't looking in the hopes of catching where they are looking in the crossfire, which is an approach that will lead to a degraded book.

You can mutate the hell out of the paragraph I just typed, but if you don't know that the only bit I've hidden in that paragraph was "chaff" vs. "noise", you may not hit a thing that I'm looking for. And bear in mind that's two short sentences; if they hide enough of these things in there, they'll have plenty of leftover bits to track you down.

columbo's idea is much more solid. It directly identifies the changes, and while it's not even all that challenging to put enough bits into these books to identify which 3 books the pirate copy comes from[1], you are making much greater strides towards defeating the DRM. And if you learn enough from the comparisons to begin reverse-engineering the algorithm, you may be able to entirely defeat it. ("Aha, they always treat "fire" and "flames" as one bit, I'll just use the same one all the time." String enough of those together and you win.)

By the way, to any who might question whether students would do this... I used to work on a learning content management system primarily used for highly randomized physics problems. It is absolutely staggering what students will do to cheat. They'll happily generate Excel spreadsheets fully exploring 48 permutations of a problem, each of which may be missing a random 2 out of 5 variables to be solved for, and share it far and wide. Though whether the utility of "not being caught pirating" rises to the level of "hope to score with members of the desirable sex by helping them cheat through a mandatory class" (the only possible motivation I can imagine for some of what we saw) is dubious.

[1]: In fact I'd consider it an obvious elaboration to also fingerprint other information into the books, such as destination University, and so on. Basically you're encoding a bit string into the books; you can do all the usual things you do with such bit strings, like parity, encoding various bits of information, etc. It's just steganography being put to a new use, and we know that can encode arbitrary information with arbitrary characteristics.
The Dark Side of Python Decorators
Invisible changes are trivial for a pirate to undo (once they know what is going on). With visible changes, the pirate would have a significantly more difficult time to erase the watermark. My guess would be that, with only a single copy, he would have to destroy the contents of the books a huge amount to hide himself, where as the publisher would only need to destroy a very little amount.
Step 1: Get a PhD.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Profit!
Sorry I think I got distracted, accidentally pressed enter while tabbing through pages, and never finished my thought. I totally agree with your point about nostalgia.

I was going to say that we need to adopt a new understanding of what it means to be free.

Maybe most people care more about security than freedom from surveillance or government corruption. If this is what they want, then this is what they'll get and if we're going to talk about being free we need to redefine freedom so that it reflects the unrestricted flow of information instead of arbitrary "endowed" rights, which aren't rights at all if we don't want them.

The Civil Rights movement was a struggle of a minority against a majority for rights that were rightfully theirs. Today, the majority is handing its rights over on a silver platter to the security/intelligence agency. I think we are less free.
What if someone steals a copy of my file, then uploads it to TPB? Now do I get sued for millions?

Am I presumed guilty, since it's clear there's "evidence" to show that I was the source of the now widely spread copy? Do I now have to prove to a judge that I actually didn't upload that file to TPB?

Guilty until proven innocent?
Lots of China-related articles being posted to HN today, from a non-hacker publication.
I actually think there were people who got Twitter from the early days. Mostly people who had studied social network and online communities in the early '00, when everyone was making them. It just wasn't necessarily interesting from a technical or business perspective until much later.
You have two choices. Work at it, get to be an architect, be the guy that people defer to for decisions, be in charge, and decide your future. Or leave and do a startup, especially your own startup.
Firstly, is this about the tactical objective, or what you'd do if you managed to get there?

If it's just the tactical objective, you'd need to find someone on the inside who would be willing and able to convince everybody else that you were the person for the job - and that includes the HR end of things as well. It would be easier, actually, for that person to sell a new position than to get you into a position which has the requirement of a PhD.

If it's the long-term you're considering, though, some of the other posters have pointed it out: you don't acquire the skills simply by reading about the subject (although reading about the subject is an immense part of the PhD). You must also contribute something to the subject, in a particularly rigorous manner - that creation, in other words, will be measured not simply by its outcome but by the process used and the documentation of that process produced.

The PhD isn't about understanding a field (that's a Master's). Rather, it's about understanding how to conduct research in a particular field, on top of having that mastery of the field. What you're seeing when you read papers is only the content of the field, not the process by which that was generated.

You have essentially said, "I've looked at a lot of paintings, and I really like paintings, and I know about different styles of paintings" ... but you have not painted.
Doing events at a cafe with a good barista and a coffee tab instead of a bar tab sounds awesome.
As does the eradication of mediocre (or worse) food & drink, and useless bags of landfill.
Thanks Beagle, and I appreciate the sentiment and goodwill behind your comments.
I remain optimistic, however irrational that seems. Big Finance is oriented to Big Data crunch-and-run processes as you describe. A highly non-linear, inclusive, non-backtested approach can't be even imagined within that paradigm.
With respect to open sourcing,, well I don't think I personally have a choice. I can't do it all by myself, don't want to work on a 1000-core backtest platform. But I'm finding lots of talented hackers that share my views and want to give this a go.
Is there any hard evidence that ES is actually in Hong Kong? It seems to be widely accepted that he is, though I'm not familiar with the evidence in favor of this claim.
Not entirely true. It's been done in movies for a few years now, to track down leaks from theaters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_Anti-Piracy

Of course, movies and books are probably opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to artistic integrity.
It's annotated via crowdsourcing, if you have something to say on subject - here you go:

http://news.rapgenius.com/President-barack-obama-remarks-on-...
http://news.rapgenius.com/United-states-foreign-intelligence...
http://news.rapgenius.com/Apple-google-facebook-yahoo-micros...
http://news.rapgenius.com/Google-denial-of-prism-cooperation...
Interestingly, this would allow the publishers to see how many people are the source of leaks, assuming the leakers don't just do the obvious things to circumvent the watermarking.
This is more of treating the symptom(s) and not the problem(s).

Regarding DRM in general, it exists to prevent piracy, and piracy exists because content is easier to obtain, consume, and share through these 'illegal' methods.

If prices came down, accessibility went up, and shareability is embraced, piracy will fade into the background, and the remaining people doing it will be unjustified in their actions.

If content creators and distributions embraced a system that benefitted the consumers everyone would be better off, but they are years (if not decades) behind the times.
In the 19th century?
The commentary about swapping SIMs and fast 'net puzzles me. If someone in Snowden's position wants to avoid tracking, given the leaked information that is the very reason he is wanted, I would think the safest tactic is to eschew personal devices and 'net usage entirely.
I think Snowden didn't have a lot of choices of places to fly to from Hawaii, where he was last based.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854562

Some of the rationales for being in Hong Kong we see attributed to interview statements by him sound like statements by a person who knows a lot less about east Asia than he thinks he knows. In the six years that I lived in east Asia, all spent there after first learning the history, language, and culture of China thoroughly by university studies and independent reading and participation in foreign student clubs before going over, I grew quite tired of instant experts on Asia who can't even speak any local language. Snowden made the move he could make when he decided to leave his employment at Booz Allen Hamilton, but it's not clear that his move was "brilliant" or even very thought out at all.
I can't say I object to people who probably have access to lethal weaponry being required to have a minimum level of intelligence.

But I'm not a gun advocate.
Britain Spied on G-20 Delegates
> The fact that Google is backing AngularJS is a nice bit of reassurance

Really? google frame ? google reader ? (...) they dont give a f..

While Angular is quite complete feature wise , the UI responsiveness of a AngularJS application is not that great. At least that's my personal experience.
Your 'kids vs grown ups' comment just makes me want to learn Angular that much less.

(I will look into exactly what Services are, thank you.)
There have been plenty of people over the years who have requested asylum from the US.

It's not a new thing.

Actually I'm not aware of any point in US history where an NSA employee could leak information to foreign journalists and not face charges.
You don't understand the power of directive till you actually use them.
This is bad programming, period. It has very little to do with frameworks.

If somebody is inclined to stick raw POST data into an SQL query, a framework isn't going to save him. Maybe an ORM will, but ORMs are only a small part of what we call frameworks nowadays, and any ORM that allows custom SQL still leaves plenty of room for a lazy developer to shoot himself in the foot. Similarly, a framework won't prevent you from sticking raw POST data into an exec() call. Most frameworks don't even care about those shell functions, they're so heavily focused on providing a smooth CRUD experience.

On the other hand, if the argument is that someone who knows how to use a proper framework is likely to be a better programmer than someone who doesn't, I agree and I'm sure that such a correlation can be easily proven.
You have to start with a proper definition of "coolest technologies".
"...have in common?"

Interesting phrasing or interpretation of a harmonic-pathological street protest violent process:

"resonance of resistance":

"social struggles in one place in the world transcending their local boundaries and inspiring protesters elsewhere to take matters into their own hands and defy their governments in order to bring about genuine freedom, social justice and real democracy..."
I haven't seen much from CD on PRISM: got any links?
Sex with a social conscience
Woz: This is not my America
So... exactly like the US?
A new form of evidence doesn't necessarily mean the end of the "reasonable doubt" standard (at least in the US, I don't know how other countries phrase things).
Snowden is not proficient in Chinese, no way. (I am, by test.)

As Confucius said, in one of his most famous take-downs, "始吾於人也、聽其言而信其行、今吾於人也、聽其言而觀其行。At first in dealing with people, I would hear their words and trust their deeds, but now my way of dealing with people is to hear their words and observe their deeds." We'll see what appears about his planning and his view toward China and a lot of other things about him as he continues interaction with news media and the governmental authorities of various governments.
Your theory is sound except for one little problem: the Bay Area's transportation system is fucked. FUCKED. Completely, utterly, irredeemably fucked. BART is a joke, MUNI is like a fevered bad dream, Caltrain woefully inadequate.

A little hyperbolic, I think.
5 Mentors I've never met …
And state gaming commissions are issuing directives to make it clear that Google Glass shouldn't be allowed.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/06/casinos-ban-gamblers-...
Achieving a PhD is about learning and understanding the world around you via science and reason, even if only a small part. In that sense, by the very definition of a PhD, it's holders are almost surely intellectuals. holders are intellectuals. Here is google's definition:

in·tel·lec·tu·al·ism

Noun
1. The exercise of the intellect at the expense of the emotions.
2. The theory that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from pure reason; rationalism.

It might be more accurate to make the hypothesis that there is an anti-phd and anti-education sentiment here on HN rather than an anti-intellectualism sentiment.

Your post is a good example of this. First you set up your own definition of 'intellectualism' in a way that most PhDs fail. Namely, you imply that intellectualism involves breadth of knowledge. Then, you go on to claim that most PhDs are not intellectuals, but of course you and presumably your non-PhD social group are intellectuals. Why do this? I've seen others here setup different sorts of scenarios to try to claim PhD holders are somehow inferior.

A common one that has been put forth several times here on HN involves a hiring manager setting up a situation where they underpay prospective PhD hires by a huge margin. So much so that they pay them less than non-PhD hires. Naturally, being so at odds with actual market rate for CS PhDs, this results in only the very worst possible candidates: those who didn't get a professor position and further didn't get into one of the many high paying jobs. They heroically conclude that in their experience all PhDs are useless.

This is really not a nice part of HN.

Let's go back to the original comment about "having a PhD" correlating with a lack of independent thought. Again, one of the very requirements of a PhD is that it must be produced from independent thought. It must be your own work, not that of your advisers, and even more so, it must be novel, not something you might have learned from others.

You can argue with the effectiveness of enforcing this, but in my experience it really is something that is thought of during PhD defences. Claiming that the reality of the situation is the complete opposite of this is an extreme claim that Rachel didn't back up in the slightest.
It's more about merging the tabs and the window title bar together (and putting contextual menus and navigation items underneath)