skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who was home schooled in a situation similar to that of the author (extremely beneficial, highly unstructured but with very accelerated learning pace) but who had friends & acquaintances across the spectrum of those described in the article I find this article and the respond in the comments on vice pretty troubling. There are parents who will isolate and brainwash their children regardless of where they receive their education. Yes, more hours at home means more isolation but the alternative of mandating some kind of "approved" educational process is not worth sacrificing freedom in educational choices.

While this article vividly describes a sub-culture that will be troubling to those previously un-exposed to it, it also manages to throw one of the most important and effective educational revolutions of the last 20 years under the bus. This revolution is that of parents taking their children's education back into their own hands and teaching their children at home. The internet has massively enabled parents in this revolution. Freedom in educational choices is one of the most important freedoms I can imagine especially in a country where education is as broken as it is in the United States.

The truth is that many home schooled kids are a little less socially refined in their earlier years unless their parents go to great efforts (as mine did) to involve them in social activities outside the home on a regular basis. However, of all of the home schooled kids that I knew growing up even the most isolated have managed to adjust eventually and I would argue that the majority of those I knew were receiving a superior education and went into the post K-12 years with many advantages over their public schooled counter-parts.

There is a strong anti-homeschool contingent in this country with a mix of motives and arguments against and I get very bothered by articles like this because of the misinformation and in-balanced perspective they propagate. Even though the author doesn't argue against home schooling directly or as a whole, it does reinforce stereotypes and ideas that are simply not the truth in the majority of cases. Read the comments thread on vice and you will see exactly what I'm referring to.
I find myself doing this a lot when sifting through huge codebases:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Hin <identifier>

The -print0/xargs thing is to get around spaces in filenames or directories. I don't think spaces belong in source files (or directory trees containing source code) for a gazillion different reasons, but I still stumble across it every once in a great while. There are also platforms where system directories have spaces in them, so if you're scrounging through a deep subdirectory tree trying to find something, you may have to deal with the spaces thing. I've been bitten by it enough times that I just always do this rather than have to think about whether or not I might need to do it every time I use find.

Depending on what I'm looking for, I might select files with -type, or a -name glob, or whatever. I use '-type f' most commonly because the source code I deal with has a fair number of interesting things defined outside of files with the standard source/header extensions in their names.

There's usually a couple pipe stages after this filled with 'grep -v <stuff I don't care about>', or more greps to narrow down the result set. Sometimes this all goes in shell scripts or sometimes I just type it all out.
Get a Visa card tied to your Euro or Swiss Franc bank account and then just use it like any other Visa card.
To be fair to Paul, this is his first term -- he's been in the Senate for a bit longer than 2 years now. So he certainly wasn't involved in decisions made "long ago".

That said, I generally disagree with many of his stances, and think you're probably right that a lot of what he does is fundamentally political.
Adaptively Controlling Apache Cassandra Client Request Processing
If he is in Beijing, I agree. Hong Hong is quite it's own place.
Get a forex margin account and buy EUR against the Yen?
You can't do much sensitive stuff without systems administrators knowing the secrets, unless you want to do the actual work by yourself.

To have access to all the stuff he has, he must have top-secret classification and he might be be part of few Special access programs (SAP). Having already classification and begin part of relevant SAP's when working in CIA/NSA might make him very valuable for private companies.
87 Months in Prison for Copyright Infringement: Fair Sentence or Utter Madness?
I have this banana in my ear to keep the crocodiles away.
We all have to die someday. Might as well die for something.
Nope, the Founders were ... supremely suspicious of the Federal court system they were creating (e.g. lifetime tenure is double edged blade) and explicitly allowed the Congress to override it. Wikipedia has this under the words of art jurisdiction stripping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction_stripping
I used this code and just replaced rand() with mt_rand() in PHP to get this: http://i.imgur.com/EvjKnsO.png

If you ask me, it is look pretty random.
China’s gaokao exams: every question counts
>I'm seriously concerned about the consequences...

Well, at the very least, don't bother sending your CV to Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, etc. Also, fuck these assholes. Seriously, is there anything worse than this?
Currency trading.
NSA Bombshell Story; Key Facts Turning Out to Be Inaccurate
While this is undoubtedly true for some senators, Paul seems like quite a poor choice of target for this criticism.

He has been very vocal in opposition of governmental encroachment on civil liberties during his senate term. He was, in fact, the last senator left in opposition to the extension of the Patriot Act.
Same story, in a bit different setting, and its a video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofb0BlBVOGE
True, but how can it be nationalistic industrial espionage when the technology itself was an American technology already, not a Belgian developed one?
"To any NSA / CIA / FBI / etc. spooks who are reading this - blow me."

It is easy to feel anger towards those we perceive as oppressors, but if this nascent movement (I hope it is a movement!) is to have any success, thoughts like these from Gandhi should not be forgotten:

Real noncooperation is noncooperation with evil and not with the evil doer.

Noncooperation is not a hymn of hate.

My noncooperation is with methods and systems, never with men.
Very much this (awesome reddit comment too). In OP's generation there seems to be an "I don't read" mentality among some. I don't know how pervasive it is, I only have anecdotal evidence, but if it's a thing, it's bad news.

People who don't read extensively are much more susceptible to accepting their current reality, no matter how bad it may have become in even a single generation, because they have no frame of reference that extends beyond their own limited observations.

A similar analogy is Paul Graham's "Blub Paradox" [1] - programmers who program with "Blub", at low end of the language power scale, can't recognize more powerful languages up the scale b/c they have no frame of reference for identifying and understanding the features that make them better.

In both cases, it's all about realizing how limited and narrow your default frame of reference is, and expanding it by broad learning - spanning long time periods, or spanning the programming language scale, as the case may be.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
there is also a network effect. The more people post support, the less likely that anyone posting support will get in trouble, AND the less likely it is that Snowden will wind up in trouble.
Oh, right. Congress can repass it, but provided the Executive branch respects the function and decision of the judiciary, the Supreme Court does have the final say over congressional acts that have been challenged.
Actually it's probably not a bad move. China is one of the few countries in the world that would conceivably refuse to extradite him and protect him from retaliation.

I think it's telling that Hong Kong is not in any way, shape, or form on the way from Hawaii to Iceland.
Rational, reasonable response. Kudos!

Thought experiment: imagine if half of these foiled plots had occurred. In other words, imagine if every 6 months or so we had a terrorist attack that killed a dozen people (and sometimes more).

Do you think the American public would take the HN line that it's still a very small number of total deaths, similar to the number of people dying from hot tap water? Or would they elect politicians with a very aggressive anti-privacy regime that would be "necessary" to eliminate these routine acts of terror?

At the end of the day, politicians are elected by the people, and I suspect that even the best politician would need to have a somewhat aggressive surveillance regime purely to avoid being replaced by someone who would throw caution to the wind in response to routine attacks.

I'm sure someone will respond that there are basically no real thwarted attacks, but I don't believe that. The Wikipedia article you posted reflects my sense of the frequency of attempted attacks. You can also claim that these attacks would have been thwarted without any surveillance, but that isn't my understanding of how law enforcement works in general.

What we should be pushing for is a far more open understanding, by the citizenry, of the scope of data collection and how that data can be used by law enforcement operations.
If the CIA can snatch and grab people from Italy, I'm pretty sure Chinese intelligence agencies can snatch people from Hong Kong hotels living under their own name.
All things aside, the naivety to think that China (and yes, I recognize Hong Kong is not exactly China, but it is damn well under the jurisdiction of the PRC) is where free speech is going to be defended? That's a guy who sounds like he will be a propaganda coup for someone.
I know why civilians control the military. But I think you have wrong idea about it. Politicians control top generals, but they do not control details of every military operation, and neither do you - so knowing the details of the specific operational planning of the army would not be very useful to you, unless you want you politician to intervene in specific operation planning - which would not be very good, as neither you nor your politician have the relevant knowledge. There can be situations where common knowledge is enough - e.g. if certain commander plans to kill all civilians in the city, you don't have to be in the military to know it's wrong and such commander should be removed - but such cases are very rare. Usually mass-casualty tragedies result from a set of very complex circumstances and varied set of coincidences and mistakes, and I'm not sure your politician will be qualified to figure it out.
They'll come get him in Hong Kong. I meant the Chinese.
I've stated in a previous comment on HN that i found it very curious to see that the thing blew up right when China's president visited the US to talk about cyber espionnage.

And now the guy says he's in asylum in Honk-Kong, and the reason he gives is that it's because they respect free spech and political dissidents (pretty much like the rest of China i suppose) !! ???????

What kind of a joke is this ??
He makes the point that a chief purpose is, to repurpose a previously-ridiculous term, "backtracing." They are all-having, but that says nothing about what they currently know, which, as the existence of surveillance practices in recent history shows, didn't help with respect to e.g. the Boston Marathon bombers.
Not to mention that he was only elected in 2010, well after a lot of this stuff had been implemented and reauthorized time and time again.
It's easy to blame PHP (edit: not that I think the author meant to suggest that PHP or Windows is at fault), but LCGs are quite common in standard libraries and really bad at this particular task:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#...
The last paragraph of your comment expresses a fear that is rational, but one that we need to abandon as a community. If we are afraid to even post support for a controversial cause on the internet, then we are already lost.

My father (who grew up in Communist Romania) has been warning me about all the stuff I post online for over a decade now... and the reason I keep doing it is precisely that.
Are you sure you're not conflating various types of SIGINTs here? We're discussing PRISM specifically. The article you linked does not even mention PRISM.
Vagrant vs Docker, what are some points to note when evaluating which to use?
I think Nicholas Carr made an interesting distinction in The Shallows about the usefulness of tools in the context of short and long-term memory (interesting even if I feel ambivalent about it):

"In freeing us from the work of remembering, it’s said, the Web allows us to devote more time to creative thought. But the parallel is flawed. The pocket calculator relieved the pressure on our working memory, letting us deploy that critical short-term store for more abstract reasoning. As the experience of math students has shown, the calculator made it easier for the brain to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory and encode them in the conceptual schemas that are so important to building knowledge. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas. The calculator, a powerful but highly specialized tool, turned out to be an aid to memory. The Web is a technology of forgetfulness."
Yes. I'd also recommend Inversions only after you've read some of the others - and start with Consider Phelbas (which for non-readers, is told from the perspective of a non-Culture citizen).
I feel this article probably paints an unfair picture of the south to many that may read it. Having grown up in the south I can relate to some of what it talks about (crazy evangelicals) but people at the extreme end of this are very much a minority.
Whatever your judgement about what to do is, the very fact that we have to start thinking about this is telling.
Can you put an example posting on the front page?
these are not mutually incompatible. Ever heard of idiot savants (I understand this is historically a derogatory term for autistic people).
I think that, if someone asks for a level-headed analysis of grad school, it is totally worth pointing out that an anecdotal response is from someone that has highly charged and divisive opinions about many things, especially institutional culture!

Also I'm pretty sure I've seen you say that you're proud of the fact that your perspective on life isn't typical -- so at least own that fact here.
I saw the video a few months ago, and it didnt make any sense to me. I didnt imagen Feynman as a guy that would go up to a stranger just to show off his math skills. The linked story makes much more sense!
Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again'
If the US government reads IT workers into the SAP programs then we really are doomed.

For now I'll stick with Occum's Razor - the guy had no idea what he was looking at and assumed the worst.
I think it's more spread out:

Frankfurt is heavy in the banking industry

Hamburg, Berlin and Munich are media and publishing hubs

Hamburg also has aviation industry, Berlin has most government agencies

Heavy industry and car manufacturers cluster in the south
What would be the highest level of anonymity one could achieve on the modern internet? How could you accomplish it?
Maybe he sees dampening the echo chamber as a sort of community service.
Yeah that part made me shutter, why the hell would he bring that up? Is he trying to bait the US Gov somehow?
The best work being done on the explosion in incarceration is by Marie Gottschalk, a professor at UPenn. She's done two great books on what has driven the increase in incarceration, and how the drivers of incarceration have changed over time (e.g. the War on Drugs was a major driver in the 1980s, but faded in importance relative to three-strikes and zero tolerance laws in the 90s).
Good point, I definitely agree that the rights of minorities need to be protected. Some problems with this idea are with defining what are rights and what constitutes child abuse, and what to do about abuse.

The extremes of social isolation that some of these kids endure falls on the abusive side of the line for me. I don't know what to do about that, it's a hard problem. Becoming less socially acceptable to behave that way among American adults seems like a reasonable step in the right direction.

To answer your question, I think it would also be best for the scientist parents children to interact socially with other local children in rural, bible-thumping Arkansas. If they wanted to home school their kids that is their decision to make. Humans are social animals however and a reasonable amount of real world social interaction is important.
Wait, people are just angry that they can't speed? Even cheating by a few miles an hour drastically decreases the chances that someone you strike will survive (http://humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm). Maybe nobody walks there...
Being a single founder is awesome. You have complete creative control, no concerns about later disagreements, a lot more equity, and you don't have to go it alone because you can always hire your co-founder as an employee.
When can we create multiple aws instances from the same vagrant folder?
He wasn't just a large-scale commercial software pirate (discarding the always-ludicrous damage estimates the DoJ comes up with, he plead guilty to taking over a quarter of a million dollars from his clients). He was also a fugitive: he fled the country and hid in Pakistan; he was apprehended trying to return to the US.

That could not have helped his sentence.

Of course, that detail is the lede of most of the stories I found about Naveed Sheikh when I saw this on HN, but nowhere to be found in this story. As usual, TorrentFreak doesn't want to inform you about current events; what they want is to whip up rageviews, which is how they make money.
NSA whistleblower goes public
How fast is this instruction? And how to access it with a C program in Linux?
If you use a VPN to connect to Tor, you can hide the fact (from your local isp) that you use tor.

If you use Tor to connect to your VPN-provider, you can hide your location from your VPN-provider.

Since your VPN-provider may have payment information from your creditcard it makes no sense to use a VPN and Tor together, its just a cascade.
Pretty sure the Chinese would want to know everything he does in exchange for that.
200k/yr isn't that high for an IT person with a serious classification. A decent TS/SCI sys admin can be make +300k working for companies that want secret government contracts. It does make them more difficult to bribe though.

There was no real access and audit control with Bradley Manning, just unprotected SAMBA shares that contained sensitive data but not Secret data. Top Secret systems do tend to have an audit trail (I think it is required along with encryption) but I would expect that such systems can be accessed at a lower level by IT. For instance pulling a backup drive and associated keys to recover lost data from a "malfunctioning server". IT often has to work at a level below the level that you places security safe guards at. I'd bet 1000 dollars that the foreign intelligence agencies have friendly IT workers at the NSA that give them full spectrum access.

tl;dr Either you have IT that can do their job or you have systems which are secure against IT, you can't have both.
Foucault described one of the purposes of the Panopticon is to internalize the state's power to discipline and punish the individual. Evidence of this is seen in a restraint of expression due to its possible repercussions.
My thoughts exactly. Foundation has always had a superior responsive grid layout, if for no other reason than it is embed-able within itself. To say nothing of their push and pull column classes.
This man is a hero. He stood up for America and now it's time for all of us to stand up for him. Nothing more to say.
The Crow Road is my favourite book. It might speak more to Scots – I don't know – but it's wonderful.
You're wrong where you're obsessed about the gold standard and inventing connections from it to anything and everything bad.
It's the day after the day you spend recovering from Hogmanay...
I always wondered: why use a grid system when it's essentially a table, which is already implemented in browsers and fits the purpose of grids perfectly?

Is it just because it's not semantically correct? Neither is a grid system.

Is it better for responsive designs?
So quick :(

I hoped he would have a bit more time to enjoy his newly wedded state.

Thanks for all the wonderful stories.
There is no level on anonymity, either you are, or you are not.

Addendum for achievement:
Connect to Tor from a public accessible network/wifi that is free from surveillance using a pristine installation and never use that network-device again.

Addendum 2: If you use the network device twice, you may achieve only pseudonymity.
It seems a reasonable choice to me. It's a technologically developed country which is unlikely to extradite him to the United States. His previous position at the NSA makes it unlikely he's stupid, and without knowing his reasoning for his choice, one might at least give him the benefit of the doubt.
Hoodie/Gloves/Sunglasses + Cash + Internet Cafe (or hacked WiFi not near you)
+ TOR or I2P
+ HTTPS

But then again the internet cafe could be watching you.. So maybe only on a hacked WiFi?
Greenpoint Shredder - speak into a black hole
If you do this, you should probably also use encoding declarations as per PEP 263 [1].

Or you could use Python 3 and stop worrying.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
Where you are wrong: bonds do not create purchasing power out of the air. They are effectively debt, no different than going to the bank and asking for a loan; that debt, by the way, has been more than repaid by every president since the end of WWII until Ronald Reagan. So, that's not true.

Where you are also wrong: it is also not true that this purchasing power is created "by creating money". That's an all too common fallacy from Economics 101. Sure, you have more money; but wages and prices increase too, so in the medium term, and disregarding major crises such as hyperinflation, et c., it all balances out. It's a common argument from proponents of the gold standard, and it's also false.

Where you are wrong again: most governments of the developed world also have many, many things in which to spend money constructively. Social Security. Education. If the public budget being spent on Wars on Whatever is an specific issue of the US, not of countries that abandoned the gold standard, then it's safe to say it has nothing to do with the gold standard.

Before you ask: most governments haven't had an explosion of the state budget; they've mostly spent that money in a responsible fashion. The current crisis is mostly because of private debt, not public debt (except in Greece), mainly in the housing industry.
The smears are yet to come, which may be the dominant source of information "the public" receives on the topic.
and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. It will be turnkey tyranny.

you hit the key point. You don't need to be much of a student of history to know that at some point there's going to be someone who's all to willing to abuse these powers.
Has someone been sentenced to decades in prison for DDoS attacks?