skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of macros either, which is why I've ended up implementing hybrid C data structures, with the logic in functions, and some optional type helpers in macros:

https://github.com/pmj/genccont

Anyway, these are largely intrusive and don't do reference counting, but that can be seen as an advantage or disadvantage, depending on the situation. (I use these heavily in kernel code) The hash tables (chaining and open addressed linear probing) use function pointers to be type-generic, which might not be to everyone's taste either.
You are speaking these words as a matter of fact but you couldn't be more wrong. Government have access to this data by law when it's by a court order. Why is the first defence statement made that it's not done on US citizens? Because government will be pulled in court for this. And make no mistake, US companies can be pulled in court over this in foreign countries. So don't make flying statements like 'it was lawful' without understanding how court and executive branches balance each other.

I agree with your point about existence of such algorithms. But we can certainly improvise. What you have written here is like saying that Facebook is just a message board. Of course, technologies exists. It's about how to utilize them and make them easily accessible. And again, there's no framework to force any communication channel. There's no law that data stored on servers cannot be encrypted.

If it is lawful then there's no reason for Snowden to run and hide. In fact you are insinuating that what he has done is unlawful.
I hope it covers "Debug with breakpoints in Scala for the browser".
How to process Landsat 8 images on the command line
I like innovation but Google is getting too powerful and I don't want to see an Umbrella Corporation in the next 20 years.
If only someone would make real-life versions of those flip-open communicators from Star Trek TOS. Maybe someone at Motorola could do that.

Or, on the subject of Snow Crash, if only someone would make that thing in Snow Crash called Earth. (Though if they did make it and then Motorola bought it, I expect they'd name it Motorola Earth, which sounds dumb. Unless someone bought Motorola first.)
What sheer and utter apologism.
See - isn't that horrible that we have to watch what we say or google because the government might take it the wrong way? I mean sheesh, that is just crazy and the whole problem with this mess in a nutshell. It's the TSA but with scary super-powers. The TSA gropes you physically, the NSA gropes you in every other way.
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I've been doing that for years (Opera was first with this functionality), but simply being setting DDG to the default search versus having to configure all those different keywords, saves me SO much time.

If it was just my desktop, and for some reason it only had one browser, okay. Customization is always cool. But I use too many different computers with too many different browsers in too many different locations that DDG's !bangs makes this really convenient and portable, getting the fast browsing workflow I'm used to in just a few clicks.
Unzipped nanotubes unlock potential for batteries
What kind of work got you $500 per hour ?
I am also a designer and my style is also pretty much flat. However we all know its not new, I never knew it was called flat, I thought it was minimal design or whatever.

In last few months all I see is FlatUI in news & the way its changing everything. It is all hype, without understanding some associate it with anything they see "minimal" now, to the extend of saying iOS7 is flat design.
Microsoft joins Facebook in FISA disclosure: 7k requests implicated 32k accounts
because might defect to China which is complete speculative BS

It's no BS, but it's our (USA's) fault if he does. Faced with no better choice he may decide that doing what pleases China beats a lifetime of Bradley Manning prison treatment.

USA should've bit the bullet and offered him immunity if he stopped leaking and surrendered himself at a US Embassy. That might have been the best of both choices, despite setting a bad precedent. The interesting part is that China gets all his info if they arrest him (or sneak in his room.) I hope he encrypted it and that China cannot decrypt it. I suspect that hundreds of agents from all major secret services are following every step of his. I'd bet every penny I have that every secret service worth their salt knew where he was since day one.
"But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access."

Those two-thirds can't see Google Ads then :).
Actual sources:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/713590-fisa-business...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/713592-nsa-internet-...

They're pretty much just defending that it's legal, which I think we can all sadly admit is true. I just don't think it's right, our government should not be keeping that kind of records on its citizens, or anyone.

Please, write to your senators, not all of them are convinced. If you are a foreigner, write to your legal representatives expressing your concern. If we are loud enough our government will listen. I believe that our government still listens to its people, but if we don't take action in democracy, our voice will be lost.
You mean like http://scalagwt.github.io/samples/Showcase.html?
+If a company uses their profit (e.g. from ads) to provide and finance something as extremely useful and important as free internet access to developing countries - then yes, that's totally fine for me.

Depends how they make that profit and at what expense to competitors, users, society... Would you have felt the same about Microsoft's profit in the 1990's?

A more extreme example: What if Blackwater, Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, Booz Allen etc fund soup kitchen's for the poor?
Why is there a difference if this is old or news?
I can't help but thinking, bring internet to everyone, so we can spy on everyone.
Although I think this initiative is nothing less than totally awesome, I wouldn't want Google as my ISP.
Is there a way to use your own domains with Leemail (or alternative services, if any)? I'd love a way to be able to shut off addresses when a provider's email database gets hacked. Right now I'm just making do with a Google Apps catchall.
I agree with all your points (long-time couchsurfer with 6 vouches, 42 references, all positive from an even mixture of hosts, surfers, and friends). However, I will say from personal experience, it seems that women have a much easier time getting responses on couchsurfing. I'm not saying it's more useful for women, just that men appear to be more likely to initiate interactions with women and respond to women. My best friend (who is female) and I just moved to Portland, OR, and both of us posted to the Portland couchsurfing group within a month of each other, with slightly different messages but a general theme of interest in meeting Portlanders. I received no responses, and she received 4 or 5 (all from men, who wanted to show her around, meet for coffee, let her know the good spots, etc). She has never hosted or surfed (except with me when I arranged it), and has only one positive reference, no vouches and a less than descriptive profile.

I'm not even insinuating that these men all have ulterior motives. I believe that there are studies that have suggested that women are perceived as more approachable and less threatening than men, and that could be the principal at work. Regardless, I do think there is more to it than just faulty observations on the part of men who may be overlooking the completeness of their profile, though that is a possible contributor to these observations as well.
This could also be used to achieve low-latency network access in passenger aircraft over the oceans.
There's reason why they extended it (Enhanced Extended Range). It was only technical limit due TDMA timing advance. It had nothing to do with the actual signal reception strength / transmission power required. So in 800 MHz range 120 kilometers should be well achievable with 2 W transmitter.

"GSM has a fixed maximum cell site range of 120 km, which is imposed by technical limitations. This is expanded from the old limit of 35 km."
The solution is, of course, for Google to build lunar fusion reactors to make helium and power the Earth.
This is actually due to the low amount of water - very little of the greenhouse gas water vapour to keep the heat from radiating into space.
Are College and Career Skills Really the Same?
In the first video, yeah having a freakin kid tell you why the world needs to be connected and explaining concepts that he/she is having problem even pronouncing does make me﻿ wanna support this lunatic loon project so google can whore out the rest of the planet with their ads. Can't stop imagining how useful this will be to the #nsa
I'm using 33mail.com for this. It's great except its spam filtering is not perfect.
Current version of Scala is definitely superior to current version of JS in terms of quality of implementation. ECMA 6 is a different story.
With Woz We Stand
This is not news, I am not in the field and have known it for ages. So have cement makers that make specialized cement.

The immediate money will be in making a special liquid that can be sprayed in existing concrete building to make them last longer. If I'm building a 100 story tower in NYC, why spend, say x% more, when the building is likely to be sold 20 times in those 100 years? Now if I'm a state government with crumbling bridges, I'm extremely interested to make them last another 10-100 years.

They are many companies already like Penetron that have special solutions to stop water penetration. MIT, IIRC, figured out how to stop the chemical reaction in concrete, making it last a theoretical 16,000 years. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/creep-0615.html
Just an FYI regarding your documentation, of example GET requests (e.g., https://www.shirts.io/docs/quote_reference/)

You can describe GET requests as follows with cURL, which I find a bit smarter :-)

curl -G https://www.shirts.io/api/v1/quote/ \
-d "api_key=APIKEY" \
-d "garment[0][product_id]=3" \
-d "garment[0][color]=White" \
-d "garment[0][sizes][med]=100" \
-d "garment[0][sizes][lrg]=50"

In cases where you need to url-encode the parameter, you can switch out -d for --data-urlencode
Well, Google owned global balloon network is just too scary. I guess it doesn't have to be open-source if there's means to reverse engineer these things, and be sure that there's no way for Google to gather information or intercept the traffic.
In Europe i am hoping that Germany will lead the way. The German people seem to care most about personal freedom. If they can convince the government not to give in to outside pressure to take away more and more liberty it could become not only the economic but also moral leader of Europe.
Couchsurfing isn't just for finding hosts. Personally, as a long-time host I would choose to host people who seem to be more engaged with the community and have also hosted in the past, over someone who has a history of just surfing, any day. You didn't mention having hosted, which could be a big contributing factor in having a hard time finding a host (not trying to arrange hosting 1-3 weeks in advance may be another one). That being said, I agree with you that women on couchsurfing seem to have it much easier in many respects. However, to me, I let a CSer's history speak for itself. When people (male or female) have requested to surf with me in the past, there have only been a few times I've accepted if they hadn't hosted prior. It comes across badly to try to receive help from a community that you haven't shown an interest in contributing to.
Vim as a Python IDE, or Python IDE as Vim
So that they could conduct cyberwarfare ops and maintain deniability. Math is math. All of the cards are on the table, the code is entirely open. The protocol is designed in such a way that any of the in-transit nodes know fuckall about the messages source, destination, or content. There is no "the" exit node, anyone can operate one. Not to mention that there is nothing stopping you from encrypting the data going into the network in the first place. And If you think for a second that the military has some magical insight into information-theory that allowed them to hide a backdoor in a god damn protocol spec, then shit, they can probably factor large primes too, in which case modern crypto is broken.
Quantum algorithm verified - solving linear equations on a quantum computer
Oh they could also use them like bombs and drop them on the "bad guys". They just need to make sure they explode with enough intensity, imagine a shit ton of these "cheap" balloons (economy of scale + ad-supported) just falling out of sky, and exploding everywhere lolz
Using their rhetoric, if they have nothing to hide they don't have to be worried.
Because the American public simply doesn't care.

As a Brit this is the attitude the US is currently projecting.

Of course as a brit I suspect our programs are far more invasive than anything the NSA has cooked up (so far).
Palantir's PR firm must be working overtime figuring out how to deal with this. I don't think their prism is the same as NSA's PRISM, that's too much of a clever coinkidink, but they do make a big deal about selling their software to, working with, and being sponsored by the Intelligence Community and all the good and bad that comes with it.

No amount of cool looking track suit jackets or young upstart moxy can take away from the fundamental nature of who their customers are. This is the moment when they're going to have to grow up as a company and come to terms with what exactly it is that they're doing, and it's not just selling nifty software to good guy spies on our side.

If they got their panties in a bunch over a little dirty work from the US Chamber of Commerce, then to be consistent, they'd pretty much just have to give up their work for this.
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My guess is that this message is Wired asking Snowden for a chat so that they can get some kind of exclusive story. However, as others have pointed out, Wired magazine doesn't exactly have a good reputation when it comes to defending whistle blowers.
Lessig interview: For someone who grew up when I did nothing could be cooler...
Tor messages are disclosed only if the NSA etc. run enough of the entry/exit nodes. Simply passively recording Tor traffic might let you do traffic analysis, but won't let you deduce the contents of that traffic.
I may be on the edge but a "Trusted Platform Module" doesnt automatically let me conclude that indeed the hardware module is to be trusted.

It seems quite unlikely the masses would have access to a trusted platform of any kind, especially considering that any secure platforms for communication that have existed, like Skype, have been opened up. Even good old GSM (AS/1 was it called?) voice-talk encryption was designed with a backdoor in mind at the urging of NATO.
Would have been nice if they had released their training dataset
I wouldn't say I've understood this to be a rule.. maybe he just had the same impression of you that you did of him and was moved to do something special for you out of gratitude? I've had many surfers bring beer, and generally travel with a bottle of wine to offer to share my host(s) if they're into drinking. Some hosts make it explicit in their profiles that they expect you to do something for them, tidy up, cook them something, etc. which I think is really against the originally intended spirit of couchsurfing. I'd say that the rules on couchsurfing are the same as rules in friendship. You and a good friend may help each other out time and time again with things like moving, dogsitting, and advice. There are no 'rules' about what you should do for your friend or vice versa, and personally I have the best experiences with people who match my level of engagement or generosity without me expecting or asking for it. There's way too much drama between people who feel like they're being used in a relationship, and I think that stems from people having too many expectations of others. What I'm getting at, is that many people may have expectations of couchsurfers, as with any other relationship in life. But the couchsurfing community's only explicit expectations are good communication, honesty, and respect. I think the point is that people who consider obligatory gifts to be part of the experience are conflating ideas they've gotten elsewhere with the ideals of couchsurfing.
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You say those who ask persuasively enough, but we only know they've given data to governments, they are legally obliged to do so. I wouldn't say that's the same in any way as giving it to friends.
There was a particular case study I can't find that documented intense euphoria. To the point the subjects were borderline dysfunctional, like the rats with the cocaine dispensing lever experiment.
First of all, if you watched the slides, you just ran the first `hello world` Scala-js app in your browser. The slides use the scala-js runtime. Developer tools have scalajs-runtime.js at 1.7MB compressed and about 4s to download/execute, then about 1.5s on subsequent refreshes.

Now, having seen the talk at Scala days here are a few notes/thoughts:

This is currently the result of 4 months worth of work, and Sébastien Doeraene, the author of the slides and the code there-in, is going to be working on it at EPFL for the next 4 years or so for his doctorate.

This is being done by replacing the backend portions of the Scala compiler that emit java bytecode with ones that emit javascript.

When the slide showing that it is 16MB came up everyone laughed and the author acknowledged how large a number this is. It is the result of having to bring in the entire the Scala standard lib. He is planning to work on ways of cutting this number down.

At the end of talk Martin Odersky commented from the audience that this is an attempt by the EPFL at making Scala useable for large webapp development. If it proves successful more resources will put towards supporting it.

I plan to try this out for internal sites used by my company. Currently we split and then have to duplicate a lot of our code between Scala / Javascript. Scala for the server software, Javascript for frontends which are webapps. I haven't had time since I got back to do much more than clone the git repo.
I didn't mean to make an apology, just pointing out that the logic that is applied as "proof" isn't coherent proof at all.
I read it as "Does America need a Private Party?"
>There is no "the" exit node, anyone can operate one.

From what I understand an awful lot of them are run by the US government.
Isn't the problem about this PRISM and other similar schemes, due to economic reasons? I mean, hey! These companies have to have, a registered office in some country, if its a big country, you get direct political pressure, and if not, the small country is given a small compensation (big one for it) to get the things moving.

Now this pressure is somehow made possible thanks to the profit motive of these companies, because they have on the line tax structures, say facebook has Ireland (?), so the U.S govt may have used the option available to any govt in this case:

Declare it abuse of law

or

Declare it a clever strategy, they can't do anything about.

So a few heads are cleared, some resignations are made, few whistle-blowers emerge, and you have the perfect recipe of social outrage.
That would be damn interesting if during decryption it could exploit the decryptor software, PGP, and ping a server or two.

Is that possible? To epxloit a decryptor software while it is decrypting something.
I'd hesitate to use any of your existing regular-internet accounts over Tor. Start with a fresh browser.
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Is cyber spying New Zealand's new anti-nuclear issue?
Pundits Guide to Edward Snowden Fan Fiction
Respect for individual rights has been under attack for a long, long time in the United States. It didn't start with Bush, and it didn't end with Obama.
Lolz
Please remove this
How did german people,and specifically people who lived in soviet east germany or those close to them, treated online privacy and google/facebook etc, before the NSA scandal ?
The Racetrack is a dry lake bed. Which is to say, it's a lake but the water level is (usually) below ground level. Often only just. Along some parts of the road running along the edge of The Racetrack is a trench and there's often water visible in this, 6-12" below the lakebed level.

Moreover, the playa is at 3700 feet. The desert floor itself gets cold enough in the winter time, and the extra elevation only excacerbates this: adibiatic lapse accounts for about 3.5F cooling per 1000 feet, so Racetrack Playa would be 13F cooler than sea level.

Deserts, despite their reputation as hot places (and yes, Death Valley and the Racetrack can be quite hot in the summer months) are largely characterized by their exposure. Which means they can get quite cold in wintertime.
Funny thing is that google translates ZKA as CCC in the linked PDF.

ZKA is Zollkriminalamt (customs police) and CCC is Chaos Computer Club - quite different organisations.
I think you and I are privileged to live in relatively open societies, and to fit in well enough such that the worst that can happen is to be embarrassed for things we've done wrong.

But what about people in less open societies, and who don't fit what society thinks should be the norm? For a gay man in a more conservative place, the "honesty policy" may imply great physical harm.

And even if you actually fit in to the stereotype of the Good Citizen, what about misunderstandings? What happens if a clip of a few seconds gets taken out of context of a conversation (even by accident), which makes you sound like you support some terrible thing, helpfully linked to your name by Google's algorithms?
I hope that this doesn't also mean that running a Tor exit node puts you at risk of getting banned (from HN or elsewhere). I think the people running exit nodes are providing an essential community service, and I would hate to think this might be how they're thanked.
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Lowering the brightness actually makes it worse. It has nothing to do with brightness and everything to do with contrast. The older you get, the more contrast you need.