skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hong Kong also does not have a CIA/NSA/GCHQ/MI-6/MSS type agency. Your statement make me think Snowden saw the level of cooperation on the intel side and picked someone without a horse in the race.
I lived and worked in/around Central when I was in HK a couple years ago. HKCSL 3G data was unusably slow (I don't think cell towers handle extreme density well). I switched to Three and it was slightly better but still horrendous compared to T-mobile in SF or Rogers in Toronto.

I paid 50HKD/month for "50mbps" cable internet (some special deal at the time). What a joke. I got 50mbps torrenting and about 0.5mbps from anywhere outside Hong Kong.
Look, this thing again, it must be Sunday.
CUPS drivers are only used on OS X when there aren’t any official drivers made available by the vendor. That’s mostly the case for very old printers (pre-OS X or non-USB). With CUPS drivers, you can get a printer to work, but the experience is nowhere near as good as using official drivers. So no, printer support on OS X and Linux is not equal.
The Full Text of David Guterson's Controversial Commencement Speech
Duh. Why is this even a story?
Foggy mornings and evenings aren't rare even as far east as 3rd St, although it usually burns off during the day.
What do you mean? Have you ever used http://angular-ui.github.io/? These are all excellent in my experience.
Since Snowden, every day is like Sunday.
People would kill to pay $1500 a month in the tiniest studio apartment possible anywhere in the city.
included in dorms are water, heat, cable, internet and even toilet paper, light bulbs, furniture.
I wasn't familiar with the acronym but I've noticed a rise in that sentiment over the years.
Answer to the postdoc one: You can't.

People looking for postdocs almost always have a specific sort of funding and it is attached to the credentialing.
Pirate Party Australia
I've been checking out the TOS a lot more often lately, be it before or after signing up. A surprising number of sites have converted to readable bulleted lists in a language mostly resembling English. Unfortunately, it's mostly smaller sites and services whose terms will likely never matter to the average user. For the bigger sites that want your important data, you still need a legal dictionary, a pen and paper, and a glass of wine to get through.
The comparison between Drake and Cheney should be based on the metric of credibility to speak on these matters. Drake has military experience and has put his career and freedom on the line for public disclosure. Cheney actively avoided putting himself in harm's way, then sent people to their deaths, directly profited from it, and will continue to profit off any future militaristic endeavors the US pursues.

Cheney is defending the need for state secrets but has a proven record of benefitting from intelligence that has been obscured from the general public. Motive is extremely important here.
I think the discussion our society is having is important. I do not think we should spend time trying to score ancillary points because something is "fair game." Are Cheney's positions on PRISM really dependent on his service record? Would you be more inclined to agree and support them if they were put forward by Bob Kerrey?

More generally should we only elect candidates who have also served so that we can avoid having a CinC who sends soldiers to battle even though they did not serve? If Cheney had a legitimate 4F during Vietnam would you be more supportive of his decision to invade Iraq?
Samsung's S4 marketing charm wears off
>> All high end Linux laptops have driver issues, including ThinkPads.

That wasn't my experience with mine, so apparently at least one ran fine.
> in SF, summer is often colder than winter.

A common misconception, even among residents, easily debunked by paying attention or doing a quick Google search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;q=san%20francisco
There are a few good companies in Houston outside the energy industry. FlightAware is probably at the top of the list.

That said, there are huge software engineering challenges within oil. The work environment isn't what most here are comfortable with (especially Exxon and their accountability system shudder) but Houston's industries offer some extraordinary challenges for the taking. The largest medical center in the world as well as a growing financial industry offer a lot of opportunities in Big Data.

I would've stayed in Houston but I decided San Antonio had a more interesting startup ecosystem (Austin's not my cup of tea). Having TechStars and Geekdom here has really heated things up in past years.
Your point is wrong.

Let's grab a random dictionary. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unconstitutional defines it as, not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country. Note the "unauthorized by" bit, which is what we are discussing.

Also go to the wikipedia links I gave you earlier for the two cases of note, and follow the various references in those links. You'll find "unconstitutional" being repeatedly used in the manner that I describe - and not as you claim it is used.

In short if the courts rule that something is not allowed under the Constitution, people call it unconstitutional. And this applies whether their reasoning is that nothing authorizes the bill, or that the bill violates a specific protection in the Constitution.
Wtf? Every school girl and boy knows who he is and what he did.
Doesn't Linux technically have better hardware support than Windows, too? I've seen many laptops where a fresh install of Windows will be very broken until you load up the manufacturer's pile of drivers. Linux just has more useful built-in drivers, but I'd say that equals better hardware support.
Umm.. nothing in #1, #2, #3 or #5 requires any extra code.

If you're argument is about what Ember 'encourages' vs what AngularJS 'encourages', that is your opinion and not a weakness in the framework.

I think it's great you've taken some time to learn AngularJS, and I think if you dig a little deeper you will be pleasantly surprised with what you find.
China tried a "carefully planned economy," for decades and it resulted in mass death, poverty, stagnation for hundreds of millions of people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Einstein died before many of these crucial developments either had taken place, or were widely known in the West. Also, he was a physicist, not a philosopher or historian. He had neither the actual knowledge about the world nor a solid grounding in the humanities to guide his thought in that essay you cite.

Before you say that someone has a "naive point of view," you might want to try reading just a little bit of history. And not just from Marxist/socialist authors. There are other perspectives out there, and you might find that they explain the facts of history better than your current view, if you only bother to look.
I thought the article was about the DVD market, not the cinema.
So you are some sort of neo-aristotelian except instead of property ownership you think the credibility of people's opinions is based on years in uniform? Does Ellsberg get partial credit for being a policy analyst at DoD?
Can you elaborate on the interview part? I'm not sure I get it :/
Wha?

It's been official presidential policy since the first Bush administration and re-asserted under Clinton.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm is an example of a presidential directive regarding extraordinary rendition to the US. (Never mind the extraordinary rendition to countries such as Libya, Egypt, Syria, etc., used to circumvent legal issues regarding torture.)

There's plenty of historical precedent as well. Israel has many well-known cases of tracking Nazis down on foreign soil and rendering them for trial with US support and assistance. Eichmann, Entebbe, Munich/Operation Wrath of God, etc.

Once you get into 'universal jurisdiction', you'll discover violations of international law committed without the assistance of the country harboring enemies of our United States. Sometimes the US has worked around official channels, such as in the case of the Achille Lauro.
I wonder if we'll see a fracturing of the Internet. I live in Switzerland and I am already seeing reports in the news of companies moving/expanding data centers here. As someone that lives in Europe (but not EU thankfully) I will try to avoid sending too much info to the u.s.

yes, I know it's ironic that I'm posting this on a u.s. site.
PortKit: UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android
People pay for cable and it has ads. So do magazines, newspapers. EVERY form of media is ad-driven, whether you're paying out of pocket for it or not. Video games often contain ads for other games. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Nice, now I can read all those memos/meeting reminders from th e comfort of home.
It might not be the best idea to use a crypto solution which very likely runs on top of platforms built by companies which Snowden has demonstrated to be in cahoots with the NSA though.
I've always wondered if I delete the email, does it count as "no longer stored"? I should, as a user, reasonably assume so, but I know it's kept longer than that, probably indefinitely.
Some of my poorer relatives still live on subsistence farms. When I visit my grandmother she would kill a chicken and cook it for us.

as land values rise in these rural areas some people have become rich very quickly. People in my hometown have started to fence up land that was previously unmarked (and worthless). It's an interesting phenomenon.

Not sure what conclusions to draw from the video, just an interesting anecdote. Things are happening quickly in China, for better or worse - there are huge differences every time I visit.
It is significantly more involved (I don't know if I'd say difficult as this is tough to judge) for a PRC citizen to enter HK than it is for, say, a citizen of the USA.
Opt+E, C works fine in US Extended keyboard mode, which supports a lot more accented letters. US Extended is also required for writing in certain obscure Latin-based writing systems, such as Esperanto or Chinese Pinyin.
They claimed that they were imperceptible, bullshit. I see about 3 or 4 every time I see a movie in theaters. I see it, I notice it, and the fact that they were willing to disrupt their own content bugs me enough that I am unable to enjoy the rest.

As far as artistic integrity goes, it makes sense that the immense cost of a film being covered by the studio gives them quite a bit of say in the filmmaking process, for good or ill.
Morse code could work pretty well with a single LED.
Many companies that employ Data Scientists in NYC use R for their stats and ML work. While I personally prefer Python over R for ML related tasks, R does seem to be gaining traction in the private sector. I recommend ML for Hackers if you're interested in learning more about R - the author is very knowledgable and works as a Data Scientist for Facebook.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do
There was a democrat several years ago that wanted to put back the draft in place - e.g. mandatory military service. The idea was that since lots of republicans/democrats have kids and this would made them think again for going to war.
So did we, because it's not really open source, and most distributions won't accept stuff that uses it (fedora, debian, etc).
Thus, if you want to use it in anything open source that you actually want packaged, you need an exception.
They got the interviewee to write this browser extension as part of the interview. Smart.
Thanks for the comment from "the inside".

A note for folks who have not been to China before about the sheer scale of the "Tier 1/2/3" cities talked about here. When someone mentions Tier 3 in China, those are cities that are considered big enough to warrant calling a city, but too numerous to know all of them off the top of your head. A Tier 1 city for an American is like NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. For a resident of the UK, Tier 1 = London; France = Paris; you get the idea.

But here is the catch. In America, a Tier 3 city can be in a top-100 list by population, but still be relatively ho-hum and if not unknown, not exactly in the headlines every day. Take the smallest 10 cities in a top-100 list, like Chula Vista, CA, and arbitrarily draw the line for Tier 3 there. These cities barely crack 200,000 in population. In China, I found out Tier 3 "ho-hum" cities (rank 90-100 by population) have no fewer than 600,000 population. That blew my mind when I learned that, and put China's rural-to-city migration into perspective.

Now consider this young work force migrating en masse to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities due to pricing pressures in Tier 1 cities. If they have a critical mass of the right entrepreneurial factors in place, that's like over 100 Austin, TX (the brightest growth story the US can point to at the moment) popping up nearly simultaneously within the next 5-10 years. Pretty exciting times ahead.
Everyone is active in Hong Kong, and the Chinese military and intelligence organizations are the "home team".
Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls
Cool project, I've thought about doing something similar and bought a gumstix for roughly this reason before the Pis were out (although power is harder to figure out on Gumstix).

Slightly ominous line: "I have this plugged into an office somewhere."
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 I think.
Linux version 3.2.0-48-generic (buildd@komainu) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #74-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 19:43:26 UTC 2013

Running on a 13 inch MacBook Air.

There's a guide at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2
CryptoCat : Never Using
I doubt those people are coming to Beijing, it just can't take anymore people, and you have only a limited capacity for jobs and such. More likely they are going to 2nd/3rd tier cities where crowding/pollution issues are still severe, just not as bad as Beijing.
I haven't played with EmberJS too much, but read several times that debugging can get pretty nasty (the poster mentioned something about a run-loop if I remember correctly?).

Did you encounter similar issues or do you rely mostly on unit tests for debugging?
I think he's referring to the artificial security based on swapping SIMs into the same phone, since both can be tracked. In fact, with appropriate metadata[1], this could poison a number of SIMs and phones if they were ever passed between handsets and/or people.

Now I'm imagining the trouble one could cause with a cell-phone recycling bin at Best Buy.

[1] Yeah, I know.
I really should do a blog post about it - a short version is that we;

1. Quick technical screen via phone which filters > 90% of devs :(

2. Phone interview for work history / explanation of what we do / etc

3. Lunch / coffee

4. Hack for a day / half-day with the team on something completely new
I was being aggressive because I feel strongly that people like this man are supporting and being wishy-washy about Ember simply because they are afraid that they will look bad if they admit that Ember was difficult to use.

And I forgot that language like that simply was not accepted on this website unfortunately. However, I believe that the aggressiveness was warranted because there are quite a large number of organizations losing a lot of money on the basis of a poorly informed engineering decision.

Next time I will hopefully remember to be more political and use acceptable language when I feel so strongly about something.

Thank you for your honest comment.
Yep, I believe India is going to overtake China in Population in another 15-20 years.
One of the cool things about getting a PhD is that you can get to work on the cool problem you're interested in.

If you're working hard and get lucky in your research, a PhD can take < 5 years. Masters programs can be easier to get into, and if you're good, you'll have an easy shot at getting into a PhD program. Not saying that a PhD is necessarily the best choice, but it's a way in.

Some friends worked on the PanCam rover hardware as undergrads and parlayed it into 'permanent' positions with rover operations without going to grad school. Get in touch with the people who do whatever you want to do, make it clear that you want to work for them, and do everything to get competent in the field.
It all is in how you interpret it.

Nothing in PRISM involves physical surveillance, therefore b, c, and d are trivially satisfied.

Surveillance by foreign intelligence agencies is in no way surveillance by the CIA, so a is satisfied.

There is no noticeable user impact at all, which satisfies "least intrusive".

PRISM is, in accord with the law, established by the head of the agency concerned and approved by the Attorney General.

There are procedures in place to protect constitutional and other rights.

In the legal reality supported by the last several administrations, section 2.4 is completely satisfied by turning over US data wholesale to foreign countries, who are then free to use it to spy on US citizens.
> Frankly I think that level of privacy control has little appeal to the mainstream

Those that unlock their bootloader, root their device/flash third party firmware are not mainstream users though. However, many of them do share the same sort of apathy to privacy as mainstream users from my observations. Although there are some reputable third party ROM projects for Android, it's quite amazing how so many are willing to blindly flash nearly anything posted on a forum with little regard to what it might do to their device.

Regarding OpenPDroid, anyone can submit any sort of additions to Cyanogenmod that they wish and are then reviewed on their gerrit[1]. First step to getting something like OpenPDroid in Cyanogen is for someone to integrate it without messing up the source tree and submitting it for review. They might deny it still, but one won't know until trying.

[1] http://review.cyanogenmod.org/
What was it missing?
As I mentioned in response to davidhollander, Cheney's personal background is extremely important. If Kerry came out in support of PRISM et al., that would absolutely give me some pause--he actively served in and was a vehement dissenter of the Vietnam conflict.

If Cheney were simply a chicken-hawk, then there would be no issue. If he were simply a profiteer, there would also be no issue. But his active role as both is worrisome: he stands to profit from his direct ability to shape public opinion as a once-elected representative of the population.

As our society discusses this issue, it is important to take into account not only what is said, but why it is being said. This is what is meant by assessing credibility to speak about a certain matter. The sum of a person's actions informs the listener about his or her credibility and Cheney is no exception.
My only caveat is what does "in tech" mean nowadays?
> Enterprise software/SaaS Companies have very often been started by sales oriented founders (Siebel, Benioff come to mind).
> Ecommerce/marketplaces have very rarely been started by CS majors/engineers.

So sure, you can have very engineering focused Companies like New Relic, Heroku or Dropbox, and that's great, but if you send all business people to Hollywood, I am not sure how you could actually have a tech industry in Silicon Valley.
> There's no way you'd get a 20x boost in bandwidth between the A8 and A15 (both of which are ARMv7 and DDR3 is not 20x faster than DDR2)

There are a few factors at work here:

* A15 was designed to have more memory bandwidth in the first place, since this was a known issue. I think the bottleneck was (is?) the speed of AMBA bus[0] connecting the peripherals (including RAM controller) and the ARM core.

* A15 has a vastly more advanced pipeline and multiple-issue capabilities than A8. This should allow it to use its functional units more efficiently.

* Finally, my A15 system is running at 1.7 GHz compared to 1 GHz for the A8 system.

> I'm guessing you ran a very trivial benchmark that operated mostly out of the L1/L2 cache

The buffers were pre-initialized (to remove the kernel's lazy physical memory allocation as a factor), and far larger than the L2. The data caches were explicitly flushed at the beginning. But indeed it was a very simple benchmark since it was a microbenchmark meant to measure memory bandwidth.

> Depending on what operating system you ran on the different boards, there could also be major differences in the kernel's implementation of the DMA peripheral.

I wasn't using DMA.

> For example, in the Github link, some code used native memcpys while others used kernel call memcpys.

To clarify: the project I've linked isn't mine, it's a public project that supported my point. But as far as I'm aware there's no memcpy systemcall. memcpy is implemented completely in libc. For example, glibc has multiple optimized implementations written in assembly[1].

But you're right, the glibc version is different between these computers, so I need to repeat with a statically compiled benchmark.

Anyway, I've looked at this while trying to improve memcpy speed for A15, which is why I don't have solid comparative results. But I'm doing a write-up and now I'll probably also include this bit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Microcontroller_Bus_A...
[1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=ports/sysdep...
At Caltech, exams were routinely open book / open note. That means memorizing things was pointless.
Song: Edward and the NSA
I have to say I started to have more faith in ebooks when I realized how easy it is to strip DRM from Kindle purchases. I've made more purchases since then and feel better about doing so. I like the convenience of ebooks, the way they make my bookshelves look antiquated, but I always had in my mind the "1984" scenario where they take away your purchases. So I strip the DRM of all my purchases and keep a local copy, even though I only ever read them with the Kindle app. When they take away my ability to do that, I'll stop purchasing.
Ah, yes. Sorry - I should probably have pointed out "not that kind of bubble".
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"startup" == "SaaS web startup", apparently.
How a startup is like rolling a 100-sided die
The biggest impact I came away from that 2600 HOPE youtube vid was Binney's superiors told him to halt his Thinthread so they had time to wrap alot more budget around it so their revolving door out into commercial intel may more heavily wet their beaks. Being presumably professional mathematicians who should understand the egregious criminality of stealing public trust and funds, this was most particularly egregious. As all this was, and remains classified so this abuse will continue unchecked and unbounded.
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As far as the draft goes I think you nailed it with "it is complicated."

As far as the rest goes I think we should evaluate policy positions based on the merits of the arguments. My position on Iraq would not be based on whether the president more resembled Gene McCarthy or Curtis "Bombs Away" Lemay.
Yes, I have heard of problems with asset-forfeiture laws in the States. But apparently the amount of legal protection and redress you have against government asset forfeiture is still luxurious compared to what you have as a non-resident alien facing spying on your Google account: in the latter case it's basically none. (There's also the fact that US citizens seem to have (IANAL) as little protection as you, but that's cold enough comfort.)