skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus this was used on less than 300 numbers.

The metadata is still collected and presumably stored for all, they just escalated it to additional surveillance for 300 numbers.

> 20 people in the world have access to the info.

[citation needed] Keith Alexander today said they have 1000 sysadmins like Snowden, most contractors. Snowden said, and the other NSA whistleblowers confirmed, that a sysadmin at the NSA has access to all data with little to no restrictions.

> This is for foreign surveillance ONLY.

And how do they determine whether or not it's foreign or domestic? Surely they must analyze content in order to be sure?
Unless I'm mistaken. the installer and updater for Warcraft 3 as well as Starcraft and Diablo 2 are Rosetta apps, even though the games themselves are universal. Since 10.7 removed Rosetta you can't install the games or update them any longer, though if you have a preinstalled copy you can continue to play.
Aha !! Finally a Racket book that my pupils will pay attention to...

They've complained that textbooks and courses often don't teach how to build anything directly useful, but video games? Suddenly, no holds barred.
I'm guessing Feedly is only servicing your 3k feeds because it's still using GReaders back end.
But... but... their gunna take are guns!!!

No. They won't. That's because not a single shot will be fired in retaliation to government intrusion and control. Not a single thing will be done about it.
Numbers are way off. QCELP8 (which is what a lot of phone calls were actually transmitted in on the cell phone network; it's since been replaced by the more efficient EVRC) runs at 1/8 the uncompressed size. Offline compression can be even more efficient, since you can (to a certain amount) trade latency for compression (and QCELP is technology designed to run on low-power hardware from 1994, so it's not exactly a beast processing wise).
The problem with Thunderbolt is a bandwidth one and Apple's support:
PCIe 16x is 128 gbps bi-directional, Thunderbolt 2 is 20 gbps. Putting it just over 4x PCIe.

Currently Windows supports graphics cards via Thunderbolt but OS X doesn't. There's also no guarantee Apple support drivers for external PCIe graphics chipsets.

Maybe in 3 years Thunderbolt 3 will be 128 gbps but PCIe will hit its next iteration putting it that much further beyond. Thunderbolt is awesome as an I/O setup but for graphically minded individuals, its still not as amazing as one might hope.
Don't most social media sites ask for permission to upload your contacts from elsewhere? The answer (as Nancy Reagan taught us) is to Just Say No.

Yes there is (a lot!) of job-hunting spam on LinkedIn, but when you need a job the spam can help. Even if you don't, it's useful to have a public place with an email address for professional contacts to find you, in case you switch firms.
It's a common complaint: here's a blogpost from 2007 called "Where's the Mac?" http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2007/08/08/wheres-the-mac/ . Midrange desktops are probably still where the buyers are most price/performance-conscious, and where design/engineering effort makes the least difference: Apple probably wants to avoid competing on that kind of terrain. They may also be worried about people who would opt for a midrange Mac over a Mac Pro if given the option.
There will never be a single standard video codec until the last video codec developer has retired. As long as there is ongoing effort to write better codecs, there will be multiple codecs in use at any given time.

What's important is that you can encode your video in Theora or VP8 and expect it to work in modern browsers (Firefox, Chrom{e,ium}, Opera, etc). In a year or two VP9 will be just as supported, and then you can switch to it.
[Beep] "Mom, call me."

It's the timing and individuals and the sequence of events which matter.
At today's hearing, Rep. Himes was focused on the risks of collecting the data even assuming good processes and oversight for legitimate access. In response the NSA said that there hadn't been any examples of people ignoring processes and getting improper access. But here's at least one ...
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Have taken a look at http://webtoolkit.eu ?
Well, the problem comes with how the government uses the data it has on you.

Say, for example, I have... 10,000 points of data about you. 10,000 HN posts + Facebook posts + Reddit posts, etc. You've said a lot during your Internet career.

I can take what you've written, and form a profile of you from these words. They're just words, you've done nothing wrong. Freedom of speech being what it is, and let's even say you haven't said anything particularly inflammatory. Nothing threatening, nothing dangerous - you're just an average guy.

Now, I take these words, and I compare them with words that other folks have said. Using some fancy technology, I can group you with people who say thinks kind of like what you say. Using this data, I can group everyone this way, into clouds.

And here's where things get sticky - I can use these clouds of people to look at folks who are "similar" to known terrorists. Folks who, themselves, have done nothing wrong, but who "look" similar to people I know are bad. Let's say, for some reason, you're grouped with someone who has known ties to I dunno... the militant branch of the KKK or whatever. Now you're suddenly interesting to the authorities, even if you've done literally nothing wrong. Or have you?

If you're grouped via my super special technology with a terrorist, maybe this puts you on a no-fly list. Maybe this gets your security clearance denied. Maybe you get "randomly" audited. World-ending? No. Completely unwarranted and totally annoying? Yes.

On a philosophical level, this is all kinds of against the freedoms we expect to have in America, and that sucks but let's be more practical. People are screaming about the sky falling and the world ending because the NSA knows you like Japanese porn or whatever, but that's not frankly a big deal. What's more likely is that you're going to be annoyed and inconvenienced, and there's not a lot of reason for it.

It kind of sucks, and I guess you have to decide for yourself if you're okay with what might happen to someone if they turn out to be a false positive. For me, I don't so much mind the data collection, I just want it to be fully exposed. I want Google, Microsoft, et. al. to have to say publicly when they comply with a request for data, and in a perfect world, I'd want these companies to be required to notify the people whose data they hand over. Does it make it more difficult to catch bad guys? Yes. Does it provide a level of transparency that a representative democracy requires to function properly? Yes.

If they collect too much data (or too little!) I want to be able to vote someone out of office. Just saying, "attacks haven't happened so therefore what we're doing is working" isn't something I can buy. Is that too much to ask?
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It's not that people hate eating, not at all, it's just inconvenient in many ways. Something like Soylent solves the problem of convenience and allows a person to take in nutrients while remaining productive.

It's not for every meal. You'll still want to go have dinner with friends or family, but during the day it would be nice to chug a glass of this and keep working; hands clean.
Um, people like top lists. It is the cheapest and easiest filter. It is the same principle that Google operates on. Make a list of the thing with the most downloads, links, etc. and that is often/usually over time the best. I'm reasonably sure that their search system works largely off of downloads, ratings, reviews, etc.

It's not an infallible system, but life isn't about being fair. It's not apple's job to ensure fairness, it's Apple's job to do a good job delivering what people want. A lot of people want what is popular, even if it's not always the best.
Have to disagree. Different people have different use cases and different budgets.

In particular, some people might like the mobility of the MBA, but have a lot of photos, music, or movies they want to take with them (i.e., different use cases). And many people have the means to shell out for large internal storage because they don't want to manage the external drives. Some people like Kias, some like Lexus.
In the US, it's defined by the Constitution, Article 3 Section 3. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted."

Quoting from http://constitution.findlaw.com/article3/annotation24.html : Thus, the Framers adopted two of the three formulations and the phraseology of the English Statute of Treason enacted in 1350, 1285 but they conspicuously omitted the phrase defining as treason the ''compass[ing] or imagin[ing] the death of our lord the King,'' 1286 under which most of the English law of ''constructive treason'' had been developed. 1287 Beyond limiting the power of Congress to define treason, 1288 the clause also prescribes limitations upon Congress' ability to make proof of the offense easy to establish 1289 and its ability to define punishment. 1290.

Thus, I don't see how shooting the president (even 'for the good of the country') leads to a treason charge.

That link also gives a summary of the few Supreme Court cases regarding treason charges. There isn't much, in part because most of the offenses you might come up with are already covered by other laws. For example, 18 USC Sec. 1751 specifically covers "Presidential and presidential staff assassination, kidnapping, and assault."
HOW DOES PERF HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS ARTICLE?

It doesn't!

You think you could cease at any time, just like every person addicted to pain.

And yeah, maybe you really do enjoy telling ex-girlfriend stories for some masochistic reason, but is that honestly constructive in your life? Does that really embarrass HER? Is it really good for society that we know what YOU think about her? Or is it just SAD that you keep bringing her up, again and again and again? She seems pretty happy without you, dude. Let it go. And her new boyfriend is not automatically an idiot, just because it didn't work out between you two. If you're in a relationship with her (employed by a company), you have an honest reason to want to make the relationship work (make the company better), and to provide constructive criticism. Now, you're just bitching about it. Again and again and again.

And to us, it sounds like your main problem with her, was that you couldn't have an 'Open Relationship.' Do you get how crazy that sounds to all of us? Many people have responded to tell you this. Are we all wrong?

If you want to work on what you want to work on, then A) find a company that does exactly that, or B) go be an entrepreneur. Expecting existing businesses to change how they work is a TANTRUM.

That you think it's embarrassing to Google that they didn't give you want you want makes you an idiot. They're doing fine. If I remember correctly, you said your next job was an even worse experience for you. You voted with your feet (like you claim Closed Allocation prohibits), and it totally backfired on you. Your boss sucked: vote with your feet, and move on with your life.
I thought he only sent 2 emails, or did he have a separate personal email account?:

http://www.salon.com/2011/02/17/bill_clinton_2_emails_presid...
You could summarize the entire hearing in one sentence.

"The 4th amendment doesn't apply under the Patriot Act."
The issue isn't the use of this content, it's the collection of the content. I don't think anyone would have an issue with the NSA collecting and storing data on specific targets after receiving a court order to do so. What people are taking issue with is the collection and storing of data on innocent civilians without a court order, to be used in the event they receive a court order. What makes this collection worse is that apparently low-level government contractors like Edward Snowden can access this vast pool of data, whether or not approved to do so. It's the equivalent of having the US Postal Service open and photocopy every single piece of mail that goes through their system to be stored in a database and used later by NSA/FBI/CIA analysts who have received the proper court order to do so.
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Ok, thanks for the clarification, I missed the context. As a side note I think functionally they serve that purpose, but were never created to be so; they simply cannot resist the compelling power of the state under which they have been licensed as a taxable entity and are subject to its laws and leaders...
NYU, China, and the blind activist.
FPGAs? Now what?
Checkers has been solved. Both players can draw with perfect play.

The usual caveat with checkers is that you are probably not good at it. Even if it is simpler and smaller than chess, being a good chess player gives you no advantage and the game is still sufficiently complex that you can't quickly brute force it without years of practice. A chess master will get their ass handed to them by a skilled yokel.
In general, my take is: 'bout time.

Even if this particular project doesn't make it into django.contrib, it is nice to see movement in this area.
Yeah, seriously. "top up your carbs with some brown sugar!" made me cringe.
OS X interestingly forgoes external graphics PCIe support (for now) with Thunderbolt. Windows supports it. Also Windows, since Windows 7 supports 24+ bit panels (think Dell Ultrasharp U2711), OS X is still stuck on 16.7 million.

Lately, I haven't felt like Apple has my back for pro-A/V :/
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There is no "deal." I'm not signing a contract or agreeing to an EULA to read a website.

My browser is requesting a website and choosing parts of it to display. Where is the problem? Is it a moral issue when people on phones browse with images turned off? It's how the internet was designed to work.

If the content is worthwhile, people will pay for it directly.
How can the security be comparable? I would have thought that the kernel shared between containerized processes presents a much bigger attack surface than a virtual machine monitor does.
4th ammendment doesn't apply to this metadata(call duration and number ONLY, no position) per a Supreme Court ruling 35 years ago about phone records.

This hearing , if you listen to all of it, went into surprising amount of detail concerning how these programs function. Just because they have to use big words (because this is about the law) doesn't mean they're trying to hide anything. This has been pretty illuminating.

Still some issues with the problem (notably "probable suspicion" clause concerning querying the database, there isn't enough oversight apart from in NSA).
Just 20-somethings with too much time on their hands and no clue trying to be 'food hackers' in the midst of a gigantic bubble. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I can't remember which show, but I remember watching a TV mystery with a picture of someone reading a newspaper as proof of someone being present on a certain day. Trouble was, the editor of the paper was in on the scam and ensured the headline would appear that day.
It's alright that the numbers are way off (higher) as this is just a crude estimate. If anything, it shows that this is most likely the max scenario at which $27M is actually very cheap relative to government/army program funding.

The only thing it does not take into account is business to business calling.
Is more complicated, e.g.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LxcSecurity

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossn/+bug/1098582
We don't use any of the freelancing sites, not because of their terms but it is mostly a race to the bottom. So instead, we rely on networking etc. Probably stuff you have heard.

And yea, I agree their statement seems overly broad and very one sided, which may make it tough to enforce. Usually these are handled as mutual agreements, and at least in my case I have a not to exceed the cost of the work clause etc. Again, I am not a lawyer though so, just my opinion.

As for liability insurance you can get it at most reputable insurance agents. There is also techinsurance.com which can hook you up with good insurers, at least in the US, not sure about anywhere else. I personally have a top insurer and it isn't all that expensive. For General Liability and "E&O" (errors and omissions) its around $1k/year for a significant amount of coverage. I have heard of people (never myself) paying as little as $400/yr for $1M of protection, from my experience it all depends on your situation: e.g. are you incorporated, do you have employees, how long have you been doing the job, have you had any claims of negligence against you etc.

Hope that helps some.
Best part about hosting on a headless laptop: built-in UPS in case you have a power dip or somebody knocks the power strip out.

I've wondered: if computer makers sold laptops with lights-out-management and detachable displays, would people would repurpose them into makeshift mobile servers and design entire server farms around them, like they have with the Mac Mini. You could have a work/coding environment where if somebody needs to take home the dev server to hack on it overnight, they pull it out of the rack, slap on a display, use it any other laptop, and bring it back in the morning to plug back in.
Recently I wrote a less overwhelming pre-compiler that allows you type HTML inline with your Javascript, may be worth a look: http://mxcl.github.io/bs BullScript’s goal is just to make writing JS a little nicer, but not to be some whole new language.
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NLP processing in Clojure with OpenNLP
This incident didn't occur during Clinton's presidency.
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Obviously it's not different in principle, but in practice there are comparatively few people on the no-fly list, and the no-fly list is a comparatively unique mechanism. US citizens aren't typically prohibited from travelling, or corresponding with internationals, or publishing journals and notes, etc...

Yes, this is bad. Yes it should be fixed. But let's check the "ZOMG WE'RE IN A COMMIE GULAG!" hyperbole at the door. The less seriously we take this the more reason the government has to pick the "sane compromise" position which involves no-fly lists and universal-but-mostly-invisible surveillance.
While I see and agree with your point (you can derive a lot of information from just meta-data), this is where you go overboard:

The conclusions which can be drawn from that meta-data are far more solid than can be drawn from listening in to any or all of the phone calls.

You cannot derive more information from meta-data than you can from the data itself. That's why we call it meta-data. "Honey, I may have cancer, I'm making an appointment with Dr. O. N'conlogist as soon as possible." is more compact, just as complete, and is more tolerant to missing parts.
Interesting. It seems they keep the old behaviour for people with older accounts. I never had to turn it off in the original GR and never got the behaviour either.
"..."

I guess all I can say is that you believe you have better insight into the mind of Glenn Reynolds than e.g. I do.
was mentioned on hn some time ago. i'm fine with it. can't be easier to set up..there's no setup...
https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed

http://managingnews.com/
is quite nice too.
Thanks for the code, it saved me the entire shipping cost!
Great project, the standard django admin regularly feels too 'magical', try to do anything custom and you're screwed.
Look at Clapper. Where was he before going to DNI?

How about McConnell?

Lot of examples out there. Not hard to connect the dots if you spend less time reacting like a third grader.
Likely a long-term customer satisfaction thing. Someone who buys a Macbook Air and comes back and buys another one two years later is worth more than someone who buys a Macbook Pro, and, feeling ripped off, gets a Dell next time.
It's not just a use-case for anonymous or clandestine activists. Consider the Arab Spring, where Facebook and especially Twitter were used to rally people together in public areas.

Many countries might block large, uncensored social websites (like Facebook). Tools like Tor can help circumvent such practices.
Nice job Brett and team. Glad to see you guys unveiling your vision.
Have you ever actually drank Ensure? I like them. But I need at least 2, sometimes 3, to actually feel full. That's still $4 or so for a meal.
Their "dock" is the Thunderbolt display, which is more elegant than a traditional dock.
I'm from the UK and have just spent a long weekend in Barcelona and made use of the Vodafone £3 deal and I have to say it made a massive (positive) difference to the experience, much greater than I thought it would.

This is compared to previous Euro trips where I feel like I've lost half my brain and even just snicking data on and off for little databursts lands you with £40 / day bills.
It seems like snap is headed in the yesod direction. By that I mean the "faithfully replicate the mistakes of php/mysql worst practices as interpreted by rails", not the "conflate type safety with DSLs". Happstack doesn't appear to be overly damaged by phpisms, but happstack-foundation isn't useful for a lot of people because it uses acid-state for storage. Also, HSP is terrible and using it should be a criminal offence. So you basically have to build your own collection of stuff as you go on top of snap or happstack-server and the various glue packages for happstack.

I don't buy the "but the compiler is working hard" excuses for ghc's horrible performance. Ocaml is a similar language, and it compiles similar projects in 1/10th the time, and in 1/20th the RAM. It is a huge issue on large projects, waiting 30 seconds for a single line change to compile is brutal, and that 30 seconds ends up being 5 minutes because you get distracted while waiting.
This. If there is evil at Facebook, I haven’t seen it. It might be big, but at the most basic level it’s just a directory of people where you share stuff and see some ads to support the site. That’s not unlike the vast majority of sites that we all use every day.

Besides, the goal of advertising on Facebook is to provide suggestions to people that are actually valuable. It’s good for people to get discounts on products they like, or information about new things to do in their area. It’s good for businesses to make sure their ads are shown to people who might actually care about the product/service/event in question. Making money is just a happy side effect of creating actual value.
It's not like CoffeeScript really forces you to use classes. It's not an object-oriented language. It's just Javascript with a ruby-like syntax. Even the class keyword is just some monkey-patching (and a commonly-used method of doing it) of the prototype system to support some pseudo-inheritance.

100% of what you learn in CoffeeScript is applicable to Javascript, and viceversa. The real pain, is like you said, debugging applications. I can't just write coffeescript into the console, not even a little`console.log`which is infinitely nicer without the parentheses.
Warren and Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy"
Echoing vollmond, SSRN may have asked me years ago to register, but I haven't had to for a very long time.

Perhaps they're trying to deal with people who try to game the download counts without cleverness, and somehow you got caught up in that mechanism???
Headline should be "cost of storage", not "cost to store". They have to pay a lot of guys like Ed Snowden $200,000/yr to maintain a database that size.
Can I create new HTML elements? I'm not psyched about the kind of syntax in http://hasteb.in/rikuquyaju.xml and would much rather have something like http://hasteb.in/bisilexope.xml