skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are good arguments that many of the policies regarding tapping, surveillance, and secret lists and trials extend into violation of not just the 4th, but the 1st, 5th, and 6th also.
Those are the risks. It would be naïve of us to completely disregard them no matter how exciting the news of colonization would be. The moon landing, for example, almost didn't happen at the last minute due to some unforeseen (yet masterfully handled) issues during the landing itself.

I don't think (hopefully avoided) disasters will keep future colonists from following in the footsteps of their predecessors. After all, look how many people perished reaching the poles or climbing Everest. They do it because want to, not necessarily because they can or because it's safe.
Air conditioning and electricity are suplied by the APU, not only by the ground units. For engine start up you must use the air presure(the startup motor is pneumatic not electric), that's why you don't have air conditioning till the engines are running, but you can have it till the moment that you begin pushing back.
Also low cost companies try to save every cent so they don't use the APU till they have to start the engines. This can be pretty unconfortable when you have more than 28C inside, but they don't care too much.

Edit: redaction.
Also the same old argument used to justify piracy, that it costs next to nothing to copy bytes. And that the product is so not worth the price that those who pirates "wouldn't have bought it anyway", yet there they are using the pirated product, movie and music.
Just because you're inhaling molecules that have 2 oxygen atoms, and exhaling molecules that have 2 oxygen atoms for every 1 carbon atom, doesn't mean you're exhaling more matter than you're inhaling. The numbers are ratios. They don't imply a larger volume. Not to mention the composition of what you inhale and exhale is not simply oxygen and carbon dioxide.

As it usually goes, reality is much more nuanced than this short article implies.

I know nothing about this topic. I definitely don't know enough to say this reason for losing weight is wrong. However, the explanation is utterly unconvincing.

edit: apparently there's a youtube video that didn't load for me the first time. I think it's trying to say that for the same volume CO₂, there's more mass? I think I should have avoided commenting on a subject that I know little about.
I was thinking about this earlier today. My fear is that something will happen to Greenwald and the rest of the data/documents/whatever else he has would never become public.
The real issue is that the laws are too specific. We keep either needing high courts to rule that the original
intention was to prevent X from happening, or to get the legislature to pass a new laws specifically stating that X shouldn't happen.

There needs to be a broad, stated right that law enforcement needs warrants to intercept communications. All exceptions must be passed as laws, and therefore must have justifications. It also helps when fighting said laws that you can point to the rights we have that are being taken away.
As a reasonably strong swimmer with no life saving experience - giving or receiving - this conversation is pretty fascinating, especially the casual nature experienced rescuers are saying things such as

> they're not people right now

This strikes me as an incredibly interesting concept. I wonder what other situations arise semi-frequently where participants temporarily abandon their people-ness? Has this notion been legally tested? If in a state of non-people-ness I drown my rescuer yet then survive, have I committed murder?

It's this kind of random tangent into conversations where knowledgeable people frankly discuss things I had never even imagined that I love about HN (and, to a lesser extent, reddit). FFS, I have a swimming pool downstairs. This conversation has made me realise I have no idea how to save someone I see drowning in it - if I can even identify they are drowning. I'm glad I'm reading it.
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AFAIK "outside fo actual border crossings" also extends 100 miles into the US (including the coastlines). This covers the vast majority of people in the US. I've heard stories of people being searched and harassed by police because they happened to have a foreign visitor with them:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357#a_3

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/
This kind of extremely narrow minded thinking was already addressed by Neil deGrasse Tyson in 2006 :

http://www.chicagospace.org/tyson_space.html

A notable quote :
"We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time, and the money involved, in further airship experiments. Life is short, and he is capable of services to humanity incomparably greater than can be expected to result from trying to fly..." from Dec. 10, 1903
Trying to work with the system doesn't work. See the case Billy Malone and the National Park Service, etc.

You can go straight to the inspector general, they'll find that someone's life was unjustly ruined, and then sweep it under the rug after writing a report.

(http://unmpress.com/books.php?ID=12391155859919&Page=book, http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.7/a-misguided-investigation-end..., etc. for reference.)
Mysterious Voynich manuscript has 'genuine message'
The "world's most private search engine" pops up the following error message when searching:

"You may be using a privacy-oriented browser extension that conflicts with Startpage. Please disable this extension and try your search again. If this does not help, please contact us at (212) 447-1100 (USA) or autoquery @ ixquick.com."

Not a good look.
The laptops with files on them do demonstrate provenance of the data on them somewhat more so than standalone files, so he may have retained them for that purpose.
It takes ten seconds and costs nothing. I honestly don't understand the argument against it. It may be no better than nothing, but it can hardly be worse.
Teamup calendar is pretty nice. http://www.teamup.com/
Hmm, whenever I'm feeling sort of blue, and have a bit of time, I go out and just ride the train around randomly... it makes me feel ... free...

Indeed, I've often thought about taking a laptop and working there too (at midday, crowding's not so much of an issue)!

A subway's not quite as nice as a surface train in that respect (not much view!), but it has some of the same "going somewhere but never quite arriving" vibe that can be very appealing.

[If your subway is smelly and noisy, of course, that's a side-effect of your populace, not an inherent property of subways.]
My friend used Crashpad to find a nice roomie and place in downtown SF, he loves it as he was able to expand his network immediately (http://www.gocrashpad.com/). You should first figure out where your job will be as commute options vary like bus, train, cycling or car. For jobs try Whitetruffle (www.whitetruffle.com), lots of iOS dev jobs in SF/Bay and NY. It directly introduces you to the hiring source if you are a match for the job. Good luck!
The obsession with the law is because we're a democracy, albeit far from a perfectly functioning one.

In the governments of the past, we had laws, but the king could overrule them as desired. The move to democracy involved to things: the laws being dictated by the people and the LAW being king--there's no higher power to overrule it. It can only be changed under the established procedures. That procedure is cumbersome and slow, by design (and perhaps now somewhat corrupted, sadly), but still better than the whims of the monarch.

There's a lot to be said for "what's right is king" rather than "law is king". Ideally "what's right" (probably a subset of what's right--e.g., I should be allowed to be a jerk so long as I don't violate important rights) should be democratically codified into law.

Alas, what we have now is secret, undemocratic codification of laws. Obama said in the programs' defense, "We're going to have to make some choices as a society". That's the key issue, I think: they decided to make the decision to the exclusion of society.

So maybe you're right and what's legal is less relevant than it would be in a fully functional democracy. At this point, the social contract to follow the proper democratic procedure has been violated by the makers and enforcers of the law, and following the law is consequently much less of a moral imperative.

Still, I think if we're not ready for armed revolution, legal procedure isn't entirely irrelevant. MLK's letter from Birmingham Jail is something I turn to a lot on this issue: there are times when you should break the unjust law, but when doing so, you must accept the legal repercussions.

Of course, MLK's legal consequences were a small amount of jail time. Snowden's are already significantly harsher, even without them taking him in.

(I think the gulag is a poor example, because it wasn't democratically established. The Nazi concentration camps seem like a pretty good comparison, but not because I consider them perfectly legal. Hitler was democratically elected, but I don't believe many Germans at that time were even aware of the concentration camps. They're a lot like the NSA programs in that way. They needed to make that decision as a society, but weren't given the opportunity. Thus, I don't consider them perfectly legal.)
Both Emacs and Vim can do column and arbitrary rectangular area manipulations. Another old and popular editor in the DOS days was Brief, which could also do them.
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Haha, that really sounds cool... I'd totally love to work in such a place.

And yeah, office space, especially in a major city, is never cheap, and a lot of the expense is inherent in the cost of the space itself. If you're paying for super expensive real-estate, doesn't it make sense to spend a tiny bit more to make it as nice/cool as possible?
Are these attacks part of a strategy to take down a specific target(s) or are they basically shotgunning providers?
Thanks, that is one of the best compliments I've ever gotten for my writing. (Since I tend to write 4,000 words at a time, my biggest worry is always that I'm fluffing up one good idea into excessive length. I aspire to always covering something in enough meaty depth to justify the length, not to have the length pre-fixed and need to pad to hit my quota.)
By forking a library, you are not properly using it. You're using something else.

Here "properly engineering and documenting" means pushing upstream changes to officially support your use case, and documenting it so other people know why your use case is important.
Avoid empty and duplicate records to get pushed in AngularJS
I think the third case is `limit of c/x as x approaches 0`. It can only approach 0, c/0 is still undefined.
Almost exactly a year ago, Zerigo was down for over 6 hours.

Almost three years ago, DnsMadeEasy (which as far as I know dwarf DNSimple and Zerigo) had an outage after a massive attack.
Admitting that Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
It's available as an Epub file on the site: http://www.nickwinter.net/the-motivation-hacker
Thanks for that recommendation. I'm going to sit down with that paper and have time to digest it in detail, since it seems like likely the most relevant-to-my-interests link I've seen on HN this month.
Just a heads up, Zerigo doesn't operate its own network for DNS, so as far as mitigating an attack they are at the mercy of upstreams.

a.ns.zerigo.net 64.27.57.11, announced by WeHostWebSites.com

b.ns.zerigo.net 174.37.229.229, SoftLayer

c.ns.zerigo.net 109.74.192.232, Linode

d.ns.zerigo.net 174.36.24.250, Softlayer

e.ns.zerigo.net 72.26.219.150, Voxel.net (Internap)

f.ns.zerigo.net 223.27.170.242, Voxel.net (Internap)
Will it be possible to upload websites using rsync?
The whole issue was about the development environment experience, not how to execute it.
It's funny watching the twitter feed on Adecco's website:

https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/around-the-world
If you have a keylogger on your machine, all hope is lost. This is true for any password based security, much like a the best safe in the world is thwarted by someone videotaping you entering the combination. Even so, 1Password does utilize sandboxing in OS X and a secure desktop in Windows, which should in theory make this significantly harder to achieve.
"Next in importance to personal freedom is immunity from suspicions, and jealous observation. Men may be without restraints upon their liberty: they may pass to and fro at pleasure: but if their steps are tracked by spies and informers, their words noted down for crimination, their associates watched as conspirators, who shall say that they are free?

Nothing is more revolting to Englishmen than the espionage which forms part of the administrative system of continental despotisms. It haunts men like an evil genius, chills their gaiety, restrains their wit, casts a shadow over their friendships, and blights their domestic hearth.

The freedom of a country may be measured by its immunity from this baleful agency. Rulers who distrust their own people, must govern in a spirit of absolutism; and suspected subjects will be ever sensible of their bondage."

The Constitutional History Of England Vol II (1863), pg. 288

by T. E. May
Except not ... the cost to build was substantial. He had to educate himself how the machine and the OS work in detail. That is time and opportunity cost.
This should be open source software as there needs to be security reviews and what not.

Also, checkout OWS: https://whispersystems.org/
There's a bug in this zero-byte program: the other program might not leave its memory in a correctly runnable state when it shuts down.
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In context, your quote does not make sense. Without judicial review, which Jefferson was criticizing, there would be -nothing- to stop bad laws from being implemented. Abortion would still be illegal, for example.

Marbury v. Madison created a remarkable legal instrument: the Court can strike down a law, but it cannot write a new one (deplorable Costa Rican abortion jurisprudence notwithstanding). It is a check on government power that errs on the side of liberty.

However, relying on the Court to strike down every bad law is like relying on the compiler to catch logic errors. A sufficiently intelligent compiler can perform some remarkable analysis of code, but that is not the function of a compiler. We continue to elect bad Congressmen who pass bad laws signed by a bad President, and then we have the gall to blame the Supreme Court. It's ridiculous.

If you want to make a difference in politics, you have to actually get involved in politics, at the party and primary level, because that is just how shit gets done. It is critical to elect good candidates, not just to throw out bad ones.
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It is common to see attacks hop from provider to provider.

A target (like a High Yield Investment Program, a pro-choice website, online casino, etc) will be using ProviderA and the attackers will hit their DNS in an attempt to take the site down. The target will want to get back online (or get terminated by ProviderA) and jump over to ProviderB. The attackers see the change, and take down the new provider. Rinse and repeat forever.

On the backend most of the large DNS providers share a common blacklist of sites they have terminated so you can't just provider hop and drag the attack around with you. I don't think DNSimple or Zergio participates, though.
It's not really infinitely profitable, because cost isn't measured in bytes. His cost was the time to conceive of, test, and implement the idea as a product. I can't say I've ever thought about the value of a program how much storage space it takes up.
Immutable programming, OO style (in Elixir)
Sal Khan Still Makes 30 Videos a Week as CEO
Someone could, but the explanation is secret. Ironic, isn't it?
Yeah, there are no direct flights.

I guess the high cost comes from requiring a rather large corporate jet with the needed range of 6000+ miles:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HKG-KEF

http://www.avchart.com/users/quotes/passenger-request.asp?ch...
But if the strongest argument you can make against something is "it might only help a little instead of a lot," it's maybe still the sort of thing we should try.

That's not the argument I'm making. Don't put words in my mouth.

I don't think it will help at all.
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This awesome and inspiring! I leave for backpacking through Europe and freelancing in a few days :)
Down to 1.9k six hours after his comment. Good progress :)
If you really want this to work you should target the webmail use case for the big three webmail providers. Nobody wants to use a standalone client on a PC, if that's what you are suggesting. Next up is a mobile client for Android and iOS that works identically to the existing mail client on those platform so there is no learning curve.

In other words, this will be a long slog where most of the work is product-oriented and feature Xerox'ing, and not whiz-bang cool encryption oriented. Good luck :)
Only 2.7K needed now.
Buzz testified against Elon Musk and SpaceX. I don't think he can have it both ways.

For something this challenging, it has to be your primary goal. You can't be picky about secondary issues.
There's a difference between being overweight and being obese you know.
NSA hearing: NSA boss offers FBI chief a beer for his testimony
> not measuring his blood

I thought he was getting weekly blood tests?
The developers are still free to package it themselves and distribute installers as .deb, .rpm ETC. If they have a dependency not available in your package manager (or to old a version), they can either also send you that, or have you add their PPA. The only significant problem I see is that their is a fragmented market of packaging systems, which makes it difficult for individual developers to target everyone. Of course *.tar.gz is a good universal installer for when someone doesn't use a major package manager.
Some cursory googling says the cost is probably closer to $30,000. Current purchases can buy a $12,000 future option for a battery replacement in 8 years, so it seems like Tesla's predictions are that even with improvements for 8 years from now, a Tesla S battery will cost $12K+interest.
"...While the media and much of the world have been understandably outraged by the revelation of the NSA’s spying programs, Barrett Brown’s work was pointing to a much deeper problem. It isn’t the sort of problem that can be fixed by trying to tweak a few laws or by removing a few prosecutors. The problem is not with bad laws or bad prosecutors. What the case of Barrett Brown has exposed is that we confronting a different problem altogether. It is a systemic problem. It is the failure of the rule of law.

>Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash yesterday......

......what is this doing here?
He signed the relevant NDAs and was granted Top Secret clearance. He's being held to the standard of anyone else who does that without enjoying some type of exceptional legal protection.
I think this is the path for most "software engineers". You move up the ranking to Sr. or Principle then you have a choice between;
1) Management
2) Architect
3) Entrepreneur
4) Product Manager

All of them have their own ups and down so it all depends on what you love doing.
Right, not to mention that US citizens have already been executed without trial on foreign soil.
Well you know, he has been leaking details of NSA operations against foreign powers to those foreign powers. That's espionage by any definition.
It has pictures of naked women bathing. So the words probably don't mean anything. I mean, who subscribes to Playboy for the articles?
I expect that the reason the Air was the first Mac to be updated to Haswell is that Apple feels the need for its engineers to be ready to respond to Surface Pro and other Intel-Core Windows-8 tablets and convertibles.
GitHub dream job? Where u get paid to work on open source technology.
> They do it because want to, not necessarily because they can or because it's safe.

I think they'd do it for the money some how. In the Americas, that was mostly the motivation for the Virginia Company and the Massachusetts Bay Company were commercial ventures. People went to Jamestown hoping to find gold. Eventually word got out that the survival rate was in the very low double-digit percentage and they had to start offering people large tracts of land. Eventually the colonies started to export tobacco back to Europe and the tax revenues generated was always welcome.

If those colonists go, it'll because they're dying to get rich.
Im unsure of what you are describing. Are you stating that hotmail should be able to display your decrypted emails? That would imply that they themselves would be able to read it and therefore remove any benefit. Any website you would build would have the same problem unless you resort to js crypto in which the js can be changed on you in a second (when the government forces your company to do so) and send the private key to the nsa. How exactly are you envisioning a solution?
Yes... and the premise of the original post was about vulnerability to arbitrary code being executed on the machine with the user account's rights. I.e., nothing's stopping the keyloggers now.

This is the airtight hatchway we're talking about. The post's premise, and the solutions for Chrome and IE, imply bad guys are already on the other side. All hope is lost. Best you can do is try and make it so that anyone just stumbling around rather than purposefully looking for the passwords doesn't find them, and the value of that is questionable on false sense of security arguments.

It's non-news to anyone who understands how Windows is built.
Just another article about another inconclusive statistical analysis on the Voynich text, with no technical details.

Move along, nothing to see here.
It really saddens me as someone born in the US, that the ideals that are embodied by our constitution are never abstracted (at least by our supposed leaders) to possibly being able to be applied to people outside of the lines drawn by men in our maps.

And while it may be true that under current legal statutes x amendment does not apply to y citizens of z countries, hearing it used in arguments to justify the treatment of fellow human beings contrary to the ideals we seek to reinforce throughout the world and of ourselves is pretty repulsive.
Good luck with this. Just a minor comment on your animated favicon.ico icon ... it would look a lot better if you used a transparent colour for the outside of the globe. Currently its white, which looks a little bit crappy.
It's not just a fight over words. "GNU/Linux" means something more than just "Linux". "Free software" means something more than just "open source"
There is an app for almost everything, but...
Is the following a common problem?

There are a lot of useful apps / collaboration tools / social tools, etc. available now. They make working in a distributed team easier and enhance collaboration but there is just too many email notifications now; something that email isn't really built for.

Do you guys find it an effort to keep up with your team's activities on the plethora of tools / apps available now?

We try and limit the number of apps we use, but when working with clients, they also tend to have their own preferences. So we end up using everything! Does this sound familiar?

Many thanks :)
You're thinking Neil Armstrong. Buzz is pro-private spaceflight.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1267759...

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/14816351159848960
NSA surveillance may be legal – but it’s unconstitutional