skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. Blahah got it right. The book thing was intended as a bit of a joke. I do think the post is insightful so I'll go ahead & remove the pluggity-plug for the sake of the discussion.
To many, yes. I did that once, using SMF forum's "who is online" page and a bit of PHP code to display a signature image "Hello $username, your IP $ip has been saved to the database!". That really pissed them off, though I could have just tracked/saved it without telling them.
He's structured his journey so that if the USA tries to force the plane to Havana down in a US airport, it will create an international incident with Russia. The USA could give two shits about antagonizing Cuba, but Russia is still scary.
> And you're reading them. So is every half-witted government agency in the
"civilized world".

Clever and timely, but...

> How hard can it be to create a decentralized, convenient & secure environment for those use cases?

It's not hard to "create" this ecosystem. It exists. There are countless open & distributed technologies you can use for these, and most of them are pretty good.

The challenge is getting people to adopt them. And the problem therein lies; when enough people adopt something commercial interests will seek to exploit it as efficiently as possible, and you get efficiency by consolidating and centralizing. I'm not saying it's wrong -- there are plenty of us on HN profiting from it. But the technologies get condemned to death by NSA by their own success.

Se we seem to be stuck in a sucky social equilibrium until people collectively get upset enough that they're willing to pay with real money and inconvenience for their rights. I don't see this happening anytime soon. But then again maybe Snowden started something.
We know all this because this is a message from those countries. It's big middle finger to the USA. They are saying: we know exactly where he is and what he is doing but we are not going to stop him - because fuck you. If you read the HK press release, this is so well stated actually "Snowden is going to russia and we are not going to do anything about it. BTW, what about you spying our embassy again?".
There was no recount, at least not one that would be considered acceptable by most standards. If I'm wrong please provide a link.
Have you seen the Lisp resources on Paul Graham's website? The Lisp FAQ (http://paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.html) answered a lot of my own questions. I've been drawn towards learning lisp for some time too (because it just seems so... different), and this week I finally installed the Clisp implementation and worked through the two online chapters of PG's ANSI Common Lisp book. I wish more programming texts were that clear and fast-paced. The lisp essays are engaging too.

I also wish I had more reasons to use/learn lisp. Everything I do is better suited to another language, it seems like.
Good call, but it does violence to the ASCII creature:-(

That's why I suggested gqip on every paragraph, but I'm sure there are more efficient ways.
The alternatives are countries that have a simple extradition process to the US.
Or maybe the USG doesn't really think he's all that important.
Anyone seeing what happened to Manning would be insane to turn themselves in to the US.
Not quite. No one voted for the coalition.
wtf - In later years, Snowden was proud of his career advancement, bragging about his salary (“I make $70k, I just had to turn down offers for $83k and $180k”) and dispensing online advice like a world-weary veteran. .. what a teen
Yeah that kind of approach is typically how you resolve this issue, coffeescript even has a neat wrapper around (function([args...]) { ... })([args...]) of do (args...) -> ... to make this less painful.

Interesting how the go syntax makes it easy to explicitly pass in arguments. That is very nice.
Not a contradiction in the least.

The US is plenty scummy these days. It's busy completely violating the rights of its citizens, ignoring its own governing documents, acting just like a violent, thuggish 3rd world banana government. In fact, its behavior is exactly what I would expect out of someone like Hugo Chavez.

Enemy of thy enemy. It makes perfect sense. What you've got now is a showdown between scumbag nations.
Assembly is also good and I spent a semester teaching it to 2nd semester students. I think C++ is a better choice because it exposes folks to low level programming in a more controlled fashion.

For many people python is their first language.
In addition to Ctrl+T to go back from a definition, Ctrl+O also seems to work, which I find more ergonomic on Qwerty.
Now Google is threatened with criminal action over Street View data theft
In the usual pre-exam instructions this year at university (in the UK) the invigilators made specific reference to network enabled watches as a prohibited item - I have a Pebble, as do a few of my friends, but not many students do in general.

One interesting thing I've noticed is with assignments we have strict anti-plagiarism checks which always seem to be emphasised for foreign students. We have quite a few students from China and India on our courses and it's almost like it's a special mention for them. Several times lecturers have made reference to different cultures having an expectation of plagiarism, and I've spoken to academics who say it is a very common thing from foreign students.
Five myths about the National Security Agency
Awesome, would read again!
Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong
When referring to the post that inspired it, it would have been useful to take advantage ad some kind of technology that, let's say, allowed me to click with my mouse on that link you wrote and be magically transported there.
He didn't have to leak anything. If he thought it was right to leak about domestic spying he certainly didn't have to leak about international spying.

If he'd stood up for US citizens rather than US enemies he could have remained in the US and fought his corner in the courts and the press.
The alternative would be to stay in the US (or leave to be interviewed by Greenwald and return to the US) and actually fight for what he believes in.
This reminds me of an interesting traffic simulation applet, where you can control things like aggressiveness of the drivers, traffic density etc. and observe the traffic jam that happens.

http://www.carbibles.com/trafficmicrosimulation.html
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It'd be stupid not to have those stored somewhere else safe and/or encrypted.
I agree with you, and I'm surprised more commenters on Hacker News can't distinguish between the two activities of helping US citizens and harming the US government.
Running away from lucifer to fall in the arms of beelzebub?

Weird world.
Cartridges are dangerous in terms of intentions. For example during istanbul unrest, tens of people lost their eyes, suffered from traumas in the head because of the cartridges shot from short distance intentionally. You can find video of police celebrating upon shooting a protestor in the head with cartridge on youtube. You can find a picture of the janitor after being shot directly in the eye with cartridge, on the following site http://delilimvar.tumblr.com/page/7 . Nothing man made are dangerous at all, but intentions make them so.
Your problem is the countries network infrastructure not the physical location of the servers, for example here in the UK basically all websites will load quick, it's hard to tell just from page load speeds if a server was located 10 miles down the road from me in the UK, or across the pond in the USA. However Haiti is closer to the USA than the UK, so it's really not server location that makes the difference.

Building a server farm in Haiti isn't really going to improve the speed of web services, what you would need to look at is getting better network infrastructure around the country and back to the main internet exchanges within the US.

Normally the problems you face here is the price of sub-sea cable bandwidth is greatly dependant on the economies of scale; they typically want massive investments to drive the prices down to reasonable levels. Then when you have the off-island bandwidth sorted you need to build faster local infrastructure to get this bandwidth to your users.

Once you have faster internet connections with decent global connectivity you will naturally start to see service providers build data centers out there.
but the '++'-part does not help in understanding the machine, does it?

(i like many new-in-c++11 constructs so don't get me wrong. but they further abstract from the machine.)
I think "This is enough".
I recall researching how to apply for a visa to Denmark from Russia, and I found this statement on the Danish Embassy's website:

> Denmark in Russia represents Iceland, so visa applications for Iceland can be submitted at the Visa Application in centres.

Although, technically, it does not state that you cannot use the Icelandic Embassy, I just assumed they did not, since it said 'Denmark in Russia represents Iceland'. I concede I might have been misguided.

http://rusland.um.dk/en/travel-and-residence/menu-1/where-to...
Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA
They want the schools allow them to cheat instead of fight for anti cheating system
that's the most ridiculous point
Why are you so sure? [0]

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us-d...
Hey insuffi,

Thanks for the reply. To your response:

1) I am not trying to say that he should have stayed in the country to begin with necessarily because his act could obviously be construed as treason and be silenced immediately if jailed. I was also not trying to suggest that he is not a hero to this country (because by many accounts, he is) but rather I was trying to suggest that a patriot does not abandon the country to which he claims patriotism [because that would be completely illogical].

Now, Snowden is a very public international figure. If he were jailed, people would be watching his case very closely. Snowden's situation is different from Bradley Manning's because when a judgement is made, everyone will care because he did in fact give himself enough time to find refuge in another country and spread a full story and reveal himself to the world. He is now a popular culture figure for many countries.

However, the reason he invites claims of espionage is that he claims refuge in other countries. A patriot does not need to turn himself over to the government but must turn himself over to the people of the united states. By running he only makes himself appear more guilty in many people's minds. And by running he also opens himself up to a lot of conjecture as to why he's running.

2) The government is doing damage control by charging him. They have an unanswered opinion that can be broadcast to most of the country because he is fleeing (this old adage still applies to many people: An innocent man has nothing to hide). He is ruining his patriotic reputation by running from the country because he is giving everyone a chance to step back and insight any opinion they may about his patriotism, mental stability or really anything.

As a patriot I would agree he is justly afraid. But what I meant to suggest that by running, he is proving himself as a saboteur or spy to people who agree with many media streams and is leaving many things up to justifiable question.
So he doesn't have "an accident" on the way, with nobody knowing anything about it.
If by serious imperfections and injustices you mean the violation of fundamental human rights, including freedom of speech, that America flaunts right and left.

"What makes America the greatest country in the world? re: Freedom and freedom, and let's keep it that way."
Is that you Mark McCahill?
HK is also one of the few places in the world that both offered a reasonable chance of not turning him over and didn't arouse too much suspicion when he requested time off.

I can't imagine the NSA looks too kindly on non-business trips to Caracas, Moscow, or Havana. Even Iceland could have turned some heads given its recent streak of standing up for itself.

He has roundly ruined HK for future whistleblowers though!
I'm sorry, but you are out of your mind.
The use of "cruise-missle"-like UAV would likely be different than a handgun. Militaries don't usually use cruise missiles to go after individuals; the asset cost to target value is not proportional in most cases.

Instead, bullets, dumb missiles (target, fire and forget), or (laser) guided missiles from re-usable launch platforms are used instead for those tasks. Cruise missiles are used against larger fixed assets.

I would expect that if "civilian" UAV design evolved toward urban insurgency, the payloads would be used against police stations, radio towers and vehicles rather than individual officers. Getting enough aerial carrying capacity to do disabling damage might not be worth the cost right now, but that equation could change with either better UAVs, or more organized use of urban insurgent tactics.
Agreed, plenty of decentralized systems exist. None have the convenience of, say, an Instagram. If ever a decentralized system becomes widespread it will not be because of it's decentralized nature but because it makes it easier for people to do the things they care about. Distrust in Facebook et al. is growing. There's this "back-to-the-roots" meme going around. And there's the NSA clusterfuck. Maybe the time is right to build a convenient system that covers just the basic usecases for most people?
Because the lovely government has declared it legal under secret 'patriot' laws.
Maybe it's different here in the UK, or maybe I'm naïve.

With my A-Levels (end of high-school exams) I felt like I was learning material that I would need to know for my university course, and my university entrance was conditional on the grades I achieved.

Having been at uni for 3 years now, it has confirmed this for me. I had friends in high-school who didn't study maths, and they wouldn't have managed the CS course at my university. I wouldn't have managed it without the A-Level grades I got (or slightly below them).

I also think that my degree matters quite a lot. To me it's a piece of paper that says I have a reasonable competency in computer science, and anyone who has a brief look at the syllabus should see that I will be of a certain level of ability.

It is possible to self-teach yourself much of computer science, but when I talk to other people of a similar age to me who have self-taught and not gone to university, I don't want to come across as cocky, but the gap in knowledge appears very significant to me. After 5 years working I'm sure my degree won't matter much, but I think it will give me a big head start on knowledge and understanding.
Could you place the cursor just above the ASCII art and then wrap from there to the top of the document?
Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
This assumes we have a justice system. We don't.

We have a politically driven kangaroo court system.
> I have also heard good things about Ashok Rao's Psychopaths, Losers, Clueless series.

That would be Venkat Rao's Sociopaths, Losers, Clueless series.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340565/Edward-Snowd... =)
Human rights lawyers in Hong Kong reveal they worked closely with Snowden
the two responses I have got until now demostrate only marketing kind of use cases. What else?

Are people really microblogging on twitter?
This is a HN comment.

It's not a HN post. It's not a HN link.

It is HTML.

This uses words... English words.

If you speak English then you can read this.

If you don't you can read this with google translate.

That is cool.

I typed this on an ipad in a hotel.

You are reading this on a computer, tablet, phone or a iPhone while sitting on a toilet.

Your computer sent a electric signal trough a wire to your ISP where some NSA agents took a copy and then was sent to a server in America.

That is great... for the NSA, not so much for you.

Goodbye.
Maybe he's not aiming to only be a US patriot but also an internationalist. In my opinion he's a champion for everyone's rights.
People who want to modify paragraph widths and mess with the designer's vision are why we need PDF.
In their attempt to find jobs, many jobless engineers are further exploited by another industry - training institutes that promise placements and jobs. These institutes offer courses on Java/.NET, SAP, Cognos, Oracle etc. They charge a ton, their trainers are no good and the students gain nothing from these. More recently, private engineering colleges are asking their students to base their final year projects on IEEE research papers. And there is now a large number of training institutes that offer readymade "IEEE Projects" to students for a cost.

I happen to know many such engineers who are lacking skills or grades or both. Some of these people happen to be distant relatives or family acquaintances. The problem isn't just with the engineering colleges. Many such graduates lack understanding of basic sciences to have studied engineering in the first place (due to many factors including their own limitations, bad primary/secondary education etc). Few who manage to learn enough to be "employable" are stuck because there are no campus placements in their college. It is incredibly hard to find a job if there are no campus placements. Companies don't have the resources to go to every such college when most of the graduates passing out are not employable.

I have been on the board of studies of two engineering colleges as an industry representative for past few years. There is a meeting every year to revise the course content but nothing useful comes out of it. In such meetings, I have strongly advocated that we introduce more hands on assignments/mini projects, ensure assignments/projects are not copied, lab exams are not based on a fixed set of publicly questions (students already know these questions). In one such meeting, suggestion was shot down with the excuse that if a mini-project is introduced, another set of institutes will come up to help students work around the system. Sure, preventing this would mean that the staff get their act right!
The Colorado Department of Transportation does essentially this with "pace cars" at high traffic times coming back from the ski areas.
Social networking in the 1600s
Wow, Make's You Think How Unsecure The Computers Are
Well it's a fairly big jump from "First and foremost, don’t worry -- your photos are safe!" to "[In one month] all photos and data will be permanently deleted"

I can't imagine there are many uses who feel like snapjoy delivered on the sentiment of their "Snapjoy is joining Dropbox" post.

"Stay tuned, the best is yet to come" doesn't usually imply we'll give you 1 months notice and then delete all your photos.
Show HN: I made a web app to help me keep habits as weekend project. Feedback?
So Coded Early Bird Ticket Sale / Hamburg, Germany / Sept 19/20th
This was a man who was running before facing a trial or even charges. Not a man in the justice system. Who knows what really happened to him? Nobody. Because he was being secretive about his actions. He has allowed nothing but conjecture to his fate. I have been under investigation by the FBI; it doesn't mean they're going to kill you.
Please stop this nonsense.
China's Xinhua news agency condemns US 'cyber-attacks'
This accords with my own experience driving in Sydney, where the need to merge is frequent, but not Canberra, which has more more US-like freeway system.
Cheating is not endemic within the gaokao system because, as a testing regime, it's excessively vulnerable to cheating. It's not any more cheatable than the SAT, GREs, or other standardized entrance or aptitude exams.

Mainland Chinese society at all levels is thoroughly corrupt and its pretty much impossible to achieve what a reasonable observer would recognize as a materially successful life within the PRC without being actively involved in corruption.

Even simply to muddle along and live hand-to-mouth, content to have most of the doors to success either closed to them from the get-go or slammed in their face, a regular Mainland person has to turn a blind eye to a steady stream of illegal, unethical, and downright harmful behavior on the part of their peers.

That's a part of why (along with many other factors) many Mainland citizens are eager to emigrate to pretty much anywhere that's not the PRC.
Interfax:
15:41 Snowden has no Russian visa, will wait for flight to Havana in airport transit zone source
Isn't this what bootstrap 3 is trying to achieve? I haven't visited the bootstrap 3 release candidate docs in a while but the last time I did it seemed like it's going towards the flat direction.
How to record your desktop on Debian using Gnome
Its sad that european governments dont step up support and asylum for snowden. After all the surveillance scandal affects mostly non-US citizens, with countries like germany being targeted specifically. If this guy did such a service for us, why are we not actively protecting him the way we protect chinese dissidents?
It's the standard tool for communication in the world of writing about video games, comics, and other things like that.
"...For treason turns out to be unique in American law. It is the only crime that the Constitution forbids Congress from defining. It is the only crime to which a court may never accept a confession given to the police. It is the only crime for which restrictions are laid down on how much evidence juries must hear. The Constitution itself underscores that the Founders feared treason law.

...a person has to do one of two things to be a traitor: either levy war or adhere to (form an attachment to, the Supreme Court once said) our enemies, giving them not only aid but also comfort. The two-witness rule has also made treason cases rare in American history."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732468840457854...

"…Snowden’s disclosures may have helped the nation’s adversaries (though I’m skeptical as to how much), but treason requires more than that. It is not enough to release important national security information and consort with the nation’s rivals. Snowden may be prosecuted one day. Barring significant new disclosures and developments, it won’t be for treason."

http://www.volokh.com/2013/06/19/snowden-did-not-commit-trea...
Wow, Really Makes You Think As To How The Current Computer's Are Done. Maybe The Us Should Give The Students An Andriod Tablet, So They Can Do It Better.
Yes, that sounds like a good assessment. The same applies to Assange I think.

Personally I don't like this approach. I think it's better to try to improve the system from within. The US and the West is still the world's bastion of freedom and rights, regardless of the way things are portrayed on HN.

I don't think its an effective way of working, and if you have to flee to Russia, Cuba or Venezuela then it seems like the ends have lost sight of the means, but good luck to him.
Snapchat is clearly built to sell, and this round is all about getting more experienced VCs on board to shop it to their buddies in the large tech companies. Comments like these usually get deleted by the VC moderators of HN, so you can copy-paste it if you want to reference it in a reply.
I doubt google will actually delete the data. It makes me angry to know that google went into my neighbourhood and stole data of my neighbours that forgot to protect their wireless or don't even know what that means.
Phil Zimmermann Quote on Government and Crypto (1996)
> You are reading this on a computer.

False. I am reading this on my iPhone. On a toilet.

*Assumes "computer" = "desktop computer"
I find it useful to display the output of tag commands in a location list rather than the default vim pager. (Use "ltag" instead of "tag" from the vim command line).
The People Should Just Write It In Ruby, As That Would Be A More Effecent Design Stratergies.
Knowing OOP is also useful, and knowing how OOP behaves on a machine is also useful (vtables). I can't recommend Scheme or Lisp because it will leave students disconnected from the real-world software stack.