skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Download the labs. Don't look at or run the tests.

Carefully implement each lab based on its description alone. Implement until you're certain you've done it correctly.

Run the tests. Discover that your implementation is far from flawless.
Yep. Since I put that comment up, the news has suggested he's doing the right thing after all. China & Russia don't seem to have a better play here than letting him in and out fast enough to make it clear he didn't have to spill secrets to them in private conversation in return for aid -- thus preserving his credibility to generally embarrass US intelligence.
Thanks for posting the follow-up info on tuning!
That's what makes this userscript a great contribution. People who are tired of the Snowden coverage can now ignore it, instead of HN attempting to moderate the content.
The day I caught an ATM card catcher
Before I post another one of these for SF: I'm in a similar situation this week in SF. I'd love to meet some of you. Anyone want to grab a beer?
Not sure about a MOVT (my ARM assembler is only current to an ARM2...) but it's two (pipelined) instructions vs one instruction and a slow memory access. But then again, I'm thinking of a previous era with no instruction or data caches !
It may sound crazy to you, but yes you do actually stand a greater chance of making peace with enemies and therefore reducing attacks from them if you stop shooting at them and bombing them and ask them kindly why they are flying planes into your buildings and then make a good faith effort to address those issues.
Isn't a simpler explanation that they are just stupid and didn't take 5 minutes to find out exactly who they are sending the letter to and just sent it to the first google result for bitcoin?
I had tried Lekh Diagram and Grafio both and found the latter to be better. You may want to try it out.

http://www.tentouchapps.com/grafio
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The US intelligence fugitive Edward Snowden has arrived in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong.

But he is only thought to be in transit before leaving for Venezuela or Ecuador, via Cuba.

The US wanted him extradited from Hong Kong but the government said Washington had failed to meet its requirements.

Mr Snowden, an intelligence contractor, fled to Hong Kong in May after revealing extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence.

The Aeroflot Airbus, flight SU213, landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport at 17:10 local time (13:10 GMT).

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Are these the paragraphs you're referring to? Which sentences do you object to?
Why socialists always try to spend other's people money? Or tell them how they should live their lives? America was once a free country...
If there's anything in your repo history that you don't want a hacker to find you can just remove it and force push.
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger

This is exactly what happened after 9/11 to those who opposed conflict in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Except these people weren't even "Peacemakers" per-say: they just didn't feel military excursions were an appropriate response to a terrorist attack.
Yeah, that's not exactly leading edge psychology. It's pretty well known. How does that invalidate my conclusions?
Is it your idea?You just said you "see them using..."
Anyway, to validate an idea for the US Market, you need an MVP and a promising team if you want to go for Y Combinator. Yet, a team full of internationals would have a low chance of getting in.
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"Edward Snowden has landed in Russia" should not be important enough to the HN community to warrant first-page placement for the better part of 12 hours. If there's meaningful debate as to the ramifications of the NSA and big data, sure, but most of the content hasn't been political or insightful so much as breaking.
Just few hours ago I read this by Schopenhauer: “Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.”
I'm surprised Fabric [http://fabfile.org] has not been mentioned in this thread. I'm not a Python developer but I love Fabric specifically for a tool to handle deploying code. If you feel like a Git deployment is lacking, be sure to check out Fabric, especially for multi-server deploys.
Indeed. Given Google's insatiable thirst for data, and the NSA's apparent open-door policy with regards to other people's data, will Google glass essentially be seen as a way for the NSA and chums to watch what everyone is doing, all the time? How do you feel about someone in your workplace/social space/anywhere recording you on behalf of the NSA?
> it's very nice for once to see a small country not immediately bend over and lube up the minute the US asks it to.

Ah, but Hong Kong is not like any other small country. It is an autonomous region of China, which just happens to be the second most-powerful country in the world.

The United States can put an unlimited amount of diplomatic and economic pressure on a small country. They can keep ratcheting up the pressure until the small country has no choice but to give in. So you might as well give in right away, and avoid upsetting the Americans.

In contrast, the United States can only put a limited amount of pressure on Hong Kong. If the US were to go too far, then Beijing could intervene.
I agree with your sentiment for the most part, except to nit-pick and say that the guidelines prohibit "Most stories about politics," but, like you said and what I think I stated pretty well in my post is that this topic is particularly important to the HN crowd. In fact, I would even go so far as to say the whole thing is NOT political, insofar as the whole democrats-vs-republicans dichotomy is irrelevant to the discussion.
I am not the original poster and I have not lived it first hand, but my grandparents left Lithuania in the 1930s (not a Soviet republic at that time). I was always told the story of how my grandfather went back to visit in the 1970s, and that his friends and family expressed concern that they were being surveilled.

On the other hand I wonder if that might say something about these specific people, and if it might have varied by place. I've talked to a lot of people from Russia (as opposed to satellite republics) who say that it wasn't really on very many people's minds at the time.
That seems a little speculative.
Hopefully people will put their money where their mouths are, though that doesn't extend beyond Glass and into Gmail use, Skype, Microsoft, etc. because we generally use them without paying.
Thanks. That does seem related. I wonder if it was an isolated insight or if he went into this theme in depth.
There is nothing I read of him that I didn't utterly love, so I'd recommend whatever is easily obtainable, it's all good. But "The Sane Society" particularly comes to mind.
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I mostly agree and I think your last paragraph is the best thermometer: the "political" discussions involving the NSA scandals mostly have not sparked enmity, and since most people agree on the political stance towards these, the discussion can healthily lean towards the implications of it for information freedom and technology and how we can fight these advances to our privacy through our tech and internet savvy. So I deem (most) of the posts a good thing, except where it gets repetitive with similar stories in frontpage spots across days or even at the same time, and have not once thought about flagging one.
Suppressed report reveals companies hire criminals to steal rivals' information
As others have noted elsewhere, that's not true: you can have it delete emails on delete, but you do have to turn that on yourself.

It's not the default, and defaults matter, but it is an option that appears as soon as you click "enable IMAP" in gmail (go ahead and try it in your gmail settings). You'll have to read the options, yes, but considering the whole UX thing for gmail has been "never have to delete an email again", it's not an unmotivated default.

Also, I hope your email client does secure deletes on local disk by default.
If you find the original, I'd like to see the citation.

One has, I think, to be careful about applying this insight to other people. It's best in the first person.
This is great! Very interesting idea, if I had more time I would incorporate it into my semester project. My solution using putty now looks so cheap.
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Possibly. It was an embedded systems class, and I have a background dealing more with webdev and audio systems, so I figured I could combine all three into something novel. It actually worked out really well for the purpose, which was supposed to be a power-saving application. This way required only the addition of a comparator chip between the ATMega168 and the headphone line, which made it a super low power (and computationally light) way to communicate.
Your wording implies that you think Google has something to hide or to be embarrassed about releasing the data, and that is not the case.

The government asks for people's data all the time, and Google is legally obligated to provide the requested data. They then go the extra step and tell the users as soon as they are allowed to.

There's nothing here to "get in front of."
Neat! Thanks.
In response to stopping terrorism, violence, etc.

It's a fact that humans are products of their environment[1,2]. This has been known for quite some time. However the degree to which we are products of our environment has always been a hot topic of discussion. On one side we have a status quo in the medical profession that insist we are pre determined for disease both physically and mentally. On the other side we have social scientists that say we are solely products of our environment and genetics only gives us predispositions to things like mental illness or obesity and so on.

I tend to agree with the social scientists. We have triggers; genetically. They are either pulled or left alone. The environment in which you live is the catalyst for that type of action.

Going off of that I'll point to Michel Foucault, a mid-twentieth century philosopher and social critic. The bulk of his work focuses on dissecting the ideas of power and knowledge. He understands these two entities to be synonymous with each other, which lays the foundation for his critique of governmental and institutional power. Through his critiques, Foucault positions himself as a post-modernist philosopher interested in the societal controls of modernity. He believes power, and therefore knowledge is not absolute; it is defined, enforced and accepted within the society in which it’s institutionalized. This of course is the opposite of modernism, which exercises the belief that science and reason possess the knowledge for an ultimate truth. Stemming from the industrial revolution, modernity reigned supreme through much of the twentieth century and arguably still does today.

Without the willingness to accept that our environment effects so much of what we do we will never understand the means in which to change it. The ideas of violence and power are not born inside of our minds. They grow, over time, from our perceptions. Forcing an ideology or a standard on an environment will not change the behavior of the individuals occupying it; it will only enforce the causation of negative action.

1.) http://www.mindingourbodies.ca/sites/default/files/suicide_a...

2.) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007....

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucauldian_discourse_analysis
I know the OP is intentionally leaving the irony unsaid because it's so obvious...but of course, the technique described here is anything but "precision"...the MPAA is apparently able to list just a few offending URLs to convince Google to take down an entire domain..."precision" takedowns would be sending off thousands of specific URLs to infringing content.

In other words, they're apparently able to invoke the index-ban-hammer in the way that SOPA was meant to let them (had it passed).
Most of the HN discussion I've seen on this has been a showcase for the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Well, the US has had 3k or so killed in the past 15 years. In response it killed hundreds of thousands and caused widespread devastation and misery in several foreign wars.

These wars created multiple large transnational extremist anti-US movements that now have advanced military equipment, are skilled veterans of war, and are spreading their influence to neighboring countries.

Not a great trade.
It must be a hard sell at the prices they charge compared to free and open source Python Scientific, Financial, etc... (http://www.scipy.org/)
Well, if that is your point, it is indeed a valid one. I would say that there are not disagreements but a growing mismatch in the strategic goals of both countries. The more Venezuela looks for building a diversified economy (thus leaving the role of an oil-only USA-only extra-cheap supplier), the more USA will press Venezuela government to subdue it to do what they want. That has nothing to do with being rightist or leftist, or with human rights, or any of that. It's only about geopolitics and USA goals and needs.
But yes, you are right, the recent elections haven't settled things.
I disagree. I'm pretty sure you're misinterpreting the site guidelines.

This: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

It does not say HN isn't for any politics. It says "most stories about politics" but does not say all or any. It has a further clause which I would argue absolutely pertains to the relatively new phenomenon of PRISM and its cousin programs.

Clearly Snowden / PRISM / etc and other stories like those about Aaron Schwartz fit in perfectly with Hacker News.

All that said without implying that HN should be all about politics. I think there is room on HN for specific political issues that are of interest to hackers.
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Are you joking? The death of a man who has contributed as much or more negatively to our industry as he did positively (on different spheres), and who gets the full frontpage only because he attracted a legion of irreparably clueless people, is more important than a case of the world's privacy in danger? (of course, it has been going for years, but it's great to finally hit the spotlight)

Sorry if I'm offending someone, but I find the comparison really offensive myself.
Ehh, I wouldn't go that far. We mostly agree on these stories political, but some of us don't agree "enough". There has definitely been enmity on some of the NSA threads.
I think you and I said the same thing with different words (though I'm not sure how "perfect" the fit on these topics is; I'd rather there was 1/10th the amount of NSA coverage, for instance, and even less about Snowden himself).

It's "Swartz", by the way.
Because this is America, and it's supposed to be an amazing country where you have wonderful rights as outlined in the constitution.
Sounds exactly like what Sweden did to Gottfrid Svartholm Warg in Cambodia a few months ago.
As a bar prepping J.D. at the moment, I just want to see how this plays out in a courtroom where the prosecution relies too heavily on bitcoins as their ID strategy. I'll totally let them try and explain this to a jury...
You're right, it sounds completely crazy to me. Nobody really bombed or shot Timothy McVeigh. Or the RAF. Or the Brigate Rosse. They did all their shooting and bombing all by themselves, at the cost of hundreds upon hundreds of innocent lives. It's not that the questions of causes or morality of our own actions are illegitimate - they aren't. The idea that we're going to practically stop amoral nutjobs by just being ever so much nicer seems based on nothing but wishful thinking, though.
Who said anything about missiles? For best effect, smuggle in a device and do the mother of all "suicide bombings" from a general aviation plane at optimum height and location. Nasty detail: as of when I left the D.C. area, the defense plans for the White House would only shoot down the 2nd airplane which violated the relevant restricted air space....

We also have absolutely no defenses for anything from our east, unless an Aegis ship with SM-3s and the upgrades to fire them is near the target and properly alert. This lack of protection was, after all, one of the reasons for the Bush plan to put ABMs in Eastern Europe, they'd protect everything there to the west, including the eastern part of the US.

As for sources, IF they got enough HEU they could most certainly manufacture working gun assembly nuclear weapons; as usual the trick is getting the fissionables, but are you entirely, "You Bet Your Life" sanguine about Pakistan's control over its nukes and nuclear materials??? And how responsible Iran will be when they get "the bomb" remains to be seen.
Clojure isn't Common Lisp, but it's A Lisp, and a pretty decent one...
Correct. The next step on this project will be to try and get two way communication working. I ran out of time before the class ended to get that established. If I remember correctly I ran into some issues with the mobile safari and the microphone input via javascript. I believe PhoneGap provides an API for this though.
Probably honeypot operation. I wonder if DEA would auction those coins like all assets that get seized.
I personally love the portability that web api provides and the fact that I can run it without overhead right now.
The OP is focused on the psychological aspect, but I'm also fascinated by how much physiology plays a part in this. If it's true that your body is mostly composed of cells just a decade old (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/02cell.html?pagewa...), then your body is substantively different than it was the previous decade. And yet, your mental state and memories, at least as you perceive it, seem to be continuous.

But back to psychology and society: I wonder how much of this will change in the age of Google and Wikipedia, when you can look up within seconds and find with good certainty of how things were 10 years ago. And, with the persistence of online data, your past may continually impact your life, day to day, in a way that was never possible before in history. I suspect the responses by participants in this study today may vary quite a bit from similar participants 20 years from now.
I'm in the process of building a more general purpose dev board using the same processor I used for the class, so once I've got that up and running I'll try and post more "How to" related stuff on the github.
Do they need to be ~80% of the front page though?
Auto-layout is what makes tools like yEd special. I showed someone recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vqVgd4KW8&t=2m10s
This C&D demonstrates a rather alarming ignorance about Bitcoin, and an even more alarming tendency of modern enforcement agencies to halt any activity they don't understand.

Not really, The state knows what it needs to know about bitcoins in the sense that it knows it can stop them easily, which seems to be more than bitcoin supporters know.

But this statement demonstrates the ignorance and contradictions within bitcoin boosting; the idea that because bitcoin values have grown that bitcoins are a logical potential currency rather than one more speculative trend in the line with tulip is the most obvious example. There is also the confusion between whether bitcoins will succeed through the very force of encryption to end the state's control of currency or whether bitcoins will succeed because bitcoinists have a moral right create a system to destroy the state's control over its currency. But there's a further confusion - bitcoinists don't get that the dollar's value derives from the state's monopoly of force and violence. Indeed, bitcoinists somehow don't get that the dollar is ipso facto the best currency because people use it even though they want bitcoins to succeed on the same criteria. And there's the part how bitcoinist think the weakness of gold is that it can't be transmitted electronically whereas the fact is that state prevents it from being currency (even if it is still allowed as an investment). And I could on and on...
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Some coffee/bers, foods, hackers and entrepreneurs there
I have a layman's question about Bitcoin for people who know more about the currency: Who or what controls the overall monetary policy for Bitcoin?

In other words, is there some sort of digital central bank that controls inflation by deciding how many Bitcoins are released per area?
"A great many people" : it seems that the author is excluding himself from the group, where his statement is just prejudice, making him inside the group. This is some kind of freak irony, and it does not feel intended.
You're right, I over-exaggerated my point, sorry.
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And here I was thinking that this was obvious and most people used something like Capistrano... It's shocking to me the amount of people not using some sort of SCM-based deployment method. =P
Hilarious :)

What else are you upset about?
Stupid title. Should've been "cracked iPhone displays". I read "cracked iPhone" synonymous with "jailbreaked iPhone".

Also, nicely written press release.
My country was not involved in attacking other countries.

Imagine if a crazy guy in my country uses our nuclear capabilities as an answer? can I justify them?
A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago, eating breakfast. I didn't realize that it was a national holiday. I came out of the diner, and turned a corner, and said "Whoah, when did a millitary parade happen?"

Then, I saw the words on the side of the APC: "Chicago Police Department SWAT."

To give you an idea, it looks like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kHTFUq0_Yec/T-s2AzxBmQI/AAAAAAAAHz... That's Nebraska, but it was basically the same model.

After the G20 came to Pittsburgh in 2009, the city used the money to purchase four of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device During the event, I had the privilege of becoming one of the first Americans to have this particular, previously military-only weapon used on me. Why would a city of 300,000 people need four of these, especially as we're closing schools and cutting bus lines?

The militarization of the police force is a real problem.
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There is no authority, just code. The algorithm essentially self-adjusts so that new coins are created at a globally steady rate, rewarding miners proportionate to their effort. (at least until all coins are mined)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
Which seems like a or as much of a function of administrative, rather than geographic boundaries so we're completing some sort of talmudic nerdgument circle here and I still don't quite understand why Manhattan is a better or even good example in a comparison with SF.

Thread depth 8 or so, though, call it a draw by mutual confusion?
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Evidence tampering is a federal felony. In this case it doesn't matter how well you covered your tracks - if they can prove you rigged a failsafe, you're going to jail anyway.
To the moderation: that's a really innacurate change of the title. People only have 8 more days to donate, the sense of urgency is a tad bit higher in that context. Given stories rarely stay on the frontpage across days, changing it to "8 days" would be more accurate, I think.