skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all garage door openers will have CPUs over 1Ghz and no self-respecting citizen will have less than 512MB of RAM.

...snd NSA will snoop your keys for all the other agencies. ;-)
Seems like this is where his carefully considered plan gets much more improvisational. Bad optics, just the same - even if he is on his way to Iceland.
his fellow passengers are going to be rather annoyed if he causes this flight to be detained on the tarmac for hours.
Man, how times have changed. I was born in the 70s and the US was the country you would run to to escape retribution for whistleblowing you did back home. (†)

For Snowden to be running to Russia to escape extradition from Hong Kong (!) is just fucking bizarro world for me. It is actually quite jarring. I don't trust Russia at all. But even thinking about it forces one to ask whether one trusts the USA. The answer to that is pretty jarring, too.

(†) I'm not making a right/wrong judgement about his actions. He blew a whistle, a whistle he thought needed to be blown. In my opinion that is a necessary check on state power and is a defence in and of itself.
When I do the laptop interview, I bring a mouse I ask them if they want a keyboard, a different mouse, water or anything else. I even offer to leave the room if they are freaking out. Only one guy has even used the mouse.

Overall although, I think people are far more comfortable with typing on a 15" macbook pro vs scribbling something on a whiteboard.
The C-17 has a rough field capability.

You're correct though; the A400M was intended to fill a position between the C-17 at the high end, and the C-130 at the low end. The issues arose when it later became clear that there may not have been as much of a market for slot as originally envisioned. The C-17 handles vehicles easier than the A400M (where there's lower than expected weight restrictions on what can be carried) while not providing the savings expected for palatalized cargo that the newest models of the C-130(J) can handle. So it's being pressed from both sides.

Of course, the C-17 had teething problems in the beginning. But it benefited from a better environment at the time.

In any case, big item procurement is an utter mess these days. The money is drying up fast after the end of the cold-war, and the inefficient and wasteful structure that thrived during that time can no longer do so. So we get massively overpriced and delayed equipment.
or suffer "mechanical failure"
MI5 feared GCHQ went 'too far' over phone and Internet monitoring
Did anyone of you try to use the SVG as a stack? It is very easy to maintain (no pixel values in the CSS)...

See: http://hofmannsven.com/2013/laboratory/svg-stacking/
Why is Iceland such a bad idea?
Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science? I think thats your first clue something is awry. Stick to Bachelors of Science for Science degrees IMHO.
On Single Founders
In the modern era you can't really hide so he might as well be as public about it as you can be.

Russia is definitely an interesting move, and Putin has been playing the whole thing very smart. I wonder what he knows that the Russians don't, or what they can now reveal having found out through Snowden rather than the usual sources.

It seems to me the value in Snowden is mostly making public what everyone already knew.
If it's unconstitutional, it is illegal, period.
There's also a business opportunity in automating the sleuthing out of this kind of site.

That might seem more legit but would also involve some creep factor.

Edit: that's assuming these sites actually help anyone. But that's as may-be.
I'd be surprised if he's talking about the guy failing an interview, given that he describes it as 'we hired a guy'.
>Moscow will not be his final destination. Possible final destinations are either Iceland and Ecuador, according to previous media reports.

I first thought that Ecuador would be more likely, since had Iceland been his final destination, he probably would have taken the Icelandic businessman's offer to hire him a chartered flight. But then I realized that perhaps Snowden places more trust in a commercial flight and not being detained in Moscow than a stranger's chartered flight which could potentially backstab him and hand him over to US authorities.
How to switch to anti-spy software
http://prism-break.org/

And if you're still on Windows, it's time to download: www.ubuntu.com
Well, I'm not Chinese, but I think they're right. Fairness requires impartiality, and they're being discriminated against. The solution should be to implement the anti-cheating measures everywhere, not just in a few schools.
Surprising to see so many public institutions from Germany are certificate authorities. The linked PDF shows a picture of those 600+ authorities.

https://www.eff.org/files/colour_map_of_CAs.pdf

Even the very small university I went to (their organization is terrible by the way) is a certificate authority. How is that even possible?
Edward Snowden 'leaves Hong Kong on Moscow flight'
>It seems to me the value in Snowden is mostly making public what everyone already knew.

There must be some value to be able to say "no, look at these" to those who would have just cried "conspiracy theory" and then laughed in your face.
This is what something i was waiting for. Flat UI is completely into trends this days.
Let us hope that the plane arrives :\ ..

https://www.google.com/search?q=Aeroflot+SU213
Several weeks for the first version (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543955). Another month for the current release. :)
idk, I'd probably happily put up with it if I knew that the hold up was Snowden related. Then again, I doubt that'd be made public in the aircraft.
"Some end up in the US on work visas because the US citizens purportedly do not have the right skills. In reality, there are plenty of skills here, but foreign workers will work for a lot less. Since companies can hire a programmer from India or Russia for 1/3 the cost of a US worker, that's what happens."

This is what tech companies need to iron out before the American public is going to go along with increasing H1B Visas
If you stop looking for a reason to argue and instead read my words with dispassion, you'll realize I never said he wasn't tortured.
I would like to reply to myself:

They all are "trusted" by the DNF which is the German Research Network.

https://www.dfn.de/en/

"Science itself organized the German National Research and Education Network, DFN, the communications network for science and research in Germany. It connects universities and research institutions with one another and has become an integral part of the European and worldwide community of research and education networks."
"Best Way" Questions
Really, they haven't. Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers (1971), was also also charged with espionage. In his case all the charges against him were dismissed. Not, to be clear, because of any contriteness on Nixon's part. Instead, it was because the government was found to have illegally bugged his phone and broken into the office of his psychiatrist in order to find material with which to discredit him. Several of those involved were later convicted as part of the watergate trials [0].

If you think things were better in the 70s, you really weren't paying attention.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Trial_and_mistr...
Thanks for the document. I've only started reading it, but it looks rather good. (I'm astonished and thrilled that in the essays, the authors cite their sources.) Good find. =)
Unfortunately they are not and will not be the "next Instagram" with their current product offering (in my humble opinion). They don't even come close to having the same kind of value or value potential that Instagram (the product) did when it was bought. It's also very difficult to monetize a product like Snapchat just by its very nature (of destructible media). Now of course I could be wrong about all of this, and if so, feel free to enlighten me.

I think what's more plausible is the possibility that the extra money is going towards more long term plans and product expansions.
1) Stephen Covey often talked about the "personality ethic" over the "character ethic." The set of ethics a society chooses will determine its future in the long-term. Charades cannot last forever.

2) The article didn't hesitate to conflate the events at this one school with the character of the entire country, which, given the disparate scale of the two, seems to be poor journalism. But then again, such articles have come to be expected nowadays.
Out of curiosity how do you define "qualified" and where are you looking?
But that's what I have! :( In all seriousness, though, the lesson isn't to examine the degree, but rather to examine the individual and his/her ability (or potential ability).
"the US over everywhere else .. This kind of system is the only way to create engineers capable of dismantling _any_ sort of animal that bestows upon them"

From what I have seen this is just not true, or at least a too narrow point of view. First of all I think there are other western countries out there where you get this type of not so practical nor job oriented eductaion. There's enough countries where you can even choose to take the more theoretic engineering approach or go for the more practical approach. Also I doubt every single institution in the US where you can get an engineering degree works that way.

Secondly, that capability is something that you cannot simply learn to anyone out there. I even dare to say some are born with it and some are not.
He's not going to Russia; he's going through Russia. TFA's second sentence:

It is understood the fugitive whistle-blower boarded the Moscow-bound flight earlier on Sunday and will continue to another country.
ml with a bunch of hadoop knowledge
What is Important in Secure Software Design?
R core developers are notoriously resistant to change. A number of glaring inefficiencies have gone unfixed for years, despite people submitting patches etc.
Working with many Indian 'engineers', i can say we'd be better off if there were fewer of them. Their typical approach to software development is proverbial. I know there are good ones, but they mostly run their own outsourcing shops, or are already in the U.S.

Maybe education is to blame in part, but mostly it's because of poverty. In a first world country, one can pursue a lot of occupations ending up with nearly same living standard - so the choice depends on one's attitude. If a guy is a U.S. programmer you can be sure he does it because he likes hacking, there is little reason to go there otherwise, a lot of occupations get the same living, or better. In India there is little one can do except getting a non-commoditized job for an export-oriented business, which mostly means engineering. So crowds of people are struggling to get these diplomas simply out of greed, with no passion for what they are supposed to do. I don't think this can be fixed until India pulls itself out of poverty to give people more career choice.
> making public what everyone already knew

I can't find a link, but there has been a "meme" graphic going around with, I think, a very insightful caption.

For years, you go around trying to raise the alarm, and you're a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Then when you finally get conclusive proof - it's old news, everyone knows, you've been saying it for years!
I got my laptop out and loaded it up while they started at me impatiently. Eventually I found the email with the e-ticket (without images) and they barely took one glance at it before sending me on my way (I think I was holding the queue up waiting for my laptop to boot).

You can always, always fake one. And put it on your computer. And take your time showing it to them. They'll wave you through eventually.

That was on a flight from malaysia. When I entered HK from China and Macau, they didn't say anything.
>"because the government was found to have illegally bugged his phone and broken into the office of his psychiatrist

Can this not be actual legal precedence AGAINST the entire NSA debacle to begin with?

Seriously, can an IAMAL comment on if this could be used?
Summer Walks - Walks And Walking
I hadn't heard of ChannelID before now, but that draft is clearly talking about client, not server authentication; it's a way for you to prove to HN that you're really 'codeka', not a way for HN to prove to you that it's really Hacker News (which is what SSL certs do).
Pointer allows you to dereference a memory address. A reference is the physical memory address variable.

If you have a variable and you want to pass-by-reference, making any changes to the original variable effect the originally allocated value.

You use a pointer for instance if you want to dereference a physical memory address as part of an array of allocated memory addresses.

// reference example
int value = 0;
int value1 = &value;
value1 = 2;
// value should equal 2

// pointer example
int value[5] = {1,2,3,4,5};
*value += 1;value++;
*value += 1;value++;
*value += 1;value++;
*value += 1;value++;
*value += 1;
// should now be {2,3,4,5,6}
Or, he could have bought the ticket to moscow and went to HKG with the ticket to board the commercial flight to Ecuador via moscow and then boarded the private plane to KEF

(unlikely - but fun to think about)
I don't see what you mean... If you search for an album, album tracks was loaded in playlist and displayed in artist panel, no ?
I'm guessing this isn't serious. But if you are, I'm pretty sure most of the data on Snapjoy is private rather than public.
Eschelonitis
Iceland's fine. It's going via Moscow that's the problem, at least in terms of the surrounding debate. It'll give a lot more ammunition to the "he betrayed his country" people, which won't be good for the exceedingly overdue conversation we were starting to have about secrecy and surveillance.
Actually it would be awesome to sit next to Snowden on this flight.
Ironic, people used to seek asylum in US from persecution in other countries. How times have changed? Now people run to other countries for asylum to avoid persecution in US. More and more land of the free is becoming land of tyrants.
This doesn't really make bootstrap "flat". Removing rounded corners doesn't make it flat. Removing shadows (and depth) is the main issue. You should be removing borders too, right?

Even still, "flat" design isn't right for everything. Design should be evaluated for the specific application. The design of bootstrap now is safer than a "flat"-er option, IMO.
Not only his leaks, even his itinerary makes the US look bad.
There was a case not many years ago at New Years in New Orleans of a woman dying from this, and if you "DuckDuckGo" it you can find other similar news stories.

So for all the mathematics posts in reply to your post, the real answer is, "Yes, it can happen. Yes, it is a dangerous thing to do"
My guess is that Iceland would probably bend to the US's will pretty easily, especially over such a high profile individual.
Most startups aren't looking to hire developers that are desperate for jobs. The point is they have a job they like reasonably well, they have other offers on the table from other companies. Other companies here did not require them to moonlight for a week knowing full well it might not work out (keep in mind they would be moon lighting with you in addition to interviewing with other companies). So why would they agree to moonlight if -- even without moonlighting -- the job offer is already a tough sell?

There are two possibilities:

1) You're looking for a co-founder of for perhaps the founding engineer, e.g., Sergey Brin and Larry Page hiring Craig Silverstein. You've impressed them to a great degree (they like your product demo, your background), and they are already willing to pay potential opportunity costs (a job at an established company, finishing their Ph.D. program, etc...) to join you. Then this really isn't a hiring problem per-se, this is a "finding a co-founder or founding engineer" problem; you are less likely be hiring someone "from the cold" for this in the first place (this is why so many companies are started by graduate students or former coworkers...)

2) You're willing to hire people who are unable to find other full-time work, in other words someone with no formal experience or experience in a completely wrong area (e.g., someone who worked on internal business web applications, but who wants to get into embedded programming).

Then you're really looking to hire an intern (in case of no formal experience) -- where the process is essentially that, a contract to hire, or simply take a calculated risk. In other words, you are able to see potential in this person (which they've demonstrated by perhaps building an app in their spare time) and are willing to set them up for success (as oppose to trying to find the best candidates out of a pool).
> because the government was found to have illegally bugged his phone

Man, how times have changed. Now espionage charges apply when someone leaks that the government bugged everyone's phone.
CharityNewsForum.com was registered in September 2011...so it seems about right.
HKSAR Government issues statement on Edward Snowden
> If you think things were better in the 70s, you really weren't paying attention.

Yeah, well I was 3.

Even so I don't seem to recall Ellsberg fleeing the country to escape absolute certain injustice. I don't recall his video interview with a foreign paper while he hid in China. Do you?

Something has definitely changed.
You have an odd way of looking at things. ;) I happen to find the whole thing pretty amazing, the universe is beginning to understand itself.

Not to mention elegant in the way the human body runs perfectly on early-human food.

I'm not obese, and when eating sugar/starch I end up sleepy at times and starving a few hours later. Everyone knows it... moms have been telling us for decades if not centuries, not to give sugar to children.

Proteins/fats must be converted, meaning their glycemic index will be much lower. As such, a day or two after I substituted green-veggies & nuts for grains the difference was palpable.

I have not been stuffed or starving for over a month, lost my spare tire, and am loving it. Fits perfectly with everything I learned in chem, bio, and nutrition at uni. long before this became a movement. I don't think of this as FSM, rather differential equations such as these:
http://17calculus.com/calc08-app-ccfluids.php

There are benefits to keeping blood sugar levels stable whether people want to believe it or not.
The big issue is that 'terrorism' is not about inflicting harm, but fear of harm.

A few quad rotor UAVs outfitted as you describe, possibly even with frangible rounds or just dropping tiny flechettes such as those used from the air in WWI, would easily cause panic.

For that matter, "suicide" UAVs that are either capable of delivering a lightweight shrapnel load without concern for the vehicle's survivability, or just using the kinetic energy of the moving vehicle and the rotating blades to crash into crowds, especially in some sort of flock, would discourage a lot of people from gathering in public places, going to clubs, sporting events, malls, tourist attractions, etc.
Thanks ! Proud you liked it :)
This is strange, because there are no scheduled nonstop flights between Moscow (any airport) and Iceland. There are flights which make a connection in Europe, e.g. Helsinki, but then there are already nonstop flights to Helsinki from Hong Kong, so what does he gain from an additional landing in Moscow?

(Assuming Iceland is where he is trying to go).

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

http://flightaware.com

(Note that the hub in Iceland is Keflavík (KEF), not Reykjavík (RKV) which mostly does domestic).
Show HN: MiniHack - Hacker News for iOS (my first app)
Due to techniques like garbage collection, debug logs and full backups, I think it's difficult for huge litigation targets to make blanket statements about deleting user data.

edit: Redacted part of the comment to avoid quoting policy out of context.
IANAL. My understanding of how these things work, however, is that the case against Ellsberg was dismissed by the trial judge, and therefore does not establish any precedent. If he'd been convicted, and the conviction overturned on appeal (and the conviction's having been overturned was upheld in any appeals thereof), then precedent would have been created.

The reason it works this way is that trial courts are venues for finding facts, while appellate courts are vehicles for addressing questions of law surrounding those findings of fact. It's how those questions of law are resolved, so-called "case law", that creates precedents.

IANAL; corrections welcome.
I am a typical Indian engineer who has just recently graduated ( This Year) and I am pissed off at the article.

1. The original Economic Times article points that a large number of engineers are struggling to get placed but fails to give any satisfying evidence.
2. The article also only takes in account the candidates that got placed through college placement, it entirely disregards the engineers who may have gotten job through other means or those who may have started a business of their own.
3. Compare the hiring data that is shown for two universities - For IIT it is fairly consistent, For Amity, as the article mentions the placements are currently underway in the institute so it is not final data.
4. It says that India's IT industry will be hiring fewer people this year however it doesn't take into account other Indian industries which saw a boom in hiring this year - such as the Indian auto industry. In fact the article is mainly or as I suspect solely based on the IT industry data.

To conclude I think the Economic Times article only convinces me of one thing - rate of increase in engineers in India is proportional to it's population growth rate which I should think is the natural course of things.
For those who want to hypothesize: Here you can check the departures from Moskow after 17:15h

http://svo.aero/en/timetable/today/

I think destinations in Russia, EU and Asia can be safely filtered out.
I'd be happier if he weren't putting himself under the control of governments that can reasonably be regarded as US adversaries. Thus, I'm with Assange that Ecuador or something was the way for Snowden to go.

Yes, there would be a risk to him of regime change in any such place, but so be it ...
The HKSAR Government (June 23) issued statement on Mr Edward Snowden
While I don't like lots of gloss, loads of textures etc, I think completely flat everywhere can end up looking amateurish. I still like a little bit of 'noise' texture here and there, so it still looks flat, but doesn't look quite so dull.
I believe it might be ads. I can't remember exactly where I read it, but they are expanding their sales team with the money they raise.
Yes, we have this scheme in our Finnish polytechnic. Regardless though, people still do it and try and get away with it. Sometimes they don't even try and make any small changes to the original document. I have no idea why they do it -- perhaps they don't believe the system will catch it?
This is the problem with selling education primarily as a means to gain monetary wealth. You'll get lots of people who just want that piece of paper at the end -- and this effect will be increased in countries where monetary wealth is relatively uncommon.
I have my doubts that I'm a top developer (I have a long list of things I'd like to understand/do better in order to consider myself in that category), but I've done and would consider doing a paid audition project.

The problem is that it's not always your choice to make. Noncompete clauses exist, and, if you're outside the state of California, are generally enforceable. I don't know about you, but I'd really rather have a system where taking an interview wasn't a fire-able offence.