skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again infinity0,

I did not mean to suggest that he should stay behind to face the justice system which could be corrupt, I meant to say that he should stay behind and trust himself to the American populous, a lot of which considers him a hero.

When you are travelling around and running from something, things can happen. I've had a few friends die/be murdered while travelling in foreign countries so I have a personal reason to sort of understand when something happens or somebody dies while travelling. But at large in this country people have seen Taken or Hostel or some other anti-traveling movie that has conditioned them to think that travelling in inherently unsafe. By travelling you open yourself up to whoopsie-daisy style deaths in which it is just understood that you died because you were being incompetent in some fashion.

In the American legal system however, the jail which you are held in is responsible for your well being. And with somebody as high-profile as Ed Snowden, if something were to happen to him while he was in jail, everyone would know about it and some people would have to answer questions.

And if he were convicted of espionage while he was staying in this country, 1) His charges as a spy wouldn't make sense because it would be understood that he still considered himself a US citizen so he would have nobody to be accused to be spying for aside from the people of the US and 2) if he was convicted, imprisoned, executed or whatever could be the case, the laws and the legal system that did it would be under immense scrutiny by the ACLU, the EFF and anyone else the actions pissed off and would probably face extremely harsh repercussions.
Don't for a second think this is a partisan issue. There are just as many liberal media organizations doing this type of reporting on Snowden.
This is slightly strange: the best onward flight to Havana is Aeroflot 150, which departed Moscow SVO 30 minutes ago. This makes Snowden's layover in Moscow likely to be over 20 hours, so one must wonder if he plans to stay there a while.

http://flightaware.com/live/findflight/UUEE/MUHA/

If he will indeed fly HK-Moscow-Havana-Caracas without delay, he may finish with flight V04101 on Monday at 23:50 Venezuela time (21:20 California time).
No, so far he's not been charged with treason. The US allows the death penalty for divulging certain types of classified information - for example information directly concerning nuclear weapons, and communications intelligence.

I don't think any progressive countries impose the death penalty at all, but I suppose this depends on what countries you would include in that category.
You seem to forget that, as has been proved,especially when it comes to government contractors, the US intelligence agencies are hilariously inefficient at what they do. That is what makes this sentence so funny:
"For a nation that outspends the next ten defense budgets combined (even with the off late sequestration cuts accounted for) this is not much of a task."

Stop with the U.S. god complex already.
An interesting perspective but here is the problem with it. Yes black people were overtly persecuted for a good portion of US history, however I would argue that because it was so overt and obvious and often underpinned by law, that ultimately led to its downfall. It was a visible and obvious wrong that a light could be shined on.

The problem with a secret programme is the govt can decide to target a group of individuals and you and I would have no idea it is happening. Those perhaps who have strong environmental feelings or perhaps gun owners, and with the advent of remote prison camps and extra-judicial courts presiding over individuals rendered from their country of origin the fact that in the past the government WAS overt about persecution should make people be more worried not less.
The Icelandic domestic minister (which handles asylum requests) has announced that Snowden will be treated like any other asylum seeker[1]. That is not good news for Snowden since Iceland's take on asylum seekers is usually to not handle their case at all, or turn them back[2].

However Hanna Birna (the minister) has been highly criticized for her take on the issue, since it clearly contradicts the IMMI initiative (https://immi.is/). And hopes are that the Parliament will handle his case. But in short, the Icelandic government is not going to do anything about Snowden.

[1] http://www.visir.is/engin-sermedferd-fyrir-snowden/article/2... (icelandic)

[2] some statisstics here (http://redcross.lausn.is/Apps/WebObjects/RedCross.woa/swdocu...) in icelandic too.
It's done in central Auckland too.
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Tell that to the US Border Patrol searching an detaining people that just happen to be near the border. It's especially fun for people that have their visa status in limbo because the State Department is processing an update. They are allowed to stay here, but all of their official papers are expired, so Border Patrol throws them in jail for a few days until they sort things out with the State Department. This all happens on regular roads that are not within distance of a border crossing.

This case is from 1973, and while it may presumably apply here, the CBP doesn't seem to think that it does.
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Wearing Glass is no different that wearing a POV camera. Communication still falls into the realm of everything that was possible pre-Glass.

Now if the patient swallowed some nanobots that found their way to source of the problem and then Glass guided the doctor to that location via a Google Navigation-like interface, that would be impressive.
Didn't he say that he intended to fight any extradition in the HK courts?
Doesn't dnssec still rely on a trust authority counter-signing? It may make it easier for browsers to be cautious but is hardly going to stop regimes like China.

A better solution would be to tie all DNS records to a key on a hardware device that can be in the actual hands of the website operator (in a safe). What users want to know is that the website they visited yesterday is the one they visited today. Physical security of a single key that is never allowed to change is a better way to guarantee that than key chains.
Skype alternative using WebRTC. Anonymous video chat w/o installing software
> The UK Government would rather be a member of the US than the EU.

FTFY
> Having recently been a student in an American university, I found that in a number of my classes, having a wish to acquire knowledge puts you at a disadvantage. When the majority of your peers are "working in a group" (read: academically sanctioned cheating) and you are not, your grade is likely to suffer. I was able to grasp and learn the material better in the long run, but at the cost of not having a great GPA.

You are possibly conflating "working in a group" with "academically sanctioned cheating". There are several situations where working in a group happens:

1. Cooperatively solving an assignment as a group, e.g. a programming assignment where pieces of code are divided amongst the members. In such a scenario, I would argue that if you were solving it on your own, you were being stupid. Sure, you learnt how to solve a technical problem on your own; on the other hand you missed out on learning how to work in a group.

2. Studying together in order to comprehend the material better. I am not even sure how this could be interpreted as cheating.

3. Solving say a theoretical assignment together where in reality one person solves the damn thing and everyone else copies the solution. Most math/theory classes (in a decent school) acknowledge that this can happen and have exams to smooth out the grades.

> This situation forces any student interested in maintaining a high GPA to focus more on the grade and not the material. The delicious irony being that students who are most eligible for graduate studies are those least intellectual.

Really? Tell me more about these graduate programs that look only at your GPA. If you are so damn well intellectual, you should be out there working with professors on research projects and whatever to show that you are cut out for graduate school.
While I can see the point you're trying to make - give himself in for the sake of publicity, I also think you are making very far-fetched conclusions.

1)Running away from certain prosecution is not unpatriotic. He is a patriot of his country, not of his government. If they jailed him, he wouldn't be allowed to do anything to change the course of the trial(see Bradley Manning).

2) The government has already proved that it will go against the public opinion by officially charging him with espionage and treason. If they have not started doing damage control up until now, why should they after they jail him?
Wikileaks legal advisers - he's flying to a country that is putting a dead whistleblower on trial in order to demonise him and cover up government corruption.

Relying on the legal process in Russia is a really good way to find out how different it is from America, however much certain people would like to think differently.

Because that dead whistleblower - he was a lawyer.
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Flatstrap doesn't work for me (mainly, "download flatstrap" just.... downloads the website... with standard Bootstrap.)
In my personal value system I value the one who is able to beat a system through a clever hack much higher than the one who follows just the instructions to the point how somebody else planned it out.

After all in you world of non-cheating companies you would have to be strictly agains the business practices of companies such as Uber or Airbnb. After all they were certainly breaking the rules when they first started out and are still facing some serious legal battles.

I believe that everyone has the personal responsibility to challenge the rules, to question them, to demand answers why they are there and whom do they benefit. If the answers are unsatisfying it comes down to the personal evaluation: Is it better to follow the rules, challenge the rules, or break them.
This is Bill Clinton - whose spouse, from all accounts, will most likely be running for the office of President in 2016 - on NSA Security Leaks and Snowden.

"I don't see any alternative to trying to track all these groups around the world who are trying to wreck the ordinary operations of life in America and probably kill a lot of people. I am not persuaded that they (NSA) have done more harm than good"

Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-JdjIxjeUs
>Because all "third world-ish" places are the same.

They more or less are from that aspect.

The "third world" status is mostly a result of corruption, foreign influence and/or colonial history. And it implies impoverished locals and a not very powerful state.

All of these things point towards easy reach for a powerful foreign country.

>Also, because Ecuador doesn't have an actual rule of law, hasn't been holding Assange in its embassy for years and isn't easy to disappear in.

Not the same thing at all.

For one, Assange is a heroic figure for far more people, including in the US -- whereas a lot of people have been convinced Snowden is a "traitor" (with him being a US citizen AND a secret services employee et al). So it's a lot more difficult to publicly prosecute Assange, and the US is probably content to let the thing linger than extort full pressure.

Second, an embassy, and one in London, nonetheless, is easier to secure than a whole country. For Assange to "disappear" or be delivered from there, it would mean either a direct and open attack (affecting both Ecuador and UK) or Ecuador's government open collaboration.

Whereas someone can "disappear" or found dead INSIDE a country like Ecuador with not many problems.

Case in point:

http://www.news9.com/story/22638726/foreign-authorities-assu...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/09/2012930929311...

http://latinamericacurrentevents.com/ecuador-foreign-couple-...
> Grammatical complexity is very much reduced...

English may be easy for e.g. German speakers but English is not simple. Its rules are complex.

English grammar is not simple. It has what (12?) tenses. (on the contrary Russian has basically 3 tenses) And it's full of exceptions. Why 'I see', but I'm looking at you. There's simply no reason. It's an exception. Thousands of them.

> ...and the phonology converges on what is pronouncable by all speakers of the new language (and therefore is reduced in complexity as well.

Let's just take 2 sounds.
Th as in this: "This sound, and its unvoiced counterpart, are rare phonemes. The great majority of European and Asian languages, such as German, French, Persian, Japanese, and Chinese, lack this sound."

Th as in "thing": "Among the more than 60 languages with over 10 million speakers, only English, Standard Arabic, Spanish (Spain only), Burmese, and Greek have [it]"

> Of course Esperanto is a jumble as well, but it's a jumble that is entirely artificial.

Artificial != bad. We have tons of artificial things in our life that are awesome!

> it's developed over dozens of years by a large number of speakers of widely differing skill levels whereas Esperanto was thought up by a small number of highly skilled language experts.

That what happens when you let naturally develop: "In general, English spelling does not reflect* the sound changes in the pronunciation of the language that have occurred since the late fifteenth century."

> I'll agree with you that for native speakers of Indo-European langues (like mine, which isn't English, by the way), Esperanto is easy to learn and use. But my point is it is not easy to learn for people who aren't native speakers of an Indo-European language and that if you're going to make these people learn an Indo-European language anyway, you might as well just make it English.

Esperanto is several times faster to learn than English for anybody (given similar conditions). Linguists say it and I second that based on experience.
> The source claimed that even the conventional warrant system has been distorted – whereas police used to ask for a warrant before intercepting a target's communications, they will now ask GCHQ to intercept the target's communications and then use that information to seek a warrant.

This method of getting a warrant completely subverts reasons a warrant is required. It turns a warrant into a sham.
Hi Sptix,

I agree here. If Snowden had a) stayed in the US and or b) stayed on message ("The US govt. should not spy on US citizens") he would have been credible to me.

I lost respect when he started to make statements re: the NSA's activities counter China, especially when he was hiding in China at a time when China/US talks re: espionage were taking place.

That's when I began to think, this guy is a pawn.
High treason means you sold out your entire country to an enemy. E.g. if a soldier switched sides in a war, or a spy betrayed his own side to the other. It will probably be the last thing to ever have a death penalty, since it harms so many people and the state directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_treason
Firefox styles plain text as 'pre' elements, so you can apply CSS using javascript, like as a bookmarklet:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5844581

The styling applied there really clashes with the explicit breaks in the story text. Anyway, that gets you down to one click each time you want to review the text file, which is maybe still more than you want.
Yeah, as you guessed, the current speculation is something like SVO-HAV-CCS.
Could be. But Wikileaks have also sent 'advisors' to sit with him. So in theory he's at least being advised on possible options.
I believe it's done to allow time for any emails currently in transit, or already scheduled for delivery. They could be using one or more 3rd-party marketing tools, or multiple servers and databases which also need to be processed; They may do this manually.
As someone who's built systems like these, there often is no reason at all. Why do something instantly when the law lets you take a few days? I've been asked to stretch the timing out on purpose before.

There are many cases, however, where lists of email addresses are delivered in batches to third parties. In these cases, some campaigns may have already been prepared and scheduled by the vendor. Similarly, unsubscribe data is often delivered back to the customer in batches.
I just loved that article a few days back about how brilliant he was for picking HK.
That wouldn't be a problem, it is reported that "Nobody will detain Snowden at Sheremetyevo, if his visa is alright - police", so he is not in danger while waiting.
Right, because the United States justice system works so well when its (the US) ass is on the line. Just ask this guy:

http://www.saveamericafoundation.com/2013/06/21/top-us-journ...
Create a gh-pages branch for your content, and make an _layouts folder. Then put something like this inside it: https://github.com/Shikaga/story/blob/gh-pages/_layouts/main...

Now write your novel in markdown in an index.md file. Every time you check in github will render a nice html file for you that's easy to read, but your source remains easy to write and diff since it's just markdown.
Why Americans should get mad about slow sites and apps
Russia Today reports:

"Citing a source close to Snowden, Russian news agency Interfax reported that the whistleblower’s final destination will be Venezuela with a transfer in Havana, Cuba. He will reportedly be on flight SU150 to Havana, leaving Moscow on Monday and then on flight V-04101 to Caracas."

http://rt.com/news/snowden-fly-moscow-aeroflot-125/
the problem with linked list is the cost of cache misses from memory fragmentation killing any iteration. On a current x86 processor a linked list is death for performance. For light insert/deletions work vectors still outperform. However there's always the possibility that "linked list with a twist" may provide a unique solution to a specific problem.
Correct. 93% of German casualties were inflicted by the Red Army[1]. Operation Overlord was part of a 'blood debt' that Stalin felt western allied leaders owed him. The Russians would've likely taken Berlin eventually without the western allies opening up the western front, despite what Band of Brothers etc. might tell you.

[1] see footnote three- http://www.americanpopularculture.com/archive/film/wayne.htm
The new government does seem to be less vocal so far. But the person who (narrowly) won the last election was Chavez's preferred successor, so there hasn't been a major change in policies. I think it's still an open question how their policies will developer longer-term.
There's a pretty strong incentive not to lie here (namely that no country would ever extradite anyone based on promises from the US ever again).
That's equally unacceptable, saying "mexicans are lazy" is as bad as saying "hispanics are lazy". It's just xenophobia.

The OP wasn't starting a conversation about business practices, they were attempting to make a witty one-liner by denigrating a group of people and reinforcing a negative stereotype. They were implying that Chinese people don't need to be educated because they do unimportant work.

Imagine if someone had said that it didn't matter if women or blacks cheated in exams because all they did was housework and unskilled labour ? - that's exactly the same as what the OP is doing here.
Is that supposed to be an insult? It's not very good.
Useless use of cat!
Because the Swedish government cannot guarantee upfront that they will not extradite him some time in the future. They are not psychic. They have a treaty with the US and they want to honour that. If they get a request and it doesn’t violate any of the conditions they have for extradition with the US then the Swedish government will extradite him. (Which, by the way, is completely normal.)

Asking for a guarantee to not be extradited is just completely insane. It’s like asking not to imprisoned.

You know, I have done nothing wrong, nothing for which I could possibly ever end up in prison, so pretty please my government, why won’t you give me a guarantee that you won’t ever put me in prison? Wouldn’t that be nice? No, it’s just absurd and a preposterous demand.

All the Swedish government can do is assure him that there are currently no extradition requests from the US and that if that doesn’t change he is guaranteed to not be extradited to the US. (I don’t think that guarantee would have been enough for Assange.)
Best official government PR ever. I literally LOL'd when I got to the "fuck you" at the end. How did I, a patriotic American, enter this bizarro world where I find my self rooting for the Chinese government?
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While I like your friendly answer, I would really prefer sources to be mentioned alongside statements in HN discussions.
Saying "just google it if you do not believe me" places the burden of verification on the reader, whereas it should be the author's duty to ease such verification.
When I find 'Source: guardian.co.uk/...' in a discussion, this gives me the warm, fuzzy feeling of being able to easily verify your claims - even if I do trust you.
Sorry, I'm not from the US and with a cursory google for gun shops found that a Glock pistol of some description (a brand I recognise) is ~$500.

If you have access to basic tools (as in, hacksaw and glue), you can build your own fixed-wing airframe using $100 of foam, carbon rods, and off-the-shelf motors, ESCs, batteries & props & servos[2]. See RCGroups for hundreds of downloadable designs. Your radio control gear will cost you about $40 for the cheap stuff[3]. An ArduPilot 2.5 autopilot is $180 off the shelf [4].

The thing is, if you are building your own scaling up (within reasonable bounds) doesn't really change the price. Something Skywalker sized (~2m wingspan) is easily build-able by almost anyone and will easily take 1kg of payload. $120 dollars[1] gets you a video link & camera with a 20-30km range you can use to fly the thing straight into whatever you like.

So the dumb GPS targeted version is 100 + 40 + 180 = $320

The video targetted version is 320 + 120 = $440

Obviously, that doesn't include the 1kg of 'payload'.

[1] http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__754__540__FPV_Telemet...

[2] See hobbyking again

[3] http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__16239__HobbyKing_HK6S...

[4] http://store.3drobotics.com/products/apm-2-5-kit (add basic GPS)
Does this mean it's actually possible to improve traffic by introducing extra tempo setter cars whose only job is to smooth traffic?
>I wrote this in a text editor. It's 4.9 KB.

That's 0.9 KB too large for a 4K demo.
Someone please do a snarky markdown one next.
yeah guys. let's all calm down. the status quo is just fine. this guy is just an aberration.

/s
How is the first part of that a distinction from peaceful protest? The "sit-in" is a pretty canonical form of nonviolent protest, made famous in the U.S. during the civil-rights era.

If your argument is that it was illegal, I can certainly believe that. But I'm having trouble determining how camping in a public square is a form of violent protest. That's the kind of argument the Turkish government is currently making.
One question that I saw floating around on Twitter is how could the US Gov charge Snowden on espionage? Espionage doesn't apply or does it?

Let's say you and I share some secret. When I pass that information you trusted in me to a third party (who is interested in acquiring that information) secretly for some favor (cash/kind) only then it becomes a case of espionage no?

When I share facts that were meant to be confidential according to you with everyone through a public channel then how does it become a case of espionage? It's only a revelation albeit a forced one.

How are we placed on this?
manual mail list management. and i'm not joking. i know of various companys that have some intern or apprentice doing their mailing list management by hand if they come around to do it.