skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, "recognized as" hardly amounts to a declaration of war.

Congress has the power to declare war, but (a) that power doesn't require any particular language, and any authorization of military action, as contained in the various statutes Congress adopted after the Tripoli declared war, can have the effect of a declaration of war (and a declaration of war may be limited or conditional), and (b) Congressional declaration of war is sufficient to create war, but not necessary; an enemy declaring, or initiating without declaring, war is also sufficient to create war.

See, among other cases, Bas v. Tingy, 4 U.S. 37 (1800);
The Prize Cases, 67 U.S. 635 (1862); The Protector, 79 U.S. 700 (1871).
Google translate works well when the text is grammatically correct, when running it across comments where people use slang it doesn't work all that well (obviously).

It's the future where I can translate an article written by someone in another language on another continent into (semi)-readable text in my own language.
>>> Congrats on your sophmore year high school physics, not real big on passive aggressiveness

The irony.
thanks! i knew there was a diff, and possibly even knew about 20% of what you just wrote back 20 years ago. :)
The definition of treason is constitutionally limited in the U.S.:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

This is generally taken to mean that one can't be convicted of treason for doing something that indirectly aids an enemy, which is what leaking secrets would probably fall under. Instead it's limited to cases where someone actively fights the U.S. (e.g. joined the Taliban, or during WW2 joined an Axis army), or where they give direct material assistance to an enemy of the U.S. ("adhering" is a bit vague, but is typically taken to require some kind of direct allegiance, not only helping them indirectly).

Some cases of espionage could be treason, but it's only been charged in the past where there is a very direct kind of espionage for someone else, e.g. an American being paid by the KGB.
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Yep. Count Paul Graham in that.

http://paulgraham.com/mac.html
Spike the guy's drink. Send him a fake message to get him excited. Something from a girlfriend. "Help, someone is in my apartment. I'm hiding in the closet." or just "Help! Come immediately!"
I can't help but see this like going to space... except more dangerous.

We don't have to worry about the rocket fuel.. but those guys are in that tiny little space with the sub holding back 500 atmospheres of pressure outside.
Holding in less than 1 atmosphere in a space-ship is easy.
Holding back 5 kilometers of water sitting on top of you is hard.
I develop a lot on Common Lisp. SLIME is Aquamacs beats any other so called IDEs and REPLs. If you think Emacs is just a text editor, you should come out of your shell (snicker, snicker).
Not sure if I get the point of this? On digital documents it makes no difference at all and if the NSA (or whoever else) really wanted to digitalise printed documents written in this font they could surely just make some minor modifications to their OCR to support this.

Not to mention that the kind of OCR software available to secret services is probably much better than what is on the consumer market.
Debian Wheezy on my Macbook, cool.
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Ok Obama, time for some of that Change.
The actual post from Booking.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803798
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I love carrying around my computer with no monitor, no mouse, no keyboard, no power cables and no accessories. I like even more if it is in a delicate housing with an exposed and breakable fan. I think I will throw that in my bag!

Screw The Macbook pro, I am on board with this new and massively inconvenient alternative.

No one is going to carry this around with them.
The connotation of the words is important. If I receive a "letter" and file it away in my desk, at that point I might call it a "paper." But you wouldn't say that you send and receive "papers" with a pen pal.

What you're looking for is some sort of indication that the 4th amendment was intended to encompass communication, rather than personal spheres of privacy. What you have instead is two words that imply personal spheres of privacy ("houses" and "persons") and a word ("papers") that might be applied to correspondence once it is within your personal sphere of privacy, but not while it is "in transit." Reading the whole phrase together, and keeping in mind the historical context that lead to the amendment (not interception of communication, but rather invasive searches of houses and persons) suggests that the 4th amendment was not intended to create a general, broad protection of "communications" as such.
"Five Eyes - the name given to the espionage alliance composed of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand."

Maybe we should make a list of countries that don't eavesdrop. Probably going to be a short list.
No, in fact I think this would be a terrible idea, because if I put 6/21/2007 people would perceived it to be sharply less valuable without changing a single word of the article or a fact about reality as it exists in 2013. Dating it is just asking people to discount my advice after a 48 hour window from publication.
Can gag order be unconstitutional or illegal?
Site looks pretty bad without Javascript enabled. Suppose that's pretty common these days. Seems most web developers have given up on progressive enhancement.
Do you really think getting 100K signatures is going to make a difference?
> Adamantium?

Don't drink it.

Don't smoke it.

What do you do with it?
I came to say the same.
I was wondering if the font was more an artistic statement rather than an actual solution.
When someone stands up for so many people, this is the expected outcome. Unfortunately, it's doubtful that the government will take much of this into account given how badly they were exposed--they will more than likely make an example out of Snowden in such a way that no one is encouraged to do something like this again.
I have to disagree when it comes to coding style.

Readability and being to able to maintain the code is just as important as the finished product.

Programming isn't just about one-shot projects, it's also about being able to pickup and work with existing source code. Whether it is for someone else or even yourself in the future.
>> I wonder if sometimes all those books actually help you develop an efficient coding practice or are they just some sort of distraction towards your creativity.

That. I'd even go a bit further and say they actually hinder your creativity: can you even think of heroic fantasy without falling back into Tolkien's imagination?
Amazing list, I can digest it this weekend.
Is there any evidence to support that these petitions have done anything that wouldn't have already been done? They seem like a red herring.
Also, he's been pushing for Mars for a while now, even saying a trip back to the Moon would be like reliving our glory days rather than doing real exploration.
From the article:

Sang has no illusions that even a clever cryptographic font—which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots—will remain encoded for long. They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure.

"This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
Sorry, I confused your post with crdoconnor's and he had mentioned Hong Kong.

Thanks for the info. Very usefull since I was thinking of going to Japan and had this lingering in the back of my mind.
Maybe a response similar to SOPA, should be started.
Expect a response pretty much like this:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/why-we-cant-commen...
Just don't tell anyone in the whitehouse :)
I don't think so, but it reached the threshold requiring a response from the White House.
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They clearly tried to do this with the treatment of Bradley Manning but it just as clearly, has not worked.
There's one unfair thing in this though. If the board has already been won, sending them to the same board allows them to place a mark anywhere on the megaboard even if there are vacant spots available on the said board.
With those rules first player can always win.
English, and many other gendered languages, have a long history of using the masculine in place of an unknown. Using "he or she" instead is, in my opinion, both annoying to write and read.
The Aaron Swartz petition has never even gotten a non-response response.
And all of their arguments start from the wrong side. It should not be "We stop listening as soon as we know that it is a US citizen." Instead, it should be "We only start listening once we know that it is not a US citizen."

And that is ignoring the whole aspect of it that they shouldn't be doing blanket surveillance to begin with, and should only be doing targeted surveillance, whether or not it is against a US citizen.
> "I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software

With enough traning, any typeface is OCR-able
On an unrelated note, does anyone know how to update their info on petitions.whitehouse.gov? My displayed city is three years old on there.
A somewhat different analysis of the current situation, reaching quite different conclusions:

http://frombrazil.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2013/06/21/sao-paulo-...

I hadn't seen until I read that that the original organizers of the protest, the MPL, have actually pulled out and denounced some of the current protestors due to them being coopted by right-wing groups.

The blog post linked here makes a curious comment about "corruption... especially after the fall of the military regime". I'm not 100% sure if this is intended as a dog-whistle comment to the right, but it's a common sort of discourse among the right-wing, to excuse the dictatorship or even call for a new one by using corruption as the opening, since allegedly the dictatorship, for all its faults, was clean and got the trains running on time etc.
Those rules means the first player always wins. It's not a game, but a trick.
TFA is helpful in addressing your inquiry:

"This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
On what distro can you run MS Office?
You have it wrong. Congress passes law to say, intercept all phone calls and store them. Until a court strikes it down is assumed constitutional and legal. You challenge it and then it becomes illegal and unconstitutional. (The court also changes its mind from time to time so it's not an exact science.)
"An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded hereby. No one Is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."
- 16 American Jurisprudence 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256

Plus, this has already been found unconstitutional[1], but that decision was kept secret, cause, y'know... CLASSIFIED.

[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/fisc-ruling-surveil...
It looks like it's actually a summary of the original Guardian article, which is considerably longer and has more information.
The only thing we have wrong is that for many years we have allowed Congress to get away with implementing laws that are clearly unconstitutional.
Proving that existing institutions and strategies are failing is a big part of what activists have to do at the beginning of a movement.

So the questions I'd ask about whether petitions work are:
-will they work to get government to reconsider policies?
-will they reveal government's unwillingness to act?

Either way, that's a victory in my books.
On the other hand: Considering it takes just a minute to sign one, it's not that much of a downside. Unless NSA is adding the signatories to a special database :-)

At worst, it shows that a lot of people are listening and agreeing with Snowden regarding NSA's snooping
There is already discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5923444
Please give an example of a pathological case in Debian.
This is somewhat like changing your font to Windings in an HTML e-mail instead of using encryption.
It'll be interesting to watch the Administration entirely ignore this petition.

Kidding, it won't be interesting at all.
I think they is nice alternative
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> As for Section 702 of FISA, the Supreme Court has held that the Fourth Amendment does not protect foreigners from searches conducted abroad.

But PRISM, as opposed to "upstream collection", isn't (necessarily) about searching foreigners abroad, or even at the border. It's about searching their stuff held on servers (sometimes) located inside the US and run by US companies as part of a business agreement with those foreigners. (However I have heard it suggested (IANAL) that sufficient legal cleverness can allow this to be characterised as a border search.)

> But it has never recognized a foreign intelligence exception to the warrant requirement when foreign-targeted searches result in the collection of vast stores of citizens’ communications.

Maybe. However the FISA appeals court certainly appears (IANAL) to have decided that a foreign-intelligence exception exists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5917223 . Once again, from the Yahoo! case ruling http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fiscr082208.pdf :

2 . The Foreign Intelligence Exception . The recurrent
theme permeating the petitioner's arguments is the notion that
there is no foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth
Amendment's Warrant Clause. 6 The FISC rejected this notion,
positing that our decision in In re Sealed Case confirmed the
existence of a foreign intelligence exception to the warrant
requirement.

And again, this is a ruling on a law which allowed intentional targetting of US persons, though outside the United States.
Wood for Trees is great! I didn't know about that before. (you say it's an average, but then use mean in the equation, that's a significant distinction)

UAH and RSS measure lower troposphere, while GISS and HADCRUT measure surface temperatures. I'm usually more interested in the temperatures in the first 10 feet of atmosphere rather than the first 10 miles of atmosphere (of course, I don't make climate models). HADCRUT4 is a different model of the same source data that HADCRUT3 uses and in theory should be more accurate.

In any case, you've got the hang of it now. By selecting a convenient data source, one can make many creative and not inaccurate statements.
Actually, the rot 13 font ( http://code.eligrey.com/fonts/rot13/example.html) is a lot better for NSA-proofing :).
I'm working. Email, design, and planning for upcoming sprint (software engineering). Why? Because I enjoy what I do an I have stuff to do. I work for Telenav in Culver City, we were ThinkNear until October. Nothing's really changed, just like a startup.
Is the code available somewhere?
I believe programming is an art because "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." (Abelson, SICP)

This heart of the matter, and it means programming is an art, a social one. Like marketing or graphic design, it's an art for other people. Programs must be written to be as readable as possible, to as many people as possible, while still being functional and elegant. This requires an intuition of psychology and sociology, in addition to a firm engineering grasp. A great programmer must be both mathematically brilliant and socially empathic. If she lacks the former, she won't be able to solve Hard Problems; if she lacks the latter, she'll be a Cowboy Coder (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowboyCoder) and her code will be worthless to society.

That's why it's an art.
>They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA.

Even if you could beat the NSA you still have the UK, Canada, AU, NZ, Russia, China etc. Cool project though.
Reminds me of this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/810/

Can we get designers to create fonts that look like hand-writing? The NSA could help us digitize a lot of our history books.
How many salemen do you need to run a dealership? I would have thought most of the dealership employees are the mechanics and support services?
Quote from prosecutor's FB according to this blog post: “I’m trying to get home for the past two hours, but I can’t because there’s some protesters blocking off traffic […] please, somebody tell the police that this area is under the jurisdiction of my court and, if any of them kill a protester, I’ll just archive the case”.
Scary!
(downvotes, really!?)
The biggest problem faced by organizations collecting this type of data is sorting the signal from the noise.

Unfortunately, until real encryption is the norm, using this font or other means to hide your communications is like giving the NSA a free "this bit is particularly juicy, have a human read it" flag.
Mr. Obama, stop the madness now! You once have been a civil rights activist and you have been awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. Doesn't it make you feel uncomfortable, to have switched the camp in just a few years? There is nothing wrong with becoming a nice guy again.
(On John Carmack) "It was written that his code is so ugly according to the best practices standards, that only he completely understands what he has written. And we all know that he is a genius."

No, his code isn't ugly. No, not only he understands it. It is actually considered exceptionally beautiful (http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-...).

Beyond that, even if it was (which it isn't), you are not John Carmack. I don't know if dropping him into the article was supposed to bolster your point, but I can assure you it did the opposite. It reads like an oddly malformed appeal to authority. Bonus point: you can look at his code: https://github.com/id-Software

----

Please, please stop reading books about style and creating your own styles! Follow the language / platform standards and idioms so your code will instantly be readable by other developers. Almost all languages & platforms have dominant coding conventions, follow them. 15 years ago, you had to bake your own standard, you don't need to do it anymore.

Use your creativity on solving your problem, not formatting your code.
I thing you vastly underestimate the hard parts of going to space. Building something to withstand 500 ATM is actually fairly easy, safely dumping over 30,625 times the energy to get to 100MPH into something and then disipating it on the way back is a little harder.
I'm always answering “7” or “4”.
I had the same latter question myself. As a passenger, I'd rather the engines were running nicely for the few minutes of taxing, thank you very much!
I'm not sure why nobody has mentioned that generally, font encodings are interpreted by the client, and can be freely disregarded, or replaced.

If the client is a massive NSA parsing engine that scrapes and indexes content, I'm going to guess it's just skipping over the font encodings.
By these vague definitions is there any professional endeavor that isn't an art? And if not haven't we just removed all unique meaning from the word 'art'?
I don't see the point in trying to persuade other people which fields constitute art. You're free to appreciate things without needing them certified.
Is there any technological basis for this being cryptographic? I couldn't find any, or am I missing the part where it is an artistic statement. Just knowing the language of the message is enough to use frequency analysis to crack the message.
Did it wrap itself around the tree? I honestly can't tell from the video.
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In fairness, gpvos bested me by a good 4 minutes!
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Your sentence is perfectly correct, but its translation in french (by google translate) is far from perfect. The translation toward english is generally not so bad, but for me, google translate is still very poor.
Surely the unwillingness of government to act is already evident? The petitions seem to provide an illusion of democratic consultation.
It was anticipated in the protocol, that's what ? is for.
> There are 7 billion people on the planet and we're all going to be dead in about 100 years. Stop being afraid.

I never said we shouldn't go. You did not refute my central point. Instead, you seem to be implying that I am saying we shouldn't go because of my fear of the danger which is tantamount to calling me a coward. I don't know why you would say such a mean thing. :(
Now we undestand what "yes we can" was supposed to mean. Yes. we can do what we want without giving a f### about what people think.
Ambiguity is something a programmer needs to deal with at work. Riddles are not. Open ended questions are exactly what you want to use to evaluate someone.
Riddles fail because there is an expected answer, not because the form of the question is ambiguous.

Some coding questions as asked in interviews are actually riddles in practice because the interviewer is unskilled. Those 'coding questions' are worse than the obviously bad riddles because it is harder to tell that the feedback is slanted.
HK govt silent on Snowden, as lawmakers call for China to decide.
Sorry, but even the Mythbusters are fallible.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22gip_video_auto

That's a video of a car on the NJ Turnpike trying to blow through an EZ-Pass toll, and failing miserably.

Notice: the damn thing explodes in a fiery ball.

I guess you'll try and argue that the Toll Booths are designed to explode when cars run into them as a way to discourage such behavior.

Who would even begin to think that shooting a tracer bullet into a gas tank even remotely recreates any of what is going on during a high-speed car accident?
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This is someone being funny right?

Because they can just load the font file into their ocr software and it will recognize it just fine?
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Here's a real live video of a car running into a toll booth and exploding:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22gip_video_auto

It's a far more reliable source than an artificial experiment conducted for a TV show that desperately wants to convince how smart it is.
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Because they do:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22gip_video_auto
It becomes easy after a couple of gameplays
> which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots

Use the source Luke: <font face="ZXX">Something Interesting</font>

It's totally unuseful for email, unless you print it, scan it and send it as an image. And even in that case they can probably train the OCR or flag it for human review.
In the moral sense? No, clearly you have not committed murder.

In the legal sense? Um. That would get interesting. I imagine that if the court knows what happened, the answer would be 'no', but if no-one there knows this kind of thing might happen (including you) you might have a problem.
I just found an old post titled "Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for?"

There are some great responses so check it out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455687
Try this- https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tic-tac-toe2/1747678284
You get the first turn :)
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGNk4se99I
What if the kerning is non-deterministic? Identifying letters is not enough, you have to know their order too. For example, say my kerning flips every second letter. OCR alone can't solve that problem, you need AI.
try this - https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tic-tac-toe2/1747678284
You start here