skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I consider who you call and when you call them my private property. You can consider all you want, until your elected official changes the law, your consideration has no bearing on reality. Who owns calls made over a telephone network subsidized by the public?

Let's walk through this: if you send a letter in the mail from you to me, USPS can reasonably be expected to scan the envelope and record this fact.

If you go out into a public place and have a conversation with me while shouting, you can reasonably expect other people, some of whom might be working for the NSA to overhear.

Why are those things not problems, but listening in on phone conversations is? Because of the difference between a public and a private place. You "consider" phone networks to be private places and they are not. We often tell people that the internet is not private and that anything that ever touches the web will stay on the web. We just learned that that is true for the phone networks as well. It seems that you cannot have a private conversation with another person other then in a physical private place... Except even then you cannot. There exists technology that will allow someone with enough money and will power to listen in on the most private conversation (either by placing a mic near you or by listening in remotely). What happens with our society when we discover the technology that allows someone to listen in on your thoughts?

The problem is that anything that can be wiretapped, will be wiretapped. The solution to this problem is technological. The laws around it need to simply state two things: (1) you cannot use anything you obtain without a proper warrant against the suspect and (2) you cannot prevent someone from using encryption.
"super-sparse" was a bandwagon joined by apple, not the other way around...
Even worse, what they're doing is completely unnecessary and probably more work than it should be. They can just request access to your contacts list using one of Google's APIs. Instead they're probably doing something far more complicated, using your email password to get access instead.
You speak as if 50 years is a significant period of time. Tribalism, violence, and distrust are still very real forces in the world and there is nothing "simple" about granting historically unprecedented powers to a central authority.
As with many aspects of this issue, there would be no way to verify that their spying is using the publicly available code. If they demand secrecy about the individuals who have access, the individuals who are being targeted, the organizations providing the data, the court orders that oversee it, and in general carte blanch to do whatever they deem necessary to ensure "national security" - what on earth would be achieved if they showed us some source code? They've proven they have no discipline or restraint - they could show me all the source code they want I still wouldn't trust them.
Cyclists can and do suffer head impacts for any number of reasons, many not having anything to do with motorists or city planning. Personally, I've had several close calls with suicidal squirrels and rabbits on downhill segments. Also, it turns out that railroad tracks is a leading cause of injury according to the UBC BICE study:

http://cyclingincities.spph.ubc.ca/injuries/the-bice-study/
The video is awesome!
Looks like the app is free? What's the $$$ plan?
I've thought about a Mac app version of it, just haven't had the time to mock it up and prototype it. I can you keep you posted on that front, but the next thing on the list is iPhone support.
Once again, JMZ is proves prophetic.
Being worked on by a couple of civ rights orgs at the moment!
Can we fix the title here? SSL != SSH.
Cite for the "bike helmets are ineffective" assertion? It's belied by the statistics in the linked article, among other things like fairly straightforward intuition...
the call to action it's up to you I guess, the author exposed some annoying, dishonest and potentially dangerous interaction that LinkedIn is using.

when you read the news do you ask yourself: "what's the call to action of this article?"
I have 50 pink unicorns in this box. I can't show you because it would compromise their safety. I have them working on a cigarette that stops lung cancer.
Please, a bicycle helmet is not only useful if a car hits you. A bicycle helmet is also fairly inexpensive, and can be pretty comfortable.

They are basically a very easy insurance policy whose main "cost" is inconvenience.
I also wish he would finish the sentence by filling in the blank: "The government is constrained in what it can do by _______."

As soon as you realize that "government" is the only thing filling the blank, you should realize how silly (and scary) the whole scenario is.
Those are some great ideas. We actually do have a realtime component - the note labels on the left side can be played like a piano without messing up your drawing.
It's been purported here that the media is coloring its reporting to paint Snowden in a bad light. But when the bias favors Snowden, everyone looks the other way. For instance, they conveniently left out any mention of this quote by Binney:

"But now he is starting to talk about things like the government hacking into China and all this kind of thing. He is going a little bit too far. I don't think he had access to that program. But somebody talked to him about it, and so he said, from what I have read, anyway, he said that somebody, a reliable source, told him that the U.S. government is hacking into all these countries. But that's not a public service, and now he is going a little beyond public service.

"So he is transitioning from whistle-blower to a traitor."
Now that you updated the definition it makes a little more sense, but not a lot more since HN is not a creative writing assignment. It was unclear given your initial reply:

"..." would be a quote, albeit an entirely weird one.

"..." is a convention I first found in manga, which indicates a character has no verbal reply to what was previously just said.
FBI: Plot to Bomb NYSE Foiled by Surveillance Program
How are you measuring "attention"? Points? Comments? It seems entirely possible that more people have read the correction but feel less compelled to comment on this (less "exciting") story.
How much incremental value would you put on permanent brain injury vs. a mild concussion?
> ... or will ever be.

You don't know that.
I'm a back end java guy who's getting more into JS. Bought. Thx, Fogus.
So in other words, they have access to everything but the sysadmins could access things without the court order. Now they will try to adhere to the court orders by instituting some sort of two-person rule. We don't know how much data they are storing either.
Then let's bring it to YouTube!
Get a Python subprocess' output without buffering
http://www.cyclehelmets.org/

>fairly straightforward intuition

Ignore this when thinking about statistics.
Reminds me of SoundBow [0].

0: http://www.binaura.net/stc/wrx/soundbow/
The app is free to download and includes all functionality and 1 free instrument. You can get additional instruments by liking us on Facebook and tweeting, or through in-app purchases
>> the US government will make it seem like they started it

This has been done extensively with the war on terror. The idiocy of the "they hate our freedoms" statement has been weighing on me lately. I agree that caving to a terrorist's demands immediately is a bad thing to do because it encourages a violent approach to change, which we shouldn't do. But shouldn't we also take a step back and say "hey - we're killing people on the other side of the world - maybe we should stop!". If "they hate our freedoms" they must be pretty happy to see what the Patriot Act has done in response - because evidently we gave them exactly what they wanted.
Javascript, like other scripting languages (Ruby comes to mind), is both functional, imperative and OO. It has mutable state, imperative loops, first class functions, closures, etc...
I guess the thing I'm harping on is shawnz saying that javascript is INHERENTLY functional. I think it's possible to write javascript in a functional way: Underscore.js is a perfect example of that. But I wouldn't say it's INHERENT of javascript.

I think javascript is INHERENTLY object oriented/imperative but can be functional if you put some effort into it.
I think thats the joke here :)
If I set up a contract with you saying that I will not submit to any government subpoenas, and then the government subpoenas me, can I refuse, because "the government cannot force you to break contracts?" (The answer is No.)

If you want to practice civil disobedience, do it, and be straightforward about it. If Rsync.net were really to try to exercise this silly clause, it would be a giant distraction from what I presume is their actual complaint.
If you wanted it to persist on a display, you could always airplay an iPad to a tv screen.
Does the world need a Geneva convention on cyber warfare? I'm beginning to believe so. Unfortunately we (humanity) might need something catastrophic to occur first.
Did you read the article? It is an interesting and seemingly balanced story about balances between innovation and standards, the evolution of a threat model (from death to concussion) and what some of the most recent innovation is. It even covers some of the contemporary anti-helmet arguments.
Interesting idea. Are you thinking something along the lines of Mail.app's VIP feature where certain e-mails are propagated to the top or are you just talking about the content of mailing lists you subscribe to?
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
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My ethical standards for companies vary from company to company. I mentioned Mozilla in my other comment. If they had done this I would hold them to a higher standard because of what they stand for. Facebook has a totally different mindset as a company. Their priorities are what make me hold them to such a "low" standard.

I also try to put myself in the company's shoes. If I were them, this issue just wouldn't be my priority. It's a nice to have, not a must have and if I had to make the choice between what's best for the company (which also means most of its users) I'd make the choice to disappoint some people.

What I want from my world and what I expect from Facebook are two different things. I'm all for privacy and I want Facebook to respect that. But I also can't expect the world to cater to my every want no matter how morally just I believe my requests are. Taking my opinion on what I think we should expect from Facebook and turning it into a referendum on my morals, lack of morals, or cynicism is not only drawing false assumptions but severely exaggerating things. I can be in favor of using Tor to access Facebook and Facebook's right to refuse me access to it because of it at the same time. Things aren't so cut and dry.
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Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. It's in the recruiter's best interest to maximize the salary they get the candidate, so that they can maximize the %-amount of the fill. They want to get the candidate 150K so that the recruiter's 30% cut is 45K. If they only get the candidate $125K, then there fee would only be 37.5K.

Are you confusing recruiting for a job with someone that does body-shop contracting?
Can we sum up this semantic debate as cryptography is the science, security is the application and engineering of it?
That's a bit inaccurate, your identify isn't attached toe the Bitcoin public ledger. It also has to be inferred through 3rd parties such as your wallet or some BTC exchange.
They didn't leave it out entirely. From the last paragraph:

> one thinks he may have crossed a line by talking about surveillance on China
Yeah we should fix that ...
A traitor is someone who says "Hey China, we are hacking you and here is how." Someone who says "I have heard/read that the US is trying to hack China" is everyone on the internet. At worst that is libel.
The first time I spoke in front of a federal judge, the ~90 year old judge walked into the room with a seeing eye dog. There are indeed awesome judges out there (and this may or may not have been one of them -- the case was settled after the first conference), but many have little incentive to adapt to the new.
Banff motorcyclist pursued by ‘massive’ grey wolf along B.C. highway
This is sortof hillarious, Google fighting for this when they mine ALL of your data...
Oh, I did, and I love the whole Tech/bordering into SciFi angle about how we can build on that concept.

But we can not possibly divorce the bicycle helmet from its' origin, effects and the economical pressures at work here.
For what it's worth, motorcycle helmets are in a similar position. As I read this article, it's like a flashback to a similar article about motorcycle lids.

Both are spec'd and designed for crazy impacts that are not frequent in the real world, and sacrifice low-speed impact protection in the process.

I suppose you could say helmet standards are like an example of unintentional, slightly misguided test-driven development.
The Mac Pro design looks like a better template for a mid-to-high end desktop - at least if the Thunderbolt market matures enough. It would have downsides compared to a conventional PCI-E-motherboard PC, but it would be a unique and interesting option. I don't think it can really cut it as a substitute for a meat-eating high-end workstation though. (Compare: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9D... - two Xeons and up to half a TiB of RAM in 16 sockets, never mind about PCI-E.)

Maybe most professional audio guys don't actually require a serious workstation anymore; I'm sure Apple is calculating or hoping that it will be good enough for enough video editors too. It's hard to see the 2013 Mac Pro getting under the desks at Pixar, but presumably Apple feels willing to give up on that end of the market.
I didn't see any mention of actually contacting linked in. Maybe he should start with them.
NSA Claims Surveillance Programs Aided Stopping Of 50 Attacks; Details Lacking

Yeah, I'm the Queen of England. Really, but details are lacking.

Sorry NSA but I am not buying it, some megacorp is worried about losing billion dollar checks from FedGov
It's interesting to hear about offline merchants accepting bitcoins. I wonder how much of it has to do with the fixed card processing fees as a component of the small transaction size.

The goal would seem to be when the restaurant can pay their bills in bitcoins, so they never have to convert it to a fiat currency at all.
Just a quick edit to the script to re-enable the purchase button if the Stripe modal is closed.

http://jsbin.com/alesuk/16/edit
The main problem is laziness and to some extent purity. And partly GHC is a bit of a pig.

Pretty much everything starts out life as a thunk, and the compiler does its best to translate these into strict values which affects when things are evaluated and therefore the performance, whether things can be stored on the stack fully evaluated, as registers or boxed things on the heap that need forcing, etc.

The good news is that purity makes it significantly easier to do inlining and reducings/transformations bordering on whole-program compilation. Code that looks like a load of function calls usually gets compiled down (if you use the -fext-core flag) to a couple case expressions.

You have to do this to get reasonable, baseline, performance in Haskell. In OCaml—or ML, or any strict, mutating language—you get that for free, as a starting point. They mirror the architecture underneath so they're already fast from the get-go.

It's not to do with type checking or anything like that. Type checking with GHC is very fast. If you use -fno-code, it can compile, e.g. a 9Kloc codebase of 65 modules in 1.361s on my machine. However, if you enable code generation, it takes 9.532s and that's with -O0: with -O2 it takes 32.910s. Fay, my unoptimized, non-optimizing Haskell→JS compiler will codegen that codebase in 1.940s. It would do it in less if I optimized the compiler's parser and codegen. But it's fast because I don't do anything. I don't do any flow analysis or strictness analysis or simplification or generation of core or compiling to C--. Fay's generated JS is not fast as a result. Compare that to if I were writing a Lisp compiler to JS, which would be easy because the source and the target are basically the same execution model.
Actually, there has long been a strong culture of bikes as transportation for ordinary people in Europe, and to a great extent this has bled over to US cities as more commuters have taken up cycling and created a demand for more utilitarian gear. In the late 90s I had the same complaint you make above, but this is no longer the case. Along with their road and MTB lines all the major marques have introduced a range of 'street' or 'city' models.

The real challenge of improving anything in cycling, from an industrial design perspective, is that a bike is a product whose primary virtue is minimalism. Adding features can be useful for certain niche markets (suspension for downhillers, aero bars for racers) but for the most part a bike is only improved when one can deliver the same (or improved) characteristics of handling, comfort and durability while using less material. Sometimes this is a question of design improvement, but this is rare -- many designs recur over decades (like integrated headset bearings) without ever really becoming essential. More often improvements come from better materials and fabrication techniques.
Onion Pi turns Raspberry Pi into Tor proxy and wireless access point
That should be fine. Thanks for building IPython, it's great.
The 1963 standard (linked from the article, and below[1]) does a reasonable job of describing the design rationale in the appendices.

“B4.2 Base 12 Numeric Digits. For those applications requiring use of the sterling monetary system or duodecimal arithmetic, the digits 10 and 11 can replace the two graphics immediately following the digit 9.”

[1] http://www.wps.com/projects/codes/X3.4-1963/index.html
I'm embarrassed to admit that TIL there is a man page for ASCII. I wish I had known this years ago.
This reads like the backstory to a Terminator movie.
If you want protection from injury on your bicycle, you are better off with a motorcycle helmet than a bicycle helmet, end of story. As has been stated by previous posters, bike helmets are largely ineffective. Bike helmets solve the cyclist protection problem for a small subset of crashes.

The only real innovation I've seen in bike helmets lately is this:

http://www.hovding.com/en/how_it_works?/en/how

Without this kind of total reimagining of bike protection, I doubt it is possible to innovate on what is currently classified as a helmet for cyclists.

EDIT: Link already posted by a previous poster, of course.
I am rather interested in what Sean Carroll meant exactly when he says that things are getting nailed. I've a feeling he's referring to some very specific, recent developments.

Speaking as a neophyte --- the jazz analogy is truly apt. I would suppose while string theory is rock, some of the other stuff are movie soundtracks, and don't expect orchestras to render your favorite lyrics any time in this century.
I want this so bad, but I want to type it in my IDE of choice: Intellij IDEA/(or Eclipse, to play the devil's advocate).

Is there any legal reason why someone couldn't create a plugin for those Java ides to compile TypeScript?
Is it a test to see how many people ignore the warning and click through anyway?
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Gearing is a massive difference from a bicycle you could buy 100 years ago. It's what allows you to climb something like this, and race down the other side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelvio_Pass
The same as you would anyone else.
"there's nothing in the Constitution about the rights of non-citizens." - you are wrong. Just read the text of the Fourth Amendment and try to find the word "citizen" there.
There is Typescript language support for Emacs and Sublime Text, so there shouldn't really be a problem there; someone just has to do it.
I think the versions of Django or Python don't play into it, if it was to be included in contrib it would probably happen around Django 1.7+. By then Python 2.7/3.3 will likely be the minimum required versions of Python.

Django's docs already use Sphinx as an optional install.

Django-braces and Django-extra-views are excellent but modest extensions to Django's class-based views and would likely either become part of Django or be good starting points for extending Django's generic CBV IMHO.

So the only really controversial additions would be django-floppyforms and django-rest-framework.

I seem to recall that there has been talk in recent years about all or parts of contrib being de facto split-off from core (as opposed to the technically distinct but included status of being a contrib module), so that might factor into it too.
It's a shame it won't install on my iPad 1 -- the required camera seems like more of a frill.
IntelliJ has support for Typescript. I'm not sure if this is the level of support you're looking for but it seems like it should be sufficient.

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/typescript-support.htm...
And on OS X at least, it gives you a path to a file. If I "cat /usr/share/misc/ascii" on Mountain Lion, I get an ASCII table (in ASCII, of course).
Now add an AI :)
That is definitely another way to do it. You do lose the significance of the HTTP verb, though. One reason i've come to the dedign i proposed is that a web form usually isn't creating and deleting in a single operation, so I used that to justify different entry points.
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Nice! I hope "Thinking code" and "Data-orientation" parts will get more attention (and space), versus ClojureScript and "weby" stuff, in case there will be a trade-off.
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Obviously it's not different in principle, but in practice there are comparatively few people on the no-fly list

Yeah but if it's YOU, it's 100% of people as far as you're concerned. No one cares that you're a 4 year old, the computer says no boarding and it is so.
What's interesting to me is that it seems history is repeating itself. As mentioned, OpenVZ and Linux VServer existed in the 90's, but they never made it into the mainline. So really this is the second try for Linux.

Basically I think it is a consequence of containers/sandboxing being a very "commercial" technology, even though they are open source. The main users are hosting providers, and there's a significant amount of money in that business.

In the 90's there was a hosting "land rush" with all of these companies like 1and1 and dreamhost selling shared hosting on Linux. They were the ones that developed Linux VServer and OpenVZ apparently, and I think the pace was too great to get it into the mainline. Interested in any first-hand knowledge people have.

And in the 2010's there is a PaaS "land rush", with all of these companies building on AWS and other IaaS, while needing containerization like LXC. The OP's article is calling for increased support in distros -- I think the same lack of time for cooperation is happening. Heroku, Cloud Foundry, dot Cloud, ActiveState, etc. are all using the same thing essentially, but there's a big land grab, so they are all maintaining proprietary and complex user space configuration.

The kernel features like the various namespaces are just about finished trickling in I think; that doesn't mean they're secure though.
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