skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days much law is first and foremost a tool for the wealthy and the politically connected, which usually means established interests.
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Overall it's really good. I'm going to have this running in a tab for a while :)

Some thoughts:
- A couple of times the audio dropped. Each time I noticed the mute button was engaged and even unmuting the audio did not come back. Not sure what happened.
- The progress bar caused a usability issue for me. It's so instinctual to hover at the bottom of the video and I didn't realise why nothing was responding.
- Is it possible to have thumbnails for the videos in the playlist?
- How do I scroll in the playlist? I could not figure that out.
> This heart of the matter, and it means programming is an art, a social one.

No, it doesn't. It just means that programming is inherently about communication (among other things). That does not, by a long shot, make it art.
Pardon? Award!!!
Interesting. Maybe that explains why dictatorships actually signed it too.Is that only in the European version ?
Yuuuuup. Getting a specific person elected or a specific person threatened in their district is actually what would start working.
Political change comes through money, and the reason is because money can effectively buy votes.
It's very big for a wristwatch. It's also ugly in my eyes
As others have indicated, this is beyond useless. The NSA is not going to visually inspect your communication, rather, they'll receive the data and simply process it with a machine, that completely ignores the glyphs used (reads the ASCII/Unicode instead). This person has made a deep, fundamental mistake about computer typography, let alone cryptography. Maybe it is all a big joke though.
Ahh.. alright a hundred thousand more people to be targeted..
I'm counting the hours until a tesseract package appears on github, which is able to OCR this font.
Why does it need a like button? You can like every webpage! Just use a "like" bookmark.

Let's assume every webpage is made to be liked (I'm an optimist). Hopefully you see the madness of like buttons now.
i.e. it's not an art - it's a craft.
Anyone signing up for this will understand the risks.
The issue is whether "any program out there" is taken to mean "any existing" or "any possible". It may be true that no programs actually exist that couldn't be shorter or more correct (though I doubt it), but one would reach a minimum length and bugginess eventually.
Pineapple fields grow in Fibonacci sequences
This petition was created when the goal was 25,000 signatures, before it was increased to 100,000.
- http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2013/0...

- http://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/noticia/2013/06/apos-sugerir-m...

EDIT: You can see this in english here: http://frombrazil.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2013/06/14/fear-and-l... (search for "prosecutor")
"Fairly easy" seems a little dismissive; if it were even remotely easy, it would've been done earlier and more often, for all sorts of reasons.

Neither problem is at all trivial, and the one the rocket addresses (getting there) is not the same one the construction of a submersible does (staying there). I don't think the two endeavors are really comparable in any useful way; they're both pretty impressive in terms of logistics.
Plenty of pros have to bring Mac Pros to worksites in big flightcases (think live events, shoots on location, outdoors experiments, etc.). The current Mac Pros are ginormous and they weigh over 50 pounds. If they can be replaced by something 1/8th of the size, those people will gladly do so.

When I need to edit video on the road, I bring a MacBook Air. Final Cut works alright on it, but it’s nowhere near as fast as on a Mac Pro. I could bring a MacBook Pro on these trips, but I decided that the little gain in speed compared to the MacBook Air is not worth the extra weight and mass (for me). Taking a current Mac Pro with me to a shoot would mean I need help from others (I don’t drive). I can take the new Mac Pro with me on location, and that will make my work a lot more pleasant.
Politicians tend to become worse and worse thinking and seeing from experience that they can "get away with it". But in reality all this time, the population gets more and more frustrated, and it's only a matter of time before the population revolts.

So far the Brazilian politicians have been lucky that all these 1 million people haven't become violent and ask for their blood. Because to be honest, I think at least some of the corrupt leaders need to be punished severely, possibly even with the death penalty (like Ceausescu was in Romania).

It's really the only way they'll learn their lesson, and more importantly, future generations of politicians will know now to upset the population to the point where they'll revolt and ask for their execution. I'm not usually pro-death penalty, but if there's anyone deserving it, it's the oppressive/corrupt leaders that make millions of people suffer through their ruling.

I definitely think the leaders intentionally abusing their own Constitution deserve the death penalty, because if they don't get that, then it's just an invitation for future leaders to abuse it. They swore to protect it and obey it, and there needs to be a way to force them to do just that. Otherwise what's the point? Imagine how different things would be in US, if politicians would fear death penalty if they abuse the Constitution, and keep passing unconstitutional laws.

I feel almost the same way about bankers who get away with their crimes. How are they supposed to learn their lesson if they aren't even threatened by prison time, even though they lost the pensions and deposits of millions of people? If they think they have the potential to earn tens of billions of hundreds of billions from risking the money of those people, they'll be much more inclined to do it if they only risk a couple of billion in penalty, and that's it.

The population is supposed to rectify these sort of abuses by the elite in a society. It's up to the population to ultimately decide how much of a punishment these people get, and if their "representatives" aren't up for it, then they need to change them, or at least scare them into applying their will.
Transport helicopters are a sine qua non of a modern military, and combat ones are really, really handy.

Turn the question around: can you imagine any deployment of the Bundeswehr where they wouldn't need transport helicopters (the NH90 mentioned in the article)?

This most particularly includes humanitarian missions, e.g. the usual suspects ridiculed the US for sending a carrier battle group to help survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, not realizing they have both "nuclear powered" fresh water distillers and lots of helicopters that can transport water, food etc. (ADDED: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_response_to_the_20... says a total of 48 helicopters were involved in our military relief effort, of course from many ships.)
I don't think so. Technically the plan outlined there is feasible, but the problem is getting there.

Flying that close to the sun would multiply the radiation problem considerably. Then you'd have to land and drill underground and build enough to get a foothold before you died.

Finally, there's the fact that you'd have to live underground. You could never really live on the surface.

For Venus, yes, you could float around in the atmosphere, but where would you get raw materials? The surface is too hostile to mine.
At the time it was 25,000.

> SIGNATURES NEEDED BY FEBRUARY 11, 2013 TO REACH GOAL OF 25,000
I find it extremely unlikely that the NSA's software doesn't automatically try rot13.
I'm not sure the blog post you linked to reached any conclusions. It merely observed that not all of the hundreds of thousands of protestors are all of the same mind and political ideology. It would be pretty shocking if that were not the case. It ended wondering what would happen next, not declaring what would. Mass movements are unpredictable. So is life.

You chose one line out of context from the original article to highlight a "dog whistle to the right" in support of a dictatorship while the rest of the article is an impassioned plea for human rights.

Any time there's a mass movement, many different people will try to co-opt it. It doesn't mean that you should avoid supporting the movement. It means that it is very important to vocally support the parts of it that you do agree with, so that the parts you don't remain on the fringes.

Acting like the whole movement is suspect because of a few strikes me as very counter-productive.
Yes. That's what it's all about: risk.
I believe he progressed to a completely new level of nonspeak recently: I'm not against change.

(Compare during the election - Change!, and before the election: When I am president, there will be no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. - Senator Obama, December 24, 2007)
Improved relative to what, and according to whom?
Go ahead and create another petition that asks for Edward Snowden not to be pardoned and to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and I bet that it hardly gets any signatures.

Edit: This is a response to several of the replies. I'm assuming of course that nobody within the government would game the petition system. If we've gotten to the point were they would impersonate people in a petition to the white house then I guess we are pretty much doomed.
The sad thing is that now there are lots of squatters creating "under construction" pages and the like instead of actually putting content. Trying to emulate Geocities without actually doing so (a lot of them did have those banners, but they also had content).

Oh well.

Here's mine : http://eksith.neocities.org (Also people are forgetting, it's .org not .com)
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Just because it's a symbol doesn't mean it's an image:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/26a0/index.htm

Related: In my head, webpages should visually only consist of vector graphics and photographs. You can put JPEG's in SVG's, so there is no reason to rasterize hybrids.
I feel fairly silly hawking my own site whenever subjects like this come up, but here I go anyway. Feel free to tell me to shut up. :)

I just simultaneously believe quite strongly in the idea of pairing calls for action with charitable donations. The donations make a clear and measurable message of the idea's importance. Plus, even if nothing happens, the charities benefit.

So in any event, to get to the fireworks factory already:

A plea to the US government to pardon Edward Snowden (donate to the EFF in particular!) [1]

The idea: "More than a petition" [2]

[1] http://btf.io/382

[2] https://brianstaskforce.com/blog/more-than-a-petition
We're not borrowing anything objectively real. We are "borrowing" fiat money that we can inflate or simply abandon any time we feel like it. If the US can't service its debt, it will simply devalue it.
That rule was put in place after the Swartz petition passed the initial limit of 25,000 in the first day or two. At the time of the change, they specifically said the new 100,000 limit would only apply to new petitions, so the Swartz petition was still under the original 25,000 signature rule.
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Which is essentially the same thing.
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Things People Hate about Your Docs (there, corrected).

As @coherentpony stated, at least with open source others can pick up the slack.
Amongst other things...

getting 11 big names in MPEG codecs to licence any patents they have that apply to VP8 to anyone at no cost.

Putting a reciprocal patent licence on VP8 and then including it in Android 2.3 (notice Apple, Microsoft and Nokia couldn't accept either Theora or VP8 in HTML5 because they claimed they'd get sued, a range of Android OEMs seem to think this wasn't a showstopper. Even in the midst of smartphone patent armageddon the only lawsuit so far was started by Nokia)

As a fairly direct result of the above getting nearly every big name in GPUs and chipsets to build VP8 into their products.

The work around webrtc, with the currently stalled effort to make vp8 mandatory and it looks like it will be a major first usecase for vp9.
Make an image of the message. Then they at least have to jump the hoop of deciding to OCR.
To be fair, that's quite typical of the petitions.
Which is not a bad thing. We increase it to a couple of million and it might as well be noise.
Does banning direct auto sales make sense anymore? Did it ever?
While the difficulty of and controversities over defining what "art" means are proverbial:

No, in full generality it's not - that's pretentious bullshit fancied by amateurs who want to cram as much meaning as possible into what they do.

Like painting, pottery, or photography, programming can be used to do art, but most of the time (99.9%+) it's just a mix of craft and industrial design, done to achieve a practical goal.
Thanks for the links. I didn't say that John's code is ugly, I just remember reading about it in some magazine. They (magazine) obviously didn't have a clue back then ...
Are you reading Onion or Salon.com? Then you might be a threat to the U.S.
You have to read "riot" in context of "insurrection." Armed uprisings are put down with lethal force. That's not inconsistent with western thought. E.g. its one of the first things the fledgling U.S. federal government did in response to a rebellion in Massachusetts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays'_Rebellion#Rebellion.

Vis-a-vis riots, read in the context of "insurrection" you might interpret it as referring to the kind of riots you see in say Bangladesh: labor strikes where people bomb things.
What is the evidence that this world operates chaotically? Are you sure you understand what that word means?

When we talk about the term "truth" it's absolutely critical that we have evidence in our words.
No draw checks ,
Infact it locks up my browser when the game has been drawn.
You said it all in your last sentence. You could not ever be him. You're a normal human being. Presidents, regardless of country of origin, don't have that prerequisite. Actually it's a bonus point if they don't have it.

The history books will find a way to portray him in a good light. As history books have taught us.
I wonder how far they hope to go, given his ashes were spread to an undisclosed place, assumedly on Earth. What would the speed of diffusion of matter from Earth to the universe be? There's some outgazing, some artefacts, getting out of Earth, but so far I'd not expect much of Einstein having gone too far.
Here I thought that this font was supposed to be TEMPEST-proof but I see the author is still playing in the intramural leagues...
Actually, software that identifies handwriting is far more advanced than OCR, mainly because its been a problem for far longer. How do you think the postal office handles all those handwritten letters and postcards?
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Remember what Snowden said about policies changing?
The link works for me. For those who can't access:

http://web.archive.org/liveweb/frombrazil.blogfolha.uol.com....
Seems from the last few minutes like a Japanese studio discussion overlayed on top of a fixed poor-angle picture of three guys locked in a tiny space, with the occasional cut to a piece of machinery in the black doing nothing recognizable. Meh, pass.
Uh... you're not building very complex projects then :) Before you get defensive, consider something like Amazon.com as an easy extreme example. Or a banking website or non-trivial html5 based onlline game as less extreme ones. None of those are getting built in a day, and probably not without the use of libraries (though for something like amazon the libraries may be mostly proprietary/internal)
Hence why I said, "we". Every encryption scheme you propose will actually need to be used by other people to make the system work overall.
They're currently still diving on their way to 5000m, which might still cost around an hour. I think the interesting part starts from there.
CSS and Javascript don't seem to load, getting a 404 on those.
Figured it was worth a shot. I would actually imagine there's a lot of people who actually are antivax for the reason I mention, but you never know 'til you try, right? ;)
OK fine, suppose it's totally useless. It still doesn't seem to have any serious disadvantage over the status quo, which means we could still benefit by implementing it if only in order to test your hypothesis that it won't work.
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Unfortunate that Zerigo did not (apparently) bother to deploy ddos protection after the event a year ago, and waited until this event to do so. This is part of their auto-reply to any emails to support:

"Zerigo has procedured DDOS mitigation services from Verisign and is
in the process of integrating them into our network to prevent such
attacks from compromising our DNS services in the future."
"And the former National Security Agency contractor claims he has the evidence to prove it."

Well... where is it?
Fwiw, enlisted soldiers swear an oath to obey. Officers do not. And both swear to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, which certainly applies in this case.

Enlisted oath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_enlistment

Officers' oath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Uniformed_Service...

Not that Snowden is either, but you were talking about when soldiers may disobey their superiors so I thought this might be tangentially interesting.
Well, let me just put on my tinfoil hat.

Other commenter on the thread pointed to a paper demonstrating how pretty every car control function can be hacked and overriden. It can even be rigged to self-erase after crash. And I'm guessing, if you can do that, you can just rewrite the EDR on crash too with fake data and erase any trace of the hack.

The argument of "this would've been a bad place" is pretty much null, for two reasons. First, if you assume the car was hacked, there wasn't anything to film or observe for anybody in the vincinity other than a driver going fast and then crashing, doesn't get much more perfect than that. And secondly, there'd have been friends/fans/police to investigate no matter where the guy died. That place is as good as any.
The title and the article are both idiotic as this only works if the NSA takes screenshots of messages and deciphers them. If someone uses this font to send a message and the recipient does not have it installed they will see raw text and so will the NSA.
I don't believe the creator actually believes that this can do anything but I think the author does not actually know how ASCII or fonts for that matter, work.
Bad idea. You're trapping yourself in an information bubble.

People probably 'prefer' the NYTimes to Rolling Stone but who did Michael Hastings write for?
If you think creativity is hindered by rules and best practices, you're a beginner and likely will produce chaotic and derivative crap.

You have to know and understand the rules before you can break them in a meaningful way.
It doesn't become unconstitutional when a court says so. From its inception either it is, or it isn't. The issue simply isn't decided until the court says so.

From a practical point of view there's no difference, we can split hairs if you want.
There is no need to petition for the inevitable.
Well what if... obama's signature counts as 100,000 signatures? :P
So Google can eavesdrop on everyone's communication globally and relay that to the US government. If I were a foreign government I would tell them to fuck off. There is no point in having a spy network of a corporation that belongs to another nation in your airspace. If they want to build such a network, open source the technology and let nations' own organizations that are under the democratic control of those nations build that technology.
Not a beauty indeed. When I was choosing the color, I asked my girlfriend, working in the fashion industry, which colour should I choose. She looked at me with horror, her eyes saying "all of them are butt ugly".

For the size, it's not too bad from comfort's point of view, and my friends' watches (Casios and others) are often bigger, so it is personal preference, I guess.
I think it depends largely on the source and target languages and how similar they are (in what ways I couldn't say with real certainty). Japanese -> English translations are pretty much always hilariously bad, but then we get at least some very good German -> English instances like this. Without unprecedented advancements I doubt automated translation between two highly disparate language families will be consistently usable any time soon.
Not only will the font not fully solve the problems everyone is facing but it will not solve anything!
> future generations of politicians will know now to upset the population to the point where they'll revolt and ask for their execution.

I agree with your post, except for this. If history has shown us anything, it's that they never learn.
That remained my opinion just a moment ago. But reading though the thread now I wonder if at least some significant number of the signers might become more invested in the issue than they were before. Not to mention others who read about the petition reaching this threshold.

One major objective of activism is to inspire more activists.
The NSA, CIA and FBI would game that petition. I think the phrase is "Manufactured Consent."
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Waiting on a phone call from an executive to discuss some things. So technically, working at home. I'll code some later but that's just for myself. Because I need to work hard to keep up with my peers.
I hope those 15 are not waiting for a twitter update!
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Excuse me if I am a little dubious of the South China Morning Post. According to the article, he gave them an exclusive interview 10 days ago that they are finally publishing now. Interesting that Snowden chose to completely ignore his contacts at the Guardian etc. for this.

Are there any other sources to back this up? Or evidence?
the government might use their database skills to fix that...
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but marginally more interesting.
Hootsuite takes the low road, blames complaints on “fear of change”
@SCAQTony Also the title of the ever more relevant mr. Noam Chomsky's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
Of course he is a normal human being. He might live an extreme life, but this does not make him an exemplar of a different species.

History books tend to be very diverse, depending on where they come from, but they also tend to align more and more as centuries are passing by.
Other links:

Video: http://vimeo.com/42675696
Font Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20517415/ZXX.zip
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When has Germany having a surplus of military power ever not worked out for everyone?
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Really? That's a weird probability assessment. Rot13 is pretty much used as a laugh.
The author doesn't know it, but the issues he raises are what functional reactive programming approaches aim to solve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_reactive_programming