skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way public demonstrations are going to have an effect is for them to be massive and concentrated. That does not mean widespread protests are a bad idea per se, but that if none of the protests actually have mass, they are going to be ignored by both officials and your fellow citizens as a temporary annoyance for which they will hold little sympathy.

Development of public support against greater security at the cost of freedom is the only way to make meaningful change. Yes, marches/demonstrations can be part of this. But small demonstrations do not alone capture the public's interest. One must capture the public mind--and that means informing the public and winning their support of having less "security" where weaking or violating the protections of their basic rights are concerned.

Right now, as various polls have showed, far too many Americans desire the feeling and theater of security. They are content to be invaded at airport security because eventually they can still fly. They are content to have their communications slurped up because they can still send that email and make that phone call.

It's not until they're staring at a public fountain from which they are not able to drink because it has a stupid printed sign above it that says "Whites Only" that the public will accept that things have gone horribly wrong.

I think demonstrations would be excellent to see, but not if they're anything like the Occupy movement, which the wider public opposed against their own self interest. It is very difficult to get the public's attention when they do not feel the effects. The public is rather shitty at evaluating and appreciating things in the abstract. Demonstrations that are massive and concentrated would have a much more significant impact. Think of the Civil Rights March on Washington. That level of mass and concentration. Doubling it would be even better.

And yet, even that basic right to protest has been severely weakened by the fact that one must get a permit to protest in many of the locations that would be tactically good choices. This is madness. The 4th is not the only Amendment that the People have allowed to be weakened over the last two centuries.

Americans have become very lazy where protecting their rights are concerned, because the vast majority of Americans do not participate in protecting those rights when they are violated against minority factions.
Also, remember that the deadline is Monday for comments on regulations.gov for the TSA scanners -- http://tsacomments.net has more
"during the update process our caching ruleset was not obeyed by our CDN partner" makes it sound like it.
Two common kinds of reactions by people who fail tech interviews at Google, Facebook, etc:

1. Think how to improve and practice for the next interview.

2. Bitch about how technical interviews are unfair, biased, miss the best people and ... OMG - DEAD!!!
How do you know how reliable (or not) this plan is?
That is a very nice drone. Does anyone know it's make/model?
The key point:

TSA’s nude body scanning policies probably cause more deaths than they prevent. For this reason, we recommend in our comment that the TSA suspend the current policies, commence a new rulemaking, and implement a rational policy resulting from an examination of all issues on the public record.
Level 3?
Quite sorry, you're correct, the calls for assassination were from a chap in Canada, and the congressmen were calling for an espionage charge, which is a crime that carries the death penalty as far as I know.

Source: Wiki

EDIT: And the death penalty would likely be sought by that interpretation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/us-embassy-cable...
>The last day to comment on the proposed rules is Monday, June 24th. You can submit your comments until then.

Cato's 50 page comment. If you want any ideas.
http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uploads/...
Vaccinate your life against B.S.O.D – Insure your memories.
Thanks ! You are right for the description. I will see for the landing page.
Show HN: Just launched new version of Hypejar. Looking for feedback
Hello, we had launched the private beta version of Hypejar (http://www.hypejar.com) in October 2012. We have done a lot of learning since then. Recently, we quietly released the new version of the platform.

We were hoping some you may be awesome enough to provide feedback as to what sucks and/or what rocks.

I can't thank you enough in advance. Our users thus far have had HUGE say in the direction we go and we plan on keeping it that way.

Thank you HN!
I'm assuming that the major risk with Loon is NSA "upstream collection" once you connect to it, and the danger of passive radio surveillance by Loon will be limited and/or duplicate capabilities which the US government already has. I could be certainly be wrong about that though.
IE 10 is the current version. It has already taken about 20% of IE 9's market share.
The important bit is that the bus fares are completely irrelevant now.

Most of my life I've thought that malaise amongst the oppressed was the stable state. But these protests suggest that is either wrong, or something has shifted the vocabulary of the dynamics from equilibrium to attractors. At least for a certain class of countries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_sandpile_model#Self-org...]

It remains to be seen if this has done anything to dampen the strong dystopian possibility of cross-national oligarchs whose members are large bureaucracies and whose mission is the status quo.

And it is worth paying attention to these countries where broad abuses are not merely potential. Because if it is not possible to regain their rights, then it is all the more important to not ignore the currently well intended overreach of Lawful Good Paladins.
When you talk to someone who knows, you should also include the evidence.

What concrete things are distorted or wrong with his world view ?

If you don't point out the fact in what you speak, we can understand that you don't actually know anything.
If you're interested in getting involved, there's discussion Restore on the 4th's subreddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/ and daily IRC meetings at 5 p.m.
Those things shouldn't slow you down at all if you aren't using them: this is a browser optimization issue. The browser knows that the SVG has not changed in any way, and can with absolute accuracy discern that it can simple blit the pre-rendered raster.

Browsers have not optimized SVG at all, painfully clear when the simplest retained dynamic SVG graphic is magnitudes slower than building entirely new framebuffers from scratch for every frame, ala canvas. It is trivial to see that the former should see dramatic optimizations that make it a significant winner, but in actual practice that just hasn't happened.

So it's a classic chicken/egg thing. No browser maker does anything to optimize SVG because few use it. Few use it because it's so unoptimized.

The findings of this post remain the same in either case, and is completely correct, but it shouldn't be this way. It isn't right that this test favors PNG.
* Share a plan.
* Look for family plans.
* Depends on your town/city's Wi-Fi coverage.
* Depends on your geographic location. In some places, broadband is so slow and 4G is so commonplace that it is better to drop the broadband service instead.
Though I like the copy behavior more than the reference one I wish there was an option to turn on aliasing. Kinda like in C++11's for(:) where you can get both - a copy or a reference.

Having strict control over reference/value semantics is a feature I don't want to miss in a systems language.
I'm not sure where fine art comes into this. I am honestly confused as to why you brought it up. See "The Arts of Old" section in Knuth's lecture.
Let Adecco know how you feel in their contact form too should you feel so inspired (keep it civil though)

https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/contact

I just put one through, feels good.
The Roost - Stop hunching over your laptop
Paid moonlighting projects are illegal for all us work visa holders but sometimes we wanna change jobs too. :(
I wasn't concerned about the reasons why I was downvoted; I was concerned that I was downvoted while in no way being told I was incorrect. Reply with where I'm wrong, don't just try to bury a dissenting opinion. HN is better than that.
Network Forensics:  The Tree in the Forest
What is hurting his cause is a) making this about him and continuing to talk so we don't have to address the issues and b) releasing a lot of information that doesn't have to do with domestic intelligence (china, g8 spying etc) distracting people even more and turning the public against himc) refusing to talk about what technical capabilities the NSA has and framing the conversation, instead; we see releases of information (PRISM) that are immediately followed by a rush to figure out the actual capabilities of the program, this confuses the public and muddles the waters even more

Snowden should have released the slide and then explained exactly what is wrong with the program. Instead, he did a document dump and followed that up by giving a reveal all interview that shifts the focus from the NSA onto him and his motivations. Snowden still hasn't addressed what he technically knows about PRISM.

He also claimed in his interview he could get access to the presidents email. If he thought that was a big issue he should have gone into detail about it for reporters(the target list, how he could do it as a network administrator etc.) and supported his charge. Instead, it is a one off statement in the context of a long interview where he essentially lays out a political reasoning for why he has done what he did. Snowden still hasn't addressed any of the issues of concern about the NSA and the (lack of)oversight exercised over the agency and its programs.

He had a perfect opportunity to put his concerns before the public and I feel he blew it.
Is it not feasible to load a vector graphic into a raster equivalent on first load? Startup time would, predictably, be slower, but just moving something around the screen would then be equivalent. (Obviously, some actions could trigger a redraw of the vectors, but I would think this would actually be a limited set of interactions.)
Because Asia
It's getting harder to find good developers, not easier

This could be part of what's going on. Small companies are getting the leavings of the big ultra-competitive companies. Small companies notice no matter who they hire, they are never up to par. Small companies blame this on the technical interview.
Yeah, gwern's comment pretty much changed my mind, I wasn't aware some terrorists actually still use Caesar chipers.
The stated dose of radiation from the original X-Ray based TSA scanners has a banana equivalent of somewhere between 1/2 a banana and 4 bananas.

The UCSF letter of concern about the penetrative depth of the radiation (here, weirdly, deeper penetration is better) was refuted by the scanner's inventor, who said the doctors confused two different metrics (radiation dose metrics, which were deep, and imaging depth, which was as designed shallow). But even if you believe the UCSF letter; what banana multiple are we talking about here? A 10x error in the amount of radiation the original backscatter machines generated would still work out to just tens of bananas.

Moreover, the flight itself totally dominates the radiation cost of an airline trip. NYC to LA is 10's of microsieverts; multiple hundreds of bananas.

The problem with backscatter machines isn't that they're unhealthy, and people shouldn't twist science into knots to make political points. Be careful about cheering for our side using a tactic that can easily be used against us in the future.

The problem with the machine is that they're strip searches, and administrative strip searches are unreasonable.
>The only way public demonstrations are going to have an effect is for them to be massive and concentrated.

Then I'm assuming you're planning to attend your local demonstration.
That's just a browser problem: for such static graphics it shouldn't matter what the original image format is.

The browser will generate an internal bitmap for each decoded PNG image, and uses that for blitting/compositing. Any decent browser ought do the same for SVG icons as well (and just invalidate the bitmap when the SVG image size/rotation or page zooming changes). When compared to blitting, stroking and filling paths is expensive and so is PNG decoding.

Of course, SVG can be rotated and scaled and animated nicely, unlike PNG. That will obviously be slower if done every frame. But this isn't the case and shouldn't be the case for such static icons.

(Of course, the current state of affairs probably is as described on the demo page. But it doesn't need to be.)
No, I read tptacek as agreeing with this person at Google. [1] That person is trying to develop a better interview formalism that works and is repeatable. So is tptacek, albeit probably in a slightly different direction.

What neither the Googlers nor Ptacek are saying is that the solution to the screening problem is to ask candidates to accept a deal that most full-time employees, and most clueful contractors too, would reject out of hand.

If your screening strategy would reject any sizable percentage of people who are currently successfully working for someone else, your screening strategy is bogus. Unless your express goal is to hire promising juniors who don't know their own value. Which does feel like the goal of many hiring managers: As market rates get bid up, they're desperately looking for people who are just clueful enough to succeed, yet just clueless enough not to ask for money in return.

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[1] I do not presume that any single person speaks for all of Google. In particular, I would be surprised if that giant company of folks who were all hired via brainteaser interviews has actually entirely stopped using brainteaser interviews. Fixing interviewing culture is hard.
I bet contacting the owner via Twitter (@Jenk1907) would help. Or the email address shown in the video (jenk1907@me.com).
Very basic asciidoc to markdown in clojure
Another compounding effect is that in order to get good at hiring, you need years of experience hiring, so you can find out what kind of interview is predictive and what kind of interview just wastes time. Most small companies don't have that kind of history to draw on.
One good observation from the article is that more simple questions is better than a few harder ones. Not much besides this.

My observation is that recruitment is only one part of the problem. The other part is that companies do very poor job at assessing skills during employment and loose/fire randomly. This seems to be much more important problem for top companies leading to slow degradation of skills over time.
ARGHHH....WHY WOULD HE DO THIS?

All he is doing is muddying the waters.

How can I claim to defend what he has done, if he is giving sensitive intelligence data to the CHINESE!!!!

He shouldn't muddy the waters. Just keep it focused on how the USGov't is taking away US civil liberties and privacy.

I mean...I understand why he is doing this - self preservation - but now he is looking more like a "spy" than a "whistleblower".
The SVGs perform great in Internet Explorer 10, FWIW. Probably because of how good their hardware acceleration pipeline is.
Copper can be problematic in high doses, but usually only when proper copper/zinc ratios are not maintained.
militaries are getting ready to fend off attacks of [relatively cheap compare to the cost of existing anti-aircraft missiles] drones:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/u-s-navy-las...

I think we can expect deployment of smaller systems to police forces as well as civilian drones becoming more and more widespread
If you reread my comment I think you'll see that I wasn't in fact calling anyone a name.
It's not just "too late to change now", it's also proper behavior.

Go code is meant to be concise:

- once a Go developer learned that the above is a copy (which she will learn very early on), she won't ever forget, it's just too fundamental

- to modify the slice, just modify the slice and skip the copy with underscore:

for i, _ := range mySlice { mySlice[i] = "foo" }

There we go. Syntax simplicity (without exotic compiler flags or prep directives) and conciseness fully preserved.
If that's the count, fine, let's let this comment make it three times that I "judged" North Korea as the most evil country on the planet. Want to make it four times? Five? Fine by me.
What do you mean by "simulated" in this case? What makes it look that way? It just looks to me as if one of the rotors got knocked out.
Stop eating the young: Edward Snowden, Barrett Brown,
Jeremy Hammond, Aaron Swartz, Gottfrid Svartholm,
Jacob Appelbaum, and Bradley Manning.

Why is Jacob Appelbaum in the list?
Unlike the others he is alive and free.
Interesting to see Clojure's syntax of using vectors ( '[]' ) in some places where previous LISPs have used lists being adopted here, at least for defn.
How about explaining your insights in ten sentences or so in this thread instead of just linking to some video that only few people would actually go watch just like that?
Which is worse: a nuclear explosion or public exposure of all NSA dossiers?
A very interesting future awaits us. I do think however that if drones get to be a problem government authories turn off data feeds to drones by snooping in on cell phone tower data streams. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that their weakness?

They can only be controlled from a distance by having a data plan and being connected to a cell phone tower. That opens up all sorts of terrorist possibilities, and the only way of really combating terrorism in a world of drones is by recording cell phone data streams.
Why a health insurance penalty might look tempting
Recreating Heaven and Earth…in real-time.
It's funny - when I hear people in the press discussing technical interviews [1] I hear questions like this: "How many golf balls could you fit into a school bus?"

When I attend technical interviews I hear questions like this: "How would you implement an arbitrary-precision decimal number class, like Java's BigDecimal? Can you write out the add function on that whiteboard?"

When Google's Laszlo Bock [2] says "On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything." it seems fairly clear to me the idea he's dismissing is brainteasers, not whiteboard coding.

That's consistent with other reports [3,4] from a few years ago saying brain teasers were not used.

The author of the TechCrunch article seems to interpret Bock as saying whiteboard coding is an ineffective practice. I'm not convinced the Bock interview said that.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455230457711...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...
[3] http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-goog...
[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/us-news-blog/2012/oct/0...
Up in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, working on a side project and enjoying the weather :)
I think this captures the state of the world more accurately. Every time that someone discovers how cool SVG would be if it did what the documentation said it did in browsers, they follow up with "but this actually sucks in real browsers". If the early reports of IE10 support hold up this might change.

It was my hope that retina screens would be the force to finally put real SVG support into browsers (and by real I mean both standards compliant and accelerated) because they benefit so much from line content using SVG.
English is no longer the language of the web
bullshit. Obama could fire anyone from Eric Holder to Keith Alexandar. What is happening now is what Obama wants to happen. It's 100% his responsibility.
Edward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers "Only Builds Better Whistleblowers"
Also, if "audition projects" were to become the norm then you'd see rampant cheating. Simply farm out the project to a competent freelancer and then pass it off as your own. The freelancer may not even know they're working on an audition project. And they may not even end up being paid more than the candidate since they could likely finish the project in much less time (and thus work at a much higher effective hourly rate).

And how do you filter the candidates who you give audition projects to in the first place? That's very difficult without a technical interview.
I assume you would not stand for criticism of China for pursuing their own "most prudent course of action" then?
Well, just as an example, I wrote a letter to my particular Senators and Representatives. I talked about my support for them during the past election and pointed to my contributions to their campaign.

I also made a point to make my voice an individualized one that connected my particular concern with a specific issue. I made my opinion personally known to their staff (the people who REALLY read the letters) and tried to educate them about my specific concerns.

So, yeah, I participate in the process by being educated about the issues, educating my elected representatives about the issues, and then highlighting that my continued support for them as an elected representative depends on my determination of how good of a job they are doing at just that.

That's why I'm poo-poo'ing this petition stuff. It's too general, too diffuse, not aimed at a particular politician with real influence, and ultimately going to be a wasted effort. It'll be ignored.

That's where Alexis Ohanian and his group have really done good work. They made a point of getting people to connect directly with their representatives and make it clear where the populace stood. THAT is how stuff gets done.

Slacktivism doesn't get you anywhere since it requires nothing that involves any real EFFORT. Letter writing and phone calling does. Working on campaigns does. Visiting representatives and senators does. Clicking a button does NOT.
Systems vs stories (in video games)
Have you read of the stuff he goes through?
He's constantly hounded by the authorities, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_a...
Avoid startup failure – Don’t make these 7 mistakes
As we've agreed, this is not a new or novel idea, but it does illustrate why the patent system is broken. A quick, cursory search yields a patent from 1994 for the exact same thing. " Preferably, a motor (27, 44) powered by the auxiliary power unit of the aircraft is used to drive the wheels of the landing gear."

https://www.google.com/patents/EP0756556B1?cl=en&dq=electric...

Search Google Patents for "electric taxi airplane". Even so, there are many subsequent patents on the same overall concept. A broken system.
Nice quote:

>> Governments are fond of the question: Why do you mind us watching, if you have nothing to hide? As both the size and price of this sort of technology decreases, it may reverse the roles of citizen and ruler. If five tiny camera drones hover over a clash between protesters and police, whichever side chooses to gun them down may invite that very same question.
>Given the Royal Navy have the most skilled submarine service in the world

FTFY
I'm doubtful that there's actually a conversation happening about right and wrong. The media attention surrounding these issues, and the treatment of the official actors, is centering entirely on the question of "is it legal?". They should, instead, be focusing on the question of "is it constitutional?". It's a very different kind of question. When all that can be said is that laws X, Y, and Z form the basis for action C, we have a fundamental failure at interrogating lawmakers and enforcement officials to ensure they are not complicit in violating the Constitution.
Hey, look, a new user, whose only post has the goal of discrediting Assange!