skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clinton is the same guy who tried to press us into using key-escrowed encryption systems like the Clipper Chip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip) and his IRS was notorious for auditing anyone who committed personal, in your face lèse-majesté. You mention his wife, she of the "vast, right wing conspiracy"; these are not people who've ever been good on these subjects. For that matter, not that it wasn't largely bipartisan to begin with, but the reason the PATRIOT Act passed so quickly in such detail was it was a wish list left over from Clinton's administration, where it had been pushed without success.
Great work! I'm definitely using it :)
At the risk of going more off-topic, but nevertheless answering your question: I judge most things on how they affect people at large. Not just high-salary employers and employees usually from stable households, but normal people that make up the cities.

It is kind of a disgusting, spooky thing that we just cater to the well-doing, but ignore the folks who weren't afforded the same opportunities in their lives as the rest of us. It falls on us to level the playing field as much as we comfortably can, so they too can get good education, affordable homes, affordable food. Instead we're depriving them of that, we're displacing them from the homes they've been living in -- there's something very wrong there isn't there.
> Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group, while Booz & Company is owned and operated as a partnership.

> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
Do you really read?
I see it a bit differently. The system is set up so that an independent interest can raise an issue, the state requests clarification, and the resulting court cases clarify the issue.

The State isn't going to take the BitCoin Foundations word that they aren't doing anything wrong, just like they don't take the credit card processors or Treasury departments word that they are doing something wrong. So party A says "They are doing it wrong!" and the state tells party B, "Please stop what you're doing, unless you can show your not doing it wrong." That is how the system evolves its understanding and codification of things.

Sure, its obvious for something things (like murder and mayhem) but when its less obvious or more subtle then its unfair to take one side's view of the matter and declare it correct by fiat. You explore the subtleties and need to decide where to draw the line.

This is a good thing for the Bitcoin folks because it is the start of the process where the government develops a collective understanding of what Bitcoin is. That, if nothing else, validates that Bitcoin is "real" in the sense that the government must "understand" it in order to work with it. People who dislike the notions will argue its evil, and supporters will argue its beneficial and once we've talked through all the legal ramifications then its future will no longer be in doubt.
As far as the DoE goes I pretty sure NNSA contracts out the majority of their security positions. I think this is a somewhat recent development because I think they used to have a highly respected security force. Who would you prefer to have guarding DoE nuclear sites?
This is how I think it up in my head, just with words, and end up writing it like that as well.

Thanks!
And how do you plan to stop the next terror attack?
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-...

This happened just two years ago. Palestinian engineer, traveling in Ukraine, was captured by unknown people, and was found in Israel prison week later.
Read a newspaper from western North Dakota and you will get the same story. Booms are incredibly hard on fixed or lower income residents. It might be an interesting contrast given the towns in ND have an expansionist bent.
I mean the purpose of the list will be defeated if the methods by which it was created are disclosed. Which says nothing about the desirably of such a list or this use of it. (For that matter, the gun grabbers keep campaigning to deny gun ownership to anyone on it, can't have guns in "terrorist hands"....)
My problem is that it's going to target the wrong people. Low-level software engineers (who suffer the high rents like everyone else) are being lumped in with the douchebag underachievers whose boarding-school friends in VC handed them VP positions in startups (i.e. rich people welfare).

I stopped supporting violent revolution when I realized that it was the fringe of the elite (i.e. people like me) rather than the ones really in charge who tend to get killed.
Agreed. I'd be really interested in a good common lisp for mobile development but I need more to go on than a page with a buy button.
User Experience Hack At Gas Station - Evil or Brilliant?
A little bit expensive and with no trial (no, I don't want to buy something to return it later).
if they wanted any chance of clarification they should have kept him...
I would categorically disagree with that. Look at freedom of speech as one example. Talk to the authors in Canada who have been stifled because their speech didn't conform to the gov't multicultural agenda.

Is the US the most free country in the world by every measure? Of course not. Overall is it one of the most free or the most free? I would say yes.
It has been released 30 minutes ago, so web page is a work in progress.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic for the sake of being sarcastic or are actually serious.
I started using Dia (http://projects.gnome.org/dia/) when my employer wouldn't spring for Visio. A bit quirky at times, but overall not too bad for simple stuff.
It looks like dailydot has started running spam accounts - the OP and this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sexyalterego

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OTRAustin
Is an alternative with some features, i.e. snapshots (IIRC), then I'm planning to add custom comparators and pluggable builtin serializers. Another thing is that leveldb-ruby is built in c++, instead mine uses ruby builtin ffi, should be a little slower (benchmarks will come) but easier to maintain and to extend.
Whistleblower Snowden escapes arrest in Hong Kong thanks to US errors
Ah, gotcha. It certainly didn't parse that way.
hmm. I want to reserve judgment until I read about reddit astroturfing their own website. It reminds me of a golang presentation, where the speaker created an omegle clone, but to boot-strap it he used markov chain bots if no one connected in 5 seconds. http://vimeo.com/53221560 . I didn't think of that as a particularly immoral thing to do.

edit: Actually I'm not really sure what to search for here. Do you have an article going over the details?
Go read Le Carré. Or examine the record of News Corp phone hacking, and the politicians with whom they are entwined.
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Generally speaking, improving the tax base of a city should improve education and health care. It doesn't in San Francisco because the city is mismanaged: it spends integer multiples per capita compared to other cities.

Meanwhile, housing is expensive in San Francisco because San Francisco makes it difficult to build high-density housing, which it badly needs, because unlike Chicago San Francisco can't grow "out".

When Wicker Park was gentrified in Chicago, residents got angry, but then they moved to adjoining neighborhoods. It's possible that many of them kept their kids in the same schools; virtually all of them kept their kids in the same school system. Chicago in 2013 could sustain at least 3 more waves of gentrification, waves that would turn Garfield Park into yuppie restaurant districts, without displacing residents outside of the city boundaries.

San Francisco can't do that. Where Chicago has Garfield Park, then Lawndale, then Austin, then a border with a suburb, San Francisco has cold brackish water. When a working class resident of San Francisco loses their apartment, there's a good chance they're not going to be able to remain in the city at all! That makes gentrification in San Francisco far more painful than it is in other cities.

There's a solution to this problem, which is to sacrifice some of the postcard beauty of Bayview and the Tenderloin to allow high-density housing. But for reasons other people have described on this thread, the residents of San Francisco are unwilling to do that. So they suffer, and then scapegoat.
One could get offended in infinitely many ways using this kind of logic.
The 51-minute OkCupid experiment
Ecuador does indeed have an embassy in Moscow.

http://embajada-ecuador.ru/ecuador/
You talk to Japanese civil engineers and they tell you how to build earthquake-resistent tall buildings, which they have a lot of practice with.

From http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=863 , talking about the Kobe earthquake of 1995 (magnitude 7.2):

"Sixty percent of those who died were over 60 years old. The reason for this is that they were mainly the one who lived in the older houses that collapsed. Few people died in new homes. Nearly all the buildings that killed people were built before the enactment of modern building codes in the 1970s and 80s. Many newer buildings were badly damaged but they didn’t collapse."

"Kobe's modern buildings 'seemed to have performed very well,' a former Stanford engineering professor told Newsweek. 'There may have been one or two that have been damaged. But I haven't heard of any that fell.' Every building constructed according to the building codes established in 1981 was unscathed."

I bet there are many, many structures currently standing in SF that would be more earthquake-safe if they were replaced with taller, higher-capacity, but better-engineered modern buildings.
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Everyone is worried about the government but they are the figurative "plane accident" compared to all of the other online threats we face

The difference is one is an accident or an action by third parties, the other is done by people who derive their authority from the populace, aka in your name. It's essentially the difference between how the wind blows and what your hand is doing.

Even if you think you got rid of the NSA (and you never will)

Not if your advice to "just move on" is followed, no.

No wait, actually: remember how nobody could ever touch the mob, and how everybody would have spoken German for at least 1000 years, if the Roman Empire didn't still exist which it will always do? Yeah, me neither.

there's still all the other black hats

There is a difference between the wheel of crime being reinvented all the time by individuals, and letting it fester into huge organizations for which you are much more directly responsible.
Of course they should, unless you really want to see things like codes for ICBMs or "Report on how to shut down half the national power grid because of XYZ" plastered all over Reddit.

There are some things government, unfortunately, must keep secret to ensure safety of the governed.
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So prejudice and hatred are OK, as long as the group you hate isn't marginalized?

Or maybe it's a hipster thing? Marginalizing immigrants and transvestites is so 20th century. These techies are getting too big for their britches; time to marginalize them.
No, the thing is, I actually did appreciate your response. Maybe you are one of those people that have a hard time accepting that other people can have different opinions and be quite valid.

Anyway, I do appreciate the continued response. You got to convincing me with your point before, but now that you have fleshed it out more I am stepping back. If, underlying your argument, is that the rule of law "is a sham", then we have nothing further to talk about. Our universes are a little too different.
they truly need a system like NYC's stop and frisk. Unfortunately that is threatened regardless of the good it has shown to do by misguided rights activists. Chicago is a great example of PC gone wrong. The main beneficiaries have been minorities and those who live in the "war zones".

The means to fix Chicago's problem is available, however it requires a mayor with strength of character more concerned for the people than himself.
There was also the Treasure Island project, but that fell through it looks like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_development
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ah, that might work, if users can't be tied to upvotes, just that one upvote can be tied to others. Still, if someone finds a way to associate a username to a hash, then there could be real life consequences for that.

I like the idea, but it's playing with fire.
What is the 'np.reddit.com' subdomain used for? I had never seen it before, and it looks similar to the www subdomain.
Sorry to hear about your situation few years back ... But I am glad you wrote this comment b/c up until you said it ... my comments about bullying were based solely on a hunch...

If one person in that situation can benefit from it today ... I would think the whole thing paid off...

I cannot give a date on Android yet, but its definitely coming ... :-)
I can technically agree, but that's just because i'm 22.

To me Obama showed much promise, but he's really been just as horrible as every other president that's graced the White House, if not worse.
Your post reminds me of a fictional example taken from Star Trek where Kirk (just a cadet at that point) cheated on the Kobayashi Maru test. For those who are not familiar (or even fans) of the franchise, the Kobayashi Maru[1] is a simulation that's designed to test a cadets ability to cope with failure when faced with a scenario that is unwinnable. In Kirks case, he hacked the computer to give him a better odds and thus went on to beat the simulation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
That's by definition a paramilitary, but they aren't SWAT teams, e.g. their formal rules of engagement are very different.

For that matter, informal, I doubt they get off on killing dogs (if you don't know about that, search on swat puppycide, Radley Balko has written a lot on it).
The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6SIY14ccNY
Ask HN: Wiretapping limits that prevent tyranny and satisfy security concerns
I'm curious what other HNers think about legislation that would implement a hard upper limit on the number of people who's records can be wiretapped by the NSA at any given time. For example, place a limit of 2,000 domestic wiretaps and 50,000 international wiretaps at any given time. The requirement would be that once this limit is reached, the NSA would have to evaluate all 2,000 existing wiretaps and cancel one of them, including deleting all recorded data, if they would like to wiretap a new subject.

The way I see it, putting hard limits would force the agency to adopt processes where no single individual can unilaterally wiretap anyone with agreement from many individuals agreeing that the new person to be monitor presents a greater threat to security than any of the existing people being monitored.

I know this solution doesn't completely satisfy staunch constitutionalists, but I'm trying to figure out how to be pragmatic and propose solutions that stop the forward momentum towards tyranny and start getting the momentum moving back towards liberty.

We're a bunch of really smart people and I'm just trying to brainstorm what alternatives and limits the community here could propose that would still meet national security requirements and prevent the NSA's power from spiraling out of control as it continues to do.
Technology is a weird space because it has some of the best individual contributors, but also many of the worst managers on earth.

Now that the elites have caught on to technology being actually important, they've colonized us as a people. Just as they've colonized the space in major cities (see: San Francisco and New York) they have taken over us and our economy, and we are now under occupation. And there is a Damaso Effect going on when it comes to technology management.

What's the Damaso Effect? It refers to the theologically incompetent friars often sent from Spain to the colonies, such as the Philippines. The good ones stayed on the mainland; the inept, fired ones who were sent away to die ended up in the colonies and became local authorities. You see a weird and unstable dynamic in a colony relationship where the best people of some society have to answer to the worst of another. It leads to a lot of violence as those with natural leadership talents (the best of the colonized society) refuse to subordinate to people who are, although from a more powerful nation, in all other ways inferior.

That's what's happening to nerds/"techies". We're being subordinated to the worst of another kind. See, in the business/executive/finance world, the good ones who can actually sell and motivate and mentor (rather than bumbling middle managers who can't motivate shit to stink) are off writing billion-dollar private equity deals and flying around the world on private jets. It's the bad ones, mostly, who get stuck managing nerds or who end up being a mere product manager (of a product that was someone else's idea) at 32.

The reason I am writing this is because it's important point out that "we" (the technology people) and "they" (the ones being priced out) have a common enemy: the useless executives and colluding VCs who are actually both (a) running up house prices while (b) destroying the technology sector.
Same here. CSS Media Queries are not respected. Looks alright on phone, but this test-website is showing the default desktop-version.
Less important in this case, from my perspective, as the students are competing SPORTS and ARTS colleges/majors, which are always seen as categories that requires less solemn test scores on everything(, except for the talent in specific sports/arts, which is hard to test though).

My mother always watches Youth Singers Competition year after year on TV, where they draw random questions as 'overall quality' section. And you can tell many of the best youth singers in China are less competitive in literature, history and some common knowledge in science(, and some of them are even less competitive in answering questions in music theory/history).

I am not trying to generalize any conclusion about the cheating rate or something. I am just less inclined to believe that the media have already reported all the truth(, nothing but the truth). And it may not necessarily hint that other students who focus other majors like science, technology or business are cheating in the same level.
Yeah, I guess it isn't clear, when I say "if you think about it" that generally includes "put yourself in the shoes of the people doing this".
Seconding Yed. It is great for making structured diagrams. It is very quick to make good looking diagrams without spending much time on formatting and beautification. User interface is nice and configurable, though a bit counter-intuitive at times. I have been unable to figure how to make free-form diagrams using Yed, so feel sometimes that creativity is hampered.
Do you have a link to an article that explains why malformed packets are a necessary precursor?
It's actually cheap for a production ready(if it is) commercial cl implementation, but I agree, a trial version is essential.
Is she the one who came up with that shit? If so, I'm going to short YHOO.
Do you really need a server?
You can launch a more powerful EC2 instance (EBS backed), upload your data, and stop the instance (alternatively you can create a snapshot and terminate the instance).
Next time when you need the backup or back up more data, just start the instance. You pay the full price of storage and data transfer, but not the CPU. If your other servers are within AWS, you even don't need to pay for the data transfer.
As mentioned in another comment, you can get the rough equivalent of --delay-updates with git fetch followed by git reset or git merge.
np.reddit.com is for "non-participation": Comments at the subdomain can't be upvoted or downvoted. It was implemented by several subreddits to prevent invasions which happen rather frequently on Reddit.

The vote blocking is implemented with client-side CSS, so it doesn't work if you're using RES or using a mobile client.
For example, what do you think about the current constitutional issues in Argentina? do you agree with the supreme court ruling?
Who is this referring to? It's certainly not Manning, whose trial is currently ongoing (and leaked much, much more than "bad things USA did" besides).
Paying taxes is a lot more in line with "Material support or resources" [1]. Anyway, grin-fucked is still fucked [2].

1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A

2] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/28/dont-be-a-grin...
I'm sure he did. But plans are just that. They're dependent on the moves of other players that you typically have no control over and can only imperfectly guess at.
‘NP’ stands for ‘No Participation’.

“Linking to np.reddit.com instead of reddit.com will cause the subreddit to display the No Particpation stylesheet. It’s a read-only mode where users linked through the NP domain cannot vote or comment. This works only if the subreddit has installed the NP CSS. If not, linking to the subreddit with the NP domain will cause to display without the subreddit’s custom CSS, and voting and commenting will still be possible. This way we can still watch drama as it develops, but if the subreddit wishes to preserve its own culture by discouraging popcorn pissers, they have that option.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/14xivv/annou...
US Revokes Edward Snowden's Passport
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Firstly, I don't understand what is happening with HN. It's becoming a blatantly US political site and not a particularly insightful or discerning one.

Secondly, what is the point of this map ? For all I know there could be millions of legitimate raids each year in which case the tens of botched ones here would make for a statistical impressive record. Seems borderline deceitful on their part not to state how many total raids happened each year.
Thanks! I think of this topic as rarely discussed but its 'products' are often used.
Google Chrome has it built into the inspector as well, however it is not nearly as fancy as the one found in Firefox.
The normal recommendation is "good old-fashioned police work", as if strong police states are known to be beacons of freedom.

Some simply recommend to just suck it up as the price of doing business, but that goes against everything America has typically done with regard to terrorism, all the way back to the Barbary Pirates: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!"
>This demo is symptomatic of a general and irritating trend with modern Chrome and Firefox: the development teams seem to be very interested in doing enough to tick a box claiming they support a certain feature, but the quality of implementation can still be poor, sometimes to the point of being unusable as in this case. SVG is a common culprit, but for example typography in Chrome is another repeat offender.

That's development in general. Is it not? It's hard to find houses that don't have a focus on stuff like that. As averse as I am to it, I also have to admit it is a good thing. It's just embarrassing when the covers come off and the dirty hacks are revealed.
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If you live in the United States, once you have enough information, you can use the IRS's whistleblower program to report him. You can get up to 30% of the penalty and tax money that the IRS collects if you wait until the idiotic budget sequestration is lifted.

Just make sure that you have solid information, because:
"The IRS is looking for solid information, not an “educated guess” or unsupported speculation. We are also looking for a significant Federal tax issue - this is not a program for resolving personal problems or disputes about a business relationship."

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Whistleblower-Informant-Award