skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the keyword in (1) is "blanket". I'm not sure exactly what the intended definition is, and this should be clarified, but I'd guess the intent includes surveillance without specific probable cause.

If I'm right, then I think this might be achievable. It would not say that any surveillance could be challenged in a public proceeding, only indiscriminate surveillance. Production of a lawful court order would presumably be sufficient to inactivate this provision. Hmm, I suppose things could get sticky if there were debate over the lawfulness of the court order... nonetheless, I'm not prepared to give up on this yet.
This is my first account of like 10 that lasted a few months before getting hellbanned, so I would feel more than a bit presumptous doing that. I'm glad a way to behave a little, so I can occasionally rant and get heard, or simply add things I know to a discussion, or upvote comments etc., but personally I am so far left leaning, and not even a professional, but "just" someone who has been into computers since he's a kid, programs a little and loves the web, that I'd seriously feel weird making an "announcement" like this, and tell others what their duties are. Am I a coward, or does that make sense?

Not that I want to diminish my post, I stand behind every word, but I also put "we" in quotes because of the above, because I really mean you guys, the people who really know their shit, the people who don't feel helpless when confronted with math, the people who build the tools I use and write the code I learn the pitiful little things I know from, the people who stand a snowball's chance in hell to ever get hired by any of the agencies or corporations that do these things, because I really don't, you can take my word for it. When it comes to democracy or philosophy, all are equal, and in that sense I'm do not want to shrink from anything; but when it comes to HN per se, I do not consider myself a peer (this time that's a compliment) and do not want to pretend I am one, I get carried away enough as is sometimes ^^

It is very flattering though, thanks.
Maybe... I've been to both. It would be hard. But, I also think there would have to be a change in expectations about what a server farm is... What it looks like. I think it could be very important to make it work in Haiti, even if it was a modest start.
Why shouldn't they? There is no issue of search or seizure here. Unless you never step outside your home, you should have no expectation that your face's features are private.
IE10 only has a smaller chrome when windowed. When maximized, it has the same (within a couple px) top chrome, but combines tabs and nav into one, so the chrome is actually less useful. It's mind-boggling that MS shipped something with so little polish.
I feel like I am in one of those ghost films where the ghosts don't know they're dead.
Interestingly, the idea of a car company owning the charging station network was presented by Cringely on his column years ago. [1]

Just listened to the podcast the other day and was struck by how similar Tesla's model is to what he presented. The entire segment is around the question of "how would Steve Jobs run a car company".

1: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081207_0055...
Is awesome, as everyone has said.

It's like minimal groove shark... Just a few minutes ago I was thinking of building something over groove shark to get a similar minimalistic interface, but TOSes would probably prevent that.

Well done on this project again though, very nice
Forged, as in a meticulously recreated work of art, possibly indistinguishable from the original, done for nefarious purposes and passed of as the original.

But foraged isn't bad either.
Actually, what the NSA is doing IS illegal even according to the patriot act
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I bought a copy a few weeks ago. I haven't read much yet, but so far so good.
Hmm wonder if I'm dead.
This is not my first account. 'bjz' was hell-banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bjz It was very disheartening - it was a year before I decided to re-register.

Anyway, I understand the reasoning behind the current system (HN is a huge target for potential spammers), but it really does create a climate of fear. Unfortunately I don't have a solution to this.
SVG 1.1 spec defines suspendRedraw() and unsuspendRedraw() methods which seem to have somehow similar purpose, though those can be applied only on <svg> elements, are supported only by Firefox and are going to be deprecated in SVG 2.0.
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That's true. But this way is much more powerful. He's acting according to his principles, and not sneaking around. He's like the complete opposite of his enemies.
This place is starting to feel like /r/politics...
It was quite some time ago that I was hell-banned, but I think it was because my account got progressively slower, and I wasn't getting any replies or upvotes. I think I might of googled 'why is hacker news slow', and that's how I found out.
Yeah, I certainly have my "moments" where I say something stupid or out of line, and I take the downvotes as a rightful correction to my excesses, generally speaking.

That said, I mostly just upvote interesting comments and ignore the rest.
If Snowden were indeed turned, his position would likely be of less value than another much more highly placed source. The M.O. of the Chinese Intel community is to both gather as much information as possible, while also providing opportunities to pursue their foreign and domestic policy goals.

Snowden nicely fits the foreign policy goal and his position was not one of extreme privilege. He may have also provided all of his value in his placement and now is serving a different purpose.

This isn't unusual; the USSR had many highly trained agents inserted into Germany during the Cold War who were placed specifically to be burnt in times of crisis or when it suite them - this exact scenario.
That has been debunked.

Wikileaks legal team responded to this in depth: It is 55,972 words long, which is roughly 70 per cent of the length of a doctoral thesis. Julian’s legal defence committee prioritised this and asked a person to look into the arguments in depth, in order to produce a compelling response due to the harm caused by David Allen Green’s misinformation. It was peer-reviewed and revised and took six months to produce

http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html
I was curious if a simple fix for the bug would be wrapping a `defer` statement around the anonymous function. It seems only arguments are evaluated when defering, not blocks like I had assumed.

http://play.golang.org/p/Ah9SQrSKw4
How about the guys on a TN/H1B visa? It can be harder to be a remote freelancer than freelancer in the bay.
I have a hard time believing the US authorities want anyone to detain Snowden besides US authorities. He is, presumably, sitting on a big pile of classified but as-yet-unreleased information. Pure speculation (what fun!): perhaps Hong Kong law enforcement and the US know precisely where he is, but they are biding their time until they can get their ducks in a row for a US team to bring him back. All these public statements are just for show.
He cannot be extradited from any EU country (including the UK and Sweden) if there is reasonable doubt about their human rights being upheld (therefore including torture and the death penalty).
You can't honestly believe that we've made all of the advances in space flight that we can. This is certainly not a pan-melting exercise.

Building self-sustaining habitats in a zero-g, irradiated environment where resupply is extremely infrequent is very different from building Apollo or the Space Shuttle. You could argue that the ISS is a stab at this, but it's not self-sustaining at all. Maybe someday, but we haven't done it.

The construction of a colony on Mars wouldn't be a PR or purely scientific exercise, either. If it's enabled by having jumpoff points near the Earth and Mars, there will be enormous advances in robotics, because the potential payoff will be huge. The first company to successfully mine asteroids will reap a huge windfall in platinum and other metals that are rare on Earth. These metals becoming cheaper and more abundant will have large effects on the terrestrial economy because suddenly, whole new classes of devices become cost-effective (fuel cells, for example).

There will be other advances in science from this, beyond the pedestrian "make existing tech faster" stuff, and it's not make-work. What you're saying now is exactly the myopia he's referring to, and the costs involved are not even on the scale of a pointless war.
There are meaningful differences between arrested, misdemeanor and felony.

So long as it isn't a felony, I'm not sure it would even come up in most scenarios; at least it wouldn't get you auto-deselected like a felony might.
Well, I suppose that I still cling to a mentality from a decade or so ago, when it seemed worthwhile using "GNU/Linux" to refer to the user-space system (e.g. "Debian is a GNU/Linux"), as opposed to just the kernel. But these days "Linux" is almost universally used to mean the former, and "the kernel" is used to refer to the latter.

So I suppose you are right, it is a much less principled objection :)
I lost flag ability recently. I must have overdone it. I had definitely been flagging a lot of non-tech posts that seem better suited for general news sites.
Also, the fallout from this scandal is not necessarily domestic; it is quite far reaching in foreign policy circles and provides quite a few opportunities to frustrate US policy goals both economic, military and political.

After all, the US approaches foreign policy from a moral and human rights standpoint (publicly). It is much easier to push back at the US when you can (rightly) point to abuses of the very cause we supposedly hold dear.
Am I dead? I haven't participated much in conversation but I know the few posts I made awhile back didn't get much response.
Very good point about screening.

When I was interviewing people, phone screen with some basic concept questions would filter out 80% of applicants with nicely looking resumes; an hour-long whiteboard screen with FizzBuzz kind of problems would take care of the rest. Very quick and efficient process.
I'm not sure how I feel about necromancy.
I expect Hong Kong to tell them f*ck off.
My old account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chbarts
Nope, you're alive ;)
I think we should just accept the poor range of Tesla and still root for it, because fundamentally, the technology is good for us and should be the future. We should accept it with all of its faults.

I'm happy it made it through (while Fisker didn't), if only for the cool factor... or whatever is the reason Tesla made it and Fisker didn't. I hope it keeps on rocking, so it can fund more research into improving the battery life until EV are decidedly better than gasoline vehicles.

On a side note -- I get 70mpg from my Prius C class when I'm supermiling. The car cost me 20k USD as I bought it new. I understand Toyota has a plugin hybrid too: http://www.toyota.com/prius-plug-in/
> It is stupid to assume that one's actions are bad just because they are against the law.

Yeah, it is. But the law is there and we still have to follow it until we can change it. Part of what makes people that conscientiously break the law for personal beliefs heroes (insert civil rights activist of choice here) is that they do so knowing that they are going against the law and willingly face that.

I respect a person who will take a stand and face the consequences of their actions.
He's counting fully loaded cost, which includes taxes and benefits.
and not sneaking around

He's vanished away to Hong Kong...probably?
Nobody knows where he is.
Hmm, this seems like it automates the part of cooking that wasn't actually very hard or particularly annoying.

That's nice I guess, kinda... ><
Some jobs require extensive vetting, and any arrests will show.

Some jobs require overseas travel, and arrests might be relevant. (EG: non US citizens entering the US are asked if they've been arrested. It doesn't matter if that arrest resulted in a conviction.)

(https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q683.htm)

(http://toronto.usconsulate.gov/visa-faq.html)

etc etc.
This has happened to mee too to the point that now I change accounts every couple of days. I often feel like I may even use my programing powers for evil one day and troll HN to no end in hopes of teaching PG what a real troll is. For now I'm too lazy though.
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This is really the only correct response to give to pedants like jmduke.
I've also had a partial "ghosting" along with "status reduction" but I never did ask for reinstatement etc...

Eventually my posts were given legibility but the experience lessened my respect for this community, as my offending comment had to do with American fascism (pre Snowden revelations) but now I try not to "grind my axe" here when I'm downvoted.

I have seen that some users here will downvote certain others regardless of the content of their posts and this practice is unbecoming of rational individuals.
Apparently the powers-that-be notice this also, as I have regained some of my lost status, and some of my posts still receive upvotes, so I'd say that the moderation of this site is working as is.
SOME OF HIS BIGGEST PROMISES

They really, really weren't. Domestic surveillance was one of the smallest, least talked about topics in Obama's election. Any, if we're honest about it, will also be in 2016. Hacker News is working itself up into a frenzy about it, but the country at large does not care.
Note that in the video they were getting 23.221 gallons which probably means it was an Audi A8.
The approach does feel a bit out of place here, although it's hard to tell if my view on that is due to "hellbanning" being associated so much in my mind with SomethingAwful. I'm not sure if they invented it, but afaik they're responsible for popularizing it in the late 1990s. It seems to fit their forum-management culture: dealing with trolls by coming up with various ways to, in effect, counter-troll them, some of them more lighthearted/prankish and others more insidious.

I was quite surprised to find it here, since the culture here doesn't seem very similar to SA's.
We're all human, and make mistakes. It's sad to be silenced unknowingly. I love reading some the insightful comments on HN and following the discussions, but the hellbanning policy is one of the reasons I prefer Reddit and am more likely to contribute there (despite it's own issues). It feels like a much more open and friendlier community because there isn't that fear of being shunned for a single infraction hanging over you.
Peaceful protesting will not do anything. This is why many countries have violent protests as the government will feel the majority might. We as Americans are too damn compliant as the previous and current administration has clearly trashed our rights to the point we just complain and complain.
Worldcom was a huge NeXT fanboi site. IB T3 line building on the fly. Made a great intel community box.
I also have tried to figure out the original reason for hellbanning, and I think there are a lot of instances where you could chalk it all up to a temporary lapse of judgement. Sure there are extreme cases where people are nuts, trolls, or both, but that is probably a fraction of cases.
> Later Saturday, a senior administration official added an additional statement: "If Hong Kong doesn't act soon, it will complicate our bilateral relations and raise questions about Hong Kong's commitment to the rule of law."

The rule of law can't have any meaning if it only applies when it fits your protocol.
If you were dead we wouldn't be able to reply to your comment :)
It actually happens more often than you think[1]. Also happened to me recently.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847829
were you doing some weird voting? because the comments / submissions don't seem to justify banning. normally with banned accts it's obvious why.

in fact, are you sure you were banned? apart from the last comment, which might have been deleted, it doesn't seem to me like you were hellbanned. your other comments are not greyed out.
Same here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=salmanapk

Felt like a jackass when I found out. Humans become evil when given authority over others.
Anyone know of similar books on the subject using Python?
I also lost Flag privileges, I thought I was being helpful to the community, but I guess not!
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That won't tell you if you are dead though. I think that is what OP was asking.
This is from a different computer. My main computer is now useless for HN. Old account here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Devilboy
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Actually it does show your own comments as [dead]. Or at least it did for me a month or two ago when I tried it. It's how I found out I was dead.
What? Buying ingredients efficiently is pretty tricky. This is a great way to plan a week's worth of food and keep the ingredients list reasonable.
are you sure? see my other reply to you here. you can easily check if you are hellbanned by logging out and seeing if you can see your posts. the site is sometimes slow and often people don't reply...
I've noticed a similar problem while browsing
thenounproject.com
Interesting. My comment was made after reading through other posts in this thread. I always thought "dead" just meant heavily downvoted comments.
Once again Archive Team has a job to do.
I did this some time ago with another account, and was ignored.
It's available to new accounts.
Interesting, perhaps I wasn't. I know I tried to make a submission or two and it said 'Slow down!' all the time, and that the site was very slow. I assumed this meant I was banned.
You've got your numbers wrong with the Model S range. The 85kWh pack will go 300 miles by Tesla's estimates. The EPA range is 265 (not 235), but I've driven from Atlanta to Savannah which is approximately 260 miles with 40 miles of range to spare.

Tesla's numbers are good for distance driving and the EPA estimates are good for in-town driving. But since the battery swap is mainly applicable to distance driving, I would use Tesla's estimates.
I must say, it's like a superhero movie.
For those interested in this sort of "puzzle", the story of Benjamin Kyle is fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle
The hellbanning/ghostbanning/whatever is one of a very few things that disturbs me about this community. I can see how it could prevent the problem of a banned user immediately creating new usernames, but it's also easy to imagine how it could be abused.

I keep "showdead" on and I have occasionally seen a user marked as dead whose comments didn't seem to me to warrant that. I support the resurrection vote idea.
The more pedantic, the more upvotes comments get from me. To me, the relatively high ratio of pedantic comments is a large part of HN’s appeal.

Anyways, I’m still rooting for an initiative akin to BetterPlace[1] to take off worldwide. I think having battery swapping stations at lots of places (like say, at every gas station) is a good solution to the action radius problem of electric cars.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place
What would you say about the book for those of us who have never touched Lisp, but perhaps have been interested in it for some time? (me)
Even ignoring the range differences, this is misleading marketing. What happens when 500 cars show up at an urban Tesla battery swapper within 30 mins of each other on a Saturday morning?

Anyone who's been to a Costco gas station knows that the petrol refill process is sustainable for hundreds of cars, while the battery swap is "draining a cache" of however many battery packs the station has pre-charged, which my guess is, way less than 100.

They are gonna have a peak demand problem on holiday weekends, etc.
How is that statement misogynistic?
There's no clear Constitutional objection here. But there is the prosecutor's fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor%27s_fallacy

Basically, it's the same problem as with "cold hits" and DNA testing.
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Gray Hat Python is not bad: http://www.amazon.com/Gray-Hat-Python-Programming-Engineers/...
It might be sexist but it isn't misogynistic.
I don't know who the moderators are or exactly how this works, but I believe that some of them may be abusing their position at times to shut down opinions that are contrary to their own.
Slashdot's moderation system is much better in this regard. The users starting score for new posts first goes to 0 and then -1 so that the comment will be collapsed by default reducing visibility but they can still accrue upvotes and karma allowing the users starting score to recover instead of turning the site into a zombie town where the zombies don't know they're dead.
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Thanks for pointing that out. We've fixed it now.
So $60 for 240 miles of range, or $4 to travel 16 miles.
Ah dang. I don't think I was actually. I don't think I'll go back to my old account though - I have karma on this one that I'd prefer to hang on to (in case I make a stupid comment one day and get down-voted heavily).
Is there a point at which regular people will realize what is going on? The only ones who seem to care are the few people who understand the implications - everyone else content being a sheep, satisfied with explanations given by government in place. For our sake, connect with peers, talk about what is going on, dwell and aspire to learn more.
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to show content without running their js.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)
I'm a man and I expected to marry the first woman I had sex with. Not sure how that comment was misogynistic.
I just noticed I don't have flag privileges either, at least for comments (I still have them for submissions.) I'm sure I used to. I can't remember ever having flagged anything. Is this based on karma levels or something else? Now I'm worried I've done something wrong.
Interesting timing on Tesla's part - announcing battery swap
stations less than 4 weeks after battery-swap based Better Place
announced (May 26) that they are shutting down.

This is either an amazing fast pivot, or more likely Tesla had the
swap capability designed in, but the swap station plan held in
reserve to be able to announce swapping so quickly after the
departure of Better Place from the battery swap niche.
If protestors wanted to shoot down police drones, they could do it safely with birdshot.

Well, for some very limited values of safely. Actually firing the shotgun would very likely cause return fire directed at the crowd.
What do you get when you cross cricket with foosball?
There is a great wiki book on this subject.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Data_Analysis_From_The_U...
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Assuming the batteries are not just discarded when swapped, you'd end up charging them, right? If a stall can change 1 battery every 1.5 minutes, then it needs something like 60 batteries available, total.

Take one out, start it charging on a super charger. 60 minutes later it's ready to be used.
This rings eerily similar to the state of the Gnome foundation and other long-in-the-tooth FLOSS projects. Sad to read but I really don't know how one responds to "no innovation." Is "come up with good ideas" really a thing?
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No, full-blown dogmatic Free Software folks just run all Free Software. Please continue to go ahead questioning dogma, as dogma is usually not healthy; but your learned helplessness is equally unhealthy.