skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what? I agree. I think now it was wrong of me to suggest he was unpatriotic at all. He is a patriot and he is equally afraid of the consequences for being so. It is not my place to judge what level of commitment defines a patriot. This man has definitely served his country (I have never questioned his heroism) and his actions have cause international discussion. His actions will always be up for dispute whether or not they were the right course of action, but nobody will question the man who stopped the "big brother is watching you" argument from being a conspiracy theory into being a public fact that must be dealt with. The man is a world-wide patriot in that regard.
I tried to find a Merge and acquisition attorney/lawyer. None of them (the good ones) understand my business... Internet is too complicated for these guys... :( So to my experience, they are only of bad advice.

We are speaking about $10M...
As a European designer who hates the fact that so many PDFs are in US letter format: fuck designers.
Nah, they endorse you by accident, most likely. Linkedin incessantly buggers its users with requests to endorse ones connections. You almost have to make an effort NOT to endorse, if you navigate the site.
If he wants to escape US law enforcement he should try to go to Guantanamo bay.
Twitter Shuts Down Calgary Police’s Account During a Flood Emergency
Variable speed limits are well implemented on UK motorways.

One thing I find interesting is that, as a traveller, it's completely impossible to fathom what's going on. Because the signs are on in apparently free-flowing traffic, it's really not clear whether the signs are providing any use or are just still turned on from a earlier occasion.
Scientists find evidence.
Only mathematical theorems may have a proof.
Although the analogy doesn't suck and while the article points out:

Google had previously pledged to destroy all data collected in this manner - but admitted last year that it had "accidentally" retained the additional discs

it looks like nothing more than a click-throughs generating headline by some website.
Snowden is going to land in Oslo airport, Norway and meet with the leader of our Pirate Party, before going on to his final destination which is supposed to be Iceland. Source, in Norwegian: https://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Piratpartiet-Snowde...
What evidence is suspect?

Here is one new thing - The president has admitted that this programme exists while before in congressional committees it was denied.

The president stated that nobody listens to your data when evidence has been presented to the contrary.

No one had ever before seen a FISA court order. Most of the public was not even aware of Fisa courts. Most of the public did not know that this court has granted all requests, but two. Most of the public was not aware of secret courts interpreting secret laws while handing down secret judgments. The public did not know that a warrant was not needed but mere policy in many cases.

Etc, etc, etc.

All of this is new. The leaked documents are TOP SECRET. If top secrets becoming public knowledge is not new then what is!?
1: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

2: Replace the monospace font with a non-monospace font one

3: Tweak other settings until you have the typesetting you prefer

4: save as bookmarklet specifically for formatting raw text

Done!
People plagiarize because doing the actual work is soul-crushing. How motivating is it to read a bunch of high quality work, put them together and produce a mediocre work? It's not motivating at all, and people simply try to stay sane.
China is not an Enemy of the United States....
and another: http://bootswatch.com/flatly/
Yes, it's part of the release, and is also directly linked at radfordneal.github.io/pqR
Who defines the scum of the earth? You? The so called leaders of the free world? Anything non western or not allied to the US is scum?

If you are fighting against the hypocrisy and frankly tyranny of the west, where would you go to be protected? All that's left is allies, like the UK who will just hand you over, or as you put it, "scum". Whether you like it or not, he has very little choice, the US has too many countries in its pocket.

You argument is down there with the other weasel language (hero, patriot, anti-American, what have you got to hide, etc) deployed against whistle blowers.

So, where you go to try to be safe? Or are you too "patriotic", or is it scared, to ever criticize or expose the US?

You want "damn contradiction"? How about claiming to be leaders of the free world while industrially mass spying on the so called free citizens you claim to lead?
what's the old wives tail go? Throw a frog in boiling water and he'll jump right out. Put the same frog in a pot but slowly raise the temperature and he'll boil. Slowly and surely they'll attempt to chip away at our rights for our own protection in a misguided attempt to make their lives and duties easier to perform.
nice work! do you plan to add support for liking/disliking a song or adding it to a playlists? That would be helpful.
How does diplomatic immunity work if you are in the entourage of an diplomat?
In my engineering school in Poland everyone was given a different assignment, so copying off other students was not possible. Other pathology occured though - since most of the tasks were group assignments (with the usual group being 2-3 people), it was common for a group to just divide the workload among its members across multiple courses, which in practice resulted in a possibility of getting a grade for course x on which one didn't do any work (because he was busy doing group's assignment for course y). The cool unintended consequence of this was that the whole studies were a multiyear training ground in team organisation and negotiations, which is arguably worth more in real life than some of the highly theoretical courses.
Hmm. Either they're calling Venezuela a "democratic nation", which seems a bit of a stretch, or Snowden's actually heading somewhere other than the media is reporting. I'm hoping for option B.
Sounds exactly like those people who want to make privacy a right.
"If you were just now appalled to learn about the changes made to FISA with the PATRIOT act, you are 12 years behind the times."

The leaked documents are TOP SECRET. By definition top secret documents are not public knowledge. If top secrets becoming public knowledge is not new then what is?
At present, pqR waits for all helper threads to be idle before doing a fork in the "parallel" package, and disables use of helper threads in the child processes (and temporarily in the parent, since it will wait for the child processes before doing anything more).
The world is turning to shit.
"Since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law"

Sounds like they took the NSA's line right out of their mouths: "Many of the requests that you forwarded to this office do not contain a complete mailing address. Therefore, we cannot respond to those requests..." (http://www.mynsarecords.com/blog/2013-06-21-nsa-please-stop-...)
That's completely inaccurate. Booz Allen was a private company that split into public and private consulting firms. The private side owned a larger stake of the overall company than it was "worth" so to do the split the public side sold some stock and took on debt to makeq up the difference when they split. After a few years they became a public company but at no point did where they owned by Carlyle.
Pokemon Fusion: Behind the Scenes
Hey bliker, we want So Coded to be an awesome event and all the bells and whistles come at a price (speaker expenses, catering, party, etc). But we also want it to be a super including conference! So we actually do have a limited amount of student tickets available at 110€. Shoot me a mail thorben@socoded.com if you are interested.
brilliant but all too realistic alas
Unquestionably disturbing. Imagine what hasn't been revealed to us yet.
How does it feel like when people think that privacy is a RIGHT?
That's not quite how parliamentary system works. You don't vote for the executive government. Never has, never will. Even before the Coalition, did anyone vote for Tony Blair to be prime minister? Technically, that is.
The author includes a perfect (if unintentional) example of why Haskell programs shouldn't use `error`. (If you're writing a quick-and-dirty program? Fair enough. But not in larger programs.)

He defines a `Lattice` class, and explains that if a type implements the `Lattice` class, it supports all the operations within the `Lattice` class.

He then presents an implementation of the `Lattice` class that doesn't support all the `Lattice` operations (`top` punts to `error`). It breaks the promise, breaks the contract, undermines the guarantees the type system gives you.

So don't use `error` in Haskell. (And for that matter, don't use other partial functions such as `head` and `tail`.)
That's a good reason to always include both parts of the LHR:

because if that "something else" actually is an int -- then you'll have a nasty bug at your hands (and not a compiler-catchable one at that).
I would be content if we could just have something happen and get one good, well-written story about it on the front page.

Right now on the front page of HN seven different articles -- that's 23% of all stories on the front page -- are "Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong".
Ask HN: Connect Laptop to TV without HDMI
Hi,

I am looking to use my Samsung Smart LED TV as an extended display for my laptop but wirelessly.

I am surprised that there is no option available to me except connecting via HDMI wire or purchase a WIDI device (which will only allow streaming videos). I also read a lot at http://www.dlna.org/ but it seems there is no option available.

Does any of you have any experience building a Raspberry PI based device which can help me extend my screen via wifi. If you can guide me to correct
resources, I would love to work on this

Naveen
You Europeans have things too easy with your metric paper sizes and sales tax included in displayed prices and standardized road signage and drinkable beer and functional healthcare systems. We'll stick with PDFs, and fluid ounces, and trying to calculate 18% of pretax dinner tabs thanks. Excuse me while I go fight with my health insurance company over my last doctor bill.
I stumbled up on this while looking for Bootstrap 3.0 demo. http://bs3.codersgrid.com/
And the design does follow flat design principles
Venezuela is one of the most democratic countries in the world?

All of their last elections have been externally ratified as being fair:

http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/hugo-chavez-030513.html

http://www.cartercenter.org/countries/venezuela-peace-electi...
Give GNU Global a try http://www.gnu.org/software/global/

https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok/wiki/Comparison-with-Si...
http://fr24.com/AFL213
> In either case it's not possible to change the vote after it has been cast.

... which can be really annoying, especially on phones where the accuracy of positional input is ... often low.

Has HN ever said whether this is intentional for some reason, or just a matter of "not implemented yet"?
I think that his answers[1] address that point:

> ... the US Government, just as they did with other whistleblowers, immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home...

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...
Shit makes the best fertilizer. Decay and regeneration is the basic cycle of life.
Is the FTC targeting Google?
Never underestimate the power pure mathematics applied, and know the history of dangerous consequences when misapplied. For example, LTCM's Black-Scholes' Black Swan catastrophe.
gqG also does violence to some plain-text formatting, such as numbered lists or other short sections in which a specified line length or presentation is preferred.

Long lines and wrapping within the text viewer is probably your best bet.
The US looks like a bully.
I don't think the deal will fall on THIS matter...
I would think the plane is safe and perhaps the plane could be considered as territory of the nation of the diplomat therefore the diplomat could offer him asylum on the plane if need be, but I may be wrong about the latter.
Always assume the worst - You are likely being watched by not only the NSA
A thought I just had: a very small cheap camera on the top of the drone to capture the color of the sky and a way to paint the drone (or at least the bottom, using maybe LEDs) to use the color captured by that camera. Might be expensive though.
There's a flight for OSL that leaves from SVO in 1 hour 40 mins (18:45 local time):

http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/Aeroflot_SU_2534?date=20...
> the ~1 day (unpaid!) work sample/code challenge [...] Even the people who've hired me didn't give me much feedback beyond "it met the requirements and we learned a thing or two from your work."

You need to be concerned about the employers who "learn a thing or two from your work" and don't hire you.

Some programming "team leaders" I've met wouldn't hesitate to bring in applicants to work unpaid for a day on coding challenges containing technical blockers from their own projects.

And of course much of what happens in the open source programming world is the same on a larger scale without even needing to supply office space for a day.
这年头神马JB 鸟都会发文章 ...
What do you think of the "right to privacy"? Isn't it as ridiculous as a "right to cheating"? I mean, they're both dishonest ways to reach fairness.
Another example of authority protecting itself by invoking national security scares, patriotism, etc.

Quite disgusting that the idea of outing internal wrong doing or failure is some how helping enemies. Its not the outing that helps enemies, its the wrong doing that help enemies.

Besides, "what has the government got to hide"...... Yeah, fecking loads, just like we all have!!!! Difference is, we individuals have the right to make mistakes and, well, be human, but when a government does it, it has no right to hide. None.

Whistle blowing IS a duty, NOT treason. Treating decent citizens as the enemy is treason. In a "democracy", the people are the country, not the government.
That wasn't my point - nobody (publicly) prompted the UK government to make the "Stay away Snowden" message. It was high-level PR and arse-kissing, at best.
I wouldn't say nobody has noticed, the right of center blogs I follow or maybe Drudge linked to this. Those of you who follow the MSM can tell us if it's getting any coverage there.

Side note: you really know this is out of hand when the Department of Education has such a program. Really hard to see any national security implications of leaking there....
But it wouldn't handle indentation properly, unless you define a standard formatting convention similar to Markdown. For example, you need to handle bullet points. But what if a plain, non-indented text just happens to contain a star at the start of a line? This means headaches for text writers to avoid these edge cases, and wrong indentation when viewing legacy texts.

Also, all viewers would have to support it, which somewhat defeats the purpose of using plain text.
As an American citizen, I feel it is of paramount importance to know what "our" government is doing in our name.

Especially since a lot of it seems to be poorly considered, unethical, and somewhat intended to benefit a few at the expense of the many.
How much does it cost to hire Booz Allen Hamilton?
As long as the Internet connection goes through ISPs it's not decentralized. Haven't we already established that it's through these centralized pipes that the NSA is gaining access to everything?

How would OP's solution solve the problem, or am I missing something?
Russia will not risk a fairly good relationship with the US because of a "rogue" NSA contractor. They will readily hand him over at the first request (if not voluntary). I'd say it's a risk for Snowden to even land in Moscow. Possibly, it was the lesser evil on the way to safe haven in Cuba or some place else.
And here I thought they rub each other's back ...
What does Fmr mean?
Google does have a huge monopoly on the search market, but in the Maps market it has a lot of competition.
It is interesting to try and figure out if there is anything to it other than actually digging through Google iteslf...
Printchomp: Year 1 – Reflections on the first year
I think it might be going a bit far to say that nobody starts out writing letters (because I did) but I do appreciate that a petition is a good first step at getting active.

And please interpret my comments in the spirit in which they are intended: to educate people about the way things get done in DC. I equate petition signing with quackery when confronting a dread disease. It's harmful precisely because it deceives the patient about its efficacy.

I lived in the DC area for more than a decade. I have two friends who work in the actual White House, another former colleague who is a serving delegate (VA) and countless others who work on the hill as staffers. I worked as an IT volunteer for the OBA campaign in 2008.

I've asked this question before: "What's the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement? The Tea Party got their candidates ELECTED and changed the political discourse of the country."

As long as our generation keeps showing up to political gunfights armed with snowballs, we're going to keep getting the water hose.
Edward Snowden will touch down in Moscow in under 10 minutes
Are you serious? Chavez spent his entire period in office warping the machinery of the state in his favor, and his successor is refusing to investigate some pretty serious allegations of fraud for the last one.

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21579458-real-questio...
If he'd stood up for US citizens rather than US enemies he could have remained in the US and fought his corner in the courts and the press.

He would be convicted, he clearly violated the law. An unjust law perhaps, but a law nonetheless. He swore not to give Top Secret to anyone without a security clearance and he obviously did.

It's possible that one of the room service delivery people was a Chinese agent and made Snowden an offer he couldn't refuse: "USA has issued an arrest warrant....we may have to arrest you...but...what do you have for us? "
If you have kids, move. If you are young and your lungs are well developed, you'll probably be ok.

to be honest, 200 pmi is nothing. Beijing is usually above 100 and routinely above 200. I don't change my habits until 300+ and I'm not depressed until 500+. Work hands out face masks but I rarely use them.
There are no legal niceties here. This is about raw military power (Russia's) and spheres of influence (again, Russia's).
> Ironic, people used to seek asylum in US from persecution in other countries. How times have changed? Now people run to other countries for asylum to avoid persecution in US. More and more land of the free is becoming land of tyrants.

Lol. Russia is a place where journalists are routinely murdered, where governors are appointed like local fiefs, where Putin has rigged elections and brutally intimidated opponents.

If you think Snowden is going there to avoid "persecution" I don't know what la-la-land you live in. He's going to run from the law, and he's going there because Russia is still geo-political public enemy #1, and they are giving him asylum not because he is some champion of human dignity (he lost that when he fled to China and revealed a whole lot more that was unrelated to surveillance), but because he has valuable information and having him in their possession obviously advances some political goals for them.
Amazing publicity, there are still a few hours before he lands in Norway then. Sunday is the best day to travel for him propably...

Here is Google Translate of the above article:
http://bit.ly/14RbV5Y
The upcoming OS X Mavericks release will support external displays over AirPlay and AppleTV.

http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/#multiple-displays
wow! disturbing.
I would love to hear some fictions on what a turnkey user stack might look like, reworking current and emerging social site features and patterns with current and hypothetical open and federated social web protocols and encryption to provide the decentralized convenience of tomorrow.
The CIA's drug trafficking activities over the decades are a matter of historical record:

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

This of course does not cover Afghanistan and Iran/Contra.

Here's a paper examining CIA Black Funding simply by looking at the trillion or so dollars of misallocated DoD money over fifty or so years:

http://www1.american.edu/salla/Articles/BB-CIA.htm

A trillion here and there and pretty soon you're talking real money.
No matter how many times you repeat a lie, it is still a lie.
It already happened, but now people are starting to recognize the smell.
Nope: diplomatic immunity extends only to diplomats and their immediate families. As Snowden is neither, and cannot be nominated as one without the host country's approval, there's nothing stopping Russia or Cuba from detaining Snowden if they wanted to, no matter how many Elbonian diplomats he's travelling with.

(Source: I used to have diplomatic immunity.)
Snowden is Heading for Iceland
The difference between asm.js and PNaCL is that asm.js doesn't need to receive support for it to succeed - asm.js code will get faster and faster, even if browser vendors do not make any effort to support it, virtue of it being a subset of Javascript.

> today, if you even want to use WebGL, you're asking a significant portion of users to switch browser

That's not really true. WebGL is supported in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. For IExplorer there's a browser plugin available that can add the necessary support.

Of course, having to install a browser plugin for IExplorer is not ideal. Microsoft decided to wait before implementing it for IExplorer versions 9 and 10 due to valid security concerns [1]. Even so, IExplorer 11 may include such support if the Windows 8.1 preview is to be believed.

> I'm sure you've seen the many kneejerk reactions to JavaScript-as-bytecode

I haven't read a single knee-jerk reaction that was informed and justified. The only anti-reaction I've read so far has been from Vyacheslav Egorov, a Google engineer, that's arguing that asm.js is not needed because we haven't reached the limit of where we can take Javascript in terms of performance and that in his opinion it can fragment the web if browser vendors concentrate on optimizing just the asm.js subset, instead of Javascript as a whole.

However, the same arguments can be said about PNaCl. Even inside Google people have mixed opinions about Javascript versus PNaCl and Dart.

> a kit which provides 90% speed, today, with multithreading and a real debugger, and which, despite its flaws, seems cleaner and saner to many developers

I hope you're thinking of something else other than GDB, because if that's the sane debugger you're talking about, then I'll take Firebug any day of the week, thanks ;-)

Javascript does have multithreading by means of web workers, available even in IExplorer since version 10.

Also, lets assume for the sake of the conversation that in general developers really do consider PNaCl to be saner, even though I doubt it. Well, guess what - the resulting apps are not web apps. So why target Chrome with PNaCl, when develpers could be building native apps instead with real native experience? The reasons one wouldn't want to go native have to do with the inherent advantages of the open web. And PNaCl has none of them.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-cons...

[2] http://mrale.ph/blog/2013/03/28/why-asmjs-bothers-me.html
Recording my Desktop with Debian Wheezy
You got me for a moment there!
again, this si restrictive to Apple eco-system. Apple TV + Mac based machine.

Any idea about alternate technologies?
Twitter / wikileaks: Edward Snowden has just now ...