skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "new" way may well be a "better" way, you're picking at straw fella. What do you think Apple said when they introduced the iPhone. "This is a new phone experience." Likewise, "This is a new YouTube experience".
Have you looked into using Loop-Blinn[1] for drawing Beziers? I'd love to be able to use the GPU for vector graphics and Loop-Blinn seems to solve the problem of drawing curves, but I'm still looking for a way to get coverage-based antialiasing when drawing straight lines with the GPU.

[1] http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch25.html - https://github.com/hansent/lbfont is a good example
> "Though we won’t be accepting new signups, existing users can continue to use Snapjoy to share and enjoy photos just as you do now."

Not so much, I guess.
Once the SVG all loaded, SVG and PNG performed identically on Safari 6.0.5 Mac (the SVG stuttered while loading).
The post is for their users not for external discussion sites that require additional context.
He just needed a place where he could do this crucial work before being apprehended. The world seems to see Hong Kong as China, which is wrong and unfortunate -- HK is definitely its own deal.
Detecting a cheat should be easy -- just ask them to walk through the project and explain it. You should be able to expose a cheater with a couple of deep questions.
I think this has something to do with this blog post: http://georgiaweidman.com/wordpress/guess-you-thought-i-was-...
Perhaps a one-click migrate-to-dropbox option is in order?
He said exactly why he came forward in the first interview -- that since he was breaking the law, he owed Americans an explanation. The guy is top notch.
You're right, it's an indicator that the company doesn't know how to talk to developers with experience.
this belongs in r/conspiracy
The US did charge Snowden with spying.
Unbelievable
Leak radiation on civilians as an experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders#Hanford

Mind-control via 1000 mics of LSD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkultra#LSD

Research on human test subjects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

Pearl Harbor a set-up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Polish_breakthrough
Volante, an embedded database for .NET
Lacking easy migrate support, at least the export option exists.
Hoover was also incredibly effective, at least earlier on...so he had a lot of political support within the government and within congress. The president is only one chamber of power, people tend to forget that. Its nice to fixate on Obama, but the whole government is in on this...congress, judges, state government, local government, and even...I dare say...much of the citizenry.
That's true, the world is not there yet though. I'm planning something like this some time soon, but life tends to get in the way.
Tesla: It's faster to 'recharge' electric car than pump gas
I agree. I browse with showdead on as well, and the amount of zombies is significant.
> a lot of people use it as their preferred login method

and a lot don't, for good reason. at least have an alternative, github would be good because most of the customers will be developers.
Primed by the revelations about the NSA recently, I'm not as hesitant to believe this as I normally would be. Conspiracy theories like this are always easy to laugh at until there's enough proof to tip you off that there's actually something happening. Right now it's just a few whistleblowers, but every story has to start somewhere.

I would say that I am not a believer in a massive conspiracy to control the world's money, except that really, I hope there is. I really hope that a lot of the world's problems are caused by a cartel of a few bad suits. That way when the dust settles, either the world is a better place, or we at least know who led us to this place.

A few things in the article (Oh just go read it, it's not that long) that need some discussion:

> "there are even plans in place to impose martial law in the United States, she said."

Really? That I'm going to need some proof on.

> "The World Bank whistleblower also said that contrary to official claims, she did not believe there was any gold being held in Fort Knox. "

That's Oceans Eleven level stuff. I can just imagine the guards patrolling around empty rooms that they think are full of gold. I'm interested to see the truth level of this statement, but that's a bit too outlandish for now.

I'm glad whistleblowers are stepping forward. In the train stations, there's a motto plastered on every wall - "If you see something, say something". We just need to make sure that runs both ways.
> And yet he lies to cover it up.

Is there any evidence of that?
I can't find the tweet, but a little while back Greenwald said on Twitter he has thousands of documents from Snowden.
After thinking a bit about your examples it makes me appreciate the keyword: the range clause's strictness guarantees iterating only on a certain `range` (self-duh) hence why it's not just called `iterate`.

I found myself making simple mistakes by assuming that range reading on a synchronous channel would cause the goroutine that is sending to the channel to become active. Instead, I wanted to use a for-select statements or a buffered channel because a length guarantee couldn't be made (or so I assume).
Wait...what...? Did you just imply I'm a recognized authority on arranging reliable assassinations?

I've had people make some weird inferences about my skills before (judging from the mystifying endorsements people have given me on LinkedIn), but assassination planning is still at the "I'm interested, but waiting for Coursera to offer a course before I actually get into it" stage.
> ...any more than clapping in a movie theatre will communicate your pleasure to the cast and crew of the movie.

I know you're trying to illustrate via absurdity, but such things do have real impact. Each member of the theater shares the clapping experience and absorbs the social capital of how good the movie is, giving them a metric for recommending the movie to friends without risk of embarrassing themselves. If they loved the movie but hear no applause or other corroboration, their enthusiasm for spreading positive buzz about the movie is vastly diminished. ("Yeah, it was okay, I guess." doesn't put asses in seats.) Meanwhile, the cast and crew receive feedback based on the ticket sales created by word of mouth, which still remains the most powerful marketing tool in existence.

It's easy to blame "the news cycle" for allowing important issues to fall into the memory hole, but I say We The People are equally culpable. The line must be drawn here, on a matter so fundamental to the nature of state power in a newly digital world, and in a rare case where the voters and ideologies of both parties are mostly in agreement, even if their leaders are too cowardly to stand up.
and yet the word 'try' implies to me some other meaning.

Why not try talking straight instead of abstractly?
While funny indeed, statistically speaking you'd be giving them the least amount of information by supplying the largest zip code.
It also prevents the crazies in the green and libertarian parties from getting any real power. And they do have extreme platforms that most Americans would not stand for.
http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/docs/cnn/2005-02-18_cnn_optical_...
Getting Unique Counts From a Log File
Agreed. He is not running for re-election anymore. He should start thinking about his legacy now. And fix this executive branch overreach now, the same one he was concerned about before he was in. If a constitutional lawyer and one who goes in promising this change won't, then we have lost all hope.
Current state of affairs is understandable.
I was answering to the points regarding Esperanto rationale.

Then again, there is a lot of grades of "easy" - like 10 months easy vs 5 years easy.
As a Norwegian it is mandatory to attend English classes from an early age, and it is common to learn a 3rd language as well.

Most Norwegians go to our equivalent of high school (age 16 to 19). Those who wants to be accepted by a university choose a path that targets higher learning, where a 3rd language is one of the mandatory subjects. Many in my class had chosen optional classes for that language when they were 14, so that they could learn something else in their final year.

I can only speak for Norway, but I think this is common in other Scandinavian countries and probably many other European countries as well.
This crashes Opera....
I get it, I haven't studied NUMA much since 10 years ago, when we were looking in it in terms of Sparc interconnects and expensive workstation stuff.

From what I've heard from my colleagues who do HPC, NUMA just isn't that effective. The sweet spot right now is either with GPUs or MPI; the shared memory abstraction that NUMA provides is just not very tenable. Where is NUMA being used as a best (rather than legacy) solution right now?
Which I still do constantly, then get a compile error when what I thought was something else is actually an int.
Thanks. I had discovered Meteor only recently (being a web development newbie).

What other libraries would you recommend to have everything required for making a basic web application. The end-result should include a responsive front-end, user authentication and security, reports, charts and visualizations, forms, blog, payments, and finally an ability to integrate pre-existing Java code in the back end. Apologies if something I am saying is not making sense.
It's entirely possible. And the USS Jimmy Carter - a sub with smaller subs inside - was designed to do exactly that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
I wasn't talking in legal terms, but 'characteristic of' and 'commonly used' are weak arguments.
Why the hell should he get an assurance that he will not be extradited? That's a guarantee the Swedish government most certainly cannot give him (or anybody else). It would be crazy to do that and has nothing whatsoever to do with the case at hand.

But keep on spreading your weird propaganda.
Snowden seems to be making fairly adept strategic moves that were planned well in advance, while simultaneously pushing his information to be considered factual without much evidence (that I have seen) outside his testimony. The media is lapping up what he states with little, if any, validation. Of course, as is the nature of leaks, the information is often impossible to fully validate.

There is some speculation that he was actually turned by the PLA prior to leaking and is providing them an excellent platform to exert pressure on Obama.

Obama did, after all, add the Chinese hacking attempts to the agenda of his summit without consulting them, an extremely rude (to the Chinese) maneuver.

If there is any conspiracy here, it is most likely China making an extremely effective effort to make Obama pay for their loss of face.
If resurrection is not approved I'd settle for the ability to reply to their comments.
I'd be amazed if more than a tiny handful of people close their facebook accounts or move away from Google or install (and use) PGP / GPG.

FB has had privacy complaints for years and it did nothing at all to prevent people signing up in droves. The number of people not using FB because of privacy is tiny.

To imagine that website owners will make privacy friendly sites is, and I say this as politely as I can, nuts. Look at the god-awful mess they make with accessible sites (legally required for many sites) or gracefully degrading sites (best current practice) or mobile sites (a huge user base, where not serving them affects sales or repeat visits).

Most of these sites need advertising. Thus they usually need your information.

Have any of the sites expressing outrage at spying done anything to reduce the amount of tracking that they use?

I'll make you a bet: If by 2013-12-25 there are more mainstream sites offering 'privacy portals' or tor-friendly options or the equivalent I'll pay $20[1] to the EFF.

[1] I'm poor! And a skinflint!
They don't need to actually convict him, only accuse him so he can be locked up indefinitely.
These two are nowhere near the same. Assange leaked information that actually put people's lives in danger. He directly named operatives undercover in places with governments that wouldn't think twice about chopping their heads off. This gives Snowden a bad name, and in my opinion devalues what he has done.
Does it? Consider the LIBOR scandal:

http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/libor-scandal

Criminal collusion doesn't necessarily emanate from smokey back room deals struck by hooded figures. This is just another signal about the continued break-down in the rule of law and the institutions we're supposed to trust as members of civil society.

Then there was the HSBC laundering billions for the narco-cartels, or the gentleman in Germany who was institutionalized for ten years by his ex-wife and the bank she worked for after he tried to blow the whistle on their tax-evasion schemes. I'd rather live in a world where this stuff doesn't happen, but it doesn't seem to be an option.
Dissecting the iOS 7 design
Obama talking to Charlie Rose earlier this week:

> What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls and the NSA cannot target your e-mails.

Then The Guardian released a document several days later, signed by Eric Holder, authorizing numerous exceptions to that, with which they are allowed to spy on Americans.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-w...
Oh yeah. Let's go back to blog posts complaining about how HN complained about some project or other having only the option to log in with facebook. Let's discuss flat design some more, maybe we can get closure on that.

Seriously though.. I thought I was getting annoyed by the NSA things as well, but then it let up a little, I remembered what HN is usually like, and now I'm happy it's back. As long as it at least drowns out the super trivial things without taking over everything, and as long as the issue persists, that's what I want to read intelligent people talking about.

If "we" don't stand up, who will? "We" create the infrastructure used against everyone. We have a fucking duty, actually. Not to take over HN completely with repeat posts about the same thing, but to discuss this issue, every aspect of it, and seriously. It takes as long as it takes. The problem is not solved until it is solved. That is the difference between things that matter, and things you can just talk about for a while and then just stop. Like gimmicks and symbols and marketing -- stupid trends of masses to milk, instead of wise ideas for persons to realize.

I love posts about clever hacks, but changelogs we can discuss anywhere, and not living in the US I personally never cared for that Silicon Valley stuff much, either; though I realize that I'm at a site in no small part driven by that, and being a guest I do accept it. But colour me happy exactly for that reason, because HN exceeded all of my expectations in the last weeks -- I learned so much from reading the discussions, and read so many comments that made me feel optimistic about the ability of people to think. I wouldn't want to miss any of it, and am keen to hear about future developments. Sorry.
I agree, though as a compromise I have a suggestion that shouldn't overload the moderators.

Leave them dead but let us vote up the good comments and "undead" just those that are deemed by the community to be relevant or insightful (I won't recommend how many up-votes that should take).
US successfully tapped a Russian underwater cable in operation Ivy Bells. The Russians discovered the tap, seized it, and it is currently on display in a Russian museum: http://www.therebreathersite.nl/11_Closed%20Circuit%20Rebrea... http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_f_ivyb...
The NVIDIA solution is to not have to do that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDyZof2pRI

(for those interested in the technical details of the NVIDIA thing, this is a lecture explaining it in detail).

EDIT: He explains in more detail in the first two minutes of part two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PitV33ex5U4
If Hong Kong doesn't act soon, it will [..] raise questions about Hong Kong's commitment to the rule of law.

I'm impressed this "senior administration official" deadpanned that line in the wake of all this 4th amendment discussion. bravo, sir.
Obstacles are for Knocking Down
Thanks for the hint. :)
I believe Loop and Blin have done a lot of work in this area. See for example,

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cloop/LoopBlin...

If someone like Ben Constable is lurking in this thread, he'd be able to say more this; I am extremely ignorant about this problem.
perhaps if the Snapjoy folks were in a better position to collaborate with these Dropbox people.

maybe they can reach out on LinkedIn or something.
The version I heard among my colleagues was that only after the police was brought in did the university sped up it's investigations.
The Jimmy Carter is also widely assumed to be a replacement for a previous submarine that has been carrying out similar missions since the 1970s (initially tapping copper cables), the USS Parche. Obviously, nothing has been confirmed, but it seems to be something of an open secret. There is extensive discussion in, among other places, the 1998 book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006097771X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...)
I don't know what it is about technical interview-style code puzzles, but I have always been terrible at them. Every time I go through a job hunt, I end up with at least one fabulous flameout where I just can't do something that would normally be very simple for me. It sucks. I have fantastic experience, good references, a degree from a top university, but you put me in a room with someone looking over my shoulder as I write code and I just turn into mush often enough that it makes passing a many round technical interview a statistical improbability.

The good news is that more and more companies (and especially the small ones that I like to work for) do the coding sample/test code thing. And every time I get one of those I absolutely crush it. I've never once been denied an offer when asked to write an offline code sample - and the offers have been from a number of the top startups in the game.

What does any of this mean? Well, in the last two companies I worked with I ended up rising to be the top technical person on my team. I've never had any kind of negative review of any sort. And in the last round this happened after I was denied an offer from two different companies because I couldn't code.

So I guess I'm that guy. I've been rejected from Google 3 different times because they keep begging me to interview based off my experience/internal recommendations, and then I interview and their interview/hazing process weeds me out. It would be nice if they woke up and realized that process isn't an effective filter, but I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime there's plenty of companies who will happily hire me after they see me do work that's actually relevant to the job. And when I interview people for my team I steer clear of trying to stump them under intense pressure, and instead ask for a mini project. I guess it doesn't feed the ego quite like breaking someone with a super awesome whiteboard question, but screening candidates more effectively makes up for that.
What made you expect that? It's not like Obama campaigned on the promise of reforming domestic spying or increasing+- transparency in government... OH WAIT A MINUTE THOSE WERE SOME OF HIS BIGGEST PROMISES.
If you set the drawsAsynchronously or acceleratesDrawing property on a CALayer (the former is public and the latter is private), then the CGContext passed to you in -[CALayer drawsInContext:] or -[UIView drawRect:] will be GPU-accelerated in the same way. WebKit on iOS uses this to accelerate 2D rendering.

Having said this, don't go turning this on everywhere, like on every tiny little UILabel. That GPU-accelerated CGContext is rendered in an offscreen pass using render-to-texture so it is often faster to use the CPU. This property was more designed for, say, a full-screen drawing app on a retina iPad that uses a a single screen-sized CGContext for its drawing canvas, or for the Safari case where there are a number of same-sized CGContext tiles to draw into.
Thanks. Please repost as a Tell HN.
Well the buildings that they land in may not like water that much. =)
This actually wasn't my first account. I lurked for a while and then finally decided to join.

When I first joined, I commented for a few weeks and then stumbled into a conversation that involved Steve Jobs and poaching employees. The top comment was talking about how greedy Jobs was and I replied pointing out that he had taken $1 in salary and no stocks for several years. I wasn't totally clear in my first comment and by the time I got done explaining, I was ghost banned. From a single comment.

I went on for a while and out of spite, I kept posting replies even though I knew they wouldn't be viewed. A few people messaged me on other channels to let me know. I'm not sure what the solution is here, but that experience wasn't fun.
Please correct me if I am wrong - but is the last sentence in the article completely wrong?

" It is currently illegal to use drone aircraft in US airspace without special clearance from the FAA, and it might take a little longer than expected for that to change. "

Did they meant to say "legal"?
You're not the only one whose noticed the outright hypocrisy...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/06...
Ask HN: New term for "stolen" data/secrets etc
Seeing posts & comments about the "stealing" of data && || secrets. Let's use a new term - data isn't "stolen" unless the old copies are erased.

Copied without permission? Forcecopied?
That wasn't Assange (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62299.html).
Interesting.

I asked because it seems to me that the only way to know how reliable particular assassination means are is to have tried them out, with the full resources of a wealthy country's intelligence organization at one's disposal.

There are no doubt trade-offs with either approach. A car accident produces a strong explanatory narrative that can be used to squelch "conspiracy theories". Merely disappearing (as the persistence of POW/MIA organizations proves) provides no such benefit.

So, from a consequences perspective, a successful "apparent accident" hit is better than an obviously foul-play one, or even a disappearance.

The trade-off, as you have thoughtfully articulated, is one of practicalities. It's not particularly difficult to imagine that a wealthy espionage org would have developed reliable methods for making hits that look like accidents (for narrative squelching reasons). We know, now, from the declassified histories of these organizations how elaborate and sophisticated their techniques and tools can be. Might they have some "turn-key", field-refined method of taking remote control of a vehicle? If you were running such an organization, would you want such a capability? Given what we already know about the attack surface of vehicle control systems, if you had a large budget and a team of smart and motivated engineers, do you think you could develop this capability in a way that would work well enough for most modern cars?

In the Hastings case, even serious injury might have been an adequate outcome (perhaps this was an time-sensitive situation?).

I agree: certainly, for a one-off offing, the practicalities would be a major execution obstacle, making the scenario highly implausible. But killing people is one of the things these organizations do for a living -- the practicalities might well have been dealt with years ago. If they have done so (as they should if they're half-competent) then the highest expected value method changes considerably.
An appeal process that allows others to point out the unfairness of the situation.

Also, look at which down-voters are subject to the most appeals might indicate who's being vindictive.