skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The House is stuffed with politicians who appeal to their constituency. Unfortunately, the area Bachmann is from is filled with people who are similar to her.
also important because 'foiling terror plots' may well not be the focus of these programs. demonstrating lack of efficacy on the stated objectives could help expose a wider agenda.
Quick, have a celebrity reveal a naked breast in public. Nothing will provoke more outrage.
Very useful thanks for the break down! Internationalization is more and more relevant.
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I take your point. But if there's a credible threat, they should say what it is and allow the public to decide whether the law should be amended.

In all probability, there is no credible threat. That's why they choose to do this stuff without consent, and why they've been blocking the courts from ruling on it for years. And this is more of the same -- more manufactured bogeymen, more obfuscation. They want to talk about anything other than their lies and their crimes.
I was under the impression that Kickstarter was about raising funds with no guaranteed return on expectations or even if the project will come to fruition. I.E. There's a large amount of trust involved.

Lately, it seems, the comments are leaning more and more toward an ambiance of an actual sales page rather than a fundraiser. I'm seeing more of these in common with Amazon product reviews.

Pity.
It's pretty simple really, and far from unique to programming (let alone to the Ruby and JS communities in particular): all communities tend to take criticism from insiders in good faith, and tend to take criticism from outsiders more personally. It is obvious from reading the thread that Tony Morris is "inside" the Scala community, both due to his demonstrated depth of knowledge and to the deference and consideration given to his question. You have to earn the ability to say "Scala is not well-designed" on a Scala list. If somebody showed up and started a thread saying, "I just discovered Scala and it is immediately clear to me that it is poorly designed", it would turn out very differently.

It seems to me that there is a pretty typical mix of criticism coming from inside the Ruby and JS communities being responded to thoughtfully, and criticism from outside being responded to defensively.
Too bad the Royal Wedding already happened. Friday night that weekend would've been perfect.
One has to also wonder: how many have sold it before Snowden leaked it? I have a hard time guessing the ratio of people willing to silently sell information versus loud do-gooders, but I have a strong suspicion it is greater than one. And of course one person can sell multiple times...
What did they do with the space? Do they get their Perf on in the hallways then?
But that's where they pushing us into right? I mean, Obama signed more gun's banning laws saying that "if its gonna prevent one dead, it was worth it".

The entire system is continuously pushing us into this state of mind that they can protect all and each of us. And you know what could be the safest place? Prison! I mean, organize it properly so inmates can't fight with each other, lock every one up and viola!! That would prevent lots of kidnaping, deadly car accidents, any type of accidents, even lethal lightning strikes. You gonna prevent lots of dead. Its worth locking every one up; I mean if it can prevent one dead, then its worth it...
Just google "fiery car crash" and you'll see it is unfortunately fairly common.
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I remember once reading or seeing a video bragging Facebook didn't have QA, maybe its time.
Stuff is pushed every day, but the biggest chunks are pushed on Tuesdays.

Source: Friend who interned at FB.
Ask HN: Good side projects for getting internship?
It's a pretty common fact that side projects are a good way to impress recruiters at large software companies. I'd like to take that a step further. What makes a side project particularly attractive from a recruiters point of view? Is it more about content or simply how you manage to sell it to recruiters?

(Forgive me if this is against HN protocol, but any unrelated advice on getting internships would be nice too)

Thanks.
You didn't add any valuable information to this discussion. Why doesn't Gibson know what he's talking about? Explain what exactly regarding SSL breaking? What's the jump?
I think the site/service is pretty slick and well-made. It worked well for me -- I'd be curious to see what kinds of boxes these people failing were drawing (or whether it's just a browser issue for them or something).

These comments are all pretty negative, and I think the criticisms are mostly valid, but I don't think you've made a bad product (though it may need some tweaking, and captchas may be on their way out now for the reasons others have posted).

I just know that I've felt awful before when receiving similar comments to these others, and I would have liked someone to remind me: you made something pretty good, and it wasn't a stupid idea.
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His point wasn't "all fibre optic" but that by tapping specific routers, e.g. one close to Facebook where FB traffic is concentrated, the NSA can filter and store nearly all FB traffic while FB has full deniability. At the referenced link are links to court documents in which exactly this kind of tap was revealed to exist at AT&T.

As to SSL, is there a claim that NSA has broken it? I wasn't aware of that. Not relevant to Gibson's idea, anyway.
I wonder if this is anyhow related to the malicious activity from Tor nodes they reported today.
Ask HN: I want to make jarvis for my senior project? 
I'm going to be a senior next year in high school, and I'm planning what I should do for my senior project. I want to make something similar to "jarvis" from iron man, or some type of automation of the sort; maybe something mobile that can also integrate with desktops/android. What programming language would/should this be built with? what software should I use if any? I'm fairly competent in javascript and know a little of python, but willing to learn. if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I would be very grateful.

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Fucking Google is manipulating these threads, trying to white wash their secret spying deals.

Don't fall for this bullshit, Google has been in the spying business for ages now. They joined the NSA program in 2009 and have been in trouble constantly in every spy scandal there is some google product involved. Wake up already.
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Hey Tyler,

You're right about certain images having easily distinguished objects-of-interest. In the future, running a routine to weed those easy ones out will stop any being solvable by bots. And also, as with any other captcha, paying other humans to validate themselves for you will always be an issue.

We validate users' inputs against a pool of manually-entered data. Because we collect a pair of annotations for each submission, one is used to verify the user, and the other is collected against an un-annotated image. As annotations are collected for new images, they are synthesized to expand the pool of annotated images.
As a bonus, the private prisons would be happy to get all those workers
I am speaking from experience on non-NSA programs.

It goes without saying that their entire operational network is firewalled with an air-gap. If a user needs to have internet (or other extranet) access from the same desk as their operational network, they will have an entirely separate terminal for it, they may even have rules that require a minimum distance between the two terminals.
That's an awesome way to use Vine too.
Exactly. You can find more information here: https://developers.facebook.com/support/beta-tier/

"Every week, usually on Sunday evenings, we stage our weekly push, which happens on Tuesday evenings, on the beta tier. This provides ourselves and developers 48 hours to test and find bugs before the build hits production. After Tuesday, while the beta tier is continuously updated with hotfix patches which are queued up for the daily hotfix release, the production tier is updated with the hotfix push in the evenings, Pacific Standard Time"
The next version of Django (current git master) will drop support for Python 2.6.
That's not a woman. It's a kid with huge ear gauges.
The story is missing some context for me. I can see how banks could induce default by putting people onto modification trial payments for long spans then denying the modification and demanding the difference... but what crazy incentive structure made it in the interest of bank employees to do this?

Like a lot of things I think this stuff will make more sense if I could understand how the incentives were setup.
When I'm done with my current project, my plan is to make the heap 64-bit on 64-bit machines (which was currently an issue last I checked).
In my experience Mono is a bit like the OpenJDK was a few years ago:

Most things work, but there are a few things that are broken in unavoidable ways. Similarly, the performance isn't terrible, but the optimization is not quite at the same place as the original platform.

Xamarin's rapid work suggests that there will be a 'production-ready' CLR for most platforms (they've got it down for iOS, Android, and recently OSX) soon enough.
I stopped listening ten minutes in when I realised I couldn't actually see anything the presenter was pointing to.
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Fun fact: the PAL codes on Strategic Air Command's Minuteman nuclear missiles were set to 00000000. To quote President Skroob, "That's amazing - I've got the same combination on my luggage!".
Snowden mentioned in the Q&A that 5% of the GCHQ accesses are audited, as one example. He mentioned 5% as if it's a low value but that's actually fairly high, especially if randomly-picked.
Snowden versus the dragons
I'm using Firefox with Adblock Plus 2.2.4 and Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon 0.7 and Flashblock 1.5.17 and did not get any pop-ups. I have not seen any in years. I'm just saying in case you wondered how you could block them. I understand that this isn't really the point here however as many other visitors may be bothered by intrusive ads.
If you had a processor communicating with other processors by some protocol (I2C, wifi, doesn't matter), you could build out a feedback loop where one processor's output becomes the other's input...and have one processor output audio when the other processor receives specific input...
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A fascinating account.
I'm simply dumbfounded by this. Why is nobody at the top taking any steps to do anything about the fact that Snowden had almost unhindered access to spy on whoever he wanted? That seems like a far more concerning security hole to me.
> , and neither liberalism nor conservatism necessarily implies going against the Constitution.

I'm not sure I agree with you, but I acknowledge that it's a complex issue and not one I'm interested in trying to hash out on HN. (Which I already stated in my prior comment.)

> Obviously, you seem to see things differently, but you are wrong, and having such a narrow view of other people will destroy your ability to understand them or have a productive conversation with them.

I think that's a really unjustified thing for you to say. Having different opinions about the Constitution does not "destroy my ability to understand [others] or have a productive conversation with them." No offense, but that's a really ridiculous thing to claim.
nonetheless, these things are not unknown to have happened nefariously
Ultimately, a company has to have a compelling business interest to justify pursuing something like this. Until this became a public issue for these companies, it might be hard to argue that they'd be acting responsibly to pursue a legal case where the only result would be more detailed disclosure of these requests (not any change to the requests themselves.)

Google's arguably been the most active of the major tech firms in getting permission to disclose ranges of requests to date (has anyone else?); it's not clear there would have been a good business reason to pursue what may end up being a very expensive case if it proceeds all the way up through the court system.
People here might like to take Felix for a spin.

http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/tutorial.fdoc

http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/nutut/intro/intro_index....

All analogies are inaccurate, so with such inaccuracies assumed, one can look at Felix as: Felix is to C++ what Scala is to Java, but that is is not a very illuminating comment.

To give an idea, Felix is a whole program optimized, strongly typed, polymorphic, ML like language that can interact effortlessly with C and C++ code and has coroutines baked in. It uses a mix of lazy and eager evaluation for performance and compiles down to C++.
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I am more interested in using MySQL for my next project now.

I know that this is not a popular opinion, but I disagree with the philosophy behind the GPL. While I think that sharing is fine (and for that there are the BSD and MIT licenses, among many others), I believe that it is very often better for both developers (and users) if users pay for the software they use. (And yes, I have heard the pro-GPL argument about how you can charge for support, but I know that's bogus in practice.)

I am not saying the GPL should be outlawed or anything like that. I'm just saying that it's not a moral ideal (the actual moral ideal is you making a sustainable living off of the code you write), and it's practically speaking a bad idea in many cases.
Does the AI always have to make the first move?
You mean back when people thought blacks were less human than white and women didn't have the right to vote? Back when a depression meant people starving to death?

We're not the same society we were back in the 1940s.
Here's the difference: the government is quite open about doing all those things. We can ostensibly debate and influence policy on all of them, because the policy itself is not secret.

But when even the policy is secret, it is totally beyond even the possibility of democratic control.
Your game is just Tic-Tac-Toe on a 6x6 board. It is not the same game as the Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe described in the article.
I do love angry art. It can be just as pretty, if not sometimes prettier, than normal art.
Now to make a multiplayer version... I would use Firebase and Angular probably. Unfortunately I don't feel like staying up all night on a project tonight :-p
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Well, assuming the theoretical assassins had physical access to his car and world-class embedded systems expertise at their disposal, it would just be a matter of locking his doors, disabling steering, disabling braking, and flooring the car's engine output. Unless the car is in the middle of nowhere, it's bound to hit something sufficiently lethal in a very short amount of time.

That said, although peculiar given his line of work, I think it is premature for conspiracy theories at this point considering the near complete lack of information on the accident itself currently.
All versions of MySQL since 3.23.19 have been released under the GPL, but AFAIK the documentation has always retained its copyright under the ownership of MySQL AB, Sun and now Oracle. At no point was it ever distributed under the Creative Commons or some other free-ish documentation license.

When I refer to "the documentation" I'm mostly talking about the web docs at dev.mysql.com, which are are far more important than the man pages.

If the man pages are covered by the GPL'd may be a thorny issue. The GPL is not generally applied to documentation.
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If that's true, you should be able to provide an example.
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clojure and scala aren't really in competition, in the same way python and java aren't.
This is great. The generics seems to be a very useful feature.
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Agree. I've been using ghostery for couple years.
I've installed disconnect and tried to compare with ghostery.
Disconnect does not remove counters from the page. At least, it doesn't remove google-analitics scripts.
With ghostery enabled(default settings) it disappeared from source html code.

Also, Disconnect has very confusing interface. There is content section with number which constantly counting allowed requests to trackers as I understood. Why? I installed this plugin to be not tracked or load any third-parties scripts.
I was very excited about new (for me) Disconnect plugin, but not now. Can't recommend as well.
I guess I am just curious as to why the study you indicated concluded that helmet laws didnt reduce head injuries. Perhaps people didnt change their helmet wearing behavior because some unenforced law? Not to be a citation jerk, but what is TFA and can you link to the study? I am genuinely curious because it seems so counter-intuitive to me.
Have these particular programs been ruled illegal?
Impressive side projects for internship?
It's pretty common fact that side projects are an avenue to getting a recruiter's attention at a large company. What kind of side projects really stand out? Or is it more about marketing?
Seems to me the hardest part is going to be the speech recognition or at least to the degree of understanding that "jarvis" has. What are you hoping to have it accomplish?

Generally speaking the toolset that you "should" use for a project should determined by what your most proficient in. In the 1 minute of googling that I did I found the dragonfly python library which looks like should help you handle the speech recognition.

https://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/

But keep in mind your tackling a very complex problem, to try and build "jarvis". Plenty of people that are smarter than me, and probably you, have tried and failed to come up with a good solution. That's why "jarvis" is in the movie, but nothing quite as smart "jarvis" has been built yet. The closest thing that comes to my mind is IBM Watson, but that was built just for jeopardy.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Of course, there's a remote chance it's just an accident.
Without taking sides, are there not ways to make acceleration just kick in and continue, and brakes to disable?

Further conjecture: I am not familiar with the architecture of modern vehicles, but I know (hackable) software has been increasingly at the center of these. Failing that, there's always (easier to detect) hardware tampering. Fortunately, if things burn you destroy the evidence, and with the frequency of automobile accidents there is little motivation for an average investigation to turn micro-forensic... particularly with a young person in a risky age group in a foreign country.

Of course, maybe he just did a fat fifty lines of coke, or a hit of meth? Or, just maybe, he was challenged to a one-man street race after a dose of Scopolamine: http://watchdocumentary.org/watch/worlds-scariest-drug-video...

Non-conjecture: There's loads of ways to off people, and the military industrial complex makes it a business. This guy forced a general from that complex to end his career, later visited his country and wound up dead early in the morning.
> I think you're aggregating people in a way that's dishonest.

That's a ridiculous claim. Do you think that everyone who disagrees with you about something is automatically dishonest?

> Please, as a progressive which are my pet issues?

I don't know, but if you're a "progressive," you by definition want to coerce me (and believe me, that's not going to help me any.. I want to live my life under my own judgment).
If they are operating according to the laws of the land, they have "nothing to hide" from Edward Snowden and his ilk. This move looks pretty suspicious to me...

;-)
Hundreds of languages? I don't know, Xamarin's tools seem to indicate that there's a real demand for using C# on a variety of platforms. While not my personal preference, C# is really a wonderfully well-designed language.
Has not be debunked in any way. As far as I understand it's far from clear what the NSA can actually do. Declaration of officials who are under oath to protect secrets is worth nothing.
Well, neither of those stances can be traced back to reality, so neither is correct, so by definition, you have no "intellectual firepower" if you use either one. :)
The intersection where the car crashed. A median with trees and light posts begins here heading southbound, as well as some trees on the sidewalk west of the street. I don't know which tree was collided with.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=34.083531,-118.338458&spn=0.0013...

Either the reporter was driving drunk (at 4:15am on a Tuesday morning aka Monday night) or this is some kind of conspiracy (body burned beyond recognition).

I'm still not sure how a car "jacknifes", unless that's referring to the opposite ends of the car wrapping around a tree. Normally, that phrase refers to a tractor-trailer combination turning sideways around the towing joint.
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You're wrong. The constitutions of New Hampshire, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Texas allow for the people to abolish the government.
Hi - would be useful if I could have two instance of the weather app and be able to specify locations.
Add to that a tile with flight status - ideally tied in to flightstats/flightaware/triptracker, or even better, my airlines based on frequent flyer logins
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The GPL and paying for a product are completely different things and they can exist together (i.e. paying for a product that is itself GPL)
Wordpress doesn't have to do anything, when they people say MariaDB is a drop-in-replacement for MySQL they mean it. On the functionality front, except for details that only gearheads and MySQL DBAs care about you can view them as identical.
If the difference in power of one class vs. another were the overriding concern when deciding to limit speech, then that logic would also apply to two individuals in different classes. Would you also say that a white teenage son of a rich businessman should have their speech curtailed in comparison to the poor Hispanic daughter of a single mom?
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That term "more complete" is your own standard, and not one of journalism. "More complete" can go on for ever.
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Well yes, if the searches are illegal under FISA/ECPA/etc, there is no point asking if they are illegal under the Constitution. I'm skipping the first part because it's less interesting than the second part.
I was messing with this the last few hours... beat me to it :) well done! What'd you use?
https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef...
Facebook seems to have major reliability issues in general for me. At least once a day the site will not load for several minutes, despite my connection being fine. I also seem to be the very last person to get every new feature, e.g. graph search, hashtags, feelings on statuses, etc. (I don't yet have any of those...)
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If you're unwilling to break, eventually you'll hit something solid.
Not in detail, no. But it can give a general, reasonable sounding statement to counter the article.
While there's plenty to disagree with, it pains me to see such rich fodder for an interesting discussion on the design, implementation, and adoption of programming languages languish on the second page of HN while the first page still has a dozen NSA stories.
Doing the AI would be fun... it seems like one of those cases where Haskell/Clojure could provide a very elegant solution.
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Obama hasn't signed any gun banning laws.
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