skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current state is a sadly very country-centric perspective.

I'd like to live in a world where we all were able to assert our rights, as stated most elegantly under the Declaration of Human Rights (1).

Article 7:
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 12:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 14:
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

Article 19:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

The USA's own Elanor Roosevelt was the Chair of the CHR, which drafted the Declaration, and the US is a signatory. (2)

(1) http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
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The consequences of this could be rather serious. A diminished USA is going to leave a vacuum which, regardless of the current behaviour of the USA government, is not going to be a good thing as Russia and China rush in to grab what they can.
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And what makes you think that Russia and China will be worse than USA? Each country acts to protect it's own interests; some may do it with kid gloves, some may do it with iron fist. Difference, if any, would be of degree, not of kind. Some may assume a moral high ground for USA, not everyone would subscribe to that world-view.
Read the Speech and Debate clause. It says that whatever they say in either House shall not be questioned in any other Place. That is to say; they cannot be prosecuted for anything they say in either House.

The other part (the first part) of the statement merely states that they shall not be arrested while in either House (or going to and from either), unless their arrest is for Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace.
I wanted to try this a couple months ago, but it had crazy permissions (contact book, and IIRC even more). No way.

Today I see it's just (a) email address and (b) know who you are on Google. Glad to see they changed it.
You don't really have to understand the data structures any more than in any other VCS.

If you're on Subversion and ignore that the repo is basically a counted list of big file trees with properties on the nodes, you won't get branching right.

If (FSM forbid) you're on MKS and ignore that it keeps per-file version histories somewhere in the belly of the expensive server, you'll try silly things like creating new files on a branch.

And for Git, you learn that there are commits, trees and refs.
Or you can use GPG or some other form of point-to-point encryption.
I really really don't get the part where some early kickstarter backers still haven't seen their consoles shipped...all the while it's selling on Amazon on other retail channels. I just don't get it.
The "fix a misbehaving feed" dialog claims every URL I give it is 404. And now it has helpfully renamed all my broken feeds to "[Untitled]" so I can't tell them apart in the list.
Start by using HTTPS-Everywhere plug in: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
According to a WashPo article, they indicate that HK officials "quietly encouraged" Snowden to leave. They also name an HK official who is "sympathetic to Beijing" as the one to have delayed the US's extradition request, which never made it to a judge.

Regardless of the extent of China's involvement, it sounds like HK really didn't want to get involved.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/detail...
Given that we here on Earth have pieces of Mars that arrived as meteors, and that there's even some speculation on transfer of biological material via those meteors, would all 3 "habitable" planets have life with the same "programming"? That is, would life on all 3 planets have the same extraterrestrial DNA-equivalent? Or would all 3 planets have 3 kinds of life, each kind of life having the DNA-equivalent from one of the planets?

We'll probably never know, but it seems like fun to speculate.
Ditto, cannot scroll down the page.
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You're failing to recognize the semicolon. "and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place" is a separate clause from the first part of the sentence, not a clarification of the scope.

Gravel v. United States[1], a Supreme Court case from the 1970s related to Senator Mike Gravel reading the Pentagon Papers (classified material) into the Senate record, established this clearly:

"Rather, his insistence is that the Speech or Debate Clause at the very least protects him from criminal or civil liability and from questioning elsewhere than in the Senate, with respect to the events occurring at the subcommittee hearing at which the Pentagon Papers were introduced into the public record. To us this claim is incontrovertible.

[...]

We have no doubt that Senator Gravel may not be made to answer —either in terms of questions or in terms of defending himself from prosecution—for the events that occurred at the subcommittee meeting."

With regard to this:

> Would a Senator be safe in discussing the classified details in the House?

"House of Congress" and "House of Representatives" are two different things. "the House" generally refers to the latter. "Their House" refers to the House of Congress the member actually belongs to.

The clause is at least ambiguous on the question of whether a Senator has immunity in the House of Representatives, and whether a Representative has immunity in the Senate, but in this case it's unimportant. My hope is that a Senator will walk on to the floor of the Senate, or a Representative will walk on to the floor of the House of Representatives.

[1]http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2739100783028836...
Your analogy sucks and you could have easily fixed it:
"If Microsoft gave Office away, destroyed the competition, then killed Office..."

Google killed Reader and trust.
Regarding adding macros to Python, the new language Julia, which is fairly Python-like in appearance, has them: http://julialang.org/

Like Lisp, Julia is completely homoiconic. Zach Allaun at Hacker School, formerly a Clojure guy, has been doing lots of cool stuff with its macros, like this one to make tail-call optimization available (not natively a feature of Julia): http://blog.zachallaun.com/post/jumping-julia

The infix syntax serves to make Julia macros a bit uglier and more complex than Lisp ones, but they still provide the same power.

Edit: Here's a link to the Julia docs on metaprogramming: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogramming/
Okay I'll spell it out for the reflexive drive-by downvoters: The ice cream is real ice cream, and crystal size is an orthogonal issue to fat content. I'm not sure what hipsters have to do with it, but I find it a sad reflection on the state of HN that the middle-brow prejudiced dismissal of imagined cultural reasons gets a higher vote than someone pointing out how said dismissal is based on an utter absence of facts.
My situation as well. There are some beautiful, and often little known, business models/ideas out there. Sometimes in industries which few have interest in. I focus on long term, sustainable, profitable business models. But they must scale. It works out well.

No lottery odds type instagram ideas which couldn't be a thriving business without being bought out. I also favor long term revenue models over ones that peak and have a very quick decline for all but the top 1% (e.g. app stores). That isn't to say I don't have app store apps, but they compliment the primary offering to expand the audience rather than being a revenue driver.

You see many going for the billion dollar ideas, which is cool. I'll stick with the "easily" attainable and interesting models/ideas that make six to seven figures a year. With the scalability that I require, I can do two or three (via having world-class talent on retainer from time-to-time). There you go, set for life. Do what you want and truly help people.

OP: Good luck on the book!
Although not agreeing with the GP, OpenVMS is closed source and has a pretty good record on security. Closed doesn't necessarily mean less secure.
I guess it could be similar to islands on Earth. They can be based on basically the same "model" of life, but have thousands of years of evolutionary divergence.
This is great, I've been waiting a long time for this. Awesome job Mozilla!
Someone mind explaining why its price is £99? I am failing to see the math there.

(But, I have noticed this tendency quite often by the manufacturers themselves.)
Erm, I get £23k a year before tax, and I make about £1600/month. I think you've got a sweet deal.

You could get a really shit job that pays fuck-all (around 16k), or on the other end of the spectrum, learn Ruby/Python and get a developer role for around £30k.
> I Knew Snowden. And He’s Not The Story

And yet this article seems to add nothing new to the discussion other than some nice anecdotes about how Snowden played video games and was an everyday person like us. Not much substance here.
Lavabit encrypts all of their stored email to the point that if you lose your password there is no way to recover your email. It might be worth checking out their service [1]. I've switched to lavabit from gmail and outside of a minor outage, I have had no complaints.

[1] http://lavabit.com/
--edit2-- Comment removed, unhelpful speculation on my part.
And now an error notice: "It seems you have experienced an error."

I guess they took it down. It responds with a 404 according to Fiddler.

Edit: Here's a Pastebin'd version of the text in case the Google cached version expires: http://pastebin.com/5d7rHmYe
You sure it wasn't inspired by Candi Chang? Not even a nod? http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/
Tor is already vulnerable to anyone that can watch a large enough portion of global network traffic. Thanks to the NSA taps on US internet use & the (recently revealed) taps that GCHQ puts on EU internet traffic travelling through the UK it seems likely that the NSA can track Tor users in the US and most of Europe in real time if they choose to.

(It's fairly likely that the US has covertly tapped undersea cables elsewhere in the world as well.)
Well, I'm not from the USA (actually I've never been there) and I care. The only way this terrible situation gets fixed is that the USA, maybe with some "help" from outside, fixes it. Otherwise, we're screwed... both inside the US and outside.
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Ron Wyden's Senate page has the full text of their letter as well as the NSA "fact" sheet.

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/wyden-and-udall-t...
Treason is defined by the Constitution and it is explicitly stated that Congress cannot modify its meaning. To whom that we are at war with has he helped? I supposed if he gave the information to the Taliban, but I doubt that would suffice.

Text taken from Wikipedia article

Article III, Section 3. This part of the Constitution strips Congress of the Parliamentary power of changing or modifying the law of treason by simple majority statute. It's not enough merely to think treasonously; there must be an overt act of making war or materially helping those at war with the United States. Accusations must be corroborated by at least two witnesses. Congress is a political body and political disagreements routinely encountered should never be considered as treason. This allows for nonviolent resistance to the government because opposition is not a life or death proposition. However, Congress does provide for other less subversive crimes and punishments such as conspiracy.[g]
Thanks for the additions. I particularly like the forEach addition because it 'reads' better but is very unperforming. I can foresee this being unknowingly abused.
Yes, I thought especially about tarsnap for off-offsite backups.
Hunger affects decision making and perception of risk
The annoying thing about this defeatist attitude is that people don't realise it's the same thing as being afraid of their massive resources being employed to purchase enormous kettle elements to boil the ocean.

As a foreigner with an enormous distaste for the US government and a comfortable relationship with cryptography I say; good luck with that fascists, bring it on.
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It helps to turns the language around and split it up:

"They shall be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace.

[They shall be privileged from Arrest] in going to and returning from the [the Session of their respective Houses in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace].

For any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

Any Senator disclosing classified details would be violating Senate rules which would then place him or her subject to action by the Senate itself.
The most common use of the semicolon is to join together two related clauses that could each be separate sentences, so the "; and" is interpreted like the start of a new sentence. That is:

They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same. For any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
I don't think they have one. The only one I know is rsync.net's: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
Ask HN: What's a reasonable amount of equity for the CTO for a small venture?
A friend is in the process of starting up a small commerce venture - focusing on something like clothes (the exact nature of the business is, I think, not so important for this question). He has put a lot of work and effort into design, sourcing suppliers, logistics, legal and IP issues, etc. He's asked me to come on board as a part time 'CTO', responsible for building out the tech (mainly e-commerce website, supplier integration, and company infrastructure (eg mail server, etc).
I know this is going to get me labeled as a Snowden "demonizer" by those who take the G.W. Bush approach of "you're either with us or against us"...but these specific allegations, if true, should not be taken as just trivialities.

The OP seems to be implying the possibility that Snowden purportedly took the Booz Allen job with the explicit purpose that of exposing what he perceived as NSA's unethical practices. Now, replace "Snowden" with...well, a hypothetical whistleblower, and "Booz Allen" and "NSA" with [company/institution you respect]

e.g. Henry Ford joined Tesla Motors to get the access to documents that prove that Elon Musk is cutting corners just as Ford suspected.

There have been unfair and trivial criticisms of Snowden, but this particular angle is not completely trivial. Note, however, that even if true, it does not dismiss Snowden's claims or findings...but it's the kind of pre-condition that must be weighed as it would be in any controversy.
But it depends what is cheaper...
You're gonna make it bro. After all you're in the valley
+1 for CommaFeed. I had been in denial about Google Reader shutting down simply because all the alternatives were painful in comparison. Thankfully, I discovered CommaFeed a few days ago and now I'm not dreading July 1st.

CommaFeed almost seems too good to be true: it's free; the code is open-source; you can run a self-hosted version. I made a $10 donation to the developer a few days ago and I've stopped looking for my Google Reader replacement.
> if your system image includes 10-100TB, it could be argued that the problem of size really lies in earlier design decisions.

Without disagreeing with your conclusion about the design process, it's useful to note that this situation simply isn't a problem for a conventional configuration management tool.

> On the contrary, generation should be automated.

One could argue that Puppet and Chef are ideal tools for performing that automation.
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source:http://twitter.com/zqsdfr/status/343030858795601920
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File a bug report: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues
Complain? We had options to change the intensity or use amber/black or white/black. No one in the day would have used intense green characters for a whole shift, it would have "burned" the CRT.
What exactly is this trying to test? This headline seems to imply that it's testing the performance of the different sorts of loops in JavaScript, but it's not a valid test for that, because the for loop does considerably less work than the do and while loops.
Reeder is replacing syncing to Google Reader with Synching to Feedbin, which costs $2 per month

The complaint about iPhone is also only short term, since the team is working on adapting the other apps to use Feedbin as well before the shutdown date.

I think Feedbin was $5 per month and have discounted the price because of all the refugees being anticipated.

In short, OP can continue what he was previously doing, only now it would cost $2 per month rather than free. He wanted them to store the sync information somewhere free, like Dropbox, rather than Feedbin

Relevant links:

https://feedbin.me/

http://reederapp.com/reader/

I think I am just going to signup for Feedbin, I haven't really been able to adapt to using Feedly
In other words they are insolvent?
The difference is, if the assumptions/reassurances about the math/crypto/physics hold, I can be _reasonably_ sure that if they haven't broken my fingers or hit me with a wrench, they've probably not read my email/files. That knowledge of whether they have or haven't "broken my crypto" is of value.
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This looks interesting, can you explain the difference between Zoetrope and LÖVE?

The former seems to be built on top of the latter, yes? Are there particular things lacking in LÖVE that Zoetrope fills in? I couldn't find this info quickly on their sites.
Second Paragraph. "15 talking points": http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/press_releases/section...
$8,596,474 is not enough to ship to Kickstarter backers first?
Yeah - particularly since reeder syncing is now via feedbin which is 2$ a month. Which makes this service 84$ a year. A bit steep in my opinion - particularly the reeder part.

I'm willing to pay up front for software that runs on my phone, but I'm not sure I'd pay 60$ for reeder, and making it a subscription, for a non-hosted service, would be a deal breaker for me.

Hopefully this report is inaccurate/mistaken in some way.
I was unable to find them and it doesn't appear there's a press release with that file on the NSA's public site. If there was a working link it appears to have been changed or removed.
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For all the caffeine junkies here.
> Your current customers -- did you sell personally or did they convert on this webpage? I'm guessing it's the former

This is correct - the former.

Overall, you make some great points. Will take these on-board and make changes to copy/layout.
As a non-US citizen, they can keep all my communications forever anyway. It seems to me that my only redress is to encrypt as much as I can now so as to chaff that one time at some point in the future when I do have something to hide.
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society"
The "elevator pitch" is not very clear, so I'll summarise what I have gathered. The idea, from the website, seems to be threefold: a CV service, a referral marketplace, and a (free?) repository of legal documents.

The emphasis seems to be on credibility: it looks like you need 50 connections before taking place in the referral network, which, if they can ensure that most accounts are held by bona fide lawyers, is solid.

I would like this kind of professional-to-professional service to succeed. Elance is not a good comparison, I think.
I almost cringed when I saw the juxtaposition of India and New York; I thought this project, like others I have seen, was discrediting the life goals of Americans to trivialize so-called First World problems.

But that was far from the truth. It presented the stories of people in New York, India and in hospices with equal care and respect. I love the colors and the look of old film, too.
It doesn't protect you meaningfully as an EC2 user, since there's no (current, on AWS) way to do an "encrypted VM" where everything including memory is encrypted and the hypervisor can't be coerced into decrypting it en masse.

It does protect you for S3 if and only if you conduct the crypto outside AWS and generate/manage the keys yourself (e.g. how tarsnap does it). It may protect you for some of the other AWS services IFF you use them in the same hybrid way, but I don't know of anyone who uses AWS's database services without just using EC2 nodes primarily to talk to them.
"The ice cream is real ice cream, and crystal size is an orthogonal issue to fat content."

I never claimed the ice cream wasn't "real", and crystal size is correlated to fat content: the higher the fat content, the smaller the crystals. Liquid nitrogen is a gimmicky method of accomplishing something that is already done in simpler ways.
They explained that their shipping fulfiller is at fault. They sent the required number of units to the warehouse, they just haven't left the warehouse yet.

So that's how to get it.
True, but the storage part should make you more paranoid about key length. "For how many years do I want this to remain uncrackable?" is the question.
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That will be what you earn at your first job.

Don't tell the people hiring you of course, but if you leave after 12-24 months with some good experience, you'll get a big bump. If you skillset pays 60K with experience, you'll get there or beyond by your second or third job.

Just be sure that it is in an area you're interested in, and you'll do fine. Just beware that working on (VBA/testing/C++) often leads to more (VBA/testing/C++), and of those c++ pays the most.
TokuMX is MongoDB on steroids
Wait, at your company, you have to pay for your own work computer?
I have a few solid ideas that I believe I could execute well, in a wide variety of industries. Mind you this is after purging many ideas that fail vetting. However, my limitation is lack of capital. I'm not well connected and wouldn't know where to begin to look for funds.
Spying is a problem too.
All perfectly true, but you've at least made it a bit harder for someone to break your encryption without your knowledge and monitor your communications on an ongoing basis.
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I've been working on this solo for 6 months. It's my first web project with a back end, implemented in node.js and MongoDB, which I'm learning as I go.

I'm hoping for it to generate money via subscriptions at some point but for now I'm building a small user base, getting feedback, and iterating.

Would love to get some feedback or answer any questions.
If he was receiving pay-checks from Russia for spying, it would probably come with the stipulation that you don't blab to the world's media that you're a spy. At the very least it's implied.
I loooove lavabit. Stumbled across it a year ago, and it's my primary account for all my freelance work.

The only problem is that a lavabit email is generally viewed as an anonymous (burner) email, so half the services I want to register to just kick the email back as not being "legitimate" enough.

For human to human emails it's great.