skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point from the edit is the most important point. I actually disagree with your views (that countries should not spy on a potential enemy's citizens), but I agree that the collusion of friendlies can have a catastrophic result for individual liberties. That needs to be clarified to be unlawful, if it is not intrinsically so due to the nature of the constitution of wherever you are living.

If China wants the US to stop spying on its citizens, it can negotiate, throw up technological barriers, or declare war. Vice versa.
Agreed, have heard good reports of companies contracting prospectives for a day or more to actually work on something on the company's todo list, and doing it with pair programming.
But the any constitution may have(read, HAS) things that are wrong. Constitutions were written by people too. People are fallible, and the possibility exists that going against what they wrote ten-score years ago is just plain wrong, and going against it is the correct thing to do. I don't think leaders should fear correcting the wrongs in the building blocks of their countries; it should be their utmost responsibility.

Now, this is not what is happening here. Not at all. But taking the constitution as sacrosanct and making going against it punishable by death is not a good idea. Is dogmatic and wrong. The responsibility of politicians is towards the people, not towards the constitution.
No one ever said it was "right", just that its the most prudent course of action given the circumstances.

Even as individual people we don't live by moral absolutes. It's a bit weird to expect our government to.
These petitions don't really seem to matter -- there are plenty without a response. Previously, the administration "promised" to respond to all w/ 25,000 signatures. Now it's 100k.

What policies have been affected in any way by these things? Takes about 5 seconds to sign one once you have an account, so the results seem to be pretty close to the effort it requires from the public.

Voted for Obama twice but he's just as much of a liar as any other politician.
I don't think you've read much PUA material. A lot of it is about trying to have sex with a partner who does not (at least initaially) want to have sex. Escalating physically until they say no, lying and saying you'll stop and then escalating again. Charitably it is about convincing someone to have sex with you, uncharitably it is wearing them down until they give up resisting.

There have been clear descriptions of rape which have been posted by redditors on the PUA subreddit, which the poster apparently did not realise were rape.
What else is HN supposed to be for, tech startups and self-improvement tips?
Just because little girls like it, doesn't mean it isn't problematic.
Sure, but theoretically no one would hear you anyways unless they got a warrant. ;)
But it's also possible to gain some mass from the Oxygen in the air. The burning reactions for example typical compounds are:

Typical sugar (Glucose) C6H12O6

C6H12O6 + 6 x O2 (air) ---> 6 x CO2 (air) + 6 x H2O

6 Carbons get exhaled, and you lost a little of mass.

Typical Fatty Acid (Palmitic) CH3(CH2)14COOH

CH3-(CH2)14-COOH + 23 x O2 (air) ---> 16 x CO2 (air) + 16 x H2O

16 Carbons get exhaled, but 14 Oxygens get absorbed in water. The mass of the Oxigens (14x16) is slightly more than the mass of the Carbons (16x12), so you gain a little of mass. But this is much smaller.

Typical aminoacid: more complicated.

I think that the total mass lost dew to the first kind of reaction is much bigger than the total mass gained dew to the second. So the calculations in the video are probably a good approximation.

(Anyway, most of the difference is water (transpiration / exhaling).)
Variations on the theme of "have them do a paid project for you" surface here every so often. The problem is that a large number of job seekers currently have a job (everyone keeps telling them it is easier to get a job while you have a job). Even qualified, competent programmers will find it hard to accept the risk of being dropped at the conclusion of the short project (and if you no-one ever gets dropped, what is the point of the project besides giving you a warm and fuzzy?)

Fact is, you have to do everything up to that 'mini project' then just go with your gut and hire/no hire. If they underperform in the role you need to either change the role, try and train them up or let them go.

This trial period is just a way of pushing the risk of a bad hiring decision back onto the candidate and allowing the manager to avoid the discomfort of actually firing someone (although telling the candidate that the project didn't work out is functionally the same thing).
And was awarded a Nobel prize..
Sam Farber, Creator of Oxo Utensils, Dies at 88
It's actually not clear that there is a warrant for his arrest in Hong Kong, only a request by the US to Hong Kong authorities.

Right now I'm guessing Hong Kong and Beijing authorities are both dearly wishing Snowden had chosen somewhere else, and wondering what exactly to do with him. Until they figure that out, staying silent is probably the best thing they can do.
One-line posts rarely contribute anything. This is an off-topic jab with no support. Even examples and support for each would not make this post appropriate since this submission is about the petition, not the progress Obama has made on his promises.
Thanks for the detailed rebuttal. Your considered response opened my eyes to the reality of the situation. Many thanks.
It's been argued by a famous artist (Chuck Close), that these kinds of limitations actually allow people to be more creative. When you narrow down your available techniques/tools, you eliminate paralysis of choice, and are forced to be creative with your small toolset. Think "Javascript the good parts".

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11264
That doesn't need a petition though, it's already the default position of the government.
I don't get it. How can someone make such a drastic 180 degree turn on his principles and in such a short time? If there ever was a civil rights activist in him, how can he so easily go ahead with trying to harm US' historical press freedom so drastically by trying to make it illegal for a reporter to speak to a leaker, and prosecuting twice as many whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all presidents in the past 100 years?

I really don't get it and I don't see how a person could change so radically in only a few short years. Unless the whole initial campaign was just a major joke played on the American public, and it was all a set-up, saying that he'll turn things around from the Bush era, while he was actually plotting to continue his surveillance policies all along.

There's also the blackmail possibility, but would the US president really be that dependent on a blackmail to change his policies 180 degrees and also continue the charade for so long? I think the second possibility, that he was lying the whole time, seems more realistic than this.
Sadly, I seem to be unable to convince it to load entire albums, just individual songs. However, it does load unofficial videos, which is quite cool. I'm guessing that it runs a search without being logged in, and takes the first result which is shorter than 30min or so?
Could you list some of the other sources of government funding? The only one I can think of is the alleged CIA drug trafficking scandals from decades past.
Can't wait to start programming mine! Now to just move out of state and start my new job first...
Worth a read: http://www.rcfp.org/reporters-field-guide

Generally: the First Amendment protects the right to publish news, but not to gather it; when it comes to newsgathering, the law generally doesn't favor reporters over any other kind of person. There are (according to RCFP) some jurisdiction-specific protections for newsgathering, but it's hard to read RCFP's guide and leave with the sense that the Constitution permits reporters to commit felonies in the interest of getting stories.

So, James Rosen. James Rosen (allegedly; for brevity, add "allegedly" mentally to everything else in this graf) received secret information from Stephen Kim, a counterproliferation analyst at LLNL. Kim passed information to Rosen about the proximity of a North Korean nuclear test. Kim's response was that the information he shared was harmless. The DoJ's response was that it wasn't, and that aside from the direct details about the DPRK nuclear test, the specificity of the information shared threatened sources & methods, and that regardless Kim was criminally liable for sharing top secret classified information.

(FAS, as always, does a great job of keeping up with the paperwork of the case: http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/kim/)

It's not at all surprising to me that in a case where an analyst leaks counterproliferation data to a reporter, the DoJ would have an interest in ensuring that the reporter wasn't an accessory to the crime of leaking the information. Simply hearing a leaked story isn't criminal, but coaching an insider to do so is. DoJ has a valid interest in figuring out which happened with Rosen.

James Rosen has not been charged with any crime. Stephen Kim, the leaker, is dollars-to-donuts going to prison; his defense seems already to have conceded the leak occurred, and posits that his prosecution is political.

As I've said on other threads, I'm ambivalent about counterterrorism. When I think about it in the context of signals intelligence, I'm fine with it. When I think about it in the context of the TSA and electronic strip searches, I'm not. But this isn't a terrorism case.

I am not at all ambivalent about counterproliferation. Just 40 years ago the US was locked in a standoff with an adversary with enough nuclear weapons to end life on the planet. Today, that adversary is a shambles, split into countries of varying competence and openness, any of which might have enough nuclear materiel to end a major world city. Meanwhile, the world's most evil country has a functioning nuclear arms program and is thought to be arming dictatorships around the world for money.

I'm glad DoJ isn't playing games in cases involving proliferation.
>> public relations standpoint.

^This is exactly what I meant when I said "This leak of information slightly undermines the US bargaining power." Politics and bargaining are a very sensitive game, and a very powerful game.
Who: millions of mexicans.
Why: it's the usual thing, 9-7 mo-fri, sat 9-2.
I made the mistake of not opening a new tab and was unable to navigate away from your site using the back button. :(
Of course the guy pushing an alternative is going to say that FB is doing it all wrong.
If you are white, cis and male, you need to understand how that affects positively how society treats you. Because society treats you better than any other group. Then you need to think about how that shapes your opinions so that you can understand the complaints of the less privileged.

For example, if you are a white New Yorker, you might say "stop and frisk is fine, I never get stopped so they must only be stopping criminals". However, once you realise that the police disproportionately stop black people, you are better able to understand black people's complaints about the policy. It's nothing sinister or hateful. It's a way to critically evaluate ones own biases.
It's a common problem in defense, especially in the last 20 years. As budgets continue to shrink, countries are under pressure to cut the number of units purchased, which increases the per-unit price (design and development, being fixed costs, have to be spread amongst a smaller number of units.)

For new designs coming about after '91, it's even harder as the design work is being done at the same time. With systems like the F-35, LCS, AAAV, NH90, and others, the money is shrinking even as development is taking place, and the spiraling costs of systems that "can do everything" in an environment where no one can assume was the nature of the next generation of threats will be has made procurement something of a disaster.

The last element is national. European nations are reluctant, no matter how much money it may save, to completely forgo their national defense industries in favor of larger conglomerates or the U.S. There are many areas of overlap where there is already a better, proven alternative in the market (Airbus A400M could be served by the C-17, NH90 can be handled by the SH60 series, Nimrod MRA4 by the P-8. I note all of the alternatives in favor of U.S. kit, but there are older examples of this happening in the other direction)
For those of us who don't know, what did he say about policies changing?
>Building a website, you really shouldn't need more than a day to put together the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5834227
Correct. That's why every gov't worker or soldier takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution. It's up to all of us to reject obviously wrong laws.
What you describe in your edit has been happening between the US and UK for decades.
They spy on each other (using the more permissive "foreigner" spying privileges) and then share the data.
It actually is. The U.S. hasn't ever been "debt free" however arbitrarily that's determined. The late 60's - 70's wasn't a great time for the U.S. economically since the 50's boom was starting to wind down.

What really triggered growth afterwards, setting the stage for the early 80's boom, was the space program. Specifically the myriad of branch industries, technologies and services it spawned both directly and indirectly.

In plain words: Space builds jobs and we really can't afford not to do it.

Once Russia lost the moon, they were already in sour shape. They had arguably better technology to do what they did (the N1, though ridiculed for being overly complex, was actually based on proven technology and in-house innovation), they were safer and more cautious. The U.S. "won" not just because the N1 failed, but the agency and the political sphere took grave risks (costing 3 astronauts their lives).

But as Tyson himself says, there are only three main drivers for exploration:

1) The "I don't want to die" driver. Apollo falls under this since those damn Commies were involved.
2) The "I don't want to die poor" driver. The Columbus voyages fall under this
3) The praise of royalty and deities (don't see much of this except for the 700 Club and Scientology; are they building spaceships?)

The first two are sort of contained in a race against China. If the U.S. "loses", it will suffer the same fate as Russia; irrelevance.
For those of us who don't know, what did Snowden say about policies changing?
Use they, because the gender is indeterminate. s/he looks awkward, some some malformed regex.
Anytime an engineer tells me that the only solution to something is to "bite the bullet and rewrite everything," I lose all respect for them.
The submitted title is a bit linkbaity. The quote which it is culled from:

“It’s about people’s profiles, their approach to work, how they interact with management. Are they cheery? Are they looking at Salon.com or The Onion during their lunch break? This is about ‘The Stepford Wives,’” said a second senior Pentagon official, referring to online publications and a 1975 movie about robotically docile housewives. The official said he wanted to remain anonymous to avoid being punished for criticizing the program.
How DC Comics Contracts Work
I use gkg.net for grepular.com because they provide both an API and a web interface for adding your DNSSEC public keys to the parent zone.

I use badger.com for emailprivacytester.com because they gave me some free credit when they initially launched. Also, they have the nicest web interface I've seen for a domain registrar.
I keep seeing "Oh noes! SecurityError: DOM Exception 18" using Chrome on win7...

Edit: It has something to do with either reading cookies, or loading a video from a different server?
Most crashes also don't eject the powertrain from the car. This one did.
I'm not sure you have to be an American to sign these petitions.
I don't mean to be sarcastic in my response, but the "most evil country" could be any number of countries, even given the context. Who are you referring to?
I doubt that in their bulk aggregation, they actually try deciphering content in the initial detection stage.

They probably just have wordlists for different languages (English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Spanish). To individually try and rot13 (or any other cipher) every single message they collect as soon as they all come in would be a big waste of processing time. The odds of someone trying to communicate criminal activity via rot13 are absurdly low.
Not to say that this isn't a noble aspiration, but it is a glaringly naive point of view to say that organizations like the NSA and CIA don't need to exist.
Secrets, Non-Secrets and Leaks
The business is probably so computer-dependent that the business is essentially the software systems executing. Planes flying, at this point, are mere physical side effects of software systems executing. If your systems aren't executing, your business isn't running.

Add in probable regulatory requirements that are also implemented by software, and that probably makes it illegal to fly.
> Compare this to Apple's iMessage or FaceTime - Apple
> cannot decrypt the contents of the messages, and
> therefore cannot give the contents to the government.

This is not correct.

First, when you buy a new iPhone, the way you authenticate yourself is by entering your Apple ID and password. Once entered, your new device will begin receiving iMessage data. This means that Apple is capable of provisioning a virtual device with your credentials, which will receive your messages. From there, they can be either stored or forwarded to third parties.

Second, your iPhone runs binaries distributed by Apple. There is no technical reason why these binaries could not contain code to forward historical messages to Apple or to a third party. Even if they don't now, a future update to iOS (which you won't be able to audit) could introduce such code.

The only way to have private communication is for all parties to run open-source clients. Each party must have the technical skill to audit the source code, or there must be at least one (preferably multiple) trusted third-party auditor. They must distribute encryption keys through a separate channel which does not depend on the communication host.

In other words, the standard Thunderbird+GPG+keyparty system that is popular among nerds but has seen no uptake among the general population.
I'm not sure about the C class, but there was a huge recall of E class w212 models over the ABS pump / braking system, basically the pump could fail catastrophically and render the car with NO brakes. If they haven't abandoned the silly/unsafe electric over hydraulic full authority control methodology for the braking system then you can't rule out remote controlled brakes.

Without regard to whether Hastings' car had the flawed ABS system (probably not). The very definition of an ABS system is that braking control is taken from the driver and given to a computer, so no the brakes are not immune to hacking, no matter how unlikely you think that scenario is.

I'll let Mercedes speak for themselves as to whether electronic control of steering is possible: http://techcenter.mercedes-benz.com/_en/distronic_plus_steer...
Really? Last time I saw a "pro" carry a mac pro to an event was 2006, right after they were released, and it was mainly to show it off. Shortly there after even he realized how stupid it was an got a Macbook Pro (released the same year).

If someone in 2013 is lugging around the basically abandoned Mac Pro line ... I question their sanity.

EDIT: The rotting Mac Pro has long since been eclipsed in performance by the Macbook Pro line, so unless you did custom upgrades to it, you likely are carrying 50+ pounds + monitor + (other) for worse performance than a 4.5 pound laptop.
North Korea is the most evil country in the world.
Really great interface, nice one.
Venomsnake mentioned slash specifically -- yaoi is much more mainstream than slash, especially in Asia.

If you want to talk about more mainstream material, particularly what appears at the checkout counter, one confounding factor is that written material in general is less restricted and stigmatized than visual material. There is no ESRB or movie ratings board for books, and parents who would never allow their children to watch an extremely violent movie or a porno will let them read absolutely anything at all. So written pornography can be put out at the checkout counter in a way that visual pornography can't. Women who want visual porn get it online or on late-night TV.
Possibly like me you have plugins disabled - it looks like it doesn't start until you enable Flash.
Ask HN: Did anyone get a Glass Explorers email yesterday?
Google sent me a tweet saying I was in way back when this was getting started but I just got my "invitation to purchase" yesterday.

Just wondering if anyone else here did as well.
You're going to lose that debate, and by engaging in it you're jeopardizing the other winnable issues, like domestic spying. There is zero chance that Obama (or any administration) will simply disband intelligence agencies because it turns out they spy on other countries. You're incredibly naive if you think that has any chance of success. Furthermore, Snowden is now treading into treason territory, and at the very least fits perfectly within the Espionage Act that he was charged with. It's one thing when Snowden exposes potentially illegal and unconstitutional actions by a government agency against the nation's citizens. It's another when he's leaking specific actions against specific foreign governments, potentially to buy himself leverage.
>When the Supreme Court says "unconstitutional", that's different because there the court is using one of their fundamental powers. The court can't strike down a law just because they don't like the law.

Neither can the executive. If they chose to do otherwise without any constitutional authority the courts should rule against them. Obviously the president can still just do whatever and defy everyone, but if the president is sufficiently in the wrong then you get subordinates siding with the constitution and impeachment proceedings etc., and ultimately a popular revolution if things go sufficiently badly.

Congress is different because they can just strike down (i.e. repeal) a law because they don't like it, but that doesn't change the fact that if they say "we're not passing this, it's unconstitutional," that's the end of the story and the thing in question is not happening, and they all swear an oath to do that when they take office.
Ask HN: I will pay you if you find me this HN link. Super crucial
Hey guys. About a week back, maybe 1.5, there was an article posted about mobile trends. It was a slideshow embedded on some site with one of those new nice services to embed slides in. It was I think 117 slides detailing trends in software, mobile vs pc, revenue, tons of stuff.

It was made by a man and a woman. Asian man and elder white woman. It was a brown page with a bit of text with the presentation embedded in the tip. I can't for the life of me remember anything about the HN title or text on the page itself.

It'd be unreal if someone found it, it would quite literally save my life. Yes, literally.
The title threw me off a little. This is a chemists educational response to a popular "chemophobia" article headlined "Eight Foods That We Eat in The US That Are Banned in Other Countries".
Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating
Go's range clause
Not that it particularly matters if they were salted or not.
I tried just now! it works perfect for me. Google the problem. Some reasons/solutions from Stack might help
The interplay of micro and macro reminds me of Go. I also like how offense and defense are so connected in a Yin Yang fashion.

Perhaps it should be called "TictIctaC TactActaC ToetOetoE". Another possibility: "Tic Frac Toe", giving a nod to the fractal quality. This game is great!