skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that no report has yet been filed for the 2013 election monitoring even two months later, so I don't think we can yet say all of their last elections have been ratified.
> In fact, if you've read the first post http://justinjackson.ca/words.html, I'd argue that this almost impossible to read through to the end without skipping.

That's interesting: I saw the plaintext version first, which I had no problem reading. But in the HTML version, the fact that all bold sentences are pretty mundane and the excessive use of italic and bold just made me want to skip the whole page. In fact I didn't even notice it was the same content until I went back to your post!
I wonder if this will see Wikileaks become a sort of worldwide whistleblower protection agency. Seeing as most countries don't exactly have the best whistleblower protection programs.
I find the high praise for the HK government very odd. Basically they told Snowden they'd stall for him (docs are missing page 4 - please resubmit) but he'd better hit the road fast. Worry about a domestic audience they add "With zero leverage now we promise to follow up on snooping." That will of course go no where.

The Chinese do not want to set the precedent that governments should ignore extradition treaties and thus harbor fugitives wanted on national security issues.

I don't blame the HK gov - just question some of the responses here.
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Snowden's flight from Moscow to Havana passes over US airspace.
> He's a patriot

Daniel Ellsberg is a patriot.

Edward Snowden crossed the line a long time ago when he fled to China to reveal more than domestic surveillance but foreign intelligence activities.

I'm probably just as indignant as you are about the domestic surveillance, but the activities of Snowden started out as patriotism, but very quickly crossed into defection.

tldr - champions of human rights don't flee to china & russia. Those places are where defecting spies go.
A funny case of using the PC
Twitter / wikileaks: Edward #Snowden has just now ...
This seems like a much better move. If I wanted to disappear, I would much rather take my chances in rural areas where people are less likely to be watching the news rather than a city which has my picture on banners and screens everywhere. All I would need is the middle ground between remote and having a functional internet connection. Then I would just setup a cottage, create a business profile and financial accounts in my partner's name (which would likely be my girlfriend, probably on a fast track to marriage, who I recently met in my new home in South America) and do whatever freelance work I would need to get by (I'm sure Snowden could find quite a bit of work with his tech skills.)

I'm not sure I would want for WikiLeaks to be announcing my moves, but this is probably something you can't escape, so might as well take the help from one of the players who are reporting the story.

ETA: Or maybe I spoke too soon. I'm not sure anyone really knows where he is going.
What's really sad is that this guy is going to learn really fast that he's now in a sphere where the rules simply don't apply.

He's put himself in play and he's going to learn very quickly that he has few friends where a nation considers the information in his brain essential to their national security.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Flight-Falcon-Manhunt-Americas/dp/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
I'm not c++ programmer, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the reference example is not correct.
Shouldn't it be as bellow?

// reference example
int value = 0;
int& value1 = value;
value1 = 2;
// value should equal 2
As if they are going to tell us the REALITY.. :D
This started since Wikileaks. Remember when they wouldn't allow government employees to even read Wikileaks-related articles on Facebook, and risked being fired if they were sharing them?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/world/05restrict.html?_r=0

How is he able to say that info is still classified after it was made public? I thought that once a classified document is leaked to the press and made public, it becomes public knowledge and can't be called classified anymore. Did that law change in the past few years or something?
Exactly how would this work? WikiArmy?
Neat!
And indeed, it seems to work fine in IE10 under both canvas and SVG modes.
Did you recover the bullet? Measurements of the bullet would hint at the cartridge used, which would let us calculate how and where the round was fired.

There are certainly cartridges in production that carry dramatically more kinetic energy than the example I used, but the more powerful cartridges tend to be more rare.

Note that as velocity bleeds off the trajectory degrades faster and faster, resembling an upside down exponential curve. The angle of impact is much greater than the angle at which the round was fired; more so as distance increases.
This is something similar to another project called SounDojo (http://soundojo.com/webapp/)
Yes, this is a strong counter point.
I wonder if this was an intentional leak. This was reported by the leader of Norway's Pirate Party on Twitter. With the misdirection regarding Cuba and Venzuela, I'm wondering whether he is actually headed for Iceland or somewhere else. Seems weird that they would publish something like this.

Oslo seems like a risky place to land since Norway has historically been very open to requests from US officials. Is anyone able to get in touch with someone involved and see if the leak was intentional, and if not get in touch with Snowden's Wikileaks entourage? (I'm from Norway, btw).

The latest flight leaving Oslo for Reykjavik today is Icelandair's FI325 at 21:55 local time.
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> It's possible that one of the room service delivery people was a Chinese agent and made Snowden an offer he couldn't refuse: "USA has issued an arrest warrant....we may have to arrest you...but...what do you have for us? "

So. Is that not treason, pure and simple?
Snowden heading for Iceland, via Norway - Pirate Party.
We are looking for interns - from anywhere in the world.
Yes, but it was "stable" at the time they decided. And more, i think that they remained with Squeeze because of too much bureaucracy and policies to switch rapidly to Wheezy.
Sure. A modern underground railroad if thats what it takes.
Then why do they have a massive campaign of cyber attacks on government/military targets throughout the US?

Source: I worked for an affiliated organization that was the victim of a large-scale, extremely sophisticated cyber attack from china.
Yes, it's the sequence of letters but that's not all. From the first line in TFA, "pqR — a “pretty quick” version of R."
So it is may 2014 the end of Squeeze... Personally I wasn't aware of this...
On the downside you have to fly Aeroflot. I saw a flight attendant take a passenger's finished water cup, and reuse it to serve to another passenger. Classy.
have you been paying attention? Putin has shown quite a bit of disdain for Obama for many years and this year he just about dismisses him. When has Russia done much of anything recently to show its earnest co work with us?

If anything the past years have reset a lot of relationships and not for the better.
Also relevant: David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner
It probably would also help if this were done as pure inline SVG instead of CSS background images. It doesn't surprise me that adding a ton of SVG background images to the page would cause some browsers to behave badly.
The merging solution is oversimplified. Leaving enough space for another car in front of you sounds easy. But in reality, if 1,000 cars each add 2 car lengths in front of them you've added 40,000 feet to the length of the slow down. Yep, 7.5 miles.

If it was feasible, we could also stop at red lights with 3 or 4 car lengths between each car and when the light turned green everyone could go at the same time. There isn't space on the road for this type of behavior.
LIVE updates, on Snowden's trip (by the Guardian).
Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface
Manning violated military law, which is fat different than our civilian laws.
This worked well for me: http://www.cofounderslab.com/ See if they host a free event near you.
Being an officially recognized diplomat (does that apply to this judge?) does not confer you ownership of any vehicle you enter.
It seems like the more draconian and restrictive the rules for TLA employees get, the more TLA work ends up getting done by outside contractors whose chief qualification to do it is that they aren't bound by stifling TLA restrictions.
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He doesn't want to have to disappear, to never see his friends or family again. He is going to a country which will hopefully allow him to live openly.
Snowden touches down in Moscow ... tweeted by Wikileaks
I think I was conflicted over the idea of making a point by making said point hard to read. But to be fair, since I last read the text file, the width has been fixed up, which has... made it much easier to read (the original was full width lines). If it had originally been presented in it's current format, I would have never made my comment.
They barely have any other choice than to choose a non-US-friendly country that cannot be bullied into extraditing them.
Google translate kept giving me error messages. If someone can provide a link that works, I'll replace the current one.

EDIT: I cannot replace the link, but here it is:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
Exactly right. Even worse, looks like Snowden was played for a fool (whatever his motivations). The HK/Chinese extracted couple of damning statements about NSA spying on Chinese and then tossed Snowden away. I doubt Snowden saw this coming. Also, looks like they had a "deal" with the US govt and then let Snowden go on some technicality. "Loss of face" for the US Gov for sure, a big thing in those parts of the world. None of this connected with the problem of NSA spying domestically and a completely muddled message. Now with the whole China/Russia/Ecaudor/Wikileaks angle good luck to Snowden getting any popular support. He looks more like a foreign agent.
> For the past 10 days we have been hearing non-stop reports of the infamous extradition process that will drag on for 10-15 years in HK

Have we? I didn't read those. I also didn't expect HK to grant asylum and I don't think there's any precedent for a US citizen seeking asylum in or being extradited (or not) from HK.

HK's track record with asylum seekers isn't that great (around 10% are granted asylum) and the bulk of those cases involve people from the region. HK doesn't have its own laws in place regarding asylum seekers and instead defers to the UNHRC for those decisions.

Did Snowden leave HK because they asked him to? I don't think there's any evidence of that. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) What they did do is refuse to arrest him at the request of the US and refuse to treat him like anything other than an American tourist. I'd say they did all that could be expected of them.

> Snowden put HK in a very tough position this is literally the best way they could get the US off their backs.

I think you might be overestimating how much HK & China care about what the US wants. The US isn't in a position to dictate policy to Beijing.
The plain text file has been fixed up since I made my comment. I agree, the plain text file is now quite easy to read, making my snarky comment look quite silly... :)
I don't think linked lists and hash tables show if you are a great programmer or not. But if you CANNOT program those, then I really have no use for you.
An Egyptian relic has mysteriously started MOVING in a museum
Rural communities aren't great places to hide because everyone is nosey and tend to be suspicious about recent arrivals. Huge cities are easier to disappear into anonymity. That said, Moscow and Caracas aren't exactly rural hamlets.
So it seems that NSA analysts are guided to assume you're not a US citizen—and act like corresponding privacy laws don't apply—when you mask your location in an attempt to preserve anonymity online.
He's helping the American people, even if that "hurts" the government. The US government can take a flying leap until they return to assisting all of us instead of their friends and cronies.
This isn't about Tesla. Tesla's sales numbers are a rounding error compared to any of the big car manufactures.

The dealers are afraid of Ford or Toyota opening up a bunch of their own dealerships. That would really put the hurt on them.

There are over 17k dealers in the US, and they aren't just going to roll over and go out of business.
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Can I provide evidence to prove to you that my generalization is accurate?

Can you prove to me that Antarctica exists? That there were ever dinosaurs? If I'm intent on not being convinced?

Come to China for an extended visit. Reside in one region for a while, then move to another for a bit. Repeat that process a few times until you're satisfied. Being able to read and write Chinese (simplified characters) and speak Putonghua (or, if you stay in one place long enough, the local dialect) would probably speed things up for you.

Even then, you could (if you were determined enough) maintain a conviction that you had just had a run of bad luck in terms of the places you'd chosen to live and the people with whom you'd happened to interact.

I don't know how much time you'd have to spend here to be satisfied.
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The Pirate Party in Norway is claiming he will land in Oslo en route to Iceland.

https://twitter.com/PiratPartiet_No

*However the only OSL-KEF flight today leaves in 20 minutes (16:05 local)
> But it wouldn't handle indentation properly

8 spaces is fine.

> For example, you need to handle bullet points.

Asterisks are fine.

> Also, all viewers would have to support it, which somewhat defeats the purpose of using plain text.

I think that you're over thinking what plain text is. I don't mean "plain text with some additions". I really do just mean plain text.
Wikileaks (supporters of Snowden) accepts Bitcoin Donations
Amid Ire At U.S., Germany Does Its Own Domestic Spying
Did you directly experience bad relations with the father?
I agree with your overall sentiment, but we are far beyond partisan politics at this point. Now all they serve to do is divide us and weaken our position. All of the democrats and republicans who play a role in this spying operation or who advocate it need to go.
Snowden arrives at Moscow airport from Hong Kong
Researchers Developing A System To Securely Leak Information By Surfing The Web
Very funny! Also, I like the design.
They know all this, and this bad behavior will not be corrected as long as moral hazard exists.
Any idea why the R Core team haven't accepted his patches?
> It's most likely that users use this service from their smartphones

So you're saying it's likely most of their users are completely unable to back up their photos at all? (since one of the top 2 smartphone OSes doesn't support downloading ZIP files, and the users of the other OS probably don't have enough free space on their MicroSD card)
Ask HN: Need help orchestrating a move to the west coast
I am based out of the North East (not Boston or NYC) and have decided to move to the west coast, ideally to SF (but other places up and down the coast are an option as well.)

I need help from people in this community who have done something like this successfully to share their experiences and perhaps give some pointers.

My background: I have a wife and a small baby. I own my house. I have 10+ years experience in different areas of technology -earlier experience mostly related to software development (Web / Business Applications) and more recently doing various different things that are not necessarily hands sw dev but 'businessy' things that require a technical background. I have been part of a startup and have a learned a lot of things about doing more with less. In general, Today I would say I am more of generalist that can be very hands on when it comes to software and technology.

1. Given my background what is the best way to make this move ?
2. How did you plan your move, like selling your house and timing it with the move ?
3. Did you just land and then find a job or went with a job in hand ?
4. What kind of time frame is reasonable for such a project ?
5. Point out anything else that I should keep in mind while I take on this project.

Thank you very much for helping a fellow member.
In his situation, this is a well calculated decision to keep his location public. Security through obscurity won't benefit much here.
Uh, he is, though. How many people try to seek asylum from the US each year?
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Everyone who follows tech startups saw this one coming. This was a clear acquihire. My company was in the process of acquihiring. We knew from a mile away that they didn't give a crap about continuing the development our product, despite all their promises. We ended up declining (none of us wanted to move to the bay area).
yeah, these days any one promoting the Constitution and the values contained therein are anti-US

/s
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Edward Snowden crossed the line a long time ago when [...] [he] reveal[ed] more than domestic surveillance but foreign intelligence activities.

Foreign intelligence activities are not necessarily legal and I am pretty sure quite a few of the revealed NSA foreign intelligence activities are illegal. This whole US-citizens-vs-foreign-country-citizens-thing really pisses my off - people are people no matter where they live. Spying at them without suspicion is illegal. And even if it would not be illegal it would still be wrong.
"We pay a royalty pf 90%, minus 50 cents, on your sales." https://leanpub.com/help/author_faq

So if you pay 10$ the author gets 8.50$. As a leanpub author myself, I find this arrangement very good. The only problem with leanpub I have is that the 45 day money back guarantee is too long, and if that period happens to end in the beginning of a month, you have to wait for the start of the next one in order to get paid(leanpub pays in the first 3 days of a month). I had to wait two months for my first payment. I'm not complaining, leanpub haven't wronged me in any way, and in fact I have benefited from people paying much more than the suggested price(15$ for my book, 5$ minimum price). Leanpub is a great service! I recommend more people republish their blogs or publish new material with it.
Yes. And that is unfortunate.

I wonder where the Govt found this opportunity and grabbed it without delay..was it the new way of terrorism? First propagating Islam-phobia and then bring in the restrains slowly - one by one? What was it exactly?
This is why we have a crappy world: the tragedy of the commons.
This is so exciting. Makes Tom Clancy novels seem dull and predictable.
The is an Icelandair flight from Oslo to Keflavik leaving at 21:55 local time.
"I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me. I want it to be about what the US government is doing."

"he fully expects the US government to attempt to use all its weight to punish him. 'I am not afraid,' he said calmly, 'because this is the choice I've made.'"

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-n...
Knocking them out isn't a great idea, but (many years ago) in lifeguard training I was taught that waiting for the victim to go unconscious, if you couldn't safely deal with them, was preferable to having two drowning victims.

First rule of rescue: your own safety first. Not only does that minimise the casualties, but if you're injured or dead you can't help others anyway
Maybe. Maybe they're just playing coy.
s/escape US law enforcement/evade US law/ otherwise a rare touch of wit in this debate.
Clearly they don't give a shit about their users.
Manning was a PFC in the Army. He wouldn't have been able to afford fleeing to Hong Kong or Moscow making less than $30,000 per year. He would have had a much more difficult time evading arrest.
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Sounds like he should try Vagrant.
The current people, and the future generations inasmuch as their well-being is relevant and important to the current ones.
Exactly, something like that. I think nowadays we have enough little projects to choose from, so we can create a distribution with central package management and plugin architecture (based on npm?) and a list of curated packages + documentation/tutorials on how to tie everything together. So for example there could be bootstrap + angular + express.js on node + mongodb + debian. Building + testing + deployment infrastructure should come out of the box.

Meteor is trying to create something like this, but I feel the focus should be more to integrate community projects (they say they do, but in reality they don't), not building everything from the scratch.
The thing that makes the American propoganda so powerful is that the US Constitution really is an amazing document created with the best of intents. So much so that it becomes very easy to whitewash the universal and permanent truth that government power is dangerous and corrupting.
Don't make judgments about Venezuela solely based on US propaganda (what the media in the con-us report).
I am a huge common lisp fan and I recommend it to anyone interested in better ways of doing software. Start with Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

http://www.cliki.net/ has a lot of useful resources for people who are just starting.

If you prefer a functional language(Common Lisp is multi-paradigm, and isn't particularly better at FP than say python) clojure and scheme are good options. I recently started reading Realm of Racket, which seems like a pretty good introduction to Racket(a scheme like language).

I recommend learning all 3 dialects, all of them deserve deep study and I strongly favor Common Lisp as the most mature and versatile one.
My bad, you are indeed correct.

The PP.no claims they are scheduled to meet him, something I have my doubts about.
Here is the map of SU150 (Sheremetyevo - Jose Marti) flight path on 22nd June:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130622/1...
I think the word you're looking for is perhaps "curbed", not "corrected". Even without moral hazard big financial institutions are perfectly capable of screwing up big time. E.g. a few days ago I looked up the decline and fall of the Medici Bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_Bank#Decline) back in the 15th Century, and there are plenty of recent examples.
Can someone explain why Snowden is going this way instead of going over the Pacific to Venezuela?
So cute how Wikileaks is always trying to insert themselves into this story.
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"There is some speculation that he was actually turned by the PLA prior to leaking"

By whom?
Could be a desirable feature, you know, to make the poisoning more difficult.
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This way he can parachute out over Iceland :)
FAA likely to change rules regarding in-flight electronics use
It is a massive fucking bully.
give it an http, not https url and you won't get error messages. but the translation is borked.
LOL. The Underground Railroad had a destination. And IIRC, they ended up fighting a war over that particular political disagreement.
If I have a specific task the workflow for me looks like that: 1. Search through Google, Github, Unheap, npm, bower, jster and so on. 2. Compile a list of useful packages and tutorials for every one of them. 3. Select the best package for the task.

So I created this list to not have to go through step #1 and #2 every time.