skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome pictures, I've been to a few of those places when I was backpacking SE Asia for 6 months just over 4 years ago. Makes me want to pack my bags right now and leave again! Thanks for bringing back the memories of good times :)
.. and it's not like it hasn't been done before, to Japanese Americans in WWII.
More and more over the past several years, I've wondered what has become of this country. I mean, in my 39 years of life in the U.S., I don't think there was ever a time where I thought, this country has gone to the pits. And, not only is it the the government, it's the U.S. Citizens. These people are placated to the point that if you don't take away their celebrities and entertainment, you could literally shit on their mothers and they probably would just take it.

Pretty disturbing times we're living in.
I'm curious. Do you also consider astronomy, cosmology, paleontology, ecology, and geology to be "science" rather than science?
I saw the video, it was absolutely no accident. They tried to imitate the actual guy.
"The 30-year-old intelligence analyst revealed himself June 9 as the leaker in an interview with the Guardian"

Happy birthday Ed!
Better yet, just use soft hyphens! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
As a TeX user, I find this extremely useful. The Fedora packages map 1:1 to Texlive packages. There is no need to research if a LaTeX package is available and in which Fedora package it is hidden, you can just install "tex-packagename".
i think the right approch is packages for the operative system layer and bundles for the applications.

it isnt very smart that a user must be root to install a GUI
> The file uploader will automatically scrub any characters not matching: a-z A-Z 0-9 _ - .

What about '<>/{};:[]=+~' ?

All of which are useful in html/css
I agree with that argument.

It's history. If not for the whole religion dust-up we'd probably call it natural history.
Greenwald:

"The Obama DOJ just charged its 7th leaker under "espionage" statute - total for ALL prior presidents: 3"

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/348202448437002240
Natural history.
> If it chose to, Google could protect users by developing services that do not rely on Google itself examining their personal data.

I'm perplexed that you'd call me idealistic for not wanting a coercive third party secretly taking a company's data by force, and in the next sentence suggest that a company should provide services to me in exchange for nothing.

I give my data to Google. In exchange, I get their services and they get to serve me advertisements. I am happy with this arrangement. Wanting my government to have some semblance of the checks and balances encoded in our founding document is neither unreasonable nor idealistic.
Snowden presumably signed some contract or took some oath when he got his clearance, which he violated when he leaked info. The newspapers never made such promises. I don't think Snowden should be punished, but I can see why there might be a distinction with respect to prosecution.
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You could look at it as `limit of x/x as x approaches 0`, which would be 1.

Or you could look at it as `limit of -x/x as x approaches 0`, which would be -1.

Or you could look at it as `limit of x/0 as x approaches 0`, which would be +/- infinity, depending on which side you approach 0 from.

Or you could look at it as `limit of 0/x as x approaches 0`, which would be 0.
Ah! I wasn't aware of that. I'll update my scripts.
I don't think non-technical means anything. It can be a dentist, a lawyer, a car racer. Maybe you can give some details ?
The Taxibot system, where a small tug vehicle positions itself under the plane's front wheels, would be very promising if it could be self-driving and fully automated.

And think of the cost saving when we get rid of the pilot and cockpit. And heck, let's get rid of the landing gear too, and have the plane drop into a cradle running along underneath the plane on a track to catch the plane. The cradle would also provide a lot of the acceleration of liftoff, and the cradle's liftoff track could climb a few hundred feet like a roller coaster, so maybe the plane's engines could be smaller.
Marines and Mormons, two groups that the military and paramilitary agencies of the US love as potential recruits because of unusually high levels of patriotism and acceptance of hierarchy.

Mormonism is the only major (ish) religion that's homegrown and culturally they're mostly WASPs or close to it. Above average chance of getting clearance and of wanting a career in a TLA. The NSA is not special in this way. The DEA, FBI etc. will show the same pattern. Difficult to prove seeing as I doubt US agencies keep records on employees' religion though.
I hope Hongkong will be protecting him, or he can live in Iceland peacefully afterwards. He is doing that for all of us ordinary people in my opinion.
This is also extremely embarrassing for US gov and the president, who were blaming Chinese for network attacks and acting as the innocent victim. I now doubt the integrity of our leaders, they're simply liars in this regard, how can I trust them in the future for whatever they're going to say.
Facebook's strategy: Buy the best, copy the rest?
If I understand you correctly, you're saying the dependency graph and the "change-flow network" are completely orthogonal.

Separation of concerns is a value of good software projects. But there are practical realities that the author of the article enumerates specifically.

If there is a tight coupling between his application and a handful of upstream libraries, packagers are far more likely to break his application by distributing the latest version of that shared library. Other applications that aren't as tightly coupled can handle that upgrade. Since it is tightly coupled, he's going to be highly attuned to the upgrade needs for his specific statically compiled version.
I wonder how much weight this adds to the plane. A full jet is often right at the edge of it's envelope and adding a few hundred pounds of electric motors could mean that they lose a row of seats. I would love it if extra leg room was an unintended consequence of electric ground propulsion.
I don't want to speak with any authority on this subject since it's mostly foreign to me. However, I will say that your explanation comes with a pretty big assumption: that a library sits on some 2-dimensional spectrum from bad to good. If you don't subscribe to this notion, libraries don't improve; they simply change. If you accept this, then you begin to see why arbitrarily changing parts of a software package without even trying to understand the consequences of those changes is madness.

I'm not saying I disagree with you, just trying to point out a spot you might have overlooked.
‘Unplugging’ is the wrong strategy to unplug
"And that includes the 660-pound weight penalty of installing the system on an airplane."
The "information for packagers" doc section is often referred to as a Makefile.

It enumerates minimum versions of shared libraries, as well as explicit versions of static libraries.
The context makes it sound like they included the extra weight in fuel calculations, but it's not clear whether they included overall weight capacity. As the parent points out, this probably isn't worth it if they have to cut a row of paying passengers to do it.
I think the Concorde was the worst offender when it comes to taxing to the runway, if I remember correctly, because its jet engines were hugely inefficient at low speeds, it would burn almost 2 tonnes of fuel just to get to the runway
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Yes, but since the user encrypted it, he's suspicious and more likely to be snooped on, right? So by enforcing encryption, Google helped get the NSA an excuse to grab data (even the unencrypted copy) in more cases.
I don't think it really matters, as if life in prison is much better than the death penalty.
The old "SAVE 0 X.COM" trick... Brings back good memories.
The charges against Ellsberg were dropped on what was basically a technicality, though.
I think your assumption is that cloud providers with different features cannot be abstracted without making the whole abstraction 'leaky'.

While your perspective may hold for a traditional, rigid, single-layer, abstraction layer with the most simplistic, binary-level feature presence, it does not hold for better formed solutions. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer: All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection (David Wheeler).

Some real world differences between cloud providers: available hardware, available installation images (OS images), available bandwidth, available logical location on the internet, available physical location (legal jurisdiction, etc.), scale-out time, cost model.

How do you conceive of these differences, and then deploy arbitrary services to an arbitrary number of individual instances running unique combinations of cloud provider specific features on unique cloud-provider deployed OS images in parallel? There are various approaches, but it's not that hard to come up with a functional set of abstractions. Think about it.
One of my favorite TSR programs was Qedit, by SemWare.
I have yet to find another editor that I like better, and wish that I could find something similar which runs on unix-like operating systems. Qedit had the ability to drop to a command prompt to execute external commands and then return to the editor just as "GO.COM" does and I wonder if any of the author's code found its way into the SemWare editor.

I also got a kick out of the .com filename extension reference and wondered how many HN readers remember that .com used to stand for "COMMAND" instead of today's "Commercial." Judging by the amount of comments here the number is fairly small.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I would hope that those countries also have an extradition exception for torture, including:
(1) solitary confinement;
(2) sleep deprivation;
(3) water boarding
and any other cruel and unusual punishment.
Can I please get an invite too? mariodel AT gmail DOT com
The genius of Donald Knuth: Typesetting with boxes and glue
Ok, i did a bit of googling to try and understand this. It turns out that the extent of sea ice in Antarctica has been expanding! though calling it record setting is misleading.

The fresh water from the massive melt-off of land ice creates an insulation layer when it meets the sea water that prevents the sea ice from melting. One article [1] called it a "small but statistically significant sea-ice expansion". Another data point says there is more sea ice in antarctica today than 30 years ago. Put those two points together, and "small but statistically significant" becomes "RECORD SETTING!"

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-expands-antarctic-...
We bought one of their electric pressure cookers, an "instant pot", and love the crap out of it. It's especially nice for cooking on hot days since it doesn't heat up the kitchen much at all.
A sealed warrant is not a "secret warrant." It's to avoid tipping off the subject of an active investigation: "The warrant also ordered Google not to disclose the search to anyone."

Nothing in the 4th amendment says that warrants must be publicly broadcast. The purpose is to insert a judge as a check on the search power of the police. This warrant was validly issued by a U.S. District Court.

A sealed warrant may, however, run afoul of the 6th amendment right to confront your accusers if they are sealed to protect confidential informants. In that circumstance, they can be challenged by defense counsel in a prosecution in which the evidence is used. There are also time limits. See: http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/courtdocs/LocalRulesEDVA.html#c... (Criminal Rule 49(b)(3)).
There is no magical standard for falsification. If we want to be 100% rigorous, then to have an experiment for any law of gravitation we would need to test every pair of bodies at every possible distance.
Reading your comment, I am starting to understand why everyone is so confused about this.

Linux and OS X both have the same underlying options for static or shared libraries. There is a large amount of "enterprise" software that is distributed just like a .dmg file.

There is plenty of middle ground between having everything dynamically linked and everything statically linked. The author of the article believes that packagers should trust developers to make good decisions. (Granted, there are plenty of bad developers and abandonware galore. Packagers are justified in stepping in to make new decisions here.)
Interesting. I've made a habit of protesting on the 4th for some years now, off and on. Good stuff.

The name of the group calls to mind the saying about "painting the forth bridge" - I'm not sure whether that's unfortunate, appropriate, or both...
Looks like he's charged under 793 not 794 http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/716865-snowden-compla...

793 is less serious in that it doesn't accuse him of aiding a foreign government http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-37
Justice Black, who wrote the Reid opinion[1], did so in terms which are very much applicable to the current situation:

The concept that the Bill of Rights and other constitutional protections against
arbitrary government are inoperative when they become inconvenient or when
expediency dictates otherwise is a very dangerous doctrine and, if allowed to
flourish, would destroy the benefit of a written Constitution and undermine the
basis of our Government.

That sentence basically sums up my entire viewpoint on warrantless government dragnets.

[1]: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0354...
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I'm sure the prosecutors that filed this did so at the behest of their superiors, and/or the POTUS, Justice Department, and everyone with a dog in this fight. Going after them would probably be the best thing that could happen for the rest. Have to aim higher.
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Sure, pkgsrc has made it easy to manage third-party software on Mac OS X for over a decade. Lots of other platforms too, with root or without. Homebrew is cool, but I'm pretty happy about being able to use the same package manager everywhere I go.
You are of course 100% correct, but I am a tad worried I now have some sort of reputation. Eeeek.
"Soldiers are supposed to disobey their military superiors if told to commit crimes against humanity."

Well, no. A soldier isn't supposed to say "I think that command is illegal under international law, therefore I will choose not to follow it." They'll be court-martialed, and rightly so. Choosing to make that call is intentionally risky, because it's supposed to be rare.

Likewise, Snowden will be prosecuted...and rightly so. He broke a bunch of laws. Maybe he did that out of a sense of righteousness, but the greater legality of his decision is not for him to decide.

But even ignoring all of that, the premise of your metaphor is absurd: Snowden revealed information about legal surveillance programs that weren't acutely harming anyone, and he might have hurt national security in the process. That's a far cry from preventing "crimes against humanity". Perspective, please.
I sort of agree with you... but then OTOH when it comes to virtually any newspaper/media site I almost always prefer viewing the mobile version to the "full site" (even when browsing on a traditional computer), because the mobile versions tend to be less stuffed up with garbage ads, interstitials, social networking buttons and other such shit-fuckery.
agreed about the speed of the expanding menu... also the font size in there is a bit small compared to everything else.

Also, hopefully helpful feedback, not sure about purple links on purple background on that right rail teaser. Lastly, the download boxes seem a bit bland.
How about I put it this way:

"All you have to do is go to password settings and click the button"

And you only have to go there once ever.

I think it's usually assumed users can navigate menus, because even if they can't there's not much you can do to help them at this point.
No, I am not overreacting, you are merely part of the conspiracy. I bet you are a web developer. :o)
No, the 4th amendment was written to insert the judiciary as a check on police searches of peoples' houses. Literally, that was the factual circumstance that prompted the drafting of the amendment.
Just carry a bit less cargo. I don't think passenger airplanes are typically limited by weight, but rather volume, when it comes to the number of passengers.
My impression was that Airbus quite consciously decided to be a bit more conservative with the A350 after seeing all the problems Boeing had with the 787 switching to a zillion new technologies, all at once...
Time to take it to the streets on July 4th:

http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth

"Restore the Fourth is a non partisan group of concerned citizens working to restore privacy and fourth amendment rights. We are planning nationwide protests in over 100 locations on July 4th."
No, the main problem with "climate science" is that it's impossible to take the political (and nearly religious to some on the left) aspects out of it.

Only then, can there be a serious discussion about "global warming".
Nice - needs help on iOS (iPhone) - header is broken
Sort of, yes, But I felt I was not adding to the point I was replying to.

But do know, I find the idea of having nothing to hide absurd, and see far too much of authority actually treating us people as guilty before we have done anything even slightly suspicious.

So, yeah, sarcasm, I suppose, but my intention was to back up the original point.
From http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq:

Why aren't physically-local attacks in Chrome's threat model?

People sometimes report that they can compromise Chrome by installing a malicious DLL on a computer in a place where Chrome will find it and load it. (See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130284 for one example.) People also sometimes report password disclosure using the Inspect Element feature (see e.g. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126398).

We consider these attacks outside Chrome's threat model, because there is no way for Chrome (or any application) to defend against a malicious user who has managed to log into your computer as you, or who can run software with the privileges of your operating system user account. Such an attacker can modify executables and DLLs, change environment variables like PATH, change configuration files, read any data your user account owns, email it to themselves, and so on. Such an attacker has total control over your computer, and nothing Chrome can do would provide a serious guarantee of defense. This problem is not special to Chrome ­— all applications must trust the physically-local user.
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Absolutely sickening.
Ask HN: Why does a down-vote button exist on user comments?
Climate "scientists" make a big deal of pointing out that their work is simply a "best guess", and also trying to quantify the uncertainty. We know the greenhouse effect is real. We don't know how much damage (if any) it will do, but in order to make decisions about what to do, we need some kind of model.
Do you know where one can find an online copy of those jury's rights pamphlets?
Guessing that an A320 carries about 150 passengers, losing 3-4 of them would still make this worth it, and if they weren't flying 100% full in the first place the lost seats don't cost them anything. It's a neat idea, seems like a relatively safe mod and a way to catch some low hanging fruit.

smoyer, thanks for catching the weight. Seems like I have gotten a little too "efficient" with my reading.
Some countries also prohibit extradition for life sentences. I remember hearing about one extradition case, they capped the sentence at 60 years, for that reason.
I suggested the JS library approach as an alternative to manually inserting soft hyphens. Do you know of an automated way to do this?
The Chinese authorities will hold him until they feel he has given them all he knows, then quickly extradite him to the US.

At that point he will probably try to get to Europe. If he makes it, his appeal to those governments on humanitarian grounds may be weakened by the fact the first country he picked practices capital punishment far more than the US (more than every other country in the world combined):

http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/death-sentences-and-...

He could have fled to Europe in the first place just as easily. For example, US citizens are exempt from visa requirements for short stays (90 days) in France -- la Patrie des droits de l'homme -- from where he would have had direct access to the ECtHR...
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It's not the lack of falsifiability that's bad - hard science can only answer some kinds of questions - it's the pretense of falsifiability that's a problem. Granted, you basically acknowledge this in your last sentence.
Websockets are the transport layer, built over TCP. Websockets happens to use HTTP as a protocol. That doesn't mean HTTP is the transport layer.
Could you get what you want with Unix job control? From inside e.g. emacs, hit control-z, and it should suspend the emacs process and you'll be back at the shell you started emacs from. When youre ready for more emacs (woo!), tell bash to "fg" and you'll be back in emacs.
> when library signatures change, and some library function is suddenly gone.

No, no, no. This is not how you fix critical / security issues in a well maintained system. You either backport a single patch that fixes the problem without changing any signatures, or if you support a very old, incompatible software you reimplement the fix yourself. Then the release is not a new library. It's the old one + fix.

This is what the proper package maintenance is about. No functions should ever be "suddenly gone".

Also if you say in your installation requirements "this software requires libfoo >= 1.2.3, < 2.3.4", no sane package maintainer will disagree. Your application may be patched in the packaging process to work with a different supplied version, but most likely it will just get what's needed.
Does anyone have enough knowledge of commercial aviation to explain why this hasn't been done before? To an outsider, it seems like kind of an obvious feature.
So the problem is that we have way too many laws and also not enough checks and repercussions for prosecutorial misconduct.

But the bigger problem is that not enough people care. They buy the bullshit that all these laws and spying are for our own good and safety and security.
Charged with "conversion of government property" ?
Meaning conversion to something [finally] useful?
I like that idea.

Clearly the US government have to prosecute him with something. Cant encourage it and all that. And presumably he leaked this info knowing full well that the US government would have little choice but do this.

So, I suppose the perfect out come would be: go back to the US, get charged, go to court, admit guilt, get sentenced, then hopefully a President can pardon him.

Now, how one can ensure such an out come, I have zero idea.

All assuming he gets to go to proper civilian court with a jury. If its a military, kangaroo, secret, closed, court.... no way.

Yeah, I like the idea, I just cant see it working or having a viable chance.

Pity.
I really wonder when people are actually going to wake up, understand how the system works and spend their efforts lobbying politicians instead of meaningless protests.
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Who cares? Why is it a surprise to you that some people care about things that are fucking wrong even though they are hardly surprises?
No, because blaming Google is trendy lately and will bring more traffic to the site.
Well, US jurisdiction only applies when it's convenient, and the same goes for rights ;)