skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not. At no point have I ever claimed that being able to intercept messages is equivalent to having access to previous messages.
This is not a difficult problem. I recently had to stand up a cluster of EC2 instances for a job that required a cluster of them and used these three steps:

1. Write a script to configure an instance and run it when the instance starts.

2. Clone the instance to an image

3. Run instances based on the image.

It's quite straightforward to do. See http://github.com/gyepisam/fcc-textify
for more details.
PRISM in the style of Dr Seuss
My grandfather did that in the 50s with my dad helping a little. You need to scale for sq footage, the average American house has increased from 1000 sq ft to something unaffordable recently. By sq foot its probably not so much of a deal.

Apparently it takes only a couple weeks for one man to build a house, but the labor involved in general contracting to get the subcontractors to do their thing exceeds the time spent swinging a hammer. He sub'd out to dig and pour the foundation, some electrical, gas, some plumbing...

For those of a certain generation it was how you proved to the employer that you could complete long complicated projects, basically the equivalent of completing your college degree (which was hard to complete during WWII)

This is still done on a regular-ish basis for large garden sheds and garages. Home Depot and others will dump a pile of wood at your location with some plans and bulk pack of nails and other hardware and a weekend or two later you'll have a garden shed.

The permitting and inspection process is more about revenue generation than safety.
Hadn't thought of it this way - thanks.
In the case of a wiretap, I assume Apple would choose not to notify the target that they have been wiretapped.
24 Hours of Le Mans is generally regarded as one of the greatest motor races in the world. It is considered part of the 'triple crown' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Motorsport).

If you think Le Mans is not one of the most competitive and prestigious races in the world you are sorely mistaken. To say it is any more or less prestigious than winning Monaco is a purely subjective manner. The idea that the opinion of motorsport fans in the southern US has any weight is laughable. They are generally the most ignorant of other forms of motorsport and least well informed motorsport fans.

It is worth pointing out however that DHH does not compete at the highest level in Le Mans. He is one class below.
You're presenting two options, of which you imply only one can be chosen:

* "Getting out of the building" and engaging others with an important issue

* Continuing to discuss the development of that important issue and organizing action with a community that is already mostly sympathetic

But the truth is that these options are not mutually exclusive. One can do both quite easily. As you said, the hard work is interacting with real life politics. I imagine many who post here are doing that. But doing the hard work doesn't preclude also keeping the issue fresh in the minds of one's mostly-sympathetic peers who are at the forefront of calling for (and hopefully making) change.
While we are on movie quotes, on similar lines from Supertroopers:

College Boy 2: No, man, I'm just saying... I'm sayin', if-if you own beachfront property, right, do you own, like, the sand and the water?

College Boy 3: Nobody owns the water. God owns - it's God's water.
After reading the book, would I have some understanding of the actual proof, or learn mostly the historical context around it?

Note: I have felt deceived after reading Godel's Proof [1] since the authors claimed in the preface to have given an outline of the complete proof in the last chapter but did not (it was grossly incomplete). I am still indebted to the book though for teaching me how to think about pure mathematics.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/0814...
Craft Whiskey Isn’t Necessarily Better
Microsoft has 100,000 employees (42k in WA).. of course SOME of them are bad.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx
I believe it's just how the human mind works. If you spend a lot of time with somebody(even with the loved ones), you start to want to enjoy some time alone. But after an hour(or a day) without them you want the opposite.
I'll guess you've seen this[1], but if you want perfect security, you really do have to build from scratch. Of course, I doubt that any single human is really capable of building a truly-secure system.

I guess we have to live with a situation where some faith is required if we want to use computers.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Algorithms aren't really about recognising standard implementations - although in preparation you'll certainly learn that. It's about having a deep understanding of programs' flow, and being able to recreate and combine patterns when needed to solve a problem.

You should "prep" your algorithms knowledge - it plays a big role in a lot of interviews.
Those Apple employees should have pointed you to devforums.apple.com, which is the correct place to discuss NDA'd material. The fact that individual employees didn't is in no way indicative of Apple's official position regarding the NDA.
Ask HN: is anyone doing a movie on Ed Snowden?
Given the Hollywoodesque nature of current events, I could almost see a movie (like Social Network) tracing Ed Snowden's journey...
Well, it won't exactly help his case. If he didn't stumble upon the information but deliberately sought for it... that makes him a spy (perhaps not legal definition).
In essence, there maybe meaning or maybe not; you probably won't find out till you are dead. By then, you are dead.

This is a rabbit hole; a last question: Your goals, your aims, the time you spend deciding who to love, what to do? Why does it matter what you pick?
Sorry! Thanks for catching that.
> This guy stabbed his own cause in the back by going public, doing press interviews

Yeah. His cause is completely dead. No one is following the spying on Americans issue now.
Ask HN: Moonlighting at a Startup on an H1B
I'd love any input on the following situation: We are an early stage startup looking to bring on a co-founder who is currently on an H1B. Due to how early stage we are, we currently don't have sufficient traction to sponsor his visa on our own accord.

We are also in the process of incorporating, and are trying to determine the best course of action he can take so he can get involved in our company. Is there any way we can have him involved (via moonlighting, etc) in our company until we can show sufficient traction to co-sponsor an H1B on a part time basis alongside his current employer?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
This type of talk is much needed in the Tech world. Nice to see someone like David actual call the problem out. A problem as old as time.

The Stoic view - "The perfect archer is concerned to take perfect aim, to do everything an archer can do to hit the target. Actually hitting the target is secondary. If any unpredictable gust of wind carries the arrow away and it misses the target, this does not reflect on his mastery of the art and hence does not really affect the archer."

Miyamoto Musashi addresses the same issue in his "Book of Five Rings"
The NSA is getting all of the attention, but this applies to all of the world's intelligence services.

Even if you absolutely believe and support what the NSA is doing, you probably have good reason to want any number of governments, foreign competitors, and individuals from knowing what you are doing or (at the least) your financial status.
I see both sides of this somewhat pointless argument.

The core issue is this. You are probably not a lawyer. Thus "rubber stamp for a vested interest" is enough to qualify two courts as being very much like each other.

By contrast rayiner IS a lawyer. (And one who is well-known on this site.) To a lawyer the key characteristics of a court are what it has jurisdiction over, and who its precedence binds. Because that is what matters in litigation. On these measures, the two courts are about as unlike as it is possible to be. FISC binds itself only. By contrast CAFC binds every court in the country that can hear a patent case except the Supreme Court.

I believe that this whole argument could have been avoided if you had realized that he was fundamentally right about the precedence issue (which he is), and limited yourself to the similarity of both being rubber stamps.
Something like this, where they put up a 30-story building in 15 days in China. Super impressive timelapse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY
What do any of your complaints have to do with the state of OpenGL support? It seems you're just using this as a soapbox to post anti-Apple rhetoric.
To me it's style, mostly. I used to just buy books, then got home, started reading and discovered I really couldn't stand the style of writing or the tone. I try to sample a little bit now.
For some people, depression is terminal.

The world would be a much better place if people understood this. (Incidences of terminal depression might decrease, too.)
These technologies come into their own when you are managing large fleets of servers; but by the same right, you need to offer a lot of sophistication to make large fleets of heterogeneous servers work. When you have five servers these seem baroque and overly complicated, but when you have five thousand servers...
I just call it "forward secrecy". I think "complete" would be a better word than "perfect", but I think that neither are necessary.
Seconding this, especially the bit about colored screens. Sometimes, you just need a simple way to get some information up on the screen at a minimal cost to runtime performance and code-complexity.

I'd find it hard to believe that anyone back in the day didn't use the "change the color of the background by manipulating the hardware color palette during different sections of the frame logic so you can 'see' how long each part is taking" trick.
You can't kill an idea.

Assange showed how it can be done. Now we see other people whistle blowing. It will go on forever. They can't scare the totality of a population who believes it's righteous to make the disclosures.
I think it's more likely that both will die before their respective works are completed.
Your clock isn't running out to the extent that you think it is. At the rate most of us go these days, you've got forty more working years, with at least 10 to fifteen childless years if you continue to be drawn to entrepreneurship.

I'd suggest making the choice that moves you toward your goal while still leaving as many doors open as possible.
I think it's hard to be appreciative of "the journey" in the startup world, or in work in general, when the reward disparities are so vast.

I'm not talking about money, because that's actually fairly equalized. Great developers and bad ones at the same age/experience level and location will be within 20% of each other, in general, salary-wise. It's all the other stuff: esteem, autonomy, creative control, advancement. If you don't get that, and if you're also forced to subordinate to others, you lose motivation pretty quickly.

Most people do VC-funded startups to buy their way out of having to work, but most of these companies have horrible cultures and make working a lot worse, which is counterproductive to the spirit of that goal. As a society, we should instead try to fix work, because we're a long way from being able to buy everyone out of it.
but all the rapes and murders of the 1700's don't get heaped on me because I identify as a human. But yet when I identify as an american, well then we get to bring up slavery and killing the native Americans. It's bullshit. I didn't have anything to do with it and when weighed with the rest of America's contribution to the world (economically, philosophically, scholarly), the bad barely registers on the scale.

America is the A+ student, who volunteers at the homeless shelter and teaches at-risk kids how to read. But the only thing that certain people can ever bring up is that it shot a squirrel once with his BB gun when he was five years old.

Don't get me wrong, I have very serious concerns with the way civil liberties are being treated as of late and we should absolutely make sure the abuses and wrongs are taken care of now. But constantly bring up shit from 200 years ago is what bugs the hell out of me.
You should stick to Bridge, then.
The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make. -- Ted Nelson
> Therefore no communication system can exist that meets
> your criteria. (E.g. Because the CPU could be compromised)

For the purposes of this discussion it's reasonable to assume that consumer hardware does not contain backdoors, because such extensive compromise of the computing infrastructure would require conspiracy on a massive scale (approximately every electronics manufacturer in the world).
You forgot about Afghanistan. Didn't the funding of the radicals there (who eventually turned against us... they're today's most feared terrorists!) start during Carter's presidency?
I am 22 but in fact I don't have enough time on my hands which is the exact reason I am trying Soylent. Trying to work my day job and my side project leave me very little time and Soylent is offering a cheap, fast, easy method to consume the needed nutrients everyday. I'm not sure what you have against it.
Web Audio API Playlist
sample code giving a first start at a web based Audacity.
'Heavybit' Teaches Hackers How to Be Business Savvy
Calling all accredited investors
Clearly the future of design is Metro. Metro is the cleanest and most design-driven GUI ever. And, well, users hate it so much it really has made a ding in Microsoft's earnings. But full steam ahead!

Static graphic beauty and usability aren't the same either on the desktop or with phones and tablets. But given sufficient monopoly power, no one has to care. The tragedy is the GUIs got to "functional enough" sometime in the early 2000's and so they are fated simply get worse since more functional isn't a selling point.

And on the "it's phones, not laptops" point - people do fewer tasks with phones than laptops. They'll never do more tasks with phones than laptops and so
NSS Labs is who Microsoft gets to do MS-sponsored research that always puts IE ahead of everything else.
Go with the Air.

- You develop for iOS

- If you ever miss Windows, just run a Bootcamp partition
Why Follow Your Passion is Irrelevant Career Advice
How to think about money
Who really benefits from Microsoft's change of DRM policy?
Maybe we need something better than the constitution. How can we defend a constitution from the president, both parties and the judges of the supreme court?

It's not enough if a few people own weapons. The army is orders of magnitude more powerful. We need some new sort of system. It's been more than 200 years. We should go back to the drawing board.
It's a fantastic book, for sure. Gamasutra published an excerpt of it when it came out, going over some of the section on the main game loop: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132587/book_excerpt_ga...
Yes. However, what's novel is subjective. The patent clerk may not care and has only a few hours to look up prior art. Once you've got the patent you get a jury in Eastern Texas to decide; that's where many of the cases end up. Something that's obvious to us will often be novel to them.
I assume that this applies to HTTPS and SSH sessions.
Another interesting link, for some sense of scale: http://zompist.com/latam.html
The danger of ambition is the theme of Macbeth, and other classics -- at least, that's what I've been told.
To be fair, most decent development jobs will pay you enough to feed and shelter yourself especially if you are a healthy 19 year old with no dependents.

So the difference the extra money makes is likely to just mean lifestyle changes like taking the bus instead of driving a new car and less ambitious holidays.
If you can put up with that for a few years then it makes sense to take a lower paying job if you believe it will have better long term prospects.
That is a good and valid question, but I have doubts about your willingness to confirm its answer.
No @eli, you've just got your facts wrong. What you're referring to is not the same thing as the Whistleblower Protection Act. Critically, the Act to which you refer isn't concerned with protection at all. It simply designates the path that reports should follow in getting to Congress. Retaliation against those who use it goes unaddressed. Tellingly, the Act has not been used once since its passage.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Community_Whistl...
I'm in the midst of reading this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976470705

and while it's a bit "corporate", many of the concepts presented there are dead-on.
Yellow letters on an orange background? Yuck.
A popular science book about Fermat's Last Theorem will certainly not give you any kind of real understanding of the proof. It will give you some historical context.

It is a difficult proof, and some of the underlying basic concepts are already deep in their own right, deeper than will be covered in an advanced undergraduate degree.

There are some attempts at higher level overviews on the web, and they are slowly getting fleshed out.
I don't deal well with being alone, but I am also an extrovert. Loneliness and being alone are very much different things. I was much, much, much lonelier in a marriage where love had died than since my divorce, though I was romantically "alone" a long time (however, my sons still live with me so I have rarely been literally alone).
I just wrote a post about this bullshit here:

http://hackertourism.com/bitmaker-labs/
Look into Arvixe.com - a lot of my friends stand by it
That article is weirdest humble brag I've seen in a while. Then again I'm not ultra competitive.
Bitmaker Labs forced to halt operations mid-term by the Canadian government
Maybe. Certainly, if you need precise figures it's not worth much. But if you want an order of magnitude then it might not be too far off. Given that three largely independent measures got to vaguely similar numbers, I'm now pretty comfortable that there must be between 1m and 5m Python developers, which was all I needed for my own purposes.

To stretch your metaphor to breaking point, pissing in the wind at least tells you roughly how strong the wind is (did it end up on my shoes, legs, or head?) and which direction it's blowing.
For those interested in google apps retention:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=15112...

Spoiler Alert: Apps for Business/Education only
Apple's got a history of noisy services. I remember when iOS 4.0.0 was blocked from the email service I was working for and many others because it basically spammed mail servers. A lot of our customers were mad that the software update disconnected them, but Apple released 4.0.1 quickly to address this.
When did "polyfill" replace "shim," I wonder?
Installing LibreOffice on Lubuntu is so easy that even a caveman (me) can do it.

1.) Open Synaptic Package Manager.
2.) Enter Admin Password.
3.) Type "LibreOffice" into the search field.
4.) Follow the on screen prompts, clicking appropriately.

All of the various Lubuntu applications I've tried run quite well on my nearly 5 year old Atom N270(800MHz) 1GB RAM netbook.

Seriously, if a user has rudimentary experience with WinXP then Lubuntu will not be too much to assimilate, and the only caveats are proprietary applications, yet there exists workarounds for most, such as comphoilio's netflix-desktop - which uses a special version of wine to run Silverlight and its necessary components - to enable viewing of Netflix DRM content on Debian based systems.

http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/
Ask HN: Balancing tech and communications?
I'm a job seeker whose experience is split between programming and strategic communications. (I coded for a startup, and I did science & technical writing for MIT.)

I'm torn because I enjoy both fields and don't want to choose just one, but it seems like most jobs push applicants toward technology or communications.

Maybe I need to refine my criteria or my expectations.

Can you recommend any types of positions or specific companies that offer a balance between tech and communications?
What is "application level streaming"?
Make it blink or jiggle a bit. Problem of winning attention solved.
Obedience refers to a specific type of emotion, loyalty/obligations.

The term I try to use when thinking (and explaining) my own thought process is intuition. Often times when I try to issolate the source of my intution I come up with something that would gennerally be considered emotion.
But consider this one use case. I want to stop a service, upgrade it to a new version, restart that service. The service is an application which I wrote that runs in apache tomcat.

Perhaps I'm missing some obvious detail but I would think you would just update your repository with the new version of your application and/or Tomcat package and that would cause the service to restart on the next Puppet run, after the new version has been installed.
I think existing incentives are working fine, except of
course that I wish more people would discover the
advantages of literate programming.

The problem, is, in my opinion is that programmer believes in the beauty of code itself, and literate didn't allow to write beautiful code easily.
It helps to write beautiful documentation.
Maybe a tool allowing literate and inverse literate programming to propagate modifications in code or in documentation on both directions may allow a better adoption?
I expected advice.

Now I am more indecisive than before.
White House presses Russia to expel Snowden; sharp words for China
this sounds like what Martin Fowler calls "immutable servers": http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html
Surfers would appreciate being able to use the beach if there are decent waves.
I think you are missing the point of the article when you focus on who is having the problems, not the nature of the problems being addressed. Anyone who is trying to be the best can benefit from considering this advice.

Likewise, you are off base both on whether Le Mans is one of the greatest motorsport races, and in focusing in on that seriously non-central part of the article.
For what it's worth, I didn't have to whiteboard once during my several interviews. If you're interviewing with new SF or NYC startups, you'll find many of them care far more about practical* skills than pop quizzes. This certainly isn't universal, but it shouldn't frighten you away from trying interviews.

* (not that algorithm knowledge isn't practical, but for a lot of smaller, "web-interface-around-a-database" startups, they're not nearly as important as being comfortable around a full web stack)
Adopting Accessibility and Ease of Use as Security Properties
Ancient Egyptian Artifact Mysteriously Spins
"Future career prospects"... well, that depends. What does he want that future career to be? More work as a peon in other giant corporations, climbing the ladder to middle management? That sort of thing can lead to looking back twenty years, thinking, "Why on Earth did I waste all that time?" Believe me, I know.

I often quote Mr. Morden from Babylon 5, asking "What do you want?" Most people don't have the nerve to even look what they want in the eye.
TCP cannot tell what the application wants. If the client application never closes the connection then TCP will keep that connection alive indefinitely (assuming you configured it with keep alives). Each connection consumes some resources on the server (primarily send and receive buffers in memory). So if your application never tells TCP to close the connection then it hogs server resources. There are many malicious DoS tactics that go for the same effect.
You can still love the ideal of America. That doesn't mean blind patriotism to the existing state.