skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Near where I live in England we have managed motorways which employ electronic displays and enforce the speed limit with speed cameras.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_motorways_in_the_Unit...
Trivial to work around. U.S. formally pledges not to execute Snowden (just life in prison!). Then extradition can happen, assuming it actually goes this far.
爱国不爱党

loving one's country is not the same as loving one's government.
Powerful use of "Meanwhile"
There are numerous more subtle forms of corruption in the US system of education

1. Grade inflation.

2. Bell curves so that a certain percentage of students must pass.

3. Student evaluations and students voting by enrolments that discourage tough/realistic marking.

4. Marking of courses is controlled by the teachers of the course. Thus the teachers are in effect assessing themselves.

5. In some countries students who pay full fees are marked easier than those who have government funded places.

Hiring people in IT, I was amazed to find that a high percentage of people who have passed programming courses are totally incapable of writing a working program.

So let us not be too scornful of the Chinese.
> I know someone who got a security clearance before even knowing what job he wanted

Your friend is bullshitting you. You don't get a security clearance for shits and giggles. Depending on the type it can be expensive to very expensive. And you don't apply for one directly, the company you work for applies for you.

This is why all the job sites have a security clearance jobs section. It's a pretty exclusive club and there are 2 ways to get in; join the military or get it through work.
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Absolutely, but that's something I feel that could be implemented on top of these macros if necessary.

Currently I'm using this code just for a string buffers and other arrays where the individual elements are stored in-place in the array.
About half way through this video (its from the Australian ABC) there's hidden footage of a lawyer in the US teaching employers how get around hiring laws.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3786315.htm

"In May, 2013 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in its extensive coverage of the hiring of temporary foreign workers in Canada and the unemployment issues faced by Canadians , reported that TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) rarely hires skilled experienced Canadians while advertising open positions in Canada." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Consultancy_Services#Hirin...

Tata Consultancy Services is one of India's biggest IT company's.

In Australia its exploitation of 457 visa's. Which is if you have adequately looked for locally for talent but cant find any; you can hire abroad. However as seen in the video, the companies don't look adequately and import cheaper talent.

If I remember correctly Robert Cringely has talked about similar issues with IBM and the US.
P*nis size does matter to women, say researchers
Thanks for the reply and sorry for deleting the original comment. At the time I was getting down-voted without any feedback so I figured it worthless to keep it. But to your comment, I completely agree.
What's in a name?

While I do not suggest ignoring tools such as pqR, coq or gimp because their childish and immature names, I do think it is bad manners to name your tools in an offensive way.

It also makes people talk about the bad name you choose for your tool instead of the properties your tool, and surely that's not what you wanted, as a creator.

If you want your tool to be considered a professional tool used by professionals, please name it like a professional would. If you want your tool to be used by children, by all means, name it like a child would.
Which seems to be a trend for them. Yet another example showing that the US gov't is no longer by the people, for the people.
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate feedback over a superficial down-vote. However I don't understand how I suggested that being a patriot is loving one's government.
For a broader sample base, you just widen your category a tiny little bit to Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning and Jacob Appelbaum.
Shit just got real. The US gov't will now respond with a strongly-worded letter.
The response here seems overwhelmingly positive. And to some extent I get that. But it does make me nervous to see escalating tensions between major world powers. Especially when there were already tensions from the war in Syria.
It is interesting to read the commentary here. Some of you here are US citizens. You do realize that you are supporting a person, who is basically a foreign agent and now a pawn in the hands of two foreign powers who themselves engage in cyber attacks all over the world.

However, your responses are not new or novel. During the second world war the Nazi government took anti-war protests in the US to mean that public opinion was firmly against any intervention. What they did not count on was the fickleness of public opinion.

I suspect many of you here will, in case a real war breaks out, be heading for a recruiting station. People are funny things.
For some reason the fact that he can be facing death just struck me after seeing you mention it.
I wouldn't use the term "corrupt". For example, a mafia's members can be quite upright in following the institution's rules. Likewise, at the height of when the UK sent legions of killers outside its island, to terminate and replace the rules other people must live under, it's not important if anyone was particularly corrupt.

When an institution is at its core about lying, cheating and stealing, then it redefines the rules to make these actions just and moral... part of its own natural functioning. This filters down into all its sub-institutions, like its economic and educational systems.

(Then "lying, cheating and stealing" becomes anything which goes against its functioning. For instance, "terrorism" is redefined to include defending your country against the terrorists some foreign power sent to control you.)
Snowden is currently over Russian airspace
We'll at least he'd be safe from NSA spying there, seeing as the whole island is air-gapped.
The UK would rather be a member of the US than the EU.
IIRC, he happened to be in England when the extradition request came. He fought that and if the US had requested the UK to arrest and extradite him he presumably would have fought that too. I'm not certain that he was allowed to leave the UK on his own after the extradition request was made. Wasn't he actually on bail?

It's also possible that he didn't think the US would come after him until the extradition request.

That said, I think it definitely sounds better to give the reason that he does than to say he's afraid of being convicted in Sweden even if he wouldn't be explicitly admitting guilt.
For what it's worth, I actually wanted to upvote you, because I don't like all this silent downvoting business either.. but by the time I had finished writing my reply, it was already gone. Anyway, cheers :)
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It looks quite good, but perhaps it needs angrier shades of "rabid magenta" (TM) here and there.
> Two thoughts: Russia has already offered Edward Snowden asylum.

Do you have a source for this?
All that proves is that exams aren't the best way of assessing someone's ability. However, cheating doesn't show ability in anything, other than deviousness.
This video is missing the most important information: you can empty the tank of ink ejected and then reset the internal register which raises the alarm with a special software. In this way, you can avoid the need for servicing.

Using this technique I use an Epson printer continuously since 2006.

I have downloaded the software to reset the internal register of the printer from the Epson website itself.

I emptied the tank without dismantling the entire printer.
I used a large syringe to extract the ink, with a little alcohol as a solvent if necessary.

Let me be clear that this operation will void the warranty if it is performed during the coverage period.

At this point I would like to do some personal consideration:

- I find it unacceptable to throw a fully functional device in the trash. Do this would help to further transform our planet into a big dump! I print about a hundred sheets in a year and my printer is almost new but the rules of planned obsolescence try to force me to change it continuously (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence)

- Why is it so difficult to build printers with a removable exhaust ink tank? Buyers should demand it to manufacturers of printers.
You suspect wrong, I would suggest to re-read history without pro-us-government prism (heh).
People interested in this might also want to read the Guardians latest GCHQ revelations. Worryingly they seem to have been gathering more data and there is an interesting section on NSA involvement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926608
Snowden is Casablanca, the Chinese are now shocked that America would hack them.

You think a low-level sysop is really revealing stuff the Chinese didn't know?
I don't know, I guess I have a very pessimistic view of interviews asking these sorts of questions almost vindictively.

I'd prefer questions and problems and challenges that I'm likely to face and address as an engineer.

If Google hires engineers to answer "brain teasers" that either require a dozen exceptions/qualifications or some vague random nonsensense answer, then more power to them.

(But I doubt they do, they wouldn't be where they were if their hiring practices didn't work to some degree.)
Snowden with WikiLeaks legal advisers over Russian Airspace
Hong Kong: Edward Snowden leaves for a 3rd country
Not sure why he just didn't go to China initially and then use the Phoenix to fly wherever he wanted?
It seems that he got help from Wikileaks' legal team:

>FLASH: WikiLeaks has assisted Mr. Snowden's political asylum in a democratic country, travel papers ans safe exit from Hong Kong. More soon.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348724514135347200

>FLASH: Mr. Snowden is currently over Russian airspace accompanied by WikiLeaks legal advisors.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348732325909102593
Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow
Well, the Germans were quite terrible at predicting public opinion in other countries during both world wars.[0] So I won't use this as a precedence or an excellent example of your point.

In their defence, however, I'd argue that the American public was against intervention before Pearl Harbor. Still, should have been predicting that one as well.

Lastly, I doubt a conventional war is about to break out. I doubt either side is interested in a war of this size. And besides; a world war the Germans didn't start?!

[0] Examples of German diplomacy at its finest: Japan in August 1914, the Zimmermann Telegram and U-boat raids in the Atlantic (during both world wars prior to US entry).
Attack-as-a-Service: Criminals in the Cloud
They should've put Facebook Like button there.
I did not think about it like that but, it could be possible to start building something along the lines. Like several "distributions" because not everybody has the same needs obviously.
WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) tweeted at 11:20am - 23 Jun 13:

FLASH: Mr. Snowden is currently over Russian airspace accompanied by WikiLeaks legal advisors. (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348732325909102593)

Edit: Oops sorry, somebody posted this already. Anyway, interesting news!
I didn't down-vote you, I'm too new for that. :p (edit: not that I would have down-voted you, I agree with the comment in your other thread that this silent down-voting is harmful)

You suggested that in order to be patriotic he should have stayed behind to face justice, administered by the same government whose "checks and balances" have so far failed to prevent the thing he's protesting. Why take his chances? Would you call a Chinese dissident unpatriotic for leaving China?

(perhaps I should have given a more specific translation rather than a literal one, you can read "trusting the government" instead of "loving". short Chinese phrases have a lot of leeway in meaning which is usually implied from the context)
Really? Is this really possible? It's bad enough that this is still on the books, but I'd be pretty damn sure that there would be international relations damage clean up to do for the next decade if that happened.
The author should have also added Wikipedia editing and creating as well.
> Customer acquisition has always been the name of the game for Dropbox, this seems like a missed opportunity to bring over a good chunk of committed users.

Have you considered the fact that perhaps there was no customers to acquire in the first place?

I couldn't find the app in the appstore but a Google search for "itunes snapjoy" showed that the app had only being rated with 7 votes.
Arguably it was the case for most of US history, except the few decades after winning WW2 and worldwide USD deployment ;)
This may be obvious, yet unmentioned in the article, but if you are a Chinese student, you can take this exam exacly once, and this is the one single number they will judge you on. Understandable if you are upset. Perhaps if no single exam would be so important and you were able to retake them whenever you want, there were less pressure for cheating.
Our education and qualification systems are indeed unscalable. Are we in a need for a more granular and more subjective way of "quantifying" peoples achievement?
My opinion of the HK SAR, which has always been quite high, just went up a couple of notches.

I hope Snowden finds asylum and can live a reasonably comfortable life. He's a patriot. I'm a US citizen and I'm pro-US but this bullshit has to stop.
Never heard that we've implemented visa-on-arrival scheme.)
Could be just a misdirection. See you in Russia! Lands in Iceland.
>I first thought that Ecuador would be more likely

Ecuador? I don't see that happening. It's a remote, third worldish place, where state officials could be bribed to hand him over, or he could be abducted or worse by any small team, including paid local thugs.

Iceland, as a country with an actual rule of law et al, and closer to Europe, it will be far more difficult.
After he spent the last two weeks releasing info that helped both Hong Kong and China - I don't think they'll be all that surprise he was granted the ability to leave the country.
I wanted to tell you this the last time you submitted to HN, but don't you feel the photo of the child on your homepage portrays a cold, zombie-esque feeling?

I don't know if it's deliberate but it hardly made me felt welcomed
Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing.

In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means.

It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely to call for and delight in the firing of someone who holds moral values. Conservatives generally just want to be left alone, and they would not in good conscience vindictively fire someone.

And for ends justifying the means, look no further than apologists for murders by folks like Stalin, Lenin, and Guevara. Some actually do say that was what was needed in order for revolution. Disgusting, but that's what they say.
Different guy, written because of that previous webpage
http://justinjackson.ca/words.html
How does person's citizenship matter in their views? Is it nationalism a.k.a. "our rights are more important than theirs"? When you think of something like that, how can you morally justify it? You can't. Nationalism is irrational.

What Snowden has showed is that USG has been commited in acts which are illegal for mere mortals to commit. Somehow NSA is all good doing this though -- on what moral grounds? Who can honestly claim that its not morally shady to put governmental instiutions above the law, and let it violate the rights of foreigners who have absolutely no power against it, not even the slight bit of political power via voting? Somehow acts against them is all easy to accept without evaluating the ethics, after all they Chinese are some commies and "idk lol".

How is military surveillance reasoned during peace time and when it targets civilians? The fact that "others do it too" is no justification.
A thought experiment, I imagine.

1) Would it piss off the USA a whole lot if Russia offered Snowden asylum?

2) Yes

3) Russia offered Snowden asylum
False dichotomy. To support privacy and an American whistleblower does not mean you're supporting a war or any type of foreign conflict simultaneously.

Nobody here is supporting a war or encouraging conflict. We support transparency and our own constitutional right to privacy. If anything, the sentiment here is admiration for Hong Kong's response and their willingness to let one of our own go freely.
That is interesting. How do you envision that for the moment ? As a "Web distribution" with it's own management system that integrate with existing backend and frontend tools ? Or more like a collection of integrated stacks ?

I think a collection of integrated stack would be very interesting. Much like we have small recovery linux distribution, server distribution and desktop-oriented distribution. Like, distrib of webservice, of webservice + frontend framework + end-to-end stack java (thinking GWT or Zk here), ...
I doubt if 30 days qualify as short-time for anyone to download their photos from a photo-sharing service.

It's most likely that users use this service from their smartphones and so it's not like they are somehow going to miss the notifications they will keep sending perhaps every week your photos are still on their servers
Yeah, careful with that guy. A lot of people who didn't get on with him seem to die in strange ways. But don't talk about it - especially not Pussy Riot style as dissent isn't ok.
> I'm a US citizen and I'm pro-US and this bullshit has to stop.

FTFY
Ask HN: Why Does It Take "10 Days" To Be Unsubscribed From Marketing Emails?
I went through another round of unsubscribing myself from annoying marketing emails today. When I did so, the site in question's confirmation page said to allow 10 days for the effect to take place. Does anyone know why this is?
I was referring to the fact that had they wanted they could have scuttled his efforts even before he arranged to speak to Greenwald and Poitras.

If the NSA or BAH were to submit that they were unaware of Snowden's whereabouts or movements when he arranged these interviews, they would in all likeliness be resorting to feigning ignorance.

It's the height of silliness to suggest they were clueless about Snowden's motives before his junket began.

Source:

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/10/qa_with_laura_poitras_the_wo...
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Not me. Anti-nationalist, anarchist, and pacifist.
This made me laugh harder than it should have. Or maybe it was just really good, I am not sure yet. Either way, thanks. I had a slightly cranky response to that other thread I never typed, and enjoying this instead is much better.

And yes, some people read that stuff. Though I would rather read something silly that is honest, than something that ultimately tries to sell me something. Which reminds me of this! http://textfiles.com/directory.html <-- Anyone remember spending hours being fascinated by that as a teenager? Text files are the best files.
He can't deliver himself to a courtroom because he knows he would be found guilty. Just like bradley manning he clearly and obviously broke the law and has no recourse but to plead guilty and get sent to jail (or to his death, but they wouldn't do that as it would make a martyr out of him). The issue is not whether he would be convicted, because surely he would be, it's whether the laws are just to begin with.

OK, maybe he could have gone to prison "nelson mandela"-style to be a symbol of a movement, but I don't think it's an act of cowardice if you don't quite live up to that ideal. There is a huge gap between being a hero and being a coward. In Snowden's own words he is neither (just by revealing what he revealed he has already imprisoned himself to a degree).
Well, he's being charged with treason isn't he? I know treason doesn't really sound that serious to many people any more, but historically it is one of the "big three" that could earn you the death penalty, even in progressive countries that don't like the death penalty. The others being espionage, and of course, murder.
cat this_is_a_regular_text_file.txt | morse
EyeTap is a more general wearable solution and has been around for long time. Google Steve Mann / EyeTap or Read Mann's "Intelligent Image Processing" for more info.
I trust you tried Googling "Russia Snowden asylum?" :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/edward-snowden-r...
It definitely still isn't the case. That's why it's still debatable where he should go next and there aren't a lot of choices.
Snowden's destination is Venezuela through Havana
Flagged. Lets keep xenophobic comments off HN.

[Edit: s/racist/xenophobic as per conversation below]
US whistleblower Edward Snowden believed to have landed in Russia
you're wrong, but whatever I guess. shall I tell you why? if you want to call out patriotism, you can justify Snowden as more of a patriot than anyone else in the NSA. Because if they are lying and disobeying the constitution, only a true patriot would speak out against it.

The other thing is. When he did his whistle blowing story, he had left the U.S., but wasn't charged at that point. But in his mind, he could do the most good by not sitting in a jail cell.

A coward? Whatever man. He's probably not afraid of being tortured or killed in prison. More like the endless boredom and how hopeless it would be. I totally understand why he would prefer to leave. Especially if he thinks it's a lost battle, The constitution I mean. It may well be.
Does anyone know of an easy way to improve the readability of raw text files in the browser? I'm writing a novel using github and the raw text file output looks very ugly in the browser, even using things like readability [1].

It's easy to convert a static text file into something more readable, but I can't seem to find a solution for a dynamic text file at a static address.

[1] http://readability.com/
Yup. I'd say Russia is probably third on the list of worst places he could go, after defecting to China and Iran, in that order.
Awesome design, it's exactly what I am expecting from this kind of component.

Congratulations and thanks for releasing this!
It seems to me he had to board a plane quite in a hurry, and only after that they looked for a proper destination. This story is just beginning.
Twitcleaner author gives up frustrated with changes in Twitter API
You don't have to create a monetization strategy and show profitability in order to be acquired. If you build a large enough audience (ex: 10m registered users, 1m dailies) then someone is likely to buy you just to get access to this tasty slice of pie.
A good reason to go with the RasPi and a commodity USB Wi-Fi adapter here is that it will very likely end up cheaper than an Arduino (clone) plus a Wi-Fi shield. The latter can cost up to $90 [1]. Depending on where you live a TP-Link TL-MR3020/TL-WR703N wireless router might be a cheaper alternative to the Pi that has both Wi-FI and GPIO on-board but it is a bit more of a hassle to wire up.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11287
Here in Russia we have our own PRISM since 90-s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM
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