skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't we just vote the bums out of office? I voted for Obama both times. Going forward, I sure won't vote for anyone who supports this. We should organize and figure out who is for and against this.
It surprising that states cares about a passport in regard to a political refugee seeking asylum. It used to be a joke, as within the musical Chess, there is a short song with:

If these people can't strike
Blows for freedom
With a valid visa
We don't need 'em

There in the Embassy Lament, the joke is about the offhand attitude of the US embassy when a Russian is seeking asylum to the U.S. So I wonder a bit, why do nations care about passports or visas if the individual seeking asylum can be identified through other means. Its not like Russia doubts that Snowden is who he say he is.
State your name, disclose any relevant bits (I am a journalist; I am a government official; I may publish your response; etc.), and ask your question. You might have a signature that gives more disclosure, like a phone number.

Providing context is, as a rule of thumb, a bad idea. It takes time to read it, and that's the exact opposite of the point of a one-liner. If it's necessary for answering the question, then chances are the question is too broad or poorly targeted: your recipient ought to already have the necessary context. That's what makes them useful for asking your question.

That said, it's just a guideline, which means break it when you feel like breaking it.

Everyone is going to have a different threshold for what seems rude, what seems worth answering, and so on; you kinda have to go with hit or miss. Only this past week, I actually got a response back from an author I emailed over a month ago. I had stopped expecting a response two days after I sent it off and moved on, so it was a very pleasant surprise.
You know, the people supporting Julian Assange in this thread probably agree. The question is whether he would get such a fair hearing.

Given the recent history of CIA kidnappings and other shenanigans, there is reasonably doubt that this would be the case.

So there isn't actually a disagreement on morals or ethics - just a disagreement about empirical observations.
awesome, now i know the places to avoid when i'm in san francisco!

if this was nyc, you'd see williamsburg with big solid red dots.
People also need to educate themselves on encryption, in case the government doesn't care to hear their voice.

Stand up with technology and not just policy.
edward is a very strong writer, his rhetoric is perfect.
Seriously, I would much rather the nutters keep their head down and try some drawing then yell and spit in my face. Hell, it would probably be good for them.
In theory it sounds like a good idea, but imagine a scenario where your bank needs to confirm your identity and they outsource this task to a 3rd party that has incorrect data about you (actually happened to me) and when you provide the correct information they tell you it's incorrect and conclude you are not who you say you are. In my particular case they just had old data that was simply inaccurate. Is it unlikely that 3rd party would buy data from Facebook or some entity that obtained the inaccurate data from Facebook? I don't know but I think you see my point. Incorrect data that was inadvertently connected to you could potentially come back to cause you frustration in the future. That said, I don't necessarily disagree with what you're doing and hope Facebook is soon replaced by P2P software.
"If only we hadn't done XMPP in XML, then it would have all worked out!"

Do you see how absurd that sounds?

The problem is fundamentally different from a technical problem. The problem is that there's nothing in it from any of the big providers to support federation. It just causes them to leak users, which they don't want.

The only reason Google ever support it was because for a while they were run by engineers instead of businessmen.
I fear Snowden will have to play the waiting game like Assange - this is ridiculous. I wish someone would stand up to the bullying - hopefully Assange is playing his cards right and the new wikileaks party in AU might help level things a bit
Okay, thanks. I figured from what else I'd already researched and read that denial & revocation were essentially equal.

On the interaction with asylum, I did a poor job of being clear. I was wondering more about considerations of asylum given the current situation and the US revoking Snowden's passport. I'd already assumed that a country would revoke (although Snowden's a different kind of fugitive than, say, a murderer attempting to flee). Obviously, no country facilitates emigration of a person they wish to make a political and legal example of. Was wondering more if the revocation makes Snowden look like more of a case for political asylum, or less attractive for potential asylum granters.

The Ecuadorian revocation of travel documents--if their stated reasons are true--is certainly surprising (both for the revocation, and the political liability that they're assessing to Assange in relation to Snowden).

All that aside, revoking a standing passport just strikes me as a very dick move. Almost childish, even. It just screams, "Our allies aren't cooperating with us because we've been abusing them, so we'll just maroon the poor bastard until they cave cos they don't want to deal with him either." Not ineffective, but still a disappointing tactic from the administration.
Maybe just salt each number with a random salt?
Communities with anonymous internet posters are biased towards 'hatin' on everything they see.
So you take the first item in the stream. Then you take the second. Flip a coin. Pick the winner, discard the loser. Promote the winner to level 2. Take in the next 2. Promote hte winner to level 2, discard the loser. Pick a winner from the two level twos, discard the loser. Promote the winner to level three. The winner at the top level k will always be picked with probability 1/2^k. If there were 2^k elements, this is exactly the probability it should have; and by the symmetry of selection at each level, it's uniform.

There's some complications if the sample is not a power of two (or whatever number of elements you picked for each level). Essentially though, you know the number of elements at that point though, and you can weight the probability of selection so that the winner has exactly 1/N probability of having been selected.
Hmm, where did I hear similar argument before? Ah, Snowden breaking his employment contract!
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> The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire

... asylum ... inmates.
> Did Europe intervene in the American Civil War

No.

> or in any of the multitude of conflicts in the Americas

Yes, particular one that overlapped the American Civil War in time and neighbored it geographically. [1] Perhaps less in the Americas then elsewhere (particularly when the US wasn't tied up in its own civil war) due to the US's proclamation of regional hegemony (the Monroe Doctrine) and desire not get into a fight over that.

> East Asia

Again, yes, quite regularly.

> or Africa over the past 200 years

There, too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_intervention_in_Mexico
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I think you have it. Nice day for an outing, have the youngsters color chalk horsies, flowers, sunbursts, in front of Chase.
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Sure, I was just commenting on the potential ability of the NSA in particular to grab it.
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My suspicion about why this is a big deal, at least from the administration's standpoint as a very calculated move, is to make Snowden toxic--without the passport, wherever Snowden is currently situated is a place from which he cannot easily move, instantly making him a legal and political liability. Add to that the difficult place it forces the host nation in to be grilled on why they're not taking action against an alleged lawbreaker who is within their sphere of influence. If he is going to be able to move, a country is going to have to muster the courage to stand before the world stage and make it known that they are helping.

It appeared for a moment that country was Ecuador. Now, apparently not (and quite possibly because of the publication of the alleged travel documents).
Google Reader is dead
Random videos from instagram??
you all probbaly know already but there is this site that i spent ages on just watching some random instagram videos, very good to waste time on!!!
"On the other hand, Mr Snowden, we understand, has travelled there without a valid passport and legal papers." -- Obama

We understand, really?? This double talk really makes me sick, they took his passport away, at least call a spade a spade.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567427

Plus dailydot are just getting started with the OP + 'sexyalterego'.
Here's some discussion of the legal issues, mostly based on another recent chalk-vandalism prosecution: http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/01/chalking-and-the-first-amen...
Reminds me a lot of this classic scene from the TV show "Arrested Development":

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xinzdo_it-ain-t-easy-being-...
The need for rapid response is interesting. Although legislation is developed over months, the Internet doesn't usually seem to find out about it until it's reported in the press the day before the vote.

The alternative approach is to engage lawmakers early in the process, like other industries do. You can bet that movie studios don't hear about copyright legislation in the press and scramble to influence it at the last minute.

I fear that all a "rapid response" system can do is torpedo bad legislation. A longer term approach is needed to get desirable laws passed, such as defining what is or isn't private.
Noticed that Sweden is not among them. I guess once bitten, twice shy.
"On the other hand, the equivalent imperative code is stupidly hard to get right because you end up mixing everything together in a big jumble. (I spent my time doing other things while the computer did the tedious work.)"

The PL geek in me really likes this nice demonstration of the power of higher order functions, as opposed to C-style for loops, when it comes to getting things done.
The Codea demo looks great but wouldn't it be a lot faster to do this using your mac and a linked iPad?

(1) http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
The number of people outside of dailydot that care about improving dailydot's mind/marketshare on HN is somewhere between 0 and delusional.

But I will concede it could be some random, unaffiliated person who just really, really, really, really wishes we would get our news from dailydot!
In theory means absolutely nothing. Baseball metaphors tell us nothing about the real world.

Stop regurgitating badly digested Americana claptrap. Statistics on economic mobility: put up or shut up.
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Google Reader is Officially Retired
> For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, SUBJECT TO YOUR PRIVACY and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

It says that their license to display the image is subject to your privacy settings. Simply setting the image to Only You doesn't remove the image, but would ensure no one can see it. It effectively revokes Facebook's license to show the image to all your friends. If none of your friends can view it, they cannot share it, and it should remove any of their previous shares. Then you can delete it.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I have a feeling that "unless your content has been shared with others" behaves more narrowly in practice than it could by reading the text. Probably, it would apply to edges cases beyond Facebook's reasonable control - like a notification of a picture to a phone. The app only checks for updates every so often, and it may be out of service for a while, but a thumbnail is sent. You could delete the image, but until they check Facebook's servers, the person has effective control over the thumbnail, which is a derivative work of your copyrighted image, legally. Facebook is just covering their bases there.
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I'm not convinced that the government gets more money when inflation goes up. I've only taken an introductory level economics course, but I'm pretty sure the value of a currency goes down for everyone - government included - when inflation rises.
Not a lot of people know how or have the time to setup sniffers for their appliances and then go through the logs. Maybe like 0.001% can do that.

How would you sniff your device? WiFi and let your router do the thing? It wouldnt be difficult for your phone to stop suspicious activity when WiFi or VPN is turned on.

How do you sniff 3G? Can you sniff GPRS/GSM for any suspicious activity? Now we're talking 0.000000001%.
I, for one, welcome our new OAuth overlords.

If it works the way it's supposed to I'll be using it for sure.
js & nodejs
I'm tempted to go this route in the future instead of the home ESXi server I run.

I realize this is probably a bit unique compared to most, but a lot of what I do in my instance is build private clouds for customers. AWS is great, but their infrastructure is already built; its the end stage at which most of the heavy lifting has already been done. The deployments are automated and the work has been done for you already. This is great is you're a developer and you don't have time to worry about all of the backend nonsense, you need an infrastructure and you need to start on your application/web frontend/whatever right now.

Regardless of where you're hosting it though, losing access to the MS library is going to be a heavy blow.
Have not tried itmyself, but you could check out osxmonad :)
The music isn't actually bad. It is much better than I expected from some of the 'hating'. Production wise, it's stellar. He can sing well in the rock/pop style.

Is this Zepplin, Pink Floyd or Beatles? No but it's not trying to be. Would I want to buy it and listen to it? No, but I'm not in the target market and this music style bores me but musically, I cannot fault it.
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I can understand his reasons behind taking a break from all this and understandably so. However bad it turns out, this is the kind of behaviour we should be promoting. The 'bounce-back-ability', if I may, is what makes being an entrepreneur worth all the blood, sweat and tears.
Haha. It does.
The question I have there is: if most of it is trolling, why does the trolling skew to the far-right? You would think trolling as a Stalinist offers plenty of lulz, but far fewer people actually do it.
In practice does that happen? Does changing the settings on an image destroy previously made shares?
Child porn and hard drugs are both illegal.
Eliezer's started updating Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
I'd like to know what the military-industrial complex said to Obama after he got elected.
Since you're not exactly telling me what I'm missing other than "newfag is faggot, gtfo", there's really only one thing to say: http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/1/8/185e5_ORIG-cool_...
The ability to vote someone in and out every N years is not nearly sufficient to ensure that the constituents' interests are represented. What is really needed, in my opinion, are the following:

* The ability for the constituency to override important votes if thresholds are met

* The capacity to initiate a vote of no confidence in an elected official at any time, and for such an action to take effect immediately should it pass, establishing new candidates and elections for the position

* Public financing of all campaigns, with free and open access to all media channels required by law, as a duty such companies must shoulder in exchange for the privilege of operating their businesses within the United States

* Declaring that money is property, not speech. Lobbying must be performed by no more than one degree of separation from the original sponsor, and utilizing chains of shell companies and organizations to mask the source of lobbying becomes a criminal offense with a mandatory prison sentence for every link in the chain

* EDIT (forgot this one): Requiring all public data --laws, emails, chat logs, sanitation test results, etc, etc-- be digitally available over the internet and accessible to everyone with a free and open API as well as simple web portal

* Legal teeth built into election law that establishes the following for all elections at all levels:

+++ A none-of-the-above candidate. Should it take majority, all candidates that lost to it are barred from the next election, which takes place N weeks later with new candidates

+++ Implement an Instant Runoff voting scheme

+++ Implement a Mixed-Member Proportional Representation districting scheme.

But... that's just me. I think the mechanics of how we do "democratic-republic constitutional federalism" is more important than any particular issue.
3rd party apps are still working, I wonder how long until they are cut off?
Wow! I've never before seen C# LINQ in action. I must say, it's amazing! I hope more languages would adopt this.
The difference is that he built a lifestyle company, and not just one to flip for $$$.
When I found out, I realized I didn't really want to know.
Physicists Discover the Secret of Quantum Remote Control
Why not bandcamp + "name your price"?
I believe BART was intended to be automated. This 1972 LA Times article mentions safety concerns:

Safe Automated BART Train Controls Doubted (1972)
Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post expressed doubt Tuesday that a $36 million automated
train control system for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District can be made "fail safe" to
adequately protect its passengers."

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/660715472.html?di...
Derelealization:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712501

Efficacy of VR exposure therapy in anxiety disorders , in cluding PTSD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_therapy#Efficac...

Exposure therapy probably works via habituation or conditioning.

http://www.nelsonbinggeli.net/NB/CBT-Exposure.html

The knowledge on how military training works is found on dave grossmans's book : "on killing".
Seemingly everyone here who claims, against all evidence, that 4chan has a good moral character.

Now surely everyone is going to yell that they're just protecting their beloved web from censorship. However, since I never proposed censorship, that means most of them are arguing against the evil, censorious Congressman in their own heads, rather than against anything I actually said.
Massive surveillance has nearly full bipartisan support. You can't just "vote them out". You have to somehow convince everyone to vote third party, which they all think is a wasted vote.
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"I find a Facebook signup page for anti NSA rally to be highly ironic and misguided."

I dunno, it's arguably a _very_ well targeted message… If I were running the Facebook page (and I weren't already an NSA terrorist suspect by virtue of being a non-US person) - the page wold say "to signup and/or indicate your attendance, please post 'anonymous undercover defcon ninja nerd' or any other combination of the words from this list: http://au.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domesti... to your Facebook wall."

But yeah - if you're upset at the government _taking_ this personal information, how do you reconcile that with giving it all freely to Facebook Corp. in return for "free farmville"???
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"I can’t think of any place where we can or do automatically restore user-deleted content months later."

http://is.gd/Eoaa8A

LOL. Think harder.
Reeder has been cut off (or at least for me). It just had in update that adds feedly and feed wrangler.
I currently know of software engineers that have been working there for 1 and 2 years. Individually they are each making between 50k and 60k a year.

Don't need quite as much revenue when employees are cheaper.
Yes, there is a better search engine (1998)
But I'm not an oldfriend. I've only been making intermittent visits to 4chan for a couple of years now.
Proof that all odd numbers are prime
See, I know I get more done late at night than morning. I've tried waking early consistently and find that I'm getting less done. I assume that is partially because the quality of my sleep declines.

Then again, I was always a night person - my parents used to wake me for Santa and my poor mother fought with me through school to get me up - and try to make me go to bed.

It is much easier to simply accept I'm a night person.
In this context, it's worth noting that as a Facebook user, you are not their custumer, but their product.
Cached perhaps?
Google Search was totally awesome when it first came out. Disrupted the whole industry and set new standards of search on the web.

Now I find myself longing for a new company and a new disruption of what is essentially Google monopoly.
We hardly knew ye.
New China law says children 'must visit parents'
Snowden, NSA, PRISM — the “direct access” question