skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a side project in this space and I'm interested to know more about why you're winding down the T-Shirt company. Please drop me a mail
"The death penalty is wrong" - that's all you need to say, not because of the possibility of someone innocent being executed, for me it's just plain wrong.

[And yes, this applies to all the genocidal murderous maniacs of history - if it was my call I wouldn't execute anyone ever].
Non-informative ads are mainly used to create irrational desire. Enforcing brand loyalty is a side effect - less commonly the main goal - that comes easily, as the human mind loves being right and will actively look for evidence to support that view (seeking praise for products that it has bought).
For a proof of concept, this is pretty amazing.
When ruling against government 'trojan horses' infecting private computers, the German Constitutional Court used a similar idea, thereby extending the German contitution's equivalent of integrity of the home by introducing a new 'Fundamental right to confidentiality and integrity of information systems'. So this is something that can also be interpreted in a modern way.

I realize that the court ruling was about private computers, not data on servers, but as you said, it makes a difference if the informations systems you use can be expected to produce 'public' records.
Another interpretation is that you can read "programmable programming languages" at the level of the problem domain, rather than at the level of the base language. (Assuming the problem domain is encoded sufficiently decently in a DSL).
Well the obvious argument for that is that the terrorists didn't kill people because all these powers allowed us to stop them.
If you want to go straight to the tool:
https://immersion.media.mit.edu
> the idea received minimal support.

Title here is slightly misleading...
This is great. Finally some consequence to NSA's actions against the government directly given that all the checks and balances are not working.

For example: There are now secret courts and secret judgments that lacks binding power (NSA ignores them anyways). Despite the media revealing more and more lies, the congress does not seem to care (half of them did not attend the NSA talks). The rest that do have little power to stop them or even talk about them at all.
>The author seems to be a well-established scientist

Stopped reading there. 'Consensus science' isn't science.
Doing your own crypto is generally hard and risky, but with a little googling there are often reasonable defaults and suggestions available from trustworthy sources. The biggest danger seems to be that people pick some random set of values & constructions and assume that's good enough without further checking.

On the flip side this should have set off warning bells for them - it can be a little bit of a code smell to pick 1 for a configurable value in your encryption. Not always a bad choice, but 1 has a lot of properties that can simplify various mathematical operations and Basically setting a crypto value to the smallest positive integer (and a non-prime at that!) is like deciding that a set of numbers in your code should always be represented by two-byte signed ints. Sometimes that's _exactly_ what you want (say, various fast math libraries), but if you're doing general purpose code you should really stop and think about whether you might end up with a value outside that.
Certain Islamic radicals have called Jews the "descendants of apes and pigs". Perhaps these radicals are just excellent evolutionary biologists.
Google has less than a thousand SREs AFAIK, and I would guess that they have at least an order of magnitude more computers than NSA (more probably 3-5 orders of magnitude).

As for analysts, several thousand, perhaps up to a dozen, makes sense.
FlareVM is pretty good: http://www.flarevm.com/
This seems like a decent, helpful comment to me. Don't know why it received two vitriolic replies.
Until turning your phone off marks you as a 'suspicious person'...
Bare in mind that the protest was on a holiday, it was too late and outside of a few places like Reddit, it didn't receive any promotion.

I think people do care, but not if they have to give up spending time with their families.
A one-off protest does little (~0?) good with today's ADD media consumers.
This is a new feature in 4.0.6. Unlike what the article says, it has already been released.
Do you have any sources for this bizarre statement?

Today, any excessive US presence in Europe is most likely a symptom of over-reaching US Foreign Policy rather than something the EU requires.
Assuming you're doing this for privacy reasons, some information about the various jurisdictions involved would be really interesting too if people know the answers. My understanding is that Sweden and the UK are out due to traffic monitoring, that may also apply to other EU states.
ICO update on Google Privacy Policy [UK]
It´s not the title so much as the reporting. A bill was indeed set before parliament to grant Snowden citizenship, but because it was put forward on the last day of parliament it didn't get voted on. Instead a vote on a parliament committee was made. The support of almost half of parliament is a little more than minimal.
+1, and I'd love to buy such a course as a book
A system reset might be easier to overlook than other errors. When we test our gear, something like a 2 dB loss (out of 30 dB initial transmit power) anywhere within our operating range (-40 degrees to +85 degrees) would likely result in another board spin (and a 15-20 day delay in the that particular product), but, a NIC reset during a 72 hour soak (where we cycle the temperature up and down multiple times), isn't something we would get stressed over. That's the entire idea behind having a watchdog - if something looks amiss, start clean.

It may have also been the case in the Pathfinder era that a "Reset" was acceptable behavior.

Also - depending on the nature of the watchdog reset - they may not have been able to capture a core dump - in which case, if there only a few resets - really hard to track down on a tight schedule.
Aha, thanks for the pointers, that helps. I suspected something simpler might be possible using these ioc macros but was frankly a bit scared off by them at first :)

It'd be nice if the coroutine/inversion-of-control stuff was given a stable public API at some point, because those macros seem very powerful and neat in themselves and might have other interesting uses aside from channels.
Unfortunately, as someone living outside of the USA, watching on, it seems fairly obvious who is running America :(

Look no further than recent times and you see the USA government working hard, spending money, trying so hard to convict and lock up Snowden just for for telling the truth.

Yet bankers from the GFC ripped of millions of people (around the world), made millions in ill gotten gains and the US Justice Department just can't find enough evidence to prosecute anyone.

Any one want to guess why? Money talks!

It the words of that great US band, Rage Against the Machine, Wake up!, wake up!.
What the ...?

Never ever share your login credentials with a third-party.

This could have been done as local open-source tool. Why is this a web app?

You can do this yourself with tools like Gephi.
Incorrectness of linked article's headline was pointed out already. Also, this is not the "German Government", it's the CDU/CSU conservative party's election agenda. Yes, they are the party of the chancellor, but it's obvious that a whole ton of proposals buried in the election agenda never see the light of day despite the party winning a majority and having the Chancellor elect. So even IF the CDU/CSU decided to move away from data retention in their election agenda, it would remain to be seen if this translated into actual laws. And since they didn't even move away...
I would disagree with items 1, 2, and 3 on your list.
Here's my list of things everyone should do:

- Pursue your personal goals with strength and conviction

- Find out what social environment makes you happy (It's ok if it's none) and find a way to build it

- Stay healthy in body and mind in a way that is enjoyable or at least tolerable for you
> This shows crypto is much too hard. You can configure a bunch of things, but half the choices you can make (key length, exponent, etc...) will render your encryption worthless. I shouldn't have to know about the chinese remainder theorem to use crypto properly.

This attitude scares me. Some things really are hard to do. Some things really are hard to understand. Some are even both. Remember what Euclid is supposed to have said to Ptolemy I of Egypt when the king complained that geometry was hard to learn: There is no royal road to mathematics!

There's no shame in not being able to do or understand every difficult thing under the sun, but don't complain that such things "shouldn't be so hard". They often are. I think it's part of what makes life interesting.
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Their support is amazing, and will help you in French or English.
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After Leap Motion, I've been very giddy to see where we will soon be in terms of parsing sign language in front of a webcamera.

Hopefully someone finds a financial incentive to pursue that venture. Maybe there's a Duolingo-like idea waiting to be taken advantage of.
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I can second Hetzner - although I've only used them for dedicated servers, and only very little.
It's not asking for your login credentials, it uses an oauth system and asks for permissions.
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> people do care, but not if they have to give up spending time with their families.

So in the end, it all comes down to economic pressure.

People don't earn enough/can't/won't take holidays and therefor have no time to defend themselves and democracy.

The next question then becomes:

Who creates and maintains this economic pressure? Who wants the middle class gone?
By looking at the prices of a few fiction books in my collection over the period 2011-today I didn't see any evidence of the increasing price trend hinted at by the article.

The tech books I looked at might do, certainly a larger sample size would be interesting:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Joel-Software-Occasionally-Develo...

http://camelcamelcamel.com/The-Innovators-Solution-Sustainin...

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Comput...

I'd like to see the results of deeper analysis. A report following an investigation. I suppose that would be investigative reporting?
Agreed on go being faster and using less memory, however, in practice, I think idiomatic clojure would have less code then compared idiomatic go, when writing similar programs.
I switched to OVH last month. They are not as good as Linode: my VPS was rebooted recently, and I've had to make a couple of changes to the default configuration to deal with some weirdnesses (screen and tmux would exit immediately, for example). However, so far, it has been good enough.
This is misleading. They were wrong in two cases.

1. They underestimated the difficulty and cost of the project.

2. They underestimated the profitability of the project.

Had their estimations been more accurate, they would have realized that it would have been profitable even at 10x the original estimate.

They got lucky. Someone with more accurate estimates would have gotten the funding and succeeded as well - but had the project been unprofitable, his more accurate estimates would have steered him away from it.

While ignorance may lead to more attempts on average, it will also create less value in the long term, as more of those attempts will fail. An entrepreneur with better knowledge is more likely to succeed.
The only downside is:

Prices are currently still higher (which screams for new competition, in case anyone from Switzerland is listening...)
Gandi runs on OVH.

There are been rumors that they might became an settle over to the states, but to the current day the are located in France (and I doubt this will change).

I can really recommend them, if you are looking for some "cloudy" servers (dynamic resources, etc.)
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The UK warn that closing trade negotiations could cause the loss of over 400,000 jobs, but must also realise due to corporate spying, it might have cost the UK much more than 400,000 jobs.
Who exactly is the US defending the EU from? Have you actually compared the size of the military of the countries in the EU against any possible threats?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union
So that was 25 minutes, and I have it working, though I admit, I am not a brilliant Javascript programmer, but I can get it done, and I made up the test, so... I probably had a head start.

I forgot what setInterval was, and had to look that up (I haven't used it in years, seems setTimeout is much more useful).

Hope that helps.
And they offer credit card payment, too.
This. It seems pointless to me to proceed with so much hand wringing and "my science-peen is bigger than yours" posturing, when we have ample opportunities (and plenty of pigs and bonobos) to test the hypothesis via experiment. Isn't that sort of the next step in a fairly tried-and-true method many here are usually quite fond of?

Personally I think the odds of any meaningful success are extremely low, but the cost to explore and experiment are also quite low. I'd rather trust "we attempted insemination of {x} bonobos with {y} varieties of pig sperm, but failed to achieve impregnation" (... or succeeded, or whatever) - over "I'm really smart, and trust me - this couldn't possibly work."
DIY = Drone It Yourself - Turn anything into a drone with this kit.
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MIT researchers build an all-optical transistor
Do you have a proposed provider? because i find it a bit hard to find one that doesn't host their servers in the Hetzner Datacenter in Germany.
EDIT: word
I have no clue how granting patents on plants and animals is supposed to diminish biodiversity. Won't new plants and animals increase biodiversity? I mean yes, without the patents you could crossbreed and remix GM and other plants more freely which would boost the increase even further, but even a small increase is still pretty much the opposite of a decrease and dismantles the argument.

With the proliferation of patents and the marketing blitz by these companies, we'll have only a handful of varieties that are sterile. There will be no new varieties coming out of natural cross pollination because we are left with sterile patented varieties.

Ecosystems are not static, they are extremely dynamic and never balanced.

Exactly. The viruses, bacteria and pests are evolving naturally; they are increasing their resistance to the existing pesticides. With the sterile varieties, there is no evolution, no adaptation to the changing environmental conditions and the changing pests.
Docker is wonderful. I'm using it to build a continuous integration system that can run my unit tests as root. It's completely isolated and it uses almost no resources, compared to spawning up an entire VM. There are still some bugs and security issues here and there but they're coming along quickly.

Finally a sane Linux answer to FreeBSD jails. It's about time.
Yeah, here too in the UK but worse. As I have said before even the satirists don't seem to give a toss. The level of apathy is stunning. Frankly, I think the terror scare stories have worked a treat, as I suppose is predictable. Which is amazing since we in the UK lived through a real(1) terrorist campaign with the IRA. All I hear is, "well, I don't care if the silly spooks see my boring facebook, email, shopping data. Ha, ha to them if they are that interested.". And that is it. Heh, even heard, "well, I've got nothing to hide".

I have to say, I don't really care any more. I have had enough. Yeah, I don't like what the US is doing, but my lot are in it up their necks, and are literally proud of it. My people don't care, my media don't care, no one cares. So I am the odd one out. Fine, we live in a so called democracy, so the people can have what they damn well deserve. My only hope is that I see this get really out of hand, and "normal" people start to get hurt by this. Then I can just stand there and laugh my sweet behind off at them, asking, "who did you vote for?".

As for me, I'll be a lot more careful, increasingly use security and simply act in a more aware way. Its all I can do. :(

(1)I say "real" because the "troubles" lasted over 30 years with sustained attacks of many kinds were successfully launched through that entire period, including the bombing of our entire government. Way worse than anything evil Muslims have done to the UK. I was indirectly involved, I know real terror. A one off attack is NOT terror. 30 odd years sustained, damn well is. Oh, a lot of it funded by Americans who saw the IRA as freedom fighters.
Fair point, but once you understand that every clojure form is:

(function arg1 arg2 ... argN)

The same impulse that made you want to run the other way should make you want to run screaming towards the language. :)
One of its central points is that NEETs are often supported by their parents, and once this (financial) support is removed, they are forced to recover. I can't really agree with that, as it's a psychological problem.
Right, but if you bring them in without changing the top, they either get changed to the existing culture are and somewhat unhappy. Dislike the new culture and leave. Or kick up a fuss, and get asked to leave.

But if they see execs who really get it, they may endure a line or middle manager who doesn't get it, knowing that it's just a matter of time.
If you know who is just "reselling", it would be cool to get the names so they can be outed and avoided. (Sorry, no, I currently don't know that market well, yet.)
Yep I figured this would probably not be very efficient.

About lazy sequences: sometimes you want to avoid the allocation of lots of intermediate cons cells when mapping/filtering/etc. The reducers framework for example manages to avoid this sort of cost when the data structure supports something faster than first/rest recursion. I'm interested in extending reducers to work nicely over large files and other sequences which don't fit in memory, and some kind of iterable or generator-like abstraction could play a useful role in this.

(Actual coroutine-based generators might not be necessary, but would allow for a neat outward-facing API)
Not really, as far as I recall it was pretty obvious he was going to get out on appeal and that would make a lot of people look silly for spending vast amounts of money on his prosecution and for ignoring who might have actually done the bombing.

The Scottish goverment took the least worst option - I imagine the UK government was delighted that they got to say it was the fault of the Scots to the US.
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Wow, I've been an on and off customer for six years - your cloud offering looks immense.
Yeah but I was trying to show that the true problem was AT&T's negligence and not Weev pointing it out to the people. Probably not the most perfect analogy, but analogies have limits of expression.
I can recommend https://www.jiffybox.de/ — Germany-based, part of Domainfactory, a German company.

The VPS prices are rather good, and I'm happy with the performance and reliability so far.
I'm in Germany. Bank transfer isn't a problem. I'll check them out.
Love it. It's what every big company can learn from Google's doodle: A little bit of non-conformity/strangeness makes the biggest giant appear humane.
That is crazy / cool. You pay them what you feel like. Interesting biz model.
It occurred to me that with only traffic analysis of US mail, NSA could probably stop the drug trade in a matter of weeks.

What they don't do is almost as telling as what they do.
Finally someone built this
Using Custom Data Attributes and Pseudo-Elements
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Graphene may give us cooler, longer-lasting computers
Maybe they are searching for James Halliday's Easter Egg?
Most things used on US independence day are made in China
One issue I have with this is that the goals here seem to be "end the unconstitutional spying on Americans".

This isn't necessarily a bad goal, but even if NSA entirely stopped all domestic spying, it would still continue to tap cables headed for foreign lands, and would still be able to compel silent cooperation of any US company to allow them to spy on foreigners.

This is unacceptable if the United States wishes to continue competing on the Internet. If every US-based company can be silently forced to turn over their data to the US government, why use US services? There are a whole lot more customers on the web outside of the US than there are who are US citizens.

Why host on AWS, then, if you know it'll scare your customers away? Why use Google Apps for your email? Why buy Android devices or iPhones for your employees if that data's going straight to NSA via Google?

There are something like 7 billion people on this planet. There are only about 315 million US citizens, or about 4.5%. The vast majority of the profits to be made from the Internet are _not in the USA_.

It's short-sighted. The US military really needs to serve the interests of the country and its businesses, not some stupid fear-based warmongering agenda of its own.
I think each submission should be judged on its own merit. HN might do better to ban crap comments like yours
It's not just the "casual" contact time; for females, they would very often be wasting a reproductive cycle on a fetus that would (in the statistically significant majority of cases) self-abort.
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You mean because they were dumb terminals not actual workstations? That's a pretty niggling detail to rip your hair out over since it doesn't really change the essential truth of how the mode of computation has come full circle.