skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia once argued whether the List of lists of lists should include itself
In a report leaked 2 days ago [1], there is something on page 44 last paragraph that supports the FBI does the collection. If this is done via their machines on private property, this report doesn't speak to that.

In January 2009, the FBI, at NSA's request, assumed responsibility for the Domestic Content Order and became the declarant before the FISC.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5952830
Very Very good start. Clean, Simple, minimal yet colorful where it needs to be. I'm going to keep an eye on this project. I've got a few proposals but I want to see if this project is going to stick around for the long term and weather others will join you. How much do you think you'll charge once it's up and going?
What I wanted to suggest is that: at the tool level npm, gem, pip are simpler to get started. But I don't think that's the case at the env level where you'll need more tools.

So while I've used some wrong words in my comment, I was still (trying at least) referring to simplicity vs complexity.

PS: I've never been very fond of other complexities introduced by the maven approach, but that's a different (and probably longer) story.
The more centralized mining is, the less bitcoins will be worth. They could have accidentally killed it, if they acquired too much hashing power. A mystery why the payback period is set so generously though.
I would imagine that the "depending on the provider" bit has more to do with their existing infrastructure than participation per se. A live notification for when someone is on Facebook or even Google would probably be much easier to get (and more useful I suppose) than their iCloud sync.

Edit: Also note that Apple is a late addition on their graph and Microsoft is the first. Don't mean I think that says much about one versus the other, but if MS has been a provider since '07 they probably have much better access either through influence or better understanding than they do at Apple at the time this was presented.
President of Ecuador: Biden has called me about Snowden
JSHint[1] seems to be the most popular JS linter, although I believe Perl::Critic to be the more powerful of the two tools. I've always appreciated how Perl::Critic allows you to write your own rules, and I wish JSHint was so customizable because I have coding standards I'd like to automate that don't exist in JSHint's options.

1: http://jshint.com/
A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail
libperl-critic-perl is the core Perl Critic.
libtest-perl-critic-perl is for using Perl Critic in tests.
I read this on BBC earlier and had gotten the impression that Pres. Correa was saying that the first opinion he'd have checked should Snowden apply was from the people of the U.S.

The rest of the article jives with the BBC article though, I'm glad to see that someone in the U.S. government is trying to de-escalate the diplomatic situation. And I'm glad to see Ecuador's government seems to willing to back away a bit as well.

I wonder who the bankers that Correa refers to are, I wasn't aware the U.S. was guarding that many people from Ecuadorean justice? And I wonder what will happen to the London consul?
If you needed any more evidence that the "cyberpunk future" is here, this article has to be it.

A friend of mine has an idea for a project to build a tiara or necklace, loaded with IR emitters, to emit enough IR radiation in the vicinity of her head/face to blur her face out in pictures/video taken by surveillance cameras / Google Glass / etc. Most cheap cameras digital cameras (at least) do seem to pick up IR radiation so it will probably work, at least for a while. But I wonder if camera makers won't eventually start putting IR filters in? Or maybe some already do?
There are trade-offs. There is no perfect solution.
"targets in database" doesn't read as "PRISM case numbers" (to me). In fact, it sounds specifically different in order to indicate unique individuals.

But who really knows, I guess.
Most GPU miners have moved from bitcoin to litecoin or feathercoin as they use scrypt hashing instead of SHA256 so are resistant to ASIC hardware. Mining these currencies usually offer an extra 30-50% over mining bitcoin directly and can be sold for bitcoin or USD on various exchanges.

As an example for a $300 ATI 7950 card that generates ~600kH/s scrypt you will generate $1.33 per day in litecoins vs ~450MH/s with SHA256 which currently generates $1.01 per day in bitcoin.

With the onslaught of ASIC hardware coming though it's not clear what's going to happen with GPU mining. As more people move to the other currencies they will become less profitable to mine and could get to the point where they cost more in electricity than they generate in profit. Definitely bitcoin mining will be at that point by the end of the year for people without ASIC hardware.
Or, have the entirety of your allotted TV time spent smoking pot and watching cartoons. Don't have to worry about propaganda then!
Can you go into more detail || provide links? Thanks!
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You can make more money playing the ups / downs of btc (for example, right now, there is a down explicitly because gtx halted US dollar transfers so everyone is panic transferring BTC out and selling it off). Than trying to invest in a btc mining rig and playing a literal lottery with computing hashes, or joining a mining guild and making very little very consistently.
Who supervises the supervisors?
It's not just the companies listed here. It's the ISPs that provide the treasure trove. The closer you can get to the subscriber wherein they must pass only a handful of egress to upstream connectivity the better. I've personally seen one of the NSAs mobile enclosures of which we were feeding data via the Cisco law enforcement images. The provider I was working for at the time had about 250k subscribers and was 49% owned by Comcast. The enclosure the NSA gear was in was fully locked and encompasses in tamper tape on any panel you could potentially remove. The ironic thing, however, was it was sitting right at the front of the main data center door. Ballsy.

I can't wait until the documents come out showcasing the ties into carriers. I've been waiting years for that validation.
Congratulations, Mark.
http://i.imgur.com/L3JPjqw.png Risky post, I know, but I find it telling that it seems like there are still a number of us scrambling to pick someone to move to, or at least dragging our feet to. I just am so used to clicking on the red and blue icon!
My favourite part of the article was:
"The flashlight maintained a sufficient level of light for over 20 minutes, definitely enough time to find the candles in the dark when the power goes out."

Why not just put the candles where the flashlight was in the first place? (or just put a reliable battery powered flashlight there.)

It sounds like it's saying "this flashlight should last long enough for you to find your better flashlight".
>What does "European first" even mean, though?

You could stand for "European" values, those shared by many countries in Europe, such as a need for a strong social safety net, importance in protection of consumer's privacy, and developing a will to work together with people sharing a different culture and (often) language.
So is Apple finally going to update the version of ruby that comes already installed on osx?
Mavericks ships with 2.0.0
I was about to ask the same thing about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS).
Do you mean the same 24 where a generic Arab nation plants a nuke in LA?

...a plot that is revealed to be a frame up by a white oil tycoon to start a war and drive up the price of his product.

Thankfully in-show, the wise black president (in 2002!) has the sense to call his bombers off. IRL we got wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I'm not sure why you can't do those things on FastMail.

(disclaimer: I work for FastMail)

Sure we have folders rather than tags, which means you can't add multiple of them to the same message. Probably the biggest lack is that you can't manage IMAP flags via the web interface. Otherwise, our search is now very powerful (since about March this year) and allows you to build filters that show messages from multiple folders in a single view.
Why is Larry Lessig plugging Palantir?
The most popular payment gateway is GMO:
http://www.gmo-pg.com/

I am often told that PayPal is the only sensible option for small businesses, however. I wish Stripe would come to Japan!
With only two characters for the source ID, somebody at the NSA is thinking long term and using more than just digits from now on. Many more providers will come in the future.
It might seem like everyone watched 24 but in reality the viewership was around 11 million at its peak. Which is a good viewership for a TV serial but also means that 300 million Americans haven't seen it.
NSA whistleblower William Binney Keynote at HOPE 9 (2012) [video]
Do you know anything about Zeus?
As someone who ordered back in August 2012 and received his 2 jalapenos a week ago I can say I'm still very happy with my order. I wouldn't advise someone to buy into it now as this article doesn't do enough to explain the geometric rise in difficulty will most likely make it difficult to recoup costs on the hardware by the time an order made today ships. BFL estimates they will clear the backlog of orders by September of this year, but their estimates are notoriously bad so take that with a grain of salt.

These units don't perform worse than what I originally ordered, in fact they hash at a rate that is 24% higher than what I ordered (5.6GH/s vs 4.5GHs). While it is true to say they use more power than promised as they were originally going to use 5 watts and instead use 30 watts saying they perform worse AND use more power is misleading.
Or Vim commands? That has nothing to do with programming.
It is very unfortunate that BFL is getting publicity over this article - they're a company with a terrible reputation and have treated their customers horribly. I got bitten by the mining bug recently and was stupid enough to almost buy one without doing proper research, until I ran into an issue with checkout. They were ridiculously unprofessional and rude dealing with it, and slow to get back to me, and that was a blessing, as I realized how worthless it was in the end.

What it's probably not going to say in this article is: People have been waiting to have one shipped to them for over a year. Use a calculator to find out how much lost profit that is. If you buy one now, or even if one is shipped to you in the next few months (unlikely, unless you ordered it 10 months ago), it will be basically worthless due to more and more ASIC hardware coming out on the market.

If you must go into mining, check out some of the custom Klondike K16 Boards that are being developed. These will be shipped much faster than anything BFL ships out, but even then you're looking at a few months lead time, which could be significant in terms of increasing difficult and return value.
Moving to SF for an internship. First time moving. Very nervous. What to do?
I've been offered an internship at a Silicon Valley company and will be moving in a couple weeks. This is the first time I'm moving out of my parents house, I'm only 17.

I will be living with a couple folks in Mountain View. I'm nervous and sometimes have anxiety issues and home sickness. What do I do? How can I cure my home sickness/anxiety problems?

The internship will last three months, and I have a possibility of moving on full time if all goes well.<p>Any tips/advice? Has anyone gone through this type of issue before?
>handing an advertising company most of my personal and professional correspondance seems like a bad idea

That's your main complaint? Google is an advertising company. People buying ads on Adsense don't have access to your personal information. This is simply not true.
Scheme programmers don't have that problem, because Scheme is one of the few languages that does math in a sane manner. The whole inexact-by-default behavior of most languages with literals expressed as decimals is somewhat nutty.

For all the flexibility provided by Scheme's structure (shared with other lisps), the thing I wish more languages would borrow from scheme is the numerical tower, which doesn't need Lispish syntax or any of the other features of Scheme that most people object to.
The timing of when you get the device is crucial, check out how fast the total power of the mining network is going up: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ (it is the 1st graph).
Yes, the more you know about your target the more confident you become about their nationality. Though I don't think the target needs to be a specific person, it could just be an email address couldn't it? Given just an email address you could be more than 51% certain it belonged to a foreign national and start collecting their data.

Sure, you might have to tortuously stretch the legal wording here to justify collection of any particular target, but if there's one thing this Administration has proven adept at it's tortuous stretching of the law.
The Human Scale: building cities for people
Obviously there is plenty of room for speculation but what seems to emerge, at least as I see it, is that even the worst case scenario doesn't entail actual "direct access".

In the case of activity timestamps (which I'm sure legally don't get the same protection as content) they would be sent by the companies to the FBI/NSA not have their actual servers monitored by them.
Just to reinforce this point and the fact that it is not going away: this is literally natural law.

Our weapons are no different than bacterial antibiotic resistances and all the other genetic mutations that have led to what life is today. It does not matter if all seven billion people consented, all it would take is one willing person with a weapon strong enough to subdue the rest of civilization to take power. That weapon doesn't even need to be technology, it could be as simple as blackmailing the people holding the power.

The struggle for life, let alone liberty and privacy, has always been an arms race and it always will be.
how does it even relate to Frog Fraction ?
Spacecraft use RTGs for reliability—they have no moving parts. Moving parts kill space missions.
I'd prefer to see this answered by Randall Munroe...
You misunderstand my argument. Obviously Jesus says that you should do good. Apparently that was a big part of his shtick. But if you want to actually do good you need to have a pretty fucking clear idea of how the world works. Because, y'know, wolves. It's not that America must act like a criminal gang, it's that it lives in a neighbourhood patrolled by a number of criminal gangs, so even if its ultimate goal is to kumbayah the world into submission it should probably keep a few guns in reserve, just in case.

"I feel unfortunate to live in a world filled with others who feel the same as you."

Judging by the comments here, I think its filled more with people who feel the same as you. It's not since the 19th century that people like me have been common, though the ideas I'm riffing on were already old during the Roman Empire, who succesfully implemented the only known formula for world peace discovered to date (si vis pacem, para bellum). The 20th century was full of idealistic visionaries who tried flipping this ancient wisdom, with predictable results.

You should feel unfortunate in about two or three decades though: that's when I forecast the West's technological and economic boons peter out and its various infringements of natural law finally catch up with it, and the east Asian nations bring back the old order: national sovereignty over world policing, mercantilism over outsourcing, savings over debt, and good governance over democracy.
This speech was hard to follow because it wasn't very focused or well structured.

The speaker is obviously smart and has interesting ideas; I think he could benefit a lot from a few lessons in public speaking (and I mean this genuinely, not to be snarky).
I kind of like how the entire 5 seasons of "The Wire" exist as counter to the oversimplifying many commenters are examining in cable shows.
I can't recall where I saw it, but there was a poll asking people whether they felt European or a citizen of their own country. The "Europeans" were not very high. Definitely some selection bias (firstly, I guess you're talking to people who are comfortable IRC'ing in English).

Also, the EU is already represented as a whole in some int'l organisations (such as the dual representation in the WTO), and economonically the Euro Zone is a block from the outside.
Way to go. Good to see a girl that age interested in science and engineering.
Another possible reason is that if a small number of companies start using ASICs, and they're the only ones that use ASICs without selling them to "regular" users too, they'll quickly gain a large percentage of the hashing power. If a company like ButterflyLabs controls a significant chunk of the total hashing power, it'll enable them to do 51% attack [1] on the network, which'll lower the trust users have in the currency, leading to decreased value.

Its a bit paradoxical - people will want as much hashing power as they can get, yet if they get too much of it they risk destroying the currency value, leaving them with nothing.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
> I disagree with your notion of equating types with tests. They are fundamentally different. Types provide substantially stronger guarantees without having to execute any code.

I'm not equating types with tests. I'm saying that type errors comes to light when a unit test for a given code is run, because you will get unexpected results and/or an exception is thrown.

> Did you have a look at Haskell? Or any other language with type inference? The connection you are trying to establish between "untyped == no need to specify types explicitly" and "typed == necessary to specify types explicitly" is patently wrong.

I started learning Haskell but stopped when I came to monads. I've also experience with other languages that provide type inference like Go and F#. Go requires you to define interfaces (something you don't need in a dynamic language like, say, javascript). Haskell also has features that require the developer declare something upfront (types and type derivation), as do F# (discriminated unions and/or types).

My actual example was regarding class inheritance and implementing interfaces. Polymorphisism through inheritance or interfaces is great in a statically typed language, but not required or even possible in certain dynamic languages.

> Having a helpful compiler doesn't mean that the language has to suck. I don't want to offend you, but your comments create the impression that you are lacking experience with a modern, statically typed language.

I never said statically typed languages suck. I've developed an app in C# which was a great experience, and at my day job I work in C++ (which IMHO is a sucky language, but not due to being statically typed). Haskell is also a great language, as is Go and C#.

What I did say is that statically typed languages often require more code, which (depending on who you talk to) slows down development compared to a dynamically typed language. Statically typed languages does however usually entail better performance and (sometimes) smaller memory footprint than dynamically typed languages. There is a tradeoff, but that doesn't make one more suited for real world applications than the other, which there exists numerous examples of.
Both of you make valid points. It's all relative.
This is like the third or fourth time I've seen Clojure and Lisp mentioned. I know I'm not answering your question (I'm the least able to do so probably on HN) but as a Java developer, I'd like to know why Lisp-like languages make them a "natural choice" for AI/machine learning?
I was always wondering why the carriers enjoy such privileged monopoly positions (with it's price, service quality consequences). Deep cooperation with the NSA is a pretty logical reason.

In retrospect, the retroactive immunity thing should have been a hint...
Unemployed people I know do not like being unemployed. There are people who don't want to work, and are fine mooching, but it is such a small percentage that it's a cost I'm willing to pay to protect people. Complaining about those "mooching off" of the safety net is like complaining about voter fraud in the US.
You are likely correct in what you say. However, there has always been the fiction that allies do not spy upon each other, after all, why should they, they're allies.

So, when it emerges that one part of the alliance has been less than forthcoming with another part, it stresses the alliance. Even if this is a normal, though rarely spoken of, aspect of international relations.

So.. the recent events mentioned here have the effect of making the US adopt an apologetic role. As such, it weakens their "soft" power, since their moral authority is weakened. This weakens their influence in a wide number of always-ongoing international negotiations.

The wider effect on commercial activity and how it relates to surveillance is discussed by others here. Personally, I hope it leads to commercial providers of internet communication facilities adopting stringent privacy measures by default, in the manner that certain banks may (or used to) protect your financial information.
You are right on the topic of an email address, but even for that there has to be some context that would cause you to want to collect its information. I guess if that is a single post that states violent intentions, then if you studiously avoid any further information, you could easily hit that 51% number. Then again, once you open the email, presumably you'll quickly derive the person's location and nationality, and you might then have to close it again.

I don't know if that "tortuous reading" thing is really specific to this administration. And anyway, I'm still having trouble figuring out how this whole PRISM thing was unexpected given the laws that congress passed. It seems like a rather straightforward reading of the law to me.
The 51% threshold sounds to me like something set by some manager(s) who didn't actually know anything about statistics or probability.
I have no idea how neocities is implemented, but my first thought as far as implementing something like that wouldn't be to give users actual filesystem access, but rather to put everything in an object store. Typically that'd be flat until you bolt on something to simulate a hierarchy.
>There may be a lack of high-paying, low-stress jobs, the kind that spoiled, study-a-random-field-till-30 university graduates generally feel entitled to, but that's not the same thing.

What are you referencing by that? Off the top of my mind I can't think of any low-stress job. Sure, some jobs are less stressful, but I don't think anyone has the expectation to find a job that doesn't conform to general properties of almost all jobs.
I'll just leave this here:

https://github.com/illusori/emacs-flymake-perlcritic
> Do you think other countries are not hacking US telecoms to spy on US citizens?

I'm condemning all massive scale spying on foreign citizens regardless of country. Pretty sure there's a logical fallacy in that sentence of yours.

> I see no way for the NSA or CIA to be able to do their jobs without being permitted to spy on foreign citizens.

The U.S. is not just spying on specific citizens. They are hacking into major Chinese telecom services and sucking up all the information they can.

> The protections for American citizens against their government spying on them are intended to preserve political freedom in the US.

Is it ok to spy on American citizens living abroad or are they fair game?

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Guess we know who's the U.S.'s bitch.
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