skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I instinctively like Obama, but I'm forced to admit that his policies on national security are by any objective means worse than his predecessor.

Maybe the difference is a management style that does a better job following through with things.

Example: Bush spends 8 years going after bin Laden, finds nothing. Obama does it in 2. When I witnessed this it always struck me that probably Bush wasn't trying very hard.

Possible parallel: Bush hears from security apparatus that we need lots of wiretapping, so they do that for a while. Obama gets in there, gets similar advice ... You can guess where that goes.

At any rate I have a hard time believing Bush would say no to this stuff.
I thought this was going to be about using chopsticks.
I'd say those are special occasions -- that's why they post the receipts too. Do they eat $30,000 dollar meals daily? I doubt it.
That really depends on the details of what's capable with their collection equipment.

Transoceanic cables are obvious, but there are also satellite-satellite links that are possible that could terminate right in Iowa for all we know, that the NSA wouldn't be able to retain unless/until it made it to one of the Tier 1 ISPs (they might use geolocated IPs for this).

And as the other comment mentions, the minimization procedures seem arranged to blacklist and discard only that data which is clearly US<->US so you could definitely end up with your data being socked away.
Sean Parker Hates The World He Helped Create
You must be a cuts-steak-with-side-of-fork kind of guy, like me!
FBI probes four star general for Stuxnet leak
True indeed, however, the point remains:

IOC is resolving an instance with it's dependencies.

How you do that is irrelevant.

The point is that the action of resolving dependencies is NOT dependency injection.

If you're writing an IOC container, call it an IOC container.
Fight the power!

Still, I eat with proper European table manners, because it's all we have left. Without that, it would be total anarchy! We might as well wear trousers on our heads and wear baguettes for shoes!

What's next? Wearing a neck tie on a shirt with buttons in the collar or - God forbid! - with short sleeves?! gags at the idea
I find getting the fork into my mouth to require much finer motor skills than the simple sawing motion required for cutting. I'm with GP. I just keep the fork in the right hand and cut with the left.

As a kid, I was a cut-and-switcher, so maybe cutting with the right was more natural, but it definitely didn't seem hard to make the switch.
Windows in VirtualBox :)
Or really, any session cookie that is transmitted along with a normal HTTP request. Doesn't have to be just an ad agency's.
I took a guess and got it right (dont sue me plz DocumentCloud):

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/719116/doc03.pdf
I'd guess they meant "the idea and general implementation details of Stripe.js", not "the code, verbatim".
I actually think it is supposed to make it a challenge to eat properly, to prove - at least when these manners were invented centuries ago - that one was a well-educated and respected member of the right part of society.

At the same time these rules were invented, you would have been hanged or worse for a good word, because of your left-handedness. Weirdo.
so what exactly does this mean to a student with f1 and is this going to change the answers we need to answer for the visa interview when coming to here.
inefficiency can infer
GRP Partners Raises $200 Million Fund And Rebrands As Upfront Ventures
I don't advocate for disbanding the "rule of law." I'm not sure why that wasn't clear. Please forgive the misunderstanding.

I advocate for the rule of law being limited back into the original noble intent the Bill of Rights had, along with other changes. The government in a heavily limited role can be more powerful (in the sense of justification) if its primary role is one of humanitarianism. Governmental collective force and democratized architectures for assembly would still exist to protect people from violence. I'm not advocating for the government to go away. I've been saying nearly the opposite. It has to change. It has to reform toward humanitarian principles with more voluntaryist structures.

"Corporations" would not exist. The availability of power would be dramatically reduced to the actions of people. Couple that with a more humane justice system where the threat of caging, literally stuffing a person into a cell, could only be the recourse for containing unwieldy, physically violent people. I digress. The net positive of not having protected classes is numerous. More people are able to enter the market and empower themselves (e.g. no threat of patents, which could not exist). And the risk for undertaking dangerous activities grows higher. This induces a tendency toward natural regulation, because the threat of civil justice and recourse becomes higher for those who engage in exploitative behavior without gaining explicit consent from their customers or the people and lands they affect.

The US economy has never experienced this healthy abstraction. All we have is heavily-regulated markets within corporatism, which the biggest corporations thrive on. It guarantees the crushing of most small competitors. Of course, the internet was one of the most disrupting and democratizing forces to combat this unnatural market. Yet, as we all know, the internet is still not yet empowering enough compared to artificial entities known as "patents" that only exist thanks to corporatism, granting the full weight of police force to enforce the decree of big business. That's the real abuse of power. That's what we have today.

You mention Mexican drug cartels. They are largely the result of US policy. The "war" on drugs is a war on people and choice. Like any prohibition of people's consensual choices, this war on people directly forms the foundation of strong, well-funded underground economies with a nearly guaranteed revenue stream. Yes, often the leadership of these organizations care less about humanity and more about profit.

It sounds familiar.
The HTML5 player can play ads too...
I have serious apprehension about trusting a banking service labeled as "Beta"
Well, it's mostly THE way to use Javascript (or ECMAScript if you wish), the language, on the command line.

As such, I consider it as much a platform as it also is a version of the Javascript language for the backend.

Languages ARE platforms anyway -- we never care just about their core syntax and semantics but also for all the libs stuff they come with. So Python includes batteries, and Java includes the kitchen sync.
interesting, haven't heard about this. browsed through the website and it is really good. looks like hackaday market place. really interesting.
I was interested until I couldn't easily find the interest rate for a savings account. I like having a physical branch with in walking distance, but iff you could give me an extra percent on a savings account that is accessed infrequently I'd probably go for it.
Part of being part of human society is to fight your basic instincts, which - as a right-handed person - would make you use the fork with the right hand. Hence why you should use the left hand.
Preemptive answer to a question that should get asked: NCUA is the equivalent of FDIC for credit unions.
(Spoiler) Here's a way to do the second one: http://tinyurl.com/ojs6ux5
Tapes, not disks.
My favourite one is Sweden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
Whereas -- not where.

And I was being sarcastic.
The odds depend on whether you know the odds or not.
yes. if give more example, it will good to start.
"shock absorbing lanyards" could be anything, and there's a whole lot of personal anchors that people think will protect them, but actually won't.

Better?
I regret that I have but one upvote to give you. Many thanks. I swore that last time the pdf had no relation to the gif names.
wtf is up with the whole "flat" trend? first microsoft, then apple and now firefox. lack of depth does not look "good".
Still beats chopsticks.
I think you misunderstand me (or perhaps are reading too much into what I've said).

I wasn't talking about severity of punishments. You'd said that submitting to punishment prevents self-deceit about one's motivations being for the greater good, rather than for personal gain. You said nothing about severity of the punishment. Given your premise, I disputed that there is nothing in accepting punishment itself that clarifies one's motives or otherwise indicates more altruistic and pure motivation. You simply cannot draw a definitive connection.

Please be careful about suggesting I am avoiding the arguments of practitioners like MLK, et al. I am specifically dealing with the philosophical debate around civil disobedience, which has not significantly relied upon punishment as a justification for disobedience.

What justifies civil disobedience is the mode of action and the motivations for action. Not the acceptance of punishment. Punishment shows fidelity to the legal system one is disobeying. It does not purify motives. It does not absolve disobedients of acting from defeatable reasons.

It is not inconceivable that a disobedient might act in such a manner, including submission to punishment, even egregiously harsh punishment, for reasons that are not pure, altruistic, or otherwise engendering controversy for the sake of personal gain and/or fame.

While you may look at MLK and say, "His submission to punishment justifies his actions," that is a very dangerous maxim to put into play, because you cannot apply that as a universal rule for justifying illegal actions. This is why theorists leave punishment out of the justification-seeking, because it has no part. It is a marker for fidelity to the rule of law, around which much thought has been shared to understand what is just punishment for civil disobedience.

MLK engaged in justified civil disobedience because his mode of action and motivations for action have been interrogated and found undefeatable.
Yes, I see where I was unclear. It's not the links themselves, but the lack of original, robust content.
There are quite a few companies playing in that space right now. Personally, if that is your challenge, I wonder what you are even doing making products. Let me write the deployment script for you:

heroku create
git push heroku master
Without judging this I see one positive thing - it is publicly known what information is collected, there is a debate about it and you can file a lawsuit against it. And as seen in Germany they courts are really taking the issue serious and don't just try to silence you. To me this seems orders of magnitude better than not even knowing what is going. Of course, as seen in the case of the UK, there is no guarantee that nothing else is going on but even after the events of last weeks I still have quite a bit of trust in Europe.

After reading a bit into it I think the situation is actually quite good. The EU passed the directive requiring all EU countries to adopt national laws for data retention but now there are lawsuits all over the place. The directive has been widely adopted by the member states - in some cases after being sued by the EU for not adopting the directive (but this court is not responsible for ensuring that the directive does not violate other laws) - but at least in Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic the laws have been canceled after they were ruled unconstitutional. There are pending lawsuits against national laws in other countries, more lawsuits against member states, for example Germany, by the EU for not adopting the directive and lawsuits against the directive. After being ruled unconstitutional and violating human rights in several countries I think it is only a matter of time until the whole thing gets buried. It will have cost an insane amount of time, money and dedication but the system still seems - more or less - to work.
Think of the lost potential of the people who may still be the cream of the crop but just outside the 2%.

The logical part of me says that they should be building more of these academies (if they can without sacrificing quality).
Clearly these men are all very capable but would they have been able to have the same impact had they stayed in India?

Given that they all did post-graduate study in the US and currently live in the US and work for an American company, I think their accomplishments say less about the quality of IIT graduates and more about the fact that a huge amount of human potential is being wasted in India.
I am experiencing extreme design rage that they kept the way the blue globe shows through in ragged edges of the tail. It’s pointless, distracting, and violent.

“Violent,” you wonder? “Surely you are insane and hyperbolic.” I am neither. Look at those spots and tell me they don’t look like a cheese grater. I wouldn’t touch this icon if it existed in 3D space. Would you?
Is there an equivalent of this? http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/awards/nobel.html
Closest would be University of Madras not IIT.

Its just a numbers game, the universities are not even smart enough to increase seats in a country of 1.2 billion.
Git-pray
I wonder if Debian will make a similarly flattened new logo for their Iceweasel version of Firefox.
Normal users never command-tab? Normal users will never get Retina monitors? What proportion of users need to see graphics at high resolution for them to count? Isn’t even 10% of Firefox’s user base a huge number of daily views?
Awesome Compilation. I had the suspicion that a lot of the higher-ups were IIT grads, but I never looked into it. (Not that that's a bad thing, but it's interesting). Is there a very pro-google culture in India? Does Google recruit relatively heavily from India?
That's a good point. Hadn't thought the issue through that far.
Yes but it's ludicrous to equate selling software without providing the source code to hitmen. Stallman's views are not pragmatic in the sense of them being realistic in a world people would really want to live in. I have actually never heard anyone refer to Stallman's views as "pragmatic;" that's a new one for me. I was a little taken aback. :) Also, I don't really understand your examples, beyond the fact that equating those things with proprietary software is a little cuckoo. Presumably technological progress is good, having software that solves our needs is presumably good, no one seriously thinks of having "CD burning software that works well" as being in the same league as "Rapists and murderers," well no one with half a brain anyway, so it's hard to see your point exactly in this way.

If you want to say "Stallman's ideology is morally right and consequences be damned" then fine but don't sit here and compare proprietary software developers to hitmen. Let's be serious.
Ecuador heats rhetoric as Obama downplays Snowden
Why is this here? There are other credit unions.

This 'bank' is running on Wordpress - 3.5.1 from what I can tell [0]. Isn't that vulnerable [1]?

The customer login page takes you somewhere else [2] - seems sketchy.

I can't find any information about their interest rates - why should I put my money with them?

[0] https://iafcu.org/wp-admin

[1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2

[2] https://obc.itsme247.com/237/

NOTE: Change the /237/ in link [2] and you will see its running portals for other banks... This bank is just a cheap domain outsourcing their entire infrastructure on the cheap. No.
Most of the questions and answers are quite narrow in their perspective probably because the community they are targeting to comprises largely of other IITians and people who are closely related to them. If you are looking at it from an outsiders view, I would rather suggest that you talk to an IITian personally. Nearly all of them are quite open to discussion about it.
Candidate Obama and President Obama are two very different people, despite what many reporters and big supporters would have you believe. But it takes a strong willed human being not to give in to all the pressures that must be present in the Oval Office. Just imagine the day after he was sworn in how much classified shit the CIA/FBI/HSA/NSA must have presented him with. How would any individual be able to sift through it and call these agencies, who have a vested interest to protect America AND expand their own budgets, on their bullshit? I'm not saying all of it is, but the way they go about security leads me to believe a lot of it is. But who wants to be the next Bush and ignore a terrorism warning?
https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts might work better.
Need collaborators for ADHD management system called Poppins
TL;DR - I'm building myself an ADHD management system that, if it works, I'll be expanding on for others to use. I'm typically only productive in collaborative groups, so I'm looking for coders interested in helping out. I haven't decided on a language yet, but would feel most comfortable in python or javascript. Here's the initial repo:

http://github.com/crawfordcomeaux/Poppins

Background: I've attempted to baby-step my way through addressing my different ADHD-related issues/habits (ie. "executive functions") with and without the help of friends/family/coaches/counselors to no avail. After conducting a SWOT analysis of Crawford with friends/family, I took the list of weaknesses and drew lines from the issues that reinforce others (eg. disorganization reinforces perpetual tardiness). What I wound up with was two well-connected clusters of weaknesses and a few standalones. The disconnected issues were all related to personal interaction with others, which I've improved on over the years, and the clusters were all executive functions.

Hypothesis: Without an extremely strong support system, any attempts to tackle an executive function that's supported by other issues are likely to fail. In the absence of a strong support system, clustered issues need to each be address concurrently while addressing the negative side effects that stem from trying to change multiple habits at once.

Additional Problem: I'm a tech-savvy coder without any self-discipline and a rebellious streak. I'll rebel against things that get in my way, even if it's for my own good, unless it's just not worth the effort. How that translates to the project is that all components must be "sufficiently" protected from me (ie. takes longer than 3-5 mins for me to bypass the system).

Check out the GitHub repo for more information.
Stories about rigorous tests and top-notch universities in other nations make me realize that prestige is myopic.

For example, I recently introduced two friends: One was an American who had gone to Princeton; the other was an Indian who had attended the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Both colleges have fancy names and star standing in their own nations, but neither person fully understood the cachet of the other's education. I'm sure that employers wouldn't entirely understand it, either.

That's ironic when you consider how much we judge ourselves according to prestige ... you move to another nation and suddenly your clout evaporates.
Netbank was somewhat successful until it diversified too quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBank
There is a bullet train, the Eurostar, that puts London at 2h15 from Paris. It's quite expensive though, compared to a car ride.
Anyway, I do not think that the Channel accounts for the peculiar relationship of the UK with Europe. Instead, it might have something to do with the relationship between the UK and the US, I believe. That is what is tinting the UK-Europe relation.
This troll word. Do you use it with anything you find too uncomfortable to hear?

It's like discussing with a 10-year old. Either respond to what I write, ask me a question, ask for clarifications, or provide counter-arguments -- or don't and refrain from this subthread. The "you are a troll" accusation gets old quickly, as I approach forty. I could not fucking care less about going to a forum and making "joke comments". What I write is what I believe to be true, based on what I know.

So.

>Sounds to me like you're trolling. This is not the case unless one is using a low end device.

No, it's very much the case, EVEN on high end devices. And there have been posts from Android engineers on the issue, blaming various stuff, from the stop the world GC to the drawing thread scheduling. Here's one:

https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJ...

It also links to another Google person, saying that "that's not it, it's because of the extra security Android offers, that has an overhead". Which is funny considering:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/14/mobile-malware-exp...

>>Like Android apps allowed to run rampant in the bg, draining the batteries pronto -- a complaint you hear all the time, and of which you can also find some measurements.

>I honestly think you're just making things up at this point? Have you even used an Android device?

Yes, I have. A Samsung mid-range one. Also borrowed briefly a high end LG one. Not impressed on both counts.

As for the battery thing, not only it's an issue, but a whole cottage industry has sprung around it -- with battery-saving apps being among the most popular (LOL):

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57581440-251/five-andro...

http://lifehacker.com/5990553/betterbatterystats-tells-you-e...

http://www.topapps.net/android/top-10-battery-saver-apps-for...

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...

I could similar list stuff forever...
... yes. The Internet Community is their chosen focus...
https://iafcu.org/special-posts/membership/

"Persons who live, work, worship, attend school, or participate in associations headquartered in New Brunswick or Highland Park, New Jersey"

Am I misunderstanding what this means, or are they saying you have to live there in order to be a member?
Hmm, things started off interesting with the best car i've seen thus far (short, wheels covered the top and bottom, etc) then this

http://imgur.com/a/XFCYZ
They are building more as well as converting some of the existing non-IIT engineering schools to IIT status. More than 20 years ago when I took the IIT, the total number of students admitted was much lower (~ 2000) than the article states for today (~10000). That would seem like a 5 fold increase in number of seats in about 20 years. Definitely much faster rate of growth than the rate of population growth in India.

Also, people who are just outside that 2% mostly do fine. There are a number of other highly competitive (and pretty good) schools of sciences and engineering that are not IIT's and most of the people you are talking about (smart, motivated students who had a bad day at the test or such), do end up with good careers regardless.
Maybe you should help 'em out?

http://priceonomics.com/jobs/
uwsgi is great, but only for users that want to do a PhD in performance tuning:

'There is no magic rule for setting the number of processes or threads. It is application and system dependent. Do not think using simple math like 2*cpucores will be enough. You need to experiment with various setup an constantly monitor your app. uwsgitop could be a great tool to find the best value.' (from uwsgi doc)
Yes if somebody is in the RCPT TO but not the To: or other fields then they are Bcc: