skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still a few billion people with no transport who will be buying vehicles soon.

I really freaking hope we've sorted out some better engine than internal combustion.

But even batteries might be tricky - how much rare earth metal do you need for a billion electric vehicles?

The problem with Beijing population all driving cars isn't so much that they're driving cars - it's weird of me to demand they still ride bicycles - but that they mostly drive badly made badly maintained cars.

Also, this is the kind of thing where international travel helps you see other perspectives. The first 'drive through mailbox' I saw was in the US. At Gilroy Outlets I would see someone leave one store, get in their car, drive 20 yards to be outside the next store, get out, go shopping, get back in their car, drive 50 yards to the next store they wanted to visit, and so on. I have no idea if that's common in the US, but I saw it in a few different malls in CA. It kind of freaked me out. (I understand if these people have a disability that makes walking painful or whatnot. That wasn't obvious from looking at them. Maybe they just hate the smell of garlic?)
"He's a dead man walking" - surely Obama and friends couldn't deal with the outrage that would follow? Their image is already shot. The death of Snowden would put them on par with mafia.
> Hacker News, which includes worldwide participation, so it is a bit surprising that there is so much news about the United States here.

HN is extremely americanocentric.
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7 people with guns to pursue the buyer of 12 pack. It would at least a homicide to get that amount of police force around here.
For new authors, I follow recommendations by friends whose taste I trust, or reviews from people who have similar standards.

For old authors it's much easier, especially for the ones born more than 500 years ago ;)
Extensive write-up Samir, which was your favourite?
Here's something similar I recently created.
http://ifdefined.com/hack_week.html
It uses a collection of keywords that you choose and then uses Nokia's HERE.com APIs to create a heatmap. The fun is coming up with the keywords. "Vegetarian" and "yoga" work pretty well for finding hipster places in the US, but for India not so much. Instead I tried "coffee", "pub", "pizza". "Sushi" works internationally except you-know-where.
I've never much read other fanfiction, and I don't mind the parody at all. Actually, it has kind of spoiled the plain HP for me because I just can't take their fixed gold-silver exchange rate seriously any more.
Is it the responsibility of a newspaper to create a long-running scandal, or to report on the news/truth?

I'm confused by people that say the motives of someone like Snowden or an institution like The Guardian are irrelevant yet then laud The Guardian for having a clear motive.
I agree - the chances of a teenage girl packing heat is probably small, but it's those small chances that can get you seriously injured.

According to this (admittedly outdated) research paper [1], the high-end estimate of traffic stops resulting in the homicide of the police officer is 1:20.1 Million. This doesn't really sound like a traditional traffic stop - more like a sting (something that I couldn't readily find data for).

[1] http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jbs/Criminal%20Procedure%20in%20Amer... (Warning... PDF)
It varies considerably. Most public schools break have either a middle school or junior high school (grades 6-8 or 7-9) between primary and secondary grades. But most Catholic parochial schools run to 8th grade. A lot of private schools run from 6th to 12th grade on the same campus, some 3rd to 12th.

I suspect that the break is because in the middle years it becomes harder to find a teacher who can do everything--reading, history, math--adequately. A lot of what is called "science" in American primary schools I would call "environmental civics"--recycling is good; don't litter. Then in 7th or 8th grades one can actually encounter chemistry labs.

(On the other hand, in my 7th (8th?) grade science class a big chunk of time was given up to the evils of drugs; I didn't particularly disagree, but bilged the class because I found it tedious to cull clippings about overdoses or LSD flashback. And I have no idea what I might have learned in the "science" lessons of the earlier grades--how many planets, maybe.)
That is pure speculation on your part. The other side could be that Snowden wants to continue leaking information and thus "harming" the United States.
I read an earlier version of this and felt it had a few very dark moments that, even allowing for it being based off a young adult book, seemed out of place. I've never read the original and so I wondered if this was playing off something in the source material e.g. villains that couldn't really be villainous in an adult way.
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The syntax in the article desugars to the method calls you remember (which are the common HOFs). Since the calls are lazy, they can also generate SQL when asked to execute.
Looks like they have been deluged with complaints. They have posted something on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/virginia-department-of-alcoho...
Prism has done more harm to the USA that anything Snowden did.
Let's not shift the blame away from the guilties. And the guilties are those who abuse their power in the name of security, along with those who let it happen ( the entire executive branch and congress basically ). Or would you prefer not to know anything about it ?

Obama says there are "checks and balances", there are none. Given the situation today , it's not difficult to imagine what the situation will be 10 years from now. And putting republicans in power wont make a difference.

Frankly i dont know if there is any solution to that problem. Politicians never give up willing the power they steal from the people.

Good luck america.
Theoretically I think the 51% attack basically allows you to control the direction of the blockchain.

At that point you could make a slightly different client run on your 51% and do things like (for instance) change the BTC generation rates and cap. Most likely at that point the people running the remaining 49% would find a way to ignore you, or fork the blockchain though.
Yep. Maybe thats the thing we will be known for :P Do u think LearnQ sounds better? Thats available but a bit pricey, can do it if we get some funding I guess.
Also, for tourists versus locals, this is fantastic, using geocoded tweets. It confirms what I tell out-of-town visitors to Chicago: Locals don't go to Navy Pier.
http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#13/41.9007/-...
It is a terrible decision

curl http://domain.com/showdocument?[00000-99999]

should not be a crime!!
It sounds like something else is at play here. You wouldn't typically send a full assault team to grab underage drinkers.

If you were looking for a known fugitive/dangerous suspect that happens to frequent a grocery store for beer on the other hand...
Yes, from all countries in the region, Poland is probably the closest to the US.
LINQ comes in many flavours e.g. LINQ to XML, LINQ to Objects. You're talking about LINQ to SQL. The chained function calls are equivalent to the more SQL-style LINQ, it's a matter of personal preference and which sits better given the context. Personally I always prefer the chained methods with lambdas.

However don't let the seemingly chained methods fool you! The great thing about LINQ is that is defers execution, by building an expression tree [1], meaning the code is lazily executed only when needed. And the expression tree means that everything (filtering, projection etc) is done in a single for loop [2]. e.g.

var results = collection.Select(item => item.Foo).Where(foo => foo < 3);

This builds an expression tree, but no work has been undertaken on our collection. When we attempt to enumerate the results, the expression tree is converted to code (again, as a single for loop, not multiple iterations as the code might seem):

results.ToList();

It's extremely cool to work with and highly expressive. One of my favourite features of C#

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/charlie/archive/2007/12/09/deferred-...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7324033/what-are-the-bene...
It does not have to be black or white. It can sometimes be more complicated than "with us or against us".

Do you know your history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson,_Jr. Traitor or Hero?
Other countries weren't built on our constitution and bill of rights. I understand why the surveillance was implemented under the Bush admin, since we were fighting an elusive collective (terrorism). What needs to be held accountable is the overreach into violating our civil privacy rights.
It would be funny if people realized that Snowden giving himself up will cause harm to America (or more precisely its reputation). I just laugh at the absurdity of Putin's statement in that light.
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Indeed. And seven agents for a case of beer?
Green card applications dropping much?
Me neither. And I don't even know whether the extension API for Chrome/Opera 15 allows me to recreate some of Opera's features like the bookmark manager, tab stacks, and many other.
What causes those strange colored flames at the very end?
> So basically he was a professional hacker.

Which explains why Obama called him a hacker last week. Everybody (well some bodies) thought Obama was using language to trivialize the leaks since none of the leaks involved Snowden doing any hacking. Turns out Obama just accidentally revealed more about Snowden than we realized.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/obama-edward-snowde...
It will actually tell you if your friend takes a screenshot.

I'm not sure why you think it's bluffware, they've obviously identified a major market for transient internet communications.

Yes, the tech's not perfect yet, but they've hit a nerve and have a lot of users.
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Long live to Google Reader! I hope, it will allow some startup
to come up with great products, but please ,think users first , not showing off your html5 skills or whatever... RSS is about reading text content and suscribing to feeds , not bells and whistles or closed social networking plateforms.
I was taking a statistics approach actually, rather than the efficient market hypothesis.

For example:
20 people have a choice between X & Y.
- 10 people choose X, 1 succeed.
- 10 people choose Y, 1 succeed.
The first person who succeeds says, "It's because I chose X" Based on the data, you can't say that this choice is what mattered, because many others made the same choice and it didn't help them.

Perhaps I'm being pedantic about the title, but this is where I'm coming from.

And when I heard the joke it was $20, but perhaps it's the monetary phenomenon called inflation. :-)
Funny: automobile dealers response?: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shutdown-petitions...
>Russian launchers do not carry a Flight Termination System that could be used to remotely trigger the destruction of the rocket in a scenario like this.<

Hope there aren't any cities in the rockets path.
Just yesterday I was wandering if GWT is still being maintained since I was evaluating it for a customer project. It seems to be stagnating, perhaps the devs need to focus on other things or have moved on. I don't get the impression that GWT is in any way strategic to Google so they might cut it.
'Buried in the immigration bill is a nat'l ID system called E-Verify'
He said "more than 50," but Obama said "upwards of 50." I'm sure it all depends on how you frame the key words "stopped" or "prevented" and "terrorist." Also, he's straight out lied before with the statement that the NSA wasn't performing mass surveillance on civilians.
Imagine if Harry Potter was a little more inquisitive...

In this universe, HP was raised by scientists. So, whenever he is introduced to some new magic, he says "Why? How? What are the limits?"

For example - could one apparate to the moon?
There's something very odd about the Virginian Department of Alcohol Beverage Control. They seem to arrest people for carrying water, but they hold alcohol tasting sessions in their government owned liquor shops.
They can always get acquired by a big company, if this fails, I guess.
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Or perhaps more precisely, "Companies that want money from VCs talk a lot to the press. Companies that want money from customers talk a lot to their customers."
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This reminds me of Kerbal Space Program: https://kerbalspaceprogram.com
Welcome to "Best in Class" enterprise software. :-) It sounds like SAP without a competitor.
Good heavens, that's some terrible commentary on the video. That's for this link - as you say, there's no comparison in the reporting.

What a sad outcome, hope they manage to figure out what went wrong.
You are a bit confused, but I'm not sure why you're being downvoted...

> GUID

GUIDs are really not the best idea, they can be (sort of) predicted - an attacker can guess which GUIDs are in use as session identifiers. Better to use a random string (generated by a cryptographic random number generator)

> without cookies

Browsers can store user's password when they request it. It is a security hole, consciously made by the user for added convenience. Also, only the user who made this decision can fall into this hole - it's his credentials that get stolen.

> mobile devices ... do not permit cookies

they do (although some might not store the cookies for as long as the expiration would require). However, they don't allow the user to store the password (as in the previous paragraph, the remember me function as you call it)

To round it up, it's a good thing you're experimenting with your own key/value store and session implementation, but it's usually better to use tested components in production (especially for the session stuff - it's very easy to get wrong). Anyway, keep experimenting, that's the best way to learn - I just hope somebody reviews your stuff before you shoot yourself in the foot :)
> For me, this was a good move.

> It inspired me to finally look past Google for the web based services I use daily (search, mail, rss, analytics, calendar, video hosting etc).

At the beginning I was as pissed as everyone else. Now? I love Newsblur more than I did Google Reader; I'm looking forward to checking out the new reader alternatives popping up and Fastmail is so much faster than GMail.

I still use some Google services but only when I find them to be by far the best solution.
When I was younger people would seek asylum from Russia in different places.

Now that I am older, people seek asylum from the USA in different places.

How the secret police have changed.
From the article:
The mandatory E-Verify system requires Americans to carry a “tamper-proof” social security card. Before they can legally begin a job, American citizens will have to show the card to their prospective employer, who will then have to verify their identity and eligibility to hold a job in the US by running the information through the newly-created federal E-Verify database. The database will contain photographs taken from passport files and state driver's licenses. The law gives federal bureaucrats broad discretion in adding other “biometric” identifiers to the database. It also gives the bureaucracy broad authority to determine what features the “tamper proof” card should contain.

Apart from the possible benefits (and drawbacks) of such a system, does anyone believe the US government (and associated bureaucracy) has the expertise to implement it properly and securely?
If you're looking for a new reader to try, check out www.readuction.com .

It's a different take on RSS, that intelligently gives you fewer articles to read. A friend and I built it over a few months, and we'd love any feedback you have.

You can import and export your feeds, so no need to worry about having data locked in.
Every German police officer is armed when on duty. Attitudes are different, and the judicial investigation after the use of a weapon is anything but pleasant.
In Denmark it is named "Skovbørnehave" which translates to "Forest kindergarten".

I am actually a bit surprised that it worked, because we ran around without much supervision, but we knew exactly where we were allowed to be, and when we were too far away from the group.
If the police have a warrant to search your apartment and you refuse to hand over the key they can just break the door down (18 USC § 3109) and they often do. For an example, see United States v. Banks. There's no analogy to this with decrypting encrypted files - you can't kick a TrueCrypt volume open. And one of the main constitutional objections to the police breaking down your door is that they damage your property by breaking your door, and that isn't reasonable - but read-only access to your encrypted files doesn't damage your property.

I guess what I'm saying is the police searching your apartment isn't a very relevant analogy.
Yep, much better.

Maybe pick up a .io for cheaper? Or change the name altogether?
Your press isn't free - and it's not so much what they gain but what they stand to lose by not toeing the line.
Again: not what I'm arguing. I don't know who you're arguing against, but it's not me, so I'm going to bow out of this conversation. All I mentioned was the negative reactions from this leak that were directed towards the US government as things that have hurt the US government.
They work for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. That is literally their job (as stupid as that might sound).
I, for one like Weev. He is a boundary pusher. Many even around here on hn might perceive his stuff as tasteless. But I sincerely wished more people were as dedicated to their "ideals" as Weev is.

Defending free speech means standing up for people who have controversial views - no matter how unease you personally are with these views.
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The Philippines has good and bad. Don't go rushing in with rose-colored glasses. Before rushing to move there, make yourself informed.

(Been there a number of times)
There yet another side to this: by signing that he "stops harming the US", Snowden would sign that he "is currently harming the US".
Have you read any Kim Stanley Robinson? He's written novels set in Antarctica and Mars. I love the "Red Mars" triology.
You could probably pick up one of those leather bound series of 'Greatest Works of Literature' for cheap nowadays. I'd envy your library for its uniformity, at least. I really hate all those different coloured paperbacks...
It was showing the count a few days ago. Most probably a bug. They'll fix it soon enough I guess.
You mean alongside the whole vehicle ? From the link provided in another comment, it seems that the forces on the whole launcher (that made it loose its payload) put the fuel and oxidizer in contact and they ignited.

If you meant at the exhaust, it is the oxidizer which is red-brown.
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"It is not the way it supposes to go" <- oh, thanks for the comment!
Speculation - sure, what else can we do now - but I don't really understand why 'Snowden wants to continue leaking' is incompatible with any one of my theses, this is probably his motivation and this is why he is rejecting the Russian offer. But still I am sure he also understands that if he stays in Russia he'll be subjected to all kinds of pressures.
> Somehow, the US government is spying on every piece of internet traffic for the grad sum of $20M a year. I just don't believe it's technically possible.

That's because it is not possible. The $20M/year number is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg for one little program that seems to be more like the GUI on top of the data from all the other programs. The NSA alone has a budget on the order of $10B/year - the entire (american) "intelligence-industrial complex" is estimated to be around $50B/year.
I don't think so. They work for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. This is about as exciting as their job gets.
Why not simply have a bunch of JPEG's and animate through those? Something like Javascript-powered MJPEG. GIF is awful for animations.
Why do they use such toxic and expensive fuel? I understand using it on a satellite, but why does the rocket need it? Why not just kerosene and LOX?

Is the specific impulse much higher?

Edit: It's not, it's actually lower than kerosene. It's simply easier to ignite - that seems like a really bad reason to use it.
I'd gladly switch to Firefox OS if it were a superior mobile operating system. I'd gladly criticize Android if it couldn't compete with this hypothetical version of Firefox OS that's better. I'm sure many others here are in exactly the same boat.

But we can't do that, because Firefox OS is clearly inferior to Android in so many significant ways. Its performance appears to be a problem. Its functionality is quite limited. Its "openness" is overstated. It provides an awful environment for developers, in terms of language support, compared to other mobile OSes. Basically nobody is actually using it yet, so there's little incentive to target it. It appears comparatively hostile toward anyone wishing to merely recoup the cost of creating an app, never mind make a profit.

Until Firefox OS gets its act together, it will face criticism and negative comparisons with Android. I hope that people like you are capable of seeing what's truly behind this (that is, the inferiority of Firefox OS compared to Android), rather than misattributing it to "dissonance", or "shilling", or some other nonsensical reason like that.
Strange, I would have expected it to self-destruct immediately when navigation problem got apparent.
I have, in fact.

EDIT: Actually, it doesn't have to be like this. I'm sorry for being unnecessarily snarky when you told me how you evaluate books. If I may, I'd like to rephrase my question too: "Keeping in mind specific volumes, what is a book that you could see yourself feeling sorry for somebody having not read before their funeral?"
I assume it varies by institution and field, but with the decline of centralized IT in universities, I'm seeing more open-source in academia, because the infrastructure and budget to buy and administer site licenses for commercial tools no longer exists. Even a mere 10 years ago, everything would've been done on either the department Unix server, or a centrally managed Windows desktop install, and both of those came with the whole range of Maple, Matlab, Sicstus, etc. licenses. But nowadays I have a Debian server in the server room I administer myself, and a laptop I also administer myself. I could buy a Matlab license for my server, but it's basically up to me, so I probably won't.

The other shift is that open-source tools seem to have been slowly been chipping away at the incumbents in statistical software. People used to use SAS and SPSS and that kind of thing, or commercial AI software from the likes of Salford and Symbolics, but now everyone I know uses R, stuff from MLOSS [1], and Weka.

This could be local to CS/AI, though; I do get the impression that engineering departments love Matlab.

[1] http://jmlr.org/mloss/
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I do find it baffling that Greenwald hasn't written an article detailing his relationship with Snowden, the timeline of when they began communicating and when Snowden started at BAH, if they are in contact still, etc., at least to dispel any questions people would raise about it.

I suspect Greenwald would say he hasn't done this because he thinks that Snowden isn't important to "the story", yet he still happily tweets snarky things about Snowden and what other journalists write/think:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/351910567210004480
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/351453433989054464
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He still has no passport though...