skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a continuum between "keep track of what you happen to see", to "penetrate networks and install bugs", to "recruiting human agents in their government" and beyond. It's in general the job of agencies like the NSA to keep track of all foreign governments, but the degree of escalation and hostility is a political decision and not a technical one.

If the US government has decided to treat the EU as an adversary, it doesn't exactly bode well for, eg, NATO cooperation, or access to the EU market for trade (particularly in computer services). If the NSA is doing this simply because they have the ability, then they're usurping decisions that properly belong to the democratically elected civil government, such as it is.
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My profile had been hijacked in the same way the article describes. What concerns my about this is a) my password was secure b) I never type it into a web browser c) I wasn't notified that any of my profile info changed

I'm wondering if there's more going on here than a spam attack.
When I was in high school I looked into making a micro-power plant using the Seebeck effect for the Intel Science Talent Search. I thought about using liquid sodium as a heat sink, which is what some heliostats use. Solar power towers use the captured energy to power turbines, but this isn't very efficient, so I thought I would add thermoelectric generators to capture some of the energy that is lost as heat.

I ended up not doing this because the Seebeck effect isn't really a useful power-plant (in the broad sense of the word) when you have a small temperature gradient because it is really inefficient, although it is useful for thermometers and other low power items, and for some exotic things like Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, which is what powers Voyager and other long distance spacecraft. It becomes worth using when you have a large, consistent energy source, which is usually geothermal energy. But the small temperature difference between the human body and the flashlight and the low efficiency of thermocouples means that this project won't seriously compete with battery powered flashlights. However, it is a cool idea and could have some niche uses.
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I stand corrected, he has said "I was wrong". Once. On the same day that he posted the I was wrong article. And about a topic that's not economics:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/whitewater-down/
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Sadly, I share similar feelings.

I last visited the States in 2007 for a friend's wedding and had all 10 of my fingers scanned at immigration when I arrived. I found the whole experience hugely irritating and wanted to say: "My own country doesn't even have my prints on file and you're taking all 10 fingers and treating me like a fucking suspect when all I'm here to do is spend some tourist dollars and celebrate my best friend marrying one of your citizens?".

It really pissed me off and I had the feeling then that I'd not readily be coming back to the land of the free any time soon. The Snowden revelations have simply sealed it for me. As things stand now, I have zero interest in ever setting foot in the US again.

Which is tragic because the American people themselves are generally lovely. We had a great trip in 2007 and my best friend's wife (who now lives with him and their 4 yr old son in the UK) is one of the most smart, fun and kind people I know.

I want to love you America but damn you're not making it easy at the moment!
Well yes. But we Europeans see ourselves as US allies and partners ... mostly because US tells us we are. Wanting to be informed what is going on is understandable.

So intrusion in government networks and wide interception of the civilian population communication of a countries that are stable, democracies and partners in NATO and allies in the wars US is waging comes as a somewhat hostile stuff.

US is doing too much spying right now. Too wide, too long a period, too broad. Europe has deep scars and trust issues.

In a sense US should abandon SIGINT and stick to the good old fashioned HUMINT with its allies at least. If you want documents and info there are gentler ways to obtain them.
Please allow password verification on account creation. I realize you're going for minimalism, but it's really bad UX.
I'm pretty sure the result of that would be that you would overheat as the suit would prevent you from dissipating heat quickly enough.
It most common use is probably during trade negotiations and such. It's pretty useful to know how far your counterpart is bluffing or willing to bend.

Military uses will be rare, since it's the EU, which doesn't have an army.
Sounds like the usual state of affairs with most ISP
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It was a glib answer. It's not wrong, though. Read Almeida-Sanchez v. US.

Reminder, though: we're talking about two different things: warrantless searches and documentation checks. It is, unfortunately, lawful for the police to demand your identification in a wide variety of circumstances, post Hiibel. (You still have the right to remain silent at those checkpoints, which is what the Youtube videos demonstrate).
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The week before I flew to the USA, two years ago, I was soooooo stressed out for similar reasons of really actually having "nothing to hide" and the problem where you don't get to decide or find out beforehand whether you had nothing to hide indeed.

In the end everything went fine, here I am, back, still got my laptop. Except those fuckers now have my mugshot and fingerprints on file. Funny thing, had I said that 10 years ago, you'd think I did something wrong and ask "huh for real? what did you do? what happened?" ... well, I entered the country, I left them no choice! :-/
Oh, to have a statistics oracle.

I wonder how much of it is associated with anti poverty programs.
The purpose of the US Constitution is not to tell people what to do or not do, it is to define very precisely what the US Government can and can't do (and how it should function), and therefore it seems more than logical that it would talk about what the US Government can or can't do to people in general (or animals, or nature).
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For starters congress declares war. I really do not understand how you start with "what are they doing with all this intel" and end with an example of what intelligence agencies do with collected information. What is the disconnect?
Lest we forget though, there is Hayek's "information problem". Econometric data are by their very nature aggregated, and that fundamentally introduces bias. How do you choose how to aggregate your data? How do you choose what relevance that particular aggregation means (from a policy standpoint, or from a fundamental standpoint)?

A number such as "unemployment", for example, is loaded. Are parents that could have a job but choose to stay home to take care of children "unemployed"?
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Disregarding the national sovereignty of non-enemy combatant nations is moral because... that's what spies do?

I hear that argument a lot on HN defending state vs state spying. I never really understood the moral basis of it. Or is national security not required to operate under a moral framework?
Do you have numbers from before 1990? The late 80s and early 90s were a particularly violent time in NYC.
Do you think "in a sense" that the EU nations should abandon SIGINT and stick to good old fashioned HUMINT? Or maybe a middle of the road position and just have the Five Eyes abstain from SIGINT?
Yup, Seebeck is incredibly inefficient, as for RTG's in space I think they would rather use a Rankine cycle but that would be prohibitively too heavy to launch.

Good on your for using peltiers back in HS. In HS I made a sweet exoskeleton using peltiers for active cooling while outside in the summer heat.
Interesting. If you look at history, it is precisely governments and empires that produced more violence than anyone else. The bloodiest, most devastating wars are all the result of government action. Even the most bloodiest anarchist in the world cannot come close to what an average "peaceful" state has done in his lifetime.

Violence is inherent, at least at this point of our development, in human species. Question is, what brings about more violence. I would argue, that it's the idea that we need some sort of government. This very idea creates the incentive for sociopaths and bandits to get into politics and allows the ruling class to continuously keep fucking the population.
I wonder if Randall Munroe also used it to calculate the positions of those stars? He has mentioned it in some other places.

(I did not wade into that 970 page thread to see if someone had already made a similar suggestion)
"enemy of the state" the will smith movie.
This is rather embarrassing. If OP had dedicated BW of 8MB I wouldn't be surprised if ISP started charging $200+/month for it. The whole reason why we share BW is because it's way cheaper and resources become more efficiently delegated as we have changes in network usage by different people.

Just go with the argument that $80/month is too expensive and explain why. Don't trifle with notion that we don't get dedicated BW.
Awesome, thanks. Yes, we actually have some interviews scheduled with failed Kickstarters. The most common reason for failed campaigns is simply that people haven't prepared enough or prepared ineffectively.

Do you have a network of interested prospects? Can you get their attention?

Most successful Kickstarters created lists of people who to reach out to, by which means, on which date, with notes on what to say and what their desired outcome was.

Timing is critical. You want to have things in place before launching.

Many failed Kickstarters didn't do that. They just created their project, and then plastered their Twitter and Facebook audience with "Here's our Kickstarter, please back us". And they overestimated the amount of backers that would come via Kickstarter itself.
s/looks in/looks into/

By the way, and if you're at all interested in the history of hypertext fiction do watch this video: http://vimeo.com/15561443. The speaker in the video talks about a fascinating parallel culture of hypertext writers and readers who paradoxically seem to resist the idea of putting their creations on the Web. Instead, some of the authors choose to disseminate their works on physical media: floppy disks, CD-ROMs and now flash drives.
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Wouk the wax be in a copper tube, or would you have a copper tube/rod in the center of a pool of wax?

What about a series of smaller copper tubes that then stick out the bottom of the handle to transfer heat from inside to outer air?
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Switching back didn't seem to work for me. The game is super fast for me now.
I think the risk is that you'd have the opposite problem: hypothermia.
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From what I recall when I skimmed the original paper, you would need more general hardware than the wifi chipset in a phone. Actually, that this says it uses wifi at all is a bit misleading. It happens to work on the same frequency bands that wifi uses, but their experiments did not actually use wifi hardware at all and actually used USRPs. Getting off the shelf wifi hardware to do the same would require firmware and drivers that allow raw access to the radio signals, which no cards I know of come even close to.

Additionally for their experiments they needed at least five antenna, so even if it were going to happen with phones you'd probably need more than just two.
That sounds scarily similar to 'build it and they will come' :) Thanks for sharing that.
I would assume they are looking to gauge the political climate of these countries to see who they can approach for silly things like "Coalition of the willing" and other NATO missions, business intelligence for American corporations or for arms shipments, looking for potential double agents or whistleblowers leaking NATO secrets, keeping tabs on dissident parties and movements like the pirate party that may be getting popular and threaten their influence, or to discover early negotiations for future trade treaties with countries like Russia so they can parachute in diplomats to unravel them and pitch better offers to keep their influence in the region.

I'm sure they're also interested in these state's methods for security/offensive hacking and spying. If they find a hole they can either approach the country with American made (and backdoored) infrastructure blackboxes to sell them or monitor it looking for Chinese or Russian state hackers to break in so they can watch their methods and eval capabilities.
> It may be true that the Russian government does not give these rights to it's citizens, or that these citizens yield these rights to the Russian government.

That isn't what the parent is talking about. He's asserting that only citizens of the US have granted the US the power to enforce the granting or ceding of rights. Non-US citizens must look to their own governments for such protection.

But, this is more like it:

> Because foreigners have not consented to being governed by the US, the rights of foreigners not to be spied on by the US government would go even further than the rights of Americans
I'd be curious to know how would U.S. citizens' reactions be if it were the EU spying on U.S. diplomats and citizens.

I can only imagine.
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Good deal. That said, my opinion is that you're definitely doing right by your users. You're being open and honest about what's going on, and you're not holding their data hostage. I've never gone through this myself, but just remember that you can only do so much, and you can't please everyone.

If you've been running a good service this whole time (I'm betting you have), I'm sure that most of your happy customers will be willing to pay €0.99/mo.
Fluid dynamics is tough. There are a bunch of little particles each doing their own thing with no shits given for the greater cause of their laminar flow. Yet we can still make statistical generalisations that are useful in many cases. We can also make flying toothpaste tubes. We aren't quite sure precisely how those work, but we understand the parametric space well enough to keep clear of the holes in our knowledge. None of this means that we can predict extreme weather, though we have gotten better over the years. Neither does it prevent daredevil pilots and engineers from regularly pushing the flight envelope (and, once in a while, from breaking through).

Economics is tough. There are lots of little factors each doing their own thing with no shits given for the greater economy (or theory). Yet we can still make statistical generalisations that are useful in many cases. We can also design and manage monetary and financial systems that allow for unprecedented levels of human wealth and complexity. We aren't quite sure precisely how these work, hell economists can't figure out what the traders and bankers are up to half the time, but we do know where we cross from solidly-footed theory to still-debated hypotheses (even if nobody else cares for the delineation). None of this means that we can fix financial storms, though we have gotten much better over the decades. Neither does it prevent bankers and traders from innovating at the brink of theory.
All every human society has ever had is priveleges. What exactly did George Carlin think was the alternative? Who the hell else is going to guarantee your right not to be murdered for speaking your mind?
Well I have yet to see something about direct spying and intrusion in US networks by EU government agencies.

Also yeah - the whole dragnets should be scaled back for various reasons. If you intercept and retain everything you have insane SNR that can prove counterproductive in the long run.

Very intensive spying on allies is impolite at best.
This has been a very long running trend here. Since 1990, crime in US cities in general has been dropping like a rock.
Absolutely fantastic post, sir or madam.

I very much agree that the rest of the world is being a bit two-faced, on the one hand enjoying immensely the pax americana which we have wrought and on the other decrying the evils of American imperialism--despite doing damned little to act in a similarly noble fashion.

As much as we may, for example, decry the surveillance of foreigners by the .gov and bemoan the lack of open immigration policies, we cannot do so without also acknowledging that the US is still very much better in these regards than many of the other first-world nations.

The failure of the US is perhaps a sadness, but the failure of the American Dream--were it to come to pass--is far, far worse.
My point is slightly different - Wyden and Udall have been great in public, on this issue. My point is we have no way of telling whether their walk matches their talk behind closed doors. Hopefully it does, but I am not confident we can count on it.

You've not observed it, you've observed what you think and hope is it - it may be, but it's not evidence until we know.
Not to complain, but how much light does it really produce ?
Cause this would be very neat ... but I still need to be able to light the room :)
Isn't this a lot closer to dwarf fortress?
2% really that's not a big deal. Some company charge 30 for 3Mbits while another charges 30 for 30Mbps, now that's unfair.
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Yeah, I wonder about the impact on overall team productivity when programmers ask each other questions even when they've drilled down further themselves. Even if the programmer who is asked is not annoyed and has more information with which to offer an answer, she must still stop what she's doing and shift gears to offer assistance. This obviously harms her own productivity.

Funny part is, the more experienced and familiar with the code base a developer is, the more likely she is to be productive. But, she's also more likely to be interrupted with greater frequency because everyone knows she's the goto. Does the team's overall productivity go up or down in this scenario?
It's really about preference. A lot of people still use emacs even though it takes more effort than other options.
Maybe these other systems are more fluid, but their are also a lot weaker in what their platform gives them. What I mean by this is that the Java world never needed the extra rvm, virtualenv, etc.

The complexity of dependency management doesn't come from declaring dependencies, but from managing conflicts over time and being able to create isolated environment.

Even if many call it the "jar nightmare", I don't know other systems that offer better isolation.
Is this going to be freemium like NewsBlur or pay-only? I'm happy to use the service and tell people how much I like it (and at first glance I like it a lot more than the other readers I've used!), but I have ~20 feeds almost all of which rarely update so $5/month is a hard sell.
sorry "american politics", not "american countries".
> I never really understood the moral basis of it. Or is national security not required to operate under a moral framework?

What's moral amongst the nations is not necessarily what's moral between a state and its people.

E.g. in this case bugging E.U. offices might reveal E.U. nations trying to conspire to gain benefit at upcoming international trade negotiations. The immoral measure of spying helps detect and defeat the immoral measure of conspiracy.

There's a reason spies are part of what is called the world's "second oldest profession". I won't even try to pretend it's fully on the up-and-up... but neither is much of what nations do to each other.
I don't think we have to worry about "vast wasteland of garbage". Actually, I think that's the wrong moral orientation to take towards this sort of thing entirely.

Apparently one of the early neocities sites is exactly the kind of garbage that used to get made on Geocities: an adolescent fan site for a cartoon. But here's the thing: I made a freaking Pokemon site when I was in second grade or something. It was godawful, but it went up on Tripod and fed my interest in computers. And I sure as hell spent a lot of time at that age reading similar sites to find game cheat-codes.

And nowadays we have commenting and threading engines to let us make sites interactive.

The real internet was always a living embodiment of both Sturgeon's Law and the Long Tail phenomenon. Not every site has to appeal to everyone, but practically everyone can find a site they like.

So this is going to result in a huge amount of brilliant, fun utter crap.
He's saying exactly the opposite - he's saying that Java the language (not JVM - he never actually mentions the JVM at all) is on the rise. Java is very much not turning into a "high-level assembly" language and is not dead or dying.

I'm not sure how a language with garbage collection, lambdas now in Java8 and the kind of DI you get with Guice can possibly be considered anything but a high level language.
If the exhaust from a candle (think small, like a tea light) can be made to travel upward through the tube, and the exterior of the flashlight given sufficient heatsinking, it's possible that this arrangement can yield more visible light than the candle can produce.

I'd have to work through numbers to guess, and do the experiment to be sure...
Illinois' tollways use cameras (and RFID) as well, but yes, you could leave the pass behind and it'd all work without issue.
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Not so much pining as feeling nostalgic. Didn't say anything about better, though in retreading my comment I can see how it would be interpreted that way.

I love the Internet. I have a career in a field that did not exist when I was born and because of this have had the unique opportunity of helping to define what it is. Not something afforded to many "classical" professions.
I can only speak for myself, but I'd be pissed that our counter-intel guys didn't detect the bug and that our NSA COMSEC guys didn't employ effective countermeasures.

We've assumed people are spying on us as a matter of course, if we've paid attention to world history. The Soviets and Israel especially have had some especially ingenious means to spy on U.S. diplomatic communications.
2% ? that requires testing, information on TCP stacks used, computer used, distance, ping, network card, network drivers ...
And most importantly tested twice, and all other services on the computer have to be stopped. No messengers, no browsers, no updates zip nada nop.
Like this?

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The thing about intelligence work is that your failures are public and successes are secret.

I think your last sentence is hopelessly naive.
except economists aren't actually split on the effects of government spending in general, just on the relative importance of those effects in specific situations.

Wikipedia's collection of unsolved problems in economics -
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Sounds like a pretty big stretch to call it a tax in my opinion.